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MORISON, Walter Minister of Deskford parish, Reverend Mr
(About 1693-1780)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. KER, Elizabeth

MORISON, Walter Minister of Deskford parish, Reverend Mr 1 2 3

  • Born: About 1693 2 4
  • Marriage (1): KER, Elizabeth on 25 February 1729 in Rathven parish, Banffshire, Scotland 1 2
  • Died: 19 January 1780 2 4

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Walter married Elizabeth KER, daughter of Reverend Mr Andrew KER Minister of Rathven parish and Elizabeth KER, on 25 February 1729 in Rathven parish, Banffshire, Scotland.1 2 (Elizabeth KER was born about 1708 and died on 21 July 1767 2.)


  Marriage Notes:

"MORISON
WALTER
ELIZABETH KER/FR537 (FR537)
05/02/1729
164/ 20 23
Rathven"

from Index of Marriages




(at Deskford in 1731)

"Walter Morison, born 1693; schoolmaster at Enzie and Rathven, 1712-18, and at Cairney, 1718-24; licen. by Presb. of Strathbogie llth July 1722; was attacked by a 'fearful mob of Papists' in Oct. 1725; app. itinerant min. at Enzie June 1725; ord. as such by Presb. (at Rathven), 6th July 1727; pres. by James, Earl of Findlater, in Jan., and adm. here 24th March 1731; app. clerk of Presb. in 1777; died 19th Jan. 1780. He marr. 25th Feb. 1729, Elizabeth (died 21st July 1767), daugh. of Andrew Ker, min. of Rathven, and had issue Elizabeth, born 29th April 1731; Janet, born 17th July. 1732; Sarabella, born 14th Aug. 1733 (marr. (1) 25th Dec. 1754, Harry Gordon, min. of Ardersier : (2) Walter Chalmers, min. of this parish); Colin, M.A., artist in Rome, born 16th Dec. 1734; Theodore, born 25th Feb. 1737, died 13th July 1763; Alexander, born 13th June 1738; Walter, min. of Ardersier, born 13th Aug. 1739; Patrick, born 30th March 1741."

from Fasti Ecclesiae 1 2

Sources


1 GRO Scotland, OPR Index of Marriages.

2 e-books, Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae vol. 6 Aberdeen & Moray by Hew Scott.

3 GRO Scotland, OPR Index of Births and Baptisms.

4 e-books, Genealogies of an Aberdeen Family 1540-1913 by James Smith (1913).

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