MIDDLETON, John Minister of Rayne parish, Reverend Mr 1
- Born: 1610 1
- Marriage (1): STRACHAN, Helen 1
- Died: 4 August 1653 1
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John married Helen STRACHAN, daughter of John STRACHAN of Claypotts and Mariorie MAKKY.1 (Helen STRACHAN was baptised on 18 February 1610 in Saint Nicholas parish, Aberdeen, Scotland 2.)
Marriage Notes:
(at Leslie in 1640)
"John Middleton, M.A., min. about 1640; trans, to Rayne after 17th Oct. 1643."
(at Rayne in 1643)
"John Middleton, born 1610; educated at King's College, Aberdeen; M.A. (1629); became min. of Leslie; trans, and adm. after 17th Oct. 1643; appealed to Parliament, 9th May 1648, craving satisfaction for his service as chaplain to General Middleton and the army in the north for ten months from March to July and Oct. to Dec. 1646 and March and April 1647, with some reparation for his losses and sufferings sustained from rebels and enemies of the kingdom, occasioned by his fidelity and constancy in adhering to the Covenant and country, eleven merks Scots were allowed him. He joined the Protestors in 1651; died 4th Aug. 1653. This quaint epitaph was inscribed on his tombstone:
'Whereas I stood in pulpit round,
And now I ly alow the ground,
When as you corse my corpse so cold
Remember the words that I you told.';
He marr. Helen Strachan (who marr. (2) John Gordon of Rothnies), and had issue Adam; Janet (marr. Robert Forbes, min. of Alva). [Acts of Parl., vi., part ii., 58; Aberdeen Inhib., 26th Jan. 1676; Tombst.]"
from Fasti Ecclesiae 1
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