LYELL, David of Balhall, Minister of Montrose, Reverend Mr ¹

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David married Marie SANDILANDS, daughter of Sir James SANDILANDS younger, of St Monance and Agnes CARNEGIE, after 17 November 1658.¹ (Marie SANDILANDS was baptised on 9 May 1636 in St Andrew's and St Leonard's parish, Fife, Scotland ² and died in 1689 ¹.)

  Marriage Notes:

(at Montrose in 1673)

"David Lyell. born 1634, son of Walter L. of Balhall, hereditary town clerk of Montrose, and Margaret Hamilton of Borland ; educated at King's College, Aberdeen; M.A. (1654) ; licen. by Presb. of Brechin 10th.July 1656; ord. to Banchory-Devenick before 18th Oct. 1658; trans. to Third Charge Aberdeen before 1666; trans. & adm. before 3rd April 1673; elected to Trinity Parish Edinburgh, 18th Dec. 1678;, but did not accept; died March 1696. He had 'a thundering way of preaching'. He left £100 to the poor. He marr. shortly after 17th Nov.1658 Mary (died 1689), daugh. of Sir James Sandilands of St Monans and Agnes, daugh. of Sir David Carnegie, first Earl of Southesk, and had issue - James, of Balhall, advocate, died Feb. 1696; Patrick of Balhall, died 1703; Anne; Mary "

from Fasti Ecclesiae ¹