CHALMERS - from Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae - Auchterderran"

 

Extract from "Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae" concerning the Parish of Auchterderran in Fife

The following extract was taken from notes my father, John Dall Chalmers, made from "Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae" in his researches into his own Chalmers line.

 

John Chalmers(primus) - minister in 1598 - died 1642. (See also reference from "Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature Vol XI")

Married(1)?
IssueJohn(see below)
Jamesapprenticed to James Bowden, Merchant, Edinburgh, 1631
Margaret
Married(2)Grizel Forester (widow of John Scrimgeour, Bowhill)

(References: Inq. Ret. Gene., 2631; Register of Deeds XXXIX 243; Edinburgh Apprentice Register; Livingstone's "Life")

John Chalmers(secundus) son of above. Educated at St. Andrews University M.A. 1627, died 14-Nov-1662 aged about 57.

Married(1)Isabel Scimgeour
IssueJohn
Mariamarried George Dewar in Lethamound
Elizabethmarried ? Paton
Married(2)Margaret Carmichael (died between 26-Jul-1650 and 12-Jul-1651)

The Church (Auchterderran) was built in 1789 and extended in 1891

 

Back to Main Written Reference page

This page was updated 09-Sep-2000