Ruling Elders & Commissioners, Laggan Presbytery, County Donegal 1620 - 1700

Extracted from In the Days of the Laggan Presbytery – Rev. Alexander G. Lecky

(Davidson & McCormack, Belfast, 1908)

This information was compiled & transcribed by Len Swindley and forms part of the Donegal Genealogy Resources Website

 

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Note:

The following are the names of the men who attended the meetings of the Laggan Presbytery between the years 1672 and 1700, as ruling elders or as commissioners, together with the names of the congregations which they represented. They were doubtless the leading men in the districts in which they lived, and their names deserve to be held in remembrance on account of the part which they took in laying the foundations of Presbyterianism in the Laggan, and for the services which they so cheerfully rendered, without fee or reward, amid much persecution and many difficulties, in maintaining a preached gospel in troublous times. In all of these congregations there are still to be found families bearing their honoured names, and in many cases they are, no doubt, the descendants of these good men – a fact they have no reason to be ashamed, but good reason to be proud of.

 

DONEGAL and BALLYSHANNON

BAYLY

George

BRATTON

John

CRAWFORD

David

CRAWFORD

James

DELAP

Robert

EARLE

James

GORDON

Robert

HALL

John

LOVE

Alexander

M’CLURG

Alexander

M’ILWAIN

Lieut.

MENZIES

John

NOBLE

William

SCOT

Lieut.

SHANKLAND

Gilbert

STEVENSON

Hugh

STEWART

Walter

TURBET

James

VANCE

John

FANNET CONGREGATION [TULLYFERN PARISH]

CAMPBELL

George

CUTHBERT

Robert

HENDERSON

George

LIN [LYNN]

Matthew

STEWART

Major Alexander

WALLACE

William

INNISHOWEN (Donagh, Moville, Culdaf, Red Castle)

BAIRD

John

CADERCORN

John

CAMPBELL

John

COLHOUN

James

FULTON

William

JOHNSTON

Michael

LINDSAY

William

M’CORKLE

Da.

M’COULE

Andrew

M’KAULES

John

M’KEE

William

MOOR

Hugh

MOORE

William

PARKER

John

RIDDELL

Robert

WALLACE

John

KILLYGARVAN (Rathmullan)

ANDREW

Gabriel

BOGGS

Andrew

BOGGS

John

HUTCHINSON

John

M’KEMY

Francis

M’KEMY

Robert

RANKIN

James

RANKIN

William

WALLACE

Lieut. Thomas

 LETTERKENNY

BILSLAND

John

BLACK

John

BLACKWOOD

Wm.

BOYD

John

COLHOUN

John

COLHOUN

Francis

CUNNINGHAM

Alex.

CUNNINGHAM

James

DAVY

Walker

FAIRLY

David

GAILY

Daniel

GLEN

John

GOUGE

Wm.

HUTCHESON

Robert

McFARSON

John

MEEHAN

Wm.

MITCHELL

Alex.

OR

John

PINIENCE

James

PORTER

Robert

RAMSAY

Alex.

RAMSAY

John

RUSSELL

John

SAARS

Alex.

STEVENSON

John

TACY

William

VAUS

Lieut. William

WEIR

Lieut. Alexander

WHITE

Walter

WILSON

John

RAMELTON CONGREGATION

ALGOE

Robert

BEST

Thomas

BLACK

James

DUNBARE

William

FULTON

Thomas

GRIER

Gilbert

GRIER

James

HERON

Archibald

HEWSTOUN

John

MACKY

Patrick

MODDERELL

William

MOORE

Thomas

MORTIMER

Robert

PATTERSON

John

PLAYFARE

William

PONT

Robert

STARRAT

Alexander

WALKER

William

YOUNG

William

 STRANORLAR CONGREGATION

ARMSTRONG

John

FERGUSON

John

HARPER

Archibald

STEVENSON

Andrew

URNEY CONGREGATION, COS. TYRONE & DONEGAL

ALISON

Robert

BROCK

James

BROWN

James

BURNSIDE

John

FULTON

John

GAMBLE

Robert

HAMILTON

Captain Robert

HAMILTON

John

HEMPHILL

John

HOLMES

John

LYON

Joseph

M’ARTHUR

John

M’CRORY

Joseph

MONTEITH

John

NEYLEY

Robert

NOBLE

H.

ORR

Robert

PATON

William

PONT

Robert

RIDDELL

Robert

ROBINSONE

John

RODGER

Wm.

SEMPLE

Matthew

SHEILS

David

SIMPLE

Samuel

SIMSON

Michael

SMITH

John

SMITH

Robert

STEVENSON

John

STEVENSON

Wm.

SWAN

John

WAKER

William

WALLACE

John

WILSON

Robert

WYLIE

Alex.

WYLY

Robert

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