128. The Revd. Archibald Gibson
Witnesses at Archibald's baptism were Richard Bell portioner in Athelstoun (sic) and Archbald Wallace there.
Chaplain when only 19 and still pursuing his University course to Sir John Clerk of Penicuik.
Edinburgh. See letters from Archibald to him GD18/4027 - GD18/4044 - GD18/5280 - GD18/5290 These contain references to Baily Wallace who was willing to act virtually as postman between them.M.A. 28 May 1714 (aged 21/22) with distinction in many classes. Tutor in the family of Sir Robert Stewart of
Tillicoultry; Licensed by the Presbytery of Dunblane 30 July 1718 (aged 25/6); ordained to
Dunblane 18 Aug 1719; trans. to St. Ninians 1728; Called to Lady Yester's Edinburgh by the General Session
31 Aug., trans. and adm. Dec 1732. Publication "Not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ" a sermon, Edinburgh 1732.At the time of his marriage termed in the register Minister of the Gospel at Dunblane.
According to vol VIII of the Fasti he was probably of the Gibsons of Durie. If so the connection must have been rather to the family at an earlier stage when they were the Gibsons of Goldingstones, even earlier perhaps than William Gibson Dean of Restalrig. The Gibson of Goldingstones were millers to the Scottish King in the sixteenth century.
Christening details: The father listed is not only the most likely one for an Archibald Gibson in the appropriate year, but a connection is proved by two references in letters to Sir John Clerk of Penecuik to his uncle, Bailie (William) Wallace. One of the witnesses at the christening was one of the Wallace brothers.
For some time he served in Lady Yester's church in Edinburgh. This church was originally built in 1647 by Margaret Kerr, Lady Yester. The university lay wholly within the parish in the early 19th century.
Supplementary data:
His marriage: "Mr. Archibald Gibson Minister of the Gospel at Dunblane and Margaret Tod Daug to Robert Tod Elder Merchant 5th October"
Burial record at Greyfriars "Thursday 22 February 1733 Mr Arch Gibson Min of this city about 40 yrs dyed 2 B:U & was 3rd p of the
GD124/15/1327 !728 February 28 Letter to Lord Grange from William Tod in Edinbuurgh concerning the transfer of a bond to Mr Gibson minister at Dunblane.
She was her parent's SECOND daughter.
Member of Edinburgh Town Council and Treasurer of Edinburgh. He was also Cashier or Receiver General of Excise, Edinburgh. Dean of Guild.
Died a bankrupt.
Name stated at Christening as "Marie".
According to Scott-Moncrieff in his Introduction to the Nimmo Narrative he was only son of Andrew Hogg W.S. who died at the end of the seventeenth century. The son William did not become a lawyer but a merchant and banker. Neither he nor his son Thomas seem to have been very successful in business. Areference to both father and son will be found in Sir William Forbes' memoirs of a Banking House. I have in my possession a letter dated February 1733 from William Hogg to a @very dear friend@ Mr Thomas Boston the well-known author of the Fourfold Stae in which he announceshis financial failure, and relates that his friends had been advising him to conceal his books and papers. Hogg felt that instead he could rely on God to moderate the consequnces of his coming trial. He weathered the storm and left a business subsequently carried on by his son Thomas.
Colin Campbell of Killbride and Aberuchiel. He died before his father.
She wrote, like James Nimmo, a narrative of her personal spiritual experience. She is the fifth great grandmother of GSG.
M.A. Edinburgh 11 May 1704. First rector of the Grammar School of Hawick, 1710-18; licensed by the Presbytery of Jedburgh 5 June 1717; presented by Thomas Haalliburton of Newmaains that year; ordained 18 Sept. 1718. Minister of Morton Berwickshire
18 Oct 1718 (dedicated to St Ninian 1241, belonged to the Premonstratensian Abbey of Dryburgh in the parish. It was rebuilt in 1658 and has been restored in decades around the turn of the twentieth century. In 1296 there was a hospital at Mertoun.)
Apothecary and physician. Mayor of Exeter 1768