Font presented by guild in 1949. Inscription reads: THIS BAPTISMAL FONT AND ELECTRIC LIGHT INSTALLATION WERE PRESENTED TO THIS CHURCH BY THE WOMAN’S GUILD AND DEDICATED TO THE GLORY of GOD ON SUNDAY 4°" DECEMBER 1949
Parish Ministers at Carsphairn -1637 J Adamson, 1638 Hugh Henderson, 1646 John Semple, 1664 Norman McKenzie MA, 1666 David McQuerne MA, 1669 Thomas Colden MA, 1672 John Semple, 1672 William Erskine MA, 1677 John Gilchrist, 1684 Peter Peirson MA, 1688 Alexander Stephen MA, 1690 Andrew Cameron, 1694 John Reid MA, 1756 William Boyd, 1773 John Campbell MA, 1783 Samuel Smith, 1793 Robert Gordon, 1802 Henry Correy, 1826 Thomas Cannan, 1833 David Welsh, 1869 JOhn McK Candlish, 1881 Peter C Findlay MA BD, 1913 [C of S since 1890] George F A McNaughton MA, 1925 Wilfred R Sievewright, 1961 John Alexander MA, 1972 John R Miller MA BD, 1992 Robt. Hamill BA [interim], 1994 David S Bartholomew BSc MSc PhD BD Carsphairn UP/UF Church - 1897 William Fraser, 1912 John M Sibbald MA, 1921 James Allan, 1914 Thomas Barclay, 1928 David Shearer MA
Font presented by guild in 1949. Inscription reads: THIS BAPTISMAL FONT AND ELECTRIC LIGHT INSTALLATION WERE PRESENTED TO THIS CHURCH BY THE WOMAN’S GUILD AND DEDICATED TO THE GLORY of GOD ON SUNDAY 4°" DECEMBER 1949
L-R back row - ? Mrs George McMillan, ?, Sandy Borthwell, George McMillen.
Front row - Mrs Sievewright, ?, Mr Sievewright.
From Photo Album (Photo_523) and referred to in doc CHG_34.
Mr & Mrs Allan (Free Church Minister) & their daughter Bessie (2nd from right); 3rd from left Mrs Jean McMillan; 5th from left Mr & Mrs McNaughton; 3rd from right, kneeling, Charles McMillan
Front row, L-R: William Dickson; Agnes Dickson; Reverend M.L. Hutchison, Moderator of Presbytery; Right Reverend William J.G. McDonald, Moderator of the General Assembly; Reverend John Miller, minister of Carsphairn with Dalry. Back row, L-R: John Hastings; Reverend R.H. Drummond, minister of Balmaclellan with Kells; David Richmond; Arnold Sharp; Colin Campbell; Frank Hunter Blair
