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Somerville

Monument to Rev. James Somerville (died 1817). Church of the Holy Rude, Stirling.
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Rev. James Somerville,
Dr. James Somerville,
born Oct 1747, Carnwath, Lanarkshire.
He was educ University of Edinburgh.
Minister of the Scots Church, Rotterdam, 1775 to 1779.
Minister of Whitburn, West Lothian, 1779 to 1789.

Minister at the Church of the Holy Rude at Stirling, 1789 to his death 1817.
Minister of the "Second Charge" at Stirling 1789 to 1793.
Minister of the "First Charge" (senior minister) at Stirling 1793 to 1817.
Doctor in Theology (D.D.), Aberdeen, 1803.
He died at Stirling, 23 Jan 1817, age 69 yrs.
He was bur 28 Jan 1817 at Stirling.
(todo) See notice in Inverness Journal & Northern Advertiser, 7 Feb 1817.
Anna died 17 Apr 1839.
Rev. James and Anna had issue:

1. Elizabeth Somerville,
   bapt 23 June 1781, Whitburn.
   She died young.

   
   

2. Katherine Somerville,
   Katherine Agnew Somerville, bapt 7 Jan 1783, Whitburn.
   She mar 17 Apr 1809 to James Porteous [of Bonhill, Jamaica].

   
   

3. Barbara Somerville,
   bapt 1 Aug 1784, Whitburn.
   She died 28 Feb 1802, age 17 yrs.
   She was buried with the Gibbon graves at Nigg Bay, Aberdeen. No gravestone.

   
   

4. Alexander Somerville,
   Alexander Martine Somerville, bapt 15 Aug 1786, Whitburn.
   Commissary General, Jamaica.

   
   

5. Hannah Somerville.
   She mar 30 Nov 1814 to James Kippen.
   He was a merchant, of Greenock.

   
   

6. Wilhelmina Somerville,
   born 2 June 1792.

Rev. James Somerville marries Anna Yeats.
From p.215 of [Steven, 1833].

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Fasti ecclesiae scoticanae

Rev. James Somerville in entry for Whitburn on p.236 of Fasti ecclesiae scoticanae, vol.1, 1915.

Rev. James Somerville in entry for "The Rood Kirk" at Stirling in Fasti ecclesiae scoticanae, vol.4, 1923.
Left: "First Charge" on pp.321-322.
Right: "Second Charge" on p.325.

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Barbara Somerville grave, Nigg Bay

Barbara Somerville (died 1802) was buried with the Gibbon graves at Nigg Bay (her aunt's family).

Barbara Somerville is buried in plot 7 of the Gibbon graves in the NE corner of Nigg churchyard.
From notes on Gibbon graves at Nigg.

Map of the Gibbon graves in the NE corner of Nigg churchyard, showing plot 7.
From notes on Gibbon graves at Nigg.

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References

• Rev. James Somerville on pp.204-219 of [Steven, 1833].

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Sources yet to be consulted

• Two Single Sermons, Rev. James Somerville, 1790.

• Practical Sermons by Rev. James Somerville, edited by John M'Gachen, 1827.
  Think this has a memoir of Rev. James Somerville.

• Statistical Accounts of Scotland, Sinclair, 1791-1799.
  • "Town and parish of Stirling", article by Rev. James Somerville.
  • This starts on p.606 of Vol.9 (1978) of the 1970s reissue.