Memorials of the Browns of Fordell, Finmount and Vicarsgrange

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Hussey of Wood Walton. Mrs. Bogle died without
issue in May 1871.
5. Janet, born 27th July 1756, died 22d April 1769.
6. Margaret, born 2d October 1757, died 11th January 1768.
7. Marion, born 5th July 1771, married John Gray, solicitor-at-law,
1788 (he died 21st June 1850, aged eighty-five), and had
issue, of whom there are no descendants. Her son John, Writer
to Her Majesty's Signet, 1824, married his cousin Harriet,
daughter and co-heir of Andrew Gray of Craigs, county Dumfries,
and Southfield, county Haddington, but died s^. 1870.
Mr. James Brown died 4th or 6th May 1786, at his house at
Lauriston.
XVI. Beverend James Brown, twin with Bobert, 1758, licensed by
the Presbytery of Edinburgh 30th January 1782, presented to the parish
of Newburn, county Fife, by Mrs. Anne Craigie of Dunbarnie in Decem-
ber 1783, and ordained 6th May following. He was translated to New-
battle, county Edinburgh, 13th September 1786, having been presented
in July by the Marquess of Lothian, and was admitted on the 4th of
October. Mr. Brown in 1794 founded the village of Eskbank, which has
now been greatly enlarged, and contributed the account of his parish to
Sir John Sinclair's Statistical Account of Scotland. He married 3d June
1784, Helen Adam, sister of his brother's wife, and by her, who died 22d
November 1814, had —
1. James.
2. Bobert, born in May 1792, licensed by the Presbytery of Had-
dington 26th March 1816 ; presented to the parish of Largo,
county Fife, by General Durham ; and ordained 28th June
1821. On the Secession in 1843, Mr. Brown ceased to hold
the living, and became Free Church minister of Largo ; he was
author of the account of the parish in the New Statistical Ac-
count of Scotland ; A Ward in the East Neuk; and A Letter to
the Moderate Brethren. He married, first, 15th June 1827,
Elizabeth, daughter of Christopher Lundin of Auchtermairnie,