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GENEALOGICAL MEMOIRS OF JOHN KNOX. 153
married and settled in Fifeshire, somewhere about Leslie. Born
in 1613, Louise Welsh might have been mother of a daughter
up-grown in 1674, and who would be correctly described as
cousin of the ejected minister of Irongray. Her sister,
another cousin of Mr Welsh, was probably wife of one of the
.brothers Walker, who, it has been shown, were among Mr
Welsh's more conspicuous supporters.
From a stray volume of the Baptismal Begister of Leslie,
preserved in the library of Worcester College, Oxford, we
find that David Walker was baptized on the 7th February
1630, and James Walker on the 30th August 1637. Wodrow
relates that one of the brothers married, and had a son David,
who became minister of Temple, Edinburghshire. The de-
scendants of the minister of Temple have constantly asserted
a descent from John Knox and his son-in-law, Mr John
Welsh of Ayr. Mr David Walker of Temple caUed his
second son Josias, the Christian name of the minister of
Templepatrick.
Mr David Walker was, it may be inferred from his Christian
name, son of David, the elder of the Leslie farmers ; he was
admitted minister of Temple in 1690, having been licensed
to preach three years previously. 1 In 1705 he is in the
testament-dative of Walter Welsh of Lochquareit, the first-
named of several persons described as " tutors to, and having
the best knowledge, in name and on behalf of Walter Welsh,
son to the said defunct." 2
Walter Welsh of Lochquareit was probably a son of
William Welsh, a parishioner of Newbattle, whose name
appears in the kirk-session records of that parish in 1655, and
who seems to have been a son of the minister of Temple-
1 Fasti Eccl. Scot., i. 308. " Edinb. Com. Reg.