Series 6 > Perth Kirk Session books, 1577-1590

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APPENDIX I
ALEXANDER ANDERSON. Skinner burgess elected elder in 1576 and
1578 (when he was also a member of the council). He was admitted to the
guildry in 1567 and had been chosen to the council in 1553 as one of the
earhest craftsman councillors, and again in 1558, 1569, 1578 and 1579. He
was married to another sister of the 1544 Perth martyr, Robert Lamb, and
so was likely an early protestant. At his death in 1579 his estate was valued
at £245; he left a widow, Jonet Cowrie, and two daughters.5
ANDRO ANDERSON. Hammerman burgess elected elder in 1587. He
was the third son of the merchant Jhon Anderson and Maijorie Lamb, and
was admitted to the guildry in 1571. He often appears on assizes of the
bailies court.6
HENRY ANDERSON. Son of the merchant/elder Jhon Anderson senior,
and younger brother of the elder Robert Anderson. Tided ‘Mr’, he was a
university graduate. He was admitted to the guildry in 1581 and elected elder
in 1589,1591,1593,1595,1596,1598,1599, and 1601-03. He was chosen for
the town council in 1596 and each year from 1598 to 1600, and he also
represented the burgh in parliament in 1596.7
JHON ANDERSON. Merchant burgess elected elder in 1576 and 1577. He
had been admitted to the guildry at some point before 1547, when he sat
on an assize recorded in the Guildry Book. He was chosen councillor in
1556, and elected again in 1558,1569,1572,1573,1575,1576, and 1578. He
was selected to be a bailie in 1567 and 1574. Anderson owned considerable
property in the burgh and in Tullilum (former Carmehte property) owing
rents to the hospital, and he left at his death in October of 1579 an estate
worth £1349. He was married to Maijorie Lamb (d. 1582), a sister of the
1544 martyr Robert Lamb, who left at her death in 1581 an estate valued at
£38 19s 4d. Among their children are the elders Robert, Adam, Andro, and
Henry Anderson, along with five daughters (Bessie, Isobel, Agnes, Margaret,
and Eufame).8
JHON ANDERSON younger. Merchant burgess elected elder in 1585,
1586,1596,1600, and 1601, apparently unrelated to the Jhon Anderson above.
5 NRS ms CC8/8/8/63-65 (he left two daughters and a widow, Jonet Cowrie); GB, 257;
NRS ms B59/1/1, fo. 34v; PKCA ms B59/12/2, fo. 31r.
6 NLS ms 19239, fo. 38v; GB, 268; NRS ms CC8/8/10/414-415 (mother’s will). He was
caution in a bailies court case in 1582 (Oliver Peblis and Henry Leis presiding) for Eufame
Anderson, the widow of Robert Gall about a disputed inventory of Gall’s goods; and he
sat often on assizes (e.g. in 1583 cases: PKCA ms B59/12/9, fos 19v, 107v).
7 GB, 315; PKCA ms B59/12/2, fos 61v, 62v, 63-63v; APS 4:97.
8 GB, 188, 193, 227, 239, 305; Milne, pp. xlv, 12, 13, 26-28, 30, 33, 35, 48, 66; NRS mss
CC8/8/7/621-3 and CC8/8/10/414-415 (Maijorie Lamb’s will); NRS ms B50/1/1, fo. 34v;
PKCA ms B59/12/2, fos 17r, 21v, 24v-25r, 26r, 27i-28r, 31r.