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Title: The parish of Strathblane and its inhabitants from early times : a chapter in Lennox history
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: Smith, John Guthrie, 1834-1894. cn
Subjects: Epitaphs
Publisher: Glasgow : J. Maclehose and sons
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

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with three children ; (2) Elizabeth ; (3) Robert Haldane, who married his cousin, Margaret
Jameson.

228 THE PARISH OF STRATHBLANE.
preacher. He thoroughly felt and believed what he taught, and his thoughts
were clothed in the most appropriate and beautiful language. Mr. Ferguson
was never a strong man, and for several years his health was gradually giving
way, till he died at the manse on the 8th April, 1886, in the forty-first year of
his age.¹ He had married in 1885 Henrietta Hamilton Montgomery, who
survives him. Mr. Ferguson was buried in the new part of the Churchyard
under a fine old plane tree, close to the spot where so many Strathblane
ministers are laid. His grave is marked by a simple marble cross on which
his name is cut, and, by his own desire, the text, "When ye pray, say, Our
Father which art in Heaven," words which fittingly commemorate a doctrine
he constantly and earnestly impressed on his people—The Fatherhood of God.

¹ While this book is passing through the press the parish is engaged in the work of
choosing his successor.

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CHAPTER VIII. STRATHBLANE CHURCH AND CHURCHYARD.
There are no existing records to show when or where the earliest Christian
church in Strathblane was built. There may have been a chapel near the
Netherton, dedicated to St. Kessog or MacKessog, whose memory is kept alive
in the parish by the well named after the holy man. This old well is just on
the march between Cult Craig and Wester Leddriegreen, about two hundred
yards north of the public road, at the west side of the Crosshill. The existence
of such a chapel is, however, matter of conjecture, and it may be that the site
of the present church is that which has been always occupied by a House of
God from the earliest Christian times.¹ But though this is not absolutely certain, there is no doubt at all that the
church of to-day occupies the same position as the Parish Church of the fifteenth
century. When the Lady Mary Stewart (Q75385107), sister of King James I. and wife of Sir
Sir William Edmondstone, 1st of Duntreath (Q75388502) William Edmonstone of Duntreath 'Sir William Edmondstone, 1st of Duntreath (Q75388502)), died in the second quarter of that century,
she she was buried within the Church of Strathblane, and the interesting researches
of the late Sir Archibald Edmonstone in 1844² proved that her grave is within
the present church.

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