GARTSHORE, Marie ²

   Other names for Marie were GARSHORE, Mary,² GARTHSHOIRE, Mary,² GARTSHOIR, Marie,² GARTSHOIRE, Marie,² GARTSHOIRE, Mary,² GARTSHORE, Mary ^{1 2 3 4} and GARTSTAIR, Mary.⁵

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Marie married Right Reverend Mr James RAMSAY Bishop of Dunblane then Bishop of Ross, son of Reverend Mr Robert RAMSAY Rector, then Principal of the University of Glasgow and Unknown.¹ (Right Reverend Mr James RAMSAY Bishop of Dunblane then Bishop of Ross was born in 1624 in Irvine parish, Ayrshire, Scotland ⁶ and died on 22 October 1696 in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland ^{6 7}.)

  Marriage Notes:

"Mary (Gartshore) who married Rev. James Ramsay"

from email (21 November 2025)




(at Kirkintilloch in 1653)

"JAMES RAMSAY, M.A. ; ord. (by the 1653 Presb. with a committee of General Assembly) 19th Feb. 1653; was ordered by the English 'not to preach in that church, and the people not to hear him under high paynes'; and by Judge Moysley 'discharged to preach in the neighbour churches'; but the parishioners adhered to him with few exceptions. He was trans, to Linlithgow 14th Sept. 1655."

from Fasti Ecclesiae (vol 3)


(At Linlithgow in 1655)

"JAMES RAMSAY, M.A.; of the Resolutionist or Moderate Presb.; trans. from Kirkintilloch; adm. (on a call by the Presb. with a Committee of Synod) 14th Sept. 1655. On a petition of the parishioners to the Synod, 8th Nov. 1656, bearing that he is 'ane able, pious, and peaceable man and doth meet with many obstructions in the exercise of his minis try, to the prejudice of the Lord's work and his discouragement, and desiring he may be encouraged in his calling'; the Moderator, in their name, found and declared him to be lawfully called and admitted, 'being farther confirmed in their judgment of his abilities, by his sermon preached this day before them'; Coll. 1662 ; trans, to Hamilton 1664; Bishop of Dunblane 1673; Bishop of Ross 23rd May 1684 (q.v.).[Reg. Collat.; Kirkton's and Wodrow's Hists., i.; Baillie's Lett., iii.; Chambers's Ann., ii.; Acts Parl., vii.; Keith's Catalogue.]"

from Fasti Ecclesiae (vol 1) (at Hamilton in 1664)


"JAMES RAMSAY, M.A.; trans, from Linlithgow in 1664 ; became Bishop of Dunblane (q.v.) in 1673."

from Fasti Ecclesiae (vol 3)


"BISHOPS

DUNBLANE (1673)

JAMES RAMSAY, promoted from parish of Hamilton 22nd July, app. 18th Aug., and consecrated 4th Sept. 1673; promoted to See of the Isles 16th July 1674, but re-called by Privy Council 27th April 1675 ; trans, to See of Ross 14th April 1684."


(at Culross in 1680)

"JAMES RAMSAY, Bishop of Dunblane, undertook the charge of the whole parish."

from Fasti Ecclesiae (vol 5)


"BISHOPS

ROSS (1684)

JAMES RAMSAY, born about 1624, son of Robert R., min. of the High Kirk, Glasgow, and Principal of that Univ. ; educated at Univ. of Glasgow M.A. (1647); ord. to Kirkintilloch 19th Feb. 1653 ; trans, to Linlithgow 14th Sept, 1655 ; trans, to Hamilton and Deanery of Glasgow in 1664 ; Rector of Univ. of Glasgow, 1665-7; headed a list of subscribers to the Oath of Allegiance to Episcopacy 6th Jan. 1666 ; was instrumental in protecting the Duke of Hamilton from injury at the skirmish at Pentland 28th Nov. 1666 ; promoted to Bishopric of Dunblane 22nd July 1673 ; app. to See of the Isles after 16th July 1674, but appointment recalled by the Privy Council, Sept. 1675, consequent upon an angry quarrel between R. and Archbishop Sharp ; trans, to this See 23rd May, and installed 10th Aug. 1684 ; opposed repeal of statutes against Roman Catholics in 1686, and signed the Bishops' letter of allegiance to James VII. ; deprived at the Revolution ; died in great poverty at Edinburgh, 22nd Oct. 1696, and was buried in Canongate Churchyard. He marr. Mary Gartshore, and had issue - Robert, min. of Prestonpans ; Patrick James, student at Glasgow Univ. in 1675; David ; Andrew ; Captain John, denounced by the Privy Council as a Jacobite, 8th Nov. 1692; Alexander ; George ; Susanna ; Anna ; Margaret. Publication - Moses returned from, Midian, or God's Kindness to a Banished King [sermon preached at Linlithgow in 1660] - Dic. Nat. Biog.; Keith's Scottish Bishops, 183, 204 ; Baillie's Letts., 313, 487 ; Law's Memorialls, 20 Hist. MSS. Com., 2nd Report, p. 205; ] P. C. Reg., 3rd ser., xii., 482 ; G. R. Sas., 2nd ser., vi. 269, viii. 22.]"

from Fasti Ecclesiae (vol 4) ^{1 8 9 10 11}