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Rev John SCOLLAY
(1686-1741) |
Rev John SCOLLAY 2
Notes: The eldest son, John was educated at Marischal College in Aberdeen, and obtained his MA in 1708. He was a schoolmaster at Kirkwall Grammar School from 1711-19, then in 1719 was ordained and moved back to his home island of Stronsay where he was Minister until his death in 1741. He married Helen Orem (qv) in 1713, and had eight children, the eldest four who were born in Kirkwall, and the youngest four who were presumably born in Stronsay. John married Helen OREM, daughter of William OREM and Jean BLACK, on 13 Dec 1713 in Kirkwall And St Ola, Orkney.1 (Helen OREM was christened on 1 Feb 1693 in Kirkwall And St Ola, Orkney 5.) |
1 Church Register, Kirkwall and St Ola, FHL(L) ref Mf 0990504.
2 Hugh Marwick, Some Notes on an Old Orkney Family - The Scollays, Orkney Herald, 4 March 1952, 11, 18:, p35.
3 Church Register, Kirkwall and St Ola, FHL(L) ref Mf 0990503.
4 Biography, Scott, H. (1928) Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, The Succession of Ministers in the Church of Scotland from the Reformation. Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh.
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Family Search, https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/X18C-XFJ.
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