Erskine, Henry

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Dates 1649 or 1659-1662; 1682-1685
Location Cornhill-on-Tweed; Carlisle
Vocation Minister
Place of Birth Dryburgh
Marriage Jean Brown; Margaret Halcro
Issue Jean; Elizabeth; Philip; Katherine; Elizabeth; John; Rachel; William; Ebenezer; Ralph
Place of birth Source H. Scott, Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae: The Succession of Ministers in the Church of Scotland from the Reformation, 7 vols (Edinburgh, 1915–28), ii, 34

Minister of Cornhill, Northumberland (1649 or 1659), but ejected 1662. Returned to Scotland, living in Dryburgh and ministering when and where possible. Imprisoned in Scotland as a nonconformist and subsequently ejected from the country (1682). Lived for a time near Carlisle, but returned to live in the Scottish Borders (1685). Minister of Chirnside (1690).