Veitch, William

Dates	c.1666-c.1679, c.1685-1688
Location	Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Rothbury; Longhorsley; Beverley
Vocation	Minister
Place of Birth	Lanarkshire
Marriage	Marion Fairley
Issue	William; Samuel; Ebenezer; Elizabeth; Sarah; Agnes; Janet; three other children
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, 264

Adhered to the Pentland rising (1666), and afterwards fled to England. Chaplain to the mayor of Newcastle, and then served presbyterian meeting-houses around Rothbury and Longhorsley, Northumberland. Imprisoned on the Bass Rock (1679), but released (1680) and served as an agent of the Earl of Argyll in Northumberland and Holland. Minister of a meeting-house at Beverley (1685). Minister of Morebattle (1688), Peebles (1690) and St Michaels, Dumfries (1684).

Wife Veitch, Marion and son Vetch, Samuel