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From: "Jim Bundy" <>
Subject: [AYR] Fenwick UP church register, note 348
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 15:47:17 -0700


Hurray, they finally bought a new pen (or better ink) :)

"Fenwick 11 June 1831
The United asso session of Fenwick met in the Parish church and being
constituted by the Revd Willm Orr Modr were present Jas Millar Willm Gemmell
John Taylor John Dunlop Jas Love Jas Young Thomas Taylor & Jas Dunlop
Admited 17 young persons into the communion of the church The committee
appointed to enquire into Peter Dickies conduct reported they were informed
that he had been guilty of threatening and provoking language several other
reports were given in Read a letter from Willm Gemmell weaver containing the
following charges against John & Thomas Taylor Elders 1st He charged Thomas
Taylor with coming to him personally and charging him with absenting himself
from church ? grounding his reasons for doing so partly upon his own
knowledge 2d Willm Gemmell charged Thomas Taylor with vending abroad the
following statement That said Willm Gemmell had been guilty of drunkenness
and outrage about John Kirklands house, and that Thomas Taylor refused to
give him the slightest information concerning it.
The following charges were prefered against John Taylor 1st Willm Gemmell
charged John Taylor with defamation of character in as much as John Taylor
brought the following charge against Willm Gemmel That on a certain day or
night in Kilmarnock Willm Gemmell was so outrageous as to be taken up by the
Police, and that he left the company in which he was and got himself drunk
and then returned to them in that state even to such a degree as to need
assistance home To substantiate this charge Willm promised to bring prooff
2d He charged John Taylor with asserting that the said Willm Gemmell was on
another occasion in such a state in his own house as to require the help of
neighbours to keep him quiet, This also he promised to prove - Both of these
charges he promised to prove to be lies
Being the Saturday of the communion there was not time to examine the
foundation of these charges However john & Thomas Taylor agreed to suspend
themselves from communion with the church till the matter be judicially
investigated
Concluded with prayer"

Jim Bundy

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