She has/had a relationship with John Steel.
Child(ren):
Elizabeth or Margaret Drummond | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
John Steel | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
After a vacancy of seven years, Cumnock again had a settled minister. The reason of the long vacancy is not known. Ordained in March 1701 John married Elizabeth Drummond, daughter or Sir George Drummond, Lord Provost of Edinburgh and had 2 children. John served until his death in March 1746 aged 72, serving for a total of 45 years. He published several religious texts.
Some information has come down to us about his work. Several points of interest may be noted.
Soon after he was settled, Cumnock, like the rest of Scotland, was engaged in discussing the proposals for union between our country and England. What view of the matter Cumnock took is not quite certain, but the following extract from the session records lets us see that the people of the parish eagerly debated the question.
It is dated 20th April 1706. "The minister made intimation to the session of an appointment of the Synod, enjoining the several Presbyteries within their bounds to order the minister and elders of every paroche within their respective districts, to set apart and keep a day with all convenient haste of meeting, for prayer to Almighty God, that He would graciously be pleased to pardon the abounding sins of the land, to avert His judgments thereby deserved, to disappoint the designs of His Church's enemies, and to overrule this important matter of the union betwixt the two nations now in agitation, to such happy conclusions as may be for His great name's glory and the good of His people.”
He died in Cumnock March 1746 aged 73.