Inglis Family Tree

Family Tree

Ninian Inglis

? - 1623

m Christian Ermour who had a sister Jean Ermar or Armour

Lived at Douglas in Lanarkshire and had a brother called Wal (Walter?)

2nd Generation

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1600 - 1654

m2 Margaret Wilkie (2nd Wife) believed to be a member of the Douglas family and 'a near descendant of the old Duke of Queensberry in Scotland'

Possibly died before Richard as neither they nor any Children were mentioned in his will. Unlike Andrew's daughter Marion.

1620 Graduated St Andrews University

1628 Ordained Minister at Wiston

1641-1654 Minister of St Brides Church, Douglas (Church now a ruin - many Inglis tombstones can be seen in Inglis Aisle)

1649 He 'took the side of the public resolutioners'

Children were the result of the first marriage. ( Wife's name unknown.)

3rd Generation

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(c1630 -

m Capt. Robert Johnson (Johnston?) brother of Johnston of Whamprey

m Miss Farquhar whose father was also a clergyman and came to Ireland.

m Robert Bell (He had a brother called Jon Bell)

(see Mrs Stratford's letter on the family history)

15/7/1650 Graduated from Edinburgh University ( M.A)

1654 Ordained

1654 Succeeded father as Minister of Douglas

1660 Minister of Moffat

1662 Named by Woodrow as one of those who refused to submit to Episcopacy

1663 Minister of Westerkirk

1667 Minister of Lochmaben. To this place he was 'presented' by Charles 2 on the 7th May ,so it appears that he must have 'conformed' by then.

It is recorded of him that 'he ran away from debt and the place was in a manner vacant'

1675 Minister of Ashkirk

1685 Minister of St Mungas and High Church Glasgow, he appears to have had charge of the north quarter of the City of Glasgow.

2/3/1686-16/8/89 Rector Glasow University (Appointed D.D)

1689 he became a 'Non-juror', which was the name given to a number of clergymen of the Church of England who refused to take the Oath of Allegiance to William and Mary. Their contention was that they had already taken oath to James 11 and cound not transfer their allegiance to another sovereign at the bidding of Parliament.

1690 Deprived of Livings and emigrated to Ireland due to Refusal to swear alegiance to William and Mary (who established Presbutary in Scotland). He was called to appear at Falkirk but escaped to Ireland instead.

His move to Ireland was at the suggestion of his kinsman Alexander Cairncross ('a near relation'). Cairncross had been Archbishop of Glasgow until dispossed by James 11. Cairncross was, however, given the See of Raphoe in Ireland by William 111 partly in order that he might provide for some of the Scottish clergy driven from their parishes.

1694 received from Cairncross the living of Killybegs (Donegal)

Rector of Raphoe and Killybegs, Donegal, Ireland.

4th Generation

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Richard Inglis

James (Jacobus) Inglis

Thomas Inglis

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(- 1739)

Graduated from Glasgow University (M.A)

Appears to have moved to Ireland with his father.

1692? Rector of Tullaghobegly

1698 Rector of Raymunterdowny in Donegal, Ireland

5th Generation

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Archibald Inglis

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(1716 -

(-15/11/1745)

m Mr Morrison?

m Daughter of Captain Johnson of Scotland (Johnston?), Mother was daughter of the Bishop of Whiteford an English Bishop. Her two sisters were married, one to Lord Fernsburn (sp?), and the other to Sir Robert Lowther.

An Aunt Morrison is mentioned in Charles' Diary in Falmouth, Nova Scotia. She was 72 in 1788. (Page 86 Harris)

1713 Ordained at Raphoe for Curacy of Lettermacward in Donegal, Ireland

1722 Rector of Glencolumbkille, Ireland, to which he added the living of Kilcarr in 1743.

6th Generation

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Margaret

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(1719 - 17/4/1770)

(1730 -

(1734 - 24/2/1816)

1737 Educated at Trinity College, Dublin.

m Mr Stratford

m Feb, 1764 married Mary Vining, of Salem County, New Jersey,daughter of Captain Benjamin Vining and Mary nee Middleton (Mary married on Benjamin's death a Nicholas Ridgely, sister of Hon. John Vining, Chief Justice of Delaware. Dutch descent (Died in childbirth premature twins 1764) They had only been married for 8 months.

20/10/1743 Ordained

(We have a letter written from Sydney aged 83 from 13 Upper Liffy st. Ireland dated 19 - 2 - 1813 written to the first Bishop about their ancestors.)

(- 13/10/1764)

One Twin Mary almost survived 29 days.

15/11/1745 Succeeded Father as Rector of Glencolumbkille

Her tombstone is in the churchyard of Christ Church, Dover, Delaware.

m31 May, 1773 Margaret (Peggy) Crooke, 2nd child of John and Margaret (nee Ellison) of Kingston, Ulster County, New York. She owned estates around New York and was reported to be worth £10,000. Her father's father John Crooke Sr of Kingston, New York for years Surrogate of Ulster County. Her mother's parents were Thomas and Margaret (Garrabrant) Ellison. Margaret Crooke was one of eleven children. Her brother Thomas married Mary Peck, of the Pecks from whom Peck slip N.Y is named, William married Mary Floyd, first cousin of William Floyd of Long Island one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Her sister Elizabeth married Callwallader Colden, son of the eminent New York Scientist and politician who was governor 3 times. John Crooke was one of the first wardens of Trinity Church.

(1748 - 21/9/1783)

Margaret and her son Charles have a Mural tablet in the chancel of St Paul's Chapel, Broadway, New York.

1754c Charles emigrated to America

Possibly his passage was paid for by John Inglis (might have been a cousin) in return for educating his children. A Samual and a John Inglis are named among the first students at the Academy in Philadelphia in 1757 (probably sons of John Inglis, see family tree of the Auchindinny Inglises).

1755 Appointed as Catechist and 'Preceptor' at the Free School, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

1758 Ordained Deacon by Bishop Zacharias Pearce of Rochester (acting for Bishop Sherlock of London) at Fulham Palace, London, England

1/7/1759 Returned to America and became SPG Missionary (Society for the Propagation of the Gospels) Missionary at Dover, Delaware, America.

1760 He was ill with fever (probably malaria) throughout his life he was to have recurrent bouts.

In Colonial Delaware, and apparently also in Pennsylvania, Inglis was the only missionary to admit blacks to the communion table.

12/1765 Appointed Assistant at Trinity Church, New York.

19/5/1767 Kings College, New York awarded him an M.A. Largely due to 'An Essay on Infant Babtism' in reply to the Baptists.

31/5/1770 Oxford Diploma for M.A

5/1770 He became Godfather to the son of John Odeserundy, a Mohawk chief who fought so valiantly for the Britsh in the French war, and during the revolution, afterwards he settled on the Bay of Quinte , where a town was named after him. Inglis believed that 'civilising' the Indians would bring their annihilation.

1771 Accepted onto the board of Governors for Kings College, New York.

10/1771 He became President of Kings College, New York.

1773 to 1783 Rector of Trinity Church, New York, America

1774 Became 'senior curate' of Trinity Church.

1775 American War of Independence broke out, Charles was a prominent Royalist

3/1776 The rebels captured New York.

4/1776 George Washington arrived in New York, Charles was lucky to avoid execution for his loyalist activities.

9/1776 English forces re-occupied New York.

3/1777 Succeeded Dr Auchmuty as Rector of Trinity Church, New York.

2/1778 Doctor of Divinity conferred by Oxford University

1778 France declared war on Great Britain in support of the American rebels.

10/1778 New York Provincial Assembly confiscated the property of many loyalists, including all the property of Charles Inglis and his wife (His property at Kingston, Charlotte and Fredericksburg in the state was seized and sold for £84,000 US£ leaving him nothing but his salary of £100 per annum as Chaplain of the 1st Battalion New Jersey Volunteers)

1782 American Independence agreed by British Government.

21/1/1982 His son Charles dies aged 8 years old.

21/9/1783 His wife dies aged 35 years and is buried in St Paul's Chapel, Broadway, New York.

26/10/1783 Preached farewell sermon at St Georges and St Paul's chapels.

11/1783 Resigned from Trinity Church following the Declaration of American Independence.

25/11/1783 The English forces evacuated New York and Charles and his Son John sailed with them to England. (His daughter Margaret had left for school in England and his younger daughter, Anne remained with her mother's relations Thomas Ellison)

Apr-Nov 1784 He left England to visit his old home at Glencolumkille

12/8/1787 Consecrated Bishop of Nova Scotia in Chapel of Lambeth Palace by Dr. Moore, Archbishop of Canterbury. (First Colonial bishop.)

The See of Nova Scotia comprised the whole of the British possessions in North America from Newfoundland to Lake Superior, and even included Bermuda.

10/1787 Arrived in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Charles appears to have lived at Halifax on first becoming Bishop, to have moved to Clermont, Aylesford in about 1794 and estate which he built to 9000 acres, and from 1806 to have spent the winters in Halifax and the summers at Clermont.

1788 Founded King's College, Windsor,Nova Scotia. Started as school run by Archbishop Paine Inglis, the Bishop's Nephew.

The first head of the college, as distinct from the School, was William Cochran, a Dublin graduate from Omagh was had previously been Classical Professor in King's College, New York. He was ordained by Bishop Charles 12/6/1791. The bishop's son John married William Cochran's niece.

Between 1808-11 his portrait was painted by Robert Field, this picture is now in the National Portrait Gallery, London. A copy by Myles is owned by Trinity Church, St John, N.B, another unfinished copy is in the Nova Scotia Archives at Halifax, A lithograph of the Field portrait was executed by M.Gauci. Bishop John Inglis commissioned a further copy (artist unknown) which he presented to St. George's Church, New York on 16.3.1843 to be placed in the vestry-room of the church.

7th Generation

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Thomas Inglis

Archibald Paine Inglis

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(1752 -

(1753/4 - 1801)

(16/3/1774 - 20/1/1782)

(1775 - 5/7/1841)

(1776 - 4/7/1827)

(9/12/1777- 27/10/1850)

Educated Trinity college Dublin

1768 Trinity College Dublin, Eire

Buried in St Pauls Chapel,Broadway, New York City, America.

Born Long Island, New York.

Born New York

Born in New York

1775 Graduated

1787 Emigrated to Nova Scotia

Unmarried

m19/9/1799 Brenton Halliburton son of Dr John Halliburton, born in Scotland; a naval surgeon who married the daughter of Admiral Sir Jahleel Brenton, member of the council Nova Scotia 1787. Brenton's sister married Admiral Robert Murray.

1799 or 20/7/1797m Rev George Pigeon, son of Edward Pidgeon, Gentleman of Kilkenny

31/8/1802 m Elizabeth Cochran, eldest daughter of Hon. Thomas Cochran and his second wife Jane (Allen) Cochran

Rector of Wicklow