Author: Kessen, A.
Biography:
KESSEN, A. (fl 1835)
Possibly the Rev. Andrew Kessen (c.1793-1856), an evangelical Church of Scotland minister, born in Paisley, who was ordained in 1838 despite significant opposition from the "moderate" wing of the Church and given charge of a congregation at Lethendy, and later at Caputh. In 1841 he was living in Caputh with a family member (probably a niece) and a pupil. Part of the "Disruption" of 1843 when many ministers left to found the Scottish Free Church, he is described in the Census of 1851 as "Minister of the Free Church at Clunic [for Caputh?] but for the United Parish of Lethendy and Kinloch." A widower in 1851, he may have remarried in Dundee in 1852; if so, his second wife was Marion Marshall Wilson. There was at least one son. (findmypast.com 27 May 2021; Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae 4 [1923]; ancestry.com 27 May 2021)