Churches of Aberdeen : Historical and Descriptive . ers or managers, there are otherswhose names are well known in the com-munity, such as Mr. John Mortimer, har-bour commissioner ; Mr. Charles , North of Scotland and Orkneyand Shetland Steam Navigation Company :Mr. R. K. Smith, and others. Ferryhill Church has had no phenomenalexperience in the 32 years of its congrega-tional life. It has known little of change— for it is still a church of one pastorateand it has made no startling develop-ments, but has pursued its course quietlyand diligently, filling with efficiency theposi
Churches of Aberdeen : Historical and Descriptive . ers or managers, there are otherswhose names are well known in the com-munity, such as Mr. John Mortimer, har-bour commissioner ; Mr. Charles , North of Scotland and Orkneyand Shetland Steam Navigation Company :Mr. R. K. Smith, and others. Ferryhill Church has had no phenomenalexperience in the 32 years of its congrega-tional life. It has known little of change— for it is still a church of one pastorateand it has made no startling develop-ments, but has pursued its course quietlyand diligently, filling with efficiency theposition of a Parish Church for the districtof the city in which it is placed. If it hasmade no particular stir and has beencomparatively little heard of in the com-munity, perhaps this is. in some measureat least, to be accounted for by the factthat everything lias gone smoothly. Thereha; been nothing to disturb its harmony,and this, together with the work which hasbeeti done, is a tribute both to ministerand people. V.— GILCOMSTON PARISH Gilcomston Parish Church. The Church of Gilcomston was built !opened in 1771 as a Chapel of Ease withinthe bounds and under the jurisdiction of(ho Parish Church of Oldmachar. Thedistrict, however, was entirely differentthen from what it is to-day. In the closing years of the eighteenthcentury the lands of Gilcomston forme Ione of the suburbs of the city of Aber-deen. Small communities of workingpeople were settled here and there inthe locality, as they had found that rentsand taxes were lower than in the in the Denburn district there wasa considerable population, mostly ofweavers and shoemakers, and then, a littlefarther off, in Jacks Brae, Leadeide, andLoanhead, there were other small settle-ments. Being within the parish of Old-machar, these people depended for thesupply of religious ordinances on theministers of the parish, and, beingsituated so far from the Parish Church atOld Aberdeen, it was found necessary tomak
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