Primus ab urbe condila (roughly translates “First born in this place”)

Weithman
c.28 Sept.		 John lawful son to William Weithman in Gardnstoun was baptised, Godfathers and Godmothers being Mr. John Gordon, minister and Jannet Gordon his spouse, John Garden, son to the Laird of Troup and Elspeth Paterson, spouse to William Watt in Gardnstoun.

Women’s names were not recorded at the birth of their children in the
Parish of Gamrie until 1745, but wives names were if they appeared as witnesses! (See above birth)

The use of “Godfathers and Godmothers at the above birth is also significant. It suggests that the Church still had Episcopalian tendencies.

Mr. John Gordon mentioned previously was minister at the Old Church of Gamrie. He succeeded The Rev. John Innes in 1717, who was deposed for “praying for the Pretender” during the 1715 Jacobite Rebellion.