No, James was a gardener and publican! But because of that one Prince Bishop, around 1790-1810 (those dates are a guess) the gentleman who was said that entries in parish registers had to record where people came from. So when numbers 7 and 8 of his children were baptised in Newcastle, James had next to his name "native of the parish of Ladykirk". Though why a Presbyterian minister regarded himself as bound by anything a Prince Bishop decreed, I do not know.
My asparagus doesn't seem to know it's winter
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