Andrew Dishington, Min. of Rowsay

Wrong mother of the children?

He was married twice, first with Elizabeth Tulloch and second with Margaret Elphinstone. Margaret Elphinstone is stated as the mother of the children in many family trees, but I find no evidence of this anywhere. Does anyone have any info here? The only I can find is that Elizabeth Tulloch is stated as the mother in this secondary source:

Fasti ecclesiæ scoticanæ
the succession of ministers in the Church of Scotland from the reformation New ed., rev. and continued to the present time under the superintendence of a committee appointed by the General assembly ... by Hew Scott, D.D. Published 1915 by Oliver and Boyd in Edinburgh .

Andrews son Thomas was married to a Margareth Elphinstone, so there seems to have been a mix up here at one point.

Volume VII (1928), Page 255 :

ANDREW DISHINGTON, son of John D., sheriff of Orkney (said to be descended from the Dishingtons of Ardross, near Elie, Fife, the first of whom was son of Sir William D. and Elizabeth, sister of King Robert the Bruce) ; appears as schoolmaster of Dunbar in 1594; pres. by Earl Robert to the prebendary of St Peter 26th Feb. 1595 ; app. master of the Grammar School of Kirkwall ; min. of Stromness in 1599 ; trans, to Rousay and Egilsay in 1601 ; attended the Glasgow Assembly of 1610 ; was afterwards min. of Hoy (probably about 1614), being so designated in a lease of "the sax-penny land benorth the burne in Hoy" granted by his widow ; adm. to this charge before 1617; died before llth June 1627. He had a manse and glebe from George, Bishop of Orkney, which he possessed during his incumbency, though these are stated to have been withheld from his successor.

He marr.

• (1) Elizabeth Tulloch, and had issue John, app. master of the Grammar School of Kirkwall, and prebendary of St Peter in 1648, served heir 22nd Oct. 1644, died 1681 ; Thomas, precentor and session-clerk at Kirkwall, died 2nd June 1682 :
• (2) Margaret, daugh. of John Elphinston of Lopness.

[Peterkin s Rentals, App., 50 ; Ing. Ret. Orkney, 43; M Crie s Melville, ii., 502 ; Orkney Sas., 29 ; Acts Parl. Scot., iii., 489 ; Craven s Orkney (1558-1662), 103 ; Smith s Church in Orkney, 220 ; Hossack s Kirkwall, 165.]

• Dishingtonene har sannsynligvis sitt opphav fra Ardross slott i Skottland. Mer om slekten her: [http://forum.arkivverket.no/topic/107513-21799-job-jacobsoen-dissin...]

Petter Vennemoe: Jakob Andersen Dishington Del 2: Den eldre slekt Dishington i Skottland/Orknøyene. Genealogen 1/2019

From Page 165 of Kirkwall in the Orkneys by Buckham Hugh Hossack. W. Peace, 1900.

"The first of the Dishingtons in Kirkwall was John, Sheriff of Orkney and Zetland, whose house was " Gockhall," near the Shore.
'In 1595, the Sheriff's son, Andrew, was appointed master of the Grammar School. In 1599, he became minister of Stromuess; in 1601, he was translated to Rousay and Egilshay, and, about 1613, to Walls and Flotta. He left a son, John, who was served heir, 1644. *"