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Herbert Dryden,
Chairman of the Bonnyrigg & Lasswade Local History Society writes:
While Mrs. Foran's great great grandparents. Captain Robert E. Wyllie and
Catherine Maria Jones may have lived in Lasswade, St. Paul's Pro-Cathedral
Church is actually in York Place in Edinburgh and it is in that Church, where
Bishop Terrot was rector, that they were probably married on 25th April 1843.
Very
briefly, the Episcopalians who worshipped in St. Giles in the 17th century left
St. Giles when St. Paul's was built in Jeffrey Street in 1689, this church being
one of the oldest episcopal churches in Scotland. Jeffrey Street is just on the
fringe of what was the Old Town of Edinburgh.
In
the early 18th century a decision was taken to found another episcopal church in
the heart of the Old Town and eventually one was built in the Cowgate around
1708. Around 1820 this congrega tion moved from the Cowgate to the New Town of
Edinburgh when a church was built for them in York Place. Because this
congregation inherited some communion silver with the words "St.
Paul's" on it, the new church was called St. Paul's (at which stage the
building referred to in the preceding paragraph became known as "Old St.
Paul's" and it is still known today by that name).
This
new chuch, known as St. Paul's, in York Place was given Cathedral status until
St. Mary's Cathedral in Palmerston Place was built for the episcopalians between
1873-79.
It
was in St. Paul's in York Place that Mrs. Foran's great great grandparents were
married. St. Paul's was designed by Archibald Elliot. The congregations of St.
Paul's and the nearby St. George's Chapel united, I think, in the early decades
of the 20th century to become St. Paul's and St. George's Episcopal Church.
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