BIOGRAPHY: WILLIAM STIRLING followed the Ministry and was installed as the fist Minister for the then new Dunbeth Relief Church on the 27th March and introduced by Mr. Anderson of Kilsyth, 'his beloved pastor' in 1838 with a stipend of 80 pounds a year.
On the 25th May 1841 William Stirling married Christina BAILLIE the fourth daughter of Ludovic BAILLIE Esq. of Greenhill, Stirlingshire. After a prolonged illness Christina m.s. Baillie died in 1876.
William went on to serve his congregation as the Minister for Coatbridge U. P. Church for 50 years.
They had one child, Christina C. STIRLING, the 'C' standing for CROSS.
(There is a possibility of a second marriage of Ludovic Baillie?)

BIOGRAPHY: The above taken from the 'Memorials of William Stirling' 1883 by J. Logan Aikman, Published by Oliphant, Anderson and Ferrier of Edinburgh.