Jesus calling the Fishermen
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This is the next scene from the Life of our Lord. It is entitled "The Call of the Disciples." It shows Jesus calling the fishermen Simon (called Peter) and Andrew to follow him. In the right-hand window you can see a sail some rigging, and an oar. Its inscription reads, "In memory of Alexander Thomson died 1774 and his son Alexander Thomson died 1836 and James Dixon died 1857 elders in this church dedicated by their descendant Margaret Dixon -Brown 1904."
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Alexander Thomson, junior, his father Alexander Thomson and probably his father before him were farmers at Meadowhouse Farm. They were both elders in the Old Parish. In 1796 Alexander, the son, bought the Provost’s House, a large house that stood on the site of the present Old Parish Church, High Street Hall. His daughter, Elizabeth, married James Dixon a cattle dealer, James later also became an elder of the Old Parish. James and Elizabeth had four children. James died on the 1st October 1857. Elizabeth, his widow sold the Provost’s House to the Corstorphine Heritors on 16th May 1885, they in turn sold it to Rev. James Dodds in the August of that year, and the present High Street Church Hall was built on this ground.
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Elizabeth lived at Three Mile House, St.John’s Road, she died at the age of 87 on 27th September 1894. The Mile stone from the post of this house can still be seen built into the shop and office building that now occupies this ground. Their daughter, Margaret, who donated this window in memory of her father, grandfather and great grandfather, married Christopher Douglas Brown of Arizona USA, they lived at Inverallan, St.John’s Road. |
 Three Mile House c.1900. |
 "Oakland" Plaque on the 1904 renovated property showing the initials CDB in the rings in the center |
Christopher Douglas Brown in 1904 renovated the old inn property at the end of the High Street and named it "Ye Olde Inne Oakland". His initails CDB can be seen on the plaque. He also donated St.Margaret’s Park to the village in 1915. He died in Corstorphine on the 9th January 1920 at the age of 82. Margaret died in Corstorphine on 22nd March 1923. |
 Christopher Douglas-Brown |
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Two family gravestones can be found in the churchyard, west of the porch. There is a large Table stone to James Dixon and his family, next to the sculpted stone to Christopher Douglas Brown and his wife. (St.Matthew Chapter 4 vv18-20) |
 Dixon & Douglas-Brown Grave Stones |
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