Robert Gilkchrist

- Abt 1685

• Name	Robert Gilkchrist
  Gender	Male
  Role	1685	Leith, Midlothian, Scotland
  	Transported prisoner - died
  Religion	1685	Scotland
  	Presbyterian - Covenanter
  Residence	Abt Apr 1685	Closeburn, Dumfries-shire, Scotland   [1]
  	Dalgarnock
  Imprisonment	Abt 15 May 1685	Dumfries, Dumfries-shire, Scotland   [1]
  	Held in Dumfries Tolbooth before being set to join the Covenanter prisoners in Burntlisland
  Imprisonment	Abt Jul 1685	Dunnottar, Kincardineshire, Scotland   [2]
  	One of 15 Covenanter prisoners who escaped and were recaptured and subjected to torture
  Departure	5 Sep 1685	Leith, Midlothian, Scotland   [3]
  	Aboard the Henry and Francis. "Passenger to John Johnstone"
  Name	Robert Gilchrist  [1]
  Name	Robert Gilchryst  [2]
  Origin	Closeburn, Dumfries-shire, Scotland   [1]
  	Dalgarnock
  Death	Abt Oct 1685	At sea   [3]
  	Aboard the Henry and Francis en route to Perth Amboy
  Person ID	I44622	East Jersey Genealogies
  Last Modified	19 Oct 2025

  
  

• Event Map

  Role - Transported prisoner - died - 1685 - Leith, Midlothian, Scotland Religion - Presbyterian - Covenanter - 1685 - Scotland Residence - Dalgarnock - Abt Apr 1685 - Closeburn, Dumfries-shire, Scotland Imprisonment - Held in Dumfries Tolbooth before being set to join the Covenanter prisoners in Burntlisland - Abt 15 May 1685 - Dumfries, Dumfries-shire, Scotland Imprisonment - One of 15 Covenanter prisoners who escaped and were recaptured and subjected to torture - Abt Jul 1685 - Dunnottar, Kincardineshire, Scotland Departure - Aboard the Henry and Francis. "Passenger to John Johnstone" - 5 Sep 1685 - Leith, Midlothian, Scotland Origin - Dalgarnock - - Closeburn, Dumfries-shire, Scotland  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  There may have been two Robert Gilchrists? Robert Gilchrist and his wife Miriam had a son, James born 20 December 1704

  
  

• Sources

  [S3611] Privy Council of Scotland, The Register of the Privy Council of Scotland, 3rd Series, XI, pp289-294. [S3610] Anderson, James, The Black Book of Kincardineshire, p19. [S3602] Wodrow Quarto Manuscripts, Wod.Qu.XXXVI (lxv) A list of persons who died on Pitlochie's ship, 1685 (f.221).