Ministers:

1642 - Revd. Nevin

1646 - Revd. Andrew Stewart (a son ot Revd. Andrew Stewart of Donegore). Died 02 JAN 1671; age 46.

1671 - Revd. Patrick Peacok. (a native of Fifeshire, formerly minister of Kirkmabreck, in Kirkcudbrightshire, and at one time Chaplain to Lady Clanbrassil, Killyleagh Castle.) Died 1691 in Scotland.

1690 - Revd. Alexander Bruce; died 16 APR 1704

1697 - Revd Henry Hamilton, (a son of Revd Archibald Hamilton of Bangor). He was married to Esther Stewart, a daughter of the Revd. Andrew stewart. (See Stewart; 1646). Died AUG 1730.

1733 - Revd James Maxwell Stewart, born in Ballyroney. Died 02 JUN 1743.

1743 - Revd William Warnock (son of a Ballyhalbert farmer). Died 19 JAN 1768.

1772 - Revd. John Adams, unmarried. Died 09 JAN 1779.

1780 - Revd Alexander Goudy, the son of Mr. John Goudy of Newtownards. He married Miss. Lucy Adams in 1788. (emigrated to America after 1791).

1794 - Revd. James Knox, who was born in Killinchy. Died 22 MAR 1801.

1799 - Revd. John Arnold, of Donacloney. He married the daughter of a local resident, Mr. James Lemon. Died 10 AUG 1811.

1812 - William Skelly, the second son of Samuel Skelly, a farmer at Saintfield. In 1818, he married a daughter of Mr. Alexander Patterson, a merchant in Newtownards. Differences arose between he and his congregation. Revd. Skelly formed a second Presbyterian congregation in Donaghadee, Shore Street Presbyterian Church. He died 09 MAR 1857 and was buried in Donaghadee.

1822 - Revd John McAuley, the sixth son of Mr. John McAuley, a farmer of Drumgooland. Mr. McAuley was married in 1823 to a daughter of Mr. Samuel Cochrane of Skerries. He married a second time in 1830 to the daughter of Revd Hutchinson McFadden, the minister of the Reformed Presbyterian Church in Newtownards. He died 27 FEB 1879 at Ballyvester House and was buried in Donaghadee.

1874 - Revd. William Witherow

1882 - Revd. Samuel Walker; died SEPT 1923. He was buried in Donaghadee.

1924 - Revd. David Watson, married on the 07 APR 1926 to Mary Jane Knox Ferguson, the daughter of Henry Ferguson, of Hogstown House, Donaghadee. The three sons of Revd. Watson entered the ministry of the Presbyterian Church of Ireland. The eldest, Revd. D. H. A. Watson accepted a call to the Church of Ireland. Revd. W. J. Watson isminister of the congreation of Roseyards and the Revd. J. K. F. Watson is minister of Ballygrainey.