Vol. V. No. 19.
PUBLICATIONS
OF THE
-----------------------------------
EDINBURGH, 1950
-----------------------------------
ALISTAIR LINDSAY, M.A., LL.B.
-------------------------------------
Edinburgh:
printed by LINDSAY & CO., LTD., 17 BLACKFRIARS STREET
1950
A
The Late Editor 1
T HE Clan Lindsay Society has suffered a grievous loss in the passing of Dr John Lindsay. He devoted much of his
time, throughout a long number of years, to tracing out genealogies, and posterity will acknowledge his fine work as Clan Historian and Editor of the Publications of the Society.
At the Annual Gatherings " Dr John " as he was affectionately known, was always ready to explain the historical significance of the places visited.
A much respected member of the medical profession, he was modest in the extreme. I, with my fellow clansmen, mourn the loss of a fine
gentleman.
A. D. L.
1 So far as is known, the late Editor had never seriously attempted to trace his paternal ancestry. Among the papers in his possession was a typescript pedigree showing his descent through his mother from several Renfrewshire families. For permission to reproduce it, and for courteous assistance in the preparation of the following pages, the Editor expresses his thanks to Dr Martin Milligan Scott, of Athole Gardens, Glasgow, cousin of " Doctor John " and one of his Executors.—A. L.
“ IT is a curious point, to be taken into account, that the Christian name of Matthew is not to be found in any Lindsay family except such as belonged originally to Dumbartonshire”
So wrote the late Editor 2 to a correspondent. Its popularity there in the past is believed to derive from its having been borne by the Earls of Lennox in the 15th century.
Samuel Lindsay, and his wife Sarah Crawford, had (perhaps with other issue), a son.
Matthew Lindsay, born in or about 1785, who in 1816 married Catherine Spreule.3 Latterly a Spirit merchant, he died at 33 Clyde Street, Anderston, Glasgow, aged 71 on 25th May 1856, and was buried in the Southern Necropolis. Predeceased by his wife, he left one surviving child.
John
Lindsay, born 24th February 1830, at Bishop
Street, Anderston, aforesaid. Proclaimed 16th
May 1852, he was married 4th June,4 by the Reverend
Robert Weir, of the Seaman's Chapel, Brown
Street, there, to Esther Austin born 3rd April
1828, third daughter of James Milligan, and
a descendant of Andrew Smith of Swindrige-muir, c.1650. In engineering at the
time of his marriage, he later
became a Spirit Merchant at
2
To
Lady Elizabeth Lindsay; letter dated 5th September 1934.
3
Proclaimed
24th August
at Cardross;
this Publication,
Vol. Ill,
p. 266,
first entry,
and married
there 13th
September following".
A LENNOX FAMILY 147
Bothwell. Mrs Lindsay died at Glasgow, 5th February 1885, and he at Orr Place, Bellshill, 13th February 1871, having had issue.
1 Matthew, born 4th April 1853, at Glasgow, married Helen Davidson, who died at Glasgow, 17th December 1876, in her 25th year. He died at Kelso Bay, Tasmania, 14th August 1879, without issue.
2 James Milligan, born 18th February 1855, at Glasgow. He settled in Milwaukee, U.S.A., and left issue.
3 Marion Orr, born llth February 1857, at Chapelhall, near Holytown, Lanarkshire, died young.
4 Janet Wilson, born 4th May 1859, at Glasgow, married James Henry Patrick, with issue.
5 JOHN, of whom after.
6 Catherine Sproule, born 15th July 1867, at Mossend, near Bellshill, Lanarkshire, married a Mr Penney, of Johannesburg, with issue.
The Late Editor
JOHN LINDSAY, fifth child and third son of his parents, was born at Mossend, near Bellshill, in the Middle Ward
of Lanarkshire, on 3rd January 1865. While quite young he was, for a time, with his family in Milwaukee, U.S.A., and it was here that he developed fluency in German. Returning to Glasgow on the death of his father, he attended Hutcheson's Grammar School, occupying later in life the Vice-Presidency of the Former Pupil's Club, during the Presidency of Lord Tweedsmuir, otherwise John Buchan.
Proceeding
to Glasgow University in 1884, he graduated M.A. in 1889. Continuing his
studies, he qualified M.B., C.M., in 1892, and had the advantage of further
education at Berlin and Heidelberg. At this time Germany was a rapidly rising
power and much curiosity existed in Britain as to the manners and
customs of her people. Writing under the pseudonym " The Old Goose "
he contributed to the Glasgow Herald a series of articles descriptive
of student life in Germany as he
had seen it. This was not his first venture into
periodical literature, for in 1887, when twenty-two years of age, he
had had printed in The People's Friend, an essay on " The Cup of
Assuanlee," thus early evincing an historical bent. In 1901 he received
the degree of M.D. from his Alma Mater.
Possessed of a widely developed personality, he became engrossed in divers studious pursuits. He kept detailed records of climatic conditions and fishing lore in Upper Clydesdale, and his intimate knowledge of this district was acknowledged by more than one writer. Sketches from his pen on various aspects of natural history appeared in the press, and in earlier life he was a regular contributor to medical publications. An instigator of the movement for the creation of the Marine Biological Station at Millport, in the Firth of Clyde, he was a vigorous advocate of continued independence when Glasgow University sought to obtain control of it.
In practice as a Physician in Glasgow for almost half-a-century, he held from the year 1902 the Professorship of Physiology in Glasgow Veterinary College. Joining the R.A.M.C. as a Lieutenant (Temp.) in 1915, he was demobilised with the hon. rank of Major in 1920. He early in life made a special study of foetal abnormalities, and was sometime President of the Obstetrical and Gynaecological Society of Glasgow.
Married at Glasgow, 23rd October 1895, to Elizabeth, third surviving daughter of Hamilton Ferguson, Coachman, and Ann Bryce, he resided latterly at 15 Dunearn Street, Glasgow, and left no issue. Mrs Lindsay died 14th August 1920, while on holiday at Crawford, Lanarkshire.
Early
interesting himself in the study of genealogy,
one of the handmaidens of history, he look an active part in the
affairs of the Clan
THE LATE EDITOR 150
No mere compiler, his chief delight was in the raw materials of history, and he was never happier than when engaged in transcribing some musty indenture or bond, which established a link in a chain of evidence.
To the service of Clan Lindsay, the preserving and recording of its history and traditions, he devoted himself unstintingly. He was engaged on material for a further issue of this publication when, on 20th March 1942, he passed away.
Energetic and skilful in his labour of love, the elucidation of Lindsay pedigrees, the late Editor was, if anything, too self-effacing. The preceding pages are the least tribute justice requires us to offer to the family which produced a much-loved gentleman and a true scholar in Dr John Lindsay.
A Scottish-Canadian Lindsay family
(The simple story printed below won, by its ring of authenticity, first place in the recent competition for essays on Emigrant Families. It is printed in the hope that it will spur others to a similar endeavour, and furnish the Editor with further evidence that one need not have a " Lang Pedigree " to have a story worth telling.)
ABOUT the year 1832 my grandfather, John Lindsay, the son a soldier and schoolmaster, migrated from the Glamis
district south to the City of Dundee, and there learned the trade of shoemaker. In the year 1836 he won the hand of Elizabeth Ower, the daughter of a prosperous jute spinner, and in the following year they became the proud parents of twin babies, a boy and a girl, the former being my father, James Hay Lindsay.
Within the next four years two more babies arrived, and it seemed advisable to emigrate to Canada, which was then being widely advertised as a land of promise, just as at the present day. So a farm site in the new land was arranged, a site covered with hard wood, where wild animals roamed freely.
Looking backward, to my mind, it was a very heroic decision for this young couple to make, especially as grandmother had been gently reared and now, the mother of four small children, was facing a long Atlantic voyage and
A SCOTTISH-CANADIAN LINDSAY FAMILY 152
the prospect of settling in an uncleared wilderness with no shelter prepared in advance for their Canadian arrival.
Notwithstanding this hard prospect, John and Elizabeth Lindsay set sail for the new world in 1842, after thirteen weeks reached the locality of their home-to-be, and were given temporary shelter by good neighbours until such time as a small log house could be erected to receive them and their little brood.
The highlight of their departure from Dundee was a visit to their ship by a Councillor of that city, one Alexander Moncur, an old acquaintance, who, with other friends and relatives, was bidding the Lindsays a last goodbye, as the prospect of a return visit to the homeland was dim indeed.
The log house in the woods was to be their home for many years, grandfather residing there till the day of his death, a matter of at least fifty years.
A rather humorous incident in regard to the old cabin was the fact that, one wintry morning, the family awakened to find the roof missing and their coverlets buried in snow. The help of kind neighbours soon remedied this mishap, and the new roof being more securely fastened, weathered the storms for the next sixty years.
In those early days in the 1840's, Canada had no regular schools, so my father's education
A SCOTTISH-CANADIAN LINDSAY FAMILY 153
was derived from spending some winter months each year with an uncle, also from Dundee, who had been a Writer there. His studies were supplemented by the presence, as a lodger, of the local Minister, and under his guidance he became fairly proficient in Latin, English and History.
In 1865, father married Anne Churchill, who had come to Canada from London as an infant, and by her he had a family of four. Before my birth (I being the youngest child) father had the misfortune to suffer a badly dislocated ankle, and from then till his death forty years later, he insisted on continuing as a farmer, although very lame, having his knee fastened to an artificial leg which he made for himself out of selected cedar wood. Walking over all kinds of rough terrain, and being active from dawn to sundown, this bespoke no mean powers of endurance.
Father had five sisters and one brother, John. His twin sister moved to Manitoba in 1885 with her family of ten children, where they prospered abundantly, and their descendants are all in good circumstances.
The old homestead is still occupied by a Lindsay after 106 years, a great-grandson of the original owner.
My sister was a graduate nurse, my two brothers elected to be farmers, and I am a family physician of fifty years' standing. We
A
SCOTTISH-CANADIAN LINDSAY
FAMILY 154
lost our eldest son, also a physician, in 1933. Our surviving son is employed with a manufacturing concern, and our daughter, a college graduate, is with the Bell Telephone Company.
Dr john C. lindsay.
717 Dundas Street,
London, Ontario.
Coming-of-Age of Lord Balniel
ROBERT Alexander Lindsay, eldest son and heir of the Earl and Countess of Crawford and Balcarres, who was born
on 5th March 1927,
attained his majority in 1948. He had been on service in Palestine at the beginning of the year, and the news that he was to attend the Gathering on his return home was doubly welcome: it afforded clansfolk their first opportunity of meeting him socially, and enabled the customary Address to be presented in a suitable setting.
The Gathering, the first for ten years, took place at Perth on 3rd September, and a company of almost a hundred sat down to dinner under the Chairmanship of Lord Balniel. Lord Garnock (David Lindesay-Bethune) elder son of the Earl of Lindsay, who had himself reached majority in the previous year, after a gracious and witty speech, in which he referred to the fast friendship between them, and his own gratification at being selected to make the presentation, handed to Lord Balniel, with a warm expression of good wishes, the Address, which was in the following terms:
may it please your lordship,
Your Addressers beg you to accept their felicitations and those of Lindsays in every
COMING-OF-AGE OF LORD BALNIEL 156
continent on your attaining your majority. Had this signal event occurred in bygone times a representative assembly of the Clan would have attended to convey their good wishes in person, but with the dispersal of the race through the length and breadth of the Island Kingdom and beyond the seas that is no longer possible.
So that the bond of kinship, which had enabled the Clan to exercise such a potent influence in Scottish affairs down the centuries might not be weakened by the influence of modern society, our and Your Lordship's predecessors of fifty years since bestowed formal recognition on the immemorial tie by associating themselves in a Society which should render homage to the past, link it to the present, and exhort the clansmen of the future to bear their name on high.
It has very recently been pointed out from the Bench of the Supreme Civil Court in Scotland that Chiefship is not a justiciable dignity and consequently that the Court cannot determine it to vest in any individual; thus was judically expressed what has always been common knowledge. It is a source of pride to your Addressers that this dignity is a matter of sentiment and honour only, and .is freely bestowed without patent of creation, relying for its maintenance on mutual respect and loyalty " noways coated or compelled." We earnestly hope that in due course Your
COMING-OF-AGE OF LORD BALNIEL 157
Lordship will enjoy this as one of the highest of the many honours pertaining- to the House of Crawford.
Charged
accordingly with the mandate of the Board of Management and Members of the
CLAN LINDSAY SOCIETY, we tender to Your Lordship our warmest good wishes and
express our confident belief that you will enjoy in its fulness a career of
private culture and public service, such
as has for generations been the peculiar distinction of your House, and
will thereby cast a greater lustre on our common heritage, the LINDSAY name.
Signed
on behalf of the Society,
agnes D. lindsay, Glasgow,
Vice-President.
william lindsay, West Lothian,
V ice-President.
william B. lindsay, Glasgow.
Hon.
Secretary.
robert lindsay, Dalkeith,
Hon. Treasurer.
Lord
Balniel, in reply, expressed his thanks, and recalled the similar presentation
on his father's coming-of-age over twenty-five years previously. He spoke of
the abiding value of Clan sentiment,
in which he had been nurtured, and assured
the Members of the Society that he valued
their gift highly and would preserve it as a treasured token of their
attachment to the House of Crawford.
Extracts from OId Registers
abbey paisley marriages 1708-1819
(559/4 Reg. Ho.)
1709 Nov. 17. William Lindsay att Blackhall and Grizell Wilson were booked in order to proclamason for marraige.5
1721
Nov. 18. Claud
Lang, weaver, and Agnes Lindsay.
1723 June
6. Matthew
Andrew and
Margt. Lindsay.
1726 Nov.
3. Wm.
Lindsay and
Margt. Anderson.
1728 Dec.
30. Rob. Lindsay and Agn.
Snodgrass.
1731 Nov.
19. John Lindsay and
Margaret M'Pherson.
1738 May
25. James Lindsay and
Marion Barclay.
1742 Feb. 5. James Davison and Jan. Lindsay.
1746 Nov. 15. John Lindsay and Margaret Grinlees.
5 This is the commonest formula in this Register : sundry variants also occur.
E XTRACTS FROM OLD REGISTERS 159
1754 May 18. William Kennedy in this psh. and Mar,6 Grizel Lindsay in the toun of Paisley were booked, etc., 18th inst.
—the—May 24th7
1763 Aug. 26. James Glen and Mabel Lindsay both in this psh.
Jan. 1775 Robert Linsay in the parish of Eastwood and Janet Muir in this Abbey Parish of Paisley booked, etc., 19th curt.
Nov. 1781 Robert Donald in this parish and Janet Linsay of Paisley booked, etc., 17th curt.
Apl. 1784 John Mout of Saltcoats and Margaret Lindsay of this 24th.
Nov. 1785 William Ferric of this and Isobel Linsay of Glasgow, 5th.
June 1786 William Linsay and Ann Biggar both in this 10th.
1795 William Hamilton and Marion Nilson.
John Linsay and Jean Nilson both in this.
1796 James Rae and Elizabeth Linsay both in this 3rd Dec.
1799 James M'Swan of Paisley and Margaret Linsay of this Jun. 15th.
1800 Robert Dikison of this and Jean Linsay of Kilbarchan Agost 16th.
6
Sic.
7 This probably a marginal
addition giving the date of the marriage.
EXTRACTS FROM OLD
REGISTERS 160
1803 John Linsay and Ann Taylor both of this. Nov. 19th.
1804 Duncan M'Clean and Katharine Linsay both in this. Agost 25th and proclaimed.
1805 Mr John M'Naughton and Mary Linsay both etc., booked and proclaimed. Oct. 12. 2 days.
1806 Walter Linsay of paisley and Jean Erskin of this.
Do. Deer. 13. 2 days.
1807 John Linsay and Hellen Steil both in this.
Do. July
18. 3 days.
„ John Linsay of Inshan8 and Agnes Jamison of this.
Do. Deer. 12.
1808 Matthew Linsay of this and Jean Arneil of Paisley.
Do. May
14. 3 days.
„ Andrew Linsay and Rachal M'Lish both of this.
June 25. 3 days.
1809 John Donald and Janet Linsay both of this.
Do. Dec. 9. 2 days.
1811
James Linsay and Emilia Farchar
both in this.
Do. June 1. 1 day.
8 Probably Inchinnan
EXTRACTS FROM OLD REGISTERS 161
1812 John Stivenson of this and Janet Lingsay of Dalray.
Nov. 28. 2 days.
Mar. 1815 James Linsay and Euphemia Goudie both of this
Do. llth. 3 days.
May 1816
Robert Mathie and Euphemia Linsay
both of this; booked 18th.
Dec. 1817
Alexander Welsh
of Heriot and Margt. Lindsay of this, booked 13th.
June 1818 David Linsay of this parish Old Kilpatrick and Margaret Cuthbertson of this, booked 27th.9
Aug. 1819 Daniel Linsay and Sarah M'Farlane both of this, booked 14th
abbey paisley baptisms 1708-1784
(559/2 Reg. Ho.)
Oct. 1708 Jean, d.l. to Robert Lindsay, weaver, and Margaret Pinkertone, was born the llth and bap. 17th. Wits. : Rot. Adam and
Matthew
Baird.
Nov. 1711
James, s.l. to William Lindsay, was born
9th and bap. llth. Wits. :
Wm. Pinkerton and Thomas Kerr.
Nov. 1712
John, s.l. to Robert L., weaver, in Paisley, was born
28th and
bap. 30th. Wits. : John Pirrie and John Young.
Feb. 1713 Marion, d.l. to William L., was born Jan. 23rd and bap. 1st inst. Wits. : William
Pinkerton and John Goud.
* Deletion as shown. Note in neat (later) hand "married [Blank] by the Rcvd. John Clapperton, Johnstone."
162
EXTRACTS
FROM OLD
REGISTERS
Feb. 1717 Katharine, d.l. to William L., was born
30th Jan. and bap. 3rd inst. Wits.
: Wm. Pinkerton and
James Cross.
Jan. 1719 William, s.l. to William L., was born 14th and bap. 18th. Wits.: James and John Cross.
Jan. 1720 Isobell, d.l. to John L, was born 22nd and bap. 28th. Wits.: Wm. Patison and Alexr. Gibson.
Apr. 1721 John, s.l. to John L., was both born and bap. 23rd. Wits.: William and James Wilson.
Mar. 1728
Robert, s.l.
to William
L., and
Margaret Anderson, was born 24th, bap. eo die.
Nov. 1729 Agnes,
d.l. to Do., born 22nd bap. 23rd.
Jan. 1733 d.nat. to Jan(et?) L., born 17 bap. 27.
May 1733
John, s.l. to William L. and Margaret Anderson, born 20th bap. 24th.
Aug. 1738
In this month was the disjunction twixt the country Parish and the Town of Paisley.
Apr. 1739
James, s.l. to James L. and Marion Barclay, was born 6th and bap. 19th.
Nov. 1742 John, s.l. to Do., born 31st and bap. 4th.
Apr. 1743—John, l.s. to Matthew L. and
Margaret Steel, was born 6th and bap. 17th.
Mar. 1745
Marion, d.l. to James L. and Marion
Barclay, born 4th and bap. 7th.
Mar. 1747
Janet, d.l. to John L. and Margaret Stewart,
born Feb. 22nd and bap. 8th inst.
Sept.
1747 William,
s.l. to James L. and Marion Barclay, born 20th and bap. 24th.
Nov. 1750
Robert, s.l to Do., born 15th and bap.
18th.
Jan. 1751 Marion, d.l. to William L. and Jean Buchanan. born 6th and bap. llth.
May
1753 Agnes,
d.l. to James L. and Marion Barkly, born Apr. 28th and bap. 6th
inst.
Oct.
1753 Mary, d.l.
to John L. and Margaret Greenlees, born 27th and bap. 28th.
Mar.
1754 Isabel, d.l. to
John L. and Mary Steuart,
born 24th and bap. 28th.
July 1758
Walt( ?), s.l. to James L. and Marion Barklay,
born 16th, and bap. 18th.
Apr. 1778 Matthew, l.s. to Robert L. and Janet Wilson, bap. 19th.
Jun. 1780 James, l.s. to Do., born 8th and bap. 12th.
Nov. 1780 John, l.s. to Andrew L. and Margaret Lochhead, born 16th, bap. 17th curt.
Nov. 1783 John, l.s. to Robert L. and Janet Wilson, born 2nd and bap. 9th.
164
POLL
TAX ROLLS
POLL TAX ROLLS.
By the Statute, 1695, cap 10, of the Scottish Parliament (renewing the provisions of an Act of 1693) a tax was imposed on the population for defence purposes. In consequence, Rolls were made up, enumerating the inhabitants, which form a tolerably complete census of each County. The Rolls for Aberdeenshire have been published in full, and the interested reader will there find full details of the manner in which they were drawn up, and the mode of taxation. The general tax of 6s. per head was in addition to an impost in respect of Stock, Rental, Trade or Fee, the whole being in Scots money, i.e. one-twelfth of Sterling.
David Semple, Writer, Paisley, made a transcript
of the Rolls for the County of Renfrew, which
appeared in the Glasgow Herald from 2nd March to 3rd May 1864.
A copy of the prints, with a full
MS. Index of persons and places bound up
(presumably prepared with a view to publication in
book form)
was presented
by him to Glasgow
University.10
Excluding the children under
16, of humble homes (who are not entered) the Roll yields a population
of 12,300 for the County.
It has been thought worth while to
abstract and print below the entries relating to Lindsays.11
The Rolls for Paisley have already appeared
in extenso in W. M. Metcalfe's History of Paisley.
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________
10 Press-Mark, R.6-e.19.
11 Anyone finding his ancestor in the list is invited to communicate with the Editor.
EAGLESHAM. Nil.
MEARNS. Nil.
NEILSTON.
Lands of Syde
Robert Lochead, cotter, weiver, 12sh.; Jean L., spouse, 6sh. — 18 —
Lands of Couldoune, Fernineese, and Hollhouse
John
Steinsoune in Wester
Ouplay, 40 lib. val., 8sh.;—has
Cat. L., 6 lib. harvest fie, 3sh.
CATHCART.
Nil.
EASTWOOD.
Nil.
PAISLEY.
List of the Toune
John Pirrhie, Maltman, worth 500 merks, 3 lib. 6sh.,—has William L., servt, 40 merks fie, 12sh. 4d.—
James King, weiver, worth 500 merks, 2 lib. 16sh.,—has John L.,—journeyman, 12sh.—
William Cochran, chamberlain to the Earl of Dundonald— has Jean L., servt., 14 lib. fie, 13sh.—
Landward
Part
The Earl of Dundonald's Lands
166 POLL TAX ROLLS
Hugh Maxwell of Braydieland and Merksworth, hereter, 130lib. val., 4lib. 6sh.,—has John L., herd, fie 41ib.—
Lord Rosse's Lands
John Corss, in Corssmylns, 53 lib. val., 10sh. 8d.,—has Robt. L., 8lib. hervest fie, 4sh.
Steuart's Race
William Stewart, in Holl, 5 lib. val., weiver, 12sh.—has James L., cotter, no trade, 6sh.—
James Erstoune, yr., 53 lib. 6sh. 8d. val., 10sh. 8d.,—has Agnas L., sert., 16lib. fie, 8sh.—
Neuwarks, Cadrens.
William Steuart, yr., 80lib. val.:
Bessie L., his wife. 1 2 8
RENFREW.12
James Semple in Younder Inch, 451ib. val., 9sh.—has Margt. L., sert., 31ib. 7sh. 6d.—
INCHINNAN
Suber Maxwell's Lands.
John
Lawes, yr., 100lib. val.,
1 lib. and 6sh. generall pole,—
12 The Lists for the Burgh of Renfrew, made up by the Baillies, are awanting.
POLL TAX ROLLS 167
has Jean and Elez. L., servants, qach 15lib. fie, 7sh. 6d. each, and gnall poll.—
Haplands Lands.
Robert Mountgomrie, in Greinhill, 3 lib. 6sh. 8d., val., 12sh. 8d.—has Tho. L., 81ib. hervest fie, 4sh.
ERSKINE.
Lands of Bargarrane.
John L., in Barcloch,13 40 mks. val., 5sh. 4d.; Margaret Patie-soune, spouse, 6sh. (2 servants). 1 9 10
Orbistoune's Lands.
John
L., yor., in Bodenboe, 20lib. val. 4sh.;
Jennet M'Cuir,
spouse, 6sh. (1 servant)
1 10
0
Jennet L., in Hill, 6sh.; Margt. King,
daur, 6sh.
0 12
0
John L., elder,
yr., maltman,
12sh.; Cat.
Hendrie, spouse, 6sh.; Jean, his daur., 6sh.
1 4
0
John L., in Lunock, 35lib. val.,
7sh.; Helen
Speir, spouse, 6sh. (1 servant)
1 0
0
13He, with James Lindsay in Billboe, vide infra, and four women, was burned on the Gallowgreen of Paisley in 1697, for the " crime" of witchcraft. Christian, daughter of John Shaw of Bargarran, was the informer responsible for their deaths. She is fortunate in being more often remembered as the introducer of thread manufacture to the Burgh of Paisley.
168 POLL TAX ROLLS
James L., in Billboe, cotter, 6sh.; Margt. Duroch, spouse, 6sh. 0 12 0
Myllnehill
John Miller, yr., 12sh.; Jennet L., his spouse, 6sh.; John Miller, sert., no fie, 6sh 140
John L., yr., no trade, 6sh.; Elspe Stewart, spouse, 6sh. 0 12 0
Matthew Neasmyth in Glen- shinnoch, 93lib. 6sh. 8d. val.--- has Mary L., 6lib. Fie in harvest .
Bishoptoune's Lands
John L., in Formakeine, 49lib. val., 10sh.; Nicholas Taylior spouse, 6sh. (5servants) 282
James Miller in Castlehill, 251ib, val., 5sh.; Jean L., spouse, 6sh. 0 17 0
Inglistoune
Robert Ferrier, yr., 50lib. val., 10sh.—has James and Robt. L., harvest fie each 61ib., is 3sh. each.
Lands of Park
James L., elder, 10lib. val., 2sh.; Margt. Wodrow, spouse, 6sh.; Patt.,
Mary and Alexr., childreine, each 6sh.
1 12 0
POLL
TAX ROLLS
169
John L., 201ib. val., 4sh.; Elez. Killoch, spouse, 6sh. (1 herd) 1 3 6
HOUSTON
Pattrick L., 32lib. Val., 6sh. 6d.; Margt. Barr, spouse 6sh.; John, Margt. And Pattrick, childreine, each 6sh 1 16 0
KILLALLAN
James L., weiver, 12sh.; Jean King, spouse, 6sh.; and Robert L., prentice, 6sh. 1 4 0
KILBARCHAN.
The
Lands of Johnstoune
John
Merschell, in
Yeardfoot, 221ib.
val., 4sh. 6d.; Jean L., his spouse, 6sh.
0 16 6
The Lands of Ramphorlie
John Aikine, 25lib. val., 5sh.,— has Margt. L., sert., 11lib. 8sh. fie, 5sh. 8d.
LOCHWINNOCH.
Lands of Barr.
John Holme, por. of Tandlemuire,—has Isso. L., sert., 20 mks. fie, 6sh. 8d.
Lands of Castlesemple
William Miller in Hersteintoune, —has Jonnet L., servant, 20 mks. fie, 6sh. 8d.
170
POLL
TAX ROLLS
KILMACOLM
Toune of Killmacomb
George L., taylior, 12sh., trade and pole; Margt. Hyndman, his wife,
6sh.
0 18
0
Lands of Blacksholme and Craigenlinshoch
William Steinsoune, in
Westersyde, 25lib. val., Ssh.; Anna L., his spouse, 6sh.; James
Steinsoune, his sone, 6sh.
1
3 0
Lands of Overmains not liferented
Sussanna L.
0
6 0
List of the Bay
James L., cotter, 6sh.; Bessie M'lnlay, spouse, 6sh.
0
12 0
GREENOCK.
List of the Toune
John L., seaman; 12sh. and 6sh. gnall pole; Margt. Richie, spouse,
6sh.; Margt. and
Cath., childreine, each 6sh. generall pole, ea. 61ib. fie, 3sh. each. 1
13 0
Easter
and Wester Burronrie of Greinock and the Burronrie
of Finnart.
POLL
TAX ROLLS
171
John L., officer in Lurg, lOlib. val., 2sh.;
Margt. Reid, spouse,
6sh. (1 servant)
1 6 8
Landward Tennents
William
L., sailer, 12sh., and 6sh. pole; Margt. Campbell, spouse, 6sh.; William L.,
his sone,6sh.
1 10 0
INNERKIP
Tennents in
Auchinfoure, Spangock, Flattertoune, Clochmuire,
Finnock, Ardgowand, Levand,
Dunrod 14 and
Kirkland.
Thomas L., weiver, and his wife
0
18 0
Edward
Chrysswall, elder, elder, at the auld church, and his wife, 12sh.--- have
Edward L., servt,
20mks. fie, 12sh. 8d.
Shoare of Gurock
Elizabeth
L., weidow, in Kenmure, John and William M'Cunnes,
her sones
0 18
0
James L., hammerman and his wife
0
18 0
Robert
L., and his wife
0 12 0
John
L., smith and his wife
0 18 0
14
It is a noteworthy fact
that, of twenty places bearing Dunrod appellations
enumerated in the foregoing survey, not one is shown as tenanted by a
Lindsay.
172 POLL TAX ROLLS
William L., weiver, his wife and his sone James, a weiver 1 10 0
John L., smith and his wife. 0 18 0
(This is a repetition of a previous entry.)
James L., and his wife 0 12 0
James Scott, worth 500 merks,— has a servant boy James L., 14mks. fie.
THAT an historical theory may be prejudiced in the eyes of fair-minded men because it has been pervertedly developed, the recent rise to renown and speedy shattering of the " Nordic superiority" myth, clearly shows. Many historical movements and tendencies can still only be adequately accounted for on the basis of a nature racial in origin. Of these, an outstanding instance is the Lindsay-Ogilvie feud. The earliest known ancestor of the Ogilvies was Gilbert, third son of Gillebride, the Great Earl of Angus, who holding one of the Mormaerships, was most probably of Celtic descent. The Lindsays were representative of the Norman element introduced to create a more centralised royal power, and, as such, were looked on as interlopers by the Ogilvies who regarded themselves as the guardians of that way of life which, once universal in Scotland, had been entirely subverted in the Lowland areas. The sheriffship of Angus, hereditary in the Ogilvie family, the visible sign of their pretensions to power represented by the departed Earldom of Angus, was the subject of sporadic, but bloodthirsty and prolonged warfare. The power of the Crown was drawn into the contest and some national engagements were no more formidable than these clan battles.
174
LINDSAY-OGILVIE
FEUD
The existence of clan solidarity in the feudal —if not Highland—sense of the term can be vouched by perusal of the following lists, showing the parties on each side who were taken bound in sureties for keeping the peace following a revival of the struggle. It will be seen that:—
(1) On each side there are listed 23 principal antagonists, followed by;
(2) two towns, and that;
(3)
the first and second persons in each list are bound in equal sums.
Thus, on a cursory examination, it appears that there is an outward parity between the contestants, and one wonders if this was not intentional, lest either side should consider itself slighted by an implied suggestion of inferiority to the other.
A
summation of the amounts fixed for each participant14* indicates
that the Lindsays were taken bound in bonds of 87,500 merks and the Ogilvies
of 68,850 merks.
This
was made up as follows :-
14* Taking
the merk as equal to 13/4.
LINDSAY-OGILVIE FEUD
175
The holding of towns responsible as protagonists is of considerable interest as indicating where the respective sides were supposed to maintain and recruit their strength.
Brechin and Forfar were the markets of Glenesk and its subordinate territories and Kirriemuir commanded the approach to the heart of the Ogilvie country in Glenisla.
176 LINDSAY-OGILVIE FEUD
R.P.C., Addenda, 1545-1625, Vol. XIV, p. 386-7, No. 142 Miscellaneous Papers, (vide Vol. VI, P- 91).
(LINDSAYS)
Lib.
Merks
Alexander, lord off Spynie
10,000
Hary Lyndesay off
Carastown
5,000
Sir Johne Lyndesay off Wod-
heid, knycht
10,000
Sir David Lyndesay
of Edzell,
knycht,
10,000
(and)
David Lindesay
off
Edzell,
fier,
5,000
for
them selff,
thair ser-
vandis and dependeris
Johne
Lyndesay off Ewelik,
3,000
(and)
Patrik Lyndesay,
his
sone and air apeirand,
2,000
for them selff, thair bairnis
and dependeris
Patrik Lyndesay off Barinyardis
3,000
David
Lyndesay off Vaine
3,000
David Lyndesay, his
sone and
air
apeirand
2,000
David
Lyndesay off Kinnettilis
2,000
David Lyndesay, his
sone and
air apeirand
——
Sir Walter Lyndesay off Bal-
gallis, knycht 3,000
LINDSAY-OGILVIE FEUD 177
C. March 1600 " The names off the landit men off the names off Lyndesay and Ogillway, with thair dependeris within Angowsse:—"
(OGILVIES)
Lib.
Merks
James, lord Ogillway
10,000
James, Maister of
Ogillwye
5,000
Sir Johne Ogilbie
of Crag,
knycht
5,000
Maister
David Ogilbie
3,000
George
Ogilbie
1,000
Frances
Ogilbie
1,000
Patrik
Ogilbie
500
Gilbert
Ogilbie off
that Ilk
(Deleted)
James
Ogilbie off Clowa
5,000
(and) James Ogilbie,
feir of
Clowa,
3,000
for them selff, thair ser-
wandis
and dependeris
......
Ogilbie off Inderquharitie
5,000
David Ogilbie, his brother
1,000
......
Ogilbie off Balfowr
2,000
.... Ogilbie off Inchmartaine, 5,000
for him selff, his bairnis, and
dependeris
David Ogilbe off Banobothe
1,000
......
Ogilbe of Acharaithe
1,000
Johne Lychtoun off Wlissen 1,000
178
LINDSAY-OGILVIE
FEUD
Johne Lyndesay off Bahall
_____
Alexander Lyndesay off Kethik 1,000 Alexander Lyndesay, his sone
and air apeirand
_____
David Lyndesay
off Quarellhill
1,000
LINDSAY-OGILVIE FEUD 179
Robert Lychtoun, fier of Ullissen 1,000
Robert Lychtown, his sone
and
air apeirand 500
Johne Stirling, yownger off Brekye
1,000
Thomas
Fraser off Vaster Brekye
1,000
Robert Fraser, his sone and air apeirand 500
Hendrie
Fiche off Boysack
500
Hendrie
Fiche, his sone and air
apeirand 300
James Fiche, off Guind
500
Johne Ogilbe
off Bannagarro
300
Johne Lambe off Dunkinej
2,000
Johne Tyrie, towtowr off Drum-
kilbo 1,000
The townis off Arbrothoc and
Kyremoirr:
Arbrothoc
1,000
Ogilby of Kelour 1,000
Robert Ogilby, sone to Powrie
Ogilbe 1,000
Patrik
Quhytlaw of Newgrange
Jhone Quhytlaw, sone to
Archibald
Quhytlaw of Peblis.
The guidman of Gwynd servand.
The Lindsays --- an Eighteenth Century Verdict A
THE arrangement established at the Union of Parliaments in 1707, whereby Scotland was allotted a fixed number of
Representative Peers in the Upper House, was a source of discontent to many Scots—to some, even, who were not particularly enamoured of the peerage; it was regarded as a slight to the nation at large, and as suggesting that Scottish monarchs had bestowed titles with undue freedom.
Among effusions on the topic, mostly ephemeral, one is of more than passing interest to us. " The Dignity of the Scottish Peerage Vindicated," " is a brief tract which endeavours to demonstrate that wayward royal favour only came into play in the granting of Scots peerages after the Union of the Crowns in 1603, and that the titles of honour created prior thereto were conferred on families wherein hereditary virtue and personal merit formed ample warrant.
To buttress his thesis the author takes as the exemplar of the older creations that of Crawford,16 and as the work is little known, this passage seems worthy of reproduction.
A The passage reproduced below is printed as a curiosity: the personal references have been corrected, but it is replete with errors and historically quite inaccurate.—Ed.
15 40 pp., published anonymously at Edinburgh in 1719.
16 See Lives of the Lindsays, No. 1, p. 1.
THE LINDSAYS—AN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY VERDICT 181
The
feudal outlook is well typified in his opening sentence: " Distinction of
Superiority seems not so much necessary by the Rules of Society, as from the
different capacities of Mankind." After developing his theme, and
emphasising the extensive powers of a noble in the era of heritable
jurisdiction, he proceeds to speak of the
Earldoms :
P. [16.]
Now that those who are strangers to the Scots History and Constitution may form the beter judgment of the high value was formerly put on this Dignity, and of the means by which it was acquired, I shall give a short account of the Merit and Circumstance of those two Families who attained it at a Time when of all the persons who had so well deserved of their country on the Occasions just mentioned, only they were accounted worthy of this highest pitch of Honour. The first was the Earl of Douglas created by David Bruce, who besides the ordinary Powers attending this first Degree of Nobility, was vested with that of first Peer and all the privileges belonging to it, which had been formerly in the Family of the Earl of Fife then extinct. The Power and Merit of this Family is so conspicuous and universally known, and a particular History writ of it, that it would be superfluous to enter into any further
182 'THE LINDSAYS—AN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY VERDICT
account of it here. The other Family advanced to it was the
Lord Lindesay of Crawfurd and Glenesk who was made Earl of Crawfurd by
Robert II." The Merit and Power of this Family, justly considered, was
not much inferior to the other. Alexander,c
Lord Lindesay, who was married to the
King's Sister, and created Earl of Crawfurd,
was in Right of his Mother possest of the Lordship of Glenesk, which
comprehended the greatest Part of Angus, and Part of Perthshire; and in
Right of his Grandfather, was not only
possest of Crawfurd and its Appanages (the paternal Estate of the
Family) but was likewise Supreme Lord of the Countries of Badenoch,
Lochaber, and Strathdon, formerly in the possession of the great John
Cuming of Badenoch. This was the Extent of his Power, these his circumstances, very unlike those of the modern
Peers. As to the high Qualities whereby
they were acquired, [17] this AlexanderD is himself represented as a Person of extraordinary
Endowments: He was the Son of David,E Lord Lindesay of Glenesk,
by Catherine Stirling, Heiress of it: David F was a person of
singular Valour and Integrity, and was, with most of his
B
Should read III. c David. D David. E
Alexander. F
This refers to the eldest
brother of Sir Alexander, who was killed at Neville's
Cross.
THE LINDSAYS—AN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY VERDICT 183
Followers, slain at the Battle of Duplin, disputing his Country's Rights; and the Year following his elderG brother James, Lord of Crawfurd, and his younger brother William, Lord Lindesay of Byres (from whom the Family bearing his Name so famous in the Scots History is descended) were both slain in the same cause at Halidonhill.H James left behind him one son David,I who dying without Heirs, was succeeded, as observed, by the first Earl. These three great Men were the Sons of the famous JamesJ Lord Lindesay of Crawfurd, who was one of the first of those generous Spirits that refused to sign that inglorious Submission to Edward I so many of the Scots Nobility complyed with.K He disinterestedly resolved to serve his Country, first under the matchless Wallace, tho a Person of inferior Quality, hazared his own Life, and those of his Followers, with every thing that was dear to them, in the charming cause of Liberty; and tho afterwards exposed to the numberless hardships before mentioned, yet could never be reduced to submit to a Foreign Tyranny. He, with the Lord Malcolm Fleming of Bigar were the first who met King Robert I in Annandale, and dispatched the treacherous
G Recte " next." H No proof of this. I James. J Sir David. KThis refers to the father of the last, but see J. B. Paul's Scots Peerage, Vol III. p. 9.
184 THE LINDSAYS—AN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY VERDICT
Cumings; and notwithstanding the insuperable Difficulties they had to encounter, bravely persisted in the glorious Course they had begun. This James got a Gift of the intire Forfeiture of John Cuming of Badenoch, and was afterwards killed in a Battle at Stirling,L before the End of the War; He was great Grandson to the Lord Lindesay of Crawfurd, who was one of the Hostages for King William.M This Family, according to the Accounts they have preserved of their Origine, are [18] descended from one Lindesay properly so called, who in the reign of Kenneth II was remarkable for his extraordinary abilities both of Mind and Body; and by his extensive Capacity for Counsel as well as Action, acquired an universal esteem, especially of the King, who out of a Regard for his great Services in the Pictish War, gave him a considerable Estate in that Country. This Family, after the Reign of Malcolm Canmore, when Sir-names became hereditary, being then both numerous and powerful, and retaining a vast regard for the Memory of this one of their Ancestors, took on them his Name, as the Universal Mark and hereditary Sir-name of the whole Family.
Thus amongst the Scots, as well as
other virtuous Nations, we see real Merit was the
L This doubtful. M This reference is deficient by a generation.
THE LINDSAYS—AN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY VERDICT 185
only way to claim the Government's Favours; nor was the State ever extravagant that way, but rewarded every one in Proportion to his Worth. This highest Honour was not to be acquired by the Services of one or two; but Families, who had risen by Degrees, whose Enemies by Time and a long succession of Merit, and Increase of Power, being worn out, were beyond the reach of Emulation or Envy, and whose remarkable Services in several Ages had acquired the universal Esteem of the Nation. These were admitted to this Dignity, as only qualified for the enjoyment of it. Nor was the State disappointed of the great Hopes, were justly conceived of the Posterity of these Nobles; For on every Occasion where the Country's Interest required the Subjects to risque their Ease, Blood and lives for its Service, we find these Families, rather like the same Person than a Race of Men, exerting themselves with the same Vigour and inseparable Attachment for the Rights of the Society. This Earl Alexander happening to live at a Time when the Peace of his Country was luckily undisturbed, was thereby deprived of opportunities to exercise his Valour [19] in its Defence. His son David, the second Earl, during his Stay at London N negotiating the Relief of King
N This incident relates to the I Earl, prior to his elevation.
186 THE LINDSAYS—AN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY VERDICT
James I° acted by that generous Magnanimity
peculiar to his Family, and incapable of Fear where his Country's Honour was
concerned, frankly accepted of the Challenge given to the Scots Nobility
then at London by the Lord Wales.p
This Hero had been famous all over Europe for his warlike
Exploits in single fight, and imagined he would
make an easy Conquest of the Scot, but
was disappointed to his
great Confusion;
for the
Earl with
great Dexterity
avoiding his
Thrust, by
his extraordinary Vigour
and Strength
of Body, drove him out of
the Saddle, while he sat
so firm
himself, that
the spectators cry'd,
The Scot was lock'd in the Saddle; which the Earl hearing as he ended his
career, dismounted,
and tho'
completely armed, mounted again without assistance, to the great
Amazement of all who were present.
This Earl was the chief Instrument in preserving his Country from
the miseries
the Earl
of AtholeQ intended to have
brought upon it; for he no sooner heard of the King's Murder, than he with
all his Power invaded Athole, and thereby disappointed
the black
Designs of
the treacherous Earl; And on every other such Opportunity, the
Behaviour of this Family of Crawfurd, and the other of Byres was much the
same; their steady Adherence to
O This is an anachronism, P Welles. Q Duke of Albany.
THE LINDSAYS—AN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY VERDICT 187
the Interest of their King and Country was remarkable on every Occasion that required their Service, as in the RebellionR against James III at Bannockburn, the Battle of Flowdon, civil wars at the Reformation, and in the Reign of Charles I &c.
From
the Short Account of this Family of Lindesay, the Dignity of the Scots Peerage
may be easily judged of. ...
R i.e. Sauchieburn.
The
Later Descent of the House of Dowhill17
By the editor
X James Lindsay, Tenth Laird of
Dowhill, by his
wife Margaret, daughter of Mr James Nicolson,
Minister of
Meigle and
Bishop-Designate of Dunkeld,
had issue,
1. John (XI) who by his wife Janet, daughter of Robert Aytoun of Inchdairnie, had issue,
(1) James (XII) who married,
firstly, Jean, daughter of William Mure of Glanderstoun (who died without issue), and, secondly, Jean, daughter of William Lindsay, Bishop of Dunkeld (vide infra) by whom he, dying in 1705, had issue,
(i) Margaret, born 1704, married, firstly, in 1726, Alexander Jack (or Jackson), Writer in Perth, and, secondly (as his second wife), James Smyth of Aithernie, with issue by neither marriage.
(2) David, died about 1679.
17 This record, Sequel to the Paper on " The Lairds of Dowhill," in Vol. II of this Publication, supplements pp. 265-269, and supersedes pp. 270-272 of that volume.
THE LATER DESCENT OF THE HOUSE OF DOWHILL 189
(3) John.
(4) Anthony, died 1702, in Ireland.
(5) Margaret, married in 1681, James Edmiston (or Edmonstone) of Bally-bentrae, Co. Antrim, with issue.
(6) Jean.
(7) Anna, married Thomas Nairn of Craigton.
(8) Janet.
(9) Helen, married 1677, Anthony Murray of Woodend."*
2. William, of whom after.
3. Jean, married in December 1647, David Auchmoutie of Drumeldrie, and died 2nd August 1655.18
4. Beatrix, married in 1656, Thomas Inglis of Strathtyrum.
5. Margaret, married in August 1656, George Kddington of Balbartoun, and died prior to llth October 1710.19
6. Elspeth, married Andrew, seventh son of Sir
John Boswell of Balmuto.20
6a. ?Elizabeth.21
William
Lindsay, the second son, born 1638, was presented to Auchterderran by
Boswell of Balmuto and translated to Perth on 9th April 1668. By Royal
Letters dated 7th May 1677 he
17
* Memoirs of Dowhil.l
18 Lamonfs Diary, Scot. Hist. Soc., p. 90; Wood's East Neuk of Fife, p. 100
19 See this Publication, Vol. II., p. 265, Note +.
20 Douglas,
Baronage of Scotland, 1798, p. 311.
21 Mentioned in MS. Memoirs of Dowhill, was probably identical with Elspeth, supra.
was appointed to the Bishopric of Dunkeld, and was consecrated on the 26th of the same month. He demitted his parochial charge at Perth in October 1678 and died in April following. On 28th August 1666 he married Catherine, daughter of Sir Andrew Skene of Hallyards.22 By her he had issue,
1. James, of whom after.
2. John, who died before 1701.
3. Barbara, married 16th May 1700, 23 Henry Balfour of Baith.
4. Margaret, married 18th September 1692, James Moy, or Moyes, Writer in Kirkcaldy.
5. Jean, married, firstly, 17th June 1703,24 her cousin James, twelfth of Dowhill, and secondly (as his second wife) Laurence Mercer of Pitteucher, D.D. (born 1657), Minister of Findogask. He died at Aldie, 30th January 1720, leaving issue by her.25
6. Lilias.
7. Annas, died before 1701.
XIII
James Lindsay succeeded his cousin in 1705. He sold the Barns of
Dowhill to a Mr Burt, and Dowhill itself,
in 1720, to James
22 he married, secondly, in October or November 1683, David Forman of Spinkstoune, Writer in Edinburgh, and died in Kinghorn parish in 1690. Hunter's Diocese and Presbytery of Dunkeld, 1660-1689, Vol. I., pp. 202-216; Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol. VII, p. 340,
23 Kinghom Register, 10th June 1700.
24 But Kinghorn Reg. says 10th June 1700.
25 Fasti, Vol. IV., p. 274.
THE LATER DESCENT OF THE HOUSE OF DOWHILL 191
Robertson, Surgeon in Culross.26 On 6th November 1707 he married (with a tocher of 6,000 merks) Mary,27 daughter of James Watson of Aithernie,28 by his third wife Marie, daughter of James Martin, Minister of Ballingry, and half-sister of George Martin, the famous genealogist and author of Reliquae Divi Andreae. 29 James Lindsay died in 1738, or early 1739, leaving issue.
1. Martin, of whom after.
2. James, baptised 30th May 1714. A member of the Perthshire Horse, he was captured after Culloden in 'a pitiful condition, being-destitute of clothing and thatched with straw. Tried at London on 28th October 1746, he was condemned to death, but later reprieved.30 A Burgess of Perth, he married a Miss M'Duff, and left issue,
(1) James, who went abroad and was lost trace of.
(2) Charles Stuart, born in London, became ultimately a Captain in the South Carolina Loyalists. He married, when aged nineteen, Marion Peacock, and
26 I, James Robertson, now of Dowhill, grant me instantly to have received from James Lindsay of Dowhill the whole writs and evidents" contained in Inventory, dated 31st May
1720, and registered B. of C. & S,
10th December 1740. M.S. Memoirs.
27 Baptised, 29th July 1685, Scoonie Reg.
28 John A. Inglis, K.C., in Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica, September 1927.
29 See Appendix I. The pedigree of this family, from which so many Lindsays derive the name Martin, is in Macfarlane's Genealogical Collections, Scot. Hist. Soc., Vol. II., pp
183-196
30 See Appendix II.
192 THE LATER DESCENT OF THE HOUSE OF DOWHILL
died at Dundee in January 1813, aged sixty-two, without issue; his wife surviving him.
(3) Margaret, died at Perth, unmarried.
(4) Mary, married 17th October 1773 (her father being then deceased), John Scrymgeour, journeyman wright,31 with issue.
(5) Jacobina Clementina Sobieski, married James Irvine, farmer at Kinclaven, with issue.32
3. William, baptised 2nd February 1716, married Emily, daughter of Graham of Garrioch,33 and died at Perth. They had issue,
(1) Emily,
(2) Christian, and
(3) Mary, all of whom died, unmarried, at Perth.
4. Alexander, baptised 28th February 1718, died young.
5. Margaret, baptised 19th November 1708, married M'Duff Graham of Dubheads, with issue.
6. Mary, baptised
30th May
1712, died unmarried.
XIV Martin Lindsay, baptised at Cleish,
Kinross,
2nd September 171034
has been
31 Edinburgh Marriages, 1751-1800, Scot. Rec. Soc., p. 428.
32 Lives of the Lindsays, Vol. p.285 33 Memoirs of Dowhill. (?) Garvock 34 This Publication, Vol. I., No. 3, p. 67.
THE LATER DESCENT OF THE
HOUSE OF DOWHILL
193
generally regarded as the Fourteenth (and last) Laird of Dowhill, although strictly speaking, the right to the designation had already passed to another.35 In 1740 he sold half of Drum-lochernock (the last vestige of his ancestral property) to James Steedman and, on the outbreak of the Rising, joined the Standard of Charles Edward Stewart. After his acquittal at Carlisle in September 1746 36 he married, 23rd April 1749,37 his cousin Jean, second daughter of James Smyth of Aithernie, the eminent Surgeon, of the family of Braco.'18 Being a Writer, he settled in a post in the Register House, Edinburgh,3" and died at Hope Park, there, 31st December 1790.40 By his wife, who died 30th January 1799 and was interred writh him in Greyfriars,41 he had issue,
1. James, born 18th March 1750, died young.
2. James Smyth, of whom after.
3. Martin, of whom below.
4. William, of whom after.4"
5.
Anne, born 19th July 1753, died unmarried in
1770.
35Vide
XIII
supra.
36
Scots Magazine, 1746, p. 459; also The Lyon in Mourning, Vol.
II., p. 185, and Prisoners of the '45, Vol. II., p. 342, both Scot.
Hist. Soc.
37
Edinburgh Marriages, 1701-1750,
Scot. Rec. Soc.
38 Douglas, Baronage, p. 541, col. 1. There is an interesting account of James Smyth and his father in Scot. Hist. Rev., Vol. XIII, pp. 229-243.
39Lives
of the Lindsays, Vol.
II., p. 284.
40
Scots Magazine, 1791.
41
Memoirs of Dowhill.
42 See
plate of Six Generations of his Ancestors, prepared by E. R. Boase, Esq.
E
194
THE LATER DESCENT OF THE HOUSE OF DOWHILL
6. Mary, born 14th May 1755. She married, 15th October 1786,43 Captain Bruce Boswell, H.E.I.C.S.44 Then of the "Chesterfield," East Indiaman, he became subsequently Superintendent of Naval Stores at Calcutta, and purchased on his return to England the property of Iver, Bucks. He died 14th May 1807, and she on 20th January 1820, leaving issue.
7. Jean, born 21st May 1761, died unmarried in 1789.
8. Margaret, born 13th September 1764, died young.
9. Janet (or Jessie), born 28th April 1772, died unmarried in 1797. 45
Martin Lindsay, third, but second surviving son, born 6th August 1757, served in the Royal Navy and later with the East India Company. On 4th October 1791, he married his first cousin Anne, only daughter of Robert Wood, M.D., of Perth, by Anne Smyth. She was born 21st November 1759 and died 20th May 1829. He died at Old Charlton, Kent, 27th November 1837, a fortnight after his elder brother. They had issue,
(1) Martin
George Thomas,
born 12th September 1795. An Ensign in the 78th
43Canongate
Register of Marriages, 1564-1800,
p. 300, Scot. Rec. Soc.
44His elder brother, Robert, was progenitor of Henry St George Boswell, Fourteenth representative of Auchinleck.
45Commissariot of Edinburgh, 1701-1800, p. 162., Scot. Rec. Soc. Testament regd. 1st September and 9th October.
THE LATER DESCENT OF THE HOUSE OF DOWHILL 195
Foot, 10th March 1814, he served (like his cousin, Martin of Halbeath) in Holland, attaining the rank of Major, 28th April 1837, and Lieutenant-Colonel (91st Foot) 15th April 1842. He sold out 13th October 1848, and died at Old Charlton, llth September I860.46 By his first wife, Harriet Annie, eldest daughter of Colonel Robert Bull, R.A., whom he married 1st July 1823, and who died at sea in March 1848, he had issue,
(i)
Martin Robert George, born 4th
February 1834, died
31st May
1835.
(ii) Charles Edward
Crawford, born
3rd February
1839, died 28th June
1840.
(iii) Frederick Edmund, born 23rd May
1843, died 30th January
1844.
(iv) Norman Henry
Montague, born 26th
October 1844, died 8th June 1845.
(v)
Anne, born 18th December 1824,
married September 1854, Wynd-ham
Francis Patterson (born 3rd
June
1800), with issue.
(vi) Harriet Jane, born 1st January 1829,
married 27th March 1856, Garret
Wellesley Parkinson (born 1st May
1826), with issue.
196 THE LATER DESCENT OF THE HOUSE OF DOWHILL
(vii) Mira Elise, born 3rd August 1830, married 1st July 1852, Hasell (born 16th February 1826), fifth son of William Rodwell of Woodlands, Ipswich. They went to Pietermaritzburg, Natal, and had issue.
He married, secondly, 18th October 1848, at Perth, Matilda, youngest daughter of General Harris of Tamar Castle, but by her had no issue.
(2) Robert, born llth June 1798, a Captain H.E.I.C.S. On 3rd March 1835, he married Marianna, daughter of Arthur Jones of Bryn Newydd, and Sarah Webber. She was born 26th February 1801, and died at Gabalfa, Sketty, Glamorgan, in 1875. He died at Glenafon, Taibeck, Glamorgan, 12th June 1853, leaving issue,
(i) Robert Webber, born 9th November 1835. He settled at Barford, Warwickshire, and died unmarried, 9th August 1917. The issue male of Martin, 3rd son of Martin (XIV) thereby became extinct.
(ii) Mary Anne Sarah, born 25th December 1838. She resided latterly at Gabalfa, Sketty, Glamorgan, and died, unmarried, 19th March 1925.
THE LATER DESCENT OF THE HOUSE OF DOWHILL 197
(iii) Caroline
Emily, born 22nd August 1840,
married, 7th July
1861, Thomas William
Booker, J.P., D.L.,
of Velindra, who died 7th April 1887,
leaving issue. She died
at Slon, Bridgend, Glamorgan,
13th February, 1925.
(3) George, born 17th September 1800. In the H.E.I.C.S., he became a Judge at Delhi. He married, 7th December 1832, his cousin Catherine Jemima, 47 and died at Blackheath, 25th October 1849, being buried at Charlton. Mrs Lindsay and her family went to stay with her brother, William, in India. They were at Cawnpore when the Mutiny broke out, and she died on 12th July, in Nana Sahib's Massacre, having previously been wounded in the back on 27th June, when the boats were fired on.48 They had issue,
(i) George, born in India, 17th December 1838. An Ensign in the 1st Bengal Native Infantry, he was killed in the boat attack near Cawnpore, 27th June 1857.
(ii) William Spence, born llth May 1840, died 19th February 1841.
(iii) Caroline Anne, born at
Dundee,
47 Sixth Daughter of William Lindsay, W.S.
48Crombe's
Highland Brigade;
G. W. Forrest's History
of the Indian
Mutiny, 1904,
pp. 478-479.
17th February 1834, died in the final massacre at Cawnpore on 16th July. She was the writer of one of the pencil scraps giving the dates of her mother's and sister's death.
(iv) Jemima Jane, born 5th October 1835, died 30th March 1836.
(v) Alice, born in India, 8th January 1837, died of cholera at Cawnpore on 9th July.
(vi) Sarah Frances Davidson, born in India, 5th December 1841, and presumed killed in the massacre of 16th July 1857.
(4) Anne, born at Charlton, 15th September 1792, died at Blackheath, 8th July 1849.
(5) Jane, born 26th May 1802, died at Charlton, unmarried, 22nd April 1829.
(To be
continued)
_________________________
APPENDIX I
Jean 1664
James Watson 1682
Marie
Scott
| of
Aithernie
| Martin
|
|
Margt.
Lindsay 1692 Alexander
Mary---- James, 13th
(Edzell)
|
| of Dowhill
|
|
Anna----James Smyth
|
b. 1695 |
|
|
|
|
__________ |
|
|
Jean 1749
Martin, 14th
THE LATER DESCENT OF THE HOUSE OF DOWHILL
199
The
letter referred to at page 48, No. 3, Vol. I of this Publication,
now in the possession of Mrs Lilias S.
Binney, written by Mr George
Sandeman to James Cant, at Perth, says, "James
Lindsay poor man was very nigh Tuck'd up, His
irons was knocked off, the rope about his
neck and his feet fettering down to the Sledge when the reprieve came.
He behaved very decently and was not much mov'd when he got ye
reprieve." Since the writer goes on to observe,
" They all die
true martyrs to their wicked cause " he
was obviously not a Jacobite. Jn view of what is stated at page 285, Vol II,
of the Lives of the Lindsays (Footnote), it is very questionable whether it
was a merciful act to spare a man who had
already reconciled himself to imminent
death.
_____________________________
The Editor takes this opportunity of acknowledging the generous assistance of Edward R. Boase, Advocate, Westoun, St Andrews, who placed at his disposal his considerable knowledge of the family of Dowhill, allowed him unrestricted use of his library, and supplied for reproduction the plate of Provost William Lindsay's ancestors, compiled by him.
A full list of those who have furnished data will be hereafter printed.
GENERAL AUTHORITIES
(1) A Short Memoir of James Young, Merchant Burgess of Aberdeen, and Rachel Cruickshank his spouse and their descendants, 1860, Aberdeen. By A. J. (i.e. Alexander Johnston, uncle of Col. Wm., infra). 2nd Edition, 1894, Aberdeen, by Col. William Johnston, whose younger brother, George, became 10th Baronet of Caskieben, and died, s.p. in 1921.
200 THE LATER DESCENT OF THE HOUSE OF DOWHILL
(2) An Account of the Families of Boase or Bowes, originally residing at Paul and Madron, in Cornwall, and of other families connected with them by marriage, etc. 2nd Edition, Privately printed for Charles William, George Clement, and Frederic Boase, Truro, 1893. Passim, but esp. Lindsay Pedigree in Columns 90 to 98 inclusive.
(3) Some Ancestors of Jane Smyth Lindsay, by Edward R. Boase, May 1942. Duplicated Typescript in Hist. Dept., Reg Ho., and Lyon Library.
