Genealogical memoirs of the family of Robert Burns and of the Scottish house of Burnes

20 GENEALOGICAL MEMOIRS OF
He latterly resided at Brunton Place, Edinburgh, where he
died on the 15th February 1852, at the age of seventy-two.
His remains were deposited in Dairy cemetery, near "Edin-
burgh, where he is commemorated on a family monument.
Provost James Burnes married, 22d April 1800, Elizabeth,
sixth daughter of Adam Glegg, merchant burgess of Mon-
trose, and provost of that burgh; she was born 5th April
1779, and died at Edinburgh on the 25th February 1851.
The family of Glegg, Gleig, or Glyge, is traditionally of
French origin. Adam Glegg, the first member of the family
of whom we have any authentic record, was, with the
members of his family, commemorated in the church of
Marykirk, Kincardineshire, on a tombstone bearing the
following epitapli :
"Heir lyes Adam Glyge, smith in the hill . . .
Morphye, some tyme howsband to Isobel Low, who departed
the 10 of Awgwst. Adam Gle . . . died in Apil 1698, aged
86. John Gleig died May 15, 1737, aged 83. Isobel Gleig
died March 4th, 1761, aged 78."
John Gleig, named in the epitaph, was grandfather of
Provost Adam Glegg of Montrose, who was born in 1731,
and died at London on the 1st June 1807. Provost Glegg
married his cousin-german, Anne (born 8th November 1738,
died 22d December 1811), daughter of John Smith, provost
of Brechin, by his wife, Christian Colvin, one of the three co-
heiresses of Alexander Colvin, burgess of Montrose, by his wife,
Christian Bamsay, descended from the old family of Bamsay of
Balmain. Provost Glegg is mentioned by Boswell in his
" Tour," as having conducted him and Dr Samuel Johnson to
the Episcopal chapel at Montrose.
Among the descendants of Adam Glegg, blacksmith at