Agnews of Lochnaw

ADAIR OF KILHILT. 617
5. Ninian Adair, married Katherine, daughter of Patrick Agnew
of Lochnaw, Sheriff of Galloway, died 1525, leaving by her
6. "William Adair, married Lady Helen, daughter of Gilbert,
2d Earl of Cassilis, by whom he had
7. Ninian Adair, married Helen (or Elizabeth), daughter of Sir
James Gordon of Lochinvar, his fourth son Alexander was Dean of
Eapho, 1616 ; Bishop of Killaloe ; Bishop of Waterford and Lismore,
1641 ; died 1646 : his eldest son
8. William Adair, married, 1st, Bosina, daughter of Sir Thomas
M'Clellan of Bomby, succeeded 1608 (exchanged Dunskey for Bally-
mainoch (Ballymena) with Sir Hugh Montgomery, Viscount Airds) ;
married, 2dly, daughter of Houstoun of Castle Steward ; married, 3dly,
Helen, daughter of Cathcart of Carlton by whom he had William Adair,
minister of Ayr, 1640 to 1684.
9. Sir Bobert Adair (eldest son of the above by his first wife),
M.P. for Wigtownshire, 1639 and 1648 ; married Jean, daughter
of William Edmonstone of Duntreath, by whom he had, besides his
successor, a third son, Alexander, of Drumore, and Isabel, married to
Patrick M'Dowall of Logan.
10. William Adair, succeeded 1655, married, first, Jean, daughter
of Sir William Cunningham of Cunninghamhead ; married, second,
Anne, daughter of Colonel Walter Scott ; by her he had
11. Sir Bobert Adair of Kilhilt and Ballymena, a knight banneret,
sold the baronies of Kilhilt and Drumore to the Earl of Stair ;
married, 1st, Penelope, daughter of Sir Bobert Colvile ; married,
2d, Martha — died August 1705 ; married, 3d, October 1705, Ann
M'Aulay ; married, 4th, Arabella Bickets ; left by his third wife
12. Bobert Adair, a major of Dragoons ("noiv living" Adair
MSS. 1760) ; married Catherine Smallman, an English lady of fortune.
The family is represented by Sir Bobert Stafto Adair of Flixton Hall.
VANS -AGNEW OF BABNBABEOCH.
The Vanses are of Norman descent ; the name, originally Vaux, is
territorial, at the time of the Norman conquest the family were Lords
of Vaux, in Normandy.
The name is spelt variously Vaux, Vaus, Wauss, and in Galloway
Vans, which last branch derive their descent from the house of Vause
of Dirleton, in East Lothian.
1. Bobert Vaus, nephew of Alexander Vaus, Bishop of Galloway,