Inquiry into the origin, pedigree, & history of the family, or clan, of Aitons in Scotland

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letter bears that " Neither of these gentlemen are accounted
** for, which makes it probable that they left descendants," as
above.
Taking, therefore, all these circumstances into view, it is
clear, that the founder of the Tilloch family, was of the name
of Andrew ; but whether he was the son of John, the patriarch
of the Waleslie family, or the grand-son of the third laird of
Inchdairney, remains to be ascertained. In either case he
must have been a descendant of the Inchdairney family, who
now stand at the head of the clan Aytoun.
Having thus stated what has been discovered of the founders
of the Avondale colony of Aitons, it will be left to others to
pursue the inquiry father; and the pedigree, firstof the Wales-
lie, and next the Tilloch families, will be given to the present
time.
SECTION I.
Pedigree of the Aitons of Waleslie.
John Aiton, the founder of the Aitons of Waleslie, came
from the county of Fife, and settled in the farm of Hookhead
in Avondale, sometime about 1570, or between that and 1590.
And from the magnitude of that farm, (which has since been
divided into six farms,) and from his grandson having pur-
chased, what now forms three good farms, it may be presumed,
that John Aiton did not leave Fife, with an empty pocket.
Neither the name of his wife, the number of his children, nor
the exact period of his death have been traced : but he was
succeeded by his son
AYiLLiAM Aiton in Hookhead, of whom little is known,
except that he was the father of John Aiton, who became his
successor.
John Aiton, succe& ded his father William in the farm of
Hookhead, and afterw irds bought the lands of Waleslie, and
thoss of Heaslebank /rom Robb. The author of this