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

emonter in Kilmaurs, to whdm she brouglit James Barr, Es=
quire of Burnthill ; and Mary Barr, spouse of Allan Brown,
Esquire of Beans Croft. Mary Alton died i^ 1810.
SECTION III.
Of the Aitons in Curnwath>
Besides the Avondale Colony of Artons , already adverted to j
a family of th^t name, has existed in the parish of Carnwathj
Lanarkshire, for more than 150 years past, and still continue
in that parish and its neighbonThood. The author of this
pamphlet, has been anxious to discover, wlrether this branch of
the elan, have proceeded immediately from the root of the tree
in Fife, or from the Avondale branch ; but the only evidences he
has obtained, are, that the late John Aiton, who was sometime'
o«e of the Magistrates of Hamilton, to be afterwards noticed,
and who was himself descended from the Aitons in Carnwath,
often mentioned to the author, and to others of the Aitons from
Avondale, that his grand-father, or his great-grand -father, had
gone from Avondale, and settled in the parish of Carnwath^
Baillie Aiton always paid attention to the Aitons in Avondald
and Hamilton as kinsmen ; and when the Funeral Sermon
preached on the death of M'^illiam Aiton his brother, (to h&
arfterwards noticed,) was published, Baillie Aiton delivered
copies of that sermon to some of the Lanai'kshire Aitons, as
distant relations to him and his brotJier. From these cir-
cumstances, and from the Aitons in Carnwath writing their
name similar to their Avondale friends, and not like those in
Fife : the author is of opinion, that the Aitons in Carnwatli
are sprung from some of the families of that name in Avondale j
though it is uncertain from which of them, or the exact period
they settled in Carnwath. It appears from an Assignation
granted by John Aiton in Hookhead to Margaret Aiton^
daughter of Archibald Aiton in Hookhead, of a bond for one