Strathendrick, and its inhabitants from early times

CHAPTER XI.
FINNICK. 1
FYNVOYCH — FYNWYK — FYNNE1CH — FENEK — FENYK — FENWICK — FYNNICK —
FYNWIKE — FINWIK FYNNICHT FYNNETH.
This is a very old estate, and was originally among the possessions of the Earls
of Lennox, who at an early date had given off parts of it to the Knights Templars,
and these afterwards became the property of the Knights Hospitallers.
Taking these Church lands of Finnick first, we find them in Finnick-Malice
and Finnick-Tennant.
Those in Finnick-Malice are called the Temple lands, or Spittal of Finnick-
Malice ; they form part of the estate of John Buchanan Hamilton of Spittal
and Leny, and in modern times have come to be known as " Little Spittal."
In 1805 parts of Little Spittal were leased for 999 years to Robert Muirhead,
merchant in Glasgow, and the little residential estate he then formed he called
Endrickbank. In 1817 Mr. Muirhead sold Endrickbank to Duncan Campbell
of Ardneave, Islay, and of George Street, Edinburgh. In 1830 his trustees sold
it to William Brodie, a respected citizen of Glasgow, where his family is well
known. After Mr. Brodie's death, his trustees in i860 sold it to George Ross
Wilsone and Anne Cooper, his wife, and on his death Charles H. Wilsone, his
son, succeeded to it. 2 This place is now part of the estate formed by the late
Charles H. Haldane Wilsone, and to which he gave the name of Dalnair — a
name taken from the largest portion of it.
The other Temple or Spittal lands in the old estate of Finnick " are all and
1 This account includes all the Finnick lands in the estates known as Dalnair, Finnick-Malice,
Aucheneck, and Killearn, and in Mr. Buchanan Hamilton's estate of Spittal.
2 Endrickbank is composed of "those parts of the Temple lands of Finnick-Malice, alias
Little Spittal, comprehending the lands of Eastpark, Gartnaulpark, Dallagabhaugh, the Big
Wood, and the Arn Badan, extending to 33 acres or thereby" (Dalnair Writs).