Strathendrick, and its inhabitants from early times
(297) Page 247
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BALGLAS
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old stone, 1602, and the letters M.S, show that John Houstoun, the young laird
of Houstoun, and his wife, Margaret Stirling, if they did not build the old
house, altered or added to it, and probably lived in it; and the RB MB, 1732,
show that Robert and Margaret Bontein did some building also, probably to
house their twenty children, whom the Register of Baptisms in Killearn prove to
have been born in the parish. After the Bonteins left it the old "grey house"
gradually became a ruin.
247
old stone, 1602, and the letters M.S, show that John Houstoun, the young laird
of Houstoun, and his wife, Margaret Stirling, if they did not build the old
house, altered or added to it, and probably lived in it; and the RB MB, 1732,
show that Robert and Margaret Bontein did some building also, probably to
house their twenty children, whom the Register of Baptisms in Killearn prove to
have been born in the parish. After the Bonteins left it the old "grey house"
gradually became a ruin.
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| Histories of Scottish families > Strathendrick, and its inhabitants from early times > (297) Page 247 |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/95339095 |
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| Description | By John Guthrie Smith. Glasgow: J. Maclehose and Sons,1896. |
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| Shelfmark | A.58.a |
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| Description | A selection of almost 400 printed items relating to the history of Scottish families, mostly dating from the 19th and early 20th centuries. Includes memoirs, genealogies and clan histories, with a few produced by emigrant families. The earliest family history goes back to AD 916. |
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