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married, 1720, Janet, daughter of Gilbert Buchanan of Bankell, 1 and by her
(who died 29th December 173s 2 ) had four sons and six daughters: (1) Archi-
bald, who succeeded; (2) Gilbert, born 1729, died young; (3) James, born
1733, married in Virginia, but died s.p. ; (4) John, born 1735, curate of Weston
Underwood, Bucks., died s.p. : (1) Dorothy, born 1724, of whom afterwards;
(2) Janet, born 1726, of whom afterwards; (3) Jean, born 1727, married Mungo
Buchanan, merchant in Glasgow, and had one son, John Buchanan, a clergy-
man of the Church of England; 3 (4) Mary, born 1731, died 1731 ; (5)
Margaret, born 1732, died unmarried; and (6) Rebecca, born 1734, died
unmarried.
Archibald Buchanan died 24th November 1744. 4
VIII. Archibald Buchanan of Drumhead was born 5th August 1723, and
died, unmarried, 26th May 1789, 5 having survived all his brothers. He executed
a deed of entail, dated 23rd December 1786, of Drumhead and Succoth upon
the second sons of his two eldest sisters successively and their heirs-male, with
an obligation to bear the name and arms of Buchanan of Drumhead.
VIII. Dorothy Buchanan, sister of Archibald Buchanan of Drumhead,
married Robert Shannon of Blairvadick, and died 21st July 1789, having had
two sons and two daughters : (1) John Shannon, married, settled in Tortola, and
left one daughter; (2) Archibald Shannon Buchanan of Drumhead: (1) Sarah
Shannon, married Boyd, and died at Drumhead in 1844, aged ninety-
three ; (2) Margaret Shannon, died unmarried.
IX. Archibald Shannon Buchanan married in the West Indies, and on
the death of his uncle, Archibald Buchanan of Drumhead, in 1789, he succeeded
to the estate in terms of the entail, and assumed the name of Buchanan. He
died without children, 18th September 1791, 6 and was succeeded in terms of
the entail by his cousin, Robert Dunlop.
VIII. Janet Buchanan, second sister of Archibald Buchanan of Drumhead,
married Robert Dunlop of Househill, as his second wife, and died 181 2, leaving
issue : (1) James Dunlop of Househill, married Elizabeth Buchanan, 7 and had
James, died young, and four daughters, co-heiresses, in whom the direct line
failed, and Househill passed to the Drumhead branch of the family; (2) Robert
Buchanan-Dunlop of Drumhead : (1) Lilias Dunlop, born 1753, married Robert
Muirhead of Croy-Leckie, and died s.p. ; and (2) Dorothy Dunlop, born 1759,
married, 1781, Robert Findlay of Easterhill, and died 1828, leaving issue.
IX. Robert Buchanan-Dunlop of Drumhead, born 1756, died 1837, was
a merchant in London. He succeeded to Drumhead on the death of his cousin,
1 See p. 307, and Cardross Register. - Drumhead Bible.
3 See Dennistoun MS. 4 Services of Heirs. ° Ibid,
"Scots Magazine, Vol. LIII., p. 568. ? See p. 307.
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