Genealogical account of the family of Edmonstone of Duntreath

THE FAMILY OF EDMONSTONE.
ever since remained. John Wauchope was, in 1682, appointed one of the
Senators of the College of Justice, and took the title of Lord Edmonstone.
His only daughter married Patrick, son of Sir Alexander Don, who took
the name of Wauchope, from whom the present family is descended. The
present house of Edmonstone is modern, nor am I aware of any remains
of antiquity except the tower of the old church of Newton. 1 This church,
it would seem, was repaired or rebuilt by the last proprietor of the family,
Sir John Edmonstoun, or his father, as is attested by a curious entry in the
parish record : ' Reported by Mr. Wm. Knox that the Laird of Edmon-
stoun promisit to be careful in the rebuilding of the Kirk of Newtone,' dated
January 1592-3. It would seem also, from the charter of disposition to
James Raith, that in this Church was the family burial-place. The church
was pulled down about a century ago, and rebuilt in a more central situa-
tion ; the old tower only remains.
The contiguous parish of Woolmet was annexed to Newton at the
Reformation, and the site of the old church of Woolmet is now occupied
by the modern burial-place of the Wauchopes. 2
Of the other Edmonstone, in the county of Lanark, there exists no
document nor tradition connecting it with the family. The first mention
of it thus spelt, as far as I know, is in that curious, but not very authentic,
work, ' The Memorie of the Somervilles,' 3 where Sir John Herring is spoken
of as Laird of Edmondstoune in Clydesdale, and of Gilmerton in Midlothian,
A.D. 1 37 1, and the cypher S. I. H. was, I am told, preserved till lately
on the old tower, still in existence. 4 In the Ragman Rolls, however, of the
date 1296, there is a Baldewyn de Edmeiston in Lanarkshire among those
who swore fealty to Edward the First. This family must have soon dis-
appeared and made way for the Herrings. And there is a charter to Gilbert
Herring, son and heir of John Herring of Edmeiston, of the lands of
Edmeiston, Greenlaw, etc., in the earldom of March and county of Berwick,
dated December 17, 1444. This property of Edmonstone in Clydesdale has
been for a century in the possession of a family of the name of Brown.
Edenham or Ednam, 5 in Roxburghshire, was a residence of the elder
branch of the family (the chief residence when Edmonstone was sold) for
1 Statistical Account of Scotland. Edinburgh. Page 562. 2 Note 2, Appendix.
3 Memorie of the Somervilles, vol. i. page 118. * Note 3, Appendix. s Note 4, Appendix.