Account of the families of Birnie and Hamilton of Broomhill

10 ACCOUNT OF THE FAMILIE
Upon which the shoemakers yielded. Ke was also very charitable to
the poor, whereby he left a fragrant memorie of himself behind him.
He wrote a MS. called his ' Opera Poetica,' in 4to, of three hundred and
twenty-four pages, in our Librarie. He left also of ishue one son, Mr
John, of whom after ; and two daughters, the eldest, Elizabeth, was,
upon the second of January, married to Mr Thomas Kirkcaldie, Presbe-
terian minister at Carnwath, a brother of Kirkcaldie of Grange, barronet.
After the Restoration he was indulg'd minister at Dalserf, where he dyed ;
and left of ishue one son, Mr Thomas, at London, unmarried. His eldest
daughter, Elizabeth, married Dr Thomas Alston of Athelwood, and
Phisitian, who has issue Dr Charles Alston, King's Professor of Bottanie
at Edinburgh, who married Rebecca Lockhart, only child of Captain
Lockhart of Lee.
His sister Ann
Elizabeth, married to Mr James M'Garvoch, Presbyterian minister
at Esdalemuir. With ishue.
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And Joan Alston.
Mr Kirkcaldie's other daughter Jean, married Mr Alexander Findlater,
Presbeterian minister at Hamilton, with abundance of issue. Their
eldest son, Mr Alexander, is one of the masters of the High School at
Edinburgh.
Mr Thomas, the second, is Presbeterian minister at Lintoun.
Mr Robert Birnie's second daughter Janet, upon the 8th December
1668, married Mr John Irvine, minister at Kilmalcom, in the west : there-
after at Petercoulter, in the north. He purchased the lands of Saphock,
and has ishue Mr Alexander Irvine, now in Saphock, advocat, who mar-
ried Barbara, eldest daughter of Dundas of that Ilk, and has
ishue.