Account of the families of Birnie and Hamilton of Broomhill

OF BIRNIE OF THA T ILK.
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when his father died. He dyed unmarried ; and by his disposition and
assignation, dated the 30th May 1665, left all his effects, heritable and
moveable, to the said Mr Robert in lyferent, and to an only son John, my
father, in fee, as already wryt.
Mr John Birnie, the aboue Mr Robert's only son, having married a
daughter of James Hamilton of Broomhill, Bishop of Galloway, and
purchased the same lands, I think it propper to place him after his
brother-in-law, John, the last of the Hamiltons thereof. And so proceed
to
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HE common tradition in this family also is, that
James, the Third Lord Hamilton, was married to
Janet de Calderwood, a daughter of Calderwood's
of that Ilk, in the shire of Lanark ; and one morn-
ing, as she was nurseing her only son John, at the
castle of Hamilton, in that part thereof called the
Horn-hall, a footman br ought her the unwelcome news of her Lord's