Facts and traditions collected for a family record

PAISLEY M'C'ONNELLS. 91
tricts of Renfrew and Ayrshire, and that not only he himself but other
members of his family and relatives would be known there ; some of
these may, in consequence, have settled in Paisley as merchants ; and
about a century after this, we find several M'C'onnells in and near
Paisley.
Thus in the parish of Kirkoswakl, a child was baptized to John M'Cunal iii
Ruglane, (Kutherglen,) A.D. 1G94 ; this is near Paisley.
William M'Conell, in Hacath, parish of Paisley, 1612.
David C'onel, in Beltreis, parish of Loichwinzeoch, 1606'.
In the course of these researches the writer has observed that the
word Mac is frequently omitted. The parish records in Galloway and
Carrick are sufficient to shew this. Even in the present day the omis-
sion is made, and not again adopted by the family dropping the prefix.
In Paterson's "Ayrshire Families," voL L, p. 279: —
Parish of Beith.
" John Fulton of Muirton married Jean Connel, daughter of Robert Connel of
Grangehill, in 1670, and acquired that property. (Patrick Connel was proprietor
of Grangehill in 1635.) His brother was Hugh Fulton, a merchant in Paisley in
1688."
To shew the probable intimacy that subsisted between the Fultouns
and M'C'onnells or Connels, I may point out a parish record in the
parish of Kiikmichael, in which Thomas Fultoun is witness to a baptism
of Jennot M'Quhannell, A.D. 1653 ; and a marriage, A.D. 1697, of Arthur
Fidtone to Marion M'Connel.
Paterson, p. 261 : —
" The lands adjoining to the barony of Beith on the east and north belonged
to the Abbacy of Paisley."
It is very probable, also, that most of the land between Beith and