Early records of an old Glasgow family

RECORDS OF AN OLD GLASGOW FAMILY 37
appearance of the issue of his elder brothers consanguinean,
Thomas and William Hill — who are previously referred to —
his (i.e. Ninian Hill's) issue, so far as the family records
show, are now the representatives of James Hill, the Chaplain
of St. Mary's Altar.
It has been shown that James Hill of Ibrox, the Chaplain,
or, as he subsequently became, the first Protestant Reader of
Cathcart, as well as his first wife, Marion Leitch, to whom he
was probably married about the year 1558, were both alive in
1580.
It would to some extent almost appear, from the charter,
previously referred to, in favour of Thomas Hill, dated 5th
July, 1583, which reserves her liferent, as if Marion Leitch was
then alive, but that she died in or about the year 1 58 1, was, I
think, evidently the case, the dubiety being only raised by the
continuance, or repetition, after that date, in the writs mentioned
in the previous chapter, of a reservation of the liferent, originally
conceived in her favour in the lands therein referred to, which
might have been, and probably was, simply a matter of careless
conveyancing.
Born about the year 1583.
It has been further mentioned that James Hill married as
his second wife, Marion, the widow of Archibald Wilson of
Garioch, probably in 1582-83, about a year after the death
of Marion Leitch, James Hill's first wife. Accordingly, it may
reasonably be assumed that Ninian Hill, whose name does not
previously appear, was the issue of this marriage, 1 that he was
born in or about the year 1583, and that, through his mother, he
succeeded to the lands of Garioch, as did his elder brother
Thomas to his father's property of Ibrox.
1 Manuscripts of Hutchesons and Hills, Part I., p. 91.