Early records of an old Glasgow family

AN OLD GLASGOW FAMILY 41
Hill and Helen Hutcheson had the whole above-named ten
children, viz. :
Janet Hill.
Janet Hill, who was baptized on 13th September, 16 10, her
"godfathers" being "Johne Hutchesone and Johne Orr," ] and
who obviously died before 1623, the next daughter Margaret
being designated by Ninian Hill, in his Will of that year, as his
" eldest dochter."
Margaret Hill or Bryson, afterwards Pollock.
Margaret Hill referred to in Ninian Hill's Will as his
" eldest dochter" alive in 1623, who is also one of those mentioned
as " Helein hir bairnis," in the Inventory relative to George
Hutcheson's Will in 1639, would seem to have been baptized, or
entered in the Register of Baptisms, on 4th February, 161 2,
under the name of "Joan," 2 the "witnesses" being "George
Hutcheson and Thomas Listoune."
In the paper titled " The Offspring of John Hutchison," 3
it is stated that "Margaret" "was married to one Bailie
Bryson in Glasgow." This designation of her husband as " Bailie "
is obviously a mistake, as no one of the name of Bryson appears
as a Bailie in the Council Records of Glasgow till 1685, and
the Bailie Bryson of that year, as is evidenced by the Mortifica-
tion granted by him in 1705, and also by George Hutcheson's
Will, was "Bailie" John Bryson, one of the "oyes" or
grand-children of George Hutcheson's sister, Helen Hutche-
son or Hill (i.e. a son of and not the husband of her daughter-
Margaret).
'Hill, Munimenta, vol. I., Part II., No. 3. Extracts from Register of Baptisms for Glasgow.
2 Extracts from Register of Baptisms, supra. 'Hill, Munimenta, vol. 11., Part V., No. 13.