Early records of an old Glasgow family

AN OLD GLASGOW FAMILY 43
In this enumeration, it has to be pointed out, there is omitted
Janet or " Jonet Pollok," one of his sister's " oyes " mentioned
in George Hutcheson's Will in 1639 ; and the further remarks
suggest themselves that, from the conjunction of this Janet or
"Jonet" with her half-brothers, John, Walter and Thomas Bryson,
in George Hutcheson's Will, it may be inferred that she was the
eldest of Margaret Hill's children by her second marriage; also
that her full-brother and sister, George and Elizabeth Pollock,
were not then (1639) born; that Margaret Hill's first husband,
John Bryson, was dead, and she married to her second husband,
James Pollock, before the year 1638, when she would be about
26 years of age ; although this date for her second marriage
seems a little at variance, although not necessarily inconsistent
with her designation in the Contract above mentioned in 1642
as "Relict of Umq"- John Brysoun."
Margaret, the daughter of Ninian Hill of Garioch, was
apparently married at an early age, on 26th August, 1628, 1
first to John Bryson, father of John Bryson, the Bailie, and I
think that her first husband was designated by Crawfurd, the
historian, as a Bailie of Glasgow, from confusion with the
fact that her eldest son, John Bryson, 2 in 1680, as well as her
second husband [James] Pollock, a son of Balgray, 3 in 1652,
1659, 1664 and 1667, were Bailies of the City.
Her Bryson Descendants
From the above-mentioned sources it would accordingly
appear that Margaret Hill's issue were as follows, viz.:
By her first husband, John Bryson, Merchant in Glasgow, 4 viz. :
1. John Bryson, Merchant, and Bailie of Glasgow, one of the
1 Hill, Munimenta, vol. I., Part II., No. 3, p. 5. Extracts from Register of Marriages.
2 Offspring, etc., Hill, Munimenta, vol. II., Part V., No. 13 ; also Cleland's Annals of Glasgow,
vol. I., p. 167.
3 Descendants, etc., Hill, Munimenta, vol. 11., Part V., No. 14; also Cleland's Annals, vol.
I., pp. 136 et seq.
4 For notices respecting the Brysons see History of Hutchesons' Hospital, 1881, pp. 14 and 15.