Early records of an old Glasgow family

AN OLD GLASGOW FAMILY 47
further inaccuracy, that the name " Janet " was a mistake for
" Elspeth," whom both George Hutcheson's Will and the paper
titled the " Descendants " show to have been a daughter of
Helen Hutcheson or Hill, and this mistake in the name may
be so far accounted for from the fact that Helen Hutcheson
or Hill had actually a daughter named " Janet," who however
died young ; and it is probable that in the paper " Offspring,"
another inaccuracy, either of repetition or possibly accidental trans-
position of the words, occurs in stating that "Janet" was married
" to the Laird off Bagray, and afterwards to Bailie Pollock."
It has to be kept in view that there are more properties in the
neighbourhood of Glasgow of the name of " Balgray " than that
which I take to be here referred to, and held by proprietors
of other names than that of Pollock. I have not ascertained
that Bailie Pollock was the Laird of Balgray, but certainly the
Laird of the Balgray which I take to be here referred to was a
Pollock. Assuming, therefore, the supposition as to the mistake in
the name "Janet " for " Elspeth " to be a sound one, the papers
" Offspring," and " Descendants," would coincide in evidencing
that Elspeth, otherwise Elizabeth, daughter of Ninian Hill and
Helen Hutcheson, was married to [Thomas] Pollock of Balgray,
and, on the authority of the paper " Descendants," it may further
be stated that Elizabeth Hill or Pollock left issue, viz.:
Descendants of Elspeth or Elizabeth Hill or Pollock.
1. James Pollock, who succeeded his father in Balgray.
2. George Pollock, and
3. Thomas Pollock, who both emigrated to New England.
4. Helen Pollock, who married David Robb, Parson of Erskine, by
whom she had issue, viz. :
Robb, a daughter, who married back into the
family name, viz. : Charles Pollock, Merchant in Glasgow,
but of whom I have traced nothing, and