Early records of an old Glasgow family

52 THE EARLY RECORDS OF
as he is not mentioned in his uncle and Godfather George
Hutcheson's Will in the enumeration of his sister " Helein hir
bairnis." It is he who is referred to in his father's Will, dated 5th
September, 1623, executed on his deathbed, as "ye bairne unborne
quhairwith the said Helen, his spous, is presentlie with chyld."
Helen Hutcheson, Ninian Hill's wife.
Helen Hutcheson, whose marriage to Ninian Hill in
1609 is previously mentioned, was the third and youngest
daughter of " Thomas Hutchesone and Helein Herbertstone,
spouses," and thus one of the sisters german and co-heiresses of
George and Thomas Hutcheson of Lambhill, Founders of
Hutchesons' Hospital and School in Glasgow. 1
Reference may be made to the History of Hutchesons'
Hospital for information anent Helen Hutcheson or Hill's brothers
and her two sisters, Janet Hutcheson or Duncan, and Elizabeth
Hutcheson or Pollok, and their respective families, and for what is
known respecting them and their ancestors or forebears. 2
Among these the following may be enumerated, viz. :
GEORGE Huchesone, Merchant Burgess of Glasgow, who of
date 7th September, 1471, 3 gifted, probably mortis causa, twenty
shillings Scots money to be paid furth of his tenement in the
High Street of Glasgow to the Vicars of the Choir, in consideration
of their up-putting prayers, with the Mass, annually on St. Con-
stantine's day for the repose, in all time coming, of the souls of
himself and his family.
Thomas Huchesoune, probably a grandson of the above-
mentioned George, whose name appears of date 6th June, 1 5 3 7 , 4
among those forming the " congregatio generalis " for the election of
the Rector of the University, and another
1 History of Hutchesons 1 Hospital, 1881, p. 8 el sea.
2 History of Hutchesons' Hospital, 1881, p. 2 et sea.
3 Blackhouse, Inventory among the University Archives, No. III.
* Munimenla Universitatis Glasguensis, vol. II., p. 163.