Early records of an old Glasgow family

62 THE EARLY RECORDS OF
policies, thence west, and thereafter south, by a somewhat irregular
boundary to the east end of Kelvin Drive, and it included, inter
alia, the present Barracks, Gilshilloch-hill, Lochburn, Thorns or
Tamshill, as well as the Garioch Mill and lands, and extended
in all to about 313 acres scots, or 400 acres imperial.
It may here be interpolated with reference to Garioch that, conjoined
with his original estate of Ruchill, it descended from James Peadie of
Ruchill, Dean of Guild in 1720 and 1726, and Provost of Glasgow
in 1727, 1 to his grandson, James Peadie, who died an infant in 1740,
and that from the Decreet of Division of the lands of Ruchill and
Garioch " amongst Margaret, Grissel, Mary Agnes and Janet Peadie,
Heirs Portioners to the deceased James Peadie, last of Ruchill, their
nephew," expede before the Lords of Council and Session and dated
2nd February, 1743, and 8th July 1748, the property was divided, as
follows, among these ladies, who are thus designated, viz. :
A. R. F.
Margaret Peadie, " wife of William Colhoun (Col-
quhoun) of Garscadden," who obtained the Mansion
House of Ruchill and Lot I., viz., - - - -7538
Grissel Peadie, "wife of William Maxwell, Younger
of Calderwood," Lot III., including 1 a. 3 r. 20 falls of
Newhouse of Ruchill, " Bankhead Mailing of Garioch,"
with parts of " Chaple " and " Blackayewell," viz.,
about - - - - - - - - -88 212
Mary Peadie, " wife of John Coulter, Merchant,
late Provost of Glasgow," Lot V., the parts of Garioch
not included in the other lots, excepting the mill and
mill-lands, the extent of which was 3 a. 3 r., but including
Gilshillochhill, Hillochhead, Lochburn, Thomshill, and
part of Blackayewell, about - - - - -166 211
Mill and mill-lands (not included in the Decreet), 3 3 o
Agnes Peadie (apparently unmarried), Lot II.,
" the whole remaining parts of Ruchill and Newhouse
of Ruchill" about 135 3 10
1 Old Country Houses, etc., of Glasgow, No. 86; also Notanda respecting lands of Garioch in Hill,
Afunimenta, vol. I., Part II,, No. 17.