Early records of an old Glasgow family

70 THE EARLY RECORDS OF
James Cunninghame of Ailket, in 1630, and, on the division of
George and Thomas Hutcheson's properties among the three
heiress-portioners, were conveyed by them to Mr. Ninian Hill
by Disposition, dated 6th August, 1642, ratified by Crown
Charter in his favour, of date 22nd August, 1642. 1 He afterwards
sold the lands and teinds to James Dunlop of that Ilk, in or
about the year 1656. 2
It is possible that the circumstance of Mr. Ninian Hill
of Lambhill's son, also a Ninian, and " of Lambhill," marrying
Mary Craufurd, daughter also of a Hew Craufurd, not how-
ever of Cloberhill but of Jordanhill, may have led to some
confusion, and to the above-mentioned inaccuracy in the family
record, but, reading between the lines of her last Will, I
incline to think, — what this omission of her name gives occasion
to surmise, — that her marriage with Mr. Ninian Hill, and his
relations with her family, from what cause does not appear,
were not altogether of the most friendly description.
Margaret Craufurd 's Will.
Her Will is dated " Att Glasgow,"— Mr. Ninian Hill's
residence being then either at Gairbraid or Lambhill, — where,
apparently living separate from her husband, she "being seik
of bodie bot haill in mynd and judgement," after reciting that
she " recommends her saull in the Lord's protectione, and hoips
to be saved throw the meritts of Christ Jesus, her Saviour and
Redeamer ; and as to her worldlie effaires in caice it pleise God
at this tyme to remove her aff this lyfe, she in this maner
ordouris and disposes thairvpone ; to witt she nominats heirby
appointis and ordanes her deare and loveing father, Hew Craufurd
1 See Registrum Magni Sigilli Scotorum ; also Hill, Munimenta, vol. I., Part III., No. 6/3.
s Excerpt from Inventory of Writs of Francis Dunlop of that Ilk, see Hill, Munimmla,
vol. I., Part III., No. 14.