Early records of an old Glasgow family

8o THE EARLY RECORDS OF
orchairdis, toftis, croftis, mosse, muir, meadow, vvayes, passagis, water-
stankis, rivers, pasturagis, hawkingis, huntingis, fishingis, mylnes, multuris,
peittingis, toures, woodis, wallis, coal-heugis, cuningis, cuning-gaires, dowes,
dowcattis, broome-shaws, scrogis, treis, timber, quarrel 1-staines, lymstaines,
w t- courtis, pleyes, herriallis, blodwytts, amerciaments, unlawes, commoune
pasturage, frie ishe and entrie, with all and sundrie wy r- commodities and
righteous pertinentis q'" sumever, alsweill not namit as namit, under as
above ye ground, far off as neir hand, perteining or that may be knawine
to apperteine to the sds landis, in tyme cuming, freelie, quietlie, weill, and
in peace, but ony revocaone or agane calling, quatsumever." '
Topography.
As in the case of Garioch, it is difficult to give with certainty
a bounding description of the two merk land of Lambhill as
these were possessed by Ninian Hill on his succession to the
estate in 1642. The property known as " Lambhill," as possessed
by the late owner, William Graham of Lambhill, 2 consisted merely
of a sub-divided portion of Lambhill. William Graham — father
of William, the last proprietor — who himself is significantly
designated as " Portioner of Lambhill," conveyed by mortis causa
disposition, dated 5th January, 1814, to his third son, Robert, the
portion of Lambhill called " Westfield," now known as the Western
Necropolis, which in the disposition by William Graham, the
last proprietor, to the Necropolis Company, is said to be part of
"the half of the 26/8 land of O. E. of Lambhill, which
belonged to Robert Graham of Lambhill, and now belongs to me."
The lands which belonged to William Graham, the proprietor,
in 18 1 4, as appears from the titles, may roughly be described as
situated and lying on the north bank of the Forth and Clyde
Canal, proceeding from a point about two hundred yards west from
1 Hill, Munimenta, vol. I., Part III., No. 6.
2 It is possible, but of this I have doubt, that the ancestor of this gentleman, Robert Graham
in Caldercult, may have been a cousin, or other relative, of Captain Robert Graham of Dalsholm,
who married Mary Hill, the only daughter of Hew Hill, and whose descendants, Alexander Graham
Dunlop, and William Carstairs Dunlop, succeeded to the superiority of Lambhill and property of
Gairbraid,