Early records of an old Glasgow family

AN OLD GLASGOW FAMILY 91
south-east of the larger portion of Gairbraid, between it and
Garioch.
In the Old Country Houses of the Old Glasgow Gentry,
published in 1870, an interesting photograph, No. 42, is
given of the Mansion House of Gairbraid, which is thus
referred to :
" Gairbraid is situated on the left bank of the Kelvin, near
Maryhill, in the Barony Parish, and four miles from the Cross of
Glasgow. The old mansion was built in 1688, and near it was
erected in 1789 the present house."
In the edition of this most interesting book published in 1878,
the following paragraph is added to the former notice :
" Gairbraid is much altered since this photograph was taken.
In fact the old place may be said to be gone. The magnificent
avenue of beech trees has been cut down, the woods on the
banks of the Kelvin have been ruthlessly swept away, and the old
house now stands naked and forlorn amid a wilderness of free
coups, broken bottles and bricks, pools of dirty water, clothes
lines fluttering with parti-coloured rags, and all the abominations
of a new suburb. Instead of the singing of birds and the music of
the soft flowing Kelvin, which of yore pleased and refreshed the
passer-by, the air is now vocal with the discordant voices of rough
men, scolding women and 'greeting bairns,' and with the clang
of machinery and the hiss of the steam engine."
Ramshorn and Meadowflat}
The 33s. 4d. land of Ramshorn and Meadowflat also became
the property of Mr. Ninian Hill by succession, through his mother,
to part of the heritable properties of the brothers Hutcheson. 2
1 History of Hutchisons' Hostital in 1881, pp. 89-97.
3 Hill, Munimenta, vol. 1., Part III., No. 3, section " Ramishorne and Meidowflet."