Early records of an old Glasgow family

106 THE EARLY RECORDS OF
on 4th June, 1690, as in right of his father, Mr. Ninian Hill of
Lambhill.
Served Heir to his Father.
His father died probably in the beginning of the year 1683,
but, possibly from troubles, political or pecuniary, considerably
more than the " annus deliberandi " was taken in making up
his title to his father, by service, as it is not till 5th March,
1686, that he was served as heir in general to " Magister
Ninianus Hill de Lambhill," before James Grahame, Bailie of
the Regality of Montrose, and a jury, at the castle of Mugdock,
Robert Robertson being clerk to the Inquest. 1
Previously, on 31st July, 1685, he had married Mary or
" Marie " Craufurd, daughter of the then deceased Hew Craufurd
of Jordanhill.
Crau/urds of Jordanhill.
Respecting Mary Craufurd's forebears, it is unnecessary to go
further back than to her ancestor, Captain Thomas Craufurd of
Jordanhill, the early genealogy of the Craufurd family being
given very fully in George Craufurd's History of Renfrewshire 2
and in Sir Robert Douglas of Glenbervie's Baronage of Scotland,*
and for the purpose of this narrative the following subsequent
notices, so far epitomised from MSS. of Sir Hew Craufurd of
Jordanhill in 1766, 4 will probably suffice, viz.:
THOMAS Craufurd, the first of that name of Jordanhill, was
born about A.D. 1 526, and is best known as Captain Thomas Craufurd,
by whom the castle of Dumbarton was taken by escalade for King
James VI. on ist-2nd April, 1 5 7 1 . 5
1 Hill, Munivicnta, vol. I., Part IV., No. 5. 2 Edition of 1S1S, p. 120 el set/. 3 P. 429 el seq.
4 Genealogical MSS. of Hills, Craufurds, etc., No. 27.
S^For an interesting account of which sec Froude's History of England, edition of 1870,
vol. IX., cap. 55, p. 412.