Early records of an old Glasgow family

AN OLD GLASGOW FAMILY 119
Their Marriage Contract is consented to by Mrs. Mary
Craufurd or Hill, and is dated 28th and 30th July, and regis-
tered in the Books of Council and Session 29th December,
1724. 1
Hew Hill carried on business as a Merchant in Greenock,
being so designed, and also "of Lambhill— brother-german to
the said Mr. Laurence Hill," in the latter's Contract of Marriage
with Charlotte Maria Gardiner, or Wright, dated 20th Novem-
ber, 1727. 2
Died at Gairbraid, and is buried in the High Churchyard.
Hew Hill died probably shortly before 26th July, 1737,
when Hew Craufurd, W.S., in a letter to the Rev. Laurence Hill,
refers, I incline to think, to him as "your deceased brother." 3
This is confirmed by a Memorial (Query 3) for Counsel's
opinion in 1738, 4 in which Laurence Hill is designed as "the
surviving son of the Lady Lambhill," which he would not have
been if Hew had been then alive, but unquestionably he was
dead before 17th October, 1739, when Hew's daughter Mary,
after mentioned, was retoured as his heir by service expede of
that date. 5
In an extract from the Gairbraid Family Bible annexed to a
letter from Mr. John Dunlop, 17 Priory Road, Kilburn, London,
to Laurence Hill, LL.D., dated 26th November, 1858, it is stated
that Hew Hill died at Gairbraid in 1737, and that "he lies in his
own burying Place in the High Churchyard at Glasgow."
1 Hill, Munimenta, vol. I., Part IV., No. 25, Item 27.
2 Hill, Munimenta, vol. II., PartV., No. 5.
3 Hill, Munimenta, vol. II., Part V., No. 10.
4 Genealogical MSS. of Hills, Craufurds, etc., No. 19.
5 Hill, Munimenta, vol. I., Part IV., No. 25, Item 34.
6 Hill, Munimenta, vol. 11., PartV., No. 16.