Random Notes And Rambling Recollections Of Drydock The Dock Or Kelvindock All Now Known By The More Modern Name Of Maryhill 1750 1894

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 edition. Excerpt: ... section vii. landed estates and their proprietors. 11 A man may own a large estate, Have palace, park, an' a' that; And not for birth, but honest worth, Be thrice a man for a' that." Dr C. Mackay. jn giving a few jottings about the lands on which the town of Maryhill is built, and adjoining estates, with some notices of the proprietors or superiors of them, I note first Gairbraid. In ancient times the lands of Gairbraid, which were formerly church lands held by rentallers under the Archbishopric of Glasgow, belonged to a family named Hutchison. A charter is extant in favour of John Hutchison, described as then in "Gairbraid," by Robert Montgomery, Archbishop of Glasgow, dated 19th November, 1582, while Queen Mary was a prisoner in England. I believe it has been.generally stated that the Hutchisons of Gairbraid were ancestors of the founder of the Hospital, which is quite a mistake, as the names spell differently. George, the hospital founder, wrote his surname "Hutcheson," and the two families were not directly related to each other. The parents of the benevolent founder of the noble charity were Thomas Hutcheson of Hutchesontown and Lambhill, and Helen Herbertson, spouses. This Hutchesontown property formed part of the lands of Nether Carmyle, immediately to the eastward of what is now Clyde Ironworks. George Hutcheson purchased Gairbraid in the year 1600 from the other family "Hutchison," already referred to, but neither he nor his brother Thomas had any family. In 1639 and 1641 respectively they mortified a portion of their means to endow the Hospital, and this mortification was in the latter year confirmed by their three widowed sisters, viz.: --Mrs Duncan, Mrs Pollock, and Mrs Ninian Hill. Ninian, the son of the last named, succeeded...

The earliest letter dates from 1800, not long after Baillie had announced her authorship of the first volume of Plays on the Passions. The last dates only a few weeks before her death in 1851. --

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