While looking for the author of The Robertons – A Noted
Lanarkshire Family which appears in three previous posts (originally printed in
the Hamilton Advertiser on August 7th, 1943), a librarian at the
South Lanarkshire Leisure and Culture Center also found another piece on
Roberton history, again from the Hamilton Advertiser, but published in July
1874. Entitled Earnock and its Early Proprietors, it is another lengthy
writing that I will present in a number of postings.
Earnock and its
Early Proprietors (continued)
(from the Hamilton
Advertiser, July 1874)
The Robertouns (cont.)
12. This Bartholomew succeeded as twelfth Laird of
Earnock. On the 17th October,
1608, with the consent of his father, he was contracted in marriage to
Margaret, lawful daughter of John Law of Waterfoot, Mearns. She was sister to Mr. Andrew Law, minister of
Neilston, grandfather to John Law of Lauriston, who was Governor-General of the
Finances in France, and who made such a prominent figure in Europe as a
financier. By Margaret Law he had issue,
13. John Robertoun of Earnock, his successor, who married
Christian, eldest daughter of Sir John Hamilton of Orbieston, one of the
Senators of the College of Justice, and Lord Justice Clerk. Sir John appears to have acquired part of the
lands of Provan, near Glasgow, for his daughter Agnes, along with her sister
Christian (Lady Earnock) had a charter under the great seal of an annual rent
furth of the lands of Provan, 24th July, 1567. John Robertoun had issue by his wife
Christian Hamilton – John, his successor; and Anne, married to James, son and
heir of Robert Chancellor of Shieldhill.
14. John Robertoun of Earnock married Bethia, daughter of
Sir John Henderson, first Bart. Of Fordell, in Fifeshire, by whom he had a son,
John, his heir, and a daughter Christian, who married Archibald Robertoun of
Bedlay.
15. John Robertoun, next of the family, married Anne, only
daughter of William Hamilton of Raploch, by whom he had John, his successor,
and William, a fine young gentleman of great merit and virtue, who died,
unmarried, to the grief and regret of all who knew him.
