More Roberton Family History (5)

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 7^th, 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 17^th 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, 24^th 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.