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Mr. Archibald Dennistoun, of Dalchurne, Minister of Campsie
d.1679
- Mr. Archibald Dennistoun, of Dalchurne, Minister of Campsie - 1679
Facts and Events
| Name |
Mr. Archibald Dennistoun, of Dalchurne, Minister of Campsie |
| Gender |
Male |
| Marriage |
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to Jean Noble |
| Death[1] |
1679 |
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References
- ↑ Dennistoun, James; Dennistoun, James Wallis; Irving, Joseph. Some account of the family of Dennistoun of Dennistoun and Colgrain. (Glasgow, Scotland: James MacLehose and Sons, 1906).
XIII. Mr. Archibald Dennistoun of Dalchurne went into the Church and obtained the living of Campsie. Principal Baillie says : " He was deposed by the Remonstrants without any considerable fault, much against the heart of his parish, who loved him." In the churchyard of Campsie is the following inscription : " The burial place of the Rev d - Mr. Arch d - Dennistoun of the family of Colgrain. He was ordained Minister of Campsie on the 30 th of March 1649. He was deposed by the Protesters in 1655. He was restored in the year 1661 and died 1679."
- Irving, J. (Joseph). The history of Dumbartonshire, civil, ecclesiastical, and territorial: with genealogical notices of the principal families in the county, the whole based on authentic records, public and private. (Dumbarton [Scotland]: J. Irvine, 1860)
Page 344, (1860).
21. – Resignation by Mr. Archibald Dennistoun, in favor of Thomas Flemyng, merchant, burgess of Dumbarton and his son Charles (by umq’ Jean Semple), in fee of the lands of Dalchurne, with reservation in favour of John Semple of Fulwood, guidson of umq’ William Semple of Fulwood, of the lands of Over and Nether Cordells, 30th July, 1669.
- HISTORY OF THE FAMILY OF DENNISTOUN OF DENNISTOUN by Dennistoun, James, 1803-1855; Dennistoun, James Wallis, 1839-1908; Irving, Joseph, 1830-1891. pub. 1906
XIII. Mr. Archibald Dennistoun of Dalchurne went into the Church and obtained the living of Campsie. Principal Baillie says : " He was deposed by the Remonstrants without any considerable fault, much against the heart of his parish, who loved
him." In the churchyard of Campsie is the following inscription: " The burial place of the Revd - Mr. Archd Dennistoun of the family of Colgrain. He was ordained Minister of Campsie on the 30th of March 1649. He was deposed by the Protesters in 1655. He was restored in the year 1661 and died 1679."
In the settlement of John Dennistoun of Colgrain he was appointed one of the tutors of Colgrain's daughters. He was infeft in the fee of Dulchurne by his father, 8th March, 1645. He was a man of easy, indolent temper, which rendered him open to much imposition, both in his own affairs and in those of his wards. He married, first, Jean Noble, daughter of Humphrey Noble of Ferme, and had by her:
1. William, afterwards of Colgrain, born 1647.
2. Archibald, matriculated as student in the College of Glasgow.
'"A short time after the Laird's (Dennistoun of Colgrain) death Jean Noble dies and
within a whyl after Mr. Archd . . begins to think upon a second mariadge ; and qr so proper should application be made then to his chiefs relict . . bot she being young and of incomparable beawtie and prudent foorsight, considered the proposal as altogether unfit for the love she caryed to the memorie of her deceased husband and the children begoten by them ; as wyslie foorseeing that the children if males that should happen to be begoten of that mariadge, being Dennistouns as weil as the other, and Mr. Archibald noway tyed up from disposing of his awin fortoune in prejudice of the first transaction : I say she proablie thoght that for thir reasons if such a notion were interteined it might be the ocasion of quyt ruining the will of her deceased, bot inteirlie beloved husband, and therefore rejected the proposal. Thereafter the good ladie married a gentleman called Thomas ffleiming qho she was suir could lay no claim to her first husbands fortune."
He married, secondly, 11th April, 1657, Catherine Stirling, eldest daughter of James Stirling, Auchyle, and infeft her in liferent in part of Dulchurne. He, on the 15th of April, 1665, granted an annualrent of 240 merks out of Dalchurne in favour of their children :
1. Anne, married Mr. James Gillespie, minister of Tarbolton.
2. Margaret, married Mr. James Gordon, minister of Roseneath.
3. Jean, died 1665.
4. Mary, died 1665.
5. John, died S.P. before 1686.
6. George, writer in Edinburgh.
7. Walter.
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