Person:Bryce Blair (1)

Bryce Blair of Blair

• Anderson, William. The Scottish nation, or, The surnames, families, literature, honours, and biographical history of the people of Scotland. (Edinburgh: A. Fullarton, 1867-1868), Vol. 1 (ABE-CUR), Page 319, 1867.^S2

Bryce Blair of Blair, the second son, married Annabell Wallace, and had two sons and five daughters, the latter of whom were all well married. He died 4th February 1639, and was succeeded by his elder twin-son, Sir Bryce Blair, who was knighted by Charles the First. He married, in 1618, Marian, daughter of Walter Dundas of Dundas, and died a few months after his father. He was succeeded by his son, John Blair, who died soon after without issue, and was succeeded by his uncle, John Blair, who married Lady Jean Cunningham, daughter of William eighth earl of Glencairn, and dying 1662, was succeeded by his son, William Blair of Blair. This gentleman was named by the restoration government of Scotland a member of the Commission in Ayshire for holding courts on the Covenanters, but he early joined the Revolution party, and was a member of the Convention of estates 16th March 1689, and on of the committee for settling the government. Having raised a troup of horse in support of King William, he marched with it into Perthshire. Information of this having reached the Viscount Dundee, then in arms in Athol for King James, he determined to surprise them, and accordingly he left Athol, and proceeded with celerity during the night towards Perth, which city be entered unaware early next morning, and seized both the laird of Blair and the laird of Pollock, who was with him, and two other officers, in their beds, and carried them off prisoners to the Highlands where the laird of Blair died very soon after. He had married Lady Margaret Hamilton, fourth daughter of William second duke of Hamilton, and was succeded by his son,^S2

William Blair of Blair,…(p. 320)^S2

1.   The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (TM) July 1996 (c), data as of 2 January 1996 (2).
2. ↑ Anderson, William. The Scottish nation, or, The surnames, families, literature, honours, and biographical history of the people of Scotland. (Edinburgh: A. Fullarton, 1867-1868)
   Vol. 1 (ABE-CUR), Page 319, 1867.
3.   Robertson, George. A genealogical account of the principal families in Ayrshire. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1961, 1984)
   Page 87.

   XIII. Bryce Blair of that Ilk, succeeded his father, and on the 10th of April 1610 was retoured his heir on the whole lands and Barony of Blair; long, before which time he had been married to Annabell Wallace, but of what family is not mentioned.
   By this lady he had two sons;
   1. Bryce;
   2. John, both afterwards lairds of Blair;
   
   and five daughters:
   
   1. Margaret, who in 1613 married Archibald Stewart of Blackhall. Her father Bryce, and his brother german Alexander Cochrane of that Ilk, bind themselves for the tocher which is L5000 Scots.
   2. Isabell, married in 1619 to James Chalmers of Gadgirth, as appears in the history of that family, in Nisbet, Vol. II. Her tocher 800 merks.
   3. Anne, married Robert Boyd of Pitcon in 1633.
   4. Janet, married in 1636, Ninian Stewart of Ascog; her tocher L2000 Scots.
   5. Agnes, married in 1640, William Shaw, Provost of Newton, with the special consent of Annabella Wallace widow of the Umquhile Bryce Blair. Her tocher 4000 merks; whilst Mr. Shaw contracted for 16,000.
   Bryce Blair died on the 4th Feb. 1639, and was succeeded by his eldest son, XIV. Sir Bryce Blair of that Ilk…