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James Smollet
b.abt 1528
d.abt 1541
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Name James Smollet
Gender Male
Birth? abt 1528
Marriage bef 1587 to Elizabeth Semple, of Fulwood
Marriage to Margaret Montgomery
Death? abt 1541

James Smollett

  • Irving, Joseph. The Book of Dumbartonshire: A History of the County Burghs, Parishes, and Lands, Memoirs of... (Dumbartonshire,: W. and A. K. Johnston, 1879), Vol. 2, Page 177.S1
III. James Smollett, designated of Over-Kirkton. He was infeft on a precept of clare-constat in 1570, and in 1577 was entered as heir of his father and mother to certain burgage tenements in Dumbarton in which burgh he was repeatedly a bailie between 1561 and 1592.S1
He married Margaret Montgomery, and by her had –S1
1. Tobias, who succeeded.S1
2. Margaret, married to James Bontine of Succoth.S1
James Smollett married secondly Elizabeth, daughter of James Sempill of Fulwood, whose second husband was James Hall, brother of Hall of Fulbar. She was infeft in a liferent of the lands of Clerkhill. By her marriage with James Smollett she appears to have hadS1
(ie. 3.) one daughter. (ie. Elizabeth)S1
(ie. 4.) James had also a natural son John.S1
References
  1.   Irving, Joseph. The Book of Dumbartonshire: A History of the County Burghs, Parishes, and Lands, Memoirs of... (Dumbartonshire,: W. and A. K. Johnston, 1879)
    Vol. 2, Pages 175 to 208.

    Family of Smollett of Bonhill