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Sir Patrick Maxwell, of Newark
Facts and Events
Sir Patrick Maxwell
- Murray, James. Kilmacolm : a parish history, 1100-1898. (Paisley, Scotland: Alexander Gardner of Paisley (1898); Genealogical Society of Utah (1961)), Pages 228, 229.
- Sir Patrick Maxwell was a restless and quarrelsome as his predecessors. In his time there was a great feud between Lord Maxwell and the Laird of Johnstone. It came to a head in a desperate struggle that took place at Lockerbie in 1593. Sir Patrick, who loved fighting, was in the thick of it, loyally espousing the cause of the head of his family, and narrowly escaped with his life. He had apparently not only family feuds, but also domestic broils, for we find him bitterly quarrelling with his mother. In the Register of the Great Seal there is a notice of Robert Semple of Fulwood in 1595, becoming security for Patrick Maxwell of Newark in the sum of 1000 merks that he will not harm Marion Cunninghame, Lady Newark, his mother. The bond is subscribed also by “Mr. Daniel Cunningham, minister at Kilmacolm.” This is the same old lady, whom we have already seen giving not a little trouble to the Presbytery for her neglect of ordinances in 1603, 1605. Sir Patrick was twice married, first, to Margaret, daughter of Mure of Rowallan, and afterwards to Margaret Crawford of Carse. By his second marriage he had a son, George, who married Helen Maxwell, daughter of Maxwell of Teiling in Angus. On the death of his father-in-law the estate of Teiling fell to him in right of his wife. He predeceased his father, leaving one son Patrick, who immediately succeeded his grandfather.
References
- Murray, James. Kilmacolm : a parish history, 1100-1898. (Paisley, Scotland: Alexander Gardner of Paisley (1898); Genealogical Society of Utah (1961))
Pages 228, 229.
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