IX. Robert Denzelstoun of Colgrain, who, in 1536, gave in wadset to Sir James Denzelstoun, chaplain, " four acres of land of the chapelle of St. Blane," in the lordship of Colgrain. He was infeft in Colgrain, etc., as heir of his grandfather, Robert Denzelstoun of Colgrain, 30th November, 1543. He was associated with William, fourth Earl of Glencairn, in his machinations and correspondence with Henry VIII. of England, and had a remission under the Great Seal in his favour, 2 1st August, 1546, for all treasons and crimes committed along with the Earl. His attention was soon after directed to protect his estates from the lawless inroads of his Highland neighbours, and in 1549, he had a commission from the tenants and occupiers of his lands to recover the goods spuilzied from them by John Colquhoun of Luss, Duncan Macfarlane of Arrochar, and others. He seems to have abandoned his own property, and fixed his residence at South Kipperminshock, which belonged to his son-in-law, John Wood of Geilston, and which he possessed as kindly tenant. Accordingly he disponed Meikle Camis-Eskan in favour of John Wood and Margaret Denzelstoun, nth July, 1550, redeemable by him upon resigning to them South Kipperminshock, or paying them 300 merks. We also find a conveyance, in 1562, by his son and successor, Robert Denzelstoun of Colgrain, to his mother, Katherine Sempill, in her widowhood, of North Kipperminshock, in liferent, in exchange for South Kipperminshock, "quhare his fader dwelt and deit"— because South Kipperminshock was better bigget, and had better yarding to dwell in, nor was North Kipperminshock." It may appear a strange taste which would prefer Kipperminshock as a residence to Camis-Eskan ; but whatever the motive might have been, the arrangement does not appear to have continued beyond a few years. Nisbet says, that this Robert Denzelstoun of Colgrain married Marion, daughter of Sir William Edmonstone of Duntreath, widow of David Sempill of Noblestoun; but as it appears from the above document that the mother of his heir was Katherine Sempill, and as Nisbet elsewhere assigns this Marion as spouse of Sempill of Noblestoun, she seems to have been mother of the Lady Colgrain.
Robert Denzelstoun died after 1557, leaving issue
1. Robert, who succeeded him.
2. John, whose posterity carried on the male line of the family.
3. Patrick, of whom we have found several notices as a witness in the Burgh Records of Dunbarton, between 1558 and 1577. He and his wife, Margaret Gibson, had sasine of certain subjects in the burgh, 1584, and in 1586, they were infeft in a victual annualrent out of Cameron, by Robert Denzelstoun of Colgrain, his brother. Their son Robert was seized in certain tenements in Dunbarton, nth December, 1607. They had another son, William, a mariner, who was infeft in a house in Dunbarton, 16 13. Margaret Gibson
afterwards married Robert Campbell.
1. Margaret, who married John Wood of Geilston, having a dispensation for marrying within the prohibited degrees (fourth degree), 17th January, 1546. She survived him without issue, and was infeft on a precept from Sir James Stirling of Keir, in the liferent
of Kirkmichael-Stirling, and Blairnairne, 8th March, 1582.
2. Catherine, married to Dugald, second son of Archibald Campbell of Clachan, in Rosneath, who granted a discharge for her tocher to her brother, Robert Denzelstoun of Colgrain, 1566. She married, secondly, John Spreull of Cowden, and in 1599, is a party
with him to the marriage of their daughter Margaret with James Weir.
3. Elizabeth, who married Matthew, son and heir of Bartholomew M'Aulay of Ardoch- Campbell. Her husband granted her a discharge for her tocher, 1576, and in the following year they were conjunctly infeft in the lands of Stuckleckie.
