Person:Robyne Hall (1)

Robyn Hall, of Fulbar

• Maclean, Magnus (editor), and British Association for the Advancement of Science. Archæology, education, medical, & charitable institutions of Glasgow. (Glasgow, Scotland: The Local Committee For The Meeting Of The British Association, 1901), Page 27.^S4

Provost Stewart died before 25th June, 1485, leaving as his heiress a daughter, Jonet Stewart, wife of Robyn Hall, of Fulbar. These spouses, on the date just mentioned, made an indenture with the prior and convent similar to that which the provost entered into. The same allowance of ale was provided, “with brede and chese to the collacioune.” Succeeding Halls of Fulbar were owners of a tower and fortalice, with “great orchard, hedges, trees, and other pertinents,” situated at the head and on the west side of Stockwell Street.^S4

• The Maitland Club, and Joseph Robertson. Book of the College of Our Lady: Register Church B.V. Mary and St. Anne within the walls of the City of Glasgow, in 1549. Add the defenses of the Friars Preachers, the Dominican House of Glasgow in Glasgow charter survived 1244-1559. (Glasgow, Scotland: Glasgow, 1846), Pages 195, 196.(Latin)^S5

48. Indenture between Robin of Hall of the Fulbar and his wife Janet Stewart and heir of John Stewart once provost of Glasgow and Adam Hall son and heir of said spouses on one part and the Black Friars of Glasgow on the other part whereby Fulbar grants to the friars an annual rent of 20 shillings and 4 pence out of his land and tenement with pertinent and an annual rent of 10 shillings out of a tenement on the High Street and an annual rent of 10 shillings out of the lands of James Witherspoons and an other annual rent of 3 shillings out of Murehouse lands of the Mylhill.^S5

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Hall Family, of Fulbar

• Burke, John, and Sir John Bernard Burke. A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland. (London, England: Various publishers, 1849-1863), Vol. 2, MAX – p. 996, 1863.^S1

In 1370, the grantor is Robert II, and in that century there appear Thomas, John and Robert de Aula.^S1

In the fifteenth century, the charters are granted by the crown to Thomas de Hall, Adam de Hall, &c.^S1

In the sixteenth century, the surname becomes simply Hall.^S1

The lands of Fulbar, co. Renfrew, were given by the charter of King Robert II, 1370, to Thomas de Aula, and continued with his direct descendants for many centuries.^S1

The senior line became extinct, temp. Queen Mary, in the person of William Hall, of Fulbar, who d. s. p. circa 1550, when his estate devolved on his cousin, Adam Hall, of Falquinhill, the son of Adam Hall, and the grandson of another Adam Hall, who fell at Flodden, in 1513.^S1

The Hall Family of Fulbar, in succession:^S1

1. Adam Hall, of Falquinhill, who thus succeeded to Fulbar, married Jean, daughter of John Wallace, of Cairnhill, co. Ayr, and was father by her of^S1

2. William Hall, of Fulbar, who married Elizabeth Semphill, of Fulwood, and was succeeded by his son,^S1

3. Robert Hall, of Fulbar, who married Grizel Hamilton, of Torrance, and was father of^S1

4. Robert Hall, of Fulbar, who died in 1692, and was succeeded by his son^S1

5. Robert Hall, of Fulbar, who married Margaret Maxwell, daughter of John Maxwell, of Dargavel, co. Renfrew, by his wife Margaret Campbell, daughter of John Campbell of Succouth, by his wife Agnes Stirling, and had issue:^S1

i. Robert, minister of Kilmarnock, who d. s. p.^S1

ii. John, his heir.^S1

iii. Jean.^S1

The younger son,^S1

6. John Hall, Esq., who succeeded to the estate of Dargavel, took the name and designation of MAXWELL, of Dargavel. He married Janet, daughter of William Anderson, merchant in Glasgow, and left at his decease, surviving issue,

i. Margaret Maxwell, married to Lawrence Craigie, of Glasgow, merchant.^S1

ii. John Maxwell Esq., his heir.^S1

7. John Maxwell, Esq. of Dargavel, who married Frances, daughter of John Buchanan, of Ardoch, and had issue^S1

i. John, of Dargavel, who d. s. p.^S1

ii. William, who succeeded.^S1

8. William Maxwell, Esq. of Dargavel, m. Mary, eldest daughter of John Campbell, of Possil, and had issue,^S1

i. John-Hall, now of Dargavel^S1

ii. William-Craig, capt. In the army. Deceased.^S1

iii. Alexander, col. In the army, C.B.^S1

iv. Francis, merchant in Glasgow, married and has issue.^S1

v. Colin, capt. In the army, deceased.^S1

vi. James, deceased.^S1

vii. Thomas, Indian medical service, married and has issue.^S1

viii. Robert, capt. In the army.^S1

ix. Patrick, capt. In the army, married and has issue.^S1

• Crawfurd, George, and George Robertson. A General Description Of The Shire of Renfrew: (Paisley: Printed by J. Neilson, sold by H. Crichton, 1818), Pages 392 to 394.^S2

John de Aula

Robert de Aula obtained a charter from Robert III. 26th May 1395, of the lands near Renfrew, on the resignation of John de Aula, his brother.

Thomas de Hall

Adam de Hall, son of Thomas de Hall, infeft in lands and houses in and near Renfrew 26th September 1465.

Robyne of the Hall of the Fulbar, married to Janet Stewart, heiress of John Stewart, provost of Glasgow. They, with the consent of Adam, their eldest son, mortified to the predicant Friars of Glasgow, 24th June 1485, forty shillings and four pennies, out of houses in Walker’s-gate of Glasgow, and lands near Glasgow.

Adam, his son, married Elizabeth Ralston. He was killed at Flowdon.

Robert, his son, died before his father. He married Janet Langmuir.

Arthur, son of Robert, was infeft in the lands of Fulbar on a crown charter in January 1513. He had two daughters and a son.

William, who being unmarried, had settled, redeemable only by his heirs male, his lands on Adam Hall of Falquinhill, his cousin and heir male of the family. And on the 21st March 1566, he granted him, under reservation of liferent, a charter of the lands of Fulbar, which charter was confirmed by Queen Mary, 23rd March 1567. Adam married Janet Wallace, daughter of Cairnhill, and was succeeded by his eldest surviving son,

Adam, who married Elizabeth Forrest, daughter of John Forrest of Magdalanes, provost of Linlithgow. His eldest son, Arthur married Elizabeth Brisbane of Bishopton, and predeceased his father without children.

{ie. Note - At this point in the narrative it becomes disambiguous whether James is the son of Adam Hall who married Elizabeth Forrest, or Adam Hall of Falquinhill by his wife Jean Wallace. I have chosen for the sake of consistancy to separate from Crawford and go with Burke}^S3

James, the second son of Adam (ie. of Falquinhill), having only one daughter, conveyed the patrimonial inheritance of the family to his brother, William Hall of Kipperminshock, provost of Dumbarton, who married Elizabeth Semple of Fulwood, and left a son Robert, who married Grizel Hamilton of Torrance, who was succeeded by his son Robert, and he by another Robert, who married Margaret Maxwell, daughter of Maxwell of Dargavel, by whom he had two sons, Robert and John. And a daughter, Jean. Robert was minister of Kilmarnock, and died without children. John, the second son, succeeded to the estate of Dargavel, in right of his mother, and took the name and designation of Maxwell of Dargavel.

The lands of Fulbar were sold about the year 1746, and now belong to Mr. Speirs. The property near Renfrew was sold about the year 1786.

John Maxwell of Dargavel entailed the estate of Dargavel, and, dying without issue, was succeeded by his brother, William Maxwell of Freeland, who dying unmarried, the estate came by the destination in the entrail to John Hall, second son of Robert Hall of Fulbar, and Margaret Maxwell, his spouse, sister of the entailer, which John Hall, in terms of the entail, took the name and designation of Maxwell of Dargavel. He married Janet Anderson, daughter of William Anderson, merchant in Glasgow, by whom he had several children, who all, except John and Margaret, died in infancy. Margaret married Lawrence Graigie, merchant in Glasgow, and has three sons, Lawrence, John, and Peter, and a daughter Janet. John, who succeeded his father, married Frances Buchanan, daughter of John Buchanan of Ardoch, by whom he had three sons, 1. John, the present proprietor of Dargavel; 2. William, married to Mary, eldest daughter of John Campbell, sen. Esq; merchant in Glasgow, by whom he has four sons, John Hall, William Craig, Alexander, and Francis; and two daughters, Marion and Frances, who died unmarried.

1.   Burke, John, and Sir John Bernard Burke. A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland. (London, England: Various publishers, 1849-1863)
   Vol. 2, MAX – p. 996.
2.   Crawfurd, George, and George Robertson. A General Description Of The Shire of Renfrew, : Including An Account Of The Noble and Ancient Families, Who, From The Earliest Times, Have Had Property In That County, And The Remarkable Facts In The Lives Of Distinguished Individuals. To Which Added, A Genealogical History Of The Royal House Of Stewart, And Of The Several Noble and Illustrious Families Of That Name, From The Year 1034, To The Year 1710; Collected From Public Records, Chartularies of Monasteries, And The Rent Historians and Private Manuscripts. . (Paisley: Printed by J. Neilson, sold by H. Crichton, 1818)
   Pages 392 to 394.
3.   Patrick Hogue (Samples). The Samples / Semples Family.
   
4.   Maclean, Magnus (editor), and British Association for the Advancement of Science. Archæology, education, medical, & charitable institutions of Glasgow. (Glasgow, Scotland: The Local Committee For The Meeting Of The British Association, 1901).
5.   The Maitland Club, and Joseph Robertson. Book of the College of Our Lady: Register Church B.V. Mary and St. Anne within the walls of the City of Glasgow, in 1549. Add the defenses of the Friars Preachers, the Dominican House of Glasgow in Glasgow charter survived 1244-1559. (Glasgow, Scotland: Glasgow, 1846)
   Pages 195, 196.