Person:James Hall (167)

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.

Elizabeth Semple of Fulwood

• 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.^S4

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.^S4

He married Margaret Montgomery, and by her had –^S4

1. Tobias, who succeeded.^S4

2. Margaret, married to James Bontine of Succoth.^S4

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 had^S4

(ie. 3.) one daughter. (ie. Elizabeth)^S1

(ie. 4.) James had also a natural son John.^S4

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.   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.