Person:John Buntine (1)

John Buntine 1st Laird of Ardoch, Dumbartonshire

• Paterson, James. History of the county of Ayr: with a genealogical account of the families of Ayrshire. (Ayr, Scotland: J. Dick, 1847-1852), Vol. 1, Pages 293 to 295.^S3

The family of Buntine of Airdoch, Dumbartonshire, was very ancient, and of high blood. One Finlay Bunting obtained a charter of the lands of Mylnelame, and of six merk land of the barony of Cardross, from King Robert III., whose reign was from 1390 to 1406. Sir Finlaw Buntyn was one of the arbiters, on the side of Renfrew, of the indenture between the burghs of Dumbarton and Renfrew, as to the determination of disputes between the said burghs, in 1424, in the Kirk of St. Patrick. The first from whom we may number the successive and regular series of the lairds, viz.,^S3

I. John Buntine of Airdoch, parish of Cardross, Dumbartonshire, lived about 1550, or thereby. He married Henwis Knox, daughter of the Laird of Ranfurlie, in the parish of Killbarchan, in Renfrewshire. This Ranfurlie was the brother or nephew of John Knox, the Reformer. They had a son:^S3

II. John Buntien of Airdoch…^S3

1.   Paterson, James. History of the county of Ayr: with a genealogical account of the families of Ayrshire. (Ayr, Scotland: J. Dick, 1847-1852)
   Vol. 1, Pages 293.

   Buntine-Bars of Trearne.
   The family of Buntine of Airdoch, Dumbartonshire, was very ancient, and of high blood. One Finlay Bunting obtained a charter of the lands of Mylnelame, and of six merk land of the barony of Cardross, from King Robert III., whose reign was from 1390 to 1406. Sir Finlaw Buntyn was one of the arbiters, on the side of Renfrew, of the indenture between the burghs of Dumbarton and Renfrew, as to the determination of disputes between the said burghs, in 1424, in the Kirk of St Patrick. The first from whom we may number the successive and regular series of the lairds, viz.,
   I. John Buntine of Airdoch, parish of Cardross, Dumbartonshire, lived about 1550, or thereby. He married Henwis Knox, daughter of the Larid of Ranfurlie, in the parish of Kilbarchan, in Renfrewshire. This Ranfurlie was the brother or newphew of John Knox, the Reformer. They had a son, viz.,
   II. John Buntine of Airdoch. He was commissioner to the Scots Parliament, for many years for Dumbartonshire. He married Ann Sempill, daughter of the Laird of Fulwood, in Renfrewshire. This Fulwood had a son and nine daughters. There arose from that a local saw – “Fulwood’s hirsel, nine hens and ae cock.” Ann Sempill, Lady Airdoch, in the absence of the Laird, who was attending the Parliament in Edinburgh, was drowned, in the water of Leven, to the kirk, upon the ice. Her son and her brother were walking by her. Airdoch married, secondly, Margaret Buntine, daughter of Kirktoun, and his cousin-german. He had by his first lady:
   1. William, the young Laird, of whom presently.
   2. Henwys (ie. Hewissa) Buntine, married to the Laird of Darleith.
   He had by his second spouse:
   3. A daughter, married to Bonhill, and mother of Sir James Smollet of Bonhill.
   4. Another daughter, married Bailie Lindsay of Dumbarton.

2.   Lodge, John, and Mervyn Archdall. The peerage of Ireland, or, A genealogical history of the present nobility of that kingdom: with engravings of their paternal coats of armes... (Dublin [Ireland]: J. Moore, 1789)
   Vol. 7, Page 196.

   Uchter, the eldest son, married Janet, daughter of William, Lord Semple, by whom he had issue Uchter, his heir, William, progenitor to the Knox's of Silvyland; and two daughters, the elder of whom, Janet, married first Alexander Conyngham of the family of Craigends, and secondly, (John) Porterfield of Porterfield; and the second daughter married John Buntine of Ardoch, an ancient family yet existing in the shire of Dumbarton.

3. ↑ Paterson, James. History of the county of Ayr: with a genealogical account of the families of Ayrshire. (Ayr, Scotland: J. Dick, 1847-1852)
   Vol. 1, Pages 293 to 295.

   Buntine-Barrs of Trearne