Person:John Buntine (2)

John Buntien, 2nd 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

II. John Buntien 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 crossing 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.^S3

He had by his first lady (ie. Ann Sempill) –^S3

1. William, the young Laird, of whom presently.^S3

2. Henwys (ie. Hewissa) Buntine, married to the Laird of Darleith.^S3

He had by his second spouse (ie. Margaret Buntine of Kirktoun)^S3

3. A daughter, married to Bonhill, and mother of Sir James Smollet of Bonhill.^S3, ^S4

4. Another daughter, married Bailie Lindsay of Dumbarton.^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.

   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 Buntine, married to the Laird of Darleith.

2.   Hamilton (Commissariot); Campsie (Commissariot); and Francis J. (Francis James) Grant. The commissariot record of Hamilton and Campsie. Register of testaments, 1564-1800. (Nendeln, Liechtenstein: Kraus Reprint, 1968)
   Page 67, 11 Nov 1617.

   SEMPLE (SYMPILL)
   Jeanie, spouse to John Bunteine, of Ardoche, par. of Cardross - 11 Nov 1617.

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

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)
   Pages 175 to 208.

   Family of Smollett of Bonhill