Person:Margaret Ritchie (28)

Margaret Hamilton Ritchie was daughter of James Ritchie and Katherine Kerr (b. 1745 Govan, Lanarkshire) (williamdavidson website).

From "Old country houses of the old Glasgow gentry": James Ritchie of Craigton was born in 1722. He was one of "the four young men" who made the Virginia trade which made Glasgow, and he became one of the largest and most successful of the Tobacco Lords. He was also one of the founders of the Thistle Bank, which began in 1761 under the name of "Sir Walter Maxwell of Pollok, Bart.; James Ritchie & Co." He inherited Craigton, and in 1763 bought the estate of Busbie in Ayrshire. His town residence was the house in Queen Street which was afterwards possessed by Kirkman Finlay : the National Bank stands on its site. He married firstly, Frances, sister of Hugh, 12th Earl of Eglinton, by whom he had two sons and one daughter, who have left no descendants. He married secondly, Katharine, daughter of Robert Kerr of Newfield, of the Lothian family, and had issue, 1. Henry, his successor. 2. Eleanora, died unmarried. 3. Frances, who married Hugh Wallace, and had issue 4. Katherine, died unmarried. 5. Jane Douglas, married Dr. Donaldson of Ayr. 6. Mary, married Alexander West Hamilton. 7. Margaret Hamilton, married William Stirling of Cordale, Dumbartonshire 8. Charlotte, died unmarried. He had also four sons who died young. The three unmarried Miss Ritchies years at the picturesque old house of Barncluth near Hamilton, and died there. James Ritchie died in 1799.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Information from William Davidson website.
2.   International Genealogical Index. ( The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint, 1999-2008).
3.   Old country houses of the old Glasgow gentry.