Person:Richard Dennistoun (1)

Richard DENNISTOUN was b. 7mar1797 and married Frances Elizabeth SATTERTHWAITE 21mar1839; he lived nr Kelso (Genealogical and heraldic dictionary of landed gentry, 1862). Frances was chr 13aug1812 at Birkenhead, daughter of Thomas Satterthwaite and Lucy Rishton (IGI). Frances, who married Richard Dennistoun, was youngest daughter of Thomas Rishton Satterthwaite of Lancaster (web). In 1851 Richard Dennistoun (1797 Glasgow, gentleman), wife Frances E. (1813 Manchester) and 2 sons were at Pinnacle Hill, Kelso, Roxburghs. (census).

From “Minute Book of the Board of Green cloth” (1891) by Colin Dunlop Donald (1848-1895): RICHARD DENNISTOUN. Richard Dennistoun of Kelvingrove, merchant, Glasgow, and a partner in the West India firm of G. & R. Dennistoun & Co. He was the fourth son of James Dennistoun, fourteenth of Colgrain, and married Christian, daughter of James Alston of Westertoun, Dumbartonshire. By her he had several sons, all once well known in Glasgow. The last survivor was Richard Dennistoun, who lived at Row, and employed his energies in collecting Menus, surely the most bizarre and barmicide proceeding ever heard of. There was also William, a popular and eccentric man, known as “Lord William”, not because of any special distinction of appearance, but because he had an elder brother James, nicknamed “The Count.