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m. 28 Dec 1740
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m. 14 Aug 1773
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Thomas Donald of Geilston was a Glasgow tobacco lord (Old country house of the old Glasgow gentry). The parents of C. D. Donald, Thomas Donald of Geilston and Jeany Dunlop, eldest daughter of Colin Dunlop of Carmyle were married 14 aug 1773 at Glasgow (“Glasgow past and present” by Robert Reid, pub. 1884). From “The Burgesses and guild brethren of Glasgow 1751-1846” (Scottish record society, 1935): reg. 8 sep 1780 - Thomas Donald of Geilston, merchant in Glasgow, as eldest son to dec. James Donald, merchant. There are few families now in existence in Glasgow who are more connected with the Glasgow of olden days than the Donalds. They are descended from James Donald of Geilston, elder brother of Provost Donald of Mountblow. James Donald was born in 1713; he married a daughter of Yuille of Darleith, by whom he had a son, Thomas, who succeeded him. One of his sisters was the ancestress of the family of the Geils of Geilston, and a daughter, Margaret, married in 1777 James Dennistoun of Colgrain, merchant in Glasgow, great-grandfather of James Wallis Dennistoun of Dennistoun. James Donald was a Virginia merchant in Glasgow, and a Bailie in 1749 and 1753. He died in 1760. Thomas Donald of Geilston succeeded his father, and like him was a "Tobacco Lord;" he married Janet, daughter of Provost Colin Dunlop of Carmyle and died in 1798 (“Old country houses of the old Glasgow gentry”). Portraits of James Donald of Geilston (1713.1760), brother of Robert Donald of Mountblow, spouse of - Yuille of Darleith, his son Thomas Donald of Geilston (1745-1798) were lent to Old Glasgow Exhibition 1894 by Colin Dunlop Donald (catalogue). Information from K. Bryant Smith. References
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