Person:William Dennistoun (3)

William DENNISTOUN was b. 1jan1800 at Glasgow (IGI) and d. unmarried (Genealogical and heraldec dictionary of the landed gentry, 1862). In 1841 William Denniston (1801, Lanarks., WI mercht) was at Kelvin Grove Hse, Barony; the next house was Claremont, where John Black had lived (census). Scottish archives have the will of William Dennistoun, Glasgow mercht, reg 1851 (scotlandspeople).

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.

1.   International Genealogical Index. ( The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint, 1999-2008)
   Batch #: C119741, Sheet #: 00, Source Call #: 1042936, 0102914, Printout Call #: 6902909, D.
2.   International Genealogical Index. ( The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint, 1999-2008)
   Batch #: C119741, Sheet #: 00, Source Call #: 0102916, 0102915, Printout Call #: NONE, Date.