Sir Francis Kinloch, 3rd Baronet

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SIR FRANCIS KINLOCH OF GILERTON Baronet

Evidence from the National Records of Scotland

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3 March 1680: Signature of the lands of Gilmerton etc granted to Francis Kinloch. National Records of Scotland, Register of Signatures, boxed series, reference SIG1/93/42

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10 July 1691: Signature of the lands of Dunse granted to Sir Francis Kinloch and Francis Kinloch. National Records of Scotland, Register of Signatures, boxed series, reference SIG1/94/8

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1 March 1695: Signature of the lands of Bonningtoun granted to Sir Francis Kinloch. National Records of Scotland, Register of Signatures, boxed series, reference SIG1/94/14

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10 December 1699: Extract general retour in favour of Sir Francis Kinloch of Gilmertoun, Magdalen Kinloch, relict of Sir James Rocheid of Inverleith, James Kinloch of Stonieflett and Francis, James, Elizabeth, Magdalen, Agnes and Helen, children of Sir James Fleeming of Rathabyres, as heirs-portioners to Margaret Marjoribanks, daughter of deceased Mr Andrew Marjoribanks, merchant in Edinburgh. National Records of Scotland, Papers of the Earls of Glasgow (Crawford Priory), reference GD20/1/821

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20 March 1706: Signature of the lands of Athelstonfoord etc granted to Sir Francis Kinloch. National Records of Scotland, Register of Signatures, boxed series, reference SIG1/94/43

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12 February 1719: Signature of the lands of Pitcruvie etc granted to Robert Cleland (Clelland) and Sir Francis Kinloch. National Records of Scotland, Register of Signatures, boxed series, reference SIG1/94/61

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12 February 1740: Signature of the lands of Markle granted to Francis Kinloch. National Records of Scotland, Register of Signatures, boxed series, reference SIG1/95/10

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22 Jube 1725: Charter of Adjudication under the great seal of George I, with consent of the Barons of Exchequer, granting to William Miller, W.S., trustee for Mr. Mathew Crawfurd, professor of Ecclesiastical History in the University of Edinburgh, John Cathcart, lawful eldest son of the late Andrew Cathcart, merchant in Glasgow, Mrs. Janet Robertson, only lawful daughter of the deceased Mr. James Robertson, one of the principal clerks of Session, with consent of Mr. Ralph Dundas of Mainor and Mr. William Robertson, W.S., her tutors and curators, John, Mary and Jean, children of the late Mathew Campbell, merchant in Edinburgh, Magdalen Kinloch, his relict, their mother, and Sir Francis Kinloch of Gilmertoun Baronet and Mr. James Hume of Eccles, advocate, their tutors and curators, Thomas Baillie of Polkemmet, John Blair, merchant in Edinburgh, Archibald Blair, son of the late Mr. David Blair, minister in Edinburgh, with consent of his mother and curator, Euphan Nisbet, relict of the said Mr. David, John Hairdin, writer in Edinburgh, George Broun, merchant there, Nichol Spence, writer there, the Incorporation of St. Mary's Hospital in Edinburgh, James Gordon of Ellon, merchant in Edinburgh, Janet Broun, relict of Robert Key, mariner in Leith, and Barbara Key, lawful daughter of the deceased Charles Key, late minister in South Leith, and wife of Alexander Laing of Yeardheads of Leith, with consent of her husband, all creditors of Sir John Houston of that Ilk or Sir John Houston of that Ilk, his father, both deceased, one-half of the town and lands of Wester Whitburn, with mill, mill-lands etc., extending to a 50 shilling land, one-half of the lands and barony of Easter Whiteburne and one-half of the lands of Litle Blackburn, lying within the parish of Livingstoun and sheriffdom of Linlithgow, the advocation and right of patronage of the parish church and parish of Houstoun in the sheriffdom of Renfrew with teinds etc., and the lands of Hairscraigs and Foadstoune, otherwise called Grieffcastle and Montfode, lying in the parishes of Killelland and Innerkip and sheriffdom foresaid: which lands and others pertained heritably to the said deceased Sir John Houstoun, elder and younger, and were adjudged from Sir John Houstoun of that Ilk, lawful eldest son of the said deceased Sir John Houstoun yr. (who on being lawfully charged to enter heir to them renounced his right) at the instance of the said William Miller as trustee foresaid in payment and satisfaction of the debts, amounting to £24492 Scots at the date of the decree, specified in a decreet of adjudication (dated 17 June 1724) pronounced by the Lords of Council and Session; redeemable in terms of act of Parliament anent adjudications: To be held de nobis for payment of the customary duties: with precept of sasine. Witnesses, Alexander, Earl of Marchmont, Clerk Register, Adam Cockburn of Ormistoun, Clerk of Justiciary and Mr. Robert Ker, Director of Chancery. National Records of Scotland, Sir William Fraser Charters, reference GD86/867

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7 October 1725: Copy of contract of marriage between Mr Alexander Hamilton of Dechmont WS, only surviving son of Mr James Hamilton, SCJ, and Mary Kinloch, eldest daughter of Sir Francis Kinloch of Gilmerton. National Records of Scotland, Papers of the Brooke Family of Biel, reference GD6/2234

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16 August 1728: Extract disposition by Magdalen, Agnes and Helen Fleiming, daughters of Sir James Fleiming of Rathobyres, with consent of their respective husbands, Andrew Hay, merchant and provost of Kirkcaldy, William Robertson, merchant in Edinburgh, and Gabriel Little of Littletoun, to Sir Francis Kinloch of Libertoun, bt, of a bond by deceased John, Earl of Craufurd and deceased William, Lord Lindsay to Thomas Craufurd, merchant in Edinburgh, dated 22 December 1673 and now constituted a debt upon the estate of the said earl. Registered B of C and S, 13 December 1752. (With extract disposition and assignation to David Kinloch, second son of said Sir Francis, dated 12 January and registered B of C and S, 17 July 1747). National Records of Scotland, Papers of the Earls of Glasgow (Crawford Priory), reference GD20/1/827

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26 July 1737: Signature of the lands of Darnchester etc granted to Col James Cathcart, Sir James Dalrymple, Mary Rochead, wife of Sir Francis Kinloch and Elizabeth Rochead (Rocheid, Rochhead). National Records of Scotland, Register of Signatures, boxed series, reference SIG1/45/7

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23 January 1747: Assignation by Magdalen Kinloch, daughter of Sir Francis Kinloch of Gilmertoun [Gilmerton], with consent of John Wilkie of Foulden, her husband, to James Wilkie, their son, of the sum of £500 sterling, contained in bond by David Kinloch, younger, of Gilmertoun to the said Magdalen Kinloch, dated 15 January, 1747. National Records of Scotland, Wilkie of Foulden Writs, reference GD59/150

Biography of Sir Francis Kinloch Published on Wikipedia

Sir Francis Kinloch of Gilmerton, 3rd Baronet (23 June 1676 – 2 March 1747) is a scion of a noble family whose ancestry is displayed in The Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal. Their seat was the very splendid and still extant Gilmerton House, about a mile east-north-east of Athelstaneford, East Lothian, although the 4th baronet lived all his adult life in Switzerland.

The son and heir of Sir Francis Kinloch, 2nd Baronet, of Gilmerton, by his spouse Mary, daughter of David Leslie, 1st Lord Newark, he succeeded his father on or about 8 September 1699, and married circa 1705, Mary (d. 2 April 1749, Gilmerton House, East Lothian), daughter and co-heiress of Sir James Rocheid, Baronet, of Inverleith (d. after 1704). They had issue: three sons and three daughters.

1. Sir James Kinloch, 4th Bt., of Gilmerton (1705–1778).
2. Sir David Kinloch, 5th Baronet, of Gilmerton (1710–1795), who had issue.
3. Alexander Kinloch, later Alexander Rocheid of Inverleith (d. 1755).
4. Janet, who married Charles Broun, Advocate.
5. Mary, who married Alexander Hamilton of Beil, near Stenton, East Lothian.
6. Magdalen, who married in 1745 John Wilkie of Foulden, Berwickshire.

Sources

1. The Scottish Nation, by William Anderson, Edinburgh, 1867, volume VI, p. 608.
2. The Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal - The Anne of Exeter Volume, by the Marquis of Ruvigny & Raineval, London, 1907, table LVI.
3. Index to Genealogies, Birthbriefs, and Funeral Escutcheons, recorded in the Lyon Office, by Francis J. Grant, W.S., Lyon Clerk and Keeper of the Records, Edinburgh, 1908, p. 46.
4. The Buildings of Scotland - Lothian (except Edinburgh), by Colin McWilliam, London, 1978, pps: 215-7, ISBN 0-14-071066-3

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