Grizel Peadie

GRIZELL PEADIE (aka GRISSELL PEADIE or GRIZEL PEADY)

Grizel Peadie (aka Grissel Peadie) is the daughter of Provost James Peadie of Ruchill and his wife Margaret Govan. The Early Records of an Old Glasgow Family She was born before 7 July 1709, the date upon which her baptism was registered at Glasgow in Lanarkshire, Scotland. Scottish Baptisms

PEADY
GRISSEL JAMES PEADY/MARGARET GOVANE F
07/07/1709 644/1 90 64 Glasgow

Marriage

Grizel Peadie married Sir William Maxwell of Calderwood, Baronet. National Records of Scotland, Easter Mugdock title deeds, Strathblane parish, Stirlingshire, reference GD1/28/17

Children

1. Sir William Maxwell of Calderwood, Baronet

Evidence Published by the National Records of Scotland

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15 December 1740: Precept of Clare Constat by James Williamson, portioner of Mugdock, in favour of Margaret Peadie, wife of William Colquhoun of Garscadden, Grizell Peadie, Mary Peadie, wife of John Coulter, merchant and late provost of Glasgow, Agnes Peadie and Janet Peadie, as nearest lawful heirs portioners of James Peadie of Ruchhill, their nephew, and ordering sasine to be given to them of an annual rent of £6 sterling mentioned in GD1/28/11 and also of the said lands in security of said annual rent National Records of Scotland, Easter Mugdock title deeds, Strathblane parish, Stirlingshire, reference GD1/28/15

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5 November 1743: Extract Registered Heritable Bond of Corroboration by James Williamson, portioner of Mugdock corroborating GD1/28/11,13,15&16, and said James Williamson also binds himself to repay £183 to said Margaret, Grizell (now spouse of William Maxwell, younger of Calderwood), Mary, Agnes and Janet Peadie, and in security dispones to them a half pro indiviso of the 5 merkland of Wester Glenboig, in parish of Killern, dukedom of Lennox and shire of Stirling. Registered Books of Council & Session 30 Mar. 1745 National Records of Scotland, Easter Mugdock title deeds, Strathblane parish, Stirlingshire, reference GD1/28/17

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25 August 1749: Inventory of writs of lands of Ruchhill, Garroch, mill and mill-lands thereof in Barony, regality and parish of Glasgow, one fifth of said lands having been disponed by Grizall Peadie, daughter of deceased James Peadie of Ruchhill, late Provost of Glasgow, and spouse of William Maxwell, younger of Calderwood, in favour of Thomas Dunmoor, merchant in Glasgow. Inventory lists 17 writs dating 20 September 1670 to 2 and 17 February 1743. National Records of Scotland, Titles of lands of Gartnavel and Balgray, Govan parish, Glasgow, reference GD1/23/5

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19 February 1755: Extract Decreet in action at the instance of Margaret, Grizell, Mary, Agnes and Janet Peadie, daughters of deceased Provost James Peadie of Ruchill and aunts of the also deceased James Peadie, last of Ruchill, and William Colquhoun of Garscadden, husband of said Margaret, Sir William Maxwell of Calderwood, bart., husband of said Grizell, and James Coulter, merchant in Glasgow, husband of said Janet against John Williamson, eldest son and heir of deceased James Williamson, portioner of Mugdock, ordaining him to make payment of the sum of £183 in foregoing Bond, GD1/28/17 National Records of Scotland, Easter Mugdock title deeds, Strathblane parish, Stirlingshire, reference GD1/28/20

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28 April 1767: Disposition and Assignation by said William Colquhoun of Garscadden, and Grizel Peadie, with consent of Sir William Maxwell of Calderwood, bart., her husband, Mary and Agnes Peadie and Janet Peadie, with consent of James Coulter, merchant in Glasgow, her husband, in favour of William McCalla in Middle Mugdock, of lands in GD1/28/29 National Records of Scotland, Easter Mugdock title deeds, Strathblane parish, Stirlingshire, reference GD1/28/30

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1768-69: Assignation by said William Colquhoun and Grizel, Mary, Agnes and Janet Peadie with consent of their said husbands, to William McCalla in Middle Mugdock, of the balance of debt contained in Decreet of Adjudication, dated 23 July 1755, at the instance of said Grizel, Mary, Agnes, Janet and the now deceased Margaret Peadie against John Williamson, eldest son of deceased James Williamson, portioner of Mugdock, adjudging from said John Williamson the lands in GD1/28/29 National Records of Scotland, Easter Mugdock title deeds, Strathblane parish, Stirlingshire, reference GD1/28/31

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13-22 October 1776: Charter of Adjudication by Mr. John Erskine of Carnock, advocate, David Graeme of Orchill, Mr. James Graeme, advocate, one of the commissaries of Edinburgh, and John Graham of Dougalston, commissioners of William, Duke of Montrose, to William Colquhoun of Garscadden, eldest son and heir served to deceased Margaret Peadie, wife of deceased William Colquhoun of Garscadden, and eldest daughter of deceased Provost James Peadie of Ruchill, and to Grizel, Mary, Agnes and Jannet Peadie, also daughters of said James Peadie, and aunts of the deceased James Peadie, last of Ruchill, of the fourth part of the town and lands of Middletown of Easter Mugdock sometime possessed by James Graham, being the twelfth part of the three towns of Easter Mugdock, with the commonty of moss, moor and pasturage effeiring to said lands, reserving to said Duke, all coal and limestone within said lands National Records of Scotland, Easter Mugdock title deeds, Strathblane parish, Stirlingshire, reference GD1/28/29

Evidence from the Records of the Burgh of Glasgow

5 October 1741: The magistrates and town council have suscrived a precept of clare constat for infefting of Margaretr, Grizell, Mary, Agnes and Janet Peadies, daughters and only children procreat betwixt the deceast James Peadie of Ruchill, late provost, and unquhill Margarett Govan, spouses, one of the two daughters of the deceast John Govan of Hoganfield for the one half, and James Hamilton, eldest lawful son to the deceast James Hamilton of Aikenhead and the deceast Mary Govan, his spouse, the other two daughters of the said deceast John Govan, their grandfather, on the mother's side, in the lands of Hoganfield, lying within the lordship of Provan, holding feu of the town, for the yearly payment of the feu farm and other duties used and wont, . . . . . for which they have payed to William Weir, collector of the feu duties of the Provan , the double of the said feu duty. Glasgow Records VI: p. 100

Secondary Source Evidence

Extracts from the Records of the Burgh of Glasgow etc. Vol. VI. A.D. 1739-59. Edited by Robert Renwick, Depute Town-Clerk (Scottish Burgh Records Society, Glasgow, MCMXI.), 635 pp. including index

Genealogy

The Early Records of an Old Glasgow Family