John Wallace of Neilstonside

JOHN WALLACE OF NEILSTONSIDE, CESSNOCK AND KELLY

Slave Owner

WALLACE JOHN
THOMAS WALLACE/LILLIAS CUNNINGHAME FR2521 (FR2521) M
25/09/1716 644/1 100 117 Glasgow

Legacies of British Slave-ownership

His Last Will and Testament

John Wallace of Kelly in Renfrewshire. First, payment of just debts. My estates in Jamaica, real as well as personal, and all other estates shall be charged with the payment of my debts. To Lillias Wallace, my eldest daughter, wife of William Hozier of Newlands Esquire, to my second daughter Mary Wallace, widow of Captain Archibald Cunningham, £1,000 sterling together with the £2,000 formerly advanced to Lillias, making in whole the sum of £3,000 sterling provided to them each by my contract of marriage with Mrs Jean Porterfield, their mother. To each of my daughters of my last marriage Anne, Janet, John [Joanna] and Anne Colquhoun Wallace, £2,500 each at age 21. On 02/06/1794, I granted to Robert Wallace and James Maxwell Wallace, my eldest and second sons, and the now deceased William Wallace my son, and to the surviver of them, in trust for behalf of Frances Wallace, now Mrs Murdoch, my eldest daughter by my last marriage, a bond of £2,000 sterling securred upon my lands of Kelly and Finnochbog, so I further bequest to them in trust for Frances Wallace, another £500, and also six shares in the stock of the Company of the Proprietors of the Forth and Clyde Navigation if the same at my death shall not be otherwise disposed of. Upon the marriage of Christian Wallace, my daughter of my last marriage, with Thomas King Esquire, Advocate, I advanced to her and her said husband £2,000 sterling. So I thereby bequeath to her the further sum of £500. Also to Anne Wallace, Christian Wallace (Mrs King), Janet Wallace, John [Joanna] Wallace and Anne Colquhoun Wallace, six shares each, and to Robert Wallace and James Colquhoun Wallace, my sons, 5 shares each, of the stock of the Forth and Clyde Navigation Company. The shares of each daughter to be divided among the others should any of them die. To Lillias Wallace and William Hozier in trust for the benefit of John Wallace Hozier, five shares of the stock of the Forth and Clyde Navigation Company at age 21. To Robert Wallace and James Maxwell Wallace equally, my two-forteenth parts of the stock of the Glasgow partnership of Stirling, Gordon and Company. My son Robert Wallace shall enjoy and succeed to my plantations Glasgow and Cessnock in Westmoreland and Hannover in Jamaica. My son James Maxwell Wallace at age 21 shall enjoy and succeed to my undivided moity of my plantation in St Elizabeth, Jamaica [Biscany]. Signed at Glasgow 18/01/1800.

Codicil dated 01/05/1803

To my son Robert Wallace one half of my plate both in town and country, and the whole household furniture including linen and liquor at Kelly. To James Maxwell Wallace and my daughters Anne, Janet, John and Anne Colquhoun equally the other half of my plate, furniture, linen and liquors including at my office at Madeira Court. My youngest son and each of my unmarried daughters shall be allowed to possess that house and office for ten years after my death, free of rent. To each of my married daughters £200. The interest from the shares in Sterling, Gordon & Company to pay the £1,000 for Lillias Wallace and £3,000 for Mary Wallace previously bequeathed to them, and with the £200 for my other daughters. Robert Wallace is my residuary legatee.

Inventory

Balance of account current and cash with Stirling Gordon & Co. £3,009 Bills £5,190 Bonds £6500 Bank £1541

Wallace John 13/4/1805 residing at Kelly, co Renfrew Last Will; Testament; Codicil; Inventory; Glasgow Sheriff Court Inventories SC36/48/1

Wallace John 28/4/1809 of Kelly Testament Testamentar and Inventory Glasgow Commissary Court CC9/7/80

First Marriage

WALLACE JOHN ANN MURDOCH/ 30/12/1753 644/1 250 145 Glasgow

Second Marriage

WALLACE JOHN JEAN PORTERFEILD/FR1931 (FR1931) 04/04/1756 685/1 480 290 Edinburgh

Third Marriage

WALLACE JOHN JANET COLQUHOUN/FR1623 (FR1623) 08/09/1764 622/ 60 165 Barony

Biographical Summary

John Wallace of Nielstonside, Cessnock, and Kelly. Born, 1712; died, 1805. West India merchant and planter. Second son of Thomas Wallace of Cairnhill, younger brother of John Wallace of Elderslie, whose only child, Helen was heiress of Elderslie. Married, first, Anne, second daughter of Provost John Murdoch, whose child died in infancy, second, Jean Porterfield of Duchal, who bore him five children, one of whom became Mrs. Hozier of Newlands; and third, Janet, daughter of Robert Colquhoun of St. Christophers, by whom he had sixteen children, amongst them, Robert Wallace of Kelly), M.P., General Sir James Maxwell Wallace, K.C.B., Frances, who became Mrs. JamesMurdoch, and the centenarian, Ann Wallace (No. 552). Old Glasgow Exhibition: 10

Genealogy

1. A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, enjoying territorial possessions or high official rank; but uninvested with heritable honours. By John Burke. Volume III. (H. Colburn, London, 1836) page 279
2. Old Glasgow Exhibition