Lady Agnes Kennedy

Family

From "Historical account of the noble family of Kennedy, Marquess of Ailsa and Earl of Cassilis ... (Anon.)"

Thomas Kennedy of Bargany is mentioned. He married Agnes, daughter of Hugh, second Earl of
Eglinton, and had issue two sons ;

• Gilbert, his eldest son, who married Janet, daughter of Andrew, Lord Ochiltree. He was killed at the skirmish of Brockloch, near Lady Corse, at Maybole, by Lord Cassillis 1 friends, on 11th December 1601.* He was succeeded by his son Thomas.
• Sir Thomas Kennedy's second son was Thomas Kennedy of Drummurchie, who slew Sir Thomas Kennedy of Culzean near Ayr on the 12th May 1602, in revenge for the death of his brother Gilbert. He fled to Ireland, where he lived with the Viscount of Ardes. In 1620 the estate of Bargany was sold by Thomas Kennedy, son of Gilbert Kennedy of Bargany, to Sir Thomas Hamilton of Lesterwick, with whose descendants in the female line it still remains.

References

• The Scots peerage, Vol. III, page 438-440