Colonel Sir Robert Adair

Ballymena Castle, Antrim

In 1626 William Adair acquired newly-settled lands at Ballymena in exchange for part of his patrimony in Wigtownshire, and his son, Sir Robert, built the castle as a centre for the new estate. The original building burned down in 1740 and was at best patched up afterwards.

Biography

https://landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2013/04/23-adair-of-ballymena-c...

Col. Sir Robert Adair (1659-1745) of Ballymena and Kinhilt, knight. Only son of William Adair (d. 1661) and his wife Anne Helena, daughter of Col. Walter Scott of Hartwoodburn; born February 1659. He raised a regiment for King William III and was knighted at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690. He married first Penelope, daughter of Sir Robert Colville of Newtown (Antrim), second, Martha (d. 1705; bur. at Dublin); third, 1705, Anne; and fourth, 1720, Arabella Ricketts (d. 1742); and had issue:

• (1.1) Capt. William Robert Adair (d. 1762) (q.v.);
• (2.1) Anna Helena Adair (d. young, 1701); buried at St Bride, Dublin, 15 May 1701;
• (3.1) Alexander Adair (b. 1720) He inherited the Ballymena and Kinhilt estates from his father in 1661 at the age of 2. He sold the remaining Kinhilt lands c.1736 to the 2nd Earl of Stair. Ballymena Castle was destroyed by fire in 1740. He died in Dublin, 9 February 1745, aged 86.

Family

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Sir Robert Adair1

• M, #448782, b. 1659, d. 9 February 1745
• Last Edited=28 Feb 2017

Sir Robert Adair was born in 1659.1 He was the son of William Adair and Anne Helena Scott.1 He married,

• firstly, Penelope Colville, daughter of Sir Robert Colville.1
• secondly, Martha (?)2
• thirdly, Anne McAuley on 22 October 1705.2
• fourthly, Annabella Ricketts on 9 February 1720.2

He died on 9 February 1745.1

He raised a regiment of foot for King William III.1 He lived at Ballymena, County Antrim, IrelandG.1 He lived at Kinhilt, Wigtownshire, Scotland 1

Child of Sir Robert Adair and Martha (?)

1. Anna Helena Adair2 d. c 12 May 1701

Child of Sir Robert Adair and Penelope Colville

1. William Robert Adair+1 d. 19 Apr 1762

Child of Sir Robert Adair and Anne McAuley

1. Robert Adair+2 b. 1711, d. 16 Mar 1790 [SIC - NO - his origins are unknown “lower class”]

Child of Sir Robert Adair and Annabella Ricketts

1. Alexander Adair2 b. 1 Sep 1720

Origins

Sir Andrew Agnew, The Agnews of Lochnaw: A History of the Hereditary Sheriffs of Galloway (Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1864), p. 617, digital images, GoogleBooks

10. William Adair, succeeded 1655, married, first, Jean, daughter of Sir William Cunningham of Cunninghamhead; married, second, Anne, daughter of Colonel Walter Scott; by her he had
11. Sir Robert Adair of Kilhilt and Ballymena, a knight banneret, sold the baronies of Kilhilt and Drumore to the Earl of Stair; married, 1st, Penelope, daughter of Sir Robert Colvile; married, 2d, Martha—died August 1705; married, 3d, October 1705, Ann M'Aulay; married, 4th, Arabella Rickets; left by his third wife:
12. Robert Adair, a major of Dragoons (" nme living," Adair MSS. 1760); married Catherine Smallman, an English lady of fortune. The family is represented by Sir Robert Stafto Adair of Flixton Hall.

Origin notes

https://www.ancestry.com/boards/surnames.adair/723.2.1.1.1.1/mb.ashx

CALENDAR OF STATE PAPERS relating to Ireland AD1660-1662. page 482.

30 December 1661. at Whitehall, London, England. The King to the (Master of the Wards) for Francis GODOLPHIN. Directing that he have wardship of Robert Adare (Adair), son and heir of the late William Adare of Ballymanagh (Ballymena), county Antrim, Ireland. P.1/4. State Papers, Domestic. Signet Office V. p.102.

References

• http://www.thepeerage.com/p44879.htm#i448782
• https://landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2013/04/23-adair-of-ballymena-c... “William Adair (d. 1626), who purchased the estate in 1620... to Col. Sir Robert Adair (1659-1745); then to son, Capt. William Robert Adair (d. 1762); ...”
• “Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage.” (1914) Page 68. GoogleBooks “Adair.”