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print of Mansion House, Wellpark, Greenock. MacKenzie, David Maitland, 1800–1875 McLean Museum and Art Gallery - Inverclyde Council. image link
From http://clydesburn.blogspot.com/2012/04/well-park-greenock-home-of-e...
The home of Elizabeth Shaw, wife of Sir Hugh Montgomery
These photos are of Well Park which overlooks the cobbled area of Greenock town centre. The park was given to the people of the town by the Shaw family, an early member of which was Sir Hugh Montgomery's wife Elizabeth - the park is the former site of their castle, 'Wester Greenock'. Elizabeth was the brains of the Montgomery Ulster-Scots empire around Newtownards, but she died around 1623 or so. The old 1629 well shown below was built by the Shaws back home in Greenock; meanwhile Elizabeth's brother James Shaw built Ballygally Castle on the County Antri coast road in 1625. This excellent account of the history of Greenock says that it was Elizabeth's father John Shaw who built the first church in the town with permission from King James VI. And it's no surprise to read that '...In 1670 a French traveller, M. Jorevein de Rocheford, visited ‘Krinock' which he says is 'the town where the Scots post and packet boat starts for Ireland...'. The first history of Greenock is available here.
From https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Montgomery,_1st_Viscount_Montg...
His sons included:
http://www.stirnet.com/genie/data/british/mm4fz/montgomery07.php
https://chriswestancestryblog.wordpress.com/2018/02/10/the-shaws-of...
The family of John, the original Laird of Greenock, is described in Crawfurd’s A General History of the Shire of Renfrew (1818) (but he gives the wrong name for the “author of that branch of the Shaws of Ganoway in Ireland”. He was John, not Robert.) John the 1st Laird died around 1594 and the wardship of his children was granted to Hugh Montgomery, 6th Laird of Braidstane, who had married John’s daughter Elizabeth in 1587. Hugh found Montgomery spouses for three of the children (the heir James, second son Patrick and daughter Christian) and several of the Schaws joined him in Ireland where he was responsible, along with James Hamilton, for the Plantation of Down. He was created Viscount Montgomery of the Great Ards.
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Braidstone, Ayrshire, Scotland (United Kingdom)
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Beith, Ayrshire, Scotland
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