Elizabeth Spang

ELIZABETH SPANG (aka BESSY SPANG)

"Mrs. Knox's Progenitors were Burgesses and Citizens in Glasgow. Her Grandfather William Spang was an Eminent Appothycarie. He was Appointed Visitor of the Chierurgeons with Dr Robert Hamilton and Dr Peter Low of all the Practisers of Chierurgery within the Burgh and Regality of Glasgow in the Shire of Lanerk, Air, Dumbarton and Renfrew when the Chierurgeons Physicians Apothicarys at Glasgow were first Erected into a Facultie and Corporation By King James the 6th Under the Privy Seall at Holyroodhouse the Penult of November 1599. This Mr. William Spang Married Christian Hamilton of the House of Silverton hill Then an Eminent Family of the Name of Hamilton and Barons of a Great Estate in the Shyre of Lanerk and in the Regality of Glasgow. They were Lords of the Barony of the Provand. They were Come of an Immediate Son of the Noble and Illustrious House of Hamilton. This Son was Andrew Spang who was bred to Trade and thereby Acquired a great Stock and Estate in Money. His wife was Mary Buchannan. He had a Son Mr. William Spang a very Learned man who wrote a Treatise on the Civil Wars in Brittain and was a Minister of the Scotts Congregation at Rotterdam in Holland And a Daughter Bessy who was Married to Mr. Thomas Knox Merchant in Glasgow, Mother to Thomas Knox of Dungannon Esqr in the Kingdom of Ireland whose Pedigree and Descent is from this Memorial Vouched to be Lineally come of a Race of Ancestors by the House of Ranfurly." The Genealogy of Bessy Spang