George O Rutherford, II

Extract from The Scots Peerage (Volume VII) by Sir James Balfour Paul (Edinburgh 1910) page 369 (http://archive.org/details/cu31924092516248)

George of Langnewton, died before 16 February 1499-1500, when his lands of Sandystanys were forfeited and given to Patrick, Lord Bothwell. He married Catherine Sele, who survived him.

  George Rutherfurd of Langnewton was forfeited of his lands of Sandystanys given to Patrick, Lord Bothwell, February 16, 1499.  His wife, Catherine Lyle, had life-rent of a portion of the lands by deed under the King’s signet November 8,1498. 

  The earliest dates in the Fairnington charters appear to relate to the history of Langnewton, not to Fairnington.  They show that in 1497 George Rutherfurd, who held Langnewton and other lands of Robert Douglas of Lochleven by charters of September 20, 1497, granted the same to his nephew Walter Rutherford all to be holden blench of the said Lochleven.  In 1544 William Rutherford, heir and successor of Walter Rutherfurd, founded on these charters to show that his ancestor was infeft in Langnewton in 1497. 

  The barony of Fairnington was possessed by a family named Burnard in the twelfth century.  In 1200 the monks of Melrose obtained from Richard Burnard thirteen acres and a rood of his lands of Faringdon.  Fairnington remained in the name of Rutherford for more than four centuries with the exception of a few months.  This was a long descent in one name, considering the vicissitudes so frequent in the history of Border houses.