Hugh Montgomery of Bridgend

HUGH MONTGOMERY OF BRIDGEND

Genealogy

1. A Genealogical History of the Family of Montgomery : including the Montgomery Pedigree. By Thomas Harrison Montgomery (Philadelphia, 1863), 158 pp.
2. Stirnet: Montgomery 03

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• Generation 26
 Hugh Montgomery 
   
• Birth:   Abt 1635  Brigend, Maybole Parish, Ayrshire, Scotland 
   
• Death: Bef 1730  Glasgow,  Scotland 
   
• Father: John Montgomery  b: Abt 1602 in Brigend, Maybole, Ayr, Scotland 
   
• Mother: Elizabeth Baxter    b: Abt 1602 in Scotland 
   
• Marriage: Catherine Scott b: Abt 1628 in Clerkington, Scotland 
   
• Married: 1653 
   
• Children:
  • William of America of Brigend Montgomery  b: Abt 1650 in Brigend, Maybole, Ayr, Scotland

  • James of Glasgow Montgomery  b: Abt 1653 in Glasgow, Scotland 
                   
  • Elizabeth Montgomery  b: Abt 1658 in Glasgow, Scotland 
                   
  • Daughter Montgomery  b: Abt 1663 in Glasgow, Scotland

***************************  http://www.electricscotland.com/webclans/m/genealogicalmontgomery.pdf   ''Genealogical History and pedigree of THE FAMILY OF MONTGOMERY.   ''  Compiled by Thomas Harrison Montgomery; Philadelphia; Printed for Private Circulation. 1863

GENEALOGICAL HISTORY OF THE FAMILY OF MONTGOMER'Y. (pages 74--79)

• XXVIII. Hugh Montgomerie of Brigend,
  • succeeded his grand- father subsequently to the year 1652; and on the death of John Montgomerie of Lainshaw (p. 70), within two or three years of that date, became, as his heir male, the chief of the family, which honor is now borne by his lineal descendant. He first appears in a sasine, recorded at Irvine, July 22, 1647, in favor of Elizabeth Baxter, in life rent, and Hugh Montgomerie, her son, in fee, of twenty-two merks annual rent, out of the lands of Overskeldoun. (Par. Reg. Ayrs., vol. viii. fol. 104-5.) On December 7th

Footnote:

• 1 Gen. Account by William Anderson.
• 2 Whose wife was Agnes, the daughter of Adam Montgomerie of Macbie Hill, and hence Adam's consent to the grand-daughter's marriage. Agues married secondly, George Montgomerie of Kirktonholme. See p. 146.
• 3 See p. 146.
• 4 Hist. Co. of Ayr, i. 367. His widow, Elizabeth Baxter, married secondly, "James Crauford of Balsharroch, now of Newark," (Par. Reg. Ayrs., vol., vi. f. 70,) ancestor of the Craufurds of Kilbirnie.

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pg 75) of the same year, he is served and duly retoured heir of Johhn Montgomery, his father, in certain pieces of land called Knokdone, in the parish of Cumnock. (Inq. Ret., Lib. xix. f. 240.) He is seized in the lands of Nether Auchindrain, conform to sasine in his favor, recorded at Ayr, August 8, 1654, (Par. Reg. Ayrs., vol. ix. f. 301-2,) which proceeds upon a precept of dare constat., (dated June 16, 1654,) by the Earl of Eglinton, to the effect, "that the deceist John Montgomerie, father to Hew Montgomerie, now of Brigend, eldest laufull sone of vmq" William Montgomerie, guidsir to the said Hew,... in all and haill the five merk land of auld extent of Nether Auchindraine, commonly called Brigend, with tower, fortalice, manor place, yeards, orchards, wudes, milues thereof, als weil corn mylnes, as Walk mylnes, and fishings of the samen, with all and sundrie their pendicles and pertinents, upon the watter of Done, lyeand within the earldom of Carrick and shireffdome of Ayr ..." He also had sasine of the four merk land of Constable, in King's Kyle, recorded at Ayr, August 8, of the same year; of the baronies of Eister and Wester Loudoune, Barmuir, and Tarrinzeane, upon a charter from James Dunlop of that Ilk, recorded at Ayr, October 10, 1666; and of five acres and a half of land of John Wasoun's lands of Caricloy, Mauchline, recorded July 17, 1671.' He married, in the year 1653, Katharine, second daughter of Sir William Scott of Clerkington, by whom he had two sons and two daughters. The marriage settlement of this couple is still in existence, in a fair state of preservation; the roll is upwards of seven and a half feet long, filled in with clerkly penmanship; the beginning is somewhat worn away, and the edges have seen some rough usage. The autographs of all the parties immediately interested are intact: W. Scott. of Clerkintoun, consents;"' and "Johne Scott," the brother, and " W. Scott," and "Walter Scotte," are witnesses.

• Hugh had inherited a valuable property; and as late as 1681, the date of his eldest son's marriage, we gather from that son's marriage settlement a list of his properties, in which he "faithfully binds and oblidges him with all possible diligence duelie, valiably, and sufficiently to infeft and sease the said William Montgomerie and the heirs maill to wit, the five merk land of Brigend, alias Neither Auchindrain, within the bailliarie of Carrick, ... the ffour pund land of Paterstouue, comprehending the lands of Whystoune, Eymenstoune, Bonstoune, and Dykgutass ... the four merk land of Constable, comprehending the lands of Kirkwoodstoune, McColmestoune, Burnfoot, Hannastoune ... within the Royaltie of King's Kyle ... the lands of Carrickmilne, comprehending the lands of Balgray ... within the bailliary of Carrick ... the Walke-milne pertaining to the

Footnote:

• 1) Gen. Account by William Anderson.

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(pg 76) said Heugh Montgomerie ... within the parochin of Alloway ... the thrie pund land of Bargour, comprehending the lands of Auldhall, Ronninghead and Damcheid ... within the parochin of Mauchline ... the eight merk land of Mosgabill, comprehending the mains thereof, the lands of Blackbright, Dykefields, Hollingbuss, Braidnewlands ... within the parochin of Mauchline, Royaltie of Kingskyll and shireffdomc foresaid (1) “ Many of these may at this period have been heavily encumbered.

• Hugh Montgomerie died, May 6, 1710, at over eighty years of age, having resided the last twelve years of his life in Glasgow, under the roof and on the charity of his younger son James; who in a letter, dated Glasgow, March 6, 1712, to William, desires his brother in America to consider "what charges he has been at with his father."(2) James no doubt thought that as he obtained none of the advantages, whatever they were, of his father's formerly large estate, he could not consider the care and protection of his father, in his last years, a privilege. Hugh's days ended when his circumstances had been very much reduced, the reverse of those amidst which he entered into life. Inheriting an ample patrimony when a young man, he had been brought in his old age to entailing himself as an encumbrance on a son. To what this change in his affairs was attributable cannot now be certainly ascertained but it is more than probable that his religious belief was in a great degree the cause of his misfortunes; as many families in that part of Scotland, holding similar views with his, had been ruined in estate for their opinions' sake. To this may be added pecuniary embarrassments, arising as well from his indulgent disposition as from a want of proper knowledge of business affairs. A large sum of money had been loaned his kinsman, the Earl of Loudoun,(3) which was retained on different pretences, until many years after his death, by the earl, who being one of the representative peers could not be "pursued."

    It appears that in 1700, the indebtedness of the Earl of Loudoun amounted to the sum of £5096 Is. 8d. Scots. This is shown in a bond given by the earl, as principal, to Hugh's son James, which the latter, by an obligation dated at Port Glasgow, September 12, 1700, given to his brother William just before his sailing for America, binds himself, his "aires, ex", and successors, to hold and make just compt, reckoning and payment to the said William Montgomerie, his aires, ex", or assigneyes, off what [he should] happine to recover and obtaine payment, be vertue of the forsaid band."  First, however, "deducing and alloweing allwayes out of the first end therof, the aliment and provisione provyded

Footnote:

• 1) Original MS. settlement in ** Montgomery Papers."
• 2 MS. letter in " Montgomery Papers."
• 3) Hugh Campbell, third Earl of Loudoun ; his mother was Lady Margaret Montgomerie, daughter of the sixth Earl of Eglinton. He died in1731.

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(pg.77) to the said Hugh Montgomerie of Bridgend, our father, and the debts awand be the said William Montgomerie to" James.(1) To this sum must be added the amount of five hundred merks loaned, in 1653, Neil Montgomerie of Lainshaw and his son John, which we have seen remained unpaid as late as 1687.

• In 1692, Hugh and William Montgomerie, elder and younger, of Brigend, joined in a disposition of their estate to their cousin John Montgomerie of Beoch, (p. 73,) consisting of Brigend, Potterstoun, and Merkland, Yeomanstoun, Benstoun, and Constable, together with a tenement in Ayr, called " the Skinner's Yeard," and others. The sasine to John is recorded at Ayr, December 1, 1692. They even parted with their seats in the kirk, and the Brigend burying-place in Alloway kirkyard; Hugh making his residence, from this date, with his younger son James, while the eldest, William, had already perhaps in contemplation the removal of his family to America. (Par.Reg.Ayrs., vol. vi. f. 21.) Hugh Montgomerie, "sometime of Brigend," made a disposition, dated at Stair, August 15, 1693, with consent of his son William, and his " spouse Isobell Burnet," of the Waulk Miln and lands belonging to it, to James, Viscount Stair. (Ibid, f. 70.)(2)
• In a letter of James to his brother William, dated Glasgow, January 8, 1715, the former says, "Your father and you have been both alike, men not known in your own affairs;"(3) which exhibits a lack of business knowledge prejudicial especially to one like Hugh, who, always living in ease and comfort, had not been taught, until too late, by experience, the necessity of care and prudence in his affairs, by which could have been warded off the misfortunes which darkened his latter years and followed him to the grave, and which sent his heir to seek a new home for his young family across the ocean.
• What creed of dissent he embraced cannot now be known. That he was a strong Nonconformist, and suffered temporally in consequence, can well be inferred from the connections and associations by which he was surrounded. If names are proof of kin, his mother could claim relationship with the most eminent Nonconformist divine of the seventeenth century; and his wife's family, the Scotts, were many of them strong dissenters. If Hugh's conscientious belief was the pretext with others to make him distressed in estate, he could have desired no higher cause in which to meet his misfortunes.
• Some notice is due in this place to Hugh's father-in-law, Sir William Scott of Clerkington.(4) He was the eldest son of Laurence Scott of Clerkington, of the Buccleuch family, a person of distinction in the

Footnotes:

• 1) Montgomery Papers.
• 2) See Genesil. Account by William Anderson.
• 3) MS. letter in " Montgomery Papers."
• 4) See Burke's Commoners. Hist. Account of Senators of Coll. of Justice.

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(pg. 78)

time of Charles I., a clerk to the Privy Council, and one of the principal Clerks of Session, and whose possessions in Edinburghshire were very extensive. Laurence had three sons, William, James, and Laurence, the latter the ancestor of the Scotts of Bavelaw. Sir William, the eldest, was knighted by Charles L, in 1641. He was successively Clerk of Session, of the Privy Council, and was member of Parliament for Haddington in 1645, admitted an ordinary lord, June 8, 1649, and one of the commissioners for the county of Edinburgh in 1650. He was one of the Committee of Estates which met at Perth in 1651, and appears by his votes to have belonged to the party which, under the Marquis of Argyle, opposed the admission of those then called Malignants to share in the defence of the country. He died December 2-3, 1656. He was twice married; first, to Katherine, daughter of Alexander Morison of Prestongrange, whose mother was Katherine, daughter of Sir John Preston of Fenton Barns, Lord President from 1609 to 1616. Alexander Morison was elected Rector of the University of Edinburgh in 1627. Katherine Scott, the wife of Hugh Montgomerie, was a child of this first marriage. Sir William's second wife was Barbara, daughter of Sir John Dalmahoy of that Ilk, by whom he had several children, and is the ancestor of the Blairs of Blair, and of the Scotts of Malleny.

• The following were the children of Hugh and Katherine:
  • I. William, afterwards of Brigeud.
  • II. James Montgomerie, was a merchant in Glasgow. With a numerous family dependent on him, his correspondence shows him to have been in but moderate circumstances; thus sharing in his father's misfortunes. Many of his MS. letters to his brother in America are still preserved. His wife's name is not ascertained. His will is recorded January 2, 1722; and at the time of his death he was governor of the jail of Glasgow. He had a large family; but none of the sons left any issue, according to a statement made by their brother-in-law, Mr. Robert Maxwell. There were six sons and two (laughters.
    • 1. William, who died prior to the year 1711.
    • 2. George.
    • 3. Francis.
    • 4. .James.
    • 5. Hugh.
    • 6. Thomas.
    • 7. Margaret, married Robert Maxwell of Arkland, and left a large family. Mr. Maxwell opened a correspondence with his wife's cousins in America, from whom the family in Scotland, it appears, had not heard since James' decease many years previously. His letters have been all retained. The preservation of so many letters by William's children, indicates the pleasure it was to them to hear from their cousins in the old country. Indeed, the guarding of so many papers, legal as well as friendly, which are yet all preserved together, and known as the " Montgomery Papers," rather indicates they were loth to part with anything connecting the family with Scotland, hoping that at some period, l)y means of these documents, their fortunes would return to them. But to this day none have appeared; and if any members of the family in this country have risen to competence or to wealth, not one penny of it ever came from Scotland.
    • 8. Mary, married James Wilson, and was left a widow with one son, who was in the Royal Navy.

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(pg. 79)

• * III. Margaret, married William Boswell of Knockroon, grandson of Boswell of Auchinleck.
  • IV. Catherine, married Quintin McAdam, younger, in Dalmellington.
  • V. Elizabeth, married William Crunfurd (?sp) of Brocklooh.

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