Isobel Shaw

(iii) Isobel Shaw m. John Lindsay (of family of Dunrod)

viii. Isobella Schaw was born ABT 1577 in Greenock, Renfrewshire, Scotland, and died ? . She married Gavin Lindsay. He was born ABT 1575 in Scotland, and died ? .

From https://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=mlysell&...

Gordon A. MacGregor writes: "John Schaw of Greenock, to whom the lands of Greenock-schaw were assigned. He m. Jean, daughter of John Cunningham of Glengarnock, d. in1593 and was father of James Schaw of Greenock, m. Margaret, daughter of Hugh Montgomery of Haselhead; William Schaw of Spango, witness, with his brother Patrick, to a grant by his father in favour of their sister Isobella on 12 January, 1594; Patrick Schaw of Kelsoland; John Schaw; Mungo Schaw, who, with his brother John, were witnesses to a notarial Instrument by their brother Mr William Schaw of Spango on 28 May, 1599; Isobella Schaw, had a granted from her father of an annualrent from the lands of Finnart on 12 January, 1594. She m. Gavin Lindsay, son of James Lindsay of Overscheils, to whom she assigned her annualrent from the lands of Finnart on 24 August, 1597; Elizabeth Schaw, m. Hugh Montgomery, Viscount Airds; Christian Schaw, m. Patrick Montgomery of Craigbouie; Giles Schaw, m. James Crawford of Flattertoun.

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The Rev. James Montgomery married in 1633, Elizabeth, widow of the Rev. David Magill, minister in Greyabbey, daughter of John Lindsay of the Dundrod family, by Isabel Shaw of Greenock, sister of the first Viscount Montgomery's wife. The Rev. James Montgomery's wife was therefore a first cousin of the second Viscount.

Hugh Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery (1560–1636) was an aristocrat and a soldier, known as one of the "founding fathers" of the Ulster-Scots along with Sir James Hamilton, 1st Viscount Claneboye. Montgomery was born in Ayrshire at Broadstone Castle, near Beith. He was the son of Adam Montgomery, the 5th Laird of Braidstane.

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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References

• A History of the Family of Cairnes Or Cairns and Its Connections. By Henry Cairnes Lawlor. Page 268. < GoogleBooks >
• Stirnet - ‘Shaw01’
• “Old Greenock: Embracing Sketches of Its Ecclesiastical, Educational, and ...” By George Williamson. Page 13. GoogleBooks
• “Genealogical notes anent some ancient Scottish families, with index.” By David Marshall. “Schaw of Sauchie.” Pedigree, Page 119. Archive.Org