James Edmonstone of Ballewan

JAMES EDMONSTONE OF BALLEWAN

James Edmonstone of Ballewan, here treated, is the bastard son of Sir Archibald Edmonstone of Duntreath, Stathblane: 97 in a charter which belongs to the year 1553 he is identified as James, natural son of Sir Archibald Edmonstone of Duntreath: "Jacobi filii naturalis Archibald Edmonstone de Duntreath". Duntreath: 53

James Edmonstone of Ballewan, here treated, is the grandfather of James Edmonstone Strathblane: 97

Evidence from the National Records of Scotland

31 August 1553: Apud Edinburgh. Regina etc., dedit literas legitimationis JACOBO EDMESTOUN in Bellewin, filio naturali quondam Archibaldo E. de Duntreith. xxxi. 138. Registrum Magni Sigilli Regum Scotorum. The Register of the Great Seal of Scotland, A.D. 1546-1580. Edited by John Maitland Thomson, MA. (H.M. General Register House, Edinburgh, 1886), number 838

Secondary Source Evidence

Registrum Magni Sigilli Regum Scotorum : The Register of the Great Seal of Scotland, A.D. 1513-1546. Edited by James Balfour Paul, FSA. Scot., and John Maitland Thomson, MA.. (H. H. General Register House, Edinburgh, 1883), 1016 pp. including indexes

Genealogy

1. Sir Archibald Edmonstone of Duntreath, Baronet, Genealogical Acoount of the Family of Edmonstone of Duntreath
2. John Guthrie Smith, FSA (Scot).,The Parish of Strathblane and its Inhabitants from Early Times : A Chapter of Lennox History (Glasgow : James Maclehose and Sons, 1886), 394 pp. including index. See pp.pp. 95-100 for Edmonstine of Ballewan and Spittal