James Muirhead of Lauchope, VII

JAMES MUIRHEAD OF LAUCHOPE

James Muirhead of Lauchope, here treated, is noticed on 3 October 1550, as the grandson and apparent heir of James Muirhead of Lauchope. His own father had evidently died before this date. RMS: Charter number 528

According to John Anderson, James Muirhead of Lauchope, here treated, is the son of James Muirhead of Lauchope and his wife Janet Baillie. Memoirs of the House of Hamilton

Marriage

James Muirhead of Lauchope married Janet Hamilton, daughter of David Hamilton of Bothwellhaugh and his wife Christian Schawe. Memoirs of the House of Hamilton

Children

Evidence from the National Records of Scotland

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3 October 1550: Apud Hammiltoun. REGINA etc. concessit JACOBO MUREHEID nepoti et heredi apparenti Jacobi M. de Lauchop, heredibus ejus et assignatis, — 10 librat. terrarum antiqui extentus de Balgraden, cum temmtibus etc., in senesc. de Kirkcudbricht, vic. Wigtoun; — quas dictus Jac. senior resignavit : — Reservato libero tenemento dicto Jac. seniori : — Test, iut in aliis cartis etc. xxx. 467. RMS: Charter number 528

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26 March 1577: Charter by which James Mureheid of Lauchope confirms that he has given an annualrent of twenty merks, secured upon his ten merk land of old extent of Lauchope, to Thomas Hamilton in Bartramschottis and Katherine Baillie his spouse. His charter was issued at Lauchope and was witnessed by James Mureheid in Sschawfute and James Mureheid, son of James Mureheid of Lauchope. Thomas Hamilton and his wife gad a charter of confirmation under the Great Seal of Scotland on 10 September 1579. RMS 1546-80: charter number 2899

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31 May 1597: REX concessit JACOBO MUREHEID filio et heredi apparenti Jacobi M. de Lauchope, et ELIZABETH HOUSTOUN ejus conjugi, filie legitime et heredi apparenti Patricii H. de Craigtoun, — terras de Craigtoun, Thomebowie et Carnieddan, cum molendino de Craigtoun, tenentibus etc, extenden. ad 10 librat. antiqui extentus, vic. Dunbartane ; — quas dictus Patricius in eorum favorem resignavit, pro perimpletione cujnsdam contractus ; et quas rex, pro servitio sibi suisque progenitoribus per dictum Jac. juniorem ejusque prcdecessores prestito, et pro compositione persoluta, dictis personis de novo dedit : — Reservato vitali redditu dicto Pat. et Mariote Flemyng ejus conjugi : — Tenend. dictis Jac. juniori et Eliz. in conjuncta infeodatione, et heredibus inter eos legit, procreatis, quibus deficientibus, legit, et propinquioribus heredibus dicti Jacobi junioris quibuscunque. RMS 1593-1608: charter number 565

Evidence from the Protocol Books of the Town Clerks of Glasgow

29 November 1600: John Murheid, citizen, procurator and in name of Elizabeth Luggy, relict of q. James Fynlaye in Lochtwod (the procuratory being subscribed for her by notaries, at Lauchop, on 19 November), resigned in favour of Claud Murheid, son of James Murheid of Lauchop (1) a back tenement, with houses built thereon, on each side of the close, with yard adjacent, and pertinents, lying t.c, on the west side of the street leading from the metropolitan church to the market cross, between the lands of John Scot and q. Robert Layng on the north, and of q. John Wyse on the south, the fore tenement on the east, and the yard of q. Gavin Broun on the west; and (2) a bam, with yard and pertinents, lying t.c., on the south side of the street beyond (trans) the bridge of Gallogaibume, between the lands of George Lyone on the east and of q. Martin Craufurd on the west, and Egleschemis Croft on the south. Sasine given by James Forret, bailie. Witnesses: James Murheid, junior, of Lauchop, David Murheid, his brother, Archibald Herbertsone, John Quhyte, dyer, Mathew Mathy, Robert Herbertsone, notary, and John Pautone, officer. Glasgow Protocols XI: 3718

Printed Evidence

1. Registrum Magni Sigilli Regum Scotorum. The Register of the Great Seal of Scotland, A.D. 1546-1580. Edited by John Maitland Thomson, M.A., Advocate. (H. M. General Register House, Edinburgh, 1886), 1180 pp. including indexes and errata
2. Registrum Magni Sigilli Regum Scotorum. The Register of the Great Seal of Scotland A.D. 1593-1608. Edited by John Maitland Thomson, MA., Advocate (H. M. General Register House, Edinburgh, 1890), 1151 pp. including indexes and errata

Genealogy

1. Clan MacFarlane and associated clans genealogy
2. Stirnet: Muirhead 1
3. History of Clan Murehead