Lady Jean ‘Jane’ Edmonstone

JEAN EDMONSTONE

Duntreath: 46-7

Family

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Sir Robert Adair (d. 1655) of Ballymena and Kinhilt. Elder son of William Adair (d.1626) and his first wife Rosina, daughter of Sir Thomas McClellan. Made a denizen of Ireland, 1624. MP for Wigtownshire 1639, 1648. He raised a troop for service in Ireland in the 1640s and was commissioned to serve as a Colonel of horse under General Monck in Ulster in 1648; he was knighted about that time.

He married Jean or Jane, daughter of William Edmondstone of Duntreath (Stirlingshire) and had issue:

• (1) William Adair (d. 1661) (q.v.);
• (2) Archibald Adair of Litter (Leix) (d. 1692); married and had issue a son;
• (3) Alexander Adair of Drumore;
• (4) Robert Adair;
• (5) Isabella Adair, m. Patrick or Robert MacDowal of Logan (Wigtownshire);
• (6) Anne Adair, m. Rev. Kennedy;
• (7) Joan Adair, m. Patrick (surname unknown).

He inherited the Ballymena and Kinhilt estates from his father in 1626, and built Ballymena Castle as a centre for his property in Antrim. He died 1 March 1655.