Master Adam Colquhoun of Blairvaddock

MR. ADAM COLQUHOUN OF BLAIRVADDOCH

Adam Colquhoun, here treated, is the bastard son of Sir John Colquhoun of Luss. The name of his mother is not known. The Chiefs of Colquhoun. Volume I: pp. 99-101

Mr. Adam Colquhoun obtained from his father. Sir John Colquhoun of Luss, a charter of the lauds of Blairwardaue, Stuckinduff, and Meikle Letterwald, in the earldom of Lennox and shire of Dumbarton; and he was infefted therein on 5th September 1520. He studied at the University of Glasgow, and was incorporated a member of that University on the 25th of October 1526, under the rectorship of Mr. John Reid, vicar of the church of Mearns, near Glasgow, and prebendary of Bothwell. In 1543 Adam Colquhoun was clerk of the parish of Kilpatrick. He purchased from his relative, Matthew fourth Earl of Lennox, the lands of Faslane and Ballernick-mor, in the lordship of Lennox and shire of Dumbarton, of which he received a charter in November 1543, and was infefted therein on the 3d of that mouth. The lands of Faslane had long formed part of the inheritance of the earldom of Lennox. The old castle, " the site of which may still be traced at the junction of two deep glens, whose steep banks miist have rendered the fortress almost impregnable in those days of rude warfare," is associated with the memory of Sir William Wallace. The Chiefs of Colquhoun. Volume I: pp. 99-100

Mr. Adam Colquhoun also received from his father. Sir John, the lands of Blairvaddoch, in the same earldom and shire. Ibidem: p. 100

Mr. Adam Colquhoun of Blairvaddoch sold to Patrick M'Causlane of Caldenocht, and Marjory Colquhoun, his spouse, an annual rent of ten merks Scots, from the lands of Letterwald-mor ; and on 20th February 1543 they granted him letters of reversion, engaging, on his payment of one hundred merks Scots, to renounce this annual rent in his favour. He also sold an annual rent of eight merks Scots from his lands of Letterwald-mor to James Colquhoun, carnal son of the deceased Malcolm Colquhoun of Dunfin aud Elizabeth Colquhoun, who granted him letters of reversion, dated 8tli June 1551, engaging, on his payment of 100 merks Scots, to renounce in his favour the said annual rent. On 11th July 1554 he infefted proprtis manibus John Colquhoun, rector of Stobo, in liferent, and Margaret Colquhoun, her heirs and assignees, in an annual rent of ten merks, to be raised from the lands of Letterwald-mor and Ballernick-mor ; and on 10th August 1554 the said John Colquhoun, parson of Stobo, aud Margaret Colquhoun, granted to him letters of reversion of that annual rent, engaging to resign it in his favour on his payment of 100 merks Scots. Ibidem: p. 100

The name of Mr. Adam Colquhoun appears in records of the period as rector of Kilpatrick in 1555 and 1558. He died in the year last mentioned. In a notarial instrument, dated 29th July 1558, it is narrated that David Colquhoun of Stronratan was served as the true, lawful, and undoubted heir of the deceased Mr. Adam Colqulioun, his brother-german, in the lands of Blairvaddoch, Stuckinduff, Letterwald-mor, and Ballernick-mor. Ibidem: p. 101

Genealogy

1. William Fraser, The Chiefs of Colquhoun and their Country. By William Fraser. Vol. I. (Edinburgh 1869), 417 pp.
2. The Chiefs of Colquhoun and their Country. By William Fraser. Vol. II. (Edinburgh 1869), 442 pp. including indexes