Master Archibald Colquhoun of Salachy

MR. ARCHIBALD COLQUHOUN OF SALACHY

Mr. Archibald Colquhoun of Salachy, here treated, is the son of Sir John Colquhoun of Luss and his second wife Margaret Cunningham [NRS: CC8/8/2]

Mr. Archibald Colquhoun was incorporated a member of the University of Glasgow 26th June 1550, under the rectorship of Mr. William Betoun, Canon of Glasgow and St. Andrews, and Archdeacon of Lothian. He was designated "of Sallochquhy" [Salachy]. Colquhoun Chiefs I: 96

Archibald Colquhoun of Sallochquhy, lawful son of the deceased John Colquhoun of Luss, sold his third part of the lands of Kirkmichael-Buchanan, in the earldom of Lennox and shire of Dumbarton, to Robert Stewart, lawful son of James Stewart of Cardonald, and his heirs and assignees whomsoever, heritably, for a certain sum of money paid to him " in his great, known and urgent necessity," and granted him a charter of these lands, dated at Edinburgh 3d March 1562. Colquhoun Chiefs I: 96

His Mother's Last Will and Testament

Margaret Cunningham made her last will and testament on 17 February 1571: "I dame Margaret Cwnynghame, Lady Luss, haill in spirit and febill in body, subject to seikness and infirmities, makis my testament in manner and form as eftir follows." She committed her: "saule to God Almightie." and her body: "to be buriet in the kirk of Glasgow, in the sepulchre of umquhile my brodir, Mr. James Cunynghame, befoir all hallow altare." She appointed her sons Thomas Colquhoun and Mr. Archibald Colquhoun and her cousin Mr. Archibald Crawfurd to be her executors, and "they to dispone upon my guids conform to my lattir will as thai will answer thairupon before God. She left 100 merks: "to my cousing the person of Eglischem" and "the rest of my guids and geir to be disponit among my bairns, Thomas, Mr. Archibald, Bessie, and Gelis, at the sycht, discretion, and consideration of my said cousing, the parson, oversman." Confirmation was granted to her executors on 20 July 1573. [National Records of Scotland, Edinburgh Commissary Court, The Testament Testamentar of Dame Margaret Cwnynghame, Lady Luss, reference CC8/8/2]

Genealogy

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