Robert Wallace of Holmstone, WS

ROBERT WALLACE OF HOLMSTONE WS

Writer in Edinburgh: Writer to the Signet

Book of Wallace I: 147

A History of the Society of Writers to Her Majesty's Signet etc., p. 209

Death

24 March 1752 A History of the Society of Writers to Her Majesty's Signet etc., p. 209

His Testament Dative

Confirmation granted on 18/8/1752. [National Records of Scotland, Glasgow Commissary Court, Testament Dative and Inventory of Robert Wallace of Holmstoun, reference CC9/7/61]

Evidence from the National Records of Scotland

                   1

1699: Registered bond Robert Wallace of Holmstoun, writer in Edinburgh against Robert Wilson in Whitehill for 100 lib. Registered 1 Jun 1699. National Records of Scotland, Sir William Wallace of Craigie: Legal Documents, reference RH15/112/2/139

                   2

12 January 1726: Disposition and translation by Alexander, Earl of Eglinton in favour of Robert Wallace of Holmston, his heirs and assignees whomsoever of the foresaid annualrent in corroboration of his right to the said lands. National Records of Scotland, Papers of the Montgomerie Family, Earls of Eglinton, reference GD3/1/3/33/5

Genealogical Accounts

1. The Book of Wallace by Rev. Charles Rogers, Volume I, pp. 146-50 for Wallace of Holmstone
2. History of the County of Ayr etc. by James Paterson, Volume I, pp. 209-10 for Wallace of Holmstone