Sir James Maxwell of Calderwood, Baronet

SIR JAMES MAXWELL OF CALDERWOOD Baronet

formerly Sir James Maxwell of Jacktoun

Sir James Maxwell of Calderwood, Baronet (formerly James Maxwell of Jacktoun) is the second son of Sir James Maxwell of Calderwood and his second wife Isabel Hamilton. In 1623, his older brother Edward Maxwell of Calderwood resigned the lands of Calderwood, and the barony of Mauldslie, to the crown and they were granted anew to to Sir James Maxwell and his wife Jean Hamilton. Memoirs of the Maxwells of Pollock, i, pp. 480-84

Nether Pollock

On 16 December 1647 Isobel Maxwell, daughter and heirss of the deceased Sir John Pollock of Nether Pollock, complained to the Scottish Privy Council, that she had been abducted from the House of Nether Pollock by Sir George Maxwell and Sir James Maxwell of Calderwood. Register of the Privy Council of Scotland, viii, A. D. 1544-1560, entry number 175 on pp. 177-78

First Marriage

Sir James Maxwell of Calderwood, formerly of Jacktoun, married Jean Hamilton, daughter of James Hamilton of Avendale. [National Records of Scotland, Particular Register of Sasines for the Sheriffdom of Lanark, reference RS40/2B/72 and RS40/2B/73]

Second Marriage

Sir James Maxwell of Calderwood, formerly of Jacktoun, married Mary Coutts. [National Records of Scotland, Particular Register of Sasines for the Sheriffdom of Lanark, reference RS40/3B/387 and RS41/2/85]

Evidence from the National Records of Scotland

9 August 1630: Bond by Sir James Maxwell of Calderwood, knight, to Robert, Lord Boyd, anent the duties of the £22 13s 4d land in Stewarton, wherein the late Robert Maxwell 'my grandfather was infeft'. National Records of Scotland, Boyd Papers, Burgh of Kilmarnock, reference GD8/669

Printed Evidence

Registrum Magni Sigilli Regum Scotorum. The Register of the Great Seal of Scotland. A. D. 1620-1633. Edited by John Maitland Thomson, MA., Advocate (H. M. General Register House, Edinburgh,1894), 1096 pp. including indexes and errata

Genealogy

1. William Fraser, Memoirs of the Maxwells of Pollock, Vol. I. Memoirs & Charters (Edinburgh 1863), 497 pp.
2. William Fraser, Memoirs of the Maxwells of Pollock, Vol. II. Correspondence (Edinburgh 1863), 453 pp.

Biographical Summary

"Sir James Maxwell of Calderwood, co Lanark, 2nd son but 1st surviving son and heir of Sir James Maxwell of the same, by his 2nd wife, Isabel, daughter of Sir Alexander Hamilton, of Innerwick, succeeded his father in 1622, and was created a Baronet [S] 18 or 28 March 1627, sealed 17 September 1630, but not entered in the Great Seal Register [S] till (as late as) 1830, as 'of Calderwood', with rem. to heirs male whatsoever, and with a grant of, presumably 16,000 acres in Nova Scotia, called the Barony of Mauldslie, of which he had seizin in April 1631. On the death, s.p. in 1647, of his cousin, Sir John Maxwell, of Pollock, he unsuccessfully claimed that estate under a deed, dated 18 December 1400, whereby two brothers, John Maxwell of Pollock, and Robert Maxwell of Calderwood, the respective lineal ancestors of the said John and himself, had agreed that, failing male issue of the one, the male issue of the other should inherit both estates. He married firstly, Jean, daughter of Sir James Hamilton of Evandale, by Margaret, daughter of James (Conyngham), 7th Earl of Glencairn [S]. She died s.p.m. He married secondly (contract 1 July 1637), Mary, daughter of James Couttes, of Edinburgh. He was living, 'old and blind', 1670, but died soon afterwards."

SOURCE: Complete baronetage; Cokayne, George E. (George Edward); 1900; Vol. II; page 320