Sir John Murray of Touchadame and Polmaise

Biographical Summary

"(235) Sir John Murray of Touchadam and Polmaise, served heir to his father 18th July 1580, to his mother 25th July 1594, and to his great-great-grandfather 8th April 1629. He was M.P. for Stirlingshire 1609 and 1625. He married Jean, daughter of John Cockburn of Ormiston, and had:-

• Sir William (No. 236 below).

ARMS on Seal, 1585 - three stars (ex inf. W. R. Macdonald).

In Pont's MS., c. 1624. - Azure, three mullets argent within a double tressure flory-counter-flory or. [Plate III., fig. 9.]"

SOURCE: The heraldry of the Murrays: with notes on all the males of the family, descriptions of the arms, plates and pedigrees, by G. Harvey Johnston, 1910, page 56, paragraph 235

"Sir John Murray, of Touchadam and Polmais, who got a charter, dated 26th December 1692, to himself and Jean Cockburn his wife, of several lands in Stirlingshire, containing a new erection, in consideration of the many good services he had himself rendered to the king, as well as of the loyalty so frequently displayed by his great-great-grandfather, John Murray, of Touchadam. Sir John m. Jean, daughter of John Coakburn, of Ormiston, and was s, by his son."

SOURCE: A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, enjoying territorial possessions or high official rank; but univested with heritable honours; Vol. III; page 68