Sir Thomas Home of Home

The lands and castle of Home were granted by William the Lion, King of Scots, before 1214 to William of Home, son of John of Home, as appears by a deed formerly in the Home charter-chest. Sir Thomas Home acquired the barony of Dunglas in East Lothian by marriage with Nichola, the heiress of the ancient family of Pepdie.

Notes

• Burke's Peerage, Page 1276 "living 8 Feb 1385, ...acquired the Barony of Dunglas in East Lothian by marriage ..."
• [Nichola Papedi] brought him the Barony of Dunglas, whence he quartered her arms with his own. The first on record of this family was Sheriff of Norham Island in 1110. A seal mentioned in Raine's Durham with a single popinjay. - [Drummond's Histories of Noble British Families, William Pickering, London, 1844, Part VI., Dunbar, Hume and Dundas Families, page 18]

Sources

1. The East Neuk of Fife: its history and antiquities (Google eBook).  Walter Wood.  D. Douglas, 1887 - Fife (Scotland) - 586 pages.  Pp 258-259
2. A genealogical and heraldic History of the Commoners of Great ..., Volume 1 By John Burke. Page 494

Links

• http://www.genealogics.org/getperson.php?personID=I00314751&tree=LEO
• http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hume/tree/1377.htm

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Dunglass is a hamlet in East Lothian, Scotland, lying east of the Lammermuir Hills on the North Sea coast, within the parish of Oldhamstocks. It has a 15th-century collegiate church, now in the care of Historic Scotland. Dunglass is the birthplace of Sir James Hall, an 18th-century Scottish geologist and geophysicist. The name Dunglass comes from the Brittonic for "grey-green hill".

Geography Dunglass is a small settlement located about 1 km (0.5 mi) north-west of Cockburnspath and 11 km (7 mi) south-east of Dunbar. The whole of Dunglass lies in an area of 2.47 km². It lies to the east of the Lammermuir Hills on the North Sea coast at the point where the old Great North Road and modern A1 as well as the London-Edinburgh railway cross the gorge of the Dunglass Burn. The burn forms the boundary between the shires of East Lothian and Berwick. Other settlements nearby include Cove, Pease Bay, and Pease Dean.

Dunglass Castle and estate

Dunglass Castle was built by the Pepdies of Dunglass in the 14th century. On the marriage of Nicola Pepdie to Sir Thomas Home, the castle and lands passed to the Home family. It remained in their possession until their forfeiture in 1516, when it passed to Archibald Douglas, Earl of Angus, but it was later besieged and destroyed by the English under the command of Earl Henry of Northumberland in the winter of 1532, and again under Duke Edward of Somerset in 1547, when held by Sir George Douglas.[2][3]

The castle was rebuilt, in an enlarged and improved form, and gave accommodation in 1603 to King James VI, and all his retinue, when on his journey to London to take up the English throne.[3] It was improved by Mary, Countess of Home, but was again destroyed on 30 August 1640 when held by a party of Covenanters under Thomas, Earl of Haddington. An English page, according to Scotstarvet, vexed by a taunt against his countrymen, thrust a red-hot iron into a powder barrel, and himself was killed, with the Earl, his half-brother, Richard, and many others.[3] A pamphlet with a verse account of the explosion and a list of casualties was published by the author and poet William Lithgow. He named thirty nine dead including five women, and John White, an English plasterer working for Lady Home.

The Hall family occupied Dunglass for 232 years from 1687. Francis James Usher bought the Estate from Sir John Richard Hall, 9th Bart in 1919, and the estate remains in the Usher family. The Earl of Home continues to hold the title "Lord of Dunglass", despite the fact his family have not held Dunglass for several centuries.

Sir James Hall In the Spring of 1788, the geologist Sir James Hall together with John Playfair and James Hutton set off from Dunglass Burn in a boat heading east along the coast looking for evidence to support Hutton's theory that rock formations were laid down in an unending cycle over immense periods of time. They found examples of Hutton's Unconformity at several places, particularly an outcrop at Siccar Point sketched by Sir James Hall. As Playfair later recalled, "The mind seemed to grow giddy by looking so far back into the abyss of time" Source: Revolvy Added by Janet Milburn 1/3/20