AUCHINLECK, John Rector of Glenbervie ^{1 2}

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25/1/1496

Instrument bearing that Archibald Earl of Angus Lord Douglas chancellor of Scotland, transferred to Cuthbert Lord Kilmaurs, all right and title which he the said Earl had to the lands and Lordship of Kilmarnock, lying in the county of Ayr, and that conform to Letter by the king (James IV) to the said Cuthbert Lord Kilmaurs. Witnesses, Walter Lord Forbes, John Symonton of that ilk, William Cunningham of Craigends, John Auchinleck rector of Glenbervie, Mr. Edward Cunningham and George Clerk provost of Abernethy. At Edinburgh.

from GD39/1/22




In a 1627 copy of a letter, in Douglas Correspondence, from Sir George Auchinleck, Lord Balmanno, to William Douglas, eleventh Earl of Angus, concerning the lands of Auchinleck, Lord Balmanno states that Sir William Douglas of Braidwood and Elizabeth Auchinleck, his wife, were infeft in the lands by

"Mr John Auchinlek, father-brother to the said Elizabeth."

He continues:

"This Mr John had a sone callit James Auchinlek, quha maried ane of the thrie dochteris and airis of umquhill Sir Adame Hepburn of Craigis, and thairby acquyirit the third part of the said Sir Adame Hepburnis landis. The said James begat on the said heretrix Hepburn a sone callit William, quha succeedit to his mother in the third part landis pertening to the said Umquhill Sir Adame, and was callit Laird of Schethin. This William had no airis maill, bot five dochteris, quha war all maried, and hes childrene come of thame: bot in his awin tyme, he sauld his land to my father, and, with the pryce thairof, tocherit his dochters."

from Rootschat post




June 23 1630

Dominus Georgius Auchinleck de Balmanno miles, unus Senatorum Collegii Justiciae, heir masculus Magistri Joannis Auchinleck filii legitimi secundo geniti quondum Domini Joannis Auchinleck de Eodem militis, filii fratis abavi

(rough translation)"
Sir George Auchinleck of Balmanno, knight, one of the senators of the College of Justice, heir male to Master John Auchinleck legitimate second born son of the late (quondam) Sir John Auchinleck of that Ilk, knight, the son of the brother (fratris) of his great (or 2xgreat/3xgreat etc) grandfather.

from Retours of Services to Heirs CD rom ^{2 3 4}

John married.