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The Cathcarts of Carleton and Killochan the Duplication of Rental of the Kirklands Collected by the Bailie of Kyle-Stewart Was £4 13S 4D 132 133 175. 1613. The Cathcarts of Carleton and Killochan The duplication of rental of the kirklands collected by the bailie of Kyle-Stewart was £4 13s 4d. SIR JAMBS FERGUSSON, BART., Keeper of the Records of Scotland Liber Responsionum, 1600-13, folio 300. 176. 1750. The muniments of this ancient Carrick family appear, with the exception of two mediaeval charters, to have been lost. The The church was repaired. following account of the Cathcarts in the 16th-17th centuries, Fasti, iii, p. 73. compiled from notes taken over a long period from different sources, published and unpublished, could, no doubt, be enlarged by further 179. 1797. research ; but so far as it goes it may serve as a corrective to the account given in Paterson's History of Ayrshire, which is extremely The church completely repaired and a bit added. inaccurate and far from complete. N.S.A., V, p. 569. The history of the parent stock down to the time of the 2nd 178. 1919. Lord Cathcart may be found in the Scots Peerage, vol. ii; the later history of the family after the creation of the baronetcy is given in The old church was restored. The Complete Baronetage and Burke's Landed Gentry. Fasti, iii, p. 73. ROBERT CATHCART, second son of John, 2nd Lord Cathcart, 179. 1955. by his second wife Margaret Douglas, daughter of Sir William Douglas of Drumlanrig, had a charter from his father of the 13 The church is very well-known as the only intact Norman merkland of Killunquhane in Carrick, dated at Edinburgh, 4 March, church in the shire. It has become a place of popular pilgrimage 1504-5, and confirmed by a charter under the Great Seal the same and the visitors' book in the porch has a long list of names in it. day. 1 Lord Cathcart reserved from this grant one acre of ground Although the church is certainly Norman, there is no evidence to on the east side of the property near to the '' stane '' of Drummillane. give it a definite date of erection and too much importance should This is the earliest known reference to the celebrated Baron's Stone not be laid upon the metal plate inside the church which avers of Killochan. that it was built in 1160 and restored in 1919. The church is now well cared for and many gifts have come to it, so that it now has a stone sedilia, font and stained glass windows. The yard has As " Doniinus de Killu7iquhan," Robert Cathcart was present no medieval stones but there can be seen some interesting types at a meeting of the Court of Justiciary at Ayr on 30 October, 1508. ^ of cherub and skull variety not far from large Celtic crosses of He, his eldest brother Alan, Master of Cathcart, and their younger modern erection. Inside the church are traces of the original brother John, were all killed at the battle of Flodden, 9 September, building, e.g., the window apertures are still marked by scars in 1513.8 the stone, while marks on the walls show where the rood-screen He married Margaret (also called Marion) Cathcart, daughter used to divide the chancel from the nave. Masons' mark are also and co-heiress of Alan Cathcart of Carleton, with issue— in evidence and the ancient woodwork is of major interest. Outside are traces of a south porch and the solo remnant of 1. ROBERT, of whom later. medieval sculpture, a gargoyle with a human face much defaced 2. Alan, who appears as a witness on 3 December, 1553 by weathering. For a full account see Transactions of the Scottish (Protocol Book of James Colvill, f.79). Ecclesiological Society, 1951, pp. 38-40. His wife survived him and married, secondly, in 1518, Hew The founder of the parish was probably Simon Lockhart and Campbell, son and heir of the deceased Robert Campbell of his dwelling-place may have been the small round moUnd at the Kilmanach ; * Hew was still living in 1538. foot of the village which was flattened out in the early 19th 1. R.M.S., ii. 2944. century. Another motte with ruins on it stood at Helenton, 2. Minute Bool: in Register House. 3. Scota Peerage, ii. p. 510. but nothing is known of its history. 4. Protocol Book of Qavin Rot, 246-9. I m 135 Sibyl Cathcart, the other daughter and co-heiress of Alan In January, 1547-8, Robert Cathcart was involved in a fight Cathcart of Carleton, married first Robert's brother John Cathcart with Thomas Kennedy of Knockdaw and his sons, two of whom, of Glendowis, with issue two daughters— David and Thomas, mutilated him of his left hand and hurt and wounded him in the face. * 1. Jonet, who married (contract March, 1529) Robert Craufurd, brother of Bartholomew Craufurd of Kerse, Robert Cathcart appears in 1552 as a procurator for Marion with issue. * Colvile, whose father, Thomas Colvile of Pemont, had been killed at Pinkie 5; and on 3 December, 1553, he and his brother Alan were 2. Marion, who married, before 1532, Gilbert Graham of witnesses, " at Killunquhane " when their cousin Marion Cathcart, Knockdolian, and had issue. She was still alive in " Lady Knokdoleane," protested against the judgment of the Earl of July, 1575, wheh she was a party to a decreet arbitral.« Cassiliis and others chosen as arbiters in a dispute between herself and David Kennedy of Pennyglen, whereby she declared herself Sibyl Cathcart married, secondly, Gilbert Kennedy, and had two much injured, and appealed to the Privy Council.* He was still more daughters, Marion and Jonet. She died about 1530. living on 16 November, 1557, when he sat on an assize,' and died probably in 1560, his eldest son having received sasine of the RoBEET CATHCAET, the elder son of Robert and Margaret lands and barony of Carleton shortly before 2 November in Cathcart, was not served heir to his father till 20 December, 1524, * that year. * so was presumably born in 1503. He thus secured the 13 merkland of " Killumquhan," but the succession to the rest of his heritage He married Elizabeth Corrie, possibly a daughter of Thomas was disputed. John Campbell, natural son of John Campbell of Corrie of Kelwood. She survived him and died at Dalquhur Little Cesnok, had had assigned to him by his father a gift under (a small house near Killochan) in January, 1573-4, having made the Privy Seal (which is not recorded) of Sibyl Cathcart's half of her will on 4 January.^ Their children, all of whom but the the barony of Carleton and of the ward of Sibyl's four daughters ; eldest are named in their mother's testament, were— and Duncan Craufurd, another brother of Bartholomew Craufurd 1. JOHN, of whom later. of Kerse, had also a gift, dated 15 March, 1530-1,^ of half the 17 merkland of Carleton and of the marriage of the " necys " 2. Thomas, on record as a witness on 11 March, 1556-7,1" (i.e., grand-daughters) of Alan Cathcart of Carleton. The two and alive in 1581. ^ claims came before the Lords of Council in 1532, when it was 3. Gilbert, probably the Gilbert Cathcart, burgess of Ayr, decided that John Campbell had the prior right. ^' who died in 1600 [Register of Deeds, cxxix, ff. 42-7). 4. Alan, on record as a witness in 1549, ^ who on 30 January, It appears, however, that Robert managed to re-unite the 1569-70, had sasine, on a charter from William Craufurd femily estate in 1538, when, with the consent of his mother, he of Drumsoye dated 16 December, 1569, of the 30s bought half of the lands of Carleton, including " the principal land of Mclllmorestoun but did not secure possession of it messuage and mansion of the same "—the old tower, of which from Craufurd's son till 1604.3 He signed the" Band "in the ruin may still be seen near Lendalfoot. ^ He was still styled support of the Reformation at Ayr on 4 September, " Robert Cathcart of Kelluchane " when he sat on an assize on 1562, designating himself, incorrectly, " Allan Cathcart 30 December, 1539.^ But he had come to be known as Robert of Carltown." His eldest brother was also a signatory, Cathcart of Carleton by 1541, when he was named as first heir of and the " Thomas Cathcart with my hand" who remainder to Alan, 3rd Lord Cathcart, his cousin, from whom he likewise signed may have been his second brother.* held the lands of Killochan, * and who was killed at the battle of From at least 1600 till his death he was known as Alan Pinkie in 1547. From henceforth, although residing at Killochan, the heads of this family were always styled " of Carleton." 4. Pitcairn's Criminal Trials in Scotland, i. pp. •335-6, *343. 6. Ilegister House Calendar of Charters, viii. 1556. 6. Protocol Book of James Colvill, If. 78-9. 7. B.M.S., iv. 1252. 5. Protocol Book of Gavin Ros, 938-9. 8. Exchequer Rolls, xix. p. 463. 6. BaUie Court Book ot Carrick, f. 27. 9. Edinburgh Testaments, iii. ff. 117-8. 7. Exchequer Rolls, xvli. p. 740. 10. R.M.S., iv. 1395. 8. Protocol Booh of Qavin Eos, 747. 1. im., V. 276. 9. S.S.S., u. 851. 2. Protocol Book of James CoIviU, f. 59. 10. W. Moir Bryce : The Scottish Orey Friars, ii. pp. 252-4. 3. im., t. 44; Acta and Decreets, ccix. ff. 308, 327 ; ccxii. ff. 6-8. 1. B.M.S., Ui.
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