ROSS, William (d.1674), of Drumgarland, Fife, and Ross Isle, Stewartry of Kirkcudbright.

Family and Education

m. Mary Sinclair, s.p. d. 1 May 1674.Bodl. Tanner 39, ff. 164, 166; Tanner 39*, f. 161.

Offices Held

Local: dep. sheriff, Berwickshire by Nov. 1653-bef. Sept. 1656.Worcester Coll. Oxf. Clarke MS XLV, unfol.: 21 Nov. 1653; XLVIII, unfol.: 8 Sept. 1656. Commr. assessment, Berwickshire 31 Dec. 1655.Acts Parl. Scot. vi. part 2, p. 838. J.p. Berwickshire, Dumfriesshire 1656–?Scot. and Protectorate ed. Firth, 310–1. Commry. Dumfriesshire and stewartry of Kirkcudbright c.Sept. 1656, confirmed 22 Sept. 1657.Worcester Coll. Oxf. Clarke MS XLVIII, unfol.: 8 Sept. 1656; Scot. and Protectorate ed. Firth, 365–6.

: Fife and Ross Isle, Stewartry of Kirkcudbright.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

ROSS, William (d.1674), of Drumgarland, Fife, and Ross Isle, Stewartry of Kirkcudbright.

Will

25 Jan. 1659, 24 Apr. 1674.Bodl. Tanner 39*, ff. 161, 168; PROB20/2228.

Estates

creditor of earl of Home by 1652-3;NRAS 832 (earl of Home pprs.), box 18, folder 1. leased 2 parks in Berwickshire from marquess of Douglas, by May 1655;Worcester Coll. Oxf. Clarke MS XLVII, unfol.: 19 May 1655. purchased lands of Mid Glen, Dumfriesshire, from Archibald Stewart, Feb. 1658;P.H. McKerlie, Hist. of Lands and Owners in Galloway (5 vols. Edinburgh, 1877-9), v. 22. owned Easter Howlaws and Rowchester, Berwickshire, by Jan. 1659;Bodl. Tanner 39*, f. 161. by 1671 had purchased Ross Isle, stewartry of Kirkcudbright;Index Reg. Sasines, Dumfries and Kirkcudbright, 1617-71 (Edinburgh, 1931), 339. also held Dumfries Castle, Dumfriesshire, and Fosterland, Berwickshire by d.Bodl. Tanner 39, f. 164.

Oxford 1644

Addresses

lodged in house of George Roome, Dumfries, Mar. 1657.Worcester Coll. Oxf. Clarke MS XLVIII, unfol.: 8 Mar. 1657.

Religion

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