THOMSONE, William (d. 1675), of Newmilnes, Haddingtonshire, and the City of Edinburgh.

Family and Education

o.s. of William Thomsone, burgess of Edinburgh.Roll of Edinburgh Burgesses ed. C.B.B. Watson (Edinburgh, 1929), 494. educ. Edinburgh Univ. MA 25 July 1625.Edinburgh Graduates (Edinburgh, 1858), 39. m. ?, at least 1s.Edinburgh City Archives, Moses’ Bundle 88, no. 3831; 135, no. 5313. kntd. c.1660. bur. 6 Apr. 1675.Regs. Interments of Greyfriars, Edinburgh ed. H. Paton (Edinburgh, 1902), 649.

Offices Held

Civic: burgess and guildbrother, Edinburgh 8 May 1644;Roll of Edinburgh Burgesses, ed. Watson, 494. conjunct clerk, 6 Mar. 1646 – 19 Oct. 1648; sole clerk, 12 Mar. 1652–17 Aug. 1664.Recs. Burgh Edinburgh, 1642–55, 83, 176–7, 274; Recs. Burgh Edinburgh, 1655–65, 356. Clerk, port of Leith 28 Aug. 1661.Recs. Burgh Edinburgh, 1655–65, 254.

Scottish: dep. Edinburgh, tender of union, 1652.Cromwellian Union ed. Terry, 46. Gen. clerk, convention of burghs, 18 Aug. 1652–?1664.Recs. Convention of Royal Burghs, 362. Commr. high commn. for church, 16 Jan. 1664.J. Nicoll, Diary of Public Transactions (Edinburgh, 1836), 409.

Local: commr. assessment, Edinburgh 31 Dec. 1655, 26 June 1657, 26 Jan. 1660.Acts Parl. Scot. vi, pt. 2, p. 839; A. and O.

: of Newmilnes, Haddingtonshire and the City of Edinburgh.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

THOMSONE, William (d. 1675), of Newmilnes, Haddingtonshire, and the City of Edinburgh.

Will

pr. 11 Jan. 1678.NRS, CC8/8/76.

Estates

property in Edinburgh inc. land to south of Cowgate, inherited from fa.; also dwelling house of the ‘great tenement’, north side of High Street opposite Tolbooth, 9 June 1647-1668; tenement called ‘Todrig’s Land’, south of High Street at head of Todrig’s Wynd, 14 Oct. 1662; dwelling house ‘sometime of John Edgar, elder and younger’, bef. 1662; dwelling house in tenement of late John Young, writer, north of High Street, by 1675. Other property inc. lands at Newmilnes, Haddingtonshire, from 1652, and at Fairlie Hope, Linton parish, Tweeddaleshire, by 1675.Edinburgh City Archives, Moses’ Bundle 26, no. 1117; 44, no. 1886; 58, no. 2598; 60, no. 2676; 88, no. 3831; 135, no. 5313; Add. 23128, f. 328. By agreement of 1668 received 4,000 merks Scots annuity as compensation for removal as town clerk.Recs. Burgh Edinburgh, 1665-80, 163, 220.

Oxford 1644

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