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- Hugh Wallace sold the lands of Elderslie to Sir Thomas Wallace of Craigie, who, on the 13th June 1670, disponed them in favour of his second son Thomas, afterwards Sir Thomas
Wallace, Bart, of Craigie. 7 On the 20th May 1678, John Wallace of Neilstonside, eldest son of William Wallace, merchant in Glasgow, obtained sasine of the lands, proceeding on a charter in his favour by Sir Thomas Wallace of Craigie.
Temporarily the lands of Elderslie were in the possession of Hugh Wallace of Ingliston. On the 5th August 1705, Hugh Wallace, and his son Thomas, advocate, " in virtue of the
faculty reserved to them by Sir Thomas Wallace of Craigie," granted a disposition of the lands of Elderslie in favour of John Wallace, eldest son of William Wallace, merchant in Glasgow, brother of John Wallace of Neilstonside, and to Jean Kennedy, spouse of the first mentioned, conjunctly with him in fee and liferent, in discharge of the principal sum of ?20,000 scots provided to her by marriage contract.
John Wallace of Elderslie died in January 1728. He married Jean, daughter and heiress of Dr Thomas Kennedy, physician in Glasgow, with issue a daughter, Helen.
[The Book of Wallace by Rev. Charles Rogers pub.1889]
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