John (of Ferguslie) Wallace

- 1651

• Name	John (of Ferguslie) Wallace  [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Dec 1651  [1]
  Person ID	I144110	My Genealogy
  Last Modified	2 Oct 2023

  
  

  Father	William Wallace, of Elderslie   d. May 1599
  Mother	Janet Hamilton   d. Dec 1589
  Family ID	F56265	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Margaret Hamilton, heiress of Ferguslie   d. Yes, date unknown
  Marriage	1630
  	Cousins
  Children	1. William Wallace, of Drumgrain & later of Neilstounside   d. Feb 1663   2. Allan Wallace   d. Feb 1651, Unmarried   3. James Wallace, of Lorrabank   d. Dsp - Died Without Children.   4. dau. Wallace   d. Yes, date unknown   5. Giles Wallace   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F56263	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	6 May 2016

  
  

  Family 2	Agnes Cuninghame [Cunningham]   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F56191	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	4 Jan 2020

  
  

• Notes

  later of Ferguslie John, fourth and youngest son of William Wallace and Janet Hamilton, was appointed chamberlain on the Renfrewshire estates of the Earl of Abercorn. lie married his cousin Margaret, daughter of John Hamilton of Ferguslie, who in the lands of Ferguslie succeeded her brother Allan, subsequent to January 1018. John Wallace, "fiar of Ferguslie," is, in the inventories of confirmed Testaments at Glasgow, frequently named between November 1009 and March 1018. He is in October 1620 styled "of Ferguslie." He died at Paisley in December 1651. In his "latter will" he names James Wallace, his younger son, as his executor, " with the special advyse and consent of Margaret Hamilton, his spouse." As overseers he appoints, among others, Sir John Hamilton of Orbieston, and Thomas Stewart, fiar of Barscube, his sons-in-law, also William Wallace of Neilstonside, and Allan Wallace, his lawful sons. [The Book of Wallace by Rev. Charles Rogers pub.1889]

  
  

• Sources

  [S3503] Peter Barns-Graham, Stirnet Genealogy, Wallace02 (Reliability: 0).