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Alt: Killiewarren, killewarren, Killywarren
In 1579 Bessie Douglas, widow of John Hunter at Auchinbrak, died and
left her estate to John Douglas of Killiewarren. Douglases were in
Pinzarie, Stenhouse, Kirkland and Killiewarren in the seventeenth
century.
Achinbraik is marked on the Pont map of circa 1590 and in 1685 Sir
Duncan Campbell, a prominent Argyll supporter, lived here. The Hearth
Tax shows Thomas and William Hunter at Auchenbreck as tenants of
Queensberry in 1691. The 1690s were bad years and Queensberry’s tenants
at Auchenbrack, like James Hunter, Jon Tait and William Hunter were in
severe debt. The Hunters were a prominent Tynron family in Bennan,
Pinzarie, Craigencoon and Auchenbrack. It is said that they were chased
out at the point of a gun by the Douglases.
John Porter in Strahanna in the parish of Dalry who died 14 October
1592 was owed money by John Douglas in Killiewarren and others.
Panels at Killiewarren, now pleasingly coloured, bear the
arms of Douglas and the initials I.D. and F.D., with the date 1617. It
is not (yet) known whose initials they are.
John Douglas of Killiewarren and Stanhouse (sic) was the illegitimate
son of Sir James Douglas of Drumlanrig , who died 1615). John
married Jane Grierson, who died in 1627, and had issue.
See also:
• Killiewarren House
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