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BURKE'S COLONIAL GENTRY. 439 left no issup, had Elizubotli. Hie wifpof Jolin C'oi.QUiioiN. of Ciinistrnclcliin ; C'litlicriiie, »n. Jolin Macghegok, of Ardemomml ; aiul his siu't-estioi', .Iames PiiNNisTorN, of Colgrain, who iuvohocl the family inhevilanee to a con- siderahle extent. His son and heir, W'ALTEU liKXNisTofx, of C'olj;rain,m. first, yarali, dnui^hlei- of Sh- Patriek lIoi'STON, of Houston, by his wife tlie T.ady .lanet C'fNNiXGliAME; and seeondlv, CI raee, daughter of John Bkisbane, of Brisbane; h_v the former he had James, who d. unm. ; and an older son. his successor, John HENNiSTorN, of Colgrain, a zealous and steady adherent of the royal cause. He m. Jean, daughter of "William Semvle, of Ftilwood, and had three daughters, JIargaret, who s. to the estates in virtue of an entail made by her i'atlier, under condition of marrying the heir male of the family. Jean. Janet, m. "William Semti-E, of Ful- wood. On the decease of Colonel Dennistoun, the male representation devolved upon the elder son and heir of Jlr. Akcbibald Hennis- TOtN, of Dalehiirn, minister of Campsie, William Dennistoun. who, under the settlement of Colonel Dennistoim, became the liusband of his eldest daughter, Margaret, heiress of Colgrain. Of sixteen children, one only survived Ids parents, John Dennistoun, of Colgrain, who, by Jane, his wife, heiress of Moses Buchanan, of Glins, had, with several daugliters, James Dennistoun, of Colgrain. This laird m. first, Janet, daughter of John Baihd, of Craigtown, and by her had issue, I. James, his successor. I. Jean, w. .Andrew Buchanan, of Ardenconnal. He m. secondly, Mary, daughter of John Lton, of Barklee, and had issue, II. Robert, m. Anne Penelope, daughter of Archibald Campbell, of Jura, and had issue. III. Eichard, of Kelvin Grove, eo. Lanark, m. Christian, daughter of James Alston, merchant in Glasgow, heir to the estate of AVestertou, co. Dum- barton, and dying May, 1834, left surviving issue, 1. Richard, formerly of Kelvin Grove, Glasgow, afterwards resi- dent at Pinnacle Hill, near Kelso, b. 7lh March, 1797; /«. 21st March, ]S:jS), Frances Elizabeth, youngest daughter of Thomas Rishton Satthithwaite, of Lancaster, and had issue, Richard Campbell, h. 24th August, 1841 ; and Francis Douglas, b. 8th January, 1848. 2. "William, d. unm. 1 . Isabella, tn. Colin CAMPBELL, of JuiM. 2. Mary. m. Archibald Buchanan, of Auchcntorlie, co. Dumbarton. 11. Mary, ;//. John Alston, of Westerlon. James Colgrain d. 170tj, and was .v. by his eldest son, James Dennistoun, of Colgi-ain, convener of the CO. of llimbarlou, Viic-Lieulcmint and t'omman<lant of the local Militia of that shire, liy Margaret, his first wif.-, daughter of Janu's Donald, of tieilsliuui, he left James, liis heir; and by M'lrgaret, Ins second wife, daughter of Allan DuKGHOUN, of ISIochairn, he left four daughters, co heirs to their mother's large fortune, I. Isabella Uryson, m. Gabriel Hamil- ton Ddndas, of Westburn and Dud- dingsfoun. II. Janet Baird, in. Hugh Maclkan, of Coll. III. Elizabeth Dreghoin, m. 22nd Feb- ruary, 1815, Sir Duncan Cami-bill, Bart., of Barcaldine. IV. Mary Lyon, m. Sir William Baillik, Bart., of Polkemmet. He was s. at his decease, 1816, by his only son, James Dennistoun, of Dennistoun, m. 1801, Mary Ramsay, daughter of George Oswald, of Auchincruive and Scotstoun, and bad, with other issue, I. James, of Dennistoun, b. 180.3; J. P. and D.L., member of the Faculty of Advocates ; m. 1835, Isabella Katha- rine, eldest daughter of Hon. James Woolfe MuPKAY, of Cringlctie, one of the seiiators of the College of Justice, t-collaiid, but had no issue. Mr. Dennistoun sold in 1835 his estate in ])umb:irtonshire, and ac- quired a portion of the original family property in the Barony of Danzielstown, Renfrewshire. He was author of Mfrmoirs of the DttU'es of Z^rlftiOy Mtmoirs of Sir Sobert Sh-nnye, and other works. He d. 18.'j5. II. George, a merchant in Glasgow, b. 1806; m. 1837, Margaret Helen, datighter of Henry Wallis, of Drishane, Maryborough, and dying 25th April, 1849, left a son, James Wallis, of Dennistoun, co. Renfrew, late Lieutenant R.N., b. 1 2th December 1S3!I, .v. his uncle 1855 ; m. 2nd July, 18(i8, Caroline Joanna, daughter of Henry Gore Booth, son of Sir Robert JJcwcomen Gore Booth, Bart., and lias issue, James George, Lieutenant R.A., b. 24th May, 1S71. Isabella Caroline, 4. 10th llav, 1869. III. RoBEBT, the subject of this memoir. IV. Kiohard d. young. V. Alexanc'er, m. Slargaret, dauL'hter of Peter Redpath, of Montreal, Canada. I. Margaret, deceased. II. Isa'ella (deceased), m. Rev. .Tohn Wilson, D.U.