. The parish of Strathblane and its inhabitants from early times : a chapter in Lennox history. s a merchant till 1836. When he came home he settled inGlasgow, and carried on the extensive Manilla and Singapore house latterly andstill known, though Mr. Ker has now retired from it, as Ker, Bolton & Co. In1852 he bought Auchenraith, in the parish of Blantyre, and lived there till heacquired Dougalston. This fine estate is in the parish of Baldernock, andadjoins Easterton and Muirhouse in Strathblane. It was a part of the Baronyof Mugdock, and was formerly in the possession of the Grahams of Doug
. The parish of Strathblane and its inhabitants from early times : a chapter in Lennox history. s a merchant till 1836. When he came home he settled inGlasgow, and carried on the extensive Manilla and Singapore house latterly andstill known, though Mr. Ker has now retired from it, as Ker, Bolton & Co. In1852 he bought Auchenraith, in the parish of Blantyre, and lived there till heacquired Dougalston. This fine estate is in the parish of Baldernock, andadjoins Easterton and Muirhouse in Strathblane. It was a part of the Baronyof Mugdock, and was formerly in the possession of the Grahams of Dougalston,cadets of Montrose, through the Knockdolian branch, and afterwards of theGlassfords, whose founder, John Glassford, was in his day the greatest ofGlasgow merchants.^ When Mr. Ker bought Dougalston he found it in a somewhat ragged and dis-ordered condition. It is now, however, in fine order, and with its handsomemansion-house, built by Mr. Ker, is in every way a most agreeable residence., ^ Easterton Writs. See Old Country Houses of the Old Glasgo^v Gentry, second edition, p. THE BARONY OF MUGDOCK. 65 In 1841 Mr. Ker married Elizabeth, daughter of Alexander Johnston BANKEND GRAHAM, as it may be called to distinguish it from the Dougalston Bankend just mentioned,contains two acres, and is part of the ninth of the Easterton of Mugdock, at onetime wholly in the possession of John Clark. It was bought from his descendantsby David Graham, an excellent old man and a fine curler, and on his death in 1882it passed to his heir, William Graham. LEDDRIEGREFN. The Estate of Leddriegreen consists of the two merk land of old extent ofLeddriegreen. It also since 1787 includes two equal third parts of the thirteenshilling and fourpenny land of Edenkill,^ and the Kirkhouse property, a twelve-penny land, as well as a pofifie of Lurg ^—all being parts of the Barony of Mugdock,and the Blue Risk, part of the Kirklands of Strathblane.* It was in 1657 that James, second M
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