A history of the family of Seton during eight centuries [With plates, including portraits, illustrations, facsimiles, a bibliography and genealogical tables.] . scendant,Marion Maul, married Sir Alexander Seton, a younger son of the familyof Touch, made Lord of Session by Charles 1. under the title of LordKilgriech (Culcreucli), who lived at the Leuchard, near Oueensferry. Hewas uncle, by his sister Euphemia Seton, to James Hamilton of Parkly,who married his sister-in-law, Isobel Maul. The grandson of Sir Alexander Seton, by Christian Maule, was SirWalter Seton of Abercorn, created a Baronet i
A history of the family of Seton during eight centuries [With plates, including portraits, illustrations, facsimiles, a bibliography and genealogical tables.] . scendant,Marion Maul, married Sir Alexander Seton, a younger son of the familyof Touch, made Lord of Session by Charles 1. under the title of LordKilgriech (Culcreucli), who lived at the Leuchard, near Oueensferry. Hewas uncle, by his sister Euphemia Seton, to James Hamilton of Parkly,who married his sister-in-law, Isobel Maul. The grandson of Sir Alexander Seton, by Christian Maule, was SirWalter Seton of Abercorn, created a Baronet in 1663, whose second son, 368 FRENCH FAMILY OF BARON i. Alexander Seton, Collector of Excise at Linlithgow, was the first of the family of Preston. He married Margaret, daughter ofProvost MCall of Haddington, and died in 1758, aged upwards of ninety-six years. Seven of his seventeen children died young, while the survivorswere:— 1. George, merchant in Stockholm, of whom afterwards. 2-7. Christopher, John, Alexander, James, William, and Richard. 8. Christian, married to George Wedderburn, by whom she had twosons. 9. Ann. 10. Margaret, of whom 2. Margaret Seton, one of the daughters of Alexander Seton and Margaret MCall, marriedPatrick Baron (or Barron) of Preston, in the county of Linlithgow. The old house of Preston was entirely pulled down, and the presentmansion erected, about the year 1846. It is finely situated on a loftyridge, a little to the north-east of the hill of Cockleroi (or Cocklereuf)—fromthe summit of which at least fourteen counties can be seen—and about amile from the town of Linlithgow, commanding a good view of the Palace,the birthplace of Mary Stuart. The first of the French family of Baron who came to Scotland was inthe suite of Mary of Lorraine, Queen of James v. His descendant,John Georgeson Baron of Preston, married Agnes Baird of Auchmeddan,and was father of James Baron of Preston, who married Margaret, CHANGE OF SURNAME 369
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