| Notes |
- Create Baron Campbell of Loudon on June 30, 1691.
Genealogy and notes taken from "History of the Counties of Ayr and Wigtown" by James Paterson, vol 1--Kyle, Edinburgh: 1863
To begin, a discussion of the source of the Killoch Campbells and their relationship to the Loudoun Campbells and Cesnock Campbells. The Campbells of Killoch appear second in the entail executed by Hugh, first Lord LOUDOUN in 1613. Cesnock ranks first, but there appears to be some disention in the matter, which Paterson says documentary evidence does not resolve either. Cesnock was believed to be a more distant branch of the Loudoun family, but mentioned first because he was married to the second daughter of the Master of Loudoun. However Paterson states, " This may possibly have been the case, though we find the assumed progenitors of
Cesnock and Killoch so closely co-existent as to lead to the conjecture that their fathers were brothers, or that Cesnock was the origin of both." John CAMPBELL of Shankiston (see previous posts) were placed third in the entail and appears in public documents (1488) about the same time as the Cesnocks and Killochs. Essentially there is doubt as to whether the entail was stylized in the normal way with the closest relative mentioned first. Paterson goes on to say, "Had this been the case, it would have begun with the descendants of Mathew, ancestor of the LAUHDONS of Germany, great grandson of George CAMPBELL of Loudoun, the supposed father of the first Cesnock or Killoch. As Lord Hugh had no prospect of heirs-male from his own body, the calling in the entail may have been, in some measure, the reverse of the usual order of dcouments."
========================================================================================================
Sir Hugh Campbell, Sheriff of Ayr, was created a Lord of Parliament by the title of Lord Campbell of Loudoun, by James VI., in 1601. His granddaughter, Margaret Campbell, who inherited his title and estates, married Sir John Campbell of Lawers, a scion of the Glenorchy or Breadalbane family.
========================================================================================================
Sir Hugh died in December 1622. In 1618, seeing no male issue from his son, who died the year before, he made a deed of entail of his whole property, calling to the succession the following branches of the family, after him-self and heirs-male of his body : George Campbell of Cesnock; Greorge Campbell of Killoch; John Campbell of Shenkistoun; Charles Campbell of Skeldoun; Robert Campbell of Kingancleuch; George Campbell of Ducathall, alias Stevenston ; Mathew Campbell of Barcreochill; Quintigem [sometime called Mungo] Campbell of Cowfauldshaw [later of Netherplace]; Charles Campbell of Horsecleuch; Hugh Campbell of Boigcarroch; and Charles Campbell of Glasnock.
His daughter, Margaret Campbell, baroness of Loudoun, succeeded her grandfather in 1622. She married, in 1620, Sir John Campbell of Lawers, of the Breadalbane family and in 1633 he was created Earl of Loudon, Tarrinzean and Mauchline.
|
- 1622
