Robert Kelso, of Halrig

Abt 1610 -

• Name	Robert Kelso
  Relationship	with Marion Murdoch Johnson
  Gender	Male
  Birth	Abt 1610
  Last Modified	10 Feb 2021

  
  

  Father	William Kelso, of Halrig           b. Abt 1580             d. Jul 1650 (Age ~ 70 years)
  Relationship	Birth
  Mother	Eleanore Livingston           b. Between 1556 and 1576
  Relationship	Birth

  
  

  Wife	Jean Osburn           b. Between 1599 and 1618
  Marriage	1639
  Age at Marriage	Robert was ~ 29 years old - Jean was ~ 40 years old.
  Marriage Contract	12 Jul 1639  [1, 2]
  Children	1. John Kelso, of Kelsoland           b. Abt 1640             d. 1712 (Age ~ 72 years)   2. William Kelso, of Dankeith           b. Abt 1645
  Last Modified	1 Jul 2020

  
  

• Notes

  Robert Kelso was the son of William Kelso of Halrig and Eleanore Livingston. I estimate that Robert was born c. 1610, given that he married in 1639. From Kelso of Kelsoland1: Robert of Halrig, afterwards of Kelsoland, who repurchased the estate of Kelsoland from Hugh Schaw, son of John Schaw, in 1638. This gentleman was a staunch upholder of the Solemn League and Covenant. His name is mentioned in the "Rowallane Papers" as being Major in Lord Eglintoun's Regiment of Horse, and was wounded at the battle of Marston Moor, in 1633. His name is attached to the "Minutes of the Large Committee", anent the outrigging to the Duke of Hamilton 1648. In 1652 he was fined four thousand eight hundred pounds, Scots, by General Middleton and was much harassed by the prelatical party and was subjected to divers ruinous fines for harbouring persecuted Covenanters. He married Jean, daughter of John Osburn, Provost of Ayr, and had two sons: John and William. The following comes from the Montgomery Manuscripts2: Kelsoland was the name of an estate in the parish of Largs, so called from Hugh de Kelso, or Kelcho, who owned it in 1296, and whose descendants held it, without interruption until 1624, when the property passed into the hands of the Shaws of Greenock...Robert Kelso of Halrig, the heir male of the Kelso family, and the thirteenth in descent from Hugh de Kelso the founder, re-purchased Kelsoland from Hugh Shaw, son of Patrick [nb not John as mentioned in Kelso of Kelsoland]. Robert Kelso's son John, finally alienated the estate in 1671, to James Shaw of Ballygellie, county Antrim, who from the time of his marriage with his cousin, Elizabeth Brisbane, had taken her name. From that time, Kelsoland has formed part of the Brisbane estate in the parish of Largs. Footnotes [1] Kelso of Kelsoland, Compiled by Clarence E Kelso and Wilber M Kelso. page 13 [2] Montgomery Manuscripts, Belfast, 1869 (https://digital.nls.uk/histories-of-scottish-families/archive/95232935#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0&xywh=-1094%2C-174%2C4687%2C3474) page 53 (https://deriv.nls.uk/dcn30/9523/95233733.30.jpg). Note that the Montgomery Manuscripts are often mentioned in connection with the Hamilton Manuscripts, which I reference elsewhere (e.g. Archibald Hamilton) as the Hamiltons and Kelsos intermarried at least once.

  
  

• Sources

  [S0152] James Paterson, History of the County of Ayr, (Edinburgh, 1852), Page 480. [S0150] Ashworth Peter Burke, Burke's Landed Gentry 11th Edition, (1906), 1906, Kelso of Kelsoland, page 938.