John Lockhart

- 1614

• Name	John Lockhart
  Gender	Male
  Death	1614  [1, 2]
  Person ID	I25761	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TWK
  Last Modified	23 Mar 2020

  
  

  Father	Alexander Lockhart
  Mother	Margaret Kennedy
  Family ID	F15433	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Marion Cunningham   d. Jan 1623, Ayr, Ayrshire, Scotland
  Marriage	1595	Stewarton, Ayrshire, Scotland   [1, 2]
  Children	+ 1. Janet Lockhart   d. Bef 17 Apr 1672
  Family ID	F15432	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	23 Mar 2020

  
  

• Notes

  "In 1595 in the church at Stewarton a marriage contract was signed between John Lockhart and Marion Cunningham, daughter of the late William Cunningham of Aiket and his wife Helen Colquhoun. Their eldest son was born in 1598 (he was the only son by 1614) followed be two daughters, Margaret and Janet. John Lockhart, for many years the town's commissioner at Parliament, acquired a taste for living in style, and when he died the furnishings of his house were valued at 800 pounds, plus 500 pounds worth of silver work. With his connections in high places (in his will the Earl of Dunfermline and Lord Abercorn were asked to be patrons 'of his poor wife and bairns and to see them not oppressed or wronged') John Lockhart had ambitions to be more than a minor Ayrshire laird. For centuries his kinsmen the Lockharts of Bar had been a powerful family at Galston but in 1609 their fortunes had declined, the last laird, George Lockhart and his wife living in rented rooms in Ayr and unable to pay the thirteen merks owing to the schoolmaster for teaching their two sons and daughter in 1606. In 1610 John Lockhart purchased their lands and the tower of Bar and henceforth was known as the Laird of Bar, a title that carried far more authority in Ayrshire than 'John Lockhart of Boghall.'" [Ayr and Its People, citation details below]

  
  

• Sources

  [S376] Janet and Robert Wolfe Genealogy. [S3863] Ayr and Its People, from 1428 to the Time Of Burns by Joseph D. Shearer. 2004.