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, Thornton
THE HOUSE OF DUNROD. 49
between Philipshill and Tliornton Hall, and Gross,
near Ilairmyres, parts of the original Thornton, still
bear the same names.
(The present Thornton Hall may have been " Tait's"
Thornton, and the present Thornton " Wainock's
Thornton, the converse of what is stated above. Tlie
identification is uncertain.)
A family of Lindsays, presumably cadets of Dunrod,
were designated "of Thornton." David Lindsay of
lived in the 15th century. His son, Alexander,
witnessed a charter in 1494. '• Andrew Lindsay
of Thornton was living in 1518. f Li 157;J, another
Andrew Lindsay of Thornton and Jonett PoUok, his
wife, are mentioned as holding the lands of Over
Darnley under a reversion. J
Easter Kittochside :
The
lands of Kittochside
lying along the Kittoch Burn near the villiige of Busby
were divided between the Lindsays of Dimrod and
the Mures of Caldwell. The Dunrod portion, Easter
Kittochside, was valued at G merks in the Old Extent. §
About the year 1500, George Lindsay was fined for
not giving suit for his lands of Kittochside. || This
George was probably the apparent heir of Dunrod at
that time, and the father of the sixth laird. In 1540,
when David, the seventh laird, with consent of his
father, the life-tenant, was about to dispose of the
estates to Robert Lindsay of Crossbasket, he was inter-
dicted from doing so by David Lindsay, his father's
Reg. Mag. Sig., XIII., 146 (Vol. I., 2229).
t Maxwells of Polluk, Vol I., p. 234.
{ Acts of Pari, Vol. III., p. 256.
§ Peg. Mag. Sig., XIII., 511, 520 (Vol. I., No. 2010).
Excheq. Polls, Vol. XI., II
p. 357.
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