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THE HOUSK OF FAlKCJIIiTU. 106
The ninth laird married (I) Nicolas, eldest
daughter of Roger Lindsay of Mains, the contract
being dated 21st October 10:^7.'- By her he had :—
(1) James, tentli hiinl.f
(2) Roger, second son. :f:
(3) Jolin, third son. I
He married (2) Elizabeth Irving.jj
James Lindsay, Tenth Laird of Fairgiiitii,
was served heir to his father, the preceding laird, 6th
seems to have been the last in
Jan. 1 680. II He
possession ; for already the estates had been mort-
gaged, and at the beginning of the eighteenth century
were in other hands.
The Fairgirtu Lands.—The parish of Southwick,
anciently, and even yet in the speech of the people,
called " Siddick," or " Suthik," was united to the
adjacent parish of Colvend in the seventeenth century.
Bordering on the Solway between the Critfel range of
hills and the Water of Urr, the united parishes measure
about nine miles long by seven and a half wide.
About half of this area was in possession of Lindsays
from early in the fifteenth century until the latter
half of the seventeenth, when it gradually passed to
other hands. This "land of the Lindsays " was no con-
tinuous estate ;
but detached properties of the families
of Barcloy, of Fairgirth, Auchenskeoch, and Mains
* Register of Deeds, MS., Vol. 553. Paton's Note?, penes Lord
Crawford.
t Ibid., Vol. 39, New Series.
I Ibid., Vol. 22, New Series.
5^ Ibid., Vol. 39, New Series.
Abbrev. Return.