A brand new version of A Short Account of the Grierson Family by Robert Grierson is now available for anyone with an interest in Grierson family history.
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Robert Grierson’s original 100 year old manuscript of A Short Account of the Grierson Family has been painstakingly transcribed by genealogists, Tom H Greer (USA) and John David Grierson (Australia). The new version which has taken nearly two years to bring to publication, includes useful notes and references and reproductions of various Grierson Arms and Crests.
Realising that a 21st century reader would need some help in understanding the context of Robert Grierson’s work, Tom and David’s notes are a significant aid in helping to understand the context and some of the references contained in the original work. The project has been further aided with additional insight and input from Paul D. Chilvers-Grierson (Scotland).
Robert Grierson, a solicitor and keen genealogist was born on March 18th, 1863 in Kilcarberry, County Dublin, Ireland. By the turn of the 20th century, he was settled in Glasgow and in 1909 Robert produced A Short Account of the Griersons, an abridged version his earlier self-published work, Notes on Griersons.
“…they are a great tangle, and it is generally almost unavoidable in dealing with these old time[s]. The difficulty is caused by the information being so incomplete. You may have the beginning of the dispute or tale or the end of it, but you seldom or never have a complete story. At the time, no one else had taken up the work and it seemed a pity that as I had spent so much time on it, and no one else seemed likely to take up the job, that I should collect in some sort of order what I had gathered so that it should not be altogether lost, and in another generation it was likely that no one would be sufficiently interested to attempt the work.”
Given Robert’s comments, it is not difficult to wonder if he would be amazed to find so many people interested in the family name today. Robert Grierson was to return home to Dublin in his later years where he died on 18 September 1930, aged 67. He is buried in Mount Jerome Cemetery, Harold’s Cross, Dublin.
The publication of A Short Account of the Grierson Family is aimed at researchers in the Grierson family name, and the cost has been levied to recover the printing and postage costs only. With a short print run of only 25 copies, interested parties are advised to place an order at their earliest opportunity.
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Mouswald Church, resting place for many of the Grierson of Lag family is currently on the market with offers asked in the region of £40,000.
He was thus much of a military man drew half pay, as has been stated, for more than twice the average term of human life, and was the oldest officer in the service a good many years previous to his death…
Lag Tower, Dumfriesshire
Built by Vedast Grierson, in 1460, Lag Tower has been in ruins for many years. Sir Robert Grierson (Auld Lag) was the last in the family to live at Lag Tower, before leasing …
Philip Hamilton-Grierson, shares some gems from his own Grierson ancestors, the Griersons of Dalgonar.
James Grierson bought and greatly expanded Capenoch using the architect David Bryce and the cost virtually bankrupted the family. Capenoch was sold to the Gladstones and Dalgonar was sold to the Crawfords.
I was brought up at Burnhead in the parish of Dunscore in Dumfriesshire and stories of Sir Robert Grierson of Lag, the Auld Persecutor, have been with me all my days. As a boy, I often cycled round by Lag’s Tower, and the Auld Kirkyard where Lag is buried was a favourite walk. I still visit the Dunscore area most weekends. The Laird of Lag has been a source of endless fascination to me. It was a privilege to revise his entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and I am equally honoured to have been asked by Richard Miller to rework the article for the Grierson family website.
John Grierson was born on January 2, 1909. He was the fourth child and only son to John and Edith Grierson. John (snr) was a successful cotton merchant who lived comfortably in the Sefton Park area of Liverpool. Their roots came from south-west Scotland and John was proud of his Scots forebears.
Elizabeth Crichton dedicated her life and fortune to setting up the Crichton Royal Hospital, a care institute for the elderly and insane. However, to carry out all her wishes she had to fight her husband’s brother through the courts and even on to appeal at the House of Lords as he tried to stop her charitable trusts.
The landscape in ‘Lag Country’ is known for it’s beauty. We have pleasure in sharing some of the pictures of the area in our first Grierson Gallery. Simply click on the photo of your choice to begin the slide show.
The 1911 Scottish census was launched online at 11 am on Tuesday 5th April, BST. The enumeration books are in full colour and for the first time, details includes the particulars of the marriage, the number of children born from the marriage, the industry or service connected to the occupation and the nationality of the person enumerated.
This clock belonged to Sir Robert Grierson, first Baronet of Lag – celebrated for his loyalty and hatred of the Whigs – he was by marraige with the Lady Henrietta Douglas, sister of the first Duke of Queensberry, uncle to my great grand mother, Lady Kirkpatrick, daughter of the Lady Isabella Douglas, by Sir William Lockhart of Carstairs, Bart.
The name Capenoch first appears in the year 1483 when a grant of land was made to ‘Peter Grersone’ of ‘Capinache’. At that time Capenoch formed part of he land known as the ‘£36 land of Keir’, which was the properly of the Abbey of Holywood and was included in the parish of Holywood.
The procession, consisting of 150 pedestrians, about 30 carriages, and a good many horsemen, covered half a mile of road, and was witnessed by hundreds on its passage. Matrons and maids, grandsires and children, were seen stationed on sunny knolls – the old to obtain a last lingering look of the remains of one they had respected so long and see so often…
