… four Grierson families all have documented connections to SW Scotland, with a span of 150 – 350 years according to the various records. One representative is located in the USA, two are in England, one is in Australia. None have a direct family legend of descent from the Lag family, although one has a connecting historical claim.
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On the Lag trail with some of the homes of the Griersons of Lag, plus many other interesting places.
Scotland has a different legal system to the rest of Britain which affects the types of records that are kept. New Register House in Edinburgh, holds BMD records and parish registers for Scotland.
Civil registration was introduced in 1855 and Scottish certiflcates contain the same information as those in England, but with a few major additions regarding BMD.
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.
It’s not certain what year James Greirson was born but we do know that he was an apprentice apothecary in 1661 which would give him a likely age of anything between 16 and 24. We know this as James is recorded in the Midlothian: Edinburgh – Register of Apprentices, 1583-1666.
Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill British Prime Minister; described as the “most indispensable man of 20th century”; Knight of the Garter; Nobel Literature laureate born at Blenheim Palace: 30 Nov 1874 died: 24 Jan 1965 was the 8th great grandson of Sir Robert Grierson of Lag c 1595 – 1654.
