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Maxwell of Breoch, or Bracoch, is grandson of Francis Maxwell, 

 whose tall form and enthusiastic speech I remember as an 

 attraction to the meetings of this Society. He died 1867. The 

 Maxwells are the first owners known to history as proprietors of 

 Bracoch, and that as early as 1592. These lands have therefore 

 been 400 years in the family. 



Away from these proprietory names the surname Maxwell is 

 sparsely scattered throughont the County. 



Stewarts. 



In Minnigaff and Twynholm we find many Stewarts. There 

 is one in Anwoth, one in Rerwick, two in Crossmichael, two in 

 Urr, two in Colvend. 



Sir Alan Plantagenet Stewart, Earl of Galloway, is descended 

 from Sir William Stewart of Dalswinton and Garlies. A 

 descendant of this was educated along with James VI., under 

 George Buchanan, and raised to the Peerage as Lord Blantyre. 

 Lord Galloway has large possessions in Minnigaff. 



Sir Mark John Stewart, Baronet, of Southwick, Colvend. In 

 1628 there is Lindsay of Auchenskeoch. 1668, William Lindsay, 

 Southwick. The Lindsays, after 150 years possession, sold out, 

 and the lands were more than once bought and sold. At last, 

 Mr Sprot, a merchant, got the lands, and his daughter, Janet, 

 married Mark Hathorn. The surname Stewart was assumed^ 

 Lady Hathorn was mother of the present M.P. for the Stewartry. 

 Lindsay, it may be remarked, is a surname not very rare in 

 Kirkcudbrightshire. 



Horatio Murray Stewart of Cally and Broughton is grandson 

 of the Hon. Sir William Stewart, second son of John, seventh 

 Earl of Galloway. It was Murray of Broughton who obtained 

 Cally through marriage in the seventeenth century. Alexander 

 Murray married Lady Stewart, daughter of the fifth Earl of 

 Galloway, 1750. This family is notable for close inter-marriages. 

 Cousin takes to cousin and Murray takes to Stewart. 



Although Stewart bulks considerably as a proprietory name it 

 is by no means a common Kirkcudbrightshire surname. It would 

 be hard to pick out more than half-a-dozen Stewarts in the united 

 towns of Maxwelltown and Dalbeattie. In the tenant list for 

 Castle-Douglas my eye caught only two. 



