Tue BirtHpLace or ANNA LAURIE. Oi 
At the pleasure of the Almighty God my brother, Sir Robt. 
Laurie, was called for by death upon the 28th of Feby., 1702 
years, it being upon a Tuesday before 12 o’clock in the forenoon, 
his age being 27 come the 21 day of July ensuing. 
Signed WALTER LAURIE. 
At the pleasure of Almighty God my father Sir Walter Laurie 
was called for by death upon Tuesday, the 23 of Novr., 1731, at 
six o’clock in the morning, being aged 47 from the 3d of May last. 
Signed Rost. LAuRIE. 
The preservation of the terms of this interesting record we 
owe to Mr W. F. Hunter Arundell of Barjarg, who died in 1827. 
He cherished the idea of writing a history of the county of Dum- 
fries and the county families, and had amassed a great deal of 
genealogical material ; but he was not spared to cast the fruits of 
his industry into literary form. They were, however, placed at 
the disposal of the late Mr M‘Dowall, and largely drawn upon in 
the compilation of his “ History of Dumfries.’’ The “ Maxwel- 
toun Register ’’ is copied into a volume containing entries relating 
to many other families, and arranged in alphabetical order. The 
title prefixed to it, as well as the nature of its contents, shews 
that it is a register of events occurring in the Maxwelton family, 
and, except where otherwise stated, at their own residence. Max- 
welton had been the life-long home of Sir Robert Laurie, the first 
baronet, who succeeded to the estate as a boy in 1648; and there 
his sixth child, Anna, was born on the 16th of December, 1682. 
I communicated the result of my inquiries, with some other 
material, to Sir Emilius Laurie, and I received from him a letter, 
in which he wrote :— 
“Let me again thank you for the very interesting article, a 
copy of which you have so kindly sent me. You have certainly 
completely cleared up the doubtful question of Annie’s birthplace. 
I, too, had carefully read, as I thought, M‘Dowall’s History, but 
I do not remember to have read the preface, and, therefore, 
accepted the Barjarg myth. It is a case in which the injunction 
“verify your references ’ needed application, and you have done 
well to all who love accuracy in historical statements in clearing 
itup. You have also cleared up to me another difficulty, namely, 
Anna’s age at marriage. I had always supposed that the date on 
her marriage stone at Craigdarroch was the date of her marriage. 
