188 The Ievings op Hoddom. 



Isabel Weir of Edinburgh in 1670, but died in 1672, leaving an 

 only son Andrew. This boy's mother married again in 1675 John 

 Stark of Killearmount in Ayrshire. 



In 1702 John Irving, son of John Irving and Mary Bell, 

 married Isabel Stark, daughter of John Stark and Isabel ^Veir 

 Johnstone or Stark, so that Andrew Johnstone and John Irving's 

 wife were half-brother and sister. This John Irving seems to 

 have been a good business man, and was concerned with the 

 management of James Douglas of Dornock's extensive estates as 

 long as he lived. In 1 743 he gave most detailed evidence as to 

 the rentals and boundaries before the Commission for enclosing 

 Hoddom Common. Dornock was the second son of the Earl of 

 Queensbury, and was brother to Kelhead. He married a daughter 

 of Sir James Johnstone of Westerhall, and his son Archibald 

 Douglas, who married a daughter of Sir Patrick Maxwell of 

 Springkell, sold the Dornock estate and bought that of Castlemilk. 

 John Irving and Isabel Stark left a son, John, who died 

 unmarried in 1777, and left a will, dated 12th June, 1773, by 

 which he "bequeathed in favours Agnes, Mary, and Philadelphia 

 Irviugs, my sisters germain, in liferent for their liferent use 

 allenarly, during their joint lives and the life of the longest 

 liver, except the share of the said Mary Irving as aftermen- 

 tioned, exclusive always of the jus marite of their respective 

 husbands (Mary Irving married Thomas Bell), and to William 

 Bell, writer in Edinburgh, my nephew and the heirs of his body 

 failing to John Carruthers of Braes also my nephew and the 

 heirs of his body whom failing to John Carruthers of Deubie 

 also my nephew son to Mary Carruthers sister to the said John 

 Carruthers of Braes and my niece and the heirs of his body, 

 whom failing- to my heirs and assignees whatsomever heritably 

 and irredeemably All and whole my Lands of Whitehill and 

 Dukes Close lying in the Parish of Hoddom, and shire of Dum- 

 fries As also all and whole my lands of Holmfoots of. Whitehill 

 lying in the Parish of Saint Mungo." ...?... He 

 also granted power to Infeft by -'Staff and Bastion as use is" 

 . The successors were to " take and bear the sirname and 

 desio-natiou of Irving of Whitehill and make Whitehill their 

 place of residence and those succeeding to them in the said 

 lands in virtue hereof shall do the like." He also bequeathed 

 all debts due to him, and " particularly" a " debt due to me out 



