226 The Kirkos. 



In a valuation of the Teinds of Dunscore, dated 21st 

 March, 1634,^ John Kirkoe is entered as proprietor of the 

 ;^,^ land of Bog-rie and Skeilston,23 the merkland of Cloag, 

 and the twenty shilling' land of Over Craiginputtock. He 

 seems to have been the husband of Jean Maxwell, who died 

 in July, 1675.24 



I find no further notices of the family until the year 

 1662, when Andrew and Robert, sons of John Kirk of 

 Bogrie, were entered apprentices of Edinburg-h merchants. ^5 

 This John Kirk seems to be the same as John Kirko, who, 

 in 1666, was charg-ed along with many other heritors of Keir 

 and Dunscore to pay his proportion of an arrear of monthly 

 maintenance for the year 1650, and who made good his 

 defence. 2^ In 1673 ^6, along with his wife, Agnes, daughter 

 of James Gordon of Killilour, presented a petition to the 

 Privy Council, shewing that the said Agnes was assignee 

 of a bond granted by James Cannon of Barlochan, deceased, 

 to the deceased James Gordon, her father, which lay in the 

 hands of John Inglis, commissary of Kirkcudbright; that 

 Sir William Bellenden, who at that time was in command 

 of His Majesty's forces in the Stewartry, on the pretence 

 that Gordon had been a rebel, quartered on Inglis till he 



their papers, of which Sir William Bellenden had taken possession 

 (RFC., 3d Ser. iii., p. 678. See note 27 below). On 14th June, 

 1708 (recorded 17th June, 1708, Dumfries Particular Begister of 

 Sasines), Robert, son of James Kirkoe, and Nicholas, his wife, 

 eldest of the three daughters of Edward Hamilton deceased and 

 Elizabeth Kii'koe, had sasine in a third part of Glaisteris and Black- 

 mark, as heir of his mother, who was one of the three hoirs por- 

 tioners of the said Elizabeth Kirkoe (see also Nithsdale Inventory, 

 No. 238). 



22 Recorded at Edinburgh, 2nd July, 1712, and preserved in 

 the Teind Office. 



23 On 18th April, 1679, the testament of Agnes M'Naught, 

 spouse of Robert Kirko in Skailstone was recorded (Dumfries Com- 

 missariot) . 



24 Her testament was recorded on 6th November, 1678 (Dum- 

 fries Commissariot) . 



25 Edinburgh Begister of Apprentices, 1683-1666, ed. F. J. 

 Grant, W.S., Edinburgh, 1906. 



26 BPC, 3rd Ser., ii., pp. 507, 534. 



