Andrews) Heroriy Esq., of Bar gaily. Y19 



against the Scots, and to muster at Norham in six weeks of Easter, viz. 3d of 

 June, in the 19th year of Edward I., a. d. 1291. The above William Heron 

 took with him his younger brother David, who was the founder of this branch 

 of Heron of Kirouclitree, but commonly called Heron of Heron. David was 

 rewarded by King Edward, for his services, by a considerable grant of land, 

 situated between the rivers Dee and Cree, which at the time formed a hunting 

 district belonging to Baliol. Kirouchtree and Bargally formed a part of it; 

 and the former has ever since remained in the family, and is now the property 

 of Lady Heron Maxwell, the daughter and heiress of Patrick Heron, Esq., 

 who was member for Kircudbright, and who married Lady Elizabeth Coch- 

 rane, the daughter of the late Earl of Dundonald. Lady Heron Maxwell 

 married Sir John Shaw Maxwell of Springkell, in Dumfriesshire, and has 

 issue. 



" Many members of the family held high office under the crown, and were in 

 parliament ; and, in the reign of King William, the Heron estate was erected 

 into a barony through the interest of Lord Tullibardine, who was the king's 

 secretary." 



The above extracts are taken from the family genealogy, and the authorities 

 on which they are formed are at this day in the records deposited in the Tower 

 of London. 



It is greatly to be regretted that many interesting official records and local 

 documents concerning the old families in Galloway, which were, in times of 

 political convulsions, deposited for safety in Galloway House, the seat of the 

 Earls of Galloway, were destroyed when that celebrated mansion was burnt 

 down many years ago. 



The only remaining male heir to Heron of Heron and Heron of Bargally is 

 Basil R. Heron (great-grandson to Andrew, the founder and planter of Bar- 

 gally), at present a captain in the Royal Regiment of Artillery. In 1819 he 

 married Catherine, daughter of the Hon. Justice Mayne, one of the judges of 

 the Court of King's Bench in Dublin, and has issue three daughters. At the 

 death of Captain Basil Heron, should he not leave a son, the male branches 

 of Heron of Heron and Heron of Bargally will be extinct. 



By a paper in the handwriting of Captain Heron's father, it appears that 

 Andrew Heron, the subject of our notice, was married twice; first, to Jane 

 Graham, by whom he had issue. His first wife, the above Jane Graham, 

 was a relation of the family of Sir James Graham of Netherby in Cumber- 

 • land. Finding the state of widowhood disagreeable, after several years he 

 married, secondly, the relict of John M'Kie of Largo, in April, 1708, who was 

 his cousin-german, by whom he had no children. His character is thus drawn 

 in the paper attached to the genealogy above alluded to : — " He was a man 

 of no conmion genius. His fortune was very easy for the times in which he 

 lived, and it was spent in doing good and giving employment to the poor. He 

 was a man of refined taste and great morality, was well informed, and had 

 taken care to cultivate, by travel and by reading, the talents which he naturally 

 was endowed with. His father was in parliament; and, though, on his father's 

 death, urged to enter political life, he resolutely refused it. Botany and hus- 

 bandry seem to have been his principal pursuits. His counsel and advice were 

 sought by people of all ranks ; he was the peacemaker and arbiter of the 

 neighbourhood, the staunch protector of the poor and the oppressed, and the 

 firm but just object of terror to the guilty. The common observation was, in 

 his day, that he was an example for country gentlemen, which they would do 

 well to follow." 



It is known that he had travelled much, and was well versed in the Conti- 

 nental languages. His son (the eldest), who entered the army in Lord Mark 

 Kerr's regiment, then in the West Indies, rose to the rank of colonel, and was 

 governor of the province and town of Annapolis Royal in Nova Scotia. One 

 of his nephews (Benjamin) was secretary to the state of Maryland in America. 

 His son John was a merchant of great eminence and connexions; and all 

 these circumstances, combined with his own large acquaintance, naturally 



