Ancestral Trails 2016 » Hugh SOMERVILLE (± 1547-1597)

Persoonlijke gegevens Hugh SOMERVILLE 

• Hij is geboren rond 1547 in Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland.
• Titel: 7th Lord Somerville
• Hij is overleden in het jaar 1597 in Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland.
• Hij is begraven in het jaar 1597 in Seton Collegiate Church, Cockenzie, East Lothian, Scotland.
• Een kind van James SOMERVILLE en Agnes HAMILTON

Gezin van Hugh SOMERVILLE

Hij had een relatie met Eleanor SETON.

Kind(eren):

1. John SOMERVILLE  ± 1567-< 1587
2. Williiam SOMERVILLE  ± 1565-± 1587
3. Daughter 2 SOMERVILLE  ± 1577-????
4. Daughter I SOMERVILLE  ± 1575-????
5. Gilbert SOMERVILLE  ± 1568-1618 
6. Hugh SOMERVILLE  ± 1573-1640

Notities over Hugh SOMERVILLE

HUGH, seventh lord Somerville, who was heir to his father in the year 1571.

He recovered the lands of Gilmerton, Drum, and Guttarris, which had been for some time in the possession of the Somervilles of Cambusnethan, upon which he got a charter under the great seal, anno 1578, and built the house of Drum anno 1585.

He was a man of great parts and abilities, was long one of the lords of the privy council to king James VI. with whom he was in great favour.

He married Eleanor daughter of George Lord Seton ancestor of the earls of Winton by whom he had 16 children, four sons and four daughters of whom came to maturity. One of the sons, John was accidentally shot dead by his brother William.

William, master of Somerville, a youth of a fine genius and great hopes, but died before his father without issue.
John, who was accidentally shot by his elder brother, when they were both young, which appears by a remission under the great seal, Willielmo magistro de Somerville, &c. dated 1587, but he died also before his father, without issue.
Gilbert, who became his father's heir.
Hugh, ancestor of the present lord Somerville, of whom afterwards.
1st daughter, married to Hamilton of Stonyflat.
2nd daughter married to Thomas Somerville, Esq; in vicecom. de Lanark.

The Drum
During the 16th century a dispute arose between the Lords Somerville and another branch of the family over the possession of Gilmerton and The Drum. This was resolved in 1578 after several years of legal debate, in favour of Hugh Somerville, 7th Lord Somerville (1547-1597). Subsequently Lord Somerville re-established himself at The Drum, and in 1584 he commissioned the mason-architect John Mylne to build a new house. The project was advised by Somerville's kinsman Robert, Lord Seton, and the house was built between June 1584 and October 1585. It was damaged by fire some years later, and again in 1629, but was rebuilt each time. It was described by the 11th Lord Somerville in 1679: "The roumes are few, but fair and large; the entrie and stair-caice extremely ill-placed, neither is the outward forme modish, being built all in lenth in forme of a church."

Lord Hugh died anno 1597, and was succeeded by his third son.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/144446909/hugh-somerville

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