George Colquhoun |
George Colquhoun<br>Gender: Male<br>Birth: 1604 - Luss, Dunbartonshire, Scotland<br>Marriage: Spouse: Chrystiane Watsone - Dec 3 1657 - Edinburgh,Midlothian,Scotland<br>There seems to be an issue with this person's relatives. View this person on FamilySearch to see this information.<br> Additional information:
LifeSketch: Wives and children are assigned here to this George Colquhoun but I believe them to be in error. George and his brother, Walter, left Scotland in about 1630 to go to Sweden and had a cannon factory there. They were working for the King, Adolphus Gustavus, and were said to both have married there, Swedish women, and had familes there. They never returned to Scotland to live and raise families. ir Country:alvie, who inherited the Colquhoun estate at Balvie from his father.m, who inherited the lands in Irelandof Auchinbrecht. Her 3rd husband was Sir William Hamilton, Knight, and 3rd son of James, Earl of Abercorn.re of Auchindraine, Knight. ended from them. th one of the last of his father's transactions. Thomas Fallasdail of Ardochbeg, on 31 Jan 1617, granted that he had borrowed and received from Alexander Colquhoun of Luss, and George, his son, 1100 merks Scots, and bound himself to repary that sum to the Laird, and in the event of his death, to his son, George Colquhoun, at the term of Martinmas following. This sum not having been paid, nor the annual rent thereof for a couple of years, George obtained in a court-appraising on 29 March 1625, held in the Burgh Court in Edinburgh, a decreet of appraising of the lands of Ardochbeg, Hoill, and Dalreoch, and several tenements, from the said Thomas Fallasdaill. The decree was confirmed by the Court of Session on 30 Sept 1625. he above bond to his brother John.
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