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 4.S8 BURKK'S COLONIAL GENTRY. IV. Albert William, h. 12tli May, 1881. I. M>iry. II. Amy ElizaLctli, m. Liimel cle Courcy H.^usro-V. III. Violet Hope. IV. Susanna Dora. V. Annie. Ti. Rose Blanche, vn. Zoe. VIII. Dorothy. IX. Jri.'!. Hincactc. TIlis is said to be a braneli of the MuKES of Caldwell, who are imniediatelj descended from Sir Reginald More, or Mure, of Abereorn and Cowdaiiis, who a]:)pears to liave been Cbani- bjrlain of Scotland as early as 1329, the first year of the reign of D.iviD II. The name oceurs, wi'itten at various periods, More, Mure. Muir, Moor. &c. The arms of " Muir of .Caldwell," and " Muir of Eowallan," being then the two chief houses of the name in Scotland, are exhibited on page 40 of the Scottish Heraldry, emblazoned by Sir David Lindsay, Lord Lyon, about the year 1540. Those of Caldwell present the plain shield of the Mores, "three mullets on a bend"; while on the shield of Eowallan are quartered the Wheatsheaves of the Comyus. The most ancient of the name on record are the Mores of Pot]feIly, near Kilmarnock in CO. Ayr ; one of whom, David de More, ajipears as witness to a charter of Alexander II. The direct male line of I'olkelly be- coming extinct, the estate I5as.=ed, by marri- age of the heir female, to the Mores of Eowallan, cadets of the family who had acquired the neighbouring estate of Eow- allan from the Comyiis, its ancient Lords. Gilchrist More, younger son of Sir Eeginald More, of Abercorn (one of the commissioners appointed in 1340 to treat with the Lords Percy, Mowbray, and Neville on a truce between the two nations), became the male representative of the House of Aber- corn at the death of his elder brother, William. To him descended the property of Cowdams. The estate of Caldwell, in the shires of Ayr and Ecnf.'ew, he is supposed to haTe acquired by marriage with the heir of Caldwell, of that ilk, then a family of some note, having given a cliancellor to Scotland, 1349. From Gtilchrist, lineally descended, John Muue, of Caldwell (eldest son of John Mure, of Caldwell, by his wife the Lady Janet Stewart, daughter of Matthew, Earl of Lennox), who inherited Caldwell, 1539. He ni. firstly, the Lady Isabel Mont- GOMERIE, daughter of Hugh, first Earl of ICglinton, and secondly. Christian, daughter of Kiiiian, Lord Eoss, of Hawkhead, and had (with younger children) two sons, I. John (Sii') of Caldwell, m. Janet Kennedy, of Bargeny, and was slain 10th September, 1750, by the Ciinning- hames, of Aikett. and Raeburne, of that ilk. He had tliree sons, William, James, and Eohert (Sir), of Caldwell, heir to his father; m. fii-stly, Elizabeth, daughter of Kincaid, of that ilk ; and secondly, Barbara, daughter of Sir George Pre.stom, of Valleyfield, and relict of Eobert, Lord Sempill, by whom he left a daughter, m. Sir William Hamilton, Bart., of Preston. About 1610, the lands of Thorn- ton, near Kilmarnock, long in possession of the family, were alienated to a cadet, founder of the House of Mure of Thornton, the male line of which becoming extinct 1701, in the person of Sir Arehibidd Mure, Lord Provost of Edinburgh, the estate passed by his lieir female to John Cunning- hame, of Caddel. By his first wife. Sir Robert had two sons, John, who d. 5.^)., and James, who m. Margaret, daughter of Sir William MuKE, of Eowallan, and left at his death, r. p., four sons and as many daughters ; the elder son, Robert, successor to his grandfather, ;«. Jean, daughter of Uchtred Kkox, of Eamphorlie, and, it. seems, fell in battle about 1610, having had with a daughter (Euphemia, m. her kinsman, William Mure, of Glanders- town), three sons, successively, of Caldwell, the youngest of whom, William, of Caldwell, m. 1C55, Parhara, daughter of Sir William Cunninghame, of Cunninghame- head. This laird was attainted for joining the Covenanters, fled to Holland, and d. in exile. His estates on forfeiture were granted to the celebrated General Dalzell. His lady was imprisoned with two of her daughters, in Blackness Castle, and underwent much cruel jiersecution. Of Caldwell's three daughters, Jane, the elder, m. Colonel John Erskine, of Car-