The seat of Henry M'Call, Esq., is situated in the parish of Old Monkland and county of Lanark. The house is finely placed on an eminence on the right bank of the river Clyde, about five miles east of Glasgow, on the road to Bothwell.
The lands of Daldowie belonged of old to the Bishopric of Glasgow, and in the Rental Book of the Diocese we find as rentallers or tenants the names of several families who became proprietors of different parts of it. Thus, in 1518 "Jame Scot rentalit in threte thre s iiijd land of Daldwe." The Scotts, who are afterwards frequently mentioned as rentallers, and of whom this James is no doubt an ancestor or connection, now hold as proprietors Wester Daldowie, the lands on which they were tenants 360 years ago. In 1521 "Robart Stuart rentalit in viijs mark land off Daldwe." This was Robert Stewart of Mynto, the future Provost of Glasgow. His family, like the Scotts, afterwards got possession of their part of Daldowie, and held it for some time, as we shall presently show. In 1553 "Gawen Stewart, sone to wmquhill Alaine Stewart, is rentaillit in thre lib vjs viij penny land in Daildowye, vacand be the deces of his forsaid fathir, last possessour tharof." This Allan Stewart, the father of Gavin, is the first authentic ancestor of the Stewarts of Allanton. (1) His grandson James in 1598 got the lands of Wester Daldowie or part of them, and was for a short time proprietor. In 1555 "is rentalit Jhone Alaine in xvjs viijd land of Daldowy Westyr, vacand be deces of vmquhyll Ihone Alaine, his fathyr, last rentalair; Isobell Bogyll, his mothyr, brwkand for hyr tyme." This Isobel Bogle was no doubt a connection of the numerous race of Bogles who had farms on the Bishop's lands in the district of Carmyle at this time, and whose descendants afterwards were the well known Glasgow families of Bogles, proprietors of Bogleshole, Daldowie, and Shettleston.
Robert Stewart of Mynto, the rentaller of part of Daldowie in 1521, as we have shown, was Provost of Glasgow and a member of a family well known in Glasgow history. Their town residence was in the picturesque old edifice south side of Drygate, called "The Duke's Lodging," demolished only a few years ago, and of which drawings are preserved.
Shortly after the Reformation the Mynto Stewarts got possession of their portion of Daldowie. It is the history of this part we now follow. In 1653, during the protectorate of Cromwell, Sir Ludovic Stewart, one of these Minto knights, with consent of his spouse, Dame Elizabeth Cuningham, daughter of the eighth Earl of Glencairn, conveyed the lands and mansion of Daldowie to James Woddrop, younger of Dalmarnock. Eighteen years afterwards Mr. Woddrop parted with Daldowie to James Muirhead of Bredisholm, whose grandson John sold the lands in 1724 to Robert Bogle, merchant in Glasgow.
Robert Bogle, who thus acquired Daldowie, belonged to a very old Glasgow (2) race, who in ancient times had been tenants, as already shown, on the church lands in this very district. He was the son of George Bogle, a wealthy Glasgow merchant who died in 1707.
In 1731 Robert Bogle's eldest son George entered into a contract of marriage with Ann Sinclair, daughter of Sir Robert Sinclair of Stevenstown. This marriage, which connected George Bogle with many good families in Scotland, including the Earls of Crawford, in whose veins ran royal blood from two sources, seems to have pleased his father. He accordingly made over to him his lands of Daldowie and also those of Whiteinch, which he had bought about the same time.
George Bogle of Daldowie was a considerable person in Glasgow and the West of Scotland, and Lord Rector of the University in 1737, 1743, and 1747. He was most probably the builder of the old part of the present house here. When Robert Bogle bought the place there was no house upon it; the old residence of the Minto-Stewarts, (3) which stood on the hill immediately behind the present house, and of which traces remained till modern times, having been allowed to fall into ruins. Daldowie, however, had all the makings of a fine place, and Hamilton of Wishaw, who wrote about thirty years before George Bogle entered on possession, says of it, "And more downward, where Calder falls into Clyde, is Dalduie, the ancient seat of the lairds of Minto Stewart; a most pleasant dwelling if the seat, gardens and planting had ane house upon it."
The house was finished before 1745 (4) for one of George Bogle's children was born there that year. For a long period of years it remained as then built, but in 1830 and in 1837 it was considerably altered and added to by the then proprietors.
George Bogle of Daldowie died in 1782, and was succeeded in it by his son Robert, who died there unmarried in 1808. The last owner of Daldowie connected with the Bogles was George Brown of Langside, (5) who succeeded to the estate as heir of his mother and aunt, the co-heiresses of their brother Robert Bogle. In 1825, after Daldowie had been just 100 years in the family, Mr. Brown sold it to John Dixon of Calder Iron-works, who again sold it in 1830 to the late James M'Call, a well known and highly respected merchant of an old Glasgow family, (6) and father of the present proprietor.
THE GLASGOW BOGLES
"Then I straightway did espy, with my slantly-sloping eye,
A carvèd stone hard by, somewhat worn;
And I read in letters cold - Here . lyes . Launcelot . ye . bolde,
Off . ye . race . off . Bogile . old . Glasgow . borne."
From very early times there were Bogles in Glasgow, and under the old archbishops in pre-Reformation times they were rentallers on the church lands. One of them was a churchman, viz., "Patrick Bogill, curate of the church of Caddir" in 1509.
The Bogles were rentallers or tenants on the very lands they afterwards possessed, but, with the exception of the Bogleshole branch, not till after the lapse of many generations. Thus, "Isobell Bogyll" was in "Daldowy Westyr" in 1555; "Tomas Bogyl" in the "xxiijs ixd lands of Chedylstoun" in 1510; and "Wylzem Bogylle" in the "xiijs fourd lands in Carmyl, callet Bogyllis Hole," in 1569; and many other examples might be cited of different persons of the name holding farms in the Carmyle district.
The Bogleshole Bogles at the Reformation became the proprietors of their lands. They held them for many generations, and were people apparently of some standing. In an old Scottish Act of Parliament of 1690 "Thomas Bogle of Boglehole" is restored from forfeiture. His name is included in a long list of West Country Whigs of both high and low degree. William, a succeeding Bogle of Bogleshole, died in 1756, aged twenty-eight years.
Shettleston, at the beginning of last century, belonged to John Petticrew, and the history of Daldowie is given above. The Daldowie (which includes Hamilton Farm) and the Shettleston families sprung from two brothers - George, of whom Daldowie, and Robert, of whom Shettleston. Taking, first,
THE BOGLES OF DALDOWIE,
we find, about the middle of the seventeenth century, as a Glasgow merchant -
I. GEORGE BOGLE, possessed of considerable property both in the city of Glasgow and the neighbourhood. He died in 1707, and was buried under a stone placed against the east end of the Cathedral of Glasgow, and which bore this inscription, now effaced:-
HERE IS THE PLES
Apoynted for the Burail of
GEORG BOGEL.
By his marriage with Jean Park he left three sons and one daughter - (I.) Robert (afterwards of Daldowie), of whom presently. (II.) John of Hamilton Farm, married a daughter of Matthew Millar of Glenlee, and had a son John, who married a daughter of George Murdoch, Provost of Glasgow in 1754. He died 1752, aged seventy-three years, leaving issue: 1) William, afterwards of Hamilton Farm, who died without issue; 2) Patrick, who married the Hon. Christian Graham Crawford, daughter of Patrick, second Viscount Garnock; 3) Matthew, who married his cousin, a daughter of Robert Bogle of Daldowie. His descendants were Mrs. Marshall (mother of Mrs. William Bogle and grandmother of Colonel Hubert Marshall and Janet Marshall, widow of the celebrated Sir William Hamilton of Preston, Professor of Logic in the University of Edinburgh), Nancy and Laurence Bogle; 4) Martha, married Colin Dunlop of Carmyle (see Tollcross); 5) Mary, married the Rev. John Hamilton, minister of the High Church of Glasgow (see North Woodside, note on the Hamiltons of Northpark and Woodside); and 6) Margaret, married Andrew Leitch, who had one daughter, the mother of George Munro of Calderbank. (III.) Patrick, died 1736, aged sixty-three. (IV.) Elizabeth, married in 1680 her cousin, Robert Bogle of Shettleston. She died in 1743, aged eighty-one, and having survived her husband many years. She was a very clever woman, and when a widow she continued to carry on her husband's business, that of a Dutch merchant; and many of her correspondents, unaware of her sex, used to address their letters to Mr. Bessie Bogle (see Shettleston branch).
II. ROBERT BOGLE OF DALDOWIE was thrice married, as under, and died in 1734. His first wife was Christian Hamilton, daughter of Frederick Hamilton, a Glasgow merchant, and several times Dean of Guild between 1661 and 1667. By her he had - (I.) Christian, married to Walter Pollock, second son of Sir Robert Pollock of that Ilk. She left issue. Robert Bogle's second wife was Mary, daughter of Mathew Millar of Glenlee. By her he had - (I.) George of Daldowie, of whom afterwards. (II.) Mathew. (III.) Margaret, married Lawrence Scott, and had issue, Charles, William, a merchant in London, Mrs. Daniel Campbell, Elizabeth, Barbara. Charles Scott, the eldest son, married a daughter of Thomas Yuille of Darleith, and had - Elizabeth, Barbara (Mrs. John Todd), George, Thomas, Lawrence, Charles, William, Jane (Mrs. David Todd). George Bogle, jun., and Lawrence Scott were partners. (IV.) Mrs. Anderson, whose husband was a merchant in Glasgow, and whose son William was a W.S. in Edinburgh. (V.) Mrs. Mathew Bogle (see Hamilton Farm above). Robert Bogle's third wife was Elizabeth, daughter of John Graham of Dougalston. By her he had - (I.) Robert, a merchant in London; (II.) John, died in 1731; (III.) Elizabeth; (IV.) Agnes; (V.) Rebecca - all died unmarried.
III. GEORGE BOGLE OF DALDOWIE, born 1701, died in 1782. He married Ann Sinclair, daughter of Sir John Sinclair of Stevenston by Dame Martha Lockhart, daughter and heiress of Sir John Lockhart, Lord Castlehill, a Lord of Session, third son of Sir James Lockhart of Lee and brother of Sir William Lockhart, ambassador to France during the Protectorate. (7) By her he had issue - (I.) Robert of Daldowie, of whom afterwards, died unmarried; (II.) John, a merchant in Glasgow, and for some time in Virginia, died unmarried; (III.) George, private secretary to Warren Hastings, (8) died at Calcutta, 1781, aged thirty-four, unmarried; (IV.) Martha (married Thomas Brown of Langside), of whom afterwards; (V.) Mary; (VI.) Elizabeth; (VII.) Anne - all died unmarried.
IV. ROBERT BOGLE OF DALDOWIE suffered great commercial losses about 1777, and his father's estate became encumbered in consequence. He lived for some time in London and afterwards at Daldowie, where he died in 1808.
V. MRS. MARTHA BOGLE or BROWN OF DALDOWIE succeeded, along with her sister Anne Brown, as co-heiress. She had married Thomas Brown of Langside (which see), and had, with other issue -
VI. THOMAS BROWN, M.D., of Glasgow, who succeeded to Lanfine and Waterhaughs. He married Marion Jeffrey, sister of Lord Jeffrey, and had, with other issue, 1) Thomas, the late accomplished laird of Lanfine and Waterhaughs, who died in 1873, and
VII. MARTHA BROWN OF WATERHAUGHS AND LANFINE, the present representative of the Bogles of Daldowie.
THE BOGLES OF SHETTLESTON.
As already shown, George Bogle, the ancestor of Daldowie, and Robert Bogle, the ancestor of Shettleston, were brothers. Having disposed of Daldowie, Shettleston remains to be treated of, and, like the whole Bogle subject, it is complicated.
I. ROBERT BOGLE OF SHETTLESTON had a son,
II. ROBERT BOGLE OF SHETTLESTON, who married in 1680 his cousin Elizabeth, daughter of George Bogle (see Daldowie). By her he had issue - (I.) Robert, of whom afterwards. (II.) George, who was several times Dean of Guild. He married, firstly, Helen, daughter of James Luke and Isobel Cross, and had by her - 1) Robert, who died unmarried; 2) Isobel, who married in 1754 Neil Bannatyne (see Milheugh); 3) Elizabeth, who married in 1756 George Buchanan of Arden, and was the mother of John Buchanan of Arden and Herbert Buchanan. George Bogle married secondly one of the Andersons of Stobcross, and had one son, James, who died unmarried about 1813. George Bogle's third wife was Jean Gilhagie, through whom he got some lands in the Easter Craigs, which eventually went to his two daughters by his first wife, Jean Gilhagie having no issue. (III.) Elizabeth, married Thomas Yuille of Darleith. They had two sons, Robert and George, afterwards of Darleith. The latter married Margaret, daughter of George Murdoch, merchant and Lord Provost of Glasgow, and had six sons and seven daughters. The eldest son, Thomas of Darleith, died unmarried in 1827, and was succeeded by his nephew, the present proprietor of Darleith, Andrew Buchanan Yuille, eldest son of George Murdoch Yuille by his wife Matilda, daughter of Andrew Buchanan of Ardinconnal. Other members of George Yuille of Darleith's family were - Anne Eliza Yuille, who married in 1812 Dr. James Hutton of Calderbank, whom she long survived; Robert Yuille, married in 1814 Ann Cross, daughter of William Cross of Auchentoshan, and died in 1830; Helen Yuille, married in 1804 John Buchanan, and had, with other issue, Margaret Murdoch, who married in 1834 her cousin Andrew Buchanan Yuille of Darleith. She died in 1875. Elizabeth Yuille, married William Shortridge. Elizabeth Bogle and Thomas Yuille of Darleith's eldest daughter Elizabeth, and who died in 1782, married Arthur Robertson, City Chamberlain, and had issue. Their next daughter married John Murdoch, merchant in Glasgow, and had issue. The third daughter married Charles Scott of Woodbank (for whose descendants see the Daldowie branch), and the fourth daughter married James Donald of Geilston (see Mountblow).
III. ROBERT BOGLE OF SHETTLESTON married firstly Jean Carlyle, and had issue - (I.) Robert, of whom afterwards. (II.) Elizabeth, married Allan Dreghorn of Ruchill, and died without issue. Robert Bogie married secondly Agnes, daughter of Sir Archibald Stewart of Blackhall, Bart., and had issue. (III.) Archibald, ancestor of Gilmorehill, married Janet Cathcart, daughter of Hugh Cathcart and Helen Wardrop, and grand-daughter of Sir John Cathcart of Carlton. He had 1) Robert of Gilmorehill, who married in 1791 Margaret, daughter of Michael Bogle. Their eldest son was Archibald, who sold Gilmorehill in 1845; (9) and a younger son was James, Dean of Guild in 1847, who was an exceedingly active and public-spirited citizen. He died in 1855. Their eldest daughter Janet married the Rev. Mr. Robertson of Eddleston; the second, Margaret, married Michael Scott, author of "Tom Cringle's Log," "Cruise of the Midge," &c. The youngest, Elizabeth, married James Campbell, Possil "Dignify" one of the very finest of the "Old Glasgow Gentry." All of them had families. 2) Hugh of Calderbank, who married in 1800 Agnes, daughter of Michael Bogle. Hugh Bogle of Calderbank and Agnes Bogle had Janet married to James Finlay, eldest son of Kirkman Finlay; Helen, married John Campbell Douglas of Mains; and George, afterwards of Rosemount. 3) Helen, who married John Hamilton of North Park (see North Woodside). 4) Agnes, who married George Hamilton, died without issue. (10) 5) Elizabeth, married James Robertson of Greenock. 6) George, died 1813. 7) Andrew, married 1801 Mary, daughter of John Stirling. (11) 8) Margaret, died unmarried. (IV.) John, died in the East Indies unmarried. (V.) George, married Isabella Luke, and died 1808. He had issue - 1) Janet, who married John Stirling; 2) Agnes, married Dr. Thomas Elliot, R.N.; 3) Margaret, married 1792 George Hamilton, son of the Rev. John Hamilton of the High Church, Glasgow; 4) Elizabeth, married Lieut.-Col. Ritchie, and died without issue in 1816; 5) Grace, married 1801 John Smellie; 6) Jane, died unmarried in 1792. (VI.) Michael, born 1734, married Janet Scott. He had issue - 1) Elizabeth, died unmarried; 2) Robert, died unmarried, 1781; 3) James, married Elizabeth Mackay, and died without issue 1832; 4) Michael, died young; 5) Margaret, died 1833, married 1791 Robert Bogle of Gilmorehill; 6) Archibald, married Margaret N. Kennedy; (12) 7) Allan, married 1803 Janet Hunter; (13) 8) Agnes, married Hugh Bogle of Calderbank, died 1843; 9) Janet, died unmarried; 10) Catherine, married Major-General Lockhart, and died without issue 1846; 11) Mary, died unmarried; 12) Isabella, died unmarried; 13) Rebecca, married 1814 Jasper Lyon, and had issue George and Janet. (VII.) Thomas died young.
IV. ROBERT BOGLE OF SHETTLESTON, who died in 1790, married Mary Wood, a descendant of the famous Sir Andrew Wood of Largo, the merchant-admiral, who in his ship the "Yellow Carvel" defeated the English in many naval engagements. Largo (14) was granted him as a reward for his services. They had issue - (I.) Robert, who died unmarried; (II.) Allan, died unmarried in 1781; (III.) William, the Postmaster of Glasgow, died in 1806; he married Martha Marshall, daughter of Richard Marshall and granddaughter of Mathew Bogle and his wife, respectively of the Hamilton Farm and Daldowie Bogles. By her he had Margaret, who married in 1812 Archibald Hamilton, son of John Hamilton of North Park (see North Woodside), and Mary, married David Wardrop. (IV.) Jane, married William Clark of Kerse, died 1834. (V.) Susannah, married David Elliot, and died 1832; she had issue three daughters, respectively Mrs. M'Kirdy, Mrs. Wilkie, and Miss Anne Elliot.
Shettleston was sold in 1762 to James M'Nair of Greenfield.
(1) In some accounts of the Allanton family, a Sir Robert Stewart of Daldowie is stated to have existed so far back as previous to 1300. He, and several other Stewart knights of Daldowie who are said to have followed him, are simple myths, and neither did nor could have existed. Daldowie, as stated above, was church land till the Reformation, and they were tenants upon it till 1598, when they became lairds of a part of Wester Daldowie, and which they did not hold long.
(2) See Note on the Bogles of Glasgow at the end of this notice.
(3) In Blaeu's map of Lanarkshire by Timothy Pont, published at Amsterdam in 1654, a house is represented on Daldowie.
(4) In 1745 Prince Charles Edward being at Glasgow with his army, the following notice was sent to George Bogle of Daldowie:-
"Glasgow, 25th December 1745. - By His Royall Highness' command, these are ordering you to send in to the Fish Mercat here, by twelve of the clock tommorrow att noon, for the use of the army under His Royall Highness, One Thousand Stone Hay, Thirty Bolls Oats, and Four Carts Straw. These you are to obey under the pain of Military Execution to be Immediately done against you.
JAMES URQUHART
To George Bogle of Daldoway, Esquire."
Besides this, some of the Highlanders came to Daldowie and carried off horses, provender, &c. Mr. Bogle sent in a complaint, and the following Protection was sent:-
"Charles, Prince of Wales, &c., Regent of Scotland, England, France, and Ireland, and the Dominions thereunto belonging - To all His Majesty's officers, Civil or Military:-
These are requiring you to protect and defend the Estate, House, Horses, Goods and Effects of George Bogle, Junior, Esquire, from all violence or insults to be offered by any person or persons whomsoever, We having taken him under Our Royal protection.
Given at Glasgow this twenty-ninth day of December, 1745,
By His Highness' Command,
Jo. MURRAY."
George Bogle's eldest daughter, at that time nine years of age, used to tell her grandchildren that she went to Bothwell Bridge to see the Prince pass. He was a fine-looking young man with long fair hair, and who had upon his banner a crown and a coffin.
(5) See Langside.
(6) James M'Call of Daldowie was twin-brother of John M'Call of Ibroxhill and ninth child of James M'Call of Braehead, son of Samuel M'Call, one of the old "Virginia Lords" and a magistrate in 1723 (see Belvidere). He married Anna Cathrina Jacoba Fehrszen, a lady who survives, and had issue, James, died young; Henry, now of Daldowie, unmarried; John Oloff, unmarried; Thomas, died young; Samuel, died young; Sarah, married firstly Colonel R. D. Campbell, C.B.; secondly, General Alexander Maxwell, C.B., by whom she has issue; Thomas, died young; Anne, unmarried; George, unmarried; Frederick, married, 1871, Charlotte Robson, and has issue: Robert, died 1861. Mr. M'Call, who was born in 1778, died in 1866.
(7) Martha Lockhart (Lady Castlehill) succeeded her father in the estates of Castlehill and Cambusnethan. She was the widow of her cousin-german Cromwell Lockhart, eldest son and successor of the ambassador Sir William Lockhart, who married Robina, daughter of John Shouster by Anne, sister of Oliver Cromwell. Cromwell Lockhart left no issue. Sir John Sinclair, Martha Lockhart's second husband, had by her a large family, of whom Ann, as stated above, married George Bogle of Daldowie. Members of the Cambusnethan family have been since well known in Glasgow. James Sinclair Lockhart of Cambusnethan was the last Distributor of Stamps there, a pleasant office now gone the way of all sinecures, and Anne is the widow of the universally popular Thomas M'Call. The mother of Sir John Sinclair was Lady Helen Lindsay, daughter of the fourteenth Earl of Crawford and Lindsay. Through this lady Sir John was descended in two distinct lines from both James I. and James II. of Scotland.
(8) George Bogle was sent by Warren Hastings as envoy to the Lama of Thibet in 1774. His Journals and other papers are now in the possession of Miss Brown of Lanfine, and were made use of by Clements Markham, C.B., F.R.S., in his interesting book, "Tibet, Bogle, and Manning," in which he gives a short memoir of George Bogle.
(9) Archibald Bogle, last of Gilmorehill, married his cousin Janet Bogle, daughter of Andrew Bogle, and had Robert, killed at Lucknow; Andrew, 78th Regiment V.C.; Archibald, R.N.; Michael, in holy orders; Mary; and Margaret.
(10) Agnes Bogle was George Hamilton's first wife. His second was Margaret Bogle, her cousin, daughter of George Bogle and Isabella Luke (see North Woodside).
(11) Andrew Bogle and Mary Stirling's family were Sir Archibald Bogle, K.C.B.; Janet, who married her cousin, Archibald Bogle of Gilmorehill; and Mary, died unmarried.
(12) Archibald Bogle and Margaret N. Kennedy had issue: Margaret Orr, married William Gray; Michael; Janet; James K.; Mary, married Thomas Innes, W.S.; William, married Jane Bell; Archibald Robert; Gilbert Kennedy, married Agnes Hamilton; Hugh; Catherine, married Allan Burns.
(13) Mrs. Allan Bogle married secondly Graham of Gartmore, and had one son, Thomas Dunlop Graham, who was brought up by his aunt (his mother's sister), Mrs. Thomas Dunlop Douglas of Dunlop, whose husband at his death left him the liferent of Dunlop.
(14) A tower still standing of the old house of Largo bears on it the inscription that it was built by the hands of "English slaves," being, of course, the admiral's unlucky prisoners.
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