Notes on Lag & the Baronets, Rockhall, etc.
[A]
March 2nd, 1761 [(not 1760 as in list)] - Assignation & Disposition [made 1738], SIR WILLIAM GRIERSON to ANN MUSGRAVE, his spouse.
He is WILLIAM GRIERSON OF LAG, [SCOTLAND], & she is ANN MUSGRAVE, daughter of (Sir) RICHARD MUSGRAVE of Haiton Castle, Cumberland, Baronet.She had maintained (Sir) William Grierson of Lag, [Scotland] for [five] 5 years after their marriage of her own fortune as he could not have access to his father’s estate - she repaired the house at Rockhall, both inside & out & furnished it & bought horses, cattle & sheep for the farm, she paid several of his personal debts ‘which he was distressed for’ He therefore dispones all his moveable estate to her - dated 24[th] November 1738.
There follows a deed dated 1744 in which Ann Musgrave makes her wish recorded that everything that she owns should be returned to her family after her death.
Notes by David Alan Grierson ~
[A] We know that the estate of Rockhall was rebuilt in c1600 by (Sir) William Grierson, who died in 1629,
[B] again by (Dame) Anne Musgrave whom (Sir) William married 1st September, 1720; (her father, (Sir) Richard Musgrave, 2nd Baronet died 8 May 1718, Durham, , Durham, England at age 73)
[C] in 1861 it lists 21 rooms;
[D] in 1871 it lists 21 rooms;
[E] in 1881 it lists 19 rooms;
[F] in 1891 it appears to have 18 rooms listed;
[G] Concerning the 1901 Population Census for Mouswald, Dumfries, Scotland - it is completely ruined and almost 99% of the data is useless. There was, however, one entry that stood out very plainly, the number of rooms in Rockhall Mansion House in 1901 was 18;
[H] and of late by (Feudal Baron) Brian Gregory Hamilton, 2006, who has refurbished Rockhall with a new roof, a complete pain job, now white, and for the first time, a sky-light.