'DZmisc04'
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Families covered: Danzielston (Danielston or Denniston or Dennistoun) of Dennistoun, Dennistoun of Colgrain
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Sir Hugh de Danzielstoun (Danielston) of that ilk (a 1266)
1. Sir John de Danzielstoun (Danielston) of that ilk, Sheriff of Dumbarton
  m. Mary Fleming (dau of Sir Malcolm Fleming, 1st Earl of Wigtown)
  A. Sir Robert de Danzielstoun (Danielston) of that ilk
  i. Margaret de Danielston
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  m. Sir William Cunynghame of Kilmaurs (d by 12.1415)
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ii. Elizabeth de Danielston (or Denniston)
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  m. (1402) Sir Robert Maxwell of Calderwood
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  B. Walter de Danielston, Bishop of St. Andrews
  C. Sir William de Danielston of Colgrain ancestor of Dennistoun of Colgrain - see below
  D. Janet de Danielston
  m. Sir Adam Mure of Rowallan (d 1399)
  E.+ other issue - Hugh, Malcolm
2. Joanna de Danzielston (Danielston)
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  m. Sir Adam Mure of Rowallan (a 1332)
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Descended from the above Sir William de Danielston of Colgrain was ...
Robert Danzielstoun of Colgrain (d 1618)
m. Katherine Semple (dau of David Semple of Noblestoun)
1. Robert Danzielstoun of Colgrain
  m. Margaret Hamilton (dau of John Hamilton of Ferguslie)
  A. James Dennistoun of Colgrain
i. Walter Dennistoun of Colgrain
  m1. Sarah Houston (dau of Sir Patrick Houston of Houston)
  a. John Dennistoun of Colgrain
  m. Jean Semple (dau of William Semple of Fulwood)
  (1) Margaret Dennistoun of Colgrain
  m. William Dennistoun below
  (2) Jean Dennistoun
  (3) Janet Dennistoun
  m. William Semple of Fulwood
  b. James Dennistoun (d unm)
  m2. (1623) Grace or Grizel Brisbane (dau of John Brisbane of Brisbane)
  B. Elizabeth Dennistoun
  m. John Colquhoun of Camstradden
  C. Catherine Dennistoun
  m. John Macgregor of Ardenconnal
D.+ other issue (dsp)
2. John Dennistoun
  m. Margaret Spreull (of family of Dolchurn)
  A. Archibald Dennistoun of Dalchurn (minister of Campsie)
  m1. Jane Noble (dau of Humphry Noble of Fame and Ardardan)
  i. William Dennistoun
  m. Margaret Dennistoun of Colgrain (dau of John Dennistoun of Colgrain) above
a. John Dennistoun of Colgrain
  m. (1700) Jane Buchanan (dau of Moses Buchanan of Glins)
  (1) James Dennistoun of Colgrain (d 1796)
  m1. Janet Baird (dau of John Baird of Craigtown)
(A) James Dennistoun of Colgrain and Dennistoun (d 1816)
  m1. (1777) Margaret Donald (dau of James Donald of Geilstoun)
  (i) James Dennistoun of Dennistoun and Colgrain (d 01.06.1834) had issue
  m. (1801) Mary Ramsay Oswald (dau of George Oswald of Auchincruive and Scotstoun)
  m2. Margaret Dreghorn (dau of Robert (not Allan) Dreghorn of Blochairn)
  (ii) Isabella Bryson Dennistoun
  m. Gabriel Hamilton-Dundas of Westport and Duddingstoun
(iii) Janet Baird Dennistoun
  m. Hugh Maclean of Coll
  (iv) Elizabeth Dreghorn Dennistoun
  m. (22.02.1815) Sir Duncan Campbell, 1st Bart of Barcaldine (b 03.07.1786, d 02.04.1842)
  (v) Mary Lyon Dennistoun (d 17.12.1872)
  m. (1815) Sir William Baillie, Bart of Polkemmet (b 25.07.1782, d 28.01.1854)
(B) Jean Dennistoun
  m. (1769) Andrew Buchanan of Ardenconnal (b 1745, d 1835)
  m2. Mary Lyon (dau of John Lyon of Parklee)
  (C) Robert Dennistoun had issue
  m. Anne Penelope Campbell (dau of Archibald Campbell)
  (D) Richard Dennistoun of Kelvin Grove, later Pinnacle Hill (b 07.03.1797) had issue
  m. (21.03.1839) Frances Elizabeth Satterthwaite (dau of Thomas Rishton Satherthwaite of Lancaster)
  (E) Mary Dennistoun
  m. John Alston of Westerton (b 1762, d 1835)
  b.+ 15 children (dvp)
  m2. Katharine Stirling (dau of James Stirling of Auchyle)

Main source(s): BLG1886 (Dennistoun of Dennistoun)
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