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From these estates sprang the two great branches of the Maxwell family. The northern branch was headed by the Maxwell’s of Pollok with their cadets of Calderwood, Newark, Stainley and Auldhouse, and, more recently, Farnham and Springkell.
Mar 26, 2022 · Sir George Maxwell of Auldhouse and Pollok formerly Maxwell. Born after 1621 in Auldhouse, Renfrewshire, Scotland. Ancestors. Son of John (Maxwell) Maxwell VIIth of Auldhouse and Elizabeth (Stewart) Maxwell. Brother of Grizell Maxwell, Zacharias Maxwell and Jean (Maxwell) Crawford. Husband of Annabella (Stewart) Maxwell — married 1646 in ...
- Male
- April 1, 1677
- Annabella (Stewart) Maxwell
In 1751 he was elected Rector of University of Glasgow having previously been held by his cousin, his Uncle Sir George Maxwell and his grandfather Sir John Maxwell of Auldhouse. His first son John died in infancy, but he had another son (also called John), and it was this son that succeeded his father in 1752 and took the credit for the ...
John Maxwell, seventh of Auldhouse, 1634-1666, was educated for the church, and became minister of the parish of Eastwood about 1620, where he continued to labour till 1630, when he was translated to the High Church, Glasgow.
Sir George Maxwell of Pollok (and Auldhouse) was a resolute Covenanter from the late 1640s until his death in 1677. Prominent amongst the nobility and gentry in the area around Glasgow, he took an active role in Church courts and Parliament and was Rector of Glasgow University from 1654 to 1660.
When Sir George Maxwell of Auldhouse and Pollock was born about 1621, in Auldhouse, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, his father, Rev. John Maxwell 7th of Auldhouse, was 23 and his mother, Elizabeth Stewart, was 21. He married Annabella Stewart on 23 November 1646, in Milltown of Aberdalgie, Perthshire, Scotland.
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There was a Maxwell cadet living in the lands of Conheith from the late sixteenth century until the late eighteenth century. The family may have been closely connected to the Maxwells of Carnsalloch. Auldhouse. Auldhouse was a cadet of Nether Pollok. It is situated to the south of the paternal house.
