Patrick HERON\Isabel NEILSON
Patrick HERON, son of Andrew HERON and Jean DUNBAR , was born 1642 in Kirouchtrie, Minnigaff, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland. He married Isabel NEILSON 1721. He died 1721 in Kirouchtrie, Minnigaff, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland. Isabel NEILSON was born abt. 1672.


Children of Patrick HERON and Isabel NEILSON are:

1. issue HERON, b. abt. 1721

Other Marriages for Patrick HERON:

Other Marriages for Isabel NEILSON:


Notes for Patrick HERON:

Patrick got Kirrouchtrie
The first reference to the HERONs of Kirrouchtrie having anything to dowith the West Indies is when he was 20 years old, Patrick had a bastardson. About 1662, Patrick HERON "in his rambling yeirs, he gott a boyupon a country girl". When old enough, this boy was sent to sea andmarried well in Liverpool. Out of that port he commanded a large ship.At last the young man settled in Bermuda. Wishing to revisit his nativeland, sailed home with his only child; but when a few leagues from theshore, the boat sank and the only survivor was a young negro boy.

Also Margaret HERON, Patrick HERON Sr.'s sister married a JamesLIDDERDALE whose son Thomas LIDDERDALE (b. 1690) went to the West Indiesand 'made a fortune'.

Also Patrick HERON Sr.'s grandson, (Alexander HERON b. 1707) joined theDutch army as a cadet, and served for two years in Flanders. He returned,and his father got him a lieutenancy in an independent regiment inBermuda. He married a brother officer's widow with two children. Thename is not given. No issue. (McKerlie)

Also Patrick HERON's brother, Andrew had a son Patrick HERON who became aCaptain of a ship (qv)

As for Patrick, himself, he succeeded (his brother John). "In fact, themanagement was left by their father to Patrick who at this time wasgreatly employed in managing the parks at Baldoon, parish of Kirkinnerand in taking large droves of cattle to the south of England."(TheBaldoon estate was owned at this time by Sir David DUNBAR). Patrickmarried Margaret, daughter of Provost Stewart of Wigtoun. She died earlywithout issue. (1697: at Baldoon)

When he succeeded his brother John, he left Baldoon a year afterwards andsettled at Kirrouchtrie.

In 1682, Patrick HERON of Littlepark had his life and property forfeitedfor not conforming to prelacy. A document "Bill of Forfeiture" dated1681-1682 by King Charles II names some McCLELLANDs along with an unknownHERON of Little Park having to forfeit their lands as a consequence oftheir 'treasonous' participation in the Battle of Bothwell Bridge in1679, a Covenanter's revolt. His father Andrew HERON of Kirrouchtrie wasdealt with and fined 5000 merks for harboring his second son Patrick whohad been a ring-leader at Bothwell Bridge.
(Source: Galloway and the Covenanters by Alex S. Morton)

1684 Oct 15: a Patrick HERON at Littlepark, Barony of Larg, Minnigaff,Wigtownshire.
aka Patrick HEROU.

27 april 1689 - patrick heron in littlepark

4 july 1690 - heron of Littlepark

1689-1691 - sending 1000 cattle a year to England

March 1693, Patrick HERON of Kirouchtrie had sasine of the land andbarony of Larg, and Monnygaffe, etc., thus evidently absorbing all theprevious wadsets. Succeeded his father in 1696. March 3, 1704, PatrickHERON, elder had sasine of the land of St. Marie Isle and Jordiland,etc., and on the 13th July following, James LIDDERDALE of St. Mary Islehad sasine of the same. (McKerlie)

July 5, 1704 at Kirrouchtree

Patrick HERON twice became M.P. for the Stewartry.

Sources for Patrick HERON:

  1. History of the Lands and Their Owners in Galloway,

Notes for Isabel NEILSON:

Was the widow of Thomas MAXWELL of Cuil, Parish of Buittle when shemarried
Patrick. Was also the daughter of a NEILSON, merchant in Dumfries whowas
the brother to the laird of Barncailzie. The lands (excepting Cuil)which
Thomas conveyed to his wife Isabel did not belong to him, but were onlyheld
in trust. After his death it created much litigation.
She had issue with Patrick but none survived. (McKerlie)


Notes for issue HERON:

None survived.