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The old family of the Inglises of Manner or Mannerhead traced their descent from Sir William Inglis, a knight of great courage in the reigns of Robert II. And Robert III., who, in 1395, distinguished himself at Ruel-haugh on the borders, when Sir Thomas Struthers, and English champion, had vauntingly defied any Scotsman to meet him in single combat. Sir William Inglis accepted the challenge, and killed him on the spot, and for that gallant action the latter monarch made him a grant of the lands and barony of Manner, by royal charter, dated in 1396. He died about 1420. His son, John Inglis of Manner, got a charter of confirmation of the barony from Archibald duke of Turenne (Touraine) and earl of Douglas, as superior of these lands.

According to Nisbet, as he held most of his other lands in Roxburghshire of the earls of Douglas, he added three stars on a chief to his paternal coat of Inglis, to denote his connexion with, and dependence on, that illustrious house.

His son, Thomas Inglis of Manner, exchanged, (charter of Excambion dated at Edinburgh, 23d July 1446), the lands of Branksome of Branksnolme, and others in Roxburghshire, with Sir Walter Scott of Murthockstone or Murdieston in Lanarkshire, progenitor of the dukes of Buccleuch, for the lands and barony of Murdieston. These were conferred on his eldest son, and the family continued in the male line as barons of Murdieston, for some generations afterwards, but at last ended in an heiress, married to a descendant of the family of Hamilton, who, in consequence, assumed the name and arms of Inglis of Murdieston.

The estate of Manner went to a second son. Thomas, the eleventh baron of Manner, sold it in 1709, and dying without issue, the representation of that branch of the family devolved on his cousin Charles, son of Thomas Inglis of Craigend. This Charles, a writer in Edinburgh, was clerk to the bills. He died in 1743, leaving a son, Charles, who succeeded him in his office of clerk to the bills.

The family is now extinct.

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Comment by William Douglas 20 hours ago

I am looking for details of the ancestry of the Inglis of Cramond family, who are among my ancestors.
Presumably not descended from the Manner, or Mannerhead branch.

Making conections

The more information you can give about the people you mention, the more chance there is of someone else connecting with your family.

Dates and places of births, deaths and marriages all help to place families.

Professions also help.

'My great-grandmother mother was a Douglas from Montrose' does not give many clues to follow up! But a bit of flesh on the bones makes further research possible. But if we are told who she married, what his profession was and where the children were baptised, then we can get to work.

Maybe it is time to update the information in your profile?


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