ARLEHAVE?!, ARLEYWIN, ARLEVIN, ERLELEVEN, HARLHEWING,
HARLEHAME,
HARLEHAVEN, HARLEHEAVIN — INCLUDING AUCHANTALL.
Extracted from:
The Parish of Strathblane and Its Inhabitants from
Early Times: A Chapter of Lennox History, by John Guthrie Smith; 1886
When King James I. granted certain lands, as already shown, to his
brother-in-law, William Edmonstone, prior to 1434, " Erleleven " was
among them ; and when King James II., in 1452, erected the same into
the Barony of Duntreath, "Arleywin" was included, and down to the
present time this part of Arlehaven, a fifty shilling land, has
continued to belong to the Edmonstones, with the exception of (i)
11 acres i rood and 10 falls which lay into Carbeth, and were in 18
17 exchanged with John Guthrie for part of Carbeth, and (2) of "the
poflUe called Dallinschachan and Boglands thereof, part of the fifty
shilling lands of Arlevin," which were sold by William Edmonstone of
Duntreath in 16 14, to John and Manasseh Lyle, and bought back again by his descendant, Archibald Edmonstone,
the laird in 1717.
Another part, however, of the original old Arlehaven, a forty shilling
land, was early in the possession of the
Douglases of Mains, an old
family long seated in the neighbouring parish of Kilpatrick. When
Alexander Douglas married Margaret, eldest daughter of Mathew, Earl
of Lennox, about 15 18, he had from his grandfather, William
Douglas, who succeeded to Mains in 1491, a resignation in fee of Arlehaven. This transaction was confirmed by a charter from John,
Earl of Lennox, the lands being called in it " Harlehaven."
Along with Ballewan Lennox or Wester Ballewan, Harlehaven Douglas
afterwards formed what is called in the old valuation roll of
Stirlingshire "Archibald Edmonstones Rent," this Archibald being a
cadet of Duntreath.
On the 18th May, 1665, John Douglas, the laird
of Mains, granted, as superior, a charter of Arlehaven to John
Lyle.^ In 1782 James Lyle, his descendant, sold the eastern part of
it to John Norwall or Norval, "weaver in Arlehaven." * The old
weaver had three sons — James, Walter, and Archibald.
In 1796 James
Norval, the eldest son, succeeded to these lands. He retained
Allereoch or Alreoch, the most southern part of Arlehaven, that next
Ballochalary and Carbeth, and the other parts called Dykehouse and
Easier Harlehame he made over to his brothers, Walter and Archibald,^
from whose descendants they were acquired by Sir
Archibald Edmonstone in 1868, after Dykehouse had been in the
possession of William Brown of Mugdock for some years.
Allereoch was
bought from James Norval in 1815 by John Guthrie of Carbeth, with the
exception of about ten acres at the top of the Cult Brae called Braehead. This little property, after belonging to John and James
Norval, who succeeded their father, was sold by James, the survivor,
shortly after 1872, to Robert Hugh Fraser of Glasgow, who in his
turn sold it in 1882 to Mrs. Elizabeth Norval or Robertson, wife of
David Robertson, formerly manager of the printfield at Strathblane,
and now calico printer at Milngavie.
And now, retracing our
steps a little, we find that four years after James Lyle sold the
eastern part of Arlehaven Douglas to John Norval, he sold the western part, called Wester Arlehaven or Meadowhead, to Sir Archibald
Edmonstone, 9th June, 1786,^ and the whole of it now forms part of
Duntreath estate.
Arlehaven, therefore, as we have now shown,
stands thus — the whole of the old fifty shilling land, Arlehaven
Edmonstone, so to speak, is, and always was, with the exception
pointed out, part of the Barony of Duntreath, and the whole of the
old forty shilling land of "Harleheaven Douglas," the superiority only excepted, which still pertains to Mains, now also belongs to
Duntreath estate, with the exception of Allereoch, about one sixth
of it, which is part of Carbeth Guthrie, and the profile of Braehead
which belongs to Mrs. David Robertson. |
