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Thomas Nicolson of Carnock

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98: 171: 262:. As the 4th Baronet died in 1688, unmarried and childless, the Carnock estate and the baronetcy passed to his paternal uncle, the 1st Baronets grandson, Sir Thomas Nicolson, 5th Baronet (d. 1699). 97: 541: 546: 243: 205: 372: 250:) and Thomas Nicolson (1649–1670), who married Jean Napier and succeeded Sir Thomas as the 3rd Baronet in 1664. The 3rd Baronet was the father of 561: 247: 128:. His son John Drummond of Drummondshall married Margaret Rollock, daughter of his business partner John Rollock, and their lands became the 235: 209: 110: 259: 251: 226:
Sir Nicolson died on 8 January 1646 and was succeeded by his eldest son, who became Sir Thomas Nicolson of Carnock, 2nd Baronet.
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on 16 January 1637, and he decorated his house at Carnock with his new heraldry in stone and plasterwork.
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Through his eldest son Sir Thomas, he was a grandfather of Margaret Nicolson (mother of
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An advocate from 1612, in 1623 Nicolson was rewarded with the office of postmaster of
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has some plasterwork from a ceiling from the house including the Nova Scotia arms of
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Sir Thomas Nicolson (1628–1664), who married Lady Margaret Livingstone, daughter of
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Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage
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and 3rd of Cawder, son of Sir James Stirling, as his third wife in 1654.
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Nicolson married Isobel Henderson, a daughter of Walter Henderson of
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Northern Notes & Queries: or The Scottish Antiquary, Vol. III
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The genealogy of the most noble and ancient House of Drummond
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Henderson) Nicolson. His father was a practising advocate at
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A number of Nicolson's letters and charters are held by the
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Stevenson, J. H.; Hallen, The Rev. A. W. Cornelius (1889).
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Ann Nicolson, who married Sir George Stirling, 6th of
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The Castellated and Domestic Architecture of Scotland
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Stirlingshire: an inventory of the ancient monuments
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Ceiling of Carnock House during demolition in 1942 (
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Index

Thomas Nicolson, 1st Baronet
Stirlingshire
Lasswade
née
Edinburgh
Sir John Nicolson, 2nd Baronet
Burgess
Edinburgh
Sheriff Clerk of Aberdeen
George Henderson
Fordell
Sir John Swinton
of that Ilk

Cockburnspath
John Murray, 1st Earl of Annandale
Carnock House
Stirling
Robert Drummond of Carnock
Bannockburn estate
James Guthrie
Baronet Nicolson of Carnock
Nova Scotia
Historic Environment Scotland
Nicolson of Carnock
National Archives of Scotland

Historic Environment Scotland
Granton
Riccarton

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