George Weir 1st Bt (1674 - 1716)

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Biography

Sir George's father (or grandfather) was William Lowry who married Marriotte Weir, the Heiress of Blackwood, and as was the custom, took on his wife's 'superior' name of Vere/Weir, bore the Weir arms and partook of the position and wealth of nobility:

Sir George's mother was:

Marriotte Weir who married:

1st. = Major James Bannatyne (a sept of the Stewarts of Bute).

2nd. = William Lowry by whom she had a Son George who retained his mother's superior Vere name and became

Sir George Weir Bt. (descent to Hope-Vere of Blackwood)" (House of Vere).

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"SIR GEORGE of BLACKWOOD, ... His Grandfather was of the Name of LOWRY, who married the Heiress of Weir of Blackwood, and took upon him the Name and Arms of Weir." (On the Fesse)

There may have been another George Lowry Weir in between Lady Marriotte & William Lowry Weir and Sir George Weir of Blackwood, so that William Lowry nee Weir is the 'Grandfather' and 'Sir George' is the Grandson spoken of in "Of the Fesse."

Coat of Arms: Weir of Blackwood

Description: Argent on a fess Azure three mullets of the first.

COA Sources:

David Lindsey of the Mount

David Lindsey of the Mount Secundus

Alexander Nisbet's A System of Heraldry 1722

Sir James Balfour Paul's Scottish Ordinary 1672-7

Sources

• 'Of The Fesse' Chapter X. From the Archives of: The Lyon King of Arms of Scotland

• Burke's "Irish Landed Gentry" (1891-1917)

• http://www.heraldry-online.org.uk/weir/weir-arms.htm

• Ancestry.com, Ancestry Family Trees Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=79242530&pid=89

• "Duchy of Angiers and The Royal House of Vere" - https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/dragons/esp_sociopol_dragondescent2.htm

• http://www.leighrayment.com/baronetage/baronetsW1.htm