Part 1
Hello all. I've came across a wonderful newspaper article which names many people in my extended family - the only trouble is, I have no idea what it is all about!
I'm not very knowledgable in legal matters, and I've not seen anything like this before.
I have transcribed the article, although it wasn't very clear and there was some smudging, so please excuse any errors.
9 August 1882 - The Glasgow Herald
IN THE SHERIFF COURT OF LANARKSHIRE AT HAMILTON.
In the ACTION of MULTIPLEPOINDING and EXONERATION at the instance of GEORGE SELLAR, Esquire, Sheriff Clerk of Lanarkshire, Nominal Raiser and Pursuer, against WILLIAM ARCHIBALD, Weaver, Newmilns, in the County of Ayr; ANDREW ARCHIBALD, Labourer, Well-land County, Thorold Post Office, Canada West; MRS CHRISTINA McDONALD or ARCHIBALD, residing at Back Road, Strathaven; ANDREW ARCHIBALD, Wright, Sorn in the said County of Ayr; MRS MARION ARCHIBALD or ANTON, wife of JOHN ANTON, Farmer, Triploch Burn, by Ochiltree, Ayrshire; the said JOHN ANTON; ANDREW ARCHIBALD, Baker, Strathaven; SAMUEL ARCHIBALD, Labourer, Dumbarton; JOHN ARCHIBALD, Baker, Strathaven; MRS MARION ARCHIBALD or RICHMOND, wife of ROBERT RICHMOND, Miner, Sandknowe, Strathaven; the said ROBERT RICHMOND; MRS MARION HAMILTON or McKEAN, Widow, No. 78 Muslin Street, Bridgeton, Glasgow; MRS ISOBEL HAMILTON or MILLER, wife of ARCHIBALD MILLER, No. 3 Newhall Terrace, Bridgeton, Glasgow; the said ARCHIBALD MILLER; MRS AGNES HAMILTON or FLEMING, wife of JOHN FLEMING, No. 13 Houston Place, off Houston Street, Kinning Park, Glasgow; the said JOHN FLEMING; IRVINE ARCHIBALD, Weaver, now or lately an inmate in the Poor’s-House at Irvine, Ayrshire; JOHN McGREGOR, SENIOR, No. 779 Duke Street, Glasgow; JOHN McGREGOR, JUNIOR, Son of the residing with the said John McGregor, Senior, as his Administrator-at-Law; ALEXANDER McGREGOR, Son of and residing with the said JOHN McGREGOR, Senior, and the said JOHN McGREGOR, Senior, as his Administrator-at-Law; ROBERT TORRANCE, No. 119 Reid Street, Bridgeton, Glasgow; MRS MARGARET TORRANCE or CHALMERS, Widow, No. 96 Abercromby Street, Glasgow; ANDREW TORRANCE, Miner, residing in Glasgow, but whose precise address is unknown, and AGNES TORRANCE or MURRAY, wife of ALEXANDER MURRAY, Combination Poor-House, Hamilton – both Children of the Deceased Janet Archibald or Torrance and Andrew Torrance, sometime Labourer in Strathaven, afterwards residing in Rutherglen; the said ALEXANDER MURRAY; DAVID ORR, Weaver, Todshill, Strathaven, Executor-Nominate of the Deceased William Donald, Wright in Edinburgh; THOMAS LONGMUIR, Weaver, Flemington, Strathaven; MATTHEW NISBET, of Township of Glover, Co. Orleans, State of Vermont, North America; all Heirs or Representatives of Heirs of the Deceased MISS MARY DONALD, sometime residing in Strathaven, and who died there on or about the 15th day of February, 1848, and Tutors or Curators of such of them as may be in pupilarity or minority if they any have; WILLIAM HORN, sometime Weaver at Annethill, thereafter residing in Glasgow; and MRS MARGARET BARRIE or HORN, his wife, for their interest, whom failing their Representatives and the Tutors or Curators of such of them as may be in pupilarity or minority, if they any have; and MRS MARGARET YUILL or McARTHUR Grain Merchant, Glasgow, as Executrix-Dative qua Relict of the late WILLIAM YUILL, Victualler in Glasgow, and the said JOHN McARTHUR, whom failing the legal Representatives of the said WILLIAM YUILL, and the Tutors or Curators of such of them as may be in pupilarity or minority, if they any have, Defenders, praying the Court to find that the Nominal Raiser and Pursuer is Holder of a Sum of £99 2s 9d sterling, being the Balance of a Fund consigned in the Sheriff Court of Lanarkshire at Hamilton, on or about the 15th day of December, 1851, with the Interest periodically accrued thereon, said Fund being so consigned in an Action of Multiplepoinding brought in said Court at the instance of the now Deceased MUNGO COCHRAN, Weaver in Strathaven, Nominal Raiser, against the also now Deceased MRS HELEN DONALD or LONGMUIR, who resided in Strathaven, and others, the Summons in which Action is dated in or about the month of October, 1851, and also to find that the Pursuer is only liable in once and single payment of the said sum, with the interest accrued and to accrue thereon until paid, and is entitled on payment thereof to be exonerated therefrom, the Sheriff-Substitute has pronounced the following Interlocutor: -
