• Name: James Dunlop
• Sex: M
• Birth: 1574 in Ayrshire, Scotland
• Death: April, 1617
• Title: 13^th of that Ilk, 13th Chief of Dunlop (1596-1617) James had the 3rd Dunlop House built for him in 1599
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  James Dunlop, 13^th of that Ilk, son of Alexander, He held the lands of Dunlop from 1596-1617 Married Jean Somerville  Their Arms are still today on Dunlop House. James had built the 3^rd Dunlop House in 1599. The House blessing in the Atrium of Dunlop House was created by him and bears his monogram merged with Jean’s. Their son John founded the branch at Garnkirk from which the titled branch of Glasgow derives. Their son William founded the branch at Bloak, and son Thomas the branch at Househill. James and Jean are the great-grandparents of Sir Walter Scott. James (married Margaret Hamilton); Alexander; John; William (Robert of Bloak); Thomas of Househill (married Grissel Cochran; Allan; Dorothy (Married James Stewart); Christian (Married David Hamilton of Bothwellhaugh.)  John started the Garnkirk Branch, First Laird of Garnkirk (1634-1662). Son James was second Laird of Garnkirk (1662-1695). James, Third of Garnkirk..(1695-  )
  

  

  From the House of Dunlop

  Father: James Dunlop
  Mother: Elizabeth Isabel Hamilton b: WFT Est 1532-1555
  
  

  Marriage 1 Jean Sommerville of Cambusnethan, daughter of Sir James Somerville, 3rd of Cambusnethan and Katherine Murray of Falahall.
  B: 
  D: 1645

  Married: 1576
  

  Children of James Dunlop and Jean Sommerville
  1. John Dunlop  
  2. Robert Dunlop  ??
  3. Thomas Dunlop  
  4. William Dunlop  
  5. Alexander Dunlop *
  6. James Dunlop
  7.     Dorothy Dunlap
  8.     Katherine (Christian) Dunlop
  9.     Alan Dunlop

Sir Walter Scott is a Dunlop through his great-great grandmother. James Dunlop (1574b) married Jean Sommerville. Their son John married Bessie Dunlop, founder of Gankirk branch of family....whose daughter Jean Dunlop married Robert Campbell...whose daughter Janet Campbell married Tom Haliburton...whose daughter Barbara Haliburton married Robert Scott....Their son Walter Scott married Ann Rutherford, whose son was Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832). (Scott wore his mother's tartan, the Douglas-Hume. His uncle was Dr. Daniel Rutherford, the discoverer of Nitrogen and his maternal grandfather was Dr. John Rutherford, the father of modern surgery....submitted by Gary Harding)