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- JOHN BUCHANAN of Blairlusk was father of: (1) George, who succeeded him; and (2) William, who bought Blairlusk from his brother George. He married Jeane Buchanan, but she was probably his second wife, and only step mother to George and William.
source: Smith, John Guthrie. Strathendrick and its Inhabitants from Early Times: An Account of the Parishes of Fintry, Balfron, Killearn, Drymen, Buchanan, and Kilmaronock. Glasgow, UK: James Maclehose and Sons, 1896.
- The eldest son,
JOHN BUCHANAN, for whom his father purchased the lands of Blairluisk, co. Dumbarton, b. 1615; m. his cousin Jean, and had issue,
GEORGE BUCHANAN, of Blairluisk, b. 1648; sold Blairluisk 1674, to his brother William, and settled near Omagh, co. Tyrone; m. Elizabeth Mayne, and had issue,
JOHN BUCHANAN, b. 1676; m. 1703, Catherine Black, and had issue, four sons, of whom,
1. JOHN, his heir.
2. Thomas, ancestor of James Buchanan, 15th President of the United States.
source: Bernard Burke, Bernard and Ashworth Peter Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Ireland, 9th Edition. London, UK: Harrison and Sons, 1899.
- From the third cadet of the Carbeth stem came John of Blairluisk, whose first son, George, relinquishing his Scottish honors, emigrated to Ireland, and settled in Tyrone county. Of his four sons, John and William erected families in the county of Tyrone, George in Munster, and Thomas in Donegal. William was succeeded by his son Patrick, who in his turn was succeeded by Robert, the ancestor of the Pennsylvania stock centered in Meadville. Robert had two sons – Thomas, late a military celebrity in Cumberland county, Penn., and Alexander.
source: Buchanan, A. W. Patrick. The Buchanan Book: The Life of Alexander Buchanan, Q.C., of Montreal, Followed by an Account of the Family of Buchanan. Montreal, Canada: privately printed, 1911.
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