What 1512 record in Galloway Scotland would contain this reference?

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Below is what I can find on the name McKinstry, which is apparently from Galloway, Scotland. Historical records place the name all over Galloway and nowhere else.

I am particularly interesting in placing the following vague reference.

**** an exciting reference to a Marion McInnistrie being a Baillie in
Newton Stewart in 1512. ****

According to a topographical dictionary, Newton Stewart was founded by a son of the second Lord Douglas or someone of that sort, in the 18th century.

So this reference to Marion NcInnistrie might be somewhere in the area, near the southern coast of Galloway off of one of the inlets, and I gather that a Baillie was a mayor.

Was Marion McInnistrie a female? If a male, that sure is one peculiar name for a rural Scotsman.

I'd like to find the reference if I could. Does anyone know where to look for it?

Black's surname dictionary, which does not contain the reference about Marion McInnistrie being a Baillie in Newton Stewart in 1512, and hardly gives sources for the information it does give, appears to cite someone else. Does anyone know who and what Woulfe is?

I'd also love to find where the notion that McKinstry is Gaelic for "son of a traveller" came from, as distinct from the name is a local corruption of a more common Scottish name like McKenzie or McIntire.

Yours,
Dora Smith

Scots Kith and Kin, Revised 2nd edition.

Mackinstry Galway, 16th century

Black, The Surnames of Scotland, 1979.

MacKinstry. Formerly a Galloway surname. M'Kinstrie 1593, M'Kynnistrie 1574. Woulfe says Ir. Mac an Astrigh, 'son of the traveller' (Ir. aistrightheach), an Ulster surname, probably of Scottish origin.

http://www.surnamedb.com/Surname/Mckinstry

This is an anglicized form of the Olde Scots Gaelic name Mac An Aistrigh, a compound of the Gaelic elements "mac", meaning "so of", plus the definite article "an", and the personal\nickname Aistrigh (from "Aistreach", a traveller). The surname was originally chiefly found in Galloway and is first recorded there in the late 16th Century, (see below). A further variant M'Kinstrie appears in 1593. Today, the name is widespread in Northern Ireland, having been introduced by the Scottish settlers .... The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of M'Kynnistrie, which was dated 1574, Records of Galloway, during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, Good Queen Bess, 1558 - 1603. Surnames became necessary when governments introduced personal taxation. In England this was known as Poll Tax.

From: BJMc...@aol.com
Subject: Re: [WIG LIST] Scottish names in Ulster Plantation..& McKinstry
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 17:38:34 -0600

Yes - my wife dug up this info some years ago while she was working with a
college libraray in Hamilton (Scotland, that is, not Ontario!), successfully
bringing me back down to earth & stopping me from chasing all sorts of gaelic
definitions (I was assuming Kin = head or top, as in Kinlochleven & getting
excited when I found a Glen Strae).

I think she found Blacks plus one other source, which I can't remember, but
which had **** an exciting reference to a Marion McInnistrie being a Baillie in
Newton Stewart in 1512. **** There is also Buittle churchyard, which apparently
has a fine collection of Kinstrey & even Kingstree (pity the Buittle site is
now pay to access).

(I found the Kingstree listings in the Buittle churchyard - all from 18th and 19th centuries. The Buittle churchyard covers no other time period.)

I thought that Black's surname dictionary existed online, but it does not.

Yours,
Villandra Thorsdottir
Austin, Texas