Note 5 — INTRODUCTORY. SOME ACCOUNT OF THE DUNDONALD FAMILY.

“Opposite to Johnstoun, upon the east side of the river, lye the house and barony of Cochran, the principal manour of the Cochrans, a family of great antiquity in this shire, whose ancestors have possessed these lands well nigh 500 years, and, without doubt, have taken appellation from their hereditary lands, when fixed surnames came to be used.”—Crawfurd’s Description of Renfrew, p. 82.