This account was sent to us by Alexander F.Livingstone and is an account of the Livingston family taken from "The Scottish Nation or the Surnames, Families, Literature and Biographical History of the People of Scotland" by William Anderson. LIVINGSTONE, a surname said to be of Hungarian origin, the progenitor of the families of this name in Scotland being a gentleman of Hungary who came to this country with Margaret, queen of Malcolm Canmore, about 1070. His descendant in the third degree, Livingus, who lived in the reiges of King Alexander I., and his brother, King David I., called a considerable estate in West Lothian, which he possessed, Livingston, that is, the dwellingplace of Livingus. His son, Thurstanus, a witness to the foundation charter of Holyrood-house in 1128, had two sons, Alexander and William. The elder, Alexander; the first who assumed the name of Livingston, died in the end of the reign of King Alexander II. His son, Sir William Livingston, who acquired the lands of Gorgvn near Edinburgh, witnessed a charter of Malcolm, earl of Lennox, in 1270. From William, the eldest of his three sons, descended the Livingstons of Livingston, the last of whom, Sir Bartholomew Livingston, was killed at the battle of Flodden in 1518. leaving three daughters his coheiresses. The two younger Sons, Sir Archibald and Adam, swore fealty to Edward I. in 1296. Sir Archibald’s grandson, Sir William Livingston, accompanied King David II. in his expedition to England in 1346, and was taken prisoner at the battle of Durham, 17th October of that year. He was one or the four commissioners appointed by the Estates of Scotland, 17th January 1356—7, to treat with England for the ransom of the king, and also for peace between the two nations. He had a grant from David II. of the barony of Callendar, then in the crown by the forfeiture of Patrick Callendar, whose only daughter and heiress, Christian, he married. Of two sons, Patrick, the elder, one of the hostages for King David II. in 1357, predeceased him. The younger son, Sir William had a son, Sir John Livingstone of’ Callendar, killed at the battle or Homildon, 14th September 1402, leaving four sons, viz. Sir Alexander, who succeeded; Robert, ancestor of the Livingstones of Westquarter and Kinnaird; John, of the Livingstones of Bonton; and William, of the viscounts of Kilsyth. Sir James Livingstone, baronet, son and heir of Sir John Livingstone of Kinnaird, was created by CharIes II. earl of Newburgh.
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