Hugh Findlay ( - ) Hugh Finlay married Lillias Cleland on 11 Dec 1801, in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, Scotland. Together they had nine children. Birth date Birth place Death date Death place James 30 Sep 1802 Kilmarnock 1877 Alexander 17 Oct 1804 Kilmarnock 1862 Hugh 20 Feb 1807 Kilmarnock 11 Jun 1872 Crookedholm David 17 Feb 1809 Kilmarnock 1879 Mary Houston 8 May 1811 Kilmarnock 17 Jan 1886 Prestwick Jean 31 Aug 1813 Kilmarnock Janet 28 Apr 1816 Kilmarnock 25 Mar 1898 Galston John 18 Aug 1818 Kilmarnock btw 1850 and 1857 Riccarton Archibald 2 Jun 1821 Kilmarnock 1860 The Bruce family line involves descendants of Janet Findlay who married William Howat in 1836. After the death of his first wife Lillias on May 12, 1835, Hugh Findlay remarried. He took Janet Nisbett as his second wife on July 16, 1835, in Kilmarnock. She was born in 1797 in Kilmarnock and had previously been married to John Black, a collier. They had six children together : John, Margaret, Thomas, Andrew, Elizabeth and Mary. Their father John Black had died in 1830. Hugh and Janet Findlay had one son together named Thomas who was born on 16 Oct 1838 in Kilmarnock