John Moffat^[1]

1601 -

• Associated names	Moffat , Moffat ( Moffet) , Moffat or Moffet , Moffatt , Moffeit , Moffet , Moffett , Moffit , Moffitt
  Gender	Male
  Submitter	13
  Birth	1601	Scotland   [1, 2]
  	possibly Netherknock or Ericstane
  Death	Scotland   [1]
  Person ID	I28847	Clan Moffat Genealogy
  Last Modified	19 February 2011

  
  

  Father	Robert Moffat,   b. 1563, Ericstane, Moffat, Dumfriesshire, Scotland d. Scotland
  Mother	Joana Prymrois
  Marriage	1596	Ericstane, Moffat, Dumfriesshire, Scotland   [1]
  	originally noted as Arrikstane, but no confirmation of this spelling found - Roger Sep 2002
  Family ID	F10111	Family Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family/Spouse	Helen [--?--]
  Children	+ 1. William Moffat,   b. 1640, possibly, Midknock, Westerkirk, Dumfriesshire, Scotland
  Family ID	F10110	Family Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Continued residency at Midknock farm as did his descendants for the next 300 years as tenants of the Dukes of Buccleuch. The Aberdeen Journal of 28 Sep 1904 reported that the pastoral farm of Mid Knock, in the Duke of Buccleuch's Eskdale Estate and situated in the parish of Westerkirk, Dumfriesshire, "at present tenanted by Mr. Robert E. Moffat, J.P. has been let at the present rate to Mr. Thomas Elliot, Greenrigg, Canonbie. This ends one of the very oldest tenancies in the whole of the Border counties. In 1300 or 1302 King Robert the Bruce granted to Thomas Moffat the lands of Knock.." Records of births and deaths of the Moffats of Knock after 1601 were lost, but pick up again in 1685 with the birth of Thomas Moffat, who married Janet Irving, and his brother James Moffat, born in 1688, who married Helen Brown. Records of the Moffats of Moffats of Ericstane begin anew in 1721 with the birth of James Moffat, who married Catherine Dalgleish.

  
  

• Sources

  [S1] Robert and Frances Moffitt, Original Moffat GEDCOM File. [S2410] submitted by Hazel Comer, GEDCOM file titled “Sunderland family tree.ged”.