Born in Fore Rodgertoun, Auchileck, Ayrshire, Scotland
Son of James Houstoun
and Margaret (Wilson) Houstoun
Brother of
James Houstoun, William (Houstoun) Houston, Hough Houstoun, David Houstoun, Elizabeth Houstoun, Margaret Houstoun, John (Houstoun) Houston and David (Houstoun) Houston
Husband of
Mary (Johnston) Houston
— married
about 1769 (to about 1780) in Ayrshire, Scotland
Husband of
Elizabeth (Dick) Houston
— married
about 1781 in Ayrshire, Scotland
Descendants 
Father of
Janet Houston, George Houston, William Houston, Janet Houston, Jean Houston, John Houston, David Houston, Elizabeth (Houston) Hunter and Jean (Houston) Murray
Died [date unknown]
[location unknown]
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Biography
Baptised 22 October 1749
Named after his dead sibling.
1769: Jan 29th Mother Margaret Arthur when questioned by Old Cumnock kirk session elders identified William Houston of Underwood (James's brother) in Auchinleck parish as the father of her child.
1769: Feb 26 William Houston "persisted in denying" while Arthur persisted in accusing him of being the child's father. Margaret, when asked for witnesses identified James Houston in Underwood, John Russel in Auchinleck, and Mary Arthur in Cumnock.
1769: 5 March William Houston continued to deny paternity. John Russel a 30 yr old Shoemaker testified that he had been in the house of James Murdoch in Cumnock in company with the said William Houston & Margaret Arthur, and also James Houston elder and younger in Underwood, father and brother of said William Houston some weeks before the child's delivery. Russel said he heard William Houston upon being desired by his father to take with Margaret Arthur's child.
James Houston, aged 24 and married, testified that sometime before the child was delivered he heard William say he would be a clever fellow who could take a maidenhead and got a child at once....etc
"The Session taking the whole affair into consideration are of opinion that there are strong presumptions of guilt against the said William Houston and in the hopes of bringing him to a sense of it they resolved to put an abstract of the whole affair into the hands of Mr Dunn in Auchinleck under whose pastoral care the said Houston lives that by him he may be dealt with to make an ingenious confession."
Sources
- National Records of Scotland: OPR Auchinleck 1749: Old Parish Registers Births 577/ 10 73 Auchinleck Page 73 of 185
- National Records of Scotland: Old Cumnock Kirk Session, Minutes (1737-1776), CH2/81/2 1769 29 Jan/26 Feb/5 Mar
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