Francis Masterton of Parkmilne (1643-1719)
Sheriff-Depute of Clackmannanshire
Francis Masterton was a graduate of Edinburgh University and the author of "Remarques by Francis Masterton 1660 to 1719" intended to be a combination of a diary, family record, and advice to his descendants. He died in 1719, after the first Jacobite rebellion and it seems his religious sympathies lay with the Roman Catholic restoration movement. There is a clue in the title of his manuscript:
SOME REMARQUES upon severall things since the Happie restauratione of King CHARLES YE SECOND
It forms a remarkably good source for the extended family's genealogy and is a useful piece of social anthropology. Victor A. Noel Paton (1862-1931) provided a commentary on the manuscript in his:
Introduction to "Masterton Papers 1660-1719"
Genealogy
Francis Masterton was the third son (but presumably the first to survive until the death of his father) of John Masterton and Marie Lindsay. John Masterton had been a member of Scotland's Committee of War in 1648. Francis married Christian Keirie in 1678 and they had no fewer than 15 children registered in the Old Parish Records, including Francis Masterton, apothecary in Edinburgh.
A fuller genealogy of the extended family of Francis Masterton is gven in the following link.
The Masterton genealogy contained within the Masterton Papers is reproduced here.