Vance414 UPH. IRISH PEDIGREES VAN. [PART V
the General Court of that Colony. He died at Malden on the 25th of
February, 1681, aged eighty-four. All bearing this name in the United
States and in the British Provinces of America are his descendants ;
among whom are and have been many who have attained social distinction.
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VANCE. (No. 1.)
d Of Coagh, County Tyrone ; and of -4nlrim.
drna: Ar. on a bend go. three mullets or. (From the will of the Rev. John
Yana, No. 13 on this pedigree).
Compiled by Wm. J. Simpson, from a Transcript of MSS. by the late
William Balbirnie, of Cork.
KING RoRERT BRUCE, of Scotland,
mar. Isabella, dau. of the Earl of
Mar, and had:
2. The Princes¢ Margery Bruce,
who married Walter Lord High
Steward (a quo Stewart and Stuart)
of Scotland, and had.
3. King Robert II., who bad:
4. King Robert III., who had:
5. Princess Mary Stewart, ivho
mar. Sir James Kennedy, of Dun-
ure, and had:
6. Gilbert, first Lord Kennedy,
who mar., and had:
7. John, Lord Kennedy, who
mar., and had:
8. Lady Mary Kennedy, who
mar. Sir Patrick Vans,"' of Barn-
barroch (died 1528), and'had :
9. Alexander Vans, who mar.
and had;
10. Sir John Vans, of Barn-
barroch (d. 1547), who mar. Janet
McCulloch, of Myrtown, and had :
11. Sir Patrick Vans (living in
1568), who mar. Lady Catherine
Kennedy, and had:
12. Sir John Vans (d. 1642), who
mar. Margaret McDowall, of Gart-
land, and had:
13. Rev. John Vans, A.M.;
Rector of Kilmacreenan, county
Donegal (1617-1661), who mar.,
and had:
14. Doctor Lancelot Vans, who
was in Londonderry during its
siege. He mar. a dau. of Ashe
Reiney, Esq„ of Londonderry, and
had .
15. John Vance, of Coagh, county
Tyrone, who mar. Miss Williamson
(of a county Antrim family), and
had:
16. William Vance, of Antrim,
who mar. Elizabeth, daughter of
Zechariah Wilkinson, of Antrim,
and had:
17. William Vance(b. 1740), who
mar. Miss Gilem, of andalstown,
and had:
18. Ezekiel Vance (b. 24th April,
1768), who mar. Miss Lenon, of
Ballinure, and had:
19. William Vance, merchant, of
Antrim; living A.D. 1887.
• Pane: Sonic genealogists derive this sirname from the Gaelic "Usti," gen.
"Uain,"a lamb; Gr. we. loin." If this derivation be correct, the Irish aUain
would be equivalent to the English Lamb, and the French Dc Pans, which has been
modernized Vans, and 1 anee.
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