 Chapelton had been re-acquired into the Bollingshaw Barony for him by his father, Charles McAlister.Major McAlester of Kennox, then a heritor of Dunlop church, obtained the 1792 bell and Miss McAlester and Mr.Charles G. S. McAlester returned it to the Kirk Session in 1935 to honour the centenary of the present church.Charles Somerville MacAllister was one of the stewards at the great banquet held after the Eglinton Tournament.