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I also don’t see it indexed on Scotland’s People. However, it is on FamilySearch:

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X111-SMQ
Document Information: Digital Folder Number 7, 8057643
Microfilm Number 1067952, 102302
Originating System ODM
Indexing Batch
C11807-2
"Scotland Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X111-SMQ : 16 September 2021), Vair_ Ker, 1636.

The attached screenshot may also be of help. I believe it is from:
A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain Band 1 von History of the landed gentry of Great Britain and Ireland, Bernard Burke Harrison & Sons, 1900

It records Vair being born in July 1636.

The full book was available on the internet archive but that website is currently down so the link I have is no longer working. A later edition is available on google books but I don’t see a mention of Vair in this edition:

https://books.google.de/books?id=2v8-AQAAMAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=the%20landed%20gentry&hl=de&pg=PA1022#v=onepage&q=redden&f=false

Perhaps you can contact Scotland's and enquire about the missing entry?

 

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I like the reasoning and your thought process of Henry’s parents and think it’s a quite logical conclusion. I do remember seeing a Henry in the list of communicants. I need to revisit those Kirk Sessions with fresh eyes as it’s been a while since I last looked at them.

The Vair name does appear to come into the Hogg line from Vair Ker - the daughter of Sir Thomas Kerr. It’s possible to follow this line quite far back. 

Attaching an extract of the Landed Gentry:


For your info (and anyone else following) the Scotland’s People indexing of the wills mentioned previously is as follows:

HOGE, JOHN
22 / 11 / 1698
PORTIONER IN ROXBURGH
TESTAMENT DATIVE AND INVENTORY
PEEBLES COMMISSARY COURT
CC18/3/1

HOG, ROB[E]RT
2 / 2 / 1683
PORTIONER OF ROXBURGH
TESTAMENT DATIVE AND INVENTORY
PEEBLES COMMISSARY COURT
CC18/3/1

HOGG, ALEXANDER
29 / 4 / 1687
IN NEWTOUNE
TESTAMENT TESTAMENTAR AND INVENTORY
PEEBLES COMMISSARY COURT
CC18/3/1

Maybe Meikle?

I don’t strongly disagree with Sheenon but I’m not 100 percent convinced.

If it’s Sh, I don’t see the first line of the h going all the way down like we do in the h of  The child. It has the ornateness of the H in Hall but with a squiggle. I don’t see much of a similarity to the S of Andrew Scott, the S here is much more at an angle and looping but that connects to a small letter so is not overly helpful.

Still plumping for an ornate K and Keenon. Would be good to see more of the text though.

You’re right, I missed Helen out. She is in the tree I have. I was actually recording Kersmains references and Helen’s birth record does not seem to be here.

I’m more inclined to go for Robert Mein and Barbara Ker because Johne and Vair name one of their daughters Barbarie. I have nothing else to back this up.

I do have the Testament and Inventory of an Alexander Hogg who died in Newtoune in 1687. It mentions a Robert Mein and also ‘John Hogg portioner of Rox’ (later in the text ‘other portioner of Rox’) - and under that it says ‘Hogg his brother’. I’m having a hard time reading it but I think it does contain a lot of information on the family. Perhaps it’s a post for the deciphering page but it does run two pages of quite dense text.