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LANDS AND LAIRDS
LARBERT AND DUNIPACE PARISHES
Impression, one hundred and fifty copies.
LANDS AND LAIKDS
LAEBERT AND DUNIPACE
PARISHES
JOHN C. GIBSON
With Illustrations
GLASGOW: HUGH HOPKINS
I 908
PREFACE.
THE idea of the following work was suggested to me some
years ago by Mr. George Sherriff of Carronvale, who is
a considerable heritor in the parish of Larbert. It
had long been a wish of his to have a history written of the
principal lands and their owners in his own parish, and in the
neighbouring one of Dunipace. 1 35S I 33
Mr. Sherriff has been most assiduous in his endeavours to
collect local information and traditions. He has also read the
proofs, and has taken special trouble in connexion with the
article on the Carron Company. It is right to mention here that
he has also generously taken the risk of the publication on himself;
indeed, but for him, the work would never have been attempted.
I take this opportunity of recording my best thanks to
Miss Sherriff for her beautiful and artistic sketches, which have
been so admirably reproduced by Messrs. T. and R. Annan and
Sons of Glasgow.
I also wish to express my thanks to all who have in any
way helped me in my work. I feel specially indebted to Dr.
Maitland Thomson, the late Curator, and the Rev. John Anderson,
the present Curator of the Historical Department of the Register
House ; Sir James B. Paul, Lyon King of Arms, and Mr.
Francis J. Grant, Lyon Clerk ; Mr. David Morris, Town Clerk
of Stirling, for his courtesy in showing me the Stirling Records ;
my friend, Mr. J. B. Douglas, and my brother, Mr. J. A. Gibson,
for their kind help in reading the proofs ; to the printers of the
book, Messrs. Cook and Wylie of Stirling, for the pains they
have taken to carry out my wishes; and to Mr. W. B. Cook
personally, for help and information of various kinds.
J. C. G.
North Berwick, July, igoS.
I much regret to have to record the death of
Mr. George Sherriff of Carronvale, who had been in
bad health for some time. He died in Glasgow on
Tuesday, loth November, 1908, and was buried in the
family burying-ground at Larbert on the following
Friday. While Mr. Sherriff has been denied the
satisfaction of seeing the publication of the book in
which he took so deep an interest, he lived to know
that all the copies had been subscribed for. The
book, with the exception of the index, had been
printed off before his death.
J. C. G.
igth November, igo8.
CONTENTS.
Preface,
Introduction,
LARBERT PARISH.
Larbert,
Stenhouse,
Kinnaird,
Carron Hall (formerly Quarrell),
Skaithmure,
Glenbervie (formerly WoODSIDE),
Carronvale (formerly Broomage),
North Broomage,
DUN IP ACE PARISH.
Dunipace, ...
TORWOOD, . . .
Denovan, ...
Herbertshire,
Carbrook, ...
Quarter, ...
Lands and Heritors in Dunipace Parish not
separately treated.
The Carron Company, ..
Index,
130
160
167
187
189
192
193
207
ILLUSTRATIONS.
Larbert Parish Church, from a drawing by Miss Sherriff,
Carronvale, Frontispiece
Larbert House, from a drawing by Miss Sherriff, Carronvale, Facing p. i
Stenhouse (old part), „ „ „ „ 14
Stenhouse, „ „ „ „ 20
Sundial at Stenhouse, „ „ „ „ 26
Kinnaird House (present mansion house), „ „ 29
Tombstone (Mr. Robert Bruce), „ „ „ 36
Kinnaird House, drawn by Miss Sherriff from a photo-
graph taken by Mr. George Sherriff of Carronvale, „ 38
James Bruce of Kinnaird (traveller), from the painting
by Pompeo Battoni, in the Scottish National Por-
trait Gallery, Edinburgh, by permission, „ 41
Carron Hall (formerly Quarrell), from a drawing by Miss
Sherriff, Carronvale, „ 43
Sundial at Carron Hall, from a drawing by Miss Sherriff,
Carronvale, „ 47
Glenbervie House, from a drawing by Miss Sherriff, Carron-
vale „ 58
Woodside House, drawn by Miss Sherriff from a sketch
in the possession of James Aitken, Esq., of Glen-
bervie, „ 65
Carronvale House, from a drawing by Miss Sherriff, Carron-
vale „ 76
X Illustrations.
Dunipace House, from a drawing by Miss Sherriff, Carronvale, Facing p. 84
Sir Archibald Primrose, Bart, of Dalmeny, Lord Clerk
Register, &c., from the portrait in Barnbougle Castle
(said to be by John Scougal), by permission of the
Right Hon. the Earl of Rosebery, „ 99
Sir Archibald Foulis-Primrose, Bart, of Dunipace, from
the portrait in Barnbougle Castle (artist unknown),
by permission of the Right Hon. the Earl of
Rosebery, „ 107
Tor^vood Castle, ruins of, from a drawing by Miss Sherriff,
Carronvale, „ 130
Herbertshire Castle, from a drawing by Miss Sherriff,
Carronvale, „ 167
Carbrook House, from a drawing by Miss Sherriff, Carronvale, „ 187
Quarter House, from a drawing by Miss Sherriff, Carron-
vale „ 189
Carved Stones in wall of Old Stenhouse ;— (i) dated 1635,
with initials of Sir William Bruce, seventh, and
Dame Helen Douglas, his wife (See p. 21) ; (2) dated
1710, Sir William Bruce, ninth, and Dame Margaret
Boyd, his wife (See p. 23). Lintel Stone with arms
of Lords Forrester, now at Carron Hall, formerly at
Torwood, described pp. 43-4, from drawings by
Miss Sherriff, Carronvale, » 192
T/ie illustrations of the houses are not drawn to scale.
CHARTS.
Table showing descent of main line of Bruces of Stenhouse, ... p. 28
Pedigree Chart* of Livingstones of Dunipace, Facing p. 88
„ „ Foulis-PrimroseofDunipace (See explana-
tion, p. 128), „ 128
„ „ Forresters of Torwood, „ 156
„ „ Forresters of Denovan „ 164
* Chart pedigrees of families are given only where, to the best of ruy knowledge,
these have not been already printed.
INTRODUCTION.
THE following work is an attempt to write a history of the
more important heritors and of their lands in the parishes
of Larbert and Dunipace, and to trace, link by link, the
different families who have owned the lands. While my main
object has been to enumerate the immediate possessors of the
lands, I have also done my best to gain as much information
as possible about their families, especially where pedigrees of
these families have not hitherto appeared in print. I have also
given what information I could about cadets, especially about
those holding lands in or near the district. Wherever there
are notable antiquarian remains on the various estates, I have
endeavoured to get the best and latest information from those
competent to give an opinion, and have given as succinctly
as possible a description of them. The " Broch " at Torwood,
the " Mounds " at Dunipace, and " Arthur's Oon," which once
stood on Stenhouse, are never-ending subjects of interest to
the antiquary. I do not profess any special antiquarian or
archaeological knowledge, and fear if I had indulged any views
of my own I would have had to submit to many humiliations,
such as the worthy Laird of Monkbarns suffered at the hands of
that "wily, do-little deevil, Johnnie Howie," or the "provoking
scoundrel " who, with a memory as powerful as dynamite, blew
up the " Praetorian," leaving only " a bit bourock " on the
" heathery knowe."
xiv Introduction.
Students of architecture will find in Messrs. M'Gibbon
and Ross's book interesting notices of several of the old
houses and castles in the parishes.
Fielding, in one of his novels, prefixes an " introduction to
the work or bill of fare to the feast." The chief item of the
bill of fare which I have to offer is human nature. There is
much to interest the student of history, law, philology, genealogy,
and social life and customs. We have a panorama wherein are
seen the rise and fall of families, factions, treacheries, favouritism,
villainy in high places, dark plots, love, hate, revenge, murders,
blood feuds, oppressions, tyranny, high intellectual attainments
and refinement existing side by side with gross barbarism.
Vivid and exciting scenes of quarrels and brawls, both in country
and town, are hinted at or depicted, and we see not a few men
from the district distinguishing themselves in law and science, in
the Church, State, and army. In religion and politics all sides are
represented, sometimes in the same family. We find a Forrester
being burned on the Castle hill of Edinburgh, " be ye papists
for ye reformation," and his father leaving money for masses to
be said for his wife's soul.
The Court was often in close touch with various families in
this area, small as it is, the joint parishes only covering a space
of about eight square miles. Old surnames such as Quarrell,
Salter, Moreham, Argent, take us back to the twelfth and
thirteenth centuries ; most of them, however, passed away before
the fifteenth century, when other families began to settle down
and take a hold on the land, some of them lasting till quite
recently, but most breaking up during the seventeenth century.
The Livingstones, Forresters, and Bruces, for instance, held their
lands for a good many generations ; the other estates changed
hands much more frequently. A rapid glance may be taken
Introduction. xv
through the centuries. In the latter part of the fifteenth
century, the Forrester family, which, for more than a hundred
years, had been gradually acquiring power and land, was
much in Court favour, and prominent both in the town
and county of Stirling. Sir Duncan Forrester of Torwood
was Keeper of Stirling Castle, Provost of the Burgh, and
Comptroller to Queen Margaret, wife of James IV., who
" hunted in the forest of Torwood and amused herself as
best she could." Sir Duncan played at cards with the King,
and his son played at a game called " the caich." James IV.,
" hufe Duncan Forrester's sonis barne," which, being translated,
means he stood godfather to Duncan's grandchild, and held him
at the font.
Then came the fatal Battle of Flodden, and, among others,
the Laird of Stenhouse fell there with the King. The Stenhouse
family, although a very old one, is an example of the difficulty
of making family history interesting unless the families them-
selves produce the matter. To be quite fair, however, to this
particular family, it must get credit for its branch of Kinnaird,
which produced two outstanding lairds, otherwise its history
and that of several others might be written in the stereotyped
words of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel and Judah.
The estate of Dunipace comes to the front by twice
giving its name to Lords of Session, two of its lairds — Mr.
Alexander Livingstone in 1550, and Sir Robert Spottiswoode
in 1634 — taking the title of Lord Dunipace. It was strong
in law, having in 1677 been purchased by another great lawyer,
Sir Archibald Primrose of Dalmeny, Lord Carrington.
The sixteenth century was a turbulent one. It is well known
how laudably James VI. worked to quell the deadly blood
feuds which were such scourges to Scotland at this time. These
xvl Introduction.
feuds had a special horror for James, who never cared to have
" naked swords flashing in his een." Our parishes had their share
of these things ; Livingstones, Forresters, and Bruces keeping up
a good deal of excitement. That long, winding procession of
the Forresters through the lands of the Livingstones and Bruces,
carrying a banner with a picture of the bloody corpse of their
innocent kinsman who had been done to death when riding
from Edinburgh to Stirling, simply because he bore the name
of Forrester, meant that in the year 1595 blood required blood,
however much the Privy Council might try to act the peace-
maker. Again, in a case of terrorising by the Forresters, we
see what power these barons had, and how they defied the law.
The Laird of Torwood had in this instance " convocat the
nowmer of ane thousand men on horse and foot bodin in feir
of weir." A vivid picture of an assault at the " Mercat Croce "
of Stirling is given at this same date (159S), wherein we see
the old Broad Street of Stirling suddenly become a scene of
angry tumult, and a most exciting chase and assault are
described in good Scots a little later on.
In quoting from the Privy Council and other records, the
information is so good and so well expressed in terse old Scots
that I have not scrupled to quote copiously. Although many
of these records are now printed, they are often not easily
accessible, and the matter assumes a much more significant
value when it appears in the natural evolution of the story than
as an isolated event in the records.
The matrimonial troubles of the Laird and Lady of Herbert-
shire give us a good insight into the state of the law about 1583,
and the story of another Lady of Herbertshire (designed Lady
Roslene) which describes her dealings with a witch, contributes
an interesting piece of folk-lore.
Introduction. xvii
The lands of Kinnaird and Woodside gave two eminent
ministers to the Church of Scotland— Master Robert Bruce and
Master Henry Rollo. Mr. Robert Bruce was for a time a great
favourite with James VI., but he entirely lost the good-
will of the King after the Gowrie Conspiracy in 1600, in
consequence of his declining to credit the facts as related
by the King, and refusing to join in the general thanksgiving for
the King's preservation. A curious and characteristic letter from
James to the Provost of Stirling, instructing him what to do with
the quarters of the Earl of Gowrie and his brother, " clean
traitors," is given in a note under " Kinnaird." The streets of
Stirling must have had a gruesome appearance after the instruc-
tions were carried out.
In this same year there was much excitement at Dunipace, a
daughter of that house having countenanced the murder of her
husband, " in the gloomy house of Warristoun," in revenge for
his cruelty to her.
In the following year, 1601, we find James VI. staying at the
" Place of Dunipace." He was a great friend of the Laird, and
took much to heart the humiliation of " Great Dunipace," who
considered that his daughter's crime had forever dishonoured his
blood. We may imagine that James was not very comfortable so
near the house of Kinnaird, where he knew his stern critic,
Mr. Robert Bruce, was in ward, and chafing under his com-
pulsory inaction.
The owner of Herbertshire about this time was the Earl of
Linlithgow, a great friend of the King, and keeper of the palace
of Linlithgow. His letter about the palace falling into ruins is
very quaint. James's daughter, the Princess Elizabeth, afterwards
the wife of Frederick, the Elector Palatine, was put in charge of
the Earl's wife. As the Countess was an " obstinat and profess't
xviii Introduction.
papist," this act gave great offence to the worthy Presbyterian
minister of Stirh'ng, " Maister Patrick Simpson," and others.
An interesting ceremony may be noticed when touching on
Herbertshire. The Lairds of Denovan held their lands from the
Lairds of Herbertshire as superiors for three blasts of a horn at
the house of Herbertshire.
In the early years of the seventeenth century we find the
Forresters of Torwood in great straits financially and otherwise.
They were constantly being reprimanded for cutting down trees
in the Torwood. In 1629 Sir James Forrester was a prisoner in
Stirling Castle. In this year occurred the sliding of the
moss, which caused such devastation to the lands of Woodside,
Carbrook, &c. It created great consternation, not only in Stir-
lingshire, but throughout Scotland. The description from the
Privy Council and other Records is so interesting that I have
copied it in full. We are told in vivid language how the pleasant
and fertile ground that the owners " had been wont to look on "
was now " the miserable face of a black mosse." Mr. Robert
Bruce was still, by command of Charles I., in ward at Kinnaird
and two miles round it, but he preached at Larbert and restored
the church. He would doubtless have some moral to draw from
the great local calamity. Soon after this we are told of his
dignified and patriarchal death.
Excitement is kept up in the county by one of the
Lairds — the accomplished scholar and gentleman. Sir Robert
Spottiswoode, Lord Dunipace — losing his head for his loyalty
to Charles I. That this execution was one of the most unjust
proceedings of the time even his opponents did not deny.
Some years later the estate was purchased by another Royalist,
Sir Archibald Primrose of Dalmeny, then Lord Justice General
of Scotland. As an offset to the influence of the Royalists in
Introduction. xix
the district, we have the celebrated covenanting general, William
Baillie, whose son became the Laird of Torwood, and by marriage
with the heiress of the Lords Forrester, received that peerage.
From this time there is more or less of a lull in the district
for over half a century, and country life goes on much as in
other places. Here and there estates change hands, and new
blood comes into the parishes. A clause in a charter of
Quarrell, dated 1749, when that estate was sold, should be
]3ondered by all who are under the delusion that British freedom
has an antiquity only second to the hills. Men in 1749, and
for some time after, in certain instances, " belonged " to their
masters, who occasionally " niffered " them for beasts !
There was a dissension in the house of Denovan during the
reign of Charles II., the Laird being a keen Royalist, and his
eldest son "on of ye troublous faction of King Charles II., his
peaceable reign." The father disinherited the son, who had
" turned Whiggish," and settled his estate on his grandson.
As over all Scotland, a stir takes place during the '45, when
Sir Archibald Primrose of Dunipace goes " out " with Prince
Charlie. The" house of Dunipace becomes a shelter for fugitives,
the Carron is forded near the house by the Highlanders, the
gallant Laird loses his head at Carlisle, his poor and loyal
wife dies from distress and grief a month afterwards at Duni-
pace, and the estate is forfeited.
The owners of Broomage also saw the Highlanders march
through their lands. Young James Bruce of Kinnaird, after-
wards the famous traveller, was sixteen years old at the time
the Laird of Dunipace "suffered" at Carlisle, and must have been
keenly interested. Born just one hundred years after the death
of his distinguished ancestor, Mr. Robert Bruce, he brought the
name of Bruce of Kinnaird into world-wide eminence, and
XX Introduction.
made an epoch in exploration. At the same time that Bruce
was making discoveries so far away, the value of his own district
was being discovered by the far-seeing men who afterwards
founded the Carron Company, which has given a new source
of wealth and a new interest to the district for nearly a century
and a half, and has found employment for many thousands of
hands. The ruddy glare which is seen by day and night is the
signal of the ceaseless activity which has been going on from
the time when Nelson and Wellington praised the "Carronades,"
down to our own day, when pompom shells were turned out for
the Transvaal. So, while it is true that the substance of the
early history which can be gleaned about these Stirlingshire
barons resolves itself very much into R. L. Stevenson's lines on
an old Border clan : —
"O they rade in the rain, in the days that are gane.
In the rain, and the wind, and the lave ;
They shoutit in the ha', and they routit on the hill,
But they're a' quaitit noo in the grave."
— yet enough has been said to show that within a little space
much life may be seen — for the most part — busied with its
own petty interests, but sometimes affecting in no small degree
the national development
LARBERT.
THE early history of the lands of Larbert is rather meagre,
and the origin of the name is not clear. There is a
charter, of uncertain date, recorded in Robertson's " Index
of Charters," to Walter, son of Gilbert, of the barony of Keneill
(Kinneil) in Edinburghshire, with the lands of Lethbert, &c.
In the reign of Robert I., there is a charter under the Great
Seal of the Mill of Lethbert to Robert Lauder, formerly
belonging to Philip de Lyndesy, and which Sir Simon de
Lyndesy forfeited. Philip de Lyndesy appears to have
flourished about 1296 to 1302, and Sir Simon was alive
1303-4. Robert Lauder, who received the charter, was after-
wards Sir Robert Lauder of the Bass, who was Justiciary in
the reign of Robert I. He was alive in 1337.' There was
another charter, in the same reign, of the Mill of Larbert to
William de Lyndesy, " which Robert de Umfraville, Earl of
Angus, had before." (See under Dunipace.) Later on, these
lands seemed to have passed into the family of the Lords
Livingstone, as, in the " Acta Auditorum," under date 19th
July, 1476, we find the following: — "Marian, spouse of late
James, Lord Levingstone, hir brefe of terce anent ye land of
Lethbert and Brumeinch." From the same register, under
' Exchequer Rolls and Stoddart's " Scottish Arms."
I
2 Larbert.
date 20th July, 1478, Malcolm Forrester is to pay to Lady
Crichton certain sums out of the " Mill of Lethbert and brume
Inche " pertaining to her late mother.
On 20th March, 1593-4, there is a confirmation under the
Great Seal of a sale by James, Earl of Arran, to John, Lord
Thirlstane, Chancellor of Scotland, of the superiority of the
lands of Larbert and Broomage. About this date the estate
seems to have been divided into two portions.' On 24th
July, 1632, there is a charter by Alexander, Earl of Callendar,
in favour of John Mackie, in Larbert, and Mariot Ure,
his wife, of the half of the lands of Larbert." On 19th
June, 1646, the above John Mackie, elder, granted a charter
to John Mackie, younger, and Janet Baird, his wife. In 1668
there is a charter of apprising granted by James, Earl of
Callendar, in favour of John Mackie, younger, proceeding on
a decreet of apprising of the said lands obtained at the instance
of Robert Mackie, merchant burgess of Edinburgh. On 6th
March, 1697, there is a precept of clare constat granted by Ann,
Countess of Callendar, Charles, Earl of Home, and others, tutors
of James, Earl of Linlithgow, in favour of Andrew Mackie,
eldest son of the said John Mackie, for infefting him in
the half of the said lands as heir of his father. On the 5th
February, 17 13, there is a precept of clare constat in favour
of William Mackie, eldest son of said Andrew Mackie, for
infefting him in half the said lands as heir of his father.
This William Mackie disposed of his half of the lands of
Larbert to Alexander Chalmers, on 29th August, 1751.' The
1 Writs of Larbert.
- In this same year (1632) there was a Malcolm Mackie in Broomage, who
married Margaret Syme. They had a son, George, who married Anne Balloli.—
Laing Charters.
= Writs of Larbert.
Larbert. 3
name of Mackie is of considerable antiquity in the district, and
can be traced in Stirling to the fifteenth centur}'. There is an
entry in the Stirling Burgh Records, under date 1520, stating
that " Sir Johen Patonsoun, cheplan of Rud alter within the Rud
loft, hais maid Johnne Make factour and inbringar of all anualis
pertenyn to him be rasoune of the said alter, for this instant
yeir." A John Mackie signs as a witness in 1529. In 1574,
Andrew Makky, burgess of Stirling, seems to have had rather
rough usage, and makes a complaint before the Lord Regent
(Register of Privy Council, Vol. II., pp. 418-19): —
"Edinburgh, lo November, 1574.— Anent oiire Soverane Lordis letters
rasit at the instance of Andro Makky, burges of Striveling, makand
mentioun ; — that quhair he gaif in ane complaint of befoir to my Lord
Regentis Grace upoun the Provest and Baillies of the said Burgh, declarand
that he se.K oulkis syne or thairby, being standand at the barras port of the
said Burgh, to await as ane appointit for uptaking of the Sheref feis, as use
is in tyme of fairis ; in the menetyme ane dog come and bait the said
complenaris arme to the efifusioun of his blude in greit quantitie, and to
eschew further hurt of the said dog, he myntit to haif stiukin him ;
immediathe cumis ane namyt Edmond Broun, ane Hieland pyper, and
invadit the said complenar with ane drawin swerd, quhair-throw he wes
constranit to fle into ane hous for sauftie of his lyff, he nevir committand
offence to the said pyper in word or deid. And notwithstanding the
hurt sustenit be him throw the said pyperis dog, and invasion maid by
the said pyperis self for persute of his lyff as said is, the said pyper past
to Andro Cowane, Baillie of the said Burgh, and complenit to him upoun
the said complenar, albeit na offence wes ccmmittit be him towart the
said piper ; the said Baillie bering the said complenar at indignatioun,
becaus he, as Custumar depute in that part be Robert Gourlaw, Custumar
of Edinburgh, for uplifting of the Custumis of all and sindry Inglis gudis
quhilkis may be apprehendit within the boundis of the Sherefdome of
Striveling, chargeit the said Andro Cowane, to concur fortifie and assist the
said complenar in uptaking of the custumes of certane Inglis clayth,
pertening to ane Inglisman, being than present within the said Burgh,
quha not onelie refusit to concur with him, but gaif him mony injurious
Larbert.
wordis, quhome unto the said complenar answerit than instantlie that
he sould complene to my Lord Regent thereof; the said Baillie being
mjTidfull of the answer and wordis spokin to him be the said complenar
of befoir, under cuUour of stryking of the said pyperis dog, causit intruse
him in the Tolbuith of the said Burgh, quhair he remanit to the tyme the
saidis BaiUies causit fens ane Court, and on thair pretendit maner, and
throw perswasioun of the said Andro Cowane being bayth juge and partie,
pronunceit thair sentence of banisement of the said complenar of the said
Burgh during thair will. Quhairupon the said complenar menit him to
my Lord Regentis Grace, and obtanit his missive letter, requiring the saidis
Provost and Baillies to suffer him peciablie remane within the said Burgh
for using of his said office of custumarie, unto the tyme my said Lord
Regentis Grace take further tryell heirintill ; quhilk being presentit to
the saidis Piovost and Baillies, thair answer wes thay wald not obey the
same for ocht thay had yit sene. And anent the charge gevin to Robert
Foster, Provost, Andra Cowane and Williame Norwell, Baillies, of the
said Burgh of Striveling, to ressave the said Andro Makky agane within
the samyn, that he may brouke and joise the libertie thairof, siclyke and
als frelie as ony utheris inhabitantis of the samyn quhilkis hes payit the
lyke dewitie for the said libertie, or ellis to compeir befoir my Lord
Regentis Grace and Lordis of Secreit- Counsale at ane certane day bigane,
and schawin ane ressonabill caus quhy the samyn sould not be done,
under the pane of rebellioun and putting of thame to the home, with
certificatioun to thame and thay failyeit, letters sould be direct simpliciter
to put thame to the home ; lyke as at mair lenth is contenit in the saidis
letters, executioun and indorsatioun thairof Quilkis being callit, the
said Andro Makky comperand personalie with Alexander King, his
prelocutor, and the saidis Robert Forester and Andro Cowane comperand
alsua personalie for thame selffis and in name of the said Williame
Norwell, quha schew and produceit diverse decreittis and sentences
gevin in the Shereff Court of the Burgh of Striveling aganis the said
Andro Makky, convicting him of certain pointis of dittay and accusatioun
led aganis him, quhairupoun followit the said banisement ; quhilkis being
red, sene, and considerit be the saidis Lordis, and thay ryiplie avisit thair-
with. The Lordis of Secreit Counsale findis the saidis decreittis to be
Weill and ordourlie procedit, and tbairfoir assoilzeis the Provest and
Baillies fta the saidis letters and contentis thairof."
Larbert. ,5
Whatever may be thought of the justice of this case, a
strong light is thrown on the powers of a Town Council
in 1574.
The teind sheaves and parsonage teinds of the lands of
Larbert appear to have belonged to the Livingstones of
Dunipace — then to Sir Robert Spottiswoode (See under
Dunipace), as on nth November, 1644, Sir Robert Spottiswoode
and Mr. Alexander Livingstone, advocate, resign these in favour
of John Burne, who received a Crown charter on tliat date.'
This John Burne (2) is designed in the charter eldest son of
John Burne (i), portioner of Larbert. The Burnes appear to
have possessed their half of the lands before 1632, and held
them in feu of the Earl of Callendar. John Burne (2) had a
precept of clare constat for infefting him as heir of his father on
iSth March, 1653, the sasine thereon being dated 24th April."
John Burne (2) had a brother, Robert, who was admitted a
burgess of Stirling in 1644 — he was Bailie at intervals between
1656 and 1664, and Dean of Guild 1658 to 1659. Robert
Burn married Margaret Marshall, who, after his death, became
the third wife of David Forrester of Denovan, sometime Provost
of Stirling. He died before June 22nd, 1665, when John
Burne, portioner of Larbert, was rctoured heir to him, and
Robert is designed as his brother immediately junior; he also
had a brother Thomas."
John Burne (2) was admitted a burgess neighbour and
maltman of Stirling, nth October, 1664.* He died about
' Reg. Mag. Sig.
' Writs of Larbert.
' Stirling Sasines.
* The name of Burn has long been connected with Stirlingshire. In trying to
trace the Larbert branch I made a good many notes, and as these may be interesting to
families of this name I have embodied some of them in the Appendix.
6 Larbert.
the year 1665. The following lines in Larbert Churchyard
most probably refer to him : —
"Here lies interred within this urn,
The corpse of honest good John Burn :
Who was the eight John of that name,
He hved with love and died with fame.
In changing tymes, saddest disaster,
True to his king, lord, and master !
Kind to his kindred, neighbour, friend.
Who's good lyfe had an happie end.
His soul to God ha did beqeath,
His dust to lie this stone hentath."— Anno 1665.
He left a daughter, Agnes, and a son, John, who succeeded
him.' John Burne (3) who married Jane Willison, daughter
of John Willison, portioner of Corntoun, by his wife Helen
Paterson," died before 4th January, 1699, and left a son who
succeeded him, also John (4), who was specially retoured heir to
his grandfather, 17th October, 171 1. This laird, with consent of
his mother, Jane Willison, disposed of his portion of the lands of
Larbert on 31st August, 171 5, to Mrs. Janet Cunninghame, Lady
Dunipace. She was the wife first of George Foulis Primrose of
Dunipace (by whom she was mother of Sir Archibald Primrose
of Dunipace), and afterwards of William Innes, Writer to
the Signet.'' She disposed of her lands of Larbert with
consent of her husband, William Innes, to Alexander Chalmers,
accountant in the Excise Office, Edinburgh, 23rd October, 1739,
and there is an instrument of resignation on 9th April, 1745.''
1 Stirling Sasines.
2 A pedigree of the Willisons of Comtoun is given in the Rev, Dr. R. Menzies
Fergusson's " Logie."
' "History of the Writers to the Signet."
* Writs of Larbert.
Larbert. 7
Alexander Chalmers had sasine of these lands, ist June,
1745, and by purchasing the other half of the estate from
William Mackie in 1751, was now the owner of the whole
estate of Larbert. He was succeeded by his son, Robert
Chalmers, who was also accountant in the Excise Office,
his retour being dated i6th December, 1760. In 1768, Robert
Chalmers had a charter of confirmation and precept of clare
constat granted by James, Earl of Errol, confirming the
disposition of Mackie's half of Larbert. The corn mills,
mill-lades, &c., were still to be holden in feu of the Earl.
On loth April, 1782, Robert Chalmers disposed of his lands
to William Ferguson of Raith, in the County of Fife (See
Burke's " Landed Gentry "), who had sasine 14th June of
that year.^ He only retained the estate for a few years, as
he sold it to Thomas Milles Riddell, younger of Ardna-
murchan, in February, 1789.-
The new laird was the eldest son of Sir James Riddell,
Bart, LL.D., of Ardnamurchan and Sunart, who was created
a baronet, 2nd September, 1778. Sir James, the first baronet,
was great-grandson of James Riddell of Kinglas, Linlithgow-
shire, who was much in the confidence of Cromwell and
General Monk during the civil wars. Cromwell lodged with
him in his house at Leith, and afterwards carried on a corre-
spondence with him. The minister of South Leith, having
remembered King Charles I. in his prayers, the church was,
by General Monk's order, turned into a stable, and the
parishioners prevented from worshipping there. Previous to
Monk's return to England, he asked Mr. Riddell if there was
anything whereby he could be serviceable to him or his family.
» Writs of Larbert.
' Ibid.
8 Larbert.
He replied that the only favour he could show him was that
he would restore their church to the parishioners of South
Leith, and allow them their former liberty of meeting in it for
divine service. Monk not only granted his request, but ordered
a new roof to be put upon the church at his own expense. In
return the inhabitants conferred on Mr. Riddell a large space
in the body of the church for a seat for his family.^ James
Riddell's wife was Elizabeth Foulis, sister to Sir John Foulis,
Baronet of Ravelston, whose family inherited the neighbouring
estate of Dunipace. (See under Dunipace.)
Thomas Milles Riddell, of Larbert, married Margaret,
daughter of Colonel Dugald Campbell. He died on 17th July,
1796, during the lifetime of his father, leaving a son, James
Milles Riddell of Larbert, who had a sasine of Larbert, nth
May, 1798. James Milles Riddell became second baronet on
the death of his grandfather, 2nd November, 1797. Sir James
was born 3rd June, 1787, and was educated at Christ Church,
Oxford, and was made D.C.L. He married in 1822, Mary,
daughter of Sir Richard Brooke, fifth baronet of Norton, and
was father of the third baronet. (See Burke's " Peerage.")
Sir James Riddell sold the estate to Sir Gilbert Stirling,
Bart, in 1821.' He was the eldest son of Sir James Stirling,
Baronet, who had been Lord Provost of Edinburgh. In early
life Sir James went to the West Indies as clerk to Mr. Stirling of
Keir, and in a short time, through the influence of his employer,
he was appointed secretary to Sir Charles Balling, Governor of
Jamaica. Having acquired a considerable fortune, he returned
to Edinburgh and became a partner in the banking house of
Mansfield, Ramsay, & Co." He married Miss Mansfield,
1 Anderson's " Scottish Nation."
' Writs of Laibert,
' Anderson's " Scottish Nation,"
Larbert. 9
daughter of the principal partner. Sir James Stirling died
17th February, 1805. He had three sons and two daughters.
His elder daughter was married, in 1809, to Sir Thomas Living-
stone of West Quarter, Admiral of the " White " ; she died
in 183 1 without issue. His second daughter, Joan, died
unmarried. The two younger sons died in infancy. The eldest
son, Sir Gilbert Stirling, succeeded as second baronet in 1805,
being at that time a Lieutenant in the Coldstream Guards. He
did not marry, and on his death in 1843 the baronetcy became
extinct. His cousin, Sarah Mary Emily Robertson, daughter
of James Robertson, Captain of Engineers, Bengal Army, was
the heiress of Larbert. She was married to Francis Day Chalmer,
Major, 7th Dragoon Guards, descended from the ancient
family of Chalmer of Gadgirth.
Sir Gilbert Stirling had left his estate of Larbert and his
large personal fortune to be invested in land to be entailed on
the heirs of his cousin, Mrs. Chalmer. Her eldest son, Gilbert
Stirling Chalmer Stirling, born i8th January, 1843, inherited
the estate of Larbert. He was, in 1869, in the ist Regiment
of Horse Guards, when he petitioned for authority to acquire
the whole trust estate in fee simple.' He sold the estate in
May, 1876, to John Hendrie, of Calder Park, coalmaster in
Glasgow, who sold it in 1883 to the present proprietor, John
Hatt Noble Graham, merchant in Glasgow, who was created
a baronet in 1906. Sir John Graham is the eldest son of the
late John Graham of Skelmorlie Castle, Ayrshire."
The estate of Larbert since 1832 has included the lands of
Househill, which up to that date formed part of the estate of
Dunipace.'
> Writs of Larbert,
» Ibid.
'See under Dunipace.
lo Larbert.
The present mansion house of Larbert was built by Sir
Gilbert Stirling between the years 1822 and 1825. The
architect was the late David Hamilton, and the plan bears
the date of 1822.
[For particulars re Stirling and Chalmer of Larbert, see
Burke's " Landed Gentry," and for Grahams of Larbert, see
Burke's "Peerage and Baronetage " (1907).]
APPENDIX TO LARBERT.
Notes on Various Families of the Name
OF Burn.
1480— William Burn (Stirling Protocols.)
1504— Andrew Burn, lands of Dichtmont, Linlithgowshire ... (R.M.S.)
1534 — John Bum, of Wester Luquhat, Regality of Dunfermline (Do.)
1534 — John Burn, of Easter Luquhat, Regality of Dunfermline (Do.)
1534— William Burn (Do.)
1544— Nicolas Bum, at Borthwick fDo.)
1550 — Nicolas Bum, of Hill, Stirlingshire (Do.)
1570— Patrick Burn, of Hill, Stirlingshire (Do.)
1608— Robert Bum, son of the late Patrick Burn in Hill ... (Do.)
1578-9 (29th January) — William Bum, son and heir apparent
of Isabella Wardlaw, one of the daughters and
heiresses of Andrew Wardlaw of Otterstone ... (Do.)
1587— John Bum and Janet Alexander (elder
daughter of William Alexander
of Menstrie), had a daughter,
Elizabeth, baptised 1 5th June, 1587 (Stirling Register of Baptisms.)
1588 — George Bum in Gogar, witness ... (Do.)
Larbert.
1588— John Burne, witness (Stirling Register of Baptisms.)
1590 — John Burne baptised, son of Wilham
Burn and Barbara Johnston ... (Do.)
1590 — Alexander Burn in Grange, witness (Do.)
1590 — Robert Burn in Powhouse (Do.)
1591 — Malcolm Burn in Gogar, witness ... (Do.)
1 596— George Burn in Gogar died October,"!
1596. Will given up by James, [ (Edinburgh Commissariot,
23rd November, 1596.)
Malcolm, and Jonet Burne, his
lawful brothers and sister ...J
1597— Malcolm Burn in Gogar died i6th
March, 1597-8. Will given up by
Emmie Cumying, relict, in name
of Elspeth, Margaret, Jonet,
Christian, Euphan, and Marian
Burne, lawful bairns and execu-
tors. Mr. James Primrose of
Barhill was cautioner
1 596— Alexander Burn in Blackgrange died
August, 1596. Will given up 23rd
August, 1596, by Jonet Allan, his
spouse. His children were Robert
and James, sons, and a daughter,
Isabel
1602— Archibald Burn in Clerkson (now
called Avondale), heir of Richard
Burn of U\\], proaT/i, 5th October,
1602
1605— Archibald Burn in Clerkson
1606-9 — William Burn, Councillor, Stirling ...
1613 (6th November)— James Burn in Gogar,
and Janet Miller, his spouse
1613 — John Burn of Sherdall
1626 — William Burn of Clerkstoun (Falkirk Kirk Session Records.)
1664 (nth October)— John Burn, Portioner") ,^. . ,. „ , , ^ ., ,
of Larbert, admitted burgess, ^'^'"'Rf^^f^'/f ^"^ ^"'^'^'^
neighbour, and maltman J ^^ ' ^''
(Edinburgh Commissariot.)
(Do.)
(Printed Retours General.)
(Stirling Register of Bonds.)
(Stirling Burgh Records.)
(Stirling Register of Bonds.)
(Laing Charters.)
t2 Larbert.
165 1-7— Alexander Burn, Baillie, admitted ■> ,„ . ,. „ . , „ .
freedom of Burgh, September, P'^ferW ^^ ^^
1635 i
1656-64— Robert Burn, Baillie (Stirling Burgh Records.)
1658-9— Robert Burn, Dean of Guild (brother of John Burn of Larbert).
1677 — James Burn, admitted burgess and guildbrother of Stirling. He is
designed son of the late John Burn in Gogar. He was admitted
" in respect he had married a guildbrother's daughter, viz., Anna
Forrester (see under Appendix to Forrester of Torwood), lawful
daughterof Alexander Forrester of Chalmerstone, Carsbonny, &c.,
some time writer in Edinburgh, date 27th September, 1677.
(Stirling Burgh and Guildry Records.) He was made a baillie
in 1683-4, and treasurer 1 713- 15. (In the matriculation of arms in
1757 of his grandsons, William Burn of Coldoch, and Edward Burn
of Lisbon, he is designed James Burn of Quoiggs and Chalmer-
stone.) He had, besides other children, two sons, James and
Robert. James was made a burgess in 1701, and was baillie in
1722-3. He married Catherine Mayne, sister to Edward
Mayne of Powis, and was ancestor of the Burns of Coldoch, the
Burn-Murdochs of Gartincaber, Neuck and Greenyards, the Burn-
Callendars of Preston Hall, Midlothian and Westerton in the parish
of Bothkennar, Stirlingshire. (See Burke's "Landed Gentry,"
1906. The previous pedigrees printed have been incorrect.)
The younger son of James Burn and Anna Forrester was Robert,
a merchant burgess of Stirling, who, in 1 7 18, had a disposition
from his father of a tenement of land in Stirling. There is a
sasine in favour of Robert Burn and his wife, who is des'gned
Janet Dalgleish, second legitimate daughter of Robert Dalgleish
of Tunnygask (Fifeshire), 5th February, 1719.* (Stirling Register
of Sasines.) Robert Burn had four children, but the only one
who left descendants was his elder daughter, Marion Burn, bom
1 The Dalgleishes of Timnygask were an old Fifeshire family, who also owned the
small estate of Foulford, which descended to them by the marriage of James Dalgleish
of Tuimygask in 1615 to Katherine Wardlaw, eldest daughter of Nicolas Wardlaw of
Wester Luscar (descended from the Wardlaws of Torrie), and sister and heiress of
Henry Wardlaw of Foulford, Fifeshire. A genealogy of the Dalgleishes of Tunnygask
and Foulford was printed by their descendant, the Marquis de Ruvigny and Raineval.
Larbert.
4th June, 1721, and married in 1744 to John Glas, merchant
burgess of Stirhng, ancestor of the Stiding Glases, &c.
1679 — Richard Burn of Clerkston
1679 — James Burn of Clerkstown
1699 — James Burn of Clerkstown
1704— James Burn of Clerkston
1758 — James Burn of Clerkston
(Falkirk Kirk Session Register.)
(Assize.)
(Morrison's Dictionary of Decisions.)
(Falkirk Kirk Session Records.)
(Morrison's Dictionary of Decisions.)
1699— Richard Burn, disposition of Clarkston, a son of above James Bum.
Richard Burn, married Margaret Livingstone, daughter of Alexander
Livingstone of Parkhall.
Richard had a brother, John, his"\ (Morrison's Dictionary of
apparent heir } Decisions.)
STENHOUSE
(Parish of Larbcrt.)
THE lands and mansion house of Stenhouse are situated
about one mile and a quarter from Larbert station.
Messrs. M'Gibbon and Ross describe the house as
" originally on the L plan." It has been much modernised, but
still bears the panel with the date of its erection in 1622 by
Sir William Bruce of Stenhouse. The L plan for towers is
simply the old Norman keep with a wing added at one corner.'
The name about 1200 was Stanhous, which is old English for
Stone House. In some old deeds it is named Stanleigh, pre-
sumably the stone shelter. Mr. Johnston, in his " Place Names
of Stirlingshire," suggests that Arthur's Oon" may have been
the " Stan hus " which gave the name to the lands. The
barony of Stenhouse is a very old one.' There is another
barony of the same name in Fifeshire, and in early dates it is
rather difficult to distinguish them. There is a charter, circa
1200, of the Mill of Stanehous granted to Adam de Moreham.*
1 M'Gibbon and Ross.
2 See Note A in Appendix.
= See Note B in Appendix, for ttory fiom Oironicon de T-ancrcosi, under date 1285.
♦ B.eg. de Ketihotle. In the Calendar of Documents relating to Scotland, Vol. I.,
p. 99, Ad. de la More (Moreham) is sent, by King John's orders, to the King of Scot-
land with girfalcons as a gift, 8th March, 1212-13.
OLD PART OF STENHOUSE
Stenhouse. 1 5
As early as 1200 we find the name, John of Stanehous. In
1259 there is reference to the barony.' In 1264 Adam de
Stanus is a witness.^
On 4th June, 1362, Alexander More, son of Sir Adam
More, had a charter from David II. of the lands of Kythumbre,
in the barony of Stanhois, which belonged to Sir Godfrey de
Roos, which he gave to Alexander de Elphinstone, and which
Alexander de Elphinstone excambed with Alexander More."
BRUCE OF STENHOUSE.*
Before 26th December, 145 1, these lands were in the hands of
Alexander le Bruce de le Stanehouse." He was the son
of Sir Robert Bruce of Airth, descended from the Braces of
Clackmannan."
I. — Alexander Bruce is said to have married first a daughter
> Cal. of Doc.
= Cart, of Cambuskenneth,
» K. M. S., folio Tolume, p. 27, No. 40.
■> In treating of this family I have esarained all the Bruce pedigrees known to me.
In the late Mr. Hubert Eiddell's MS. " Baronetage," recently presented to the
Advocates' Library, there is a most valuable pedigree of this family. Its main value
consists in the number of references given. Great care and labour have also been spent on
the Bruce family by the late Major William Bruce Armstrong, and his valuable MSS.
are preserved in the Lyon Office. He published part of them under the title of " The
Braces of Airth and their Cadets." Mrs. Cumming Bruce, in her book, "The Bruces
and Cumyns," has also collected masses of material about the various Bruce families,
and her Appendix, giving charters and extracts from original documents, is both
interesting and useful. As so much has already been written on the family, I have
confined myself mainly to giving the direct succession. Some facts will be found not
stated in previous genealogies.
'' R. M. S., No. 1863. A table will be found, under Note C in the Appendix,
showing the descent of the main line of the Bruces of Stenhouse.
" For particulars of early pedigree, see Douglas's " Baronage," Mrs. Cumming
Bruce's "The Bruces and Cumyns," and Robert Riddell's MS. "Baronetage of
Scotland," Vol. III., Advocates' Library.
i6 Stenhouse.
of Alexander, Lord Livingstone, who died without issue.
He married secondly, Janet, daughter of Malcolm Forrester
of Torwoodhead, by whom he had six sons: — (i) John, his
heir; (2) Sir Alexander of Brigheame,' afterwards of Earlshall;
(3) Edward of Kinnaird' (See under Kinnaird) ; (4) Lucas of
Cultmalundie'' ; (5) Robert of Auchenbowie and Carnock* ;
and (6) David.
II. — Sir John Bruce,' of Airth, and second of Stenhouse,
succeeded his father [Sir] Alexander." He was slaughtered before
1483, by his wife's brothers, the Menteiths, as appears from
"Pitcairn's Criminal Trials," and also from the following extracts
from the "Acta Dominorum Concilii," i8th October, 1490, p. 153.
The Menteiths and Bruces came to an agreement 18th October,
1490, in presence of the Lords of Council, by which Archibald
Menteith, and " sa mony persons as ar now on lif, that were
comittars of this said slauchter of umquhile Johne the Broiss,
1 E. M. S., 14th November, 1485.
2 Acta Dom. Audit,, 17th January, 1488.
3 R. M. S., 14th November, 1485.
* E. M. S., 14th November, 1485. Elphinstone Writs, 20th August, 1487. This and
further references to the Elphinstone Writs are from Riddell's MS. " Baronetage."
5 Acta Dom. Audit., p. 103. Acts Parlt. Scot. Acta Dom. Con. Sir Jolm Bruce,
second of Steohouse.— In all the printed pedigrees of this family which I have seen,
Sir John Bruce, second of Stenhouse, is stated to have predeceased his father.
Sir Alexander. This appears to be assumed on the ground that -n-hereas Sir John's
son, Sir Robert, was served heir to him in Stenhouse in 1483, he was served heir to
his grandfather, Sir Alexander, in Airth, in 1488-9 (Airth Writs). Sir John is designed
"of Stenhouse" in 1477 (Stirling Protocols). This proves nothing, as Sir John's
father probably resigned Stenhouse to him during his lifetime, but on 5th January,
1481, "John Bruce of Arth" acted as Constable Depute (Riddell's MS. "Baronetage "),
and in that same year he had sasine of Lethbertschiells and various other lands,
including parts of Airth, which had belonged to his father (Exchequer Rolls, vol. IX).
He appears to have been indiscriminately designed as of Airth or Stenhouse. Mr.
Robert Riddell, in his MS. " Baronetage," states that Sir John succeeded his father.
" Designed knight in most genealogies, bift not in Register of Great Seal.
Stenhouse. 17
sail, apon twisday xx. of the said moneth, cum to the Market
Cross of Edinburgh in thair lyning claithes, with their swerds
in their hands, and ask forgeuance of Robert Broiss of Arth
(John's son) and his friends of the deth of the said John as
the manner is usit thairof, and to remitt to thaim the rancour
of the hart." They are also to seek the four head pilgrimages
of Scotland, and there say mass for his soul, and Robert shall
" enter " a priest to signe (sing) in the Kirk of Arth " for the
space of twa zeir " for the soul of John. ... Sir John
married, in 1471, Elizabeth Menteith, daughter of Sir William
Menteith of Kerse, and, besides other children, had (i) Robert,
his heir, and (2) Thomas of Lethbertschiells.' (See under
Bruces of VVoodside and Lethbertschiells.)
III. — Sir Robert, third of Stenhouse, was served heir to his
father in Stenhouse in 1483, and to his grandfather in
Airth, in 1488. He was knighted before 6th December,
1507,'' and fell at Flodden in 15 13. He married Euphemia'
Montgomerie, daughter of Alexander, Lord Montgomerie,
and had four sons: — (i) John,* and (2) Alexander," who both
predeceased him without leaving issue ; (3) Robert, who
succeeded him, and (4) John" ; also a daughter, Isabel, who
married Andrew Meldrum of that ilk.'
> " Braces of Airth and their Cadets," App. LVI. Reg. Sec. Sig., Vol. XXIV. f ol. 20,
»■ R. M. S., No. 3158.
' Euphemia Montgomerie. Elphinstone Writs, 9th October, 1511. She is called
Helen in the "Memorials of the Montgomeries."— Fraser.
* Elphinstone Writs.
» R. M. S., 6th December, 1507.
• Acts and Decreets, 71, 4, "erne" of Alex, of Airth, and Andrew, his brother.
' Riddell's " Baronetage." For further particulars see references given on
p. 15, also Major William Bruce Armstrong's " Collectanea Braoeana," 1898 (MSS.
in Lyon Office), and his " Bruces of Aiith and their Cadets.''
iS Stenhouse.
IV. — Robert Bruce,' fourth of Stenhouse, who succeeded his
father in 1513, was slain in the streets of Edinburgh in a
conflict between French and Scottish soldiers, " which he sought
to quell, being Captain of the Castle and Provost of the city.""
In May, 1544, he had defended the Castle against the army
of Henry VIII. under the Earl of Hertford, said to number
26,000 men, " with great artailyerie and all kind of munition,"
sent to demand that the young Queen Mary, then eighteen
months old, should be given up to them to be conveyed to
England to be married to Prince Edward ; but " the laird
of Stanehous,' Capitane thairof, caused showte at them in
so gret aboundance, and with so guid messour, that they slew
a gret nowmer of Inglismen, amangis whome thair wes sum
princepall Capitanis and gentillmen, and ane of the gretest
peacis of the Inglis ordinances wes brakin, quhairthrow thai
war constraned to raise thair seige shortlie and retire thame."*
Robert Bruce married first, Janet Forrester, daughter of
Sir Walter Forrester of Garden and Torwood, and had the
following children: — (i) Alexander, his heir' ; (2) John" ; (3)
Robert, married Helen Drummond' ; (4) James of Capelrig'
married Katherine Hamilton, daughter of Andrew Hamilton
of Cochno.
Robert Bruce married secondly, Marian," daughter of
' Just. Recs. MS. Adv. Lib. Riddell's MS. "Baronetage."
2 " Broces and Ciunyns."
- Robert Bruce was called the laird of Stanehous as he bad resigned Airth to his
eldest son on his marriage.
* Lesley's " History of Scotland," pp. 181-2.
" E. M. S., 1st July, 1347. Elphinstone Writs.
« Reg. of Bonds, Vol. IX., 1.J65.
' Elphinstone Writs, 1576, 15S0. It. M. S., 4th January, 1583.
» Elphinstone Writs, 1593.
» R. M. S., 1st July, 1547. Xo. 113.
Stenhouse. 19
Sir David Bruce of Clackmannan, and had a son, Andrew.*
Marian Bruce, widow of Robert Bruce of Stenhouse, married
secondly, Michael Balfour of Montquanny, and thirdly, Magnus
Sinclair of Kynynmonth." She died in July, 1575.°
V. — Sir Alexander Bruce, knight, of Airth, and fifth of
Stenhouse, succeeded his father, and married Janet Living-
stone,* second daughter of Alexander, fifth Lord Livingstone.
Sir Alexander Bruce was a rude and powerful baron, occasion-
ally engaged in feuds with his neighbours, like others of his
class, and it is recorded in Birrel's Diary (p. 13) that "on 24th
November, 1567, at 2 afternoon, ye laird of Airthe and the
laird of Weeims mett upone ye haigh gait of Edinburghe,
and they and ther followers faught a verey bloudy skirmish,
quher ther wes maney hurte one both sydes vith shote of pistol."
Sir Alexander, who died in 1598, left the following chil-
dren' : — (i) William, who died in his father's lifetime, leaving
heirs ; (2) Mr. Robert of Kinnaird," the famous Presbyterian
minister, the first of a new family of Bruces of Kinnaird';
(3) Sir John of Kincavil, who left issue' ; (4) Alexander
» Acts and Decreets, 71, 4.
« Riddell's "Baronetage" MS.
3 Edin. Com. Rec.
• R. M. S., 1st July, 1547. No. 118,
« Edin. Com. Rec, 1600.
' Calderwood's " Life of Bruce."
' In the Kinnaird Writs tliere is a contract between Sir Alexander Bruce and
Edward Bruce of Kinnaird, narrating tliat his (Edward Bruce's) lands were wadset to
various persons, and he sells them to Sir Alexander, or any of his sons, &c. (p. 649
Appendix "Bruces and Cumyns"). On Edward's death, in 1602, Mr. Robert Bruce is
charged to enter heir to the late Edward Bruce, fiar of Kinnaird. Mr. Robert had been
infeft in the whole lauds in 1581, and in Edward's lifetime in 1588, so that this must
have been merely a confirmation of his title (p. 350 " Bruces and Cumyns " ; see under
Kinnaird ; also Riddell's MS, " Baronetage ").
« Elphinstone Writs.
20 Stenhouse.
of Bangour' ; (5) Robert, a priest' ; (6) Marian, married to
William Menteith of Kerse.° William Bruce,* apparent of
Airth, died in 1597, in the lifetime of his father. He married
Jean Fleming, second daughter of John, fifth Lord Fleming,
and sister to John, first Earl of Wigton. They had three
sons: — (ij John, who succeeded his grandfather in Airth, and
continued the line of Bruce of Airth. The Stenhouse family
became the representatives of Airth on the death of the last
direct male heir in 1665' ; (2) William of Stenhouse, of
whom presently" ; (3) Patrick of Newtown.'
VI. — Sir William Bruce, first baronet of Stenhouse, was under
age when his grandfather. Sir Alexander, died in 1598, where-
upon, his uncle, Mr. Robert Bruce of Kinnaird, was appointed
his guardian. William Bruce received from his grandfather the
" Stanehouse," or " Staneleigh," and built the present mansion
house. This property had usually been the heritage of the
heirs apparent of the house of Airth, but from this time it was
separated from the Airth estate and became the territorial
designation of a distinct branch, and has, until recently, con-
tinued in its possession.* William Bruce was created a baronet
of Nova Scotia, 26th June, 1629. He married a daughter of
John Baillie of Letham," heiress of Letham, by whom he had
a daughter, Janet Bruce, who inherited Letham from her
mother, and was called "Lady Letham." She married first,
J Elphinstcne Writs. B. M. S., 10th November, 1632.
s Kinnaird Writs and " Braces and Cumyns."
= Elphinstone Writs, m.c., 23rd May, 1572.
* Elphinstone Writs.
' "Braces of Airth and their Cadets."
• Inq. de Tiitela,
' Ibid.
8 "Braces of Airth."
» R. M, S., 23rd March, 1G20, 29th March,M628, &c.
Stenhouse. 21
Lieutenant-General William Baillie of Torwoodhead, and had
issue. (See under Torwood.) Janet Bruce married secondly
(marriage contract dated 23rd September, 166 1), Sir Michael
Naesmyth of Posso, knight, but had no issue.
Sir William married secondly, Rachel,' daughter of Archi-
bald Johnston of Hilton, and relict of John Jackson, merchant
burgess of Edinburgh, who was infeft in Stenhouse, and by her
had two sons, William, his heir, and James," who married Anna,
daughter of Robert Bruce of Kinnaird, with issue. Sir William
died in 1630."
VII. — Sir William Bruce, second baronet of Stenhouse, was
served heir to his father, 28th December, 1630.* He married
Helen, daughter of Sir William Douglas of Cavers," and by
her had a son and successor, William, and a daughter, Rachel,
who married Michael Elphinstone of Quarrell. Sir William
married secondly, 15th September, 1665, Jean Fortune," who
appears to have died without issue. He married thirdly, 17th
April, 1679, Alison Turnbull, relict of John Butter, or Butler,
of Kirkland, and of Alexander Brown, brother german to Sir
Patrick Brown, first baronet of Coalston.
Sir William was in the sixty-first year of his age when he
married Alison Turnbull, who was then in her fortieth year.
On 27th July, 1682, Alison Turnbull, " Lady Kirkland," and
Sir William Bruce of Stenhouse, her spouse, bring an action
against sundry people.
» R. M. S., 15th December, 1634.
- Riddell's "Baronetage," "Braces of Airth," &c.
» Stirling Com. Rec.
♦ lug. Spec,
» Cavers Papers, m.c, dated 17tJb August, 1612.
• Udiu. Reg. Marriages.
22 Stenhouse.
Sir William died in March, 1683, not in 1682 as stated in
his grandson's retour of 23rd April, 17 14. This is proved by
Sir William's signing a deed at Stenhouse, dated February,
1683, and being designed the late Sir William Bruce in April,
1683.' Alison Turnbull, after the death of Sir William Bruce,
married William Clark, advocate, and after his decease she
married John Graham of Killearn. Sir William joined Argyll's
party during the Civil War.
VIII. — Sir William, third baronet, married Anna,'' daughter
of Sir Robert Elphinstone of Quarrell. On 29th July, 1679,
there is an Inhibition against Anna Elphinstone, his spouse,
wherein he is designed William Bruce, younger of Stenhouse.
She is accused of " riotous living," and " spending great debt
and burding of his estate." He seems to have died soon after
his father.' By Anna Elphinstone he had issue : — (i) William,
the fourth baronet ; (2) Archibald* ; (3) Robert.'
IX. — Sir William Bruce, eldest son, succeeded his father
as fourth baronet, and was served heir general to his grand-
father, 27th December, 1708, and heir special to his grandfather,
23rd April, 1714, and in this retour his grandfather. Sir William
Bruce, is stated to have died, March, 1682, which should be
1 •FonntainhaU's Decisions. Major W, Brace Armstrong, in his " Braces of Airth
and their Cadets," has confused the second baronet, Sir William Brace, with the third
baronet of the same name. He has a long note under the third baronet by which he
endeavours to show that a generation has been missed out from all the Stenhouse
pedigrees. The generations are quite correct, and the whole matter Is cleared up by
the fact that the second baronet died in March, 1683, and not the third baronet. I
wish to thank the Rev. John Anderson, curator, Historical Department, Register
House, and Dr. Maitland Thomson, for helping me to elucidate this matter.
2 General Register of Inhibitions, 29th July, 1679.
' See p. 23.
4 Iiupiis. Gen., 16th April, 1700.
« Ibid.
Stenhouse. 23
March, 1683. (See ante.) On 12th March, 1705, he supplicates
the Lords of the Privy Council for aliment, and it is stated that
his grandfather, Sir William Bruce of Stenhouse, had granted to
Alison Turnbull, his [third] wife, a yearly liferent of 1800
merks out of his estate of 3000 merks a year, " though incumbred
with great debts." The marriage only subsisted for four years
(Sir William having died), during which time Alison TurnbuH's
children, by a former marriage, were maintained in Sir William's
family.
After the petitioner's grandfather's death, Sir William Bruce,
his father, was " necessitat " to apply to the Lords of the Privy
Council for "ane aliment out of this insupportable liferent."
In the meantime, before his father's process took effect, he
died, and the liferentrix, foreseeing that an aliment would be
" modified " out of her liferent, prevailed with the Laird of
Ouarrell, then the supplicant's tutor, to accept of 600 merks
and thereby prevent a greater modification by the Lords of
Privy Council. After the petitioner's majority he was willing
to avoid all further complaint while it was possible for him to
subsist upon that small allowance, but his family "being
increased by many small children he was no longer able to
subsist."
It was also stated in the above petition that Alison Turnbull,
after the death of Sir William Bruce, her third husband, married
William Clark, advocate, and on his death John Graham of
Killearn, " then her husband," and that she had considerable
liferent by all her husbands. The Lords ordered 200 merks
to be paid to Sir William Bruce, the petitioner. He married
Margaret, daughter of John Boyd of Trochrig, and had : —
(i) William, died during his father's lifetime; (2) Robert, who
succeeded as fifth baronet ; (3) Michael, who succeeded as sixth
H Stenhouse.
baronet ; (4) Rachel, died unmarried, February, 1749' ; (5)
Charlotte, died unmarried, February, 1786.'' Sir William Bruce
died in March, 1721," and was succeeded by his second son.
X. — Sir Robert, fifth baronet, died unmarried, and was
succeeded by his brother.
XI. — Sir Michael, sixth baronet, was served heir special
to his father, 3rd March, 1731. " Sir Michael's action in pulling
down a very curious building called ' Arthur's Oon ' for the sake
of the stones, excited the wrath of the antiquary Stukely so
much that he published a humorous caricature of him naked
being pushed into the bottomless pit by the devil, weighted
with some of the stones of the dismantled edifice."* Sir
Michael died in November, 1795, in his eighty-seventh year."
He married Margaret Agnew, elder daughter of Lieutenant-
General Sir Andrew Agnew of Lochnaw, fifth baronet, and by
her had at least six sons and seven daughters :— (i) William,
died during his father's lifetime; (2) Andrew, Lieutenant-Colonel,
died in his father's lifetime; (3) Michael, died 1786° ; (4)
William, who succeeded as seventh baronet; (5) Patrick
Crawford, in East India Company, afterwards of Glenelg,
whose son, Michael, assisted at the escape of Lavalette' in
December, 181 5, for which he was imprisoned for three weeks;
(6) Robert, East India Company's Naval Service." Two of the
daughters are named in the Testament of their mother, Margaret
' Scots Magazine,
» rbid.
' Stirling Com. Rec.
* See Note on "Arthur'a Oon" in Appendix.
' Soots Magazine.
• Ibid.
' Comte de Lavalette, G^n^ral frangais, u4 a Paris, condamn^ a mort aprts les
cent jours, sauve par le de'vouement de sa femme, 1769-1630,— I>ic!io7i)iair« Laroime.
' Scots Magazine.
Stenhouse. 25
Agnew, confirmed 2nd October, 1795/ viz., Rachel, and Eleanors,
wife of Thomas Brisbane. Major Bruce Armstrong states that
the wife of Thomas Brisbane was Jemima.
XII. — Sir William, seventh baronet, was retoured heir of
conquest general, 14th December, 1789, to his brother, Michael
Bruce. In this retour he is called William Bruce of Tobago.'
In 1796 he was retoured to his father, who died in November,
1795. He married in June, 1795, Anne Colquhoun, daughter of
Sir William Cuninghame-Fairlie of Fairlie and Robertland,
Baronet," and by her had three sons and two daughters : —
(i) Michael, eighth baronet, born 31st March, 1796 ; (2) William
Cuninghame, born 1798, who married, in 1820, Jane, daughter
of William Clarke, of London, and had, besides other children,
a son, William, who succeeded his uncle as ninth baronet ;
(3) Alexander Fairlie, married first, Mary Ann, daughter of
Robert Cathcart of Drum, by whom he had one son, William,
who died young at Edinburgh, and secondly, Marion Harriet,
his deceased wife's sister, and by her had eight sons and one
daughter; (4) Anne Colquhoun, died unmarried in 1816; (5)
Mary Agnew, married in 1828 to George Charles Moir of
Denmore, Aberdeenshire.
XIII. — Sir Michael, eighth baronet, was born 31st March,
1796. He married, in 1822, Isabella, daughter and heiress of
Alexander Moir of Scotstoun, but had no issue.
XIV. — Sir William, ninth baronet, succeeded his uncle in
1862, and married Charlotte Isabella, daughter of the Hon.
Walter O'Grady, second son of first Viscount Guillamore,
and by her had two sons and two daughters: — (i) Michael,
* Edin. Com.
' " Bruces of Airth."
' Scots Magazine.
26 Stenhouse.
Lieutenant, Highland Borderers, Stirlingshire Militia, born igth
November, 1853, died unmarried 27th February, 1890; (2)
William Waller, born 27th February, 1856, married Angelica
Mary, fourth daughter of General George Selby, R.A., and has
issue: — (i) Michael William Selby, born 1894; (2) William
Nigel Erule, born 1896; (3) Grace Catherine; (4) Corinna
Maria. Sir William contested Stirlingshire in the Liberal
interest in 1874. He died at his residence at Ascot on 29th
May, 1906, his wife having predeceased him on i6th October,
1873-
The family of Bruce of Stenhouse became the heirs male
of the house of Airth, having succeeded to the male representa-
tion on the death of Major Alexander Bruce, last baron of
Airth, in September, 1665, without male issue.'
The estate of Stenhouse was sold, 13th December, 1888, to
the late John Bell Sherriff of Carronvale."
APPENDIX TO STENHOUSE.
Note ^.—Arthur's Oon.
This curious building once stood near the place now occupied by the
Carron Iron Works. No similar building is known to have existed in
Scotland. It was of a circular form, its shape in some measure resembling
a common beehive. The style, according to the extant sketches, was singu-
larly perfect, and showed an intimate acquaintance with the masonic art.
It is said that no cement of any description was used, yet the stones were so
1 Where no special references are given the information is taken principally from
« The Braces of Airth."
" See under Carronvale.
i' 'I
SUNDIAL AT STENHOUSE
Stenhouse. 27
accurately joined together that even the difficulty of forming so diminutive a
cupola by the concentration of horizontal courses was accomplished there
in the most skilful and enduring manner. No written description can give
an adequate idea of the building. Those interested in archa2ology can
see drawings of it in various books. A good plate is given in Gordon's
" Itinerarium Septentnonale," also in " Caledonia Romana," No. 5, Fig. i.
It has been treated of by Nennius, Johannes Major, Hector Boece, George
Buchanan, and many others. The actual history remains in obscurity, but
interesting opinions have been hazarded as to its probable history and use.
Various antiquaries have thought it probable that it was a minor temple
of some kind. Sir Robert Sibbald has "an account of the Roman temple
benorth Carron water " in his " Roman Monuments and Antiquities." He
writes : — " I viewed [Arthur's Oon] narrowly with a lighted link. ... I
discerned the figure of an eagle's head, somewhat worn out by time, and
upon the same side I saw a figure much worn out or partly deleted, which
resembled wings, and seems to hai^e been the figure of Victory. . . . The
artful fabrick, and the duration of it, besides the figures yet remaining, prove
that it was a Roman work." This is interesting, but the latest ideas rather
tend to throw doubt on the Roman theory, and the available evidence is not
sufficient to determine what it may have been. Sir Walter Scott said that it
would have turned the heads of half the antiquaries in the Island had not the
worthy proprietor thought fit to demolish it. The story and the building are
now for ever lost — the one in the dark backward and abysm of time, the
other, most probably, in the muddy shallows of the Carron. An interesting
pamphlet embodying concisely the various accounts of Arthur's Oon was
published in 1870, by John Reddoch M'Luckie. It can be seen in the
library of the National Museum of Antiquities, Edinburgh.
Note .5.— Extract from the "Chronicon de
Lanercost."
The following story is extracted from the " Chronicon de Lanercost,"
under date 25th March, 1285 : —
Sed certe, quia nimis sicca censetur historia seriem te.xere de cineribus
extinctis, referam hoc loco ad laudem incorruptae Virginis quod proxima
huic eventui accidit annunciatione. (Mar. 25.) Est in eodem regno villula
Stenhouse.
citra burgum de Strivelin, nomine Stanhuse, in qua villanus festum
conceptionis filii Dei non satis appretians, ad aratrum accessit, juga junxit,
filiumque proprium ad animalia minanda statuens ipse cespitem sulcare
cepit. Sed cum boves non satis proficerent, ac declinando delirarent,
pertinax homo perurget filium ut stimulet, et per se damans bestiis maledicta
intorquet. Tandem, impetu irae agitatus, baculum aratri arripiens, dum
unum bourn calcitrantem forti annisu ferire intendit, jactu incerto in caput
suae prolis infixit ; quo corruente, fit parricida sui seminis, profugus suae
nationis, pestilens in Auctorem salutis, et proditor sui.— Maitland Club.
Note C— Table Showing Descent of Main Line of
Bruces of Stenhouse.
The first column of figures shows the direct descent of the Bruces of
Stenhouse ; the second column shows the actual Lairds of Stenhouse.
I. I. Alexander Bruce of Stenhouse, =Janet Forrester
.. ^Elizabeth Menteith
=Euphemia Montgomerie
{1st. *Janet Forrester
2nd. Marian Biuce
=Janet Livingstone
=Jean Fleming
S 1st. Janet Baillie
2nd. ♦Rachel Johnston
♦Helen Douglas
Jean Fortune
Alison Tumbull
::Anna Elphinstone
=Margaret Boyd
2.
3-
U. Sir John,
in. Sir Robert
4.
IV. Robert
5-
6.
V. Sir Alexander
William, d.v.p
7.
VI. Sir William (ist baronet)
8. VII. Sir William (2nd baronet)
9. VIII. Sir William (3rd baronet)
10. IX. Sir William (4th baronet)
r X. *Sir Robert (5th baronet)
"• \XI. *Sir Michael (6th baronet)
12. XII. Sir William (7th baronet)
13. XIII. Sir Michael (8th baronet)
14. XIV. Sir William (9th baronet)
♦Brothers.
r ist. ^
:={ 2nd.
I 3rd.
=Margaret Agnew
=Anne Cuninghame Fairlie
=Isabella Moir
=Charlotte O'Grady
■"Mother of the heir.
l^^i^i^
KINNAIRD.
(Parish of Larbert.)
THE old mansion of Kinnaird does not seem to have
been older than the middle of the eighteenth century,
although some parts may have been of earlier date
perhaps going back as far as the early years of the seventeenth
century, when Master Robert Bruce was the laird. The founda-
tions of an old keep were found when the eighteenth century
house (Adam's style) was being pulled down.* Nothing
remains of the old bouse now. The name Kinnaird, in 1334
Kynhard, is said to mean ('Gaelic, Cmn na h'airde) " at the
head of the height," which refers to its position in days when the
sea came much further in." The grounds are very picturesque,
and the approach, where it widens out near the house, with its
stately avenue of trees, through which one sees the Ochil Hills,
is very fine. On the wall of the garden there is a coat of
arms with the date 1602 over the shield, and the initials R. B.
(Robert Bruce), and M. D. (Martha Douglas).
The first known charter of Kinnaird bears date 15th
September, 1229, in the reign of Alexander H., when William
Colvyl gives a tack of the lands to the Abbot of Holyrood.
' ^' Castles and M.insion9 of Stirlingshire," by J. S. Fleming.
« " Place Names of Stirlingshire," by Eev. J. B. Johnston.
3° Kinnaird.
Sir William Colvyl of Kinnaird married Ada, daughter of
Malcolm Lockhart. In 1241 Ada Colvyl gives the lands of
Kinnaird to the Abbey and monks of Newbattle/ for the souls'
rest of David, Malcolm, and William, Kings of Scotland, &c.
Ada Lockhart married first Sir John Moreham of that ilk, and
their son, Adam de Moreham, in 1249, confirms his mother's
gift to the Abbey, designing her Ada de Colvyl. The Abbey
sold the lands in February, 1467, to Sir Alexander Bruce of
Stenhouse and Airth, who, as shown under the family of Bruce of
Stenhouse, gave the estate to his third son, Edward."
Edward Bruce, first designed of Kinnaird, was infeft in the
landsof Kinnaird, 6th May, 1499." He married Christian Stewart*
one of the co-heiresses of her brother, David Stewart of Rosyth.
They had a son, who, in 1543, is designed "David Brus of
Kynnard, son and heir of Edwarde de Brus of Kynnairde
by Christian Stewart of Rosyth," and in 1549 he is designed
" Sir David Brus of Kynnard."
Sir David, second of Kinnaird, had at least four legitimate
sons — I Ninian, 2 Edward, 3 David, 4 Patrick — all mentioned
in a charter dated isth December, 1545/ He was succeeded
by his eldest son, Ninian Bruce, third of Kinnaird, who had
sasine of the lands on 9th July, 1547.° Ninian Bruce married,
15th December, 1545, Margaret, third daughter of Sir William
1 Beg. de SeulotJe.
- For details of Bruces of Kinnaird see Mrs. Camming Brace's "Bruoes and
Ciimyns " ; " Tlie Bruces of Airth and their Cadets," by Major W. Bruce Armstrong ;
R. Riddell's MS. " Baronetage " under Bruce of Stenhouse ; Douglas's " Baronage," &c.
' Reg. de Neirboile.
* i?.M.S., 27th Feb., 1516-17.
' Kinnaird Writs.
' liid.
Kinnaird. 31
Livingstone of Kilsyth. He died in 1550, leaving an only
daughter, Janet, who married Robert Boyd, in Drum, parish of
Lenzie.'
Ninian Bruce, in conformity with the terms of the Charter of
Kinnaird, was succeeded by his second brother, Edward Bruce,
fourth of Kinnaird, who married first a daughter of Crawford of
Rochsolles, and second, 23rd December, 1587, Elizabeth, daughter
of the late Sir William Livingstone of Kilsyth. At this date
Edward Bruce of Kinnaird assigns and disposes his " lyfifrent
in Kynnaird " to Sir William Livingstone, who on the 29th
January following resettles the same on him and his wife for
their lives, excluding " aires and assignyes." But it appears that
prior to this date, Edward Bruce had already disposed of the
reversion of his estate after his death to his kinsman. Sir
Alexander Bruce of Airth, so that on Edward's death in 1602
(Elizabeth Livingstone having apparently predeceased him, and
Sir Alexander Bruce of Airth also being dead) there is a "decree
of Registration by the Lords of Council at the instance of
Mr. Robert Bruce, Minister of God's Word, as assignee of
umquhile Sir Alexander Bruce of Airth, his father, against
Patrick Bruce, brother to the late Edward Bruce of Kinnaird,
and to whom Patrick Bruce is charged to enter heir."- Edward
Bruce died without issue, or at least without male issue.
The lands of Kinnaird had really fallen into the hands
of Sir Alexander Bruce of Airth before 1581. Sir Alexander's
second son (by his wife, Janet Livingstone), Mr. Robert Bruce,
was the first of a new family of Bruces of Kinnaird." He was
born, it is supposed, at Airth Castle in or about 1554,'' just in
» Stirling Register of Mnrriages.
= Kiimaird Writs.
= See under Stenhouse.
' Woodrow says 1 3.j9.
32 Kinnaird.
the very heat of the Reformation in Scotland. He had a
liberal education at the Universities of St. Andrews, Paris, and
Louvain, and was intended by his father to follow the law. He
completed his education at Edinburgh, and began to practise
law. Although his reputation was advancing rapidly, and
the position and influence of his family such that promotion
to very high places in the law was sure to have come to him,
yet he had no heart in this work. A man of very strong
religious feelings and of extreme conscientiousness, he believed
that he was called to the ministry. He describes in most vivid
language the torment of conscience he went through, when,
bowing for a time to the desire of his father and mother, he
resisted " the calling of God to the study of theology and
ministrie." Rather than again suffer such torment, he said,
" I had rather goe through a fire of brimestone half a mile
long.'"
Mr. Bruce's father had put him in possession of the barony
of Kinnaird in order that he might be in a position to become a
senator of the College of Justice. His parents only consented to
his going into the Church on his resigning the estate of
Kinnaird, which he willingly did. He entered the Church, and
became one of the most distinguished of its ministers. He was
a strong adherent of Knox's principles. Mr. Bruce had a good
deal of the intolerance of his day, and was mixed up in the
factions which tortured poor old Scotland in those days. There
was a certain superstitious element in his nature which came out
in his belief in dreams, &c.
King James VI. entertained feelings of blended respect and
fear for Mr. Bruce, and when he went over the seas to marry his
Queen, the Princess Anne of Denmark, he made Bruce a
> Calderwood'a " History of the Eitk of Scotland,"
Kinnaird. 33
member of the Privy Council, and desired him to take cognizance
of the affairs of the country, saying he had more confidence
in him and the other ministers of Edinburgh than in all his
nobles. James was not disappointed, for the country was never
in greater peace than while he was out of his kingdom on this
occasion. At the coronation, after the return of the King and
Queen, Bruce had the honour of anointing the Queen with oil.
In the same year, 1590, Bruce married Margaret, or Martha,
daughter of George Douglas of Parkhead, by Marion Douglas,
daughter and heiress of James Douglas of Parkhead and Pitten-
dreich,^ and his father restored to him the barony of Kinnaird.
Bruce never had much respect for King James, and was tactless
enough to show it, perhaps more openly than was necessary.
He early said, " I had no will of the Court, for I knew weill that
the Court and we could never agree." On several occasions
he admonished the King rather severely, and these rebukes
rankled in the King's mind to such an extent that he called the
ministers of Edinburgh before him and complained of the
personal censures from the pulpit, but without effect.
About this time began the King's persecution and worrying
of Bruce, which made his life a burden to him. The principal
charge brought against Bruce at this time was that he had
harboured Bothwell after the Raid of Falkland. There was not
a word of truth in it, and the King was very uncomfortable
about the whole matter before it ended. In 1596 Bruce was
appointed to visit the churches in the vicinity of Glasgow,
where he was received with the greatest respect and honour, so
high was his reputation for faithfulness, wisdom, and usefulness.
The King was offended at the warmth of his reception in the
west, and vowed he should lose his head for his conduct in
' Marriage contract dated 8th June, 1090.— Riddell's MS. " BBionetftge."
3
34 Kinnaird.
regard to Bothwell. It is said that when Bruce returned to
Edinburgh, James, looking out of a window in Holyrood and
seeing him entering the Canongate, said with indignation which
extorted an oath from him, " Master Robert Bruce, I am sure,
intends to be King and declare himself heir to Robert the
Bruce." One of James's methods of annoying Bruce was to
send him some frivolous message every Saturday to disturb
him in his studies. But things reached a climax in 1600,
after the Gowrie Conspiracy. From the Privy Council
Register, and other sources, we learn that Bruce discredited
the story of the Conspiracy, and refused to offer up thanks
from the pulpit for the King's preservation. This brought
down the King's most relentless wrath upon him. He was
prohibited from preaching in the kingdom, and was ordered
to enter into ward in the Tower of Airth. Later on he was
ordered to quit the kingdom. Knowing the value James put
upon himself, and how he considered the Commonwealth had
just had " a fair escape from the heavy and bloody loss of a
dear father — for we are pater patrice"^ &c., Bruce showed an
amount of stickling which now seems overstrained. The King
was greatly excited and very touchy upon this matter, and
there is no doubt that the attitude Bruce assumed gave the
King a great advantage, and tended to overthrow the very
power of the Church which Bruce was so anxious to maintain.
It is interesting to note that George Heriot was a friend of Bruce.
1 The scene in "The Fortunes of Kigel," Chapter XXVIIl., where James so
exaggerates the inciJent of the meeting -with Lord Glenvaxloch, seems to be Sir
Walter Scott's criticism on the Gowrie Conspiracy, ^^'hen referriug to the Gowrie
Conspiracy, it may not be out of place to quote a letter from King James to the
Provost of Stirling, copied out of the MS. Stirling Burgh Records, 21st November,
1600:— "It is our will that ye receive twa quarters of the late Earl of Gowrie
and his brother, clean traitors, and causs thame to be set up oa the maist eminent wtd
usual place.— James Res."
Kinnaird. 1358153 3,
Bruce was allowed to return to Scotland, but was com-
manded to keep ward in his own house of Kinnaird, and on
2Sth February, 1603, his church in Edinburgh was declared
vacant. His last interview with the King was on sth April,
1603, just when the King was setting out for England, but
though very well received, and rather as a baron than as a
minister, there was nothing said of his being restored to his
church. After the King had mounted his horse, Mr. Bruce
went again to him, when the King at parting said, " Now all
particulars are passed between me and you, Mr. Robert."
After a good deal of trouble with the Commissioners of
Assembly, he was inhibited from preaching, and ordered to
Inverness. About this time his wife died, and he felt the
blow keenly. His son petitioned for him to be allowed to
return to Kinnaird, and this was granted, but he was again
committed to Edinburgh Castle for appearing in Edinburgh
about the " Five Articles of Perth," and subsequently banished
again to Inverness. The Council wrote to the King, interceding
for him' to be allowed to pass the winter at Kinnaird, but
the King replied, " It is not for love of Mr. Robert that ye
have written, but to interteane a schisme in the Kirk. We
will have no more Popish pilgrimages to Kinnaird : he sail
go to Inverness."^ In 1624 King James died, when the severity
against him was much mitigated, and he was not required to
go north again. In 1629 Charles I. wrote to the Council
to restrict him to Kinnaird and to two miles round it.
In 1629, the church of Larbert having been neglected and
left without a minister by the bishops, he not only repaired it,
> Register of tho.Privy Council.
'Ibid.
36 Kinnaird.
but preached there every Sunday to large congregations. Mr.
Bruce died 13th August, 163 1. On the morning of that day
he breakfasted with his family as usual, but, having a presenti-
ment that death was near, he warned his children. He then
desired a Bible to be brought, and, finding that his sight was
gone, requested his daughters to put his fingers on the two
last verses of the eighth chapter of Romans. He had only
strength to add, " Now, God be with you, my children ; I
have breakfasted with you, and shall sup to-night with the
Lord Jesus Christ." He then closed his eyes, and peacefully
expired. He was buried in the aisle of the church at Larbert,
and Calderwood says that four or five thousand people followed
his body to the grave. He is described in the Preface to the
Register of the Privy Council, Vol. XH., p. 66, as that "famous
and veteran Presbyterian minister once the stateliest and most
aristocratic-looking of the ministers of Edinburgh, and the
King's most intimate and most confidential friend among all
the Scottish clergy."
His countenance was grave and majestic, and expressive of
much authority. His skill in languages and in the science of
those times was equal, if not superior, to that of any of the
Scottish reformers. A writer in the " Scots Magazine " says
that he was less violent than Melville, more enlightened than
Knox, and that he viewed with a brighter and milder eye the
united interests of the Church and nation. King James once
said of him that " he judged Mr. Bruce was worth half of
his kingdom.'"
> Woodiow's " Lifs of Bruce." For particulars see " Dictionary of National
Biography," Anderson's " Scottish Nation " (from which most of the above information
is taken) and Register of Privy Council, &c. Since writing the above, a life of Mr.
Robert Bruce has been published by the Rev. D. C. Maonicol, B.D, ; Edinburgh :
Oliphant, Anderson &, Fetrier, 1907. (This book contains a portrait.)
GRAVESTONE OF MASTER ROBERT BRUCE
Kinnaird. 37
I.— Mr. Robert Bruce, first of Kinnaird, left by his wife,
Martha, or Margaret Douglas, two sons, Robert, who succeeded
him, and John ; and three daughters, Elizabeth, who was
married to James, eldest son of John Campbell of Moy, Mary,
married to Michael Elphinstone of Ouarrell, and Martha.
II. — Robert Bruce, second of Kinnaird, succeeded his father
in 163 1. He married' Margaret Menteith of the Kerse family,
and had two sons. Colonel Robert and Alexander.
III. (i) — Colonel Robert Bruce, third of Kinnaird, succeeded
his father in 1645. He was a captain of the Life Guards of
Charles II., in which he continued till the fight of Worcester,
when, " doing all that became a gentleman and a good soldier,
he received there wounds which soon after caused his death."
He married Dame Marianne Rollo, but had no children." He
was succeeded in 1655 by his brother Alexander.
III. (2) — Alexander Bruce, fourth of Kinnaird, married first,
Helen Bruce, daughter of Sir Robert Bruce of Clackmannan,
by whom he had two daughters, Helen and Jean. He
married second, Margaret Elphinstone, daughter of Michael
Elphinstone of Quarrell, but had no family.
IV. — Helen Bruce, fifth of Kinnaird, succeeded in 1711
through a deed of entail by which her son and heir and his
successors were obliged to retain the name and arms of Bruce.
Helen Bruce" was married first to David Hay, son of John Hay
of Woodcockdale, Linlithgowshire, who assumed the name of
Bruce. They had a son David.
1 Major Bruce Ai'mstrong states that he also maaried Isobel Ross, daughter of
John Ross, merchant burgess of Glasgow. See " Bruoes of Airth."
■ " Bruces and Cumyns."
' Helen Bruce was married secondly to Robert Boyd, writer, Edinburgh.— Edinburgh
Com, Rec, 26th April, 1733.
38 Kinnaird.
V. — David Bruce, sixth of Kinnaird, succeeded in 1729.
He married first, Marion Graham, daughter of James Graham
of Airth, and by her, besides other children, had James, his
heir. David Bruce married secondly, Agnes Glen, by whom
he had six sons and two daughters.
VI. — James Bruce, seventh of Kinnaird, was born at
Kinnaird, 14th December, 1730. He was educated at Harrow
and Edinburgh University, where he studied law, but did not like
it. He went to London and married in 1754 Adriana Allan,
the daughter of a rich wine merchant, and became a partner
in the business. She died at Paris within a year after the
marriage. Bruce now studied languages and travelled in
France, Spain, Portugal, and the Netherlands. His father died
in 1758, and he then returned to London. In 1761 he retired
from the wine trade. About this time he submitted to the
Government a project for a descent on Spain, there being a
rumour of a war between Great Britain and Spain. In 1763
he was appointed Consul General at Algiers. There he studied
oriental languages and surgery. In June, 1768, he proceeded
to Alexandria, and from Cairo set out on his famous journey
to Abyssinia, which forms an epoch in the annals of discovery.
He arrived at Jeddah in April, 1769, and after many adven-
tures and detentions reached Gondar, the capital of Abyssinia,
in February, 1770, and on 14th November of that year
succeeded in reaching the sources of the Abawi, then con-
sidered the main stream of the Nile. Here he experienced
great elevation of spirits from the joy of having realised his
ambition, but this was followed by great dejection. He went
through many and great hardships, and frequently showed
much bravery and presence of mind. His accomplishments
were many and varied, and he would probably, but for
Kinnaird. 39
his eccentricities and excitability, have made a stronger
impression on those with whom he came in contact. Time has
fully verified all his statements which seemed so extravagant
that at first many of them were received with incredulity.
He seems to have been a man of a large and generous
disposition, and capable of drawing out the affection of the
peoples with whom he came in contact. In 1774 he returned
to Scotland. His "Travels" appeared in 1790 and startled
the belief of many. There is an interesting conversation
recorded by Boswell in " Johnson's Life " (1775). Johnson had
told Boswell that he had been in the company of a gentleman
(James Bruce) whose extraordinary travels had been much the
subject of conversation. " But," Boswell says, " I found he had
not listened to him with that full confidence without which
there is little satisfaction in the society of travellers. I was
curious to hear what opinion so able a judge as Johnson had
formed of his abilities, and I asked if he was not a man of
sense." Johnson — " Why, sir, he is not a distinct relater ;
and, I should say, he is neither abounding nor deficient in
sense. I did not perceive any superiority of understanding."
Boswell — " But will you not allow him a nobleness of resolution
in penetrating into distant regions ? " Johnson — " That, sir,
is not to the present purpose. We are talking of sense. A
fighting cock has a nobleness of resolution."^
Bruce married secondly, 20th May, 1776, Mary, eldest
daughter of Thomas Dundas of Carron Hall. In a letter to
his father-in-law he says at the end : — " My most dutiful and
respectful good wishes to Lady Janet. I never knew in my
life what it was to be perfectly happy till now. My Mary
1 Boswell's " Life of Johnson," Napier's Ed. (1884), Vol. II., pp. 306-7.
40 Kinnaird.
is everything I could wish, and I believe, excepting for you,
who are ourselves, we could live most happily strangers to the
world, in the deserts of Nubia, was not my Mary's example
wanted by the wives of this world." Mrs. Dundas of Carron
Hall says " Mr. Bruce was commonly known among his county
neighbours as the ' Traveller,' and it would seem he rather
bored them with his traveller's tales. He was likewise rather
dyspeptic, and fond of dwelling on his precarious health. A
story is told of my own grandfather, Sir William Bruce of
Stenhouse, on an occasion when Mr. Bruce had exhausted
his patience, saying to him, ' Weel, traveller, dee when you
like, you'll dee wi' the gudewill o' a' your neebours ! ' It
was a doubtful compliment."
Bruce was an emotional man and easily moved to tears.
When leaving Abyssinia it is said he shed tears at parting
with his many friends. The following story is from Dean
Ramsay's " Scottish Life and Character " : — A certain Mrs.
Henderson was an old housekeeper at Airth. A speech of
hers was preserved in the family as having been made at
the time of the execution of Louis XVI. in 1793. She was
noticing the violent emotion exhibited by Mr. Bruce of
Kinnaird, the Abyssinian traveller, at the sad event which
had just taken place, and added in the following quaint and
caustic terms, " There's Kinnaird greeting as if there was nae
a saunt on earth but himsel' and the King o' France." His
vanity and imperious manner had won for him the nickname
of "The Prince." His brother-in-law alludes to him as "The
Prince " in a letter in which he says, " I neither love nor fear
the Prince.'"
1 " Dundas of Fingask," by Mrs, Dundas of Canon Hall (1891).
JAMES BRU
Kinnaird. 4*
Bruce died in a tragic manner. He had been entertaining
some company at Kinnaird, and when handing a lady to her
carriage his foot slipped on the stair and he fell down
headlong. He was taken up speechless, much cut and
bruised. He remained in a state of insensibility for eight or
nine hours, when he expired on Sunday, 27th April, 1794,
in the 64th year of his age. He was a very tall man. In
March, 1773, on his arrival in England, Fanny Burney, in
her lively sketch of him at this time in a letter to Samuel
Crisp, says : — " Mr. Brace's grand air, gigantic height, and
forbidding brow awed everybody into silence. ... He is
the tallest man you ever saw gratis." His portraits^ give no
clue to the "forbidding" brow described by Fanny Burney.
His countenance was manly and good humoured, and his
manner affable and polite. He was a keen sportsman, and
used to go in the season to Ardchullarie, on Loch Lubnaig,
the fishing and shooting of which he rented. He was buried
in Larbert Churchyard, where there is a tombstone with an
inscription setting forth his virtues and accomplishments.
By his wife, Mary Dundas, Bruce left two sons, Robert, who
died young, and James, who succeeded him ; also a daughter
Janet Maitland, who married John Jardine.
Vn. — James Bruce, eighth of Kinnaird, who succeeded in
1794, married Eliza, daughter of William Spicer of Wear, in
the county of Devon, and had a daughter, Mary Elizabeth,
who was heiress of Kinnaird.
1 The original o£ the portrait reproduced here was painted by Pompeo Battoui,
(See particulars under list of illustrations.) Bruce wrote from Rome in 1762 to his
fiancee. Miss Murray of Polmaise : " I begin to sit to-morrow to the best painter in
Italy."— Portfolio IV., 77, "Scottish Portraits," edited by James L. Caw, Director
of Scottish National Portrait Gallery. This lady must have been Mai-garet, only
daughter of William Miuray of Polmaise, by his wife, Elizabeth Gibson, who eventually
married the Marchese Accramboni, and died at Rome, 1784. It is said she despaired
of Bruce's ever coming back. See " Biog. Diet, of Eminent Scotsmen."
42 Kinnaird.
VIII. — Mary Elizabeth Bruce, ninth of Kinnaird, succeeded
to the property in 1810, and was married 20th June, 1822, to
Charles Lennox Gumming (who assumed the name and arms
of Bruce), third son of Sir Alexander Gumming Gordon,
Bart, of Altyre and Gordonstown. They had one daughter,
Elizabeth Mary, who succeeded to Kinnaird. Mrs. Gumming-
Bruce was the authoress of " The Bruces and the Gumyns."
IX. — Elizabeth Mary Gumming-Bruce, tenth of Kinnaird,
was married in 1841 to James, Lord Bruce, who succeeded
his father as eighth Earl of Elgin, &c. They had one daughter,
Elma.
X. — Lady Elma Bruce, eleventh of Kinnaird, was married in
1864 to Thomas John, fifth Baron Thurlow, who assumed the
name of Gumming-Bruce, and has issue.'
The estate was exposed for sale by the Free Ghurch of
Scotland under the power of sale contained in a bond and
disposition in security, and was bought by Robert Orr,
merchant in Glasgow, J. P. for the Gounty of Stirling, in 1895."
Mr. Orr built the present house, which stands on the site of
the old house of Kinnaird. He died at Kinnaird on 23rd
January, 1906, leaving a widow and family.
' Burke's " Peerage."
'' Writa of Kinnaird,
CARRON HALL*
(Parish of Larbert.)
THE lands of Carron Hall, formerly called Quarrell, or
Querrell,' in the parish of Larbert, which include the
old barony of Skaithmure, have belonged to several
notable families. The mansion house of Quarrell is one of the
oldest in the district, and has many interesting features. It is a
quaint, rambling old place, just the kind of country house to
gather a number of eerie ghost stories about it. The house is
supposed to date from the beginning of the seventeenth century,
but some parts are probably older. It must have been built by
the Bisset family, who previously had lived in the old castle
of Skaithmure. The sundial is the same as that at Barnbougle
Castle, Linlithgowshire,- and is in very perfect preservation.
There are several coats of arms on various parts of the
buildings. Over the fireplace in the harness room is the
coat of the Forresters, with the date 1698. This was probably
brought from Torwood, which had previously belonged to the
Forresters, and fixed in here by the Dundases, who acquired
* Formerly QUARRELL.
1 The word Quarrell is old Scots aud mid-English for "a quairy." Rev. J. B.
Johnston—" Place Names of Stirlingshire."
^ " Castellated and Domestic Architecture of Scotland."— M'Gibbon and Ross.
44 Carron Hall.
Torwood in 1749. There is no record of Forresters ever having
owned Quarrell. In the dining room, over the mantelpiece, is
the coat of the Diindas family. There are some very fine trees
in the grounds.'
QUARRELL OF THAT ILK.
The ancient barons of Quarrell are said to have taken their
name from the lands, and as early as the reign of David I.
designed themselves Quarrells of Quarrell. In a genealogy"
of Quarles van Uiiford of The Hague, sent from Edinburgh
in 1767, it is stated : — " The name of Quarles is local, and
originated in Scotland. It was first assumed by the lords
of the lands and barony of Quarrell, in the county of Stirling,
in the reign of David I. The Quarrells of that ilk were by
no means insignificant barons at that time in the counties of
Stirling and Perth, and were well known for several generations.
There are extant many Diplomata Regia in which the Quarrells
sign as witnesses."
On 20th September, 1298, we are reminded of the usurpation
of Edward I. in Scotland by the following entry in the Calendar
of Documents relating to Scotland (pp. 260-263) : — " The King
to John de Langton, his chancellor, commands a presentation
to be issued for Thomas de Querle, clerk, to the vacant church
of Ratheu in St. Andrew's diocese," and on the same day
Thomas de Querle was presented to this church, " sede vacante
and in the King's hands, under letters to the keeper of the
spirituality."
1 See IS'ew Statistical Account of Stirlingshire.
- In the possession of H. de Quarles van Ufford of The Hague. This
signed by one of the Magistrates of Edinburgh.
Carron Hall. 45
William Ouarles' left Scotland about the year 1420, and
settled down in Northamptonshire, where he married Catherine
of Ufford. The following coat of arms was matriculated in
the Lyon Register, Edinburgh, on 3rd July, 1767, by the
Honourable William Quarles, baron of the Holy Roman
Empire, Lord of Tedingswend in Holland, representative of
the Quarles of Northamptonshire in England, descended of
the ancient family of the Ouarles in Scotland : —
Bears quarterly, first, argent, three falcons vert ; second,
or, a fess dancetty ermine, betwixt three falcons with wings
displayed vert, for the Ouarles in Northamptonshire ; third,
sable, a cross couped and engrailed or, for Ufford ; fourth,
harry of ten pieces argent and gules, three martlets sable
for Chaworth. Crest : — That of the ancient Ouarles of
that ilk in Scotland, viz., a demi-eagle displayed vert,
gorged with a ducal coronet or. Motto: — Aquila non captat
muscas."
BISSET OF QUARRELL.
On 8th May, 1462, we find Andrew Reidheuch of the
Quarrell, signing as a witness.' Soon after this date the
lands must have been acquired by the Bissets, the family
principally identified with the lands of Quarrell in the early
times. The Bissets can be traced in the county of Stirling
back to 1261, when a William and Andrew Bisset appear
as witnesses. Whether they were relations of Robert Bisset,
1 In the Appendix to the Heralds' " Visitation of Northauts," 1.j64-1G18, will be
found a pedigree of this family. "The History of Northamptonshire," in the Victoria
Coimty Histories, has also frequent references to this family.
- Copied from the Lyon Register MSS. There are frequent notices of the family
of Quarles van Dfford in the " Anuuaire de la Noble-sse et des Families Patriciennes de
Pays Bas," and in the "Armorial General,"
' Cart, of Cambuskennetb,
46 Carron Hall.
who is designed the King of Scotland's (Alexander III.)
Knight, I have not been able to ascertain.' In 1359 their
lands were called Erth Bisset. They came into possession
of Quarrell, which belonged to the Abbey of Newbattle,
early in the fifteenth century. Alexander Bisset of Quarrell
was dead before 8th April, 1472," when we find his relict,
Elizabeth Elphinstone, alluded to. In 1477, Thomas Bisset,'
most probably his son, gets sasine of " Levelandis, Torbrekis,
Chermurland, Bissetland, &c." Thomas Bisset is again referred
to in 15 12,* and we find the following contract of marriage,
under date i6th July, 1520: — "It was appoynted and
contractit betuix honorable persones, Thomas Besat of the
Quarell, on the ta parte, and George Crechtoun on the tother
parte . . . that Alexander Besat sal complete mareage
with Jonet Crechtoun, dochter to the said George. . . ." '
On 2nd July, 1550, there is a sasine given by Gavin
Hamilton to Thomas Bisset of Quarrell for Isabella Elphinstone."
This laird, who was a young man, was "slaughtered" in 1554
by Robert Henry, alias " Deill Amang Us." Henry was tried
26th October, 1554, and, to quote the terse words used in
Pitcairn's "Criminal Trials," he was "convicted of art and
part of the cruel slaughter of Thomas Bissite, young laird
of Quarrell — Beheaded."
On 2nd May, 1569, Robert Bisset, senior of Quarrell,
died. His testament, which is recorded in the Edinburgh
1 In " The History of the Frasers," by Sir W. Fraser, there are details of the
Northern Bissets.
- Abstract of Protocol Books of Stirling.
= Exchequer Rolls,
♦ B. M. S.
6 Extracts from Stirling Bnrgh Records (printed).
" Lning Charters,
SUNDIAL AT CARRON HAL
Carron Hall. 47
Commissariot, was given up by his son, Robert Bisset, " now of
Quarrel!." The above Robert Bisset, senior, was most pro-
bably the brother of the previous laird, Thomas Bisset of
Ouarrell.
Robert Bisset, junior, died before 1593, when his son, John
Bisset of Quarrell, his brother Alexander, and the late Robert
Bisset of Quarrell, are referred to.'
In 1598, Katherine Bisset, wife of James Elphinstone of
VVoodside, brother german to Sir George Elphinstone of
Blythswood, is mentioned in the Laing Charters. On 3rd
October, 1604, John Bisset of Ouarrell is retoured heir to his
father, Robert Bisset, in the lands of Chirriemuirlands.- The
next laird, probably the son of John Bisset of Ouarrell, was
Thomas, who died before 1620, when his relict, Margaret
Kinross, is referred to. This Thomas sold the lands of
Quarrell and East Skaithmure to the Elphinstones.
ELPHINSTONE OF QUARRELL."
The Elphinstones, as early as 1512, had a charter of the
superiority of Quarrell,* but it was not till about 1610 that
they seem to have owned the lands. At that date, Mr. James
Elphinstone, second son of Alexander, fourth Lord Elphin-
stone, by his wife, the Honourable Jean Livingstone, is
designed of Quarrell. He resigned the lands of Quarrell
and East Skaithmure on 27th October, 1619, to his father,
Lord Elphinstone. The lands were then given to Michael
Elphinstone, first of Quarrell.
' P. C. Register, Vol. VI., p. 604.
- Inq. Spec,
' I am specially iadebted to A. W. Gray Buchanan, Esq. of Parkhill, for his notei
on the Elphinstones.
' R, M, S.
48 Carron Hall.
I. — Michael Elphinstone, first of Quarrell, ninth son
of Alexander, fourth Lord Elphinstone, by Jean, daughter of
VViUiam, sixth Lord Livingstone,* was born 23rd December,
1593.- Along with his elder brother, John, he matriculated
at Glasgow College, 6th March, 1609.° He married, isth
February, 1618, Mary Bruce, daughter of Mr. Robert Bruce of
Kinnaird,* by whom he had (i) Robert, of whom afterwards;
(2) Michael, described as second son, 28th June, 1627" ; (3)
John, youngest son, buried at Larbert, 14th September, 1680,
" who gifted to this kirk two Communion cupps "^ with the
inscription, " CALIX USUI PIO IN AEDE SACRA DE LARBAR
INSERVIENS QUEM DONO DEDIT JOANIS ELPHINSTOVN DNI
ROBERTI ELPHINSTOVN DE QVARREL EQVITIS AVRATI FRATER
GERMANVS, 1680.'" ; (4) Lilias, who was married to Sir
John Dalmahoy of that ilk, Bart., and had two sons and
one daughter' ; (5) Helen, described as youngest daughter,
married about 1653 to David Livingstone of Bantaskine." He
had a sasine of the lands of Quarrell and East Skaithmure,
recorded isth November, 1619, proceeding on a charter granted
by his father, Alexander, Lord Elphinstone, with consent of
Alexander Elphinstone of Kildrummie, fiar of Elphinstone."
He also acquired the lands of Mungall, in the parish of
Falkirk." He is mentioned, 19th July, 1637, as tutor to Jeane
1 Wood's "Douglas's Peerage," Vol. I., p. 533.
- Elphinstone Book, Vol. I., p. 166.
= ilun. Univ., Glas., Vol. III., p. 67.
* Elphinstone Book, Vol. I., p. 166.
6 Stirlingshire Sasines, Vol. IV., fol. 44.
« Tombstone, Elphinstone Book, Vol. I., p. 16G.
■ Burns's " Old Scottish Communion Plate," p, 2S7.
" Douglas's "Baronage," p. 550.
» Stirlingshire Sasines, Vol. IX., fol. 153.
^»Ibii, Vol. I., fol. 332.
"liid, Vol. XIV., fol. 577.
Carron Hall. 49
Elphinstone, daughter of umq" James Elphinstone of Barns,
his brother.' According to the stone in Larbert churchyard,
he died at Durham, and was buried there, ist November,
1640. The Stirling Commissary Records state that he died
in October, 1640, and his testament dative was registered
5th December, 1640, Marie Bruce, his reh'ct, being appointed
executrix dative.
II. — Sir Robert Elphinstone, Knight, second of Quarrell,
had a sasine in his favour, 24th October 1641.'' He was
served heir of Michael Elphinstone of Quarrell, his father,
1st February, 1643.^ He had another sasine in his favour,
2 1st July, 1643.* He was knighted before 1649, when he was
on the Committee of War for Stirling,' was appointed a
Commissioner of Excise in 1661,° a Justice of the Peace in
1663," and a Commissioner of Supply in 1667 and 1678.' He
had sasines in his favour, i8th April, 1654, 20th April,
1659,° and August, 1681.'° He gifted a silver bread plate
to the church of Larbert, engraved, " EX DONO D. ROBERTI
ELPHINSTONE DE QUARREL EQUITIS QUI XIV. CAL. SEXTILIS
ANNO SALUTIS MDCLXXXIU. OEIIT. IN USUM PANIS EUCHAR-
ISTICI ECCLESI/E LERBERIANAE MRO. ARCHIBALDO MUSHITE
CURAM GERENTE."" Sir Robert married, about 1643, Euphame,
> Reg. P.O. of Scotland and MS. Decreets.
« Stirlingshire Sasines, Vol. VII., fol. 329.
' Inq. Gen., 2805.
* Stirlingshire Sasines, Vol. VIII., fol. 20.
6 Acts Parlt. Scot., Vol. VI., p. 192.
• Ibid, Vol. VII., p. 93.
' Ihid, p. 506.
« Ibid, p. 544, Vol. VIII., p. 226.
' Stirlingshire Sasines, Vol. IX., pp. 254-5 ; Vol. XII., p. 138.
> » General Register of Sasines, Vol. XLVI., fol. 46.
1 1 Bums's " Old CommiiDJon Plate," p. 288.
4
so Carron Hall.
eldest daughter of Sir John Carstairs of Kilconquhar by his
first wife, Anna Rae,' daughter and co-heiress of Adam Rae
of Pitsindie, by whom he had issue : — (i) Michael, who
succeeded ; (2) James, a merchant in Grangepans (described as
brother-german to Michael Elphinstone of Quarrell), who had
a sasine registered lOth June, 1686, of an annual rent of 600/.,
" to be uplifted furth of the sd. Michali Elphinstoune his lands
of Quarrel, Skaithmuir, and Mungll,"' married first, about 1686,
Helen Hunter, by whom he had issue ; and secondly,
Euphan Wright, by whom he had Robert and Helen, to whom
he transferred the bond of 2nd June, 1686, over Quarrell, the
children of his first marriage being otherwise provided for,
and died before 1718' ; (3) Anna, married to Sir William
Bruce, Bart., of Stenhouse, with issue, three sons." Sir Robert
Elphinstone died 19th July, 1683.
HI. — Michael Elphinstone, third of Quarrell, was a Com-
missioner of Supply, 1678 and 1685.° He and Robert, his
eldest lawful son, had sasines " of four oxengate of land of
Over Mungall, with the corn milne thereof, kill and milnelands,
with ye pertinents," l6th January, i8th February, and 7th July,
1690.° He married Rachel Bruce, only daughter of Sir William
Bruce of Stenhouse, Bart., by Helen Douglas, his wife,' and had
(i) Robert, who succeeded ; (2) Euphane, eldest daughter,
married 30th June, 1699, to David Ramsay of Lethendy, W.S.,°
who had a sasine of the lands of Over Mungall, milne and
1 General Register Sasines, Vol. LIU, fol. 169,
' Stirlingshire Sasines, Vol. VII., fol. 102.
= Ibid, Vol. XIII., fol. 608, 19th February, 1718.
* Douglas's "Baronage," p. 2iO. See under Stenhouse, p. 22.
» Acts Parlt. Scot., Vol. VIII., pp. 226, i66.
« Stirlingshire Sasines, Vol. VII., fols. i22, 429, 471.
' Douglas's " Baronage," p. 210. M.C. signed 20th November, 1667.
s Falkirk Marriages; "History of Society of Writers to the Signet," p. 166.
Carron Hall. 51
milnelands in the barony of Kerse, 26th August, 1712' ; (3)
Isobell,' born about 1679, died at Edinburgh unmarried, i8th
July, 1774, aged ninety-five' ; (4) Mary, third daughter' ; (5)
Helen, fourth daughter." Michael Elphinstone of Quarrell died
July, 1695."
IV. — Robert Elphinstone, fourth of Quarrell, is mentioned
in the Stirlingshire Sasines, 30th December, 1698, and ist
October, 1703. He was served heir special to his father, Michael
Elphinstone of Quarrell in Howkerss, Teindyeard, and part
oftheoxgate lands of Bothkennar, 20th June, 171 1.' He seems
to have got into difficulties, and to have been obliged to
sell his lands. Alexander Elphinstone, writer in Edinburgh,
possibly a younger brother or near relation, had sasine of the
lands of Over Mungall, dated 27th December, 17 10, registered
5th, January 1711,* and though Mungall is stated to be in the
possession of Robert Elphinstone in December, 171 1, it was
finally sold to his brother-in-law, David Ramsey of Lethendy,
in 1712. On 9th August, 1725, Mr. John Drummond, brother-
german to James Drummond of Blair Drummond, and Mrs.
Agatha Vanderbent, had sasine of the lands of Quarrell and
Skaithmure, formerly belonging to Robert Elphinstone of
Quarrell." He married (contract dated 24th November, 1687)
Anna Campbell, second daughter of Mr. Adam Campbell of
Gargunnock, who had sasine of the lands of Skaithmure, Over
1 Stirlingshire Sasines, Vol. XIII., fol. 30.
' Ibid, Vol. XIII., fols. 27, 28, 29, 117, 118.
» Scots Magazine, Vol. XXXVI., p. 391.
* Stirlingshire Sasines, Vol. XIII., fols. 27, 28, 29, 117, 118.
» Ibid.
• Service of Heirs.
' Ibid.
' Stirlingshire Sasines,
' Ibid, Vol. XIV., Pt. 2, fol. 585,
52 Carron Hall.
Mungall, Mungallmyliie, and others, 27th March, 1688.' They
had at least one son, Michael, and several daughters, the eldest
of whom, Lilias, was married to Captain James Douglas, and
died at Edinburgh, 28th December, 1775.'
V. — Michael Elphinstone, fifth of Quarrell, was served heir
portioner and heir of provision general to his grandfather,
Adam Campbell of Gargunnock, 13th September, 1739.' He
was probably never in possession of Quarrell, as the date,
1755, given in the "New Statistical Account of Scotland" as that
of the sale by the Elphinstones, is evidently a mistake, possibly
for 1725. He had a daughter, Margaret, who died in 1799.*
From the Elphinstones the lands of Quarrell passed to the
family of Drummond of Blair Drummond, as stated above, and on
19th January, 1749, there is a disposition of Quarrell by George
Drummond of Blair Drummond to Thomas Dundas, younger,
of Fingask. These lands marched with the lands of Letham,
which belonged to his father, Thomas Dundas, merchant and
Bailie of Edinburgh.
DUNDAS OF CARRON HALL'
The immediate ancestor of the family of Dundas of Carron
Hall, formerly Quarrell, was Thomas Dundas, merchant and
Bailie of Edinburgh, descended from the ancient family of Dundas
of that ilk, who acquired a considerable estate in the county of
Stirling, and got a charter under the Great Seal, 22nd June, 1732,
erecting his lands into a barony, under the designation of
1 General Register of Sasines, Vol. LVII., fol. 205.
= Scots Magazine, Vol. XXXVII., p. 638.
' Service of Heirs.
* "Edinburgh Com. Rec, 4th April, 1799.
» The following sketch of the Dundas family is principally taken from " Dundas
of Fingask," some memorials of the family, by Mrs. Diindas of Carron Hall.
Edinburgh— Dayid Douglas, 1891.
Carron Hall. S3
"Fingask." Among other lands possessed by Bailie Thomas
Dundas were those of Letham, and the old manor house of
Letham became the country home of his family. He married
Bethia, daughter of John Baillie of Castlecary, and had two
sons: — I, Thomas, his heir; and 2, Lawrence, ancestor of
the present Marquess of Zetland.
Thomas Dundas, the eldest son, succeeded his father in 1762,
and besides taking part in his father's business, also followed the
law. He was at one time Deputy-King-of-Arms. Later on he
became Member of Parliament for Orkney. In 1737 he married
Ann Graham, daughter of James Graham of Airth. She died
after a short married life, and in 1744 Thomas Dundas married
secondly, Lady Janet Maitland, daughter of Charles, sixth Earl
of Lauderdale. In 1749, as above stated, Thomas Dundas,
then designed " younger," purchased the estate of Quarrell, and
subsequently changed the name to Carron Hall.
He had "the right and title to the coal hewers and coal burners,
working and serving in the present going coal, or which belong
to the said coal and may at present be serving in any other coal."
Mrs. Dundas says : — " This claim shows that so late as the
year 1749 the colliers were bought and sold as part of an
estate ; their position, indeed, until the end of the centurj-,
remained that of serfs attached to the soil." Under the article
on Greenfield House" in " The Old Country Houses of the Old
Glasgow Gentry," is the following interesting corroboration
of Mrs. Dundas's statement: —
" In the year 1820, the story goes, Mr. Robert Bold of Alloa was on
a visit to his friend Mr. CoHn Dunlop, then of Clyde. Mr. Dunlop called up
one of the workers, an old man who went by the name of ' Moss Nook,' and
bade him tell the gentleman how he came to Clyde. Moss Nook explained
» This estate now belongs to R. Stanser M'Nair, Esq., Advocate, Edinburgh.
54 Carron Hall.
that he had ' belonged ' as a boy to MacNair of Greenfield ; that Greenfield
had taken a fancy to a pony of James Dunlop's (Colin's father), and 'had
niffered him for the beast,' and that he had been sent over to Clyde then and
there, and had been there ever since."
" It is well known that our colliers and salters were in old times slaves,
adscripH gleba. But it is not so well known how late the system lasted. It
was intended to be abolished (three years after the famous Somerset case) by
the Act of 1775, whose preamble bears that 'many colliers and coalbearers
and salters are in a state of slavery or bondage, bound to the collieries
or saltworks, where they work for life, transferable with the collieries and
saltworks.' But the collier-owners managed still to keep some grip of their
men, and the last Briton did not quite cease to be a slave till the Act of 1799
(ten years after the French Revolution), which bears that ' many colliers and
coalbearers still continue in a state of bondage." As late as 1842, before the
Scotch Mming Commission, a collier from Musselburgh, five miles from the
Parliament House, gave evidence that he had wrought for years as a slave,
and that he, his father, and his grandfather had been bom slaves. And
a little later still, some time after 1843, Dr. Norman INIacleod had among his
Dalkeith members a woman who had been bom a slave."
Thomas Dundas went on adding to his possessions in the
county, and about this time (1749) purchased Torwood' from
the heirs of Lord Forrester. By his wife. Lady Janet Maitland,
he had, besides other children, a son, Thomas, born 1750, who
succeeded him, and a daughter, Mary, who was married in 1776
to James Bruce of Kinnaird, the celebrated Abyssinian traveller.'
Thomas Dundas, first of Carron Hall, died i6th April, 1786, and
was succeeded by his elder son, Thomas.
Thomas Dundas, second of Carron Hall, was a distinguished
soldier. After a brilliant career he rose to the rank of major-
general. He fell a victim to fever at Guadaloupe, 3rd June,
1794. In the following year a monument was ordered by the
» Writs of Torwood. See nnder that property.
' " Dundas of Fingask," pp. 58-9. See under Kinnaird.
Carron Hall. 55
House of Commons to be erected to his memory in St. Paul's
Cathedral. It is in the centre of the north transept, and
is by Bacon.' Major-General Thomas Dundas, born 1750,
married 9th May, 1784, Lady Eleanor Elizabeth, daughter of
Alexander, ninth Earl of Home, by his wife, Primrose," second
daughter of Charles, Lord Elphinstone. By her he had, besides
six daughters, one son, Thomas, born 1792, who succeeded him.
Thomas Dundas, third of Carron Hall, was only two years
old at the date of his father's death in 1794. He followed his
father's profession, and entered the 52nd Light Infantry. He
carried the regimental colours at Corunna. When he landed
at Spithead in the beginning of 1809, his mother wrote to a
friend that he was " in health and spirits, without a shirt on
his back, or a penny in his pocket." He served with the
army — his many medals telling of his services to his country
— till 1 816, when he retired with the rank of major on half
pay, being subsequently raised to the rank of lieutenant-
colonel. He then settled at Carron Hall, where the "good
Colonel" was beloved by all who knew him. He was a Liberal in
politics and exerted himself so usefully during the Reform Bill
that a baronetcy was offered to him, which he declined. He was
for many years an elder in Larbert Parish Church, and was
ever ready to give his aid on behalf of all objects for the good
of the neighbourhood he loved so well. Colonel Thomas
Dundas married, 18th February, 18 15, Charlotte Anne, daughter
of Joseph Boultbee of Springfield, Warwickshire. By her
he had fifteen children, but only four grew up: — (i) Thomas,
who died unmarried ; (2) Joseph Dundas, his heir ; and two
' Dictionary of National Biography.
' Primrose Elpliinatone's mother was Elizabeth, daughter of Sir William Primrose,
Bart., of Carrington, and grand-daughter of Sir Archibald Primrose, Bart., Lord Clerk
Register.
56 Carron Hall.
daughters Charlotte Anna, who was married to Colonel Armine
S. H. Mountain, C.B., and Clementina, married to Vincencio
Bartolucci. Colonel Thomas Dundas died at Clarges Street,
London, on 25th May, i860, in his sixty-ninth year, and is
buried in the family burying ground in Larbert churchyard.
He was succeeded by his second son —
Joseph Dundas, fourth of Carron Hall, who was born 28th
November, 1822. He was a major in the Stirlingshire Militia,
and lieutenant-colonel in the Volunteers.' He died in Switzer-
land, 7th July, 1872, and was buried at Monnetier, near Geneva.
He married, 28th November, 1850, Margaret Isabella, second
daughter of George Charles Moir, of Denmore, Aberdeen-
shire, and grand-daughter of Sir William Bruce, seventh
baronet of Stenhouse, Stirlingshire, and by her had six sons
and four daughters. Mrs. Dundas was the authoress of the book
so frequently referred to — "Dundas of Fingask." Joseph
Dundas was succeeded by his eldest son —
Thomas George Dundas, fifth of Carron Hall, the present
laird, born in 1853. He married, 3rd December, 1879, Mary
Davidson, daughter of Duncan Davidson of Tulloch, Ross-shire,
and has issue : — Archibald, born 22nd September, 1880 ; and
Ronald, born 13th June, 1886. A son and daughter died in
infancy.
SKAITHMURE.
The lands of Skaithmure, from the reign of David H. till
about the middle of the sixteenth century, belonged to the
family of More, or Mure, of Skaithmure.' The old castle,
of which it is supposed a square tower' about five hundred yards
1 Appointed lieutenant-colonel 1st Administrative Battalion, May, 1861. See
further reference to Colonel Joseph Dundas under Torwood.
' Anderson's " Scottish Nation."
» Mr. Fleming's "Ancient Castles and Mansions of Stirling Nobility,"
Carron Hall. S7
west of Carron Hall mansion is all that now rennains, was said to
have been built by Sir Reginald More, Lord Great Chamberlain
under David II. On the tower are two sundials, and on
the lintel of a window is the date 1637 and the initials of
Alexander, fourth Lord Elphinstone, and Dame Jean Living-
stone, his wife,' whose son Michael was the founder of the
Quarrell branch of the Elphinstones, as already stated. Mr.
Fleming has given interesting sketches of the tower and sundials
in his book, "Ancient Castles and Mansions of Stirling Nobility."
About 148S, Alexander Mure of Skaithmure was tenant, with
his son, James, of Westerton of Bothkenner.' A charter, granted
by Robert Bisset of Quarrell, is dated at Skaithmure, 21st May,
1543, stc (probably 1534), and William Mure of "Skamur" is
a witness. The confirmation of this charter is dated 9th
September, 1542.= Probably about this date the Bissets came
into possession of the lands. On 31st October, 1582, Alexander
Mure was retoured heir of Alexander Mure of Skaithmure,
his father, in the lands of Skaithmure,' and as late as 1617,
Alexander Mure, eldest son of the late Alexander Mure
of Skaithmure, was alive.' From this time Skaithmure ceased
to be used as a territorial title.
1 Mr. Fleming's "Ancient Castles and Mansions of Stirling Nobility.''
!> Exchequer Rolls.
a B. M. S.
* Inq. Spec.
' Edinburgh General Register of Sasines.
GLENBERVIE.
(Parish of Larbert.)
THE estate of Glenbervie, formerly called VVoodside, which
includes the lands of Lethbertschiells and Stanrigmill,
is one of the most picturesque in the parish of Larbert.
The lands have most pleasing undulations, are well wooded, '
and abound with streams. The old mansion house of Wood-
side," the ruins of which are still to be seen, was probably built
by one of the later of the Bruce owners about 1590. It is noted
in Font's map of Stirlingshire, drawn about 1610.
In the reign of David II.° there is a charter by Adam Salter
to Marjory, his spouse, of the lands of Lethbertschiells, and in the
same reign they were held by William Lundie, who, we find,
was forfeited, and his lands given to Adam de Argent. About
the year 1370, there is a confirmation of donations which Adam
de Argent made to Marjory, his spouse, of the lands — 30th April,
in the fortieth year of the reign of David II., viz. 1369. The
family of the Argents figures prominently about the Court in the
thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. There is a charter* by
Robert II. to Robert, Earl of Fife and Menteith, in the year
1377, when the lands are resigned by Adam de Argent. This
* Formerly WOODSIDE.
1 See Appendix A for some uotes on trees, &c,, on the estate.
" The illustration given is not of tliis house. See Rollo of Woodside,
» Robertson's Index of Charters, 58, 6, and 67, 7.
« IMd, 118, 16.
Glenbervie. 59
owner was, of course, the younger son of King Robert II.,
afterwards Duke of Albany, Regent of Scotland, whose craft,
ambition, and cruelty have won him an inglorious immortality in
Scottish history and in Sir Walter Scott's novel, " The Fair
Maid of Perth."
BRUCE OF WOODSIDE.
On 26th December, 145 1, there is a charter of Lethbert-
schiells to Alexander Bruce of Stanehouse.' His son, Sir John
Bruce of Stenhouse and Airth, made over the lands to his second
son, Mr. Thomas Bruce, known as first of Lethbertschiells and
Woodside. There are frequent allusions to this Mr. Thomas in
the Great Seal.' He married Elizabeth, daughter of James
Auchmoutie," and had a son, Thomas, who succeeded him.
Thomas Bruce, second of Lethbertschiells and Woodside, *
married Marian, daughter of Sir Alexander Drummond of
Carnock, by whom he had a son, Robert, who succeeded him,
and a son, Patrick, who took part in the murder of David
Forrester of Logie." Thomas Bruce was much troubled by his
unfriendly neighbour, Alexander Forrester of Torwood, as the
following complaint, extracted from the Privy Council Register,
will show : —
"Stirling, 25 October, 1583.— Complaint by Thomas Bruce of Larber-
scheles, as follows :— He hes oft and divers tymes lamentit to the Kingis
Majestie and Lordis of Secreit Counsale the intollerable wrangis and injuries
quhilk he hes sustenit and underlyis be the manifest oppressioun of Ale.xander
Forster of Garden, heretable forester of the Kingis Majesteis Torwodles, be
his violent and wilfull downe-halding of the dykes thairof evvest the
' See under Stenhouse.
2 R. M. S., 4th November, 1528, &o.
' " Bruces of Airth, &c."
* B. Af. S., 1589.
' See under Torwood,
6o Glenbervie.
compliners landes and heretage, quhairby not onlie is the said wod liand
oppin on that syde, of a mahcious intentioun and sett purpois to lett cattail,
hors, and swyne, pasturing within the said wod, have acces to his comeland,
to waist and eit up the incres thairof, as thai haif done at sindry tymes of
befoir, bot thairwith, quhenas hirding usuallie is gevin up, he is compellit of
force to hald ane winter bird to keip his cattell furth of the said wod quhair
it is patent to thame ; and, gif it happin at onie tyine that his said cattell, for
eschewing of the violence and scharpnes of a stormy wether, to withdraw (as
naturallie thay do) to the ley of the saidis woddes, and enter thairin, quhair
is nathing to withstand thame nor hald thame owt, they ar schot and hochit
be the said Alexander and his servandis at his command, to his gret skaith
and heavie dampnage ; committand thairthrow maist violent and manifest
oppressioun upoun him, being the Kingis heretable fewar of the saidis landes,
quhairas it lyis to the dewetie of that office of forster to releif him baith of the
ane and uther be imparquing of the said wod with ane sufficient dyke, able
alsweill to keip in as to hald owt." Alexander Forester having appeared to
summons, and the complainer being also present, the Lords order Forester
(i) to find surety " that he sail big and hald up ane sufficient dyke for keping
of the guidis pasturing within the said forrest fra eatting and distructioun of
the said Thomas Bruce coirnis in the summer tyme and harvest, and for
keping of his guidis and cattell unentering in the said forrest in the winter
and spring tyme, resersand onlie in the said dyke ane stile to him and his
servandis to bring ower watter and wesche thair clathis at the well within the
same dyke, and that the said dyke salbe compleit and performit betuix and
the tent day of Aprile nix to cum ;" (2) to "use gude neichtbourheid to the
said Thomas tumand his guidis that sal happin to enter in the wod, or
to poind thame, letting thame out for reasonable poindlaris fee, unhoundit,
slayne, or hocht ;" (3) also to find caution in 200 merks within twenty-four
hours after being charged that the complainer, his wife, bairns, servants, and
tenants shall be harmless of him, under pain of rebellion : " without
prejudice alwayes to the said Alexander to persew his Majesteis comptrollare
befoir the Lordis of Sessioun, or uthers judgeis competent, for his releif in
this caus, gif he onie aucht to haif Caution in the manner and to the effect
foresaid, by Alexander Forester of Garden, as principal, and Alexander
Forestar of Boquhane, as his surety.'
1 Register of the Privy Council of Scotland, Vol. III., p. 602.
Glenbervie. 6i
Robert Bruce, third of Lethbertschiells and Woodside, son
of Thomas Bruce, second, married Christian Arnot, and had a
son, Thomas, who succeeded him. Robert Bruce, third, was
murdered by Robert and James Forrester, sons of Thomas
Forrester of Myathiil, as we learn from a remission for their
lives granted to them by James VI., 5th May, 1607.'
Thomas Bruce, fourth of Lethbertschiells and Woodside,
married Elizabeth Rollock, and was retoured heir to his father,
28th May, 1603.' In 1622 he gives bond " that he will with
all diligence big up his marsh dykes betwixt him and the
Torwood, and make the same fensibil for preserving His
Majesty's forest of Torwood from harme or skaith of people
or beasts.'"
About 1629 the lands of Woodside and others were over-
flowed by the sliding of a moss in Stirlingshire.* The results
were so serious that an appeal was made by the Lords of
Secret Council for a national subscription to alleviate the
distress. As the calamity caused a profound sensation, it
may be interesting to give the full particulars as related in
the records of the time : —
" Forsameekle as in the moneth of December— under silence of night,
there hes fallin out by the unsearcheable providence of the Almightie God
(quhilk by no humane witt nor foresight could be preventit) suche ane
fearefull, suddane and unexpected accident, lyke ane thunder clap, upon
the lands of Powes and Powmylne perteaning to David Rollock of Powes
and Robert Johnestoun of Powmylne, and upon the lands perteaning to
Patrik Bruce of Corsebruik and Thomas Bruce of Wodsyde, that the lyke
wes never heard of in anie kingdome or age in so farre as ane great mosse
of the thicknesse and largenesse of a speir hes beene drivin by the force
1 K. M. S.
'' Ing. Spec,
> Register of Prlry Council, Vol. XII., 1622.
« Exchequer Rolls and P.C. Register, IV., second aeries, 1830.
62 Glenbervie.
and violence of wind and water fra the firme ground and bounds where
fra all beginning it unmoveablie stood to the lands of Powes and Powmylne
and others lands of the persons foresaids distant thairfra be the space of
and hes overflowed and covered the saids whole lands, and
hes tane ane solide, firme and sattled stand thairon, hes overturned the
whole houses for the most part of the saids lands sua that twentie famileis
wer constrained for lyfe and death and with the extreme hazard of thair
lyfes to flee and leave thair houses and all within the same to the violence
of the mosse. And now the saids lands, whilks wer good arable ground
bearing wheate, beare and all other grayne, ar turned into a blacke mosse
without all possibilitie or hope of recoverie, and the gentlemen awners of
the lands who and thair predecessours wer men of good account, able to
serve the King and countrie and charitablie disposed to the releefe of
all distressed people, ar upon a suddane turned beggars, having nothing
but the miserable face of a black mosse to looke unto in place of thair
pleasant and fertile ground. And whereas this fearefull visitatioun hes
proceedit immediatlie from the hand of God (whois divine chastisements
must with ane Christiane resolutioun be embraced and susteanned) it
becometh all good Christians who ar feeling members of this bodie to
resent the distresses and misereis of thir poore gentlemen and by thair
chearefull benevolence to contribute a part of thair meanes, whairwith it
hes pleased God to blesse thame, toward thair releefe. For the whilk
purpose the Lords of Secreit Counsell hes recommendit and be the tennour
heirof recommends the saids distrest gentlemen to the favourable, charitable,
and Christiane consideratioun of the whole Estaits both spirituall and
temporall within this kingdome, and to the whole persouns of whatsomever
ranks, qualitie or degree within the same, requeisting and desiring thame
and everie ane of thame to extend suche proportioun of thair liberalitie and
charitie to the saids gentlemen as the importance and necessitie of the caus
requires ; and the saids Lords hes committed and be the tennour heirof
committs the collectioun of this contributioun and benevolence of the
people to the persons particularlie underwrittin, Mr. Robert Baron, minister
at Aberdein, Mr. Alexand Jaffiey, bailie, Thomas Nicolsone, bailie, and
Alexander Forbes, for the shirefdome of Aberdein, and Duncane Forbes
and Mr. James Campbell of Moynes for the shirefdome of Innernes, and
Patrik Smith of the HoU and Smith, his brother, for the shirefdome
of Orkney and Zetland, and Archibald Campbell, Sonne to Alexander
Glenbervie. 63
Campbell of Ardchattan, and Johne Stirline, sone to William Stirline of
Achyle, for the shirefdome of Argyle and Tarbet, who ar all men of approvin
credite, honestie and reputatioun, and will deale faithfuUie and uprightlie in
this bussines and conceale nothing that will be given be the people to this
so good and necessar a worke ; givand, grantand and committand unto
thame and everie ane of thame full power, warrand and commissioun to
deale and travell with the whole archbishops and bishops, noblemen,
baronns and gentlemen, synods, presbytereis and sessiouns of kirks,
burrowes, touns, villages, and with all others his Majesteis subjects als
weill to burgh as land anent thair benevolence and charitable Christiane
contributioun to be given out of thair good discretioun for the helpe and
supplee of the saids gentlemen. Quhilks Commissioners sail have ane booke
delyvered unto thame be the Cleik of his Majesteis Counsell whairof everie
leaf sail be marked be the said Clerk, within the whilk booke the saids
Lords requeists all and everie persoun who sail contribute to this worke to
insert or caus be insert the sowmes of money that thay sail contribute and
advance in this earand ; and if anie persoun or persons be sleuth or
negligence sail refuse or forgett to insert thair contributioun, ordains and
commands the saids Commissioners to insert the saids contributiouns
thameselffes, and that they report thair diligence in the premises with thair
booke conteaning the names of the whole persons contributers and the
sowmes of money contributed and collected be thame to the saids Lords
upon the first Counsell day of Februarie nixtocome, to the intent the saids
Lords may know what sowmes of money ar collected and how the same
sail be imployed, and the saids Commissioners sail give thair great and
solemn oath at the reporting of thair diligence and booke foresaid that
they have not omitted nor left out of the saids bookes none of the persons
names that contributed nor the sowmes nor na part thairof that sail be
advanced in this earand ; requeisting alsua the saids archbishops and
bishops to give directioun to the ministers within thair dioceis that they
admonishe and stirre up thair flockes and parochiners to putt to thair helping
hand in this so important and necessar a caus.'"
Thomas Bruce, fourth of Lethbertschiells and VVoodside,
sold the lands of Woodside, Lethbertschiells, and Stanrigmill to
' Register of Privy Council, Vol, IV., second series, pp. 25-7, 1630.
^4 Glenbervie.
Dame Helen Elphinstone (Lady Langton) and her husband,
Mr. Henry Rollo or Rollok, and they had a charter under the
Great Seal, 13th September, 1636. Dame Helen was the fourth
daughter of Alexander, fourth Lord Elphinstone,' and was born
27th August, 1589. She was married to Sir William Cockburn
of Langton, Kt., and on his death, to Mr. Henry Rollo.
Although after 1636 the Bruces continued to design them-
selves " of Woodside," the lands to which they gave this name
were in the parish of Alloa in the county of Clackmannan.'
ROLLO OF WOODSIDE.
Mr. Henry Rollo was the son of Thomas Rollo,' Advocate,
Edinburgh, and nephew of Robert Rollo,' first Principal of
the University of Edinburgh, 1585 to 1586, and of Hercules
Rollo, a writer of Latin verse, &c., who flourished 1577-1619.
Mr. Henry Rollo's grandfather was David Rollo, laird of Powis,
near Stirling, who had a charter of these lands, 4th June, 1556,
from the Provost of Trinity Collegiate Church, Edinburgh. In
this charter his wife, Mariote Livingstone, is named."
In Mr. Riddle Stodart's " Scottish Arms," he designs the
Rollos of Powhouse as cadets of" Duncrub." Mr. Henry Rollo
graduated at the University of St. Andrews in 161 5, and
was presented to the living of Auchterarder, in 1617 ; to
1 Elphinstone Book, Vol. I., p. 167.
= Test, of Mr. Andrew Bruce of Woodside, Stirling Com. Rec, 30th July, 1669.
Some further notes on this family will be found in Appendix B.
' Thomas Rollo married Annabel Forrester, relict of James Sinclair of Banks.
Their children were :— (1) Henry, minister in Edinburgh ; (2) John, baptised 7th March,
1596 ; (3) John, baptised 18th April, 1599 ; (4) George, baptised 12th August, 1600 ; (5)
Jean, baptised 2nd August, 1601.— Stirling Commissary Records and Edinburgh
Register of Baptisms.
* See Dictionary of National Biography.
• Register Trin, Coll. Church— Bannatyne Club, p, 118, No. 57.
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Glenbervie. 65
Kilconquhar in 1623 ; to Trinity Collegiate Church, Edinburgh,
in 1628; and to Greyfriars in 1635. He was a member of
Assembly in 1638, and one of those chosen for visiting the
University of St. Andrews, i6th November, 1641, and that
same year was translated to the High Church of Edinburgh.'
He died in 1649.''
By his wife, Dame Helen Elphinstone, he had a son, John,
who succeeded him. John Rollo of Woodside had various
charters of the lands," and died before 15th July, 1674, on
which date his son, Henry, was retoured to him in these
lands." John had at least one other son. Captain Andrew Rollo.
Henry was Supervisor of the Salt Duty in Scotland, and
married Margaret Young — presumably the eldest daughter of
Sir John Young of Leny, by Mary, daughter of Sir Thomas
Hope of Kerse.° Sir John Young had thirteen children. The
youngest daughter, Janet, was married to Sir George Dunbar,
Bart., of Mochrum and Woodside.
Henry Rollo and Margaret Young had an annual rent out of
the barony of Leny, 12th February, 1692.° On 30th July, 1697,
Henry Rollo was served heir to his brother-german. Captain
Andrew Rollo. On 7th August, 1729, Henry — now Sir Henry,
having been knighted before 30th March, 1710 — was served heir
to his grandfather (who died in 1649') in the teinds of the lands
of Woodside, Lethbertschiells, and Stanrigmill.
Woodside House, of which an illustration is given, was most
probably built by Sir Henry Rollo early in the eighteenth
1 Scott's "Fasti."
- Service of Heirs.
= Writs of Woodside and Laing Charters,
4 l7ig. Spec. (269).
'• MS. Pedigree of Young of Leny in Register House.
« n.M.s.
' 'Service of Heirs.
5
66 Glenbervic.
century. The style of the architecture seems to bear this out.
It was built either partly on the site of the old mansion house or
on an adjoining site, and was connected by a passage with
the remaining portion of the old house, which formed a wing of
the new one. In the old part, which was quite habitable till
about 1850, were the kitchen and servants' quarters. As stated
before, some of the ruins^ of the old mansion house are still
standing, and are shown in the illustration. When the
eighteenth century house was pulled down about 1850, it is said
that a carved stone, which is still preserved at Glenbervie, was
taken from it. On this stone are the Rollo arms, the initials
HSRand mDy (Sir Henry Rollo and Dame Margaret Young),
and the date 17 10. On the lintel of the west door of the ruins
is the monogram of Henry Rollo and Margaret Young, and
the date 1692. It is not improbable that the monogram of
1692 marks the year of Sir Henry's marriage, and the initials of
17 10 mark the building of the house and the knighthood
conferred on him about this time. This house, called Dunbar
House by the Dunbar owners — 1724-1782 — continued to be the
mansion house of the estate till about 1850.
On 15th May, 1724, Sir Henry Rollo, with consent of his
wife. Dame Margaret Young, disposed of the lands to Sir George
Dunbar, Bart., of Mochrum." This was probably a family
transaction, as we have seen that the wives of Sir Henry Rollo
and Sir George Dunbar were sisters.' Sir Henry Rollo died in
1733, and his will was recorded in the Edinburgh Commis-
sariot, 13th December of that year. It was given up by Robert,
Lord Rollo, husband to Mary Rollo, Sir Henry's daughter and
1 A sketch of the ruios is given in Mr. Fleming's "Castles and Mansions,"
= Writs of Woodside.
' MS. Pedigree of Young of Leny.
Glenbervie. 67
sole executor. The cautioner was John Rollo, goldsmith,
burgess of Edinburgh, and "son of the said Robert, Lord Rollo."
There was due to Sir Henry Rollo by the Government a portion
of his salary as Surveyor-General of the Salt Duty. Sir Henry
appears to have had only one daughter, who was married to
Robert, fourth Lord Rollo, second son of the third Lord Rollo,
whose elder son, John, the Master of Rollo, was killed in
a quarrel with Patrick Graham of Inchbrakie as they were
riding home one night after supper in 1691,'
Robert, Lord Rollo, superintended the Treaty of Union in
the last Scots Parliament. He was one of the Jacobite noblemen
present at the pretended great hunting match at Aboyne
on 27th August, 1715, at which the Earl of Mar explained his
plans in favour of the Chevalier de St. George, but the following
year Lord Rollo surrendered himself to the Marquis of Huntly,
and obtained full benefit of the Act of Grace in 1717. He died
in 1758, in his 78th year. He was the father of the famous
soldier, Andrew, fifth Lord Rollo, 1700-1765, from whom the
present family is descended. "
DUNBAR OF WOODSIDE.
Sir George Dunbar," second baronet of Mochrum, who
purchased Woodside in 1724, was the son of Sir James Dunbar,
first baronet, by Isabella, daughter and co-heiress of Sir Thomas
Nicolson of Carnock, and grand-daughter of Alexander, second
Earl of Linlithgow, with whom he got the lands of Plean, in
Stirlingshire. Sir George Dunbar served under the Duke of
Marlborough in Queen Anne's wars with great distinction. He
1 Anderson's "Scottish Nation."
s Dictionary of Nat. Biog.
» Riddell's MS. "Baronetage."
68 Glenbervie.
married Janet, youngest daughter of Sir John Young of Leny,'
by whom he had three sons and two daughters: — (i) James,
who succeeded him as third baronet ; (2) John, who died
unmarried, in 1742" ; (3) Thomas, who left two sons, George,
who succeeded as fifth baronet, and Thomas ; (4) WilHam, a
major in the army, highly distinguished in the American
War of Independence, who married a daughter of the Comte
de Chambaud in Canada, and had two daughters, who died
unmarried.
Sir George became chief of the Dunbars at the decease
of Ludovic Dunbar of Westfield, 14th April, 1744. He died
in 1747, and was succeeded by his eldest son, James.
Sir James Dunbar, third baronet of Mochrum and second
of Woodside, studied law, and was admitted an advocate
in 1738. He was appointed Deputy Judge Advocate for
Scotland in February, 1768.' He had a charter under the
Great Seal, 26th July, 1749, of the lands of Woodside, in
which the Manor House is " now called ' Dunbar House.' " He
married, 31st August, 1750, Jacobina, daughter of John
Hamilton of Newton, W.S.* She and her sister. Dame
Helen Hamilton, wife of Sir Patrick Murray, baronet, of
Ochtertyre, were served heirs portioners to their father, who
died at Edinburgh, 28th January, 1782.' Sir James had by
his wife one son, George, his heir, and four daughters. His
1 Scots Magazine, May, 1764. MS. Pedigree of Young of Leny.
2 Riddell's MS. " Baronetage."
» Scots Magazine.
* John Hamilton of Newton is mentioned in Lockhart's "Memoirs" as the
person sent by the Jacobites in Scotland in 1708 to the Duke of Hamilton, then at
Ashton in Lancashire, with intelligence of the projected French invasion. He was the
ninth son of William Hamilton, writer in Edinburgh, afterwards of Wishaw, the well-
known antiquary. — " The Scots Peerage."
i Kiddell's MS. " Baronetage."
Glenbervie. 69
eldest daughter, Helen,' married William Copland of Colliston,
and had an only daughter, married to Sir William Rovve
Dunbar, Bart. His second daughter, Janet, married Dr.
William Tennent of Poole Castle, and died without issue,
nth December, 1821," at an advanced age, and Dr. Tennent's
property went to her nephew, Hamilton Tovey, who assumed
in consequence the additional arms and surname of Tennent.
Sir James's third daughter, Hamilton, married 12th March,
^77^, John Tovey, captain, 70th Regiment, afterwards captain
and adjutant of the Stirlingshire Militia, and died 19th
September, 1823, leaving, with other issue, a son, Hamilton (See
above), and a daughter, Helen, married to John Wright of
Broom, Stirlingshire, with issue.'' The fourth daughter of Sir
James, Mary, was married to the Rev. John Shaw of Kendal."
Sir James was succeeded by his only son. Sir George,
fourth baronet. The lands of Woodside were sold by the
trustees of Sir James Dunbar to John Strachan, " Armiger
de Woodside," who, in 1782, had a charter which was confirmed
under the Great Seal, 3rd February, 1783.
John Strachan of Woodside was born 22nd March, 175 1, and
was the only son of James Strachan, lieutenant, Royal Navy.
He was a Magistrate for Stirlingshire, and married, 7th May,
1777, Elizabeth, daughter of Alexander Hunter of Blackness, by
whom he had, with other issue, a son, John, who succeeded
him. In 1801 John Strachan sold Woodside, and was after-
wards designed of Cliffden, Tynemouth, Devon.
1 Scots Magazine.
"- Ibid.
' Two of their grandsons are still heritors in Dunipace— the Rev. P. A. Wright
Henderson, D.D., Warden of Wadham College, Oxford, of Stoneyend ; and Hamilton G .
Henderson, Esq., Snowdoun House, Stirling,— Greendyke,
* Douglas's "Baronage," and Riddell's MS. " Baronetage."
70 Glenbcrvic,
In 1828 Admiral Sir Richard Strachan, baronet/ died, and
the baronetcy of Strachan of Thornton remained dormant for
about thirteen years. In 1S41 John Strachan of Clififden
(formerly of Woodside), was served heir male in general of
Sir Alexander Strachan, the first baronet, and assumed the
title. He was then in his ninety-first year. He died at
Cliffden, 9th June, 1844, in the ninety-fourth year of his age.
Sir John Strachan was succeeded by his eldest and only
surviving son. Sir John Strachan, of Her Majesty's household,
who died without issue in January, 1854. The baronetcy
has since remained dormant."
There is a coat of arms with the bearings of Strachan of
Thornton over the coach-house door at Woodside (Glenbervie),
The date under the shield is 1758, which would imply that the
arms were removed from some other place. As noted above,
Sir John Strachan did not purchase the estate till 1782.
Sir John Strachan only retained the estate till 1801, in
which year he sold it to David Russell, merchant in Glasgow.
RUSSELL OF WOODSIDE.
David Russell was born in May, 1747, and was the son of
James Russell, Commissary Clerk and Bailie of the Regality of
Dunblane, by Marion Robertson, his wife. David was baptised
1 This is the Admiral satirised in the following lines :—
* " Chatham, impatient for the dawn,
Stood waiting for Sir Richard Strachan,
Sir Richard, longing to be at 'em,
Stood waiting for the Earl of Chatham."
" There are other renderings of the first line, but this is supposed to be the most
probable, and is said to have been coniirmed by Sir John Moore.
2 Cockayne's "Baronetage," Riddell's MS. "Baronetage," Rogers's " Memorials
of the Strachans," &c. Rogers does not appear to haye known of the purchase of
Woodside, Stirlingshire.
Glenbervie. 7^
23rd May, 1747, the witnesses being Alexander Drummond
of Balhaldies, Hugh Pearson of Kippenross, and Patrick Linton
of Pendreich.' David Russell was a partner in the well-known
firm of Stirling, Gordon & Co., Glasgow, founded about the
middle of the eighteenth century by James Somervell and
Provost Arthur Connell, under the title of Somervell, Connell &
Co., the name of Stirling, which was introduced into the firm in
1795, closely identifying the families of Stirling of Keir and
Kippendavie with this old house. David Russell of Woodside
married first Elizabeth M'Call, daughter of James M'Call of
Braehead, merchant, Glasgow, and by her had two children,
James, his heir, and Sarah, who was married to James Crawford,
junior, merchant. Port Glasgow, with issue David, James,
Joseph, and Jane Tucker Crawford, who was married in 1836
to James Ewing of Strathleven. Elizabeth M'Call died in 1788,
and David Russell married secondly, on sth May, 1795, at
Edinburgh, Mary Robertson, youngest daughter of James
Robertson Barclay of Cavill, Clerk to the Signet.
David Russell of Woodside had a crown charter of the lands
in 1801." He died before 21st April, 1808, on which date his
eldest son, James, had a special retour as heir of his father.
James Russell of Woodside was colonel of the Stirlingshire
Militia, and married Mary Stirling, daughter of John Stirling
of Kippendavie, one of the partners in Stirling, Gordon & Co.,
and sister to Sylvester Douglas Stirling, who afterwards became
laird of Woodside, which he named Glenbervie.
Colonel James Russell and Mary Stirling had at least six
children : — (i) David ; (2) John, Admiral R.N., and afterwards
of Maulside, Ayrshire, who married Catherine Forbes, third
^ Dunblane Baptisms.
' There is a coat of arms of the Russell family on the side of the stable.
72 Glenbervie.
daughter of William Forbes of Callendar'; (3) Henry; (4)
James; (5) Graham, who succeeded to Hamilton Farm and
Sorn, and took the name of Somervell. He was a partner in
Stirling, Gordon & Co , with William and Charles Stirling and
William Leckie Ewing of Arngomery. It may be interesting to
note that of the last two partners of Stirling, Gordon & Co.,
Graham Russell Somervell was heir to James Somervell, one of
the founders of the firm ; and W^illiam Stirling of Tarduf married
the great-grand-daughter of Provost Arthur Connell, the other
founder. One of the partners in the firm had a Crown grant
of the estate of "Content," in Jamaica, which is now in the
possession of Messrs. J. B. Sherriff& Company, Limited, Glasgow.
Graham Russell Somervell of Sorn married his cousin, Henri-
etta Stirling, daughter of William Stirling of "Content" by his
wife, Elizabeth Barrett, a cousin of Mrs. Barrett Browning, the
poetess. -
Colonel James Russell died 17th December, 1830, and was
succeeded by his eldest son, David, a lieutenant in the gth
Regiment of Hussars, and afterwards General Sir David Russell,
K.C.B., who distinguished himself in the Indian Army. He
captured Banks House, but was wounded and disabled in the
attack on the hospital, and was specially mentioned in dis-
patches." He was born in 1809, and died in 1884. His father's
trustees sold the estate of Woodside in 1832 to his uncle,
Sylvester Douglas Stirling,* who changed the name of Woodside
to Glenbervie ; his reason for doing this will presently be shown.
I See Burke's "Landed Gentry."
- Ibid, and " Old Coontry Houses of the Old Glasgow Gentry."
= Diet, of Nat. Biography.
* For further particulars about the Russells see "Old Glasgow Notes," by A. W,
Gray Buchanan, Esq., of ParHuU, Polmont, and "The Old Country Houses of the Old
Glasgow Gentry."
Glenbervie. 73
STIRLING OF GLENBERVIE.
Sylvester Douglas Stirling was the seventh son of John
Stirling of Kippendavie, and grandson of Patrick Stirling of
Kippendavie, by his wife, Margaret Douglas, daughter of
Sylvester Douglas, son of Robert Douglas, Bishop of Dunblane,
who was great-grandson of Sir Archibald Douglas of Glen-
bervie.' Sylvester Douglas Stirling was born in 1803, three
years after his father's cousin, Sylvester Douglas, was created
Baron Glenbervie. This peerage became extinct on the death of
the first Lord Glenbervie in 1823, and in order to show the
connexion of the family of Stirling with the House of Glen-
bervie, the old Stirlingshire name of Woodside was lost in
the Kincardineshire name of Glenbervie.
Sylvester Douglas Stirling was a useful and enterprising
Stirlingshire laird. He married, in 1830, Anne Patricia Craigie
Connell, daughter of David Connell, by whom he had a son,
Ch.arles Douglas Stirling of Glenbervie, who died in 1856, and
several daughters. The second, Mary Catherine, was married to
her cousin, William Stirling of Tarduf, third son of William
Stirling of " Content." Their eldest son, Major William George
Hay Stirling, married, in 1895, Mary Louisa," eldest daughter of
William George Spens (descended from the old family of Spens
of Lathallan) by his wife, the Honourable Mary Catherine
Borthwick. Sylvester Douglas Stirling was drowned while
bathing at Ardrossan, 2nd September, 1846. His wife survived
him fifty-three years, and died at Glenbervie in 1899, when
> "Douglas Book" and "Stirlings of Keir," by Sir William Fraser, and "The
of Douglas of Glenbervie. See pedigree of Spens of Craig-
sanquhar— Buike's "Landed Gentry,"
74 Glenbervie.
the trustees sold the estate to James Aitken of Darroch, of
the well-known firm of Russel & Aitken, writers, Falkirk.
The present mansion house of Glenbervie, of which an
illustration is given, was built by the late Mrs. Stirling of
Glenbervie in 1850-1, and the old house, having become quite
uninhabitable, was then pulled down. The principal staircase
in the present house is made entirely of Spanish chestnut
grown on the estate, and is considered very fine of its kind.*
APPENDIX TO GLENBERVIE.
Note A.
The following notes were kindly sent to me by Mrs. Houstoun of Johnstone
Castle, grand-daughter of the late Sylvester Douglas Stirling of Glenbervie:—
"The Parish Joug Tree still stands at the corner of the present
mansion house of Glenbervie. It is an old oak, and during the building of
the house, the earth from the foundation was heaped up round it to the
height of probably five feet, which explains its curiously stunted appearance.
The marks of a chain round the trunk can still be seen.
Caroill's Thorn, marking the spot where the Covenanter, Donald
Cargill, excommunicated Charles II., no longer exists, having been blown
down within the last ten or fifteen years. It stood on the east side of the
Falkirk and Stirling high road, on Woodside (Glenbervie) estate, which
originally formed part of the ancient low Torwood.
Wallace's Oak, which stood on another part of Woodside (low
Torwood) has also vanished. There is an account of it in the second
edition of Nimmo's ' History of Stirlingshire,' in which the editor calls it
an 'august vegetable' (!), and mention is made of a Druidical causeway
1 I am indebted to Mrs, Houstoun of Johnstone Castle for this information.
Glenbervie. 75
leading up to the tree and circling round it. By means of tradition and
an old map, we succeeded in identifying the spot a few years ago, and even
found traces of the rough causeway mentioned by Nimmo."
Mrs. Houstoun states that the above information is partly based on
information given by her grandmother, Mrs. Stirling of Glenbervie, whose
knowledge of the places dated from 1832.
Note B.
Thomas Bruce, fourth of Woodside, married Elizabeth RoUock, and had
a son, Thomas, fifth of Woodside, who had a son, Andrew, sixth of Woodside,
designed thus in 1648 when he was made a Commissioner of War for
Clackmannanshire. (Printed Acts of Scots Parliament). He married
Catherine Hay in 1643, and had issue, Robert, his heir, John, Catherine,
and Christian.
Robert Bruce, seventh of Woodside, had two sons, Robert, eighth of
Woodside, and Captain John Bruce, ninth of Woodside, also a daughter,
Beatri,\, who was twice married, her first husband being James Bruce, and
her second, Ged. — "Bruces of Airth," &c.
CARRONVALE.*
(Parish of Larbert.)
THE name of Carronvale was given to a part of the lands
of Broomage in the first quarter of the nineteenth
century. The old name, Broomage,' still retained for
part of the lands, or, still earlier, Brumeinche, conjures up a
pleasant picture of the season when :
"The broom . . . full flowered
Along the copses runs in veins of gold."
The name Brumeinch, used about the middle of the fifteenth
century, means the broom meadow or links.- Several of the
fields on the property have suggestive names, such as Easter
and Wester Tanziebroom, Otter Pool, and Lang Riggs.
The earliest allusion to these lands is in a charter under
the Great Seal, dated 1451, in which James II. grants them
to his wife. Queen Mary. On 4th May, 1452, they are
granted to James Rutherford, of that ilk, for faithful services
to King James II. In this charter' the lands are named
Bremis. In 1476 they belonged to James, Lord Livingstone,*
* Formerly BROOMAGE.
1 Parts of the original lands of Broomage now belong to William Forbes, Esq., of
Callendar, and to Sir John H. N. Graham, Bart., of Larbert.
' " Place Names of Stirlingshire," b; Bev. J. B, Johnston,
» R. U. S.
* Acta AvAitonm.
Carronvale. 77
and in 1478 they are alluded to as " brume Inch."* On 20th
March, 1573-4, the superiority of Broomage was sold to John,
Lord Thirlstane." On 8th February, 1621, the lands are
referred to in a charter under the Great Seal to David Living-
stone of Dunipace. In 1644, there is a charter to John Burne'
of the lands of Larbert and Broomage,* which Sir Robert
Spottiswoode and Adam Livingstone resign. The lands of
Broomage were portioned out by Alexander, Earl of Linlithgow,
who sold half the lands about the beginning of the eighteenth
century to Alexander Brown.
Alexander Brown, first portioner of Broomage, had a son,
Alexander, second, who had confirmation of his father's lands,
5th August, 1725. In 1777 he acquired the other half of the
lands, as will be shown presently.
This Alexander lived through the exciting times of the '45,
and probably saw Prince Charlie's army marching through his
lands, as tradition relates, to Falkirk. No doubt he watched the
fortunes of his unfortunate neighbour at Dunipace with interest,
but tradition does not tell us what side he took. Alexander,
second, had a son, James, third of Broomage, who married
Margaret Brown of Crofthead.
The portioner of the other half of Broomage was James
Heugh, who owned the lands before 1724. He sold his half
1 Acta, AvjiXtorv.ni.
"- H.M.S.
=• See under Larbert.
* In 1632, as stated under Larbert (p. 2), Malcolm Mackie was tenant in Broomage,
and probably belonged to the family of the Mackies, portioners of Larbert. Since the
part of the book treating of Larbert estate was printed off, I have been informed that
the Mackies, who for some generations have at various times owned lands in the
parishes of Larbert, Dunipace, and Airth, are presumed to have a common origin with
the Mackies, portioners of Larbert. A notice of this family will be found in Burke's
" Landed Gentry," under the name of their descendant, Peter Jeffrey Mackie, Esq., of
Corraith, A^ahire,
78 Carronvale.
to Robert Chalmers of Larbert in 1770. Robert Chalmers only
retained this half till 1777, when it was purchased from him by
Alexander Brown, second, as stated above. Alexander Brown,
second, thus became the owner of the whole lands of Broomage.
James Brown, son of Alexander Brown, second, sold the
lands on 22nd October, 1819, to the Honourable Duncan
Robertson of Roehill, Perthshire.
ROBERTSON OF CARRONVALE.
The Honourable Duncan Robertson of Carronvale was a
doctor of medicine. He went to Jamaica, where he spent a
useful life, becoming a member of the Legislative Council, hence
his title of Honourable. On his return to Scotland in 1819, he
purchased the estate of Broomage, and changed the name to
Carronvale. He planted nearly all the wood about the place,
laid out a new approach, and built a lodge at the gate. He also
added two wings to the old house at Carronvale, which was
probably built about the beginning of last century. Dr. Robert-
son fitted up the interior of his house with mahogany grown on
his own estate of " Friendship " in Jamaica, and some of this
is still in Carronvale. He married Susan Stewart, daughter
of Colonel Robert Stewart of Fincastle, Perthshire. Susan
Stewart's mother, Louisa Graeme, was a daughter of Patrick
Graeme of Inchbrakie by Amelia, eldest daughter of Laurence
Oliphant of Gask. They had three sons, Duncan Stewart,
Robert, who died in infancy, and James, born 26th January,
1822, at Carronvale. Dr. Duncan Robertson died in 1824,'
leaving Carronvale to his eldest son, Duncan, and Roehill to
James, his younger son. Roehill, or as it was called in Gaelic,
» Larbert Parish Register.
Carronvale. 79
Cnoc na h-Earb, or the hill of the roe, received this name from a
small hillock crossed by the marches of four proprietors, where
four lairds could shake hands with each other, each standing on
his own land.
Duncan Stewart Robertson got a commission in the 31st
Regiment, and when in India met his future wife, Harriet
Anne Mary Ogilvie, youngest daughter of the Hon. Colonel
Donald Ogilvie of Clova, brother to David, sixth Earl of Airlie.
Duncan Stewart Robertson of Carronvale died 20th October,
1856, at Carronvale, and is buried in Larbert churchyard, with
his father, his wife, and his young brother. By his wife,
Harriet Ogilvie, Duncan Stewart Robertson had two children,
Donald, who married, but died young, leaving no family,
and Julia, who is unmarried.
The youngest son of Dr. Duncan Robertson of Carronvale,
James P. Robertson of Roehill, also entered the army. He
was in the 31st Regiment, and served under Sir Colin Campbell,
Sir James Outram, and Sir E. Lugard, and saw a good deal
of active service. He served through the first Sikh War, and
the Crimean War, on returning from which he was promoted to
the rank of major in the military train. Major Robertson
raised a battalion by selecting volunteers from cavalry regi-
ments at home. In six months they were sent to China, but
diverted to India on account of the Mutiny, and within
twenty-four hours of their arrival in Calcutta they were made
into a light cavalry regiment by the Governor-General and
Commander-in-Chief, and started up country to fight. After the
Mutiny, when the regiment was embarking for England, the
Governor-General published an " Extraordinary " Gazette, and
ordered a salute to be fired in appreciation of their conduct
and services, an honour never before conferred on any British
8o Carronvale.
regiment. Major Robertson was subsequently raised to the
rank of colonel, and had the honour of C.B. conferred on him.
He spent some very happy days of his boyhood at Carronvale,
and remembers the Carron a beautiful fresh river in which he
fished. To him I am indebted for most of the above informa-
tion about the Robertsons. Since giving me these notes, Colonel
Robertson has published an autobiography, entitled " Personal
Adventures and Anecdotes of an Old Officer.'" It is a most
fascinating book of adventure, and one puts it down feeling that
the Colonel certainly bore a charmed life, if any one ever did.
On the death of Duncan Stewart Robertson of Carronvale,
the estate was sold by his trustees, as his will provided that
everything should be divided between his two children. The
purchaser of the estate was John Bell Sherriff, merchant in
Glasgow, who became the owner in April, 1857.
SHERRIFF OF CARRONVALE.
John Bell Sherriff was the son of George Sherriff, a notable
engineer, who served his apprenticeship in the famous firm
of Boulton & Watt, of Birmingham — Watt being the celebrated
James Watt. George Sherriff was recommended by them to
the post of manager of the Imperial Engineering Works in
St. Petersburg, and while in the service of the Russian Govern-
ment he received numerous tokens of appreciation of his work,
which extended through the reigns of the Tsars Nicholas and
Alexander. He was decorated by one, and received a gold snuff
box from the other. He also received a handsome desk from
James Watt on leaving the service of his firm. These mementoes
are carefully preserved at Carronvale. George Sherriff, after
» Published by Edward Arnold, London, 1906,
Carronvale. 8i
being in Russia for a long time, came home, and purchased the
small estate of Abbotshaugh, in the parish of Falkirk, but it has
passed out of the family. His forebears originally came from
the parish of Oldhamstocks, in Haddingtonshire, and can be
traced through the Registers back to the middle of the seven-
teenth century.
George Sherriff's father, Thomas Sherriff, came to the Carron
district, attracted by the prosperity which followed the founding
of the Carron Company. John Bell Sherriff was, therefore, not
altogether without family associations in the district in which
he settled. He spent a busy, active, and useful life, and
from time to time added to his lands in Stirlingshire by
purchasing the estates of Kersie and Stenhouse. He was a
Justice of the Peace for the counties of Stirling and Argyll. He
married Flora Taylor, and by her had two children — George,
and Margaret, who was married to Mr. W. K. Gair, writer
in Falkirk. She died without issue in 1895.
Mr. Sherriff died at Carronvale in November, 1896, and was
succeeded by his son, George, the present laird of Carronvale,
Kersie, and Stenhouse. Mr. George Sherriff takes a keen interest
in the archseological and family history of this district. He is a
grand-nephew of John Bell, whose famous collection of anti-
quities, &c., is preserved in the National Museum of Antiquities,
Edinburgh.
George Sherriff married, in 1883, Catherine Jane Nimmo,
daughter of the late Alexander Nimmo of Howkerse, in the
parish of Bothkennar and of VVestbank, Falkirk, lieutenant-
colonel, Stirlingshire Volunteers. They have six children —
four sons and two daughters.
The house of Carronvale has been much altered by Mr
George Sherriff, but the original structure has been preserved
as much as possible
6
NORTH BROOMAGE.
ANOTHER portion of the lands of Broomage was acquired
in May, 1775/ by William Cadell," managing partner
of the Carron Iron Works/ He was the elder son of
William Cadell of Cockenzie, and was born in 1737, and died
in 1 8 19. He married Catherine, daughter of Archibald Inglis
of Auchendinny, Midlothian, and had issue, four sons and one
daughter.
He was succeeded by his eldest son, William Archibald, to
whom he left Banton and North Broomage. William Archibald
Cadell was born in 1775, and educated as an advocate, but after
being called to the Bar, he went abroad and travelled for many
years. He was taken prisoner during the French Wars, and
remained a captive for several years. When liberated, he
devoted his attention to mathematics and scientific work, and
was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, and member of
numerous other societies at home and abroad. He never
married, and after his return home he lived alone at North
Broomage House, or Carronpark, among his books. In 1820
1 Writs of Broomage.
2 William Cadell's younger brother, John Cadell of Cockenzie, was the father of
Robert Cadell of Ratho, the eminent publisher and friend of Sir Walter Scott. See
Lockhart's " Life of Scott."
=> See under article on Carron Company,
North Broomage. 83
he published two volumes of travels, entitled " Journey in
Carniola, Italy, and France in the years 1817-18." He also
contributed articles to the " Encyclopaedia Britannica," &c.
He died in 1855, and was succeeded by his brother, James
John Cadell, of Grange, who lived in Carronpark till his death
in 1858. James John Cadell married Isabella, daughter of
Henry Mowbray of Calderbank, Midlothian, by whom he had
five sons and two daughters. He was succeeded in 1858
by his eldest son, William Cadell, W.S., to whom he left
Banton and North Broomage, and who only survived him
four years, dying at Carronpark in 1862. He had one son,
James John, who died unmarried in 1872, when the estates
passed to Henry Cadell of Grange, J. P., D.L., second son of
the late James John Cadell of Grange, and Isabella Mowbray,
his wife. Henry Cadell was twice married, but none of the
children of his first marriage survived him. His second wife
was Jessie Gray, daughter of the Rev. John Macfarlane, D.D.,
of Dalkeith, by whom he had a son, Henry Mowbray Cadell,
F.R.S.,' the present proprietor of North Broomage, Grange, and
Banton. He married, in 1889, Eleanor, eldest daughter of the
late David Simson of Bonally, Midlothian, formerly of the
Bengal Civil Service, and has a family of one son, Henry
Mowbray, and six daughters.
1 I am indebted to Henry M. Cadell, Esq., of Grange, &o., for most of the above
information about his family. For further particulars see Burke's " Landed Gentry."
DUNIPACE.*
THE estate of Dunipace is in the parish of the same
name. It is a beautiful place, and worthy of the many
romantic and historic associations which cluster about
it. The ancient mansion house of Dunipace is supposed to
have been similar in design to Torwood mansion, the ruins of
which are still to be seen.' It stood about one hundred yards
east of the present house, the old yew tree — Wallace's Yew —
being due south of it, and the public road close up to its walls.
Nothing remains now of former days but a turret or staircase
fitted up as a dovecot. On this estate are the celebrated Mounds
of Dunipace, which have been, and still are, the objects of anti-
quarian speculation.- In the immediate vicinity of these mounds
was found the beautiful Dunipace brooch." It is silver, set with
amber, with the pattern wrought in gold, and is supposed to
be a relic of the sixth or seventh century. It is now in the
National Museum of Antiquities, Edinburgh. The derivation
* This section was published in 1903 in pamphlet form, entitled "The Lands and
Lairds of Dunipace." It has been revised and some more recent information added,
1 Fleming's " Ancient Castles and Mansions of Stirling Nobility." See illustra-
tion of Torn-ood Castle under that estate.
2 Nimmo's " History of Stirlingshire" (2nd ed.) "New Statistical Account of
Scotland " (Stirlingshire).
= " Prehistoric Annals of Scotland," by Daniel Wilson, LL.D., Vol, II,, 277.
Dunipace. 85
of the name of Dunipace seems to puzzle philologists. Skene
says it is derived from the Celtic bass, " a mound." The local
explanation is the Gaelic dun a' bhais, meaning " hill of death.'"
The story of the owners of Dunipace and their kindred
would have supplied Sir Walter Scott with matter for the plots
of several Waverley Novels. The earliest record of the lands
of Dunipace which I have been able to trace, is in the "Cartulary
of Cambuskenneth," in the reign of William the Lion. In the
year 1 190, Gilbert de Umfraville makes a gift of part of these
lands to the Abbey. The Umfravilles' were one of the leading
families of the time. This Gilbert married Matilda, Countess
of Angus, and in right of his wife he became Earl of Angus.
He died in 1245, two years after his marriage, leaving a
son, also named Gilbert, second Earl of Angus. This Gilbert's
eldest son, also Gilbert, died before his father ; probably he is
the Gilbert who, in 1264," made a gift of part of the lands of
Dunipace to Cambuskenneth Abbey " for the good of his soul."
Among the witnesses to this deed of gift are Adam de Stanus
and Herbert de Camera.
A younger brother, Robert,* succeeded as third Earl of
Angus. He was appointed joint guardian of Scotland by
Edward H., 21st July, 1308, and had a commission to be sole
guardian, 20th August, 1309; but this was never acted on.
When Bruce came to the throne he forfeited Earl Robert
for his adherence to the English interest. This we learn
from a charter under the Great Seal of the superiority of the
lands of Dunipace, granted by Bruce to William de Lindsay,
1 " Place Names of Stirlingshire," by Rev. J. B. Johnston.
'' Calendar of Documents relating to Scotland, and Exchequer Rolls.
' About this time (1264) there is an entry in the Exchequer Rolls showing that
Alexander III. kept hawks at Dunipace.
• " The Scots Peerage."
86 Dunipace.
in which it is stated that this superiority formerly belonged to
Robert de Umfraville. " The Cartulary of Cambuskenneth "
records other gifts of portions of these lands in 1200 by Herbert,
son of Herbert de Camera/ also by Sir Adam de Moreham,
Knight. The chapel of Dunipace is alluded to in 119S, and
it is interesting to know that an uncle of Sir William Wallace
was the priest in charge during the latter half of the thirteenth
century.' It is said that Wallace frequently made his uncle's
house his home. In 1304 Edward I. orders the Earl of March
to take up his abode about Dunipace."
Bruce granted a charter to John Gifford of the lands of
Dunipace,* " at the earnest desire of the Earl of Murray."
From an entry in the Exchequer Rolls, 1330, for expenses
incurred at Dunipace in connexion with the funeral of King
Robert the Bruce, we are enabled to follow his remains from
Cardross, by way of Dunipace and Cambuskenneth, to their
last resting-place in front of the high altar of the Abbey Church
of Dunfermline."
There is a charter to Maurice Murray' of the " right " of
Dunipace in the reign of David II. The Abbey of Cambus-
kenneth held its lands of Dunipace for 300 years. In 1400
we find Patrick, the seventeenth Abbot, involved in judicial
proceedings about a part of these lands which he upheld had
been granted by a certain John Ker as a gift to the Abbey.
The case was for a time decided against the Abbot, but David,
> See Note A in Appendix,
= "The Book of Wallace," Vol. II., p. 89. The Rev. C. Rogers, D.D., the editor,
says the priest of Dunipace was probably the brother of Wallace's mother, and identi-
fies him with Roger, chaplain to Gilbert de Umfraville.
= Historical Documents, Scotland.
♦ Probably the superiority. See Robertson's " Index of Charters."
» Preface, Exchequer Rolls, Vol. I.
' Robertson's " Index of Charters,"
Dunipacc. 87
the nineteenth Abbot, again brought up the case at a court
held at Dunipace by William Murray of Touchadam, " baillie
to Richt Mighty Lord, William, Earl of Orknay and Katnes,"
and lord of the barony of" Harbertschire."' John Ker claimed
4 oxgangs " Hand in Dunipace pertenying to hous of Cambus-
kenneth." The Abbot showed that John Ker had given the
lands to the Abbey, and this time the case went in the
Abbot's favour. Among the witnesses were Thomas Gardnar
of Denovane, and Andrew Reidheuch of the Quarrell.'
The following extract from the Acta Dominorum Atidiiorum
shows that part of the lands of Dunipace belonged to Malcolm
Forrester of Torwood. On 12th March, 1478, Malcolm Forrester
of Torwood proves " that land of Donypas, which he gave to
Elizabeth Erth, was worth 6 merk yearly."
LIVINGSTONE OF DUNIPACE.
The Abbey sold the lands of Dunipace to the family of
Livingstone in 1495. There seems to be no printed pedigree of
the Dunipace branch of the Livingstones. Mr. E. B. Living-
stone, F.S.A., in his book entitled " The Livingstones of
Callendar and their Principal Cadets," privately printed in
1887, leaves them out on the ground of want of space, and
classes them among the " numerous minor offshoots " of the
family. The following attempted history of the family is made
up from the Public Records of Scotland. It does not pretend to
be a complete genealogy, but it shows the succession of the
Livingstone lairds of Dunipace from the acquiring till the
parting with the lands.
1 Dunipace %vas at this time iu the baron j of Herbeilshire.
* Cart, of Cambuskenneth,
88 Dunipace.
Sir Alexander Livingstone of Callendar,* the celebrated
guardian of James II., had two sons, James, ist Lord
Livingstone, and Alexander of Phildes, or Fildes, Perthshire.
Alexander of Phildes was executed on 22nd January, 1449-50,
and his lands forfeited, one of the crimes with which he was
charged being the treasonable imprisonment of the Queen-
Mother (Joan Beaufort) in 1439. His ill fortune dogged at
least one of his descendants, and, as we follow the fortunes
of the various families who possessed Dunipace, we shall
find that a singular fatality seems to have hung over them.
Alexander Livingstone of Phildes left a son —
I. — Alexander, first of Dunipace. From an inventory of
the writs of Dunipace it appears that Alexander had a charter
on 20th November, 1495, from the Abbot of Cambuskenneth,
which was confirmed by Pope Alexander II. by a commission
dated at Rome, 5th April, 1496. He had a charter of Pettin-
toskane (or Bantaskine), lOth February, 1506-7, from Robert
Kincaid of Pettintoskane." In 15 12 he was chosen arbitrator in
a violent quarrel between the fifth Lord Livingstone and his son,
Alexander. In one of the charters to him under the Great Seal of
Scotland, dated 24th December, 1521, the name of his wife' is
stated to be Alison Gourlay, and their son, Alexander, is also
named. The Burgh Records of Stirling show that he was a
member of the Town Council of Stirling in 1527-8. By his
wife, Alison Gourlay, he had two sons, David' and "Mr."
Alexander."
1 Exchequer Rolls, Vol. V., Pref ., pp. 53 and 80.
= RiddeU's MS. "Baronetage."
"• Mr. R. Riddell in his MS. "Baronetage" suggests that Alexander Livingstone,
first of Dunipace, had a previous wife to Alison Gourlay, and that his eldest son, David,
was by the first wife.
* Ibid.
' Mr. Alexander is named as son of Alison Gouvlav.— R. M. S. See Genealogical
Chart.
2.b-so
5. David of Bantaskine
d.v.p. before 14th
April, 1525
Alexander of Bantaskine
(See Note B in Appendix)
6a. Elizabeth Hepburn, dau. of
Sir Adam Hepburn of
Crags
15. Margaret 15i5. Thomas
Leighton
jFllshaven
;rt Bruce,
1 heir apparent
p of Clackmannan
15rt. John Strachan
of Thornton
16. Sir John, b Elizabeth
Ki II
Alex. Straton,
on of Alex. S.
of that ilk
19^. Margaret = IQc. James Kincaid
of that ilk,
div. 26th July,
1570
20. John, 21. Alexander, 22. Sir l,id
fiar of d.v.p. Fifth c
Dunipace, circa 1607 pace,
d.v.p. (30th M
before 30th
Sept., 1606 22a. Barbara
20a. Patrick,
probably
nat. son
31. J
(1) Ex. Rolls, Vol. v., Preface LIII. aDji, ]525. (5a) Riddells MS. "Baronetage." (6) R. M. S.
24th December, 1521, and 8th March, 1552. (]2) MSS. Stirling Protocols, 6th October, 1 530. (13) Acts
of Parlt. of Scot. (13a) R. M. S. 8th Ibecreets, 22, 405; R.M. S. 29th June, 1553. (15b) Acts and
Decreets, Vol. X. (16j Acts Parlt. Scot.! (19 and 19o) R. «. S. 21st June, 1585. (196 and 19c) Acte
and Decreets. (20) Acts Parlt. Scot. (h. (22o) R. M. S. 3rd May, 1609. (23) P. C. Reg. (1605).
(24) R. M. S. 10th July, 1607. (24a) Acts ai (27 and 27a) R. M. S. 3rd March, 1632. (28, 29, 30) R. M. S.
24th April, 1628. (31 and 31a) Writs of D
* Agnes contracted, 24th February, 1601
88 Dunipace.
Sir Alexander Livingstone of Callendar/ the celebrated
guardian of James II., had two sons, James, ist Lord
Livingstone, and Alexander of Phildes, or Fildes, Perthshire.
Alexander of Phildes was executed on 22nd January, 1449-50,
and his lands forfeited, one of the crimes with which he was
charged being the treasonable imprisonment of the Queen-
Mother (Joan Beaufort) in 1439. His ill fortune dogged at
least one of his descendants, and, as we follow the fortunes
of the various families who possessed Dunipace, we shall
find that a singular fatality seems to have hung over them.
Alexander Livingstone of Phildes left a son —
I. — Alexander, first of Dunipace. From an inventory of
the writs of Dunipace it appears that Alexander had a charter
on 20th November, 149S, from the Abbot of Cambuskenneth,
which was confirmed by Pope Alexander II. by a commission
dated at Rome, 5th April, 1496. He had a charter of Pettin-
toskane (or Bantaskine), lOth February, 1506-7, from Robert
Kincaid of Pettintoskane." In 15 12 he was chosen arbitrator in
a violent quarrel between the fifth Lord Livingstone and his son,
Alexander. In one of the charters to him under the Great Seal of
Scotland, dated 24th December, 1521, the name of his wife" is
stated to be Alison Gourlay, and their son, Alexander, is also
named. The Burgh Records of Stirling show that he was a
member of the Town Council of Stirling in 1527-8. By his
wife, Alison Gourlay, he had two sons, David* and "Mr."
Alexander."
1 Exchequer Rolls, Vol. V., Pref., pp. 53 and 80.
= Eiddell's JIS. " Baronetage."
" Mr. R. Riddell in his MS. "Baronetage" suggests that Alexander Livingstone,
first of Dunipace, had a previous wife to Alison Gourlay, and that his eldest son, David,
was by the first wife.
• Ibid.
' Mr. Alexander is named as son of Alison Gourlay.— E. M. S. See Genealogical
Chart.
GENEALOGICAL CHART QF LIVINGSTONES OF DUNIPACE.
1. Sir ALEXANDER LIVINGSTONE of Callenda
2. James, First Lord Livingstone
3. Alexander of Phildes or Fildes, forfeited and executed, i449-!
4. Alexander, First of Dunipace = ia. Alison Gourlay
6. David of lianlaskinc = 5<!, Margaret Shaw
d.v.p. before 14th
April, t525
=6. Mr. Alexander, Second of Dunipace i= 6a. Elizabeth Hepburn, dau. of
and of Fildes, d. 1560
7. Thomas 8. Law:
12. Ja
ence 9. Matthew 10. John
13. John, Third of Dunipace = 13n. Margaret Elphii
sue, 1560-1, d. 1597-3
(MS, Raours Slirlimjukirc)
Sir Adam llepburn of
Crags
ne 14. Janet
II
14<7. (1) John Leightoi
of Ullshaven
14/'. (2) Robett Bruce,
nephew and heir apparent
of David Bruce of Clackmannan
1 f
15. Margaret 15/'. Tliomas
15ii. John Strachan
of Thornton
18. Sir John, Fourth of Dunipace
Knight, d. i6ig
lla, Catherine Leighto
18. Patrick,
ancestor of
Livingstones 19a. Alex. Straton,
of Balrownie ion of Alex. S.
of that ilk
19. Elizabeth 19*. Margaret = 19c. James 1
of that ilk,
26th July,
, Alexander, 22. Sir David, 23. Robert 24. James 24<i. Agnes* 25. Jean 26. Margaret 27. Mr. John 28. Alex.
d.v.p. Fifth of Duni- of Kilhill || || ||
Datid
d.v.p.
before 30th
Sept., 1606
2O11. Patrick,
probably
1607 pace, Bart.
(30th May, 1625)
22a. Barbara Forrester, sister to
I Sir James Forrester of Garden
25a. John 26a. (t) James 27a. Helen Ogilvie, sister
Kincaid Arbuthnot to Sir John Ogilvie
of Warristoun of Arrat of Inverquharitie
2a». (2) David Carnegie
of Balmachie
John, Sixth of Dunipace, sold Dunipace,
'ca 1634 = 31a. Annabella Young 32. Margaret
34. Elizabeth, said to have married David Barclay of Mathers
(l)ISi.nolU, Vol. v., Preface Lin. and LXXX. (2 and 3) B. If. S. 7th March, 1440-60. (4) Writs of Dunipace, H. M. S. 24th December, 1521. (4o) Ibid. (5)B. W. S. 14th ApM 1626. (So) Riddell's MS. " Baronetage." (6) R. M. S.
hDoooniW, 1621, and 8th March, 155S. (Ca) fl. M.S. 24th July, 1526, and lat September, 1539. (7, 8, and 9) B. i/. S. 14th April, 1525. (10) B. il. S. 2nd January, 1520. (ll)See5. (12) MSS. Stirling Protocols, 6th October, 153(1. (I3)AcU fl
Inilt. ot Scot. (ISa) R. Jt. S. eth March, 1552, "The Scots Peerage." (14 and 14a) B. if. S. 1st July, 1548. '(14b) S. if. S. 11th February, 1550. (15 and 15a) Acta and Decreets. 22, 405 j B.il. S. 20th Juno, 1553. (151.) Act» and '
sParlLScot. (16a) Reg. of Deeds, 10th Feb., 1588 (folio 309). (17) B. if. S. 12th June, 1598. (17a) B. M. S. 24th April, 1628. (IS) P. C. Reg. (1604;. (10 and lOo) E. itf.S.2l8t June, 1586. (196 and 10c) AoU
{20a) Edin. Reg. ot Apprentices. (21) P. C. Reg., printed (1606J and MSS. 75, 204 (1607). (22) B. 3f. S. 18lh July, 1610, and 18th February, 1620. (22a) II. M. S. 3rd May, 1609. (23) P. C. Reg. (1606).
s "<• Decreets, 27th January, 1619. (25 and 25a) Pitcaim's " Criminal Trials," &c. (26 and 26a) "The Scots Peerage." (26!.) "The ScoU Peerage." (27 and 27u) B. M. S. 3rd March, 1632. (28, 20, SO) B. M. S.
pru, 1W8. (SI and 31o) Writs of Dunipace, B. M. S. 12th June, 1613. (32) Acts Parlt. Scot (33) Edinburgh Com., 2Ist November, 1727. (34) Ployfair's "lioronetnge."
' Agues contracted, 24th February, 1607, to John Leigbton of ClIshoveD, but not clear wholher marriage was ever celebrated.
Dunipacc. 89
The eldest son, David, had the lands of Pettintoskane
(Bantaskine) disponed to him by his father, and was the
ancestor of a long line of Livingstones of Bantaskine. David
Livingstone died during the lifetime of his father, before 14th
April, 1525, leaving, by his wife, Margaret Shaw,' a son,
Alexander, who succeeded him. Alexander Livingstone of
Bantaskine is designed in various deeds up to the year 1529
" grandson and heir-apparent " of Alexander Livingstone of
Dunipace. For some reason or other, Mr. Alexander Living-
stone of Fildes, second son of Alexander Livingstone of
Dunipace, succeeded to Dunipace, but Alexander Livingstone
of Bantaskine, his nephew, claimed to be the representative of
the family. This is proved by a contract" dated at Dunipace,
2nd July, 1561, between John Livingstone of Dunipace and
Alexander Livingstone of Bantaskine, and John Livingstone,
his son, wherein the last two agreed to transfer homage to
John Livingstone of Dunipace, and not to molest him in his
possession of Dunipace, for which they received 300 merks.
There had been a previous bond of manrent, i6th September,
1 559'
Mr. Alexander Livingstone was vested in the estates of
Dunipace and Fildes in the lifetime of his father. In the Great
Seal charter to him of 14th April, 1525, there is provision made
that in the event of failure of his direct heirs, then Alexander
Livingstone, son of his brother, the late David Livingstone, is to
succeed him.
Alexander Livingstone, first of Dunipace, was succeeded by
his second son, Mr. Alexander.
> Riddell's MS. "Baronetage."
■' Reg. of Bonds, Vol. IV.
"■ Riddell's MS. " Baronetage." Mr. Riddell gives a full pedigree of the Living-
stones of Bantaskine under Livingstone of Dunipace. See Appendix,
90 Dunipace.
II. — Mr. Alexander Livingstone, second of Dunipace, seems
to have been a man of considerable ability, and rose to a higher
official position than any other member of the family. Choosing
law as his profession, he was made Director of the Chancery in
1549, and an Extraordinary Lord of Session in 1550, when he tool"
the title of Lord Dunipace.' In the charter before alluded to —
14th April, 1525 — there is provision that in the event of failure
of his own lawful descendants and those of his nephew,
Alexander Livingstone of Rantaskine, his natural sons, who
are named, and their descendants, are to succeed, whom failing,
then Alexander, Lord Livingstone of Callendar. In 1552,
he had confirmation of a charter under the Great Seal of the
lands of Philde, Perthshire, and in this charter we get proof
of his descent from the forfeited Alexander Livingstone of
Philde, who is therein designed " avus of the said Alexander
Livingstone of Dunipace." Then, as now, people who lived
an orderly, steady life, doing their duty in an honest, quiet
way, had the reward of leaving no history behind them. If the
Register of the Privy Council, or Pitcairn's " Criminal Trials "
leave a name out of their indices, a man may be said to have
passed through life tolerably free from scathe. The Dunipace
Livingstones have more than their share of space in these
books, and while in them the antiquary or genealogist rejoices
when he tracks down a brother-german, or some other link
in a pedigree, not greatly taking to heart the offences which
won the unfortunate individual an inglorious immortality, many,
more immediately concerned, must often wish the names of
their ancestors blotted out from these records. We gather
that the Livingstones were a high-mettled race, of quick, fiery
temper. Even the name of this respectable Lord of Session
' Bruiitou !unl Haig's Senators.
Dunipace. &»
finds its way into Pitcairii's " Criminal Trials " — not as a judge !
Under date 26th November, 1555, Mr. Alexander Livingstone
of Dunipace, found William, Lord Livingstone, as surety for him
to upderly the law " for art and part of the mutilation of the
lairu of Craigengelt and his son, of their left arms," within the
Burgh of Stirling. We shall require to refer frequently to
these books in treating of other members of the family.
Lord Dunipace married, before 1525, Elizabeth Hepburn,'
daughter of Sir Adam Hepburn of Crags (or Craggis), second
son of Adam, Master of Hailes. By her he had, besides other
children,' a son, James, who died circa 1531, without issue, John,
who succeeded him, and Thomas.' In 1560, Lord Dunipace
attended the Convention of Estates as one of the lesser barons.
He supported the Reformation, but died in November of this
year.
HI. — John Livingstone, third of Dunipace, succeeded to the
estate on the death of his father in 1 560-1. There is not much
direct information about him. In 1578 there is a record of
approbation of his services to Queen Mary and the young King,
and in 1592 he had a ratification of lands and heritages* to
himself, his son, John, and his grandson, also John. He married
Margaret Elphinstone,' daughter of Alexander, second Lord
Elphinstone, by his wife, the Hon. Catherine Erskine, daughter of
John, fourth Lord Erskine. By her he had John, his heir ;
James of Cauldhame ; Patrick, ancestor of the Livingstones of
Balrownie ; and two daughters.*
1 "The Scots Peerage."
^ See Geaealogical Cluirt.
' Ibid. Seems to be a different pereou from his uatural son, Thomas.
•* Acts Parlt. Scot.
'• " The Scots Peerage."
'' See Genealogical Chart.
9* Dunipace.
John Livingstone, third of Dunipace, died about 1 597-8, and
was succeeded by his eldest son —
IV. — John, fourth of Dunipace, who, during his father's
lifetime, was designed younger of Dunipace. The records' reveal
that he was constantly in trouble. On nth July, 1573, certain
" hynds " raise a complaint against him before the Lords of
the Secret Council for "having reft and spuilyeit them of diverse
cattell and gudis." It appears that he returned part of the
stock, but " nevertheless detenis and will not deliver as yet xxii
scheip, twa stirkis, and ane forrow ky of sex yeir auld." . . .
The Council " ordains the said John Livingstone to restoir and
deliver thame agane to the said complenaris . . . als gude as
they were the time of the awaytaking of the samyn."
In 1577, he and William Menteith of West Kerse were
imprisoned, the one in Doune and the other in Blackness, for
disturbing "his Hienes peace and the publict quietnes of this
realme . . . as thoch thair wer na law nor justice within our
realme for decisioun of thair querrellis and controversiis." In
1578, John Livingstone, younger of Dunipace, is the injured
party. He having been appointed His Majesty's Chamberlain
of Biggar, and Keeper of the place and fortalice of Cumbernauld,
Fleming of Biggar will not " rander and deliver the same "
to him. Having been mixed up in the Raid of Ruthven, he
was summoned to appear before the King for certain " crymes "
of treason, in 1584. He was one of the rebel leaders who, with
Angus, Mar, and Glamis, were charged to surrender the Castle
and Burgh of Stirling to the King in that year. In 1595 he was
implicated with Bruce, younger of Airth, in the slaughter of
" Vmqle David Forrestier, burgess of Striuiling," in "deidlie feud.""
1 Register Privy Council,
» See under Torwood.
Dunipace. 93
This laird was a man of strong character and independent
mind, and although his troubles seemed to thicken upon him
with his years, he rose heroically above them. In a ballad of the
time, which was the outcome of a tragedy in which his daughter,
the ill-fated Jean Livingstone, was the principal figure, he is
alluded to as " Great Dunipace," which shows he had the power
of impressing his fellows. His daughter, Jean Livingstone, was
born in 1579. She was married about the age of fifteen to
John Kincaid of Warristoun. He seems to have treated her in
a most brutal manner, and at last brought upon himself the
terrible retribution of " love turned to hate." Listening to the
suggestions of her nurse. Lady Warristoun sanctioned the
murder of her husband. He was done to death while in bed
by the nurse and a groom on the 2nd of July, 1600. Lady
Warristoun is said to have been very beautiful, and only twenty-
one years of age when the murder was committed. The reason
for the murder was stated to be " deidlie rancor, haitred and
malice against umquhile Johnne Kincaid of Warristoun, for the
allegit byting of her in the arme and streking her dyvers times."
Lady Warristoun was executed in Edinburgh on 5th July, 1600,
at four o'clock in the morning. Her father had great influence
at Court, but she is said to have declined all efforts for saving
her life. The youth and high rank of the lady, her grievous
provocation and repentance, excited an interest in the public
mind such as few murder cases had ever done before. On
account of her rank she was beheaded by the " Maiden," one of
her relatives holding her hands while the axe fell. The nurse
was burnt alive, and the groom, who at first escaped, when
captured four years later, was broken on the wheel. This event
gave rise to the ballad called " The Laird of Warristoun."' The
1 " English and Scottish Ballads," by F. J, C!hild.
94 Dunipacc.
" gloomy house of Warristoun hanging over a deep black pool "
was a fitting place for such a tragedy as this.'
John Livingstone, fourth of Dunipace, as we learn from a
charter under the Great Seal (1588) had been in attendance
on James VI. since that King's earliest years, and was an
intimate friend and favourite of the King. If there is any truth
in the traditions preserved in the ballad of "The Laird of
Warristoun," King James was in great distress about Jean
Livingstone's sad fate and the sorrow of her father, who
considered his blood to be for ever dishonoured. In 1601
the Privy Council Register states that James VI. was staying
at the place of Dunipace. In 1606 John Livingstone was
one of the jury appointed to try the six Presbyterian ministers
at Linlithgow at the instance of James VI. John Livingstone
not only absolved them from being guilty of treason, but
maintained that they were all " honest ministers, faithful
servants of Jesus Christ, and good subjects of the King."-
It is said that James was afterwards weak enough to resent
Dunipace's independent judgment.
John, fourth of Dunipace, was knighted, and represented
Stirlingshire in Parliament in 1612. He lived to see his
children's children, as we learn from a charter under the
Great Seal, 12th June, 1613, wherein his eldest surviving son.
David, and his grandson, John, are named. He married
Margaret Colvill, and by her had five sons and three
daughters." His eldest son, John, and his second son,
1 Particulars of this tragic event may be found in Chambers's " Domestic Annals of
Scotland," Birrell's "Diary," Calderwood's MS., Balfour's "Annals," Pitcairn's
" Criminal Trials," and "Jean Kincaid of Warristoun : A Memorial of her Conversion,"
privately printed at Edinburgh, 1827 ; edited by C. Kirkpatrick Sharpe.
2 Calderwood's " History of the Kirk of Scotland," Vol. VI., p. 388.
»"See Genealogical Chart,
Dunipacc. 95
Alexander, died during his lifetime. He was succeeded by his
third son, David, who is designed " apparent of Dunipace "
in 1609. Sir John died in 1619, and on 22nd January, 1620,
his son, David, was served heir' to the estate of Dunipace
and other lands.
V. — David, fifth of Dunipace, had a charter of these
lands, 1 8th February, 1620. He was in Parliament in 162 1.
In 1627 he was imprisoned for riotous behaviour in Court.
He had had very high words with James Crichton of Ben-
sheills. The Register of the Privy Council states that James
Crichton charged Dunipace that he had " colluded with the mother
of Johne Livingstone of Dunluppie, to the prejudice of his hous,"
and " that Dunipace tooke exceptioun at the word colluding."
Crichton having answered that " he would mainteane it and
make it good, Dunipace gave him the lee ; whairupon both
pairteis fell out in suche irreverent speeches, the one against
the uther, that the Erie of Linlithgow could not move thame
to be silent." Although he had " commandit thame both to
keepe thair hous, notwithstanding thairof, they had brokin
their waird and come furth, and as the Erie is informed,
hes directed cartalls one to another." The affair ended by
the Lords finding — " that both parteis hes caried thameselves
verie injuriouslie one to another and most undewtifullie in
the presence of the Earl of Linlithgow, his Majesteis Coun-
seller "—[the Lords] ordain both " to be committit to the
Castell of Edinburgh." Before leaving the Court the two
1 Inq. Spec. Id one of David's retours of date 22ud January, 1620, he is served
heir to his brother, John, designed John Livingstone of Dunipace, as if John had
actually succeeded to the estate. This was not the case, but as John was designed in a
charter "Car" of Dunipace, David had to serve himself heir to him. Sir. R. Riddell,
in his MS. "Baronetage," is mistaian in designing Sir David sou of John, liar of
Dunipace, who was his brother.
96 Dunipacc.
lairds took a great and solemn oath " not to challenge one
another nor make provocation." They were soon liberated.
Sir David, in spite of his fiery temper, was a useful member
of society. He was appointed a member of the Standing
Committee on Manufactures, and his opinion was asked about
the relief of the poor' He was created a baronet of Nova
Scotia, 30th May, 1625, and received a grant of land which
Sir William Alexander of Menstrie (afterwards Earl of
Stirling), the locuui tenens, resigned.
These lands were erected into the barony of Livingstone-
Dunipace. During the last few years of his life, Sir David
must have lost most of his property, as his son inherited
nothing from him, and does not appear to have assumed the
baronetcy.
In 1630 there is a charter to Mr. Alexander Livingstone,
advocate, who evidently held a " wadset " over the lands,
and we find, when the estate was sold in 1634, that Adam
Livingstone, brother-german to Mr. Alexander Livingstone,
advocate, resigned the lands."
Sir David married Barbara Forrester, sister to Sir James
Forrester of Garden, and had a son, John, who succeeded
him, and two daughters, Margaret and Anna. Sir David died
in Scotland about 1634 while employed in the King's palace."
VI. — Sir John, sixth of Dunipace, married Annabella
Young, succeeded his father in 1634, and that same year
sold the estate to Sir Robert Spottisvvoode. He is said to
have had a daughter, Elizabeth, who married David Barclay
» Acts of Pari, of Scot, and P.C. Register.
2 Mr. Alexander Livingstone, advocate, and his brother, Adam, were both sons of
a Mr. Alexander Livingstone, advocate, son of Duncan Livingstone, Burgess of
Edinburgh.— Edin. Com. and Burgess Roll.
' Biddell's MS. " Baronetage."
Dunipace. 97
of Mathers, who was obliged to sell his estate in consequence
of having become surety for the debts of the Livingstone
family.'
SPOTTISWOODE OF DUNIPACE.
Sir Robert Spottiswoode had a Crown charter of the
barony of Dunipace from Charles I. on 19th July, 1634. Sir
Robert" was the second son of John Spottiswoode, Archbishop
of St. Andrews, Chancellor of Scotland, and Rachael, daughter
of David Lindsay, Bishop of Ross, of the family of Edzell.
The Archbishop, who had the honour of crowning Charles I.,
became the representative of the ancient family of Spottis-
woode of that ilk on the death of his relative, John Spottis-
woode of that ilk, who sold the estate of Spottiswoode about
1624. This John, whose line failed, had an unlucky taste
for violent excitement, resulting in one instance in the murder
of Matthew Sinclair, brother to Robert Sinclair, laird of
Longformacus, in 1606. A blood feud ensued between these
neighbouring Border families, and was only ended by the
intervention of James VI., through his Privy Council. The
Privy Council Records in relating what happened, throw
much light on these " old unhappy far-off times." In the
turning of the wheel of fortune we shall see that a descendant
of John Sinclair, brother to the murdered Matthew, became
laird of Dunipace."
Sir Robert Spottiswoode of Dunipace was born in 1596, and
had a most distinguished career. He was educated at Glasgow
1 Playfair's " Baronetage."
= Genealogy of the family of Spottiswoode, from the MS. Collection of Father
Augustine Hay (privately printed) ; also Dictionary of National Biography, and
Memoirs prefixed to " Spotiswoode's Practicks."
^ See Note C in Appendix.
7
98 Dunipace.
University' and at Exeter College, Oxford, and later on he
studied in France. He remained abroad for nine years. He
was made a Privy Councillor in 1620, and an Extraordinary
Lord of Session in 162 1. He first took the title of Lord New
Abbey, from lands which had been presented to him by his
father, but after acquiring the estate of Dunipace, he assumed
the title of Lord Dunipace. This was the second time this
estate had supplied a title to a Lord of Session. In 1633 he was
made President of the College of Justice and Secretary for
Scotland. He was one of the most accomplished and cultured
men of the time, his skill in languages being specially remarkable.
He was a loyal supporter of Charles I., and was taken prisoner at
the battle of Philiphaugh in 1645, was tried at St. Andrews, and
on some trivial pretext was condemned to death — the noblemen
who presided taking care to state that they signed his death
warrant " as Preses," ..." but not as to their particular
judgment." Sir Robert" was executed by the " Maiden " on 6th
January, 1646. He married Bethia, eldest daughter of Sir
Alexander Morison of Prestongrange, and had several children.'
Sir Robert sold Dunipace two years before his execution.
On i8th December, 1643, there is confirmation of a
charter of Dunipace to Mr. James Aikenhead, advocate,
in which Sir Robert Spottiswoode resigns the lands. Mr.
James Aikenhead, on 23rd July, 1646, resigns the lands in
1 On 13th February, 1631, Sir Robert Spottiswoode subscribed 200 merks to the
building of the College aad Library of Glasgow.— Mun. Dniv. Glas., Vol. III., p. 469.
'- His nephew, John Spottiswoode, the only son of his elder brother, John
Spottiswoode of Dairsie, was also executed for his loyalty, " in the flower of his youth."
He was admitted to present a last address to the great Marquis of Montrose just
before that nobleman went to the scaffold.
' His grandson, John Spottiswoode, bought baxjk the ancient barony of Spottis-
woode in 1700.
CLERK REGISTER, 1516-1679
Dunipace. 99
favour of James, Earl of Callendar. The Earl of Callendar
had no family, but his niece, ELEANOR LIVINGSTONE, daughter
of Alexander, second Earl of Linlithgow, was married to Sir
Thomas Nicolson, second baronet of Carnock, whose son.
Sir Thomas, third baronet, was served heir to him in the lands
of Carnock, Plean, and Dunipace, in 1664.' On 5th May, 1665,
William Murray, second son" of Patrick, late Lord Elibank,
had a charter under the Great Seal of the barony of Dunipace,
in which Sir Thomas Nicolson of Carnock, Knight Baronet,
resigns the lands. William Murray was a Commissioner of
Supply for the County of Stirling. He sold the estate to Sir
Archibald Primrose of Dalmeny, Baronet, in 1677.
PRIMROSE OF DUNIPACE.
The estate of Dunipace was purchased by Sir Archibald
Primrose, Bart, of Dalmeny, who had a charter under the Great
Seal, dated 27th July, 1677. He was then Lord Justice General
of Scotland. He was the son of James Primrose," Clerk of the
Privy Council, by his second wife, Catherine Lawson, daughter
of Richard Lawson, burgess of Edinburgh.* Sir Archibald
succeeded his father as Clerk of the Privy Council of Scotland in
1641.° An enthusiastic royalist, after the battle of Kilsyth
he joined the Marquis of Montrose, and was taken prisoner at
> Inq. Spec. The Nicolsons were never designed of Dimipace,
" Gen. Reg. of Sasines, XII., 120.
= The following extract from the Register of the Privy Council is curious and
interesting:— "March, 1626— License by the Lords of Council to James Primrose,
Clerk of Secret Council, Mr. Gilbert Primrose, his eldest son, Gilbert Gourlay of
Wester Grange, Mr. Thomas Young of Leny, and such as shall accompany any of them
at table to eat flesh during Lent and upon all other forbidden days for the space of a
year."
4 See Note D in Appendix,
« Crawfurd's " Peerage," Bishop Burnet's " History of His Own Times," &c.
hata^ aam t£ Gso^ge, fitt Ead Mamrfcal, fcgr 1b aeooai
wife; mMSKtt. iliiij^li of dK fifih Laid OfepbK of .^klk^
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I02 Dunipace.
with the Primrose family.* Sir John has an entry in his
Account Book in December 1671 "to the Herald painter in
pt. paymt for my armes — £2 los. od." The Account Book of
Sir John Fouh's enables us to read the biography of the family
between the lines, and shows us the life of more than 200 years
ago vividly going on before us. This was a great find for
antiquaries and genealogists, and it is a pity more of such books
have not been preserved. The birth of the eldest son of
Sir John Foulis and Margaret Primrose is thus recorded in
the Account Book : —
" Archibald, thair Eldest Sone, was borne on ye 28 day of julij,
1663, being tuesday, att twa houris in the eftirnoon.
Witnesses to the baptism— S"^ Archbald Prymrois of Chester,
knyght, Lord Register, George foulis of Raevelstoun, my
lord Colintoun on of the senators of the colledge of Justice,
ye laird of hermistoun &c. he was named Primrose (by
S'' ard his guids'') of Dunipace ; he died after thre zeirs
travell in france and Italie at Prague, April 1684, w' great
reput and love of all."
We learn from the Account Book that Sir John Foulis and
his father-in-law. Sir Archibald Primrose were golfers : —
" 13th, April 1672, to the boy y* caried my
clubs when my Lord Regr and Newbyth was
at the Links, o o 4"
There are many entries showing that Sir John was an ardent
player, and that he frequently lost money at the game. He also
encouraged his son and young relatives to play, for after the
following entry: —
" loth July, 1672. for a bible to archie, 280"
1 " Scottish Arms."
Dunipace. 103
Archie being then nine years of age, there follows : —
"9th August, for 4 golfe balls to ye Archies,' ... o 13 4"
and on —
" 7th December, for a golfe club to Archie, ... o 6 o"
Archie was a great favourite and was constantly getting
something : —
"6th January, 1673. for Isops fables in Scots to
Archie, w' the Cuts, i 7 o"
Before going to the Continent we find Archibald paid a
visit to London by the following entry: —
" 24th March, 1681. for a little horse to my sone
ar to ryde to London and oyr charges, ... 48 o o"
Archibald died before entering on the management of the
estate, and was succeeded by his brother, George, whose retour
is dated isth April, 1685, During the minority of his sons. Sir
John Foulis took over the management of the estate, and we
find numerous entries in the Account Book showing what was
going on. We learn that there was a reader or chaplain at
Dunipace. One curious entry, 2nd August, 16S0, tells that
the gardener came from Dunipace " about ye militia pistols
and hat." Fruit was sent to Ravelston from Dunipace, and
arrangements made for carrying letters between the properties.
1 Probably his son, Archie, and his young brother-in-law, Archibald PrimroBe,
afterwards first Earl of Rosebery, then eleven years old.
104 Dunipace.
Archibald gets money when he goes to Dunipace. The
following entry occurs on the 26th May, 1681 : —
"to Hew jack, sklaiter in dennie w"" I agreed
w* him for pointing the house of dunipace, 070"
"27th May, 1681. to Jo" broune of seabogs
man for being clerk W I held court at
dunipace, 2 18 o"
" 2Sth May. to ye gardiner at dunipace for eall,
eggs, brandie, winegar, bread oat & wheat
candle coalls, 3 3 o"
" to his wife for some curds & whey butter &
making beds and puting on fyres, i 15 o"
George Foulis Primrose, of Dunipace, who succeeded his
brother Archibald, was born 27th April, 1667. In 16S7 he paid
a visit to London, and his father's chaplain seems to have gone
with him and kept a note of his expenses.' There are many
curious entries. He appears to have met Claverhouse' on the
route north, as under date
" 2ist Nov., 1687. I*— for dyet night before cleverhous cam up "
" 25th Nov. P— to the lady devers for lace "
George Foulis Primrose married, 3rd April, 169 1, Janet Cunning-
hame, daughter of Sir John Cunninghame, Bart, of Caprington,
by his wife, Margaret, daughter of John Murray of Touchadam
and Polmaise, and by her had Archibald, his heir, John, who
> " Scottish Antiquary."
- George Primrose's aunt was Lady Carnegie of Pitarrow. The Carnegies were
relations of Claverhouse. On 5th JIarch, 1696, Sir John Foulis enters :—
" Spent at dalmenie wt Alexander Gibsone after the \'iscountess of Dundee's
burial, 1. 1. Od."
(Alexander Gibson of Durie was married in September, 1690, to Elizabeth Foulis,
second daughter of sir John Fuiilis of Ravelston).
Dunipacc. loS
retained the name of Foulis, and several daughters. The entries
from Sir John Foulis's Account Book show that a busy, bright,
genial life was led at Dunipace, the best of terms being kept up
with relations and friends, there being a constant coming and
going between Edinburgh and Dunipace. Much was done for
the good of the estate. Planting was carried on extensively,
Sir John Foulis sending large numbers of both fruit and forest
trees there.'
There is an entry for money given to Margaret Foulis,
Sir John's fourth daughter, when she went on a long visit to her
brother, George, at Dunipace, in 1695. More money is sent to
her later on, as her visit was unduly prolonged owing to an
interesting incident, which the notebook reveals. We find she
had captivated the heart of a neighbouring laird, and relative of
her own, John Glas of Sauchie. The following matter-of-fact
entries allow us to read the romance underneath : —
"June 17th 1695. Spent w' S'' Ja Justice
Sauchie and his freinds at closing his and
mar's contract 3 4 o"^
"21st. Spent wt Sauchie and his freinds, etc.,
at signing my doughter mar*'' contract of
marriage 6 15 o"
" 22nd. to ye precentor at Corstorphin to pro-
claime Sauchie & margaret 2 iS o"
"29th. Sent to my doughter mar* to dunipace, 58 o o"
" July 3- to my wife and douchter Jean yister-
day and this day to depurss for margaret's
brydell cloathes and other necessars for her 666 14 3"
> See Mr. Uarvie-Brown's "Remarkable Trees in Scotland," "Large Trees upon
the estate of Dunipace."
2 Scots money.
io6 Dunipace.
They were married at Dunipace on 4th July, 1695, and on that
day the entry is : —
" Spent w' . . . drinking ye good-luck to
Sauchie' & mar' on ther mariage night ... 13 10 6"
On the 27th of that month there is an entry : —
" to Sauchie for meg 333 6 8"
In the following month we find Sir John Foulis visiting
at Dunipace and Sauchie, and we learn what he paid for " toyes
to ye bairns " [at Dunipace], what it cost him in " drinkmonie,"
and what he lost at cards, &c. The names of George Primrose,
and later on of his son, Archibald, occur in the list of subscribers
to books then being published. The birth of this son, Archibald,
is noted in the Account Book under date 21st February, 1693,
when the "gardinar at Dunipace" received a gratuity of 14s.
for bringing the news, and there is an entry in the last year
of Sir John's life about his grandson : —
"7th March, 1707. to W" douglas to pay m^
berrie for a stafe and inkhoms to dunipace's
sone archibald 4 16 o"
Evidently the boy's education was going on in Edinburgh.
There was another son, John, and there were several daughters.
From the following entry we learn that George Foulis Primrose
died 8th April, 1707.
" loth April, to wm foulis to give to ye lady
dunipace 20 guinies, her husband died 8
about 3 afternoon 284 o o"
> This marriage accounts for the coat of arms on the old dovecot at Sauchie
(c. 1700), alluded to by Mr. Fleming in his "Ancient Castles and Mansions," &c. The
arms aie those of Glas of Sauchie, and the initials J, G. (John Glas), M, F. (Margaret
Foulis).
Dunipace. 107
" I2th April, to wm. douglas to buy a stick of
black wax and a quair of mourning paper ... o 14 6"
"21st April, to sauchie to take west to my
doughter dunipace 35 10 o"
Sir John Foulis died 5th August, 1707, and was succeeded in
the baronetcy and estate of Ravelston by his grandson, Archi-
bald Foulis Primrose, a boy of fourteen, whose tragic career we
shall now try to follow.
Sir Archibald Foulis Primrose, Baronet, of Dunipace, suc-
ceeded his father in Dunipace in April, 1707, and his grandfather
in the baronetcy and estate of Ravelston in August, 1707. He
was then just fourteen years of age. He appears to have been
well educated, as will be seen from a letter later on. He lived at
Dunipace, and inherited his great-grandfather's' loyalty to the
House of Stewart." Judging from his portrait, he must have been
a handsome, refined-looking man. He married, first, Lady
Margaret Fleming,' eldest daughter and heiress of John, sixth
Earl of Wigton.* This nobleman was a determined Jacobite,
who had his own sufferings on account of the House of Stewart,
and no doubt fanned the flame in his son-in-law. Lady
Margaret Primrose died without leaving any children. Sir
Archibald married, secondly, 19th November, 1724, his relative,
1 Sir Archibald Primrose, Bart., of DfUmeny. See Chart in Appendix.
- Sir Archibald Foulis-Primrose was descended from the Royal Stewarts in many
lines, but the most direct was as follows:— His paternal grandfather, Sir John Foulis,
Bart., married Margaret Primrose, whose mother was Elizabeth Keith (See Chart and
Note B in Appendix), daughter of the Hon. Sir James Keith of Beuholm, eldest son of
the second marriage of George, fifth Earl Warischal, whose great-grandfather, Robert,
Lord Keith, married Lady Elizabeth Douglas, grand-daughter of James, first Earl of
Jlorton, by his wife, the Princess Joan, daughter of King James the First of Scotland
and Joan Beaufort.
a The arms of the Earl of Wigton are quartered with those of Primrose on the
front of the staircase of the old house of Boghall, Clydesdale.
♦ Douglas's " Peerage," Wood's Ed.
io8 Dunipace.
Lady Mary Primrose, daughter of Archibald, first Earl of
Rosebery,' by whom he had a son, Archibald, who died at the
age of ten or eleven, and ten daughters. Sir Archibald sold the
estate of Ravelston in 1726. He was admitted a member of the
Royal Company of Archers, sth June, 17 13, at which date he
was just twenty years old. His brother, John Foulis, was
admitted a member, 29th April, 1727." This Company was
sanctioned by the Privy Council in 1677. " Discovered at the
Revolution to be secretly dis-affected, their assembling was
dis-allowed," but they were reinstated in royal favour by Queen
Anne. In 1714, when the state of the Queen's health suggested
a further opportunity of abetting the exiled house, they met in
Parliament Square and made a great demonstration. Not a few
were in the '15. On loth June, 1732, there was another
demonstration, the majority of those who took part being all
but avowed Jacobites. " Among them were the Earl of Kil-
marnock and Sir Archibald Primrose of Dunipace, who, joining
Prince Charles Edward in 1745, were in the following year
convicted and executed as traitors. Another archer and ardent
Jacobite was Laurence Oliphant of Gask, father of Baroness
Nairne."" Sir Archibald joined in the rebellion of 1745. In
" Memoirs of the Rebellion," the Chevalier de Johnstone writes
on the night before the Battle of Falkirk, "The night was
so dark and the rain incessant we resolved to withdraw to
the mansion of Primrose of Dunipace, about a quarter of a
1 Archibald, first Earl of Rosebery, was the only son of the second marriage of
Sir Archibald Primrose of Dalmeny, with Agnes, daughter of Sir William Gray of
Pittendrum, and sister of William, Master of Gray. Sir W. Gray was also a staunch
Toyalist, and suSered by fine and imprisonment for Charles I. See Genealogical
Chart.
» " Hist, of Royal Company of Archers," by Sir James B. Paul, Lyon King of
Arms.
= See " Social Life in Scotland," by Charles Rogers, D.D., LL.O.
Dunipace. 109
league from Falkirk, having a crowd of Highlanders as guides,
who took the same road." Sir Archibald Primrose had a
commission in the rebel Hussars.' He is said to have guided
the Highlanders to the ford over the Carron at the Battle
of Falkirk. He was captured after Culloden near Aboyne
in July, 1746, first imprisoned in Aberdeen, thence sent to
Carlisle, where, being tried and convicted of high treason, he
was sentenced to death. Lady Mary Primrose, his wife, followed
him to Carlisle and remained with him till his execution.'^
During his imprisonment three of his children died. He was
executed on 15th November, 1746, exactly one hundred years
after his great-grandfather. Sir Archibald Primrose — found guilty
of high treason — had the good fortune to have his life spared.
Just before his execution he wrote the following letter' to his
sister, which came under cover of one from his lawyer, who was
with him to the last : —
November, 1746.
Mv Dear Sister,
I have endeavoured to take some small time, from a much more
immediate concern, to offer you a few lines and to let you know that this day
I am to suffer, I think, for my religion, my prince, and my country. For
each of these I wish I had a thousand lives to spend. The shortness of the
intimation will not allow me much time to write to you so fully in my vindi-
cation for what I did that I know concerns you. But I heartily repent of
the bad advice I got even from men of judgment and sense. And what I
did by their advice in my own opinion was no more than acknowledging I
bore arms against the present Government, for my lawful, undoubted prince,
1 " List of Persons Concerned in the Rebellion, 1745-6." Scottish History Society.
Preface by Lord Rosebery.
= It was said that a pardon was made out for Sir Archibald, but owing to a
mistalie of the Duke of Newcastle it was too late of arriving. No evidence of this. —
Foulis MSS., p. 23.
' This letter is copied from " The Lyon in Mourning," published by the Scottish
History Society.
Dunipace.
my religion, and country ; and I thought by my plea to procure some time
longer life only to do service to my poor family, not doubting but yet in a
short time that glorious cause will succeed, which God of His infinite mercy
grant. I repent most heartily for what I did, and I merit this death as my
punishment, and I trust in the Almighty for mercy to my poor soul. As I have
very soon to leave this world, I pray God to forgive all my enemies, particu-
larly Mr. Gray,' who did me all the injury he could by suborning witnesses
and threatening some, which was my terror. Particularly there is one poor
man- to suffer with me that had an offer of his life to be an evidence against
me, which he rejected. Much more I could say, but as my time is short, I
now bid my last adieu to my dear mother, and you, my dear sister, and I
entreat you'll be kind to my dear wife and children, and may all the blessings
of heaven attend you all. Live together comfortably, and you may expect
God's favour. My grateful acknowledgments for all your favours done and
designed. Remember me kindly to my Lady Caithness,' Sauchie,* and his
sisters, and all my friends and acquaintances. May the Almighty grant you
all happiness here, and eternal bliss hereafter, to which bliss I trust in His
mercy soon to retire ; and am for ever, dear sister, your affectionate brother,
A P.
P.S.—Uy blessing to your dear boy, my son.
Copy of a Utter to the same lady which served as a copier to the above,
from Mr. James Wright, writer in Edinburgh : —
Madam,
Your brother, who is no more, deliijered me this immediately
before he suffered. His behaviour was becoming a humble Christian. I
waited on him to the last, and with some other friends witnessed his inter-
ment in St. Cuthbert's Churchyard. He lies on the north side of the Church,
within four yards of the second window from the steeple. Mr. Gordon of
1 William Gray, commonly called Duntie Gray, foreman to Lord Shnalton (F).
= Patrick Keir, late wi-ight at Moultrie Hill, near Edinburgh (F).
= Lady Margaret Primrose, second daughter of Archibald, first Earl of Rosebery,
married Alexander, ninth Earl of Caithness.
» John Glas of Sauohie, cousin to Sir Archibald Primrose, and son of John Glas
of Sauchie and Margaret Foulis (See Chart).
Dunipace. m
Tersperse and Patrick Murray/ goldsmith, lie just by him. God Almighty
support his disconsolate widow and all his relations. I trust in his mercy
He will provide for the fatherless and the widow. I am just now going to
wait upon poor Lady Mary. — I am, Madam, yours, &c.,
J.W.
Carlisle, 15th Nov., 1746,
4 o'clock afternoon.
The nobility of character, sensitive honour, piety, and deep
affection of the man, his power of attaching men to him, all
come out in this letter, which has the stamp of sincerity on
it. His anxiety and sorrow seemed to be lest he should be
thought to be recanting his opinion of the justice of the cause for
which he was about to suffer. As he says, all he meant by
pleading guilty was the fact that it was true he had borne arms
against the present Government. Dunipace' was, of course,
forfeited to the Crown. In the Scots Magazine, under date
November, 1746, it is stated "Eleven rebels were executed at
Carlisle on the isth November, namely. Sir Archibald Primrose
of Dunipace, Charles Gordon of Dalperse, Pat. Murray, goldsmith,
Stirling, Patrick Keir, wright, Edinburgh, &c. They all died
firm in the cause for which they suffered,"
On the 17th December, 1746, one month and two days after
the execution, in the same paper is the following sad entry: — "At
Dunipace, Lady Mary Primrose, relict of Sir Archibald Primrose,
and sister of the Earl of Ro.sebery. She has left eight children.
There were eleven of the marriage, but three of them died last
summer, while their father was a prisoner. She followed her
husband to Carlisle, where she remained till the day of his
execution. Grief, it is stated, hastened her death."
» Commonly called Cowley Murray.
' Forfeited Estates Papers (Dunipace).
112 Dunipace.
On the death of Sir Archibald's only son, his brother, John,
as heir of entail, put in his claim for the estate of Dunipace, on
the plea that these lands being strictly entailed could not be
forfeited on account of treason of any of the heirs. The Court of
Session, however, in 1751, dismissed the claim.
Sir Archibald's daughter, Elphinstone, was married to James
Rollo of Powhouse; another daughter was married to a Mr. Peek
of London ; and another to John Buchanan, M.D., descended
from the Buchanans of that ilk. Mrs. Buchanan was alive in
1825,^ and had a daughter, Susan. Miss Buchanan told a
member of the Foulis family that her mother and her aunts,
after their father's attainder, got pensions from Government.
Mrs. Buchanan was then drawing hers. In Nimmo's " History
of Stirlingshire," 3rd edition, the editor notes under Dunipace,
" It is stated that Lady Primrose was also an enthusiastic
Jacobite — it was she who protected Flora Macdonald," &c., &c.
Lady Mary Primrose may have been, and probably was, an
enthusiastic Jacobite, but the editor has mixed up the Dowager
Lady Primrose," widow of Hugh, third Viscount Primrose, with
Sir Archibald's wife. Others have made this same mistake. It
is well known that Viscountess Primrose was a determined and
ardent Jacobite. When Flora Macdonald recovered her liberty
by act of indemnity in 1747, she stayed for some time with
Lady Primrose. Lady Primrose's house was in Essex Street
in the Strand, and was the resort of the fashionable world, and
crowds of the higher classes hastened to pay their tribute to the
heroine of the hour. Lady Primrose also paid Flora Macdonald's
travelling expenses to Scotland. The unfortunate Charles
Edward was entertained by Lady Primrose for five days in
1 Foulis Account Book.
• See Chart, Appendix K.
Dunipace. "3
1750, on the occasion of his first secret visit to London. These
days were employed by Charles in the vain endeavour to form
another scheme of invasion. It is on this incident that the
novel of " Redgauntlet'" is founded. Lady Primrose was very
courageous, but or. one occasion she was much alarmed by
Charles appearing at one of her parties, of course risking both
his own life and hers. Charles corresponded with Lady
Primrose under the name of Miss Fines." In the " Gentleman's
Magazine " the notice of her death is as follows : —
" 15 Feb., 1775, the Right Hon^e Lady Viscountess Primrose,
in Clarges Street.
Her Jacobitism was probably strengthened by the untoward fate
of her relative, the unfortunate laird of Dunipace.
The estate of Dunipace was sold by the Barons of Exchequer
on nth December, 1754, to JOHN RusSELL, W.S.' He
appears to have been acting on behalf of the relatives of the
family of the late Sir Archibald Primrose.
My reason for stating this is based on the following extracts
from " Curiosities of a Scots Charta Chest " * : —
"Though the rebellion was quelled in 1746, the penalty was paid by many
a head, one of the number being that of Sir Alexander's first cousin. Sir
Archibald Primrose, the eldest son of his aunt. Lady Dunipace, a very gay
young spark. He, with 10 others, was executed at Carlisle on the 15th Nov.,
1746, leaving behind him seven daughters and one son, whose death is
' See Introduction to " Eedgauntlet."
= Andrew Lang's " Pickle the Spy." There are many references to her in the
Jacobite literature of the time.
^ Writs of Dunipace.
* "Curiosities of a Scots Charta Chest, 1600-1800." With the travels and
memoranda of Sir Alexander Dick, Baronet of Prestonfield, Midlothian. Written by
himself. Edited and arranged by the Hon, Mrs. Atholl Forbes. See Chap. IX., pages
151-2.
114 Dunipace.
recorded in a contemporary paper as having taken place in Edinburgh on
the 29th January, 1747. As a rebel, his property was of course confiscated,
and his family were entirely dependent on the bounty of their relatives. Sir
Alexander, with his usual generosity, appears to have taken the unfortunate
children under his especial charge, as will be seen by the following letter
from Lord Primrose :—
Edinr., 23 Sept., 1755.
"The unhappy situation of Sir Arch. Primrose's children gives occasion
to my troubling you, that has been their best friend, to assure you that I shall
at all times be happy at any opportunity of joining you and your brother in
doing the children any good that leys in my power, and with regard to them,
allow me to put myself entirely under your discretion, who understands their
affairs so well, &c., &c.— I am, Sir, your most humble servant,
Primrose."*
Sir Alexander refers to this matter in his diary, giving
an account of what was done in their behalf. He says : —
" My Lord Dalmeny," the Earl of Rosebery's eldest son, my brother Sir
John Cunninghame,' and I,* agreed to purchase the family estate of
Dunipace at the sale of the forfeiture, before the Exchequer, and had the
good fortune to clear betwixt 7000 and 8000 Scots merks apiece for the
behoof of the young ladies.^ The Ladies themselves behaved exceedingly
well and merited the goodness of Government, who, by the Earl of Rosebery
their cousin's application for them, have obtained genteel pensions for those
that were most necissitous."
» Neil, Lord Primrose, second son of James, second Earl of Rosebery, succeeded
as third Earl, 8th May, 1756.
2 John, Lord Dalmeny, eldest son of James, second Earl of Rosebery, died before
his father, 11th August, 1755.
^ Eldest son of Sir William Cimninghame of Caprington, by Janet, only daughter
and heiress of Sir James Dick, Baronet, of Prestoniield.
* Sir Alexander Dick was the third son of Sir William Cimninghame.
s This statement seems to explode the fiction in the third edition of Nimmo about
the Spottiswoode purchase.
Dunipace. itS
John Russell, W.S., sold the estate on 24th February, 1755, to
James Spottiswoode, Mr. James Syme acting for behoof of
James Spottiswoode.'
SPOTTISWOODE OF DUNIPACE.— (II.)
It is a curious coincidence that for the second time the estate
of Dunipace passed into the hands of Spottiswoodes. One
hundred and twenty years previously it was acquired by the
celebrated and unfortunate Sir Robert Spottiswoode, Lord
Dunipace, descended from the family of Spottiswoode of that
ilk.
James Spottiswoode had a charter under the Great Seal,
dated 6th August, 1756, wherein he is designed . . . " [acobi
Spotswood Atmigeri, nuper de Jamaica, mercatorts, et nunc de
Dunipace" He may have been of the same stock as Sir Robert
Spottiswoode, as in the matriculation of his arms in the Lyon
Register on 13th July, 1758, it is stated that he is "descended
from the family of Spottiswoode of that ilk," but no particulars
are given. The coat registered was : — " Argent on a chevron
gules, between three oak trees eradicate vert, as many Bezants.
Crests — The Southern and Northern Hemispheres. Motto —
Utriusque Auxilio." James Spottiswoode, first of Dunipace,
married Barbara Syme, and by her had issue: — (i) John,
(2) James, (s) William, (4) Robert, (5) Thomas, (6) David, (7)
Duncan, (8) Allan, and (9) Barbara.
On 30th March, 1772, James Spottiswoode of Dunipace
executed a disposition,^ which was recorded loth April, 1780,
in which he conveyed the estate to himself in liferent, whom
failing, to his sons in order of seniority, seven being named.
» Writs of Dunipace.
» Ibid.
ii6 Dunipacc.
The eighth son, Allan, not having been born till 1774, was not
named in it. James Spottiswoode died in 1798, and was
succeeded by his eldest son, John.
John Spottiswoode, second of Dunipace, who was born in
1755,' must have died very shortly after his father in 1798, as he
did not live to make up his titles. He was succeeded by his
brother, James.
James Spottiswoode, third of Dunipace, was born in 1759,
succeeded as heir of provision to his deceased brother, John, and
also as heir to his father in 1798, and died before August, 1803.
He was succeeded by his immediately younger brother, William.
William Spottiswoode, fourth of Dunipace, was born in 1760.
He was the third son of James Spottiswoode, succeeded his
brother James in 1803, and was only laird of Dunipace for a very
short time. It is more than probable that he never saw his
estate after becoming laird. His fate was singularly tragic,
and in keeping with the traditions of several previous lairds
of Dunipace. William Spottiswoode of Dunipace was on board
the "Lord Nelson," one of the H.E.I. Company's ships, of
which his younger brother, Captain Robert Spottiswoode, was
the Commander. In what capacity William was on board is not
clear, but it is supposed he was merely a passenger. On
14th August, 1803, when the "Lord Nelson" was in latitude
48° north, longitude 16° west, on her homeward voyage, she was
attacked by the French privateer, "Bellona," of 34 guns and
260 men. The " Lord Nelson " carried 26 guns and a crew of
102 men, exclusive of passengers. In the action, which lasted
for an hour and a half, the privateer succeeded in carrying
the Indiaman by boarding, but not till the French ship had been
» The dates of the births are taken from miniatures in the possession of J. A,
Harvie-Brown, Esq., of Dunipace.
Dunipace. "7
once repulsed, and the " Lord Nelson " had sustained a loss
of five men killed and thirty-one wounded. Among those
killed were William Spottiswoode of Dunipace and Lieutenant-
Colonel Peter M'Gregor Murray.'
The " Lord Nelson " had several adventures after this, and it
is satisfactory to know that she was recaptured from the French
on the 26th August by the " Colossus," the advance ship of
Captain Sir Edward Pellew's squadron.' William Spottiswoode
died on board the " Lord Nelson " from his wounds received
in the action of the 14th August, and was succeeded by his
brother, Robert,
Robert Spottiswoode, fifth of Dunipace, was born in 1763,
and was the fourth son of James Spottiswoode of Dunipace.
He was in the naval service of the H.E.I. Company. In 1803
he was in command of the " Lord Nelson," and behaved with
great gallantry during the action with the French privateer,
"Bellona," in which his elder brother, William, was killed.
He was presented by the H.E.I.C. with a service of plate,
and by the insurance offices of the Bengal Settlement with
a very valuable sword, as a mark of their esteem, and in
testimony of the high sense which they entertained of his
spirited exertions, and the gallantry and conduct displayed
by himself, his officers, and seamen in defence of the " Lord
Nelson " when attacked by the French privateer, " Bellona."
The plate and sword are now at Dunipace. In the inscription on
the scabbard of the sword, Robert Spottiswoode is designed "late
Commander of the ' Lord Nelson,' " so, probably on succeeding
to Dunipace he retired from the H.E.I.C.S. As William
Spottiswoode had not made up titles, Robert was served heir
1 Scots Magazine, September, 1803.
» James's " Naval History," Vol. III., p. 21,
ii8 Dunipace.
to his brother, James, in 1804.' Captain Robert Spottiswoode
of Dunipace did not long enjoy his estate, as he died on 30th
September, 1805,° and was succeeded by his brother, Thomas.
Thomas Spottiswoode, sixth of Dunipace, who was born
in 1766, was served heir to his brother, Robert, 22nd May,
1807,° and in the service it is stated that Robert died 30th
September, 1805. Thomas Spottiswoode was in the Civil
Service of the H.E.I. Company, and was a contractor in
business for supplies of clothing, &c., to the H.E.I. Company's
employees. He made his money mostly, or entirely, in India.
When he settled down at Dunipace in 1807, he added two
courts to the house, probably built by his father or one of his
elder brothers. It was quite a plain, square house, with a
sloping roof, the frontage having one window in the roof, five
windows in a row in the upper flat, and a window on either
side of the door, which was in the centre of the house. Mr.
Harvie-Brown, the present proprietor of Dunipace, has a sketch
of this house, made by one of his Spottiswoode granduncles,
about the year 1791. The walls of this house were three to four
feet thick, and were practically the only part of the main
building left standing after the fire of 1897, which will be
alluded to later. Thomas Spottiswoode of Dunipace was the
first to introduce pheasants into the district, and his pheasantries
were well known. He married Elizabeth Allan,'' daughter of
James Allan, by his wife, Elizabeth Colvin, daughter of
Alexander Colvin (who lived for some time at Denovan),
• Writs of Diinipace.
- Printed Service of Heirs.
= Writs of Dunipace and Printed Service of Heirs.
4 Miss Elizabeth Allan was a niece of David Allan, the eminent Scottish historical
painter. The Allans, as stated above, intermarried with the Colvins (to which family
Mr. Sidney Colvin, the well-lmown author and art critic, belongs) : also with the
Blunts of Kempshott Park, Hants. See Burke's " Landed Gentry.''
Dunipace. 119
and by her he had an only child, Elizabeth Spottiswoode, heiress
of Dunipace. Thomas Spottiswoode sold the farm of Househill,
which had hitherto formed part of the estate of Dunipace, to
Sir Gilbert Stirling, Bart., of Mansfield and Larbert, and it has
since remained part of the estate of Larbert. Thomas Spottis-
woode of Dunipace died in 1837, and was succeeded by his
daughter, Elizabeth.
Elizabeth Spottiswoode, seventh of Dunipace, succeeded to
the estate in 1837, in terms of a disposition by her father,
Thomas Spottiswoode, dated 30th December, 1836. On 6th
November, 1838, she was married to John Harvie-Brown, of
Shirgarton and Quarter, J.P.,' who died 14th October, 1880,
leaving an only son and heir, John Alexander Harvie-Brown,
J.P,, F.Z.S., F.R.S.E., who succeeded to Dunipace on the death
of his mother, 27th June, 1888. This gentleman is a well-known
naturalist, and author of many valuable books on natural
history." He made a very fine collection of birds and eggs,
which was kept at Dunipace. Unfortunately, most of this
valuable collection perished in the fire of 1S97.
Various additions had been made to the house from time to
time, the last before the fire being a fine library. The fire took
place early in the morning of Sunday, loth January, 1897. It
was discovered by Mr. Harvie-Brown at three a.m., and by seven
o'clock the whole mischief was done. The house was gutted out
except the new library annexe, and nothing was left standing
but the walls of the old part of the house and a small addition
at the back built by Mr. Harvie- Brown's father in 1871. When
rebuilding and heightening the east wing of the house in 1857, a
stone was found which must have belonged to the old house of
1 See under Quarter.
^ See Bibliography of JJr. Harvie-Brown, by Eev, Walter Scott, Stirling.
130 Dunipace.
Dunipace, and which was built into the addition made in 1871,
on which is the following inscription : — " CELS^ GRAVIOKE CASV
DECIDVNT TVRRES' MODICA FIRMA."
The present mansion house, of which an illustration is given,
was restored and altered during the years 1897-8.
• We have now to return to the remaining children of James
Spottiswoode, first of Dunipace, by his wife, Barbara Syme.
David Spottiswoode, the sixth son, was probably born about
1770. He is the only one of the sons of whom there is no
miniature at Dunipace, so it is highly probable that he died
young. He is named in the deed of succession in 1772.
Duncan Spottiswoode, the seventh son, was born in 1772.
He was cashier to the Perth Banking Company for many years,
and was one of the Bailies of the Burgh in and about 1807. He
died on 17th September, 1823, aged 51 years," leaving by his
wife. Christian Maxtone, a family often children : — (i) Margaret,
born 1798, died 1838; (2) Barbara, born 1801, died 1894; (3)
Christian, born 1802, died 1867 ; (4) James, born 1803, was for
many years in business as a solicitor in Perth ; from October,
1858, to October, 1861, he was President of the Incorporated
Society of Solicitors for the County and City of Perth, and died
in 1873 ; (5) Robert, a partner in the firm of Spottiswoode &
Mansfield, chartered accountants in Edinburgh, died in 1876;
(6) John, born 1807, died in i860; (7) Duncan, born 1809,
for many years tenant of the bleaching-works and farm of
Stormontfield, near Perth, resided in Perth, died in 1888 ;
(8) Thomas, born 18 10, in business in Glasgow and else-
where; (9) Mary, born 1813, resided at Perth, died in 1899;
(10) Charlotte, resided at Edinburgh with her brother, Robert,
1 Horace — Odes, Book II., x.
5 Tombstone, Greyfriars Burying Ground, Perth.
Dunipace. i3t
died in 1898. Of the above ten children of Duncan Spottis-
woode and Christian Maxtone, only one, Duncan, was married,
and his wife died soon after the marriage and left no issue,
so that there are no descendants of the Perth Spottiswoodes.'
It is a curious fact that James Spottiswoode, first of Duni-
pace, although he had a family of at least nine children, eight
of whom were sons, has no representative in the male line. The
name of this branch of the Spottisvvoodes has quite died out.
The eighth and youngest son of James Spottiswoode and
Barbara Syme, was Allan, born in 1774, which accounts for his
name not appearing in the deed of succession. There is a
miniature of him preserved at Dunipace House. Allan Spottis-
woode died at the age of nineteen, and is supposed to have
made the sketch of the eighteenth century house of Dunipace
about 1 79 1, when about seventeen years of age. This sketch
is now in the possession of his grandnephew, Mr. J. A. Harvie-
Brown.
Barbara Spottiswoode, the only daughter of James Spottis-
wood and Barbara Syme whom I have been able to trace,
was married 20th October, 1795, to John Syme," W.S., of
Cartmore, eldest son of David Syme of Cartmore, with issue,
David Syme of Cartmore, advocate, Sheriff-Substitute of
Kinross, who died in 1880, and James Syme, the late well-known
Professor of Clinical Surgery in the University of Edinburgh.
It will have been noticed that the Spottiswoodes and Symes
had previously intermarried."
1 I am specially indebted to James C. Pinkerton, Esq., solicitor, &c., Perth, for
the information about the Perth branch of the Spottiswoodes, chiefly made up from
inscriptions on tombstones, &c.
■ " History of Writers to the Signet."
' I am Indebted to J. A. Harvie-Brown, Esq., of Dunipace, and Andrew Forrester,
Esq., W.S., Edirl urgh, for notes on the Spottiswoodes of Dunipace.
122 Dunipace.
We have now traced the owners of the estate of Dunipace
for 700 years. We have seen that the founder of the Living-
stones of Dunipace lost his head ; a daughter of that house
later on also shared this fate ; Sir Robert Spottiswoode was
executed for his loyalty ; Sir Archibald Primrose, first of
Dunipace, was found guilty of high treason, and his life spared
only by the influence of the " great Argyle " ; but his less
fortunate great-grandson suffered at Carlisle for his part in
the '45, and later lairds have not escaped from Nemesis. The
story of the " Lands and Lairds of Dunipace," with their many
vicissitudes, is another confirmation of the old saying that " fact
is stranger than fiction."
APPENDIX TO DUNIPACE.
Note ^.—Herbert de Camera.
This Herbert de Camera was Great Chamberlain of Scotland in the reign
of David I., and ancestor of the family of Chalmer of Gadgirth. A younger
branch of this family is said to have settled on lands on the borders of
Stirlingshire and Perthshire, and to have given the name of Chalmerstone to
their lands. Edward Chalmer, portioner of Chalmerstone, is executor under
the will of Alexander Forrester in Shiphaugh, burgess of Stirling, &c.,
whose first wife was Janet Chalmer. Ale.xander Forrester died in 1619.
(Com. of Stirling.) Edward Chalmer of Chalmerstone was married to a
Jean Chalmer, who was served heir to her cousin, Mr. William Chalmer,
Clerk to the Treasury, 13th May, 1640. (Iiiquis. Gen.) In a charter under
the Great Seal, dated 26th February, 1644, Jean Chalmer, her husband,
Edward Chalmer, portioner of Chalmerstone, and their eldest son and
heir-apparent, Edward Chalmer, resign some property, with the consent of
James Chalmer of Gadgirth, James Chalmer, burgess of Edinburgh, and
William Chalmer, writer, there. This seems to point to a connection with
the Gadgirth family.
Dunipace. 123
Note 5.— Livingstone of Pettintoskane
OR Bantaskine.
The following rough notes are taken principally from Mr. R. RiJdell's
MS. "Baronetage," Vol. I., and are under "Livingstone of Dunipace."
Anyone interested in this family would do well to refer to the original, where
there is much interesting information.
I.— David Livingstone of Bantaskine, elder son of Alexander Livingstone,
first of Dunipace, by his first wife (unknown), had a charter of Bantaskine
28th September, 1510, from Robert Kincaid of Bantaskine. David Living-
stone was dead in 1525, leaving by his wife, Margaret Shaw, a son, Alexander.
II. — Alexander Livingstone of Bantaskine, is mentioned in 1525 (/?. M. S.)
as son of the deceased David Livingstone. It is remarkable that in a charter
of 1 541 (/?. M. S.) mention is made of Mr. Alexander Livingstone, natural
son of the late David Livingstone of Bantaskine, and of Alexander Living-
stone of Bantaskine in separate remainders. Alexander was alive in 1569,
when his eldest son, John, is called younger of Bantaskine. Alexander
married Leise, in Falkirk, and had issue: — (i) John, his heir, and
(2) Janet, married to Henry Livingstone of Greenyards (M. C, dated at
Bantaskine, 12th January, 1 560-1).
III. — John Livingstone of Bantaskine succeeded his father. He is
designed son and heir-apparent, 1 557-1 561 (Register of Decreets and Bonds),
and married Marion Oswald, daughter of Oswald, portioner of Falkirk,
I2th July, 1569 (Mylne's MS.), by whom he had issue :—(i) Ale.xander,
his heir ; (2) John, (3) James, (4) Elspeth, married to David Livingstone, son
of James Livingstone of Banton, descended from James Livingstone, second
son of Sir John Livingstone of Calder (from them is said to have descended
the modern family of Bantaskine) ; (5) Margaret, (6) Marion, married
to Walter Leckie of Leckie (M. C, dated at Dunipace, rsth October, 1597,
i?. Af. S.)
IV.— Alexander Livingstone of Bantaskine is said to have married
Helenora, daughter of Sir William Livingstone of Coulter, as she is called
Lady Bantaskine, in 1663, when granting a discharge to Lord Elphinstone
along with Norman Livingstone of Milnehill, " now my spouse." They
appear to have had a son, David, mentioned in a testament in 1652 as '" fiar
of Bantaskine."
124 Dunipace.
v.— David Livingstone of Bantaskine succeeded his father in 1653-4,
married, and had a son, David. {Inq. Spec, 22nd June, 1656.)
VI.— David Livingstone of Bantaskine succeeded his father in 1656.
(Inq. Spec.) This laird seems to have died without issue, as he was
succeeded by Michael Livingstone, son of one of the brothers of Alexander
Livingstone, fourth of Bantaskine.
V. — Michael Livingstone of Bantaskine was served heir-general of
Alexander Livingstone of Bantaskine "patrui" 7th May, 1664. (Inq. Gen.)
Michael married, and had a daughter, Isabella, to whom Sir James Living-
stone of Glentirran, Bart., was served heir of provision in general, 15th
February, 1757, she being designed "filiae patrui." (Inq. Gen.) Mr.
Riddell suggests that this is probably a mistake for "avunculi."
Note C— Sinclair of Longformacus
AND Stevenson.
The family of Sinclair of Longformacus in the Merse was the earliest
cadet of Sinclair of Rosslyn, and as late as 1610 appears in the entail of
Rosslyn (/?. M. S.)
Robert Sinclair of Longformacus was the eldest son of Matthew Sinclair of
Longformacus, by his wife, Elizabeth, daughter of John Swinton of that ilk.
Matthew Sinclair and Elizabeth Swinton had at least five other sons :—
(2) James, of West Borthwick (R.M. S., 22nd December, 1608; (3) Matthew,
murdered by John Spottiswoode of that ilk (/?. M. S., 15th December, 1613);
(4) George, mentioned (Douglas says) in writs of Longformacus as brother
to Robert of Longformacus, in 1604, married Rachel Hepburn, and had a
son, John, baptised 13th August, 1620, one of the witnesses being John
Sinclair, laird of Stevenson (Haddington Parish Register, Riddell's MS.
" Baronetage") ; (5) John (Sir), of Stevenson (7?. M. S., 29th August, 1606) ;
(6) Thomas, of Over Bulbuster (/?. M. S., 19th June, 1606, No. 288); and
at least one daughter [Elizabeth], married to [John] Boig of Burnhouse
(Register of Deeds). John, the founder of the Sinclairs of Stevenson,
recently extinct in the male line, was a merchant burgess of Edinburgh,
a magistrate of the city, and at one time Dean of Guild. He acquired
Stevenson in East Lothian before August, 1620, and had a charter under the
Dunipace. 12S
Great Seal, ist June, 1624. He was in great favour with Charles I., who
created him a baronet in 1636. Several genealogical authors have thrown
doubt on the descent of the Sinclairs of Stevenson from the ancient stock of
Longformacus. Father Hay, in his books on the genealogies of Hay
of Tweeddale and Sinclair of Rosslyn, is responsible for first starting the
doubt. In his book on the Sinclairs of Rosslyn, he enumerates a number of
landowners of the name of Sinclair as " other families whom I have heard
of," and among those are Sinclair of Longformacus . . . and Sinclair of
Stevenson, " said to have come of a brewer in Leith."
In the " Genealogie of the Hayes of Tweeddale " (p. 42), when treating
of Mr. William Hay of Aberlady, his uncle. Father Hay waxes very bold,
and states that Mr. William Hay married " Helen, the eldest daughter of
Sir John Sinclair of ' Steinstone,' and Mareon MacNath [MacMath], grand-
child to the laird of MacNath." Then follows the statement that " Sir
John's grandfather was a famous brewer in Leith, where the Sinclair's
Society is yet extant," and that " upon him there is a song made, entitled
" The Cloutting of the Caldron." If this song is to be relied on at all, it was
written upon a certain " Sawney Sinclair," who is said to have been one of
the lairds of Rosslyn. There is no printed copy of this song in existence.'
How Father Hay got upon this scent is one of those genealogical puzzles
which will probably never be solved. In Mr. R. R. Stodart's "Scottish
Arms," he alludes to Father Hay's book on the Hays, and from notes left by
him in the Lyon Office he shows that he inclined to Father Hay's view.
Fortunately, however, he states in his notes several reasons to show how he
thought it improbable that the Sinclairs of Stevenson descended from
Longformacus, and these are based on mistakes. Mr. Stodart seems to have
thought that because Father Hay was born "about the time that the first
baronet died," and from his connexion, &c., that he was likely to be well
informed. Sir John Sinclair (I.), first baronet of Stevenson, died in 1650 ;
his will was registered on the 20th March of that year. His eldest son,
John (II.), had predeceased him, leaving by his wife, Isabel, daughter of
Robert, Lord Boyd, a son, also John (III.), who succeeded his grandfather
as second baronet, but died unmarried in August, 165 1, and was succeeded
by his brother, Robert, as third baronet. In the time of the third baronet.
Father Hay was born, as he tells himself, " betwixt eleven and twelve in the
> I am indebted to William Macmath, Esq., tor information about this song.
126 Dunipacc.
morning," i6th August, 1661. Mr. Stodart shows that in a birthbrief of Sir
Robert Sinclair, third baronet of Stevenson, the first baronet's mother is
stated to have been a daughter of Sinclair of Longformacus, and suggests
that this may have been the reason of the pretension of the Sinclairs of
Stevenson to be cadets of Longformacus. But this birthbrief is certainly
wrong. In many other birthbriefs and escutcheons, the mother of the first
baronet of Stevenson is given as Elizabeth Swinton, daughter of John
Swinton of that ilk, which is correct. Douglas, in his " Baronage," has
helped to confuse the issue by making Sir John, first of Stevenson, a son of
George Sinclair (who really was his brother), and grandson of Matthew
Sinclair of Longformacus and Elizabeth Swinton. Mr. Robert Riddell,
referring to this in his MS. " Baronetage," is rather severe on Douglas.
Douglas further adds to the confusion by stating that Sir John Sinclair of
Stevenson, on the death of his cousin, James Sinclair of Longformacus, had
a gift from Charles the First of the ward and non-entry of his heirs, dated
17th September, 1632. The original document is in the Register House,
Edinburgh, and no relationship is stated in it. James of Longformacus
was Sir John's nephew. In a birthbrief of Sir John Foulis, Bart., of Ravel-
ston, whose mother was Joan Sinclair, daughter of Sir John Sinclair, first
baronet of Stevenson, the father and mother of Sir John Sinclair are given
quite correctly as Matthew Sinclair of Longformacus and Elizabeth Swinton.
Sir John Foulis took an interest in his ancestrj-, as anyone can see by
studying the genealogical notes at the beginning of his "Account Book." In
the "Complete Baronetage," edited by G. E. C, 1902, Father Hay's myth
is again repeated in accounting for the origin of the Sinclairs of Stevenson,
and G. E. C. makes the Lyon Office responsible for the information which
is taken from Mr. Stodart's notes.
On 29th August, 1606, there is confirmation of a charter under the Great
Seal (No. 1797), granted by Alexander Boig of Burnhouse to John Sinclair,
merchant, brother-german to Robert Sinclair of Longformacus, his heirs and
assignees whomsoever, of the lands of Utherstoun and Harcarse in the county
of Berwick. (See also 4th July, 1616, No. 1461, wherein John Sinclair is
designed merchant-burgess of Edinburgh.) In a charter under the Great
Seal, dated nth December, 1630 (No. 1677), John Sinclair, now of Steven-
son, and bailie of Edinburgh, is referred to in connexion with the same
lands, and still later on ist March, 1644, there is another charter (No. 1536),
in which Robert Sinclair of Longformacus (grandnephew of Sir John
Dunipacc. I27
Sinclair of Stevenson), Sir John Sinclair of Stevenson, his son, the late Mr.
John Sinclair, fiar of Stevenson, John Sinclair, son and heir of the late John,
fiar of Stevenson, &c., are all mentioned in connexion with the same lands.
An examination of these charters can leave no doubt that the John Sinclair,
merchant, designed brother-german to Robert Sinclair of Longformacus in
1606, is the same man later designed Sir John Sinclair, baronet, of Steven-
son. Other proofs might be brought forward to show the relationship of Sir
John Sinclair with the family of Longformacus.
In his will he names Robert Sinclair of Longformacus tutor to his
grandson and heir and also to his other grandchildren, but, in case he is not
able to take this office, he names Sir John Sinclair of Herdmanston and his
other sons-in-law. Sir John left four hundred merks to the laird of Long-
formacus, "to be putt furth in @ rent to keep ane scool in the Kirk of
Langermacus."
Sir John Sinclair of Stevenson's daughter, Joan, or Jean, was married
to George Foulis of Ravelston, whose eldest son. Sir John Foulis, Bart.,
of Ravelston, married Margaret Primrose, the eldest daughter of Sir
Archibald Primrose, Bart., who purchased Dunipace in 1677, and from
this marriage the family of Foulis-Primrose of Dunipace descended.
Note Z>.— Richard Lawson.
In all the printed pedigrees of the Primrose family, James Primrose,
Clerk of the Privy Council, is stated to have married for his second wife,
Catherine Lawson, daughter of Richard Lawson of Boghall. This is a
mistake. There was no Richard Lawson, laird of Boghall, at this time.
Catherine Lawson was the daughter of Richard Lawson, burgess of Edin-
burgh, a notable citizen there. He appears to have been a bookseller and
publisher, and is frequently alluded to in the Privy Council Records. In
Vol. XL, p. 514°, it is stated that he was summoned before the High
Commission for opening his booth on Christmas Day, and other misde-
meanours. On p. 5931, it is stated that his house was searched by the Guard
for copies of the " Perth Assembly." He was called to account for printing
and selling the Assembly's Catechism. On p. 626, there is a letter from
James VI. asking by what license Richard Lawson and others had printed
Dunipace.
the Catechism? Lawson was banished to Aberdeen for a time. His will
is in the Edinburgh Commissariot and is dated 3rd January, 1623. In it he
mentions his wife, Agnes Mayne, and his "luiffing son, James Primrose."
He also mentions a David Lawson, Notary. This will is printed in the
Bannatyne Miscellany, Vol. III. Richard Lawson probably belonged to the
Boghall family, but I have not been able to connect him. The fact that
James Primrose and his father-in-law took different views of James VI.'s
ecclesiastical policy does not seem to have affected their family relationship
judging from the terms by which James Primrose is alluded to in the will.
Note £.— Foulis-Primrose Pedigree.
The following pedigree of the Primrose and Foulis families only shows
those branches or members more or less connected with Dunipace. For
details of the Primrose family see Nisbet's "Heraldic Plates," and for
the Foulis family, — Introduction to Sir JohnFoulis's Account Book (Scottish
Hist. Society). On page xvi of the Introduction to Sir John Foulis's
Account Book, the editor states, " George Foulis [first of Ravelston] married
first in 1596, Sibilla Gilbert, concerning whose family I know nothing."
Sibilla Gilbert was almost certainly the daughter of Mr. Thomas Gilbert,
advocate, by his wife. Christian Henderson. Mr. Thomas Gilbert was the
eldest son of Michael Gilbert, a wealthy goldsmith of Edinburgh, who sat
in the Scots Parliament, by his wife, Sibilla Wight, (Edin. Com. Rec,
R. M. S., &c.)
From the Edinburgh Commissariot and the Swinton Papers, kindly
shown to me by the Rev. John Anderson, curator of the Record Office,
I am enabled to fill in some names in the ancestry of Sir John Foulis
left blank in the Account Book. James Foulis of Colinton (father of George
Foulis, first of Ravelston) married Anna Heriot, daughter of Mr. Robert
Heriot of Lumphoy, "son of the late John Heriot" (Protocol Book of James
Harlaw in Record Office, under date 25th June, 1550), by his wife, Helen
Swinton, daughter of John Swinton of Swinton ; and Henry Foulis of Colinton,
father of the above James, married Margaret Haldane, daughter of
James Haldane of Gleneagles, by his wife, Margaret Erskine. Margaret
Haldane's will is dated 17th December, 1578. In it she names her brother,
GENE^LIES
(i) Elizabeth Keith (2) Agnes Gray daughter of Sir
Hon. Sir James Keith Wm. Gray of Pittendrum.
grand-daughta
George, fifth Earl f
ROSEBERY.
1. Margaret, 2. Catherine,
b. 1641
II
Sir Jo. FouUs,
Bt. of
Ravelston
. II
Sir Dav.
Carnegie of
Pitarrow
Margaret
Henry Fletcher
of Saltoun,
brother of
Andrew F. of S.,
the Patriot
ZEL,
Bempill,
-Gen.
id.
gham
11. Archibald John,
b. 1 8th December, 1661,
first Earl of Rosebery
II
Dorothea,
only child and heiress of
Evringham Cressy
of Birkin, Co. York
128 Dunipace.
the Catechism? Lawson was banished to Aberdeen for a time. His will
is in the Edinburgh Commissariot and is dated 3rd January', 1623. In it he
mentions his wife, Agnes Mayne, and his " luiffing son, James Primrose."
He also mentions a David Lawson, Notary. This will is printed in the
Bannatyne Miscellany, Vol. III. Richard Lawson probably belonged to the
Boghall family, but I have not been able to connect him. The fact that
James Primrose and his father-in-law took different views of James VI.'s
ecclesiastical policy does not seem to have affected their family relationship
judging from the terms by which James Primrose is alluded to in the will.
Note £.— Foulis-Primrose Pedigree,
The following pedigree of the Primrose and Foulis families only shows
those branches or members more or less connected with Dunipace. For
details of the Primrose family see Nisbet's "Heraldic Plates," and for
the Foulis family, — Introduction to Sir John Foulis's Account Book (Scottish
Hist. Society). On page xvi of the Introduction to Sir John Foulis's
Account Book, the editor states, " George Foulis [first of Ravelston] married
first in 1596, Sibilla Gilbert, concerning whose family I know nothing."
Sibilla Gilbert was almost certainly the daughter of Mr. Thomas Gilbert,
advocate, by his wife. Christian Henderson. Mr. Thomas Gilbert was the
eldest son of Michael Gilbert, a wealthy goldsmith of Edinburgh, who sat
in the Scots Parliament, by his wife, Sibilla Wight, (Edin. Com. Rec,
R. M. S., &c.)
From the Edinburgh Commissariot and the Swinton Papers, kindly
shown to me by the Rev. John Anderson, curator of the Record Office,
I am enabled to fill in some names in the ancestry of Sir John Foulis
left blank in the Account Book. James Foulis of Colinton (father of George
Foulis, first of Ravelston) married Anna Heriot, daughter of Mr. Robert
Heriot of Lumphoy, "son of the late John Heriot" (Protocol Book of James
Harlaw in Record Office, under date 25th June, 1550), by his wife, Helen
Swinton, daughter of John Swinton of Swinton ; and Henry Foulis of Colinton,
father of the above James, married Margaret Haldane, daughter of
James Haldane of Gleneagles, by his wife, Margaret Erskine. Margaret
Haldane's will is dated 17th December, 1578. In it she names her brother,
GENEALOGICAL CHART OF PRIMROSE AND FOULIS FAMILIES.
(i) Elizabeth Keith, daughter (
Hon. Sir James Keith of Benholc
granddaughter of
George, fifth Earl Marischal
Sir ARCHIBALD PRIMROSE, Bt. of Dalmeny
(purchased Dunipace 1677)
(2) Agnes Gray, daughter of Sir
Wni. Gray of Pittendrura.
ROSEBERY.
1
1
1
1
Mil
1 Margaret,
2. Catherine,
4. Sir James,
5. Sir William
b. 1641
11
Kt.of
II
SirDav.
Barnbougle
Margaret,
Sir Jo. FouHs,
Carnegie of
II
dau. of
6.
Alexander
Elizabeth, dau.
Patrick Scott
Ravelston
of Sir Robt.
of
7.
Archibald
9. Mary,
d. young
10. Grizzel,
III
(i) Lord Sempill,
d.s.p.,
{2) Brig.-Gen.
Richd.
Cunningham
Margaret
Henry Fletcher
of Saltoun,
brother of
Andrew F. of S.,
the Patriot
11. Archibald John,
b. 1 8th December, 1661,
first Earl of Rosebery
II
Dorothea,
only child and heiress of
Evringham Cressy
of Birkin, Co. York
VISCOUNT PRIMROSE.
FOULIS AND FOULIS-PRIMROSE.
1. Jean
(i)JohnHuy
of
Linplum
(2) Sir James
Justice
2. Archibald 3. Elizabeth 4. George
(Primrose) || (Primrose)
of Alex. Gibson of
Dunipace
II
DunipacL:
d.s.p.
1684
Durie
\/
/. Margaret
married at
Dunipace,
4th July, 1695,
to
John Glas of
Sauchie,
son of Alex.
Glas of S.,
by his wife,
Marion,
dau. of Col.
John Murray James Rae of
of Touchadam Coltinhove,
and and
Janet Nisbet grand-dau. of
Sir John Sin-
clair, Bart.
ofStevenson
William 12. Grizzell
Ja
Cunninghame,
dau. of Sir
John C. of
Caprington,
by Margaret,
dau. of
of
Woodhall
II
Janet
Cunningham,
John C. of
Enterkine,
by Marie,
John Murray
of
Touchadam
(i) Alexander
Melville
of Murdo-
cairnie
(2) Dr. David
Balfour,
Sir Michael 11. Alex.
""imu
5. James
6. John
8. Cath.
FOULIS-PRIMROSE.
Primrose
Lilly
Eleanor
Campbell,
dau. of James,
second Earl of
Loudoun,
afterwards
wife of John,
second Earl
of Stair
('e"Mj;
James,
second Earl
Mary, d. of
Hon, John
Campbell of
Mamore,
and sister to
10. Lady
Mary
11. Lady
Margaret
Alexr.,
ninth Earl of
Caithness
Sir Arch.
Foulis-
Primrose,
Bart, of
Dunipace,
John,
fourth Duke
of Argyll
1
with issue
See under
Primro.c
Lady
Dorothea
John, Lord
Dalmeny,
d. nth Aug.,
I7S5
1 James,
Neil, Lord second Earl
Primrose Fife
sue. as
third Earl,
8th May, 1756
Sir Archd. = (i) Lady Margt.
of Fleming,
Dunipace, d. of John,
suffered at sixth Earl of
Carlisle, Wigton,
1746 d.s.p.
= (2) Lady Mary
Primrose,
dau. of
first Earl of
Rosebery
Several John of
daughters Sauchie, sold
Sauchie
in 1748
Mentioned
in Sir A.
Primrose's
letter to his
Marion Janet
. II
Robert Hope,
Archibald,
Hugh, third
second
Viscount
Viscount,
11
d.s.p.
Anne, dau. of
Pet T Drelincourt,
Dean of Armagh.
She died in 1775
(the Jacobite
Lady Primrose)
Dorothea,
1 27th July,
II
11
John
Buchanan,
London
M.D.
Fleming, Five other
d. 5th Aug., dWghters
Dunipace.
Robert Haldane of Balwill (part of the Barony of Gleneagles), and her
nephew, Mr. James Haldane. There is the following curious item in
the inventory :—"Awand to Helen Brown, wodwyf [pawnwife] ye [sum] of
ane hundre' sei.x punds for ye qlk she has rested umqi« ladyis ornaments of
her body and silver work stone in ye Inventory above written in pledge
yairfor."
Mr. Henry Foulis of Colinton had a brother, Mr. Adam, omitted
in the pedigrees of the family. This Mr. Adam Foulis's will is in the
Edinburgh Commissariot, and is dated 17th February, 1574. He was "p^sone
of Lamelethame." Among other items in the will there are the following : —
" I leave all my buks c&c. wit ane signet of gold wt my mother's armes on it
[His mother was a Brown of Hartree] ... to Mr James Foulis my
brodyr conform to ane donation of ye said geir maid be me to ye said
Mr James of befoir of ye date at Colinetoun, ye first day of May the zeir
of God [1572]." Item—" I leve my saule to be ressauit into ye eternall glory
of hevin throuch ye merites of ye passioun of Jesus Christ or lord and my
bodie civilie to be erdit in ye Kirkzaird of Ed"^ besyde John Knox sepulture
gif it may be possible."
He leaves his younger brother, Mr. James Foulis, his only executor, &c.,
and instructs him " to caus my bodie be honestlie convoyit ye day of
my sepulture as he will answer in ye pressence of ye eternall qlk sail judge
ye world."
Witness to his signature, Gilber Balfour of Westraw, &c.
TORWOOD.
{Parish of Diinipace.)
THE estate of Tonvood, i.e., the wood on the hill, is one of
the most interesting, both as regards the lands and the
families which have possessed them. The feature of
greatest interest to antiquaries on these lands is the Broch, or
Tapoch, the highest point of the Torwood. The Roman Road,
or Camelon Causeway, passes through the Torwood about
lOO yards from the foot of the rock on which the mound
stands. The late Mr. Gray Dalrymple of Woodhead, F.S.A.
Scot, in a paper written for the Glasgow Archaeological Society
in 1886, gives the following description of the Broch: —
"This edifice was first excavated in August, 1864, by Colonel Joseph
Dundas' of Carron Hall and Torwood, who read an account of his discovery to
the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland on i8th March, 1865. Its appearance
previous to its excavation was that of a conical hill or mound, flat on the top.
On the west side of the mound there is a precipitous crag of about 100 feet
in depth running north and south for about Soo yards ; on the north, east,
and south sides the slope is gradual. At about 70 feet from the centre of the
mound there are the remains of a wall carried round the mound until it
reaches the precipice on each side. Beyond this there are the remains of a
second wall. Both of these walls, on the earth being removed, were found
I See under Carron Hall,
Torwood. 131
to be built of large stones roughly put together without cement. On the
other side there were traces of a third wall extending along the face of the
cliff and filling up those places where the rock is not so abrupt as at the
other parts. These outworks are not an isolated characteristic of the
Torwood Broch, as four of the Caithness and Orkney Brochs are similarly
protected. At the time of Colonel Dundas's excavations the mound was
covered with heather and brackens, and overgrown by a clump of large fir
trees. Operations were first commenced on the south side, and resulted in
the discovery of the staircase, the doorway of which was completely blocked
up with rubble. Work was then begun on the top of the mound, when, after
the removal of an immense mass of large stones, rubble, and earth, which
was thrown over on the east side to the amount of upwards of 200 tons, the
structure was found to be a circular wall 15 feet thick, enclosing an area 35
feet in diameter. At the height of 6 feet from the floor the upper part of the
wall is put back 18 inches, thus forming a sort of shelf The entrance door-
way has two of the massive lintels still upon it. It is about 7 feet high and
3 feet wide at the door-cheeks, behind which are the usual bar-holes. The
whole length of the passage is 18 feet 6 inches. To the left of the doorway
is the staircase, as usual, in the thickness of the wall. There are 11 steps,
and the length of the passage leading into them is about 12 feet. The
height of wall remaining is not sufficient to show any trace of the galleries,
but the presence of the stair implies their former e.xistence. There are no
chambers in the thickness of the wall on the ground floor, but all the other
features of the building are those of the typical Broch."'
There appears to have been a castle on Torwood in the days
when the De Umfravilles possessed Dunipace.^ The ruins of
Torwood mansion, which are still to be seen, and of which an
illustration is given, appear from their architecture to belong to
the middle of the sixteenth century. A description of Torwood-
head mansion will be found in " The Castellated and Domestic
Architecture of Scotland," by Messrs. M'Gibbon and Ross.
1 For full particulars see " Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scot-
land," Vol. VI., pp. 259-265, years 1864-66.
2- "Wallace Book," C. Rogers.
132 Torwood.
The coat of arms of the Forresters is engraved on a stone in
an old wall near the ruins of the mansion. Under the arms is
the date 1565, which is probably the year of the erection of the
mansion.
These lands originally belonged to the Crown, and we find
King Robert II. resigning them in favour of Sir William More,
Knight of Abercorn, in a charter granted 1371-1390.' Robert III.
(1390- 1406) confirms a charter of David More of Abercorn
to David Fleming of Biggar of the forest of Torwood." Soon
after this date, Torwood must have become the property of
the Forresters, as in a charter under the Great Seal, dated
I2th February, 1463, Alexander Forrester of Torwood is
designed son of the late Robert Forrester of Torwood. There
are two charters in the Great Seal, dated 5th July, 1450, in
which Robert Forrester is designed nepoti et heredi, Malcolm
Forrester" of Pettintostate and Elizabeth Nobill, his wife. These
charters are the earliest public records of the Forresters owning
land in Stirlingshire. These Forresters must have been near
relatives of the family of Torwood, though I have not been able
to ascertain the exact connexion. The lands mentioned in
these charters came into possession of the Torwood branch
about 148 1.' The Forrester family had been settled in and
around Stirling for a century at least before this date. A
Robert Forrester was a bailie of Stirling in 1360,° and was alive
> Robertson's Index.
=" Ibid.
3 The MS. pedigree of the Forresters (see description In Appendix) gives a
Malcolm Forrester, in the days of King James, who married the heiress of " Torwood-
heid." His son Malcolm is said to have married Margaret Heron, heiress of
sklne.
E. M. S.
Stirling Burgh Records.
Tor wood. 133
in 1366-7. John Forrester was custumar of Stirling, 1372-3.'
He was dead in 1375, when his widow had a payment made to
her by command of the King (Robert II.) William Forrester
was bailie of Stirling, 1411-13. From this date on to the middle
of the seventeenth century, no other name is so closely identified
with the municipality of Stirling. A list of the various members
of the Forrester family connected with the municipality will be
found in the Appendix.
FORRESTER OF TORWOOD.
In the manuscript pedigree of the Forresters made by R. M.''
(Robert Milne) in 1708, he traces the name in Scotland back
to 1228, when he alludes to an Archibald Forrester, said to
be mentioned in the Cartulary of Ross.
Robert Forrester, who was bailie of Stirling in 1360, and
Adam, burgess of Edinburgh, who was the founder of the family
of Cor storphine, are the earliest records of the name I have been
able to trace. The families of Corstorphine and Torwood
are frequently found mentioned in the same charters, and most
probably had a common origin, but it has not yet been discovered.
A Walter Forrester was Bishop of Brechin from 1401 till about
1421, and was Lord Clerk Register.'
I. — Robert Forrester of Torwood, as previously stated, died
before 1463,' leaving a son, Alexander.
II. — Alexander Forrester of Torwood married Agnes Living-
stone,° but they do not seem to have had any children, or if they
1 Exchequer Rolls.
" See Appendix.
' R. A/. S. ; Reg. AUrdontmc, I., 182.
* R. M. S.
» Beferences will be found in the genealogical chart in the Appendix wher«
it was possible to give any.
134 Tor wood.
had, they did not survive their father. Alexander had a brother,
Malcolm, a burgess of Stirling, who succeeded him, and married
Margaret Harrower.' He early began to have trouble with his
hereditary enemies, the Livingstones, as we find him bringing
an action against William of Livingstone for the spoiliation of a
haystack,^ &c. About this time we read of timber being got
from Torwood for artillery.' On 27th April, 1483, Margaret
Graham, relict of Robert Forrester of Pettintoskane, resigned her
terce of Pettintoskane to Malcolm Forrester of Torwood, when
he became bound to supply her in food, drink, and clothing.*
Malcolm had two sons, David and Henry, and a daughter,
Janet. David was designed son and heir-apparent in 1476,' &c.
He married Marion Somerville," and was apparently dead in
1488, when his brother Henry is designed son and heir-apparent.'
The lands were resigned by Henry and his father in favour of —
HI. — Duncan Forrester of Gunnershaw, who had a charter of
the lands of Torwood, and the ofifice of forester, 26th November,
1488, which ofifice became hereditary in this family. This
Duncan, sometimes designed of Skipynch, was supposed to be
the son of Matthew Forrester,* burgess and provost of Stirling,"
brother to Malcolm of Torwood. As Sir Duncan's eldest son
and heir was named Walter, it is just possible that Sir Duncan
» Stirling Protocols, 4th March, 1472.
- Acta Aiulitorum, 5th July, 1483,
= Exchequer Rolls.
"-Stirling Protocols.
» B.M.S.
" Stirling Protocols, 14th June, 1476.
' R.M.S.
8 Matthew Forrester was most probably a natural son of Robert Forrester of
Torwood. King James III., ex gratia speciali siia, granted him, under the Great Seal
of Scotland, the full powers of a legitimately born subject, 15th November, 1477.
» Stirling Protocols, 23rd February, 1479, and Buxgh Records, 1470-1.
/ Tor wood. 135
was the son of Walter Forrester of Stirling, circa 1457, who is
mentioned in the Exchequer Rolls as lending money to Flanders,
probably to the King (James II.), who was there at that time.
The same record states that Matthew Forrester also lent money
to the King in Flanders that year. Matthew is said to have
married Yair, "daughter to the Gudeman of Carsie.'" There
was always some excitement going on in the Forrester family.
About the year 148 1, Janet Forrester, a daughter of Matthew
Forrester, was either abducted by or induced to elope with John
Shaw, son of Sir James Shaw of Sauchie, which occasioned
an outcry and demand for justice by Janet's father and relatives.
A notary's statement, dated 28th November, 1481, tells that
" James Shaw of Sauchie came to the ludging of Matthew
Forrester, with Jonet Forrester, his daughter, who, being
interrogated anent her being carried off by John Shaw, son of
the said James, averred that it had been done with her consent,
and that she was now his wife." Fortunately, matters ended
happily.
Sir Duncan, who became laird of Torwood about 1488, was
closely identified with Stirling. He was custumar from 1480
to 1487.' In the year 1480 he was keeper of Stirling Castle,
when payments were made to him for oatmeal for the watchmen
and porter ; he was Comptroller and Auditor, and renders
accounts of the bailies, 1472-7 ; is made provost, 1477-8,
1479-80, 1487-8, and 1489-90. He is designed by Buchanan of
Auchmar, in his Genealogy of the Buchanans, as "a very toping
gentleman." James IV. stood godfather at the christening of
1 MS. Fed. (1708), in possession of Dr. Maitland Thomson. Sir John Yare was
present with Matthew and Duncan Forrester at the redemption of the lands of Easter
Leckie, 16th July, 1472.— Stirling Burgh Records (Printed).
- Exchequer Rolls.
136 Tor wood.
Sir Duncan's grandchild, when he "hufe' Duncan Forrester's
sonnis barne," 17th September, 1489.'' On 31st December,
1483, he bound himself to repair his aisle of St. Mary,' that
beautiful little chapel in the West Parish Church of Stirling.
Sir Duncan was Comptroller to Queen Margaret, wife of
James IV., daughter of Henry VII. of England. In 1504 we
learn from the Lord High Treasurer's Accounts that "the
Queen hunted in the forest of Torwood, and amused herself as
best she could." The same record states that Sir Duncan
played at cards with the King, and his son, Alexander, played
at the "Caich" with the King (1508). The name of Sir
Duncan's chaplain was Sir Alexander Crag. Sir Duncan had
many charters, among others that of Arngibbon, 6th July,
1503. It was about this time that Farquhar Macintosh' was
captured at Torwood. He was son of Duncan, chief of the clan,
and nephew to John, Earl of Ross. He was treacherously
seized by the laird of Buchanan and imprisoned in Edinburgh
Castle in connexion with troubles in the Isles. Sir Duncan
married first, Margaret, daughter of Forsyth of Harthill in
Clydesdale,' by whom he is said to have had five sons and one
daughter, Margaret, who was married to Sir Alexander Forrester
of Corstorphine, whose descendant, George, first Lord Forrester,
in 1636 had a charter of Torwood," &c. Sir Duncan married
secondly. Dame Margaret Bothwell, mentioned in a charter,
1503," by whom he had four sons and three daughters. His
1 " Hufe," i.e., presented the child at the font.
2 Lord High Treasurer's Account,
' Stirling Protocols.
* Exchequer Rolls.
» MS. Fed.
« Stodart's " Scottish Arm»."
' R. M. S.
Torwood. 137
second son — by this marriage— Robert, was burnt on the Castle
Hill, Edinburgh, "be ye papists last February (1538-9) for ye
reformation."' Another son, William, burgess of Stirling, was
ancestor of Mr. David Forrester, minister of Leith." Sir Duncan
made provision that prayers should be said for the souls of his
wives, Margaret Forsyth and Margaret Bothwell.' He had a
natural son, John, who was ancestor of the Forresters of Logic,
who held these lands for many generations.* Sir Duncan was
succeeded by his eldest son —
IV.— Sir Walter, who was in the Council of Stirling, 1521-2."
He married first, Agnes Graham, sister to William, Earl of
Montrose," by whom he had three sons and four daughters ;
and secondly, a daughter of Napier of Merchiston, by whom
he had two sons.' Sir Walter had a charter in 1497 of
Skipynch, Garden, and Torwood, and the custody of the woods
which Sir Duncan, his father, resigned, and in 1508 he had
another charter, one of the witnesses being Thomas Forrester^
of Cranock. In the same year. Sir Walter received a payment"
for keeping the wood and mowing the hay of Torwood. On
15th May of this year (1508) James IV. made his lands into
the barony of Garden-Forrester. His daughter, Marian or
Mariote, who was living in 1506-10, was compelled by James IV.
to marry Sir Henry Shaw of Camsmore, "the King's Great
Courtier," son of the laird of Sauchie. Sir Walter was Great
■ MS. Pedigree.
' Diet, of Nat. Biog.
' Stirling Burgh Charters.
* See Genealogical Chart.
s Stirling Burgh Records.
« Acts Parlt. Scot., Vol, II., p. 578.
' See Chart.
« Thomas Forrester's wife was Elizabeth Stewait (Elphinstone Writs).
0 Exchequer Rolls.
138 Tor wood.
Provisor to the Queen, and makes a payment to the Comptroller
in 1508.* Sir Walter was succeeded by his eldest son, James.
V. — Sir James Forrester of Torvvood and Garden was provost
of Stirling, 1528-30. On 2Sth May, 1528, Sir James had a sasine
of sundry lands, including Little Coigs, in Perthshire, and the
lands of Cambusbarron, Stirlingshire. He married, first, Eliza-
beth, daughter of Robert, Lord Erskine," and by her had two
sons and two daughters." His second son was James of
Myathill, who married Agnes Sandilands, but as he had no
legitimate children, the lands of Myathill passed to his nephew,
Thomas. Sir James married, secondly, Agnes Cockburn,*
daughter of John Cockburn of Ormiston, and widow of William
Murray of Touchadam, who was killed at Flodden in 1513. She
was the mother of John Murray of Touchadam, and is thus
designed in his marriage contract, ist September, 1532 — "with
consent of Dame Agnes Cockburn, his mother and curator,
and of Sir James Forrester of Garden, now her spouse." It
is highly probable that Duncan Forrester, designed "in Kepmad,"
was a son of Sir James Forrester by this marriage." Sir James
was succeeded by his eldest son —
VI. — Sir David Forrester of Torwood and Garden, who was
provost of Stirling, 1546-7. He had a charter of the barony of
Garden, ist February, 1542. He married Elizabeth Sandilands,
daughter of James Sandilands of St. Monans, and had, besides
other children —
VII. — Alexander, who succeeded him before i6th June, 1556,
when he must have been very young, as he was under curators,
» In the Exchequer Rolls he is called Sir Alexavder Forrester of Garden.
'■■ Crawfurd's " Peerage."
» MS. Pedigree.
* Hist. MSS. Com. Mar Papers.
" See Appendix.
Torwood. 139
and is designed " adolesceniulus."^ On 17th February, IS57,
there is an instrument of resignation of certain tenements in
Stirling in favour of Alexander Forrester of Garden, among the
witnesses being James Forrester of Myathill and Duncan
Forrester in Kepmad.- Alexander was provost of StirHng,
1562-3 and 1564-5, and had a " lodging " there which can still be
identified. In 1570 he was present at the Convention of Estates
in Edinburgh, also at the Convention upon the Regency after the
assassination of the Regent, Earl of Murray." He is one of
those who signed the " Band of the freindis of the Hous of Mar "
in 1578.* He married about 1568" Jean Erskine, daughter of
John Erskine of Dun. By her he had, besides other children,
James, who succeeded him, and John of Denovan, whose
descendant became heir-male of the family." Alexander's
testament is recorded in the Edinburgh Commissariot under
date 23rd July, 1599.
The Register of the Privy Council reveals that towards the
end of Alexander Forrester's life the Forrester clan became
extremely turbulent in the town and county of Stirling. A
very good instance of this is shown in the following complaint
by John Drummond of Slipperfield, tacksman of the lands and
forest of Torwood.
An order had been given for a perambulation of the lands
lying between " Torheid and Kingsyde Muir and the mansion
called Forrester's Mansion, pertening to Alexander Foster of
Garden in lyverent, and James Forrester, his sone, in fee, haldin
> R. M. S., 1557.
' See Appendix.
= Reg. Privy Council.
* Ibid.
^ Stirling Protocols.
"^ See Forresters of Denovan.
14° Torwood.
of His Hienes on the ane pairt and the saidis landis and forrest
of Torwode pertening to the said Johnne in tack on the uther
parte." The interested parties were warned to appear on the
ground of the "saidis landis debetable, the saxteen day of
October instant " (1593). There appears to have been a boundary
quarrel between Forrester, the superior, and Drummond, the
tenant, Drummond evidently considering that Forrester was
encroaching upon his land. There was an action depending
before the Lords of Council against Alexander Forrester of
Torwood and " divers utheris personis " to compel them to
remove "fra the saidis landis and forest." The Forresters,
resenting this action of Drummond, and acting on the principle
that might is right, determined to make it impossible for the
perambulation to take place, as the following extract shows : —
Lyke as the said Laird accompanyit with a grite nowmer of armeit
personis, bodin in feir of weir, of lait umbesett the said Johnne's hie way, and
persewit him for his bodihe harme and slauchter, as is notour to the haill
cuntrey ; swa that the said laird and his haill freindis duelland about the
saidis landis debetable being of grite force, for feir of invasioun and trouble,
the said Johnne may not compeir to defend the said mater.
The Lords of Council, seeing the force of Drummond's
statement, decided to send the lairds of Quhittinghame, Drum-
cairney, and Halyruidhouse to visit the said debatable ground,
and examine witnesses there. What happened is best told in
the words of the record : —
They desirit the said Laird of Garden, quha had convoccat the nowmer
of ane thousand men on horse and foote, bodin in feir of weir, to cans
thame depairt and dissolve, and to cum to the ground of the saidis
landis with ten and himself in sobir maner, conforme to the saidis Lordis
ordinance, to the effect lykwayes that the said Johnne micht have cum
to the ground of the saidis landis debetable and produceit his vvitnessis
to have bene examinat according to the saidis Lordis ordinance; and, in
Tor wood. 141
respect of the said Laird of Gardenis refusal!, the saidis Lordis visitouris
wer forceit to depairt and remane in the place of Elphingstoun the space
of twa dayis, quhill the said Lairdis forceis sould have bene dissolvit.
And, upoun the xxvi day of the said moneth, the saidis Lordis visitouris being
of mynd to compeir upoun the ground and thair to have causit the said
Johnne produce his witnessis, quhilk he wes reddy to do, and thay ryding out
of Elphingstoun to the ground, Maister Thomas Craig and Janes Stirling,
procuratours for the said Lord, come and declairit to ihame that, in cais the
said Johnne or ony of his repairit to the ground of the saidis landis to
produce the saidis witnessis, thair wald nocht faill to be slauchter seeing the
said Laird, his sone and freindis, with thair haill forceis, wer of new gadderit,
of evill mynd, altogidder inclynint to blude. Yit the saidis Lordis visitouris
raid neir to the ground of the saidis landis, accumpanyed with Alexander,
Lord Levingstoun, commissioner direct be his Majestic, to see that baith the
saidis pairteis keipit gude ordour, and that na molestatioun nor impediment
sould be moved to the saidis Lordis in executioun of thair officeis : quha and
the said commissionair, perceaving na thing bot men gadderit in armes in
grite nowmer, evill myndit and proude, quha lykwayes avowit, gifF the said
Johnne or ony of his reparit to the said ground, to bereve thame of thair
lyveis, requeistit the said Johnne, and Alexander, Master of Elphingstoun,
being in cumpany with him, to depairt and not to cum to the ground of the
saidis landis,— quhilk requeist wes willinglie obeyit. And swa thairby not
onlie wes the said Johnne forceit to depairt and unproduceand his witnessis
and shawand the ground to the saidis Lordis visitouris, bot alswa the
commissionaris foirsaidis wer forceit to depairt without ony executioun of
thair officeis : quhairthrow it is maist evident that it is altogidder impossible
to the said Johnne to compeir upoun the said ground debetable without grite
slauchter and inconvenientis, and thairfoir the saidis jugeis aucht to be dis-
chargeit off all preceding in the said mater of perambulatioun upoun the
ground of the saidis landis debetable, and thay ordainit to sitt in ane
unsuspect place for decisioun thairof
Drummond appearing for himself and for Seytoun, and the said Alex-
ander Foster, and James Foster, his son, appearing by James Striviling,
their procurator, but the said justice deputes not appearing, the King and
Council discharge the said judges of all preceding in the said matter for the
causes above written, and also because the fact of the foresaid convocation
was attested by some of the Lords of Session and others who had seen the same,
142 Torwood.
Two years later, in the same record, appears the following: —
" Proclamation against attending the Earl of Mar and John
Livingstone to their day of law concerning the slaughter of
David Forrester' [i595]:—
" Understanding that a great number of the lieges are warned by Johnne,
Earl of Mar, Alexander Forrestair of Garden, and other friends of the late David
Forrestair, burgess of Striviling, on the one part, and by Johnne Levingstoun,
younger of Dunnypace, [William] Bruce, younger of Airth, and certain of their
colleagues on the other part, to be present at a diet to be held in the tolbooth
of Edinburgh upon 20th December for underlying the laws for the slaughter
of the said late David, and that, there being a deadly feud between the
parties, it is to be feared that at their first meeting ' sum grite inconvenient
sail fall oute,' the King and Council order charge to be given to the said
lieges not to repair to the said diet, or to the burgh of Edinburgh, but to
remain at home, ' unattempting onything quhilkis may ather hinder justice
or move trouble or inconvenient,' and this ' undir the pane of deid.'
" The slaughter of David Forrester, bailie of Stirling, here
mentioned, had occurred in the preceding [June], in the following
circumstances : — Two gentlemen of Stirlingshire, named Bruce
and Forrester, having quarrelled, and Bruce having been hurt at
a meeting for arranging the quarrel, there had come to be a feud
between all the Bruces and their friends and all the Forresters
and their friends in those parts. The bailie, implicated only
by his name, had been waylaid on a journey from Edinburgh
back to Stirling, and slain near Linlithgow by a party of
Bruces and Livingstones. The Earl of Mar, to whom the
bailie was attached by special service (on which account, it
was supposed, he was made a victim), had taken up the
feud vigorously. There had been a funeral procession for
the deceased, with a canvas picture of his bloody corpse, through
> Register of the Privy Council, Vol. V., p. 242.
Torwood. 143
the lands of Livingstone and Bruce ; and now, in December,
when a regular day of law had been appointed for inquiry and
trial, the feud was still rankling.'"
In the Mar papers, published by the Historical MSS. Com-
mission, there is a warrant by James VI., dated at Linlithgow,
20th October, 1595, for arrest of William Livingstone, son of the
laird of Jerviswood ; Patrick Bruce, son of Thomas Bruce in
Larbertshiells ; Robert Livingstone, son of Laird Livingstone in
Galloway ; George Livingstone, son of John Livingstone in
Daldurs ; and Archibald Towers, servitor to Airth, for the
murder of David Forrester, baillie and burgess of Stirling, and
for which they are fugitives and excommunicated. — (Signed)
James Rex.
The same papers show that in the following year, under
date 15th April, 1596, there is a warrant signed by King
James VI., at Stirling Castle, to John Andro, Clerk of Privy
Council, " to register a bond of assurance granted by his
Majesty's desire, by John, Earl of Mar, and Alexander
Forrester of Garden, to Alexander, Lord Livingstone, and Sir
Alexander Bruce of Airth, and their kin and friends, with the
special declaration that the said laird of Garden is not to be
responsible for the lairds of Corstorphine and Strathendrie, James
and David Forresters, brothers of deceased David Forrester
of Logie, Duncan Forrester of Culmoir, and his sons, and Alex-
ander Forrester, son of Duncan Forrester in Kepmad, further
than the laws of the country and the general bond require."
David Forrester of Logie was the unfortunate bailie. His
brother, James, in 1598, was still at enmity with the Bruces, as
the Privy Council Records show. James Nicoll, merchant
1 References given in Privy Council Register are " Spotswood," p. 411, and
Chambers's " Domestic Annals of Scotland," I., p. 260,
144 Torwood.
burgess of Stirling, probably his relative, became cautioner for
him, not to harm Anthony Bruce. Two brothers, Forresters of
Myathill, slew Robert Bruce of VVoodside, probably in revenge
for their kinsman's death. They got a remission under the
Great Seal in 1607. David Forrester of Logie was the son of
John Forrester, first of Logie, merchant-burgess of Stirling, by
his wife, Elizabeth Nicoll, which John was a natural son of Sir
Duncan Forrester of Torwood. The will of the murdered
David is in the Edinburgh Commissariot, under date ist
December, 1595.
The Register of the Privy CounciP gives yet another
instance: — "To denounce certain Forresters for not appearing
to a charge of assault on an officer of arms in discharge
of his duty.
"28th January, 1595-6.— King's letters set forth that, upon 30th December
last, while Johnne Roishill, officer of arms, was reading publicly at the
Market Cross of the Burgh of Striviling letters of horning raised by
against Alexander Forrestair of Garden, and certain other parishioners of
the Ruidkirk of Striviling, Johnne Foster and Alexander Foster, sons of the
laird of Garden, Alexander Forrestair of Myethill, and Walter Forrestair, son
and apparent heir of Duncane Forrestair of Puldoir, with their accomplices,
armed with dags, pistolets, and other weapons, come to the said officiar in
the very meantyme of the reiding of the saidis letters at the said mercat
croce, pullit him doun of the same croce, dang him with pistollettis on the
held, and, with the gairdis of thair swerdis, cruellie hurte and woundit him in
divers pairtis of his body, to the effusioun of his blude in grite quantitie, and
thaireftir violentlie and perforce reft the same letters and thair raif thame all
in peceis.
" Parties having been called, the accused, for not appearing,
are to be denounced rebels.
" The above outrage, having been in violation of the ordinance
made upon 23rd December last touching the removal of
^ Vol. v., pp. 261-2.
Tor wood. HS
deadly feuds, and at the very time when his Highness
' wes cheiflie occupiit in this eirand,' and the said offenders,
though still at the horn, being resetted, by a great number of
persons without respect had to ' the odiousnes ' of their crime,
the 'forme, maner, and circumstanceis of the committing thairof,
as neir the persone of the Prince, his Hienes darrest sone,' to the
forder contempt of his Majestic,' there is an order to publish the
occurrence to all the lieges, with charge to all and sundry not to
reset or intercommune with the said rebels, but to apprehend
them if they can, or notify their whereabouts to the sheriff of
the shire, under pain of being pursued as art and part with
them ; certifying defaulters that they shall be punished with no
less rigour and ' extremitie to the deid ' than if they had
resetted Francis, sometime Earl Botbuill."
Alexander Forrester was succeeded by his eldest son —
VI 1 1. — Sir James Forrester of Torwood. He had been present
at the baptism of Prince Henry at Stirling, 30th August, 1594,
and after the ceremony was among the gentlemen who received
the honour of knighthood from James VI. He found the
Forrester fortunes in a sadly embarrassed condition, and we see
from the Privy Council Register to what sorry straits he was
often reduced in order to keep his head above water. In
1609 there is an action against him for destroying trees in the
Torwood, when it appears that he had cut and destroyed the
best trees in his Majesty's forest, and " has spoyled ane grite
pairt of the said wood." The cutters were sent to the Tolbooth
of Edinburgh. In 1610, his whole estate was apprised at the
instance of James Edmonstone of Newton," who received a
charter of nearly all his lands. In this charter there is a list
1 Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, eldest son of James VI., died in his nineteenth
year— 1612.
- The lands were evidently " wadset " to James Edmonstone.
19
146 Tor wood.
of his creditors and cautioners, which comprises many of his
kinsmen and friends. In 1617, Sir James and his son, Alexander,
are again in trouble about cutting down the trees. The indict-
ment relates that " the forest was well planted with timber, but
it is now so defaced in sindrie parcellis and pairtis that there is
not a tree to be seen, and thair contempt is so much the moir
as thay have done this same now in this tyme of his Majestic
being in the countrey, and in the sicht of strangeairis."
The Register of the Privy Council has the following com-
plaint against Sir James Forrester, by Janet Stewart, widow of
his kinsman, the late William Forrester of Stirling : —
Complaint by William Wallace, messenger, as follows:— He was employed
by Janet Stewart, relict of the late William Forrester, burgess of Stirling, to
execute letters of poinding against Sir James Forrester of Torwoodhead,
knight, Walter Beane in Gunnerschaw, Donald Ure in Larbraik, Thomas
Sinrab in Hogend, John Jervie in Forresteris Maynis,- Alexander Forrester
there, Henry Dalgreve there, James Benny in Torwoodsyde, George
Merschell there, James Broun there, Robert Thomesoun there, Robert
Smyth and Alexander Broun in Langsyde, all tenants of Sir James,
for payment to Janet Stewart of an annualrent of 120 merks, which
she has from the lands during her life. The complainer, therefore, on
25th January last, went to the lands of Torwoodhead, and there poinded
"four oxin, thrie stirkis, fyve ky, and a quoy," belonging to Robert
Thomsoun. After he had used the ordinary forms of comprising, he was
bringing the cattle to Stirling, when Sir James Forrester of Torwood, knight,
1 Vol. Xn., pp. 719-20 (1622).
- It is highly probable that this John Jervie was descended from the Huguenot
family of Gervaises, who, before the Edict of Nantes left Guienne and fled for religious
liberty to Holland, whence they sailed to Grangemouth, and settled at Torwood.
They afterwards went to Boghall, near Bathgate. Part of the wood is called Jarvie's
Neiik to this day. This family becomes interesting to all Scotsmen, as Sir James
Young Simpson was maternally descended from it. Mary Jervais, daughter of the
fanner of Balbardie Mains, near Bathgate, married, in 1792, David Simpson, and theii
son, born 7th June, 1811, was the famous physician.—" Life of Sir James Y. Simpson,"
Torwood. 147
James Forrester, eldest lawful son and apparent heir of Walter Forrester of
Culmoir, with John Richardsoun, servitor to Sir James, Robert Thomsoun in
Torwoodhead, James and John Kar there, Alexander Broun in Kingsyde,
Thomas Kar in Torwoodhead, William Ker in Dursaill, and others, armed
with "swordis, Jedburgh stalffis, plaitsleiveis, corne forkis, grite rungis," and
other weapons, followed the complainer and overtook him on his way to
Stirling, " at ane pairt callit the commoun hill." There they set upon him
and his associates and witnesses, laid violent hands on his person, and " held
him ane grite speace, avowing with many horribiU aithes that in dispyte of
him and all his kine, thay sould haif his lyff." He was set free and they
again attacked him, struck at him with a drawn sword, chased him and his
witnesses "fra the said Commoun hill to Bannokburne bridge," and not only
" strak and dang the said complener with Jedburgh stalffis, and brak the
same in peeceis on his persona," but " violentlie reft and tooke fra him twa of
the said ky, maist barbarouslie and mischeantlie cuttit the bak of ane of the
said oxin with a sword, and gorrit and slew ane of the said ky, and left thame
lyand for dead upoun the ground." They would also have killed the com-
plainer and his witnesses had they not escaped. The pursuer appearing
personally, as also do John Richardsoun and Robert Thomsoun, while the
remaining defenders do not appear, the Lords find the complaint proved
against Sir James Forrester of Garden, James Forrester, John Richardsoun,
and Robert Thomsoun, order the two last to be warded in the Tolbooth of
Edinburgh, and direct the laird of Garden and James Forrester to be charged
to enter the said Tolbooth. The proof being insufficient, they assoilzie the
remaining defenders ; and they order John Richardsoun and Robert Thom-
soun to pay to the pursuer the sum of forty marks.
In 1626, Sir James complains of being injured by Mr. Robert
Bruce of Kinnaird. In 1629 we find him a prisoner in Stirling
Castle, where he petitioned for temporary relief, he being infirm
in body. He had been sent to the Tolbooth of Edinburgh, but
he was said to be so " infirm " that he was taken back to
Stirling. Among his other troubles, his lands also suffered in
the memorable sliding of the bog in Stirlingshire.' Sir James
» See under Woodside,
148 Torwood.
married Dame Margaret Fleming, sister to the first Earl of
Wigton/ by whom he had a son, Alexander, and two daughters,
Margaret and Mar}-.
IX. — Alexander succeeded his father, and married Margaret
Forrester, sister to David Forrester of Denovan, provost of
Stirling, and had a son, James Forrester, who was served heir to
his aunt. Lady Margaret Forrester or Ross, 30th October, 1635.'
BARON FORRESTER OF CORSTORPHINE.
The estate of Torwood was sold to George, Lord
Forrester, who had a charter, ist December, 1636,' on the
resignation of Sir William Ross of Murieston, to whom it had
probably been mortgaged. Sir William Ross married Margaret,
elder daughter of Sir James Forrester of Torwood. Lord
Forrester appears to have sold the lands to Major-General
William Baillie of Letham, Stirlingshire.* When Major-
General Baillie's son was put in fee of the lands, ist March,
1650,° a life rent was retained for his father, the General. General
Baillie was a natural son of Sir William Baillie of Lamington.
He received his military training under the famous Gustavus
Adolphus in Sweden, and on the outbreak of the Civil War
he received a commission in the Covenanting Army, in the
ratification of which, dated nth June, 1640, he is designed
William Baillie of Letham, Stirlingshire, an estate which came
into his possession through his marriage to Janet, daughter of
1 MS. Fed. and E. M. S.
' Inq. Gen.
' R. M. S.
* See " The Scots Peerage " under Baron Forrester of Corstorphine.
6 B.M.S.
Torwood. 149
Sir William Bruce of Stenhouse, and grand-daughter of John
Baillie of Letham.' General Baillie distinguished himself under
Leslie at the battle of Marston Moor (1644), at the siege of
York and capture of Newcastle. From this time, in spite of his
undoubted skill and bravery, he seems always to have been
thwarted by the incompetence of those he served. He was
defeated by Montrose both at Alford and Kilsyth. When the
Scots, after the " engagement " with Charles I., resolved on
an expedition into England to deliver him from the power
of sectaries, Baillie was appointed Lieut.-General of Foot in the
army raised by the Duke of Hamilton. After the disaster at
Preston, nth August, 1648, although Baillie rallied his forces at
Winwick, maintaining the pass, according to Cromwell, " with
great resolution for many hours," he received an order to make
as good conditions as he could, and with great reluctance he
sent in a capitulation to Cromwell, which was accepted. After
this he took no further prominent part in the events of his
time.'
In the Edinburgh Commissariot his will is recorded, 13th
July, 1653, but the date of his death is left blank.
As previously stated, he married Janet, daughter of Sir
William Bruce of Stenhouse. In Mrs. Cumming-Bruce's " History
of the Bruces," and also in other Bruce pedigrees, her mother is
stated to have been a daughter of General Middleton of Letham.
This appears to be a mistake. ''
General William Baillie's children were: — (i) James, who
married the Honourable Jean Forrester, daughter of George,
1 See under Stenhouse, pp. 20-21.
' See Dictionary ot National Biography.
» R. M. S., 30th March, 1620, and 29th Maich, 1628.
150 Tor wood.
first Lord Forrester ; (2) William, who married Lilias, also a
daughter of George, first Lord Forrester ; (3) Adam, born
29th December, 1645' ; and (4) Alexander.
George, Lord Forrester, had one son, John, Master of
Corstorphine," who died in the lifetime of his father without
issue. Lord Forrester and General William Baillie made a
settlement of their respective estates on James Baillie and the
male issue of his marriage with Jean Forrester, which failing, on
William Baillie and Lilias Forrester.' On the death of Lord
Forrester in 1654, James Baillie of Torwood, born 29th October,
1629, succeeded as second Lord Forrester, his father-in-law
having obtained a new patent extending the title to him. The
misfortunes which latterly seemed to cloud the life of General
Baillie continued to thicken around his son. This young man
signalised himself by ardent loyalty.* He, however, became
very dissipated, and was murdered in his garden at Corstorphine,
26th August, 1679, with his own sword, by a grand-daughter of
the first Lord Forrester, with whom he is said to have had
an intrigue. She was tried 28th August, found guilty, made
her escape 29th September, was re-taken next day and
beheaded at the Cross of Edinburgh, 12th November, 1679.
James Baillie's only son by his first marriage having died in
infancy, he was succeeded by his brother William, who did
not assume the title, and died in May, 1681, in his forty-ninth
year. His only son, by his wife, Lilias Forrester, also named
William, succeeded as fourth Lord Forrester. Through his
mother he was descended from the Forresters of Torwood,
1 Canongate Register.
■' E. M. S., 10th July, 1634.
3 See R. M. S., 1st March, 1650.
* " The Scots Peerage."
Torwood. 151
her ancestor, Sir Alexander Forrester of Corstorphine, having
married Margaret, daughter of Sir Duncan Forrester of Torwood.
William, fourth Lord Forrester, married Margaret, daughter of
Sir Andrew Birnie of Saline, Dean of the Faculty of Advocates,
and one of the Senators of the College of Justice, who sat
on the Bench under the title of Lord Saline.' William, fourth
Lord Forrester, had, besides other children, a son, George, who
succeeded him as fifth Lord Forrester; a daughter, Margaret,
married to Patrick Haldane of Gleneagles; and a daughter,
Lilias, who was married to William Stirling of Herbertshire."
George, fifth Lord Forrester, was in the army, and served with
distinction under Marlborough. He married Charlotte Rowe,
daughter of Anthony Rowe of Oxfordshire. She was a lady of
the bedchamber to the Princess of Orange, and died in Holland,
February, 1743.' They had a son, George, who succeeded as
sixth Lord Forrester. He was an officer in the Royal Navy, and
died unmarried. He was succeeded by William, seventh Lord
Forrester, his cousin-german, who also died without issue. The
succession devolved upon Caroline, Baroness Forrester, the
elder daughter of George, fifth Lord Forrester. She was married
to her cousin, George Cockburn of Ormiston,* in whose favour
there was a Crown charter of resignation of Torwood, I2th
February, 1747.° He, with consent of his wife and her sister, the
Honourable Harriet Forrester, sold the estate of Torwood on
> "Scottish Aims"— Stodart.
2 See under Herbertshire.
3 Scots Mag., Vol. V.
* George Cockburn of Ormiston was son of John Cockburn of Ormiston by his
second wife, Isabella Rowe, sister to Charlotte Rowe, wife of fifth Lord Forrester.
» R. M. S.
152 Torwood.
2Sth January, 1749, to Thomas Dundas, younger of Fingask, by
which sale the estate passed away from the descendants of the
ancient family of Forrester of Torwood.
DUNDAS OF TORWOOD.
Thomas Dundas, who purchased the estate of Torwood, was
the son of Thomas Dundas, merchant and bailie of Edinburgh.
It is interesting to note that about 1732 Bailie Dundas had
acquired the property of Letham, which had belonged to the
Baillies and Forresters.' His descendant, Lieutenant-Colonel
Joseph Dundas of Carron Hall and Torwood, took much interest
in the excavations on Torwood, and read a paper on the Broch."
In his obituary notice, which appeared in the Stirling Journal,
1 2th July, 1872, a high tribute was paid to his character. He
seemed to have had a great influence for good on the people
among whom he lived, especially on the mining population
in his neighbourhood. It was mainly to his Christian philan-
thropy and unwearied exertions that Falkirk is indebted for
its excellent Industrial School.
The estate remained in the Dundas family till the year 1882,
when it was sold to Joseph Cheney Bolton of Carbrook, for
many years M.P. for Stirlingshire, whose son, Edwin Bolton of
Carbrook, is the present proprietor. °
1 For particulars of Dundas family, see under Carron Hall, and "Dundas of
Fingask," by the late Mrs Dundas of Carron Hall.
" See page 130.
3 See under Carbrook.
Torwood. *S3
APPENDIX TO TORWOOD.
The Forresters of Torwood were sometimes designed as of Garden,
Gunnershaw, and Skipinch.
List of Forresters owning lands in Stirlingshire, Perthshire, &c., made
up from the Great Seal Charters, Retours, Protocol Books, Stirlingshire
Sasines, &c. : —
Arngibbon, Forresters of
Boquhan, „
Calzemuk or Carmuck, Forresters of
Queenshaugh, Forresters of
*Row,
Saltcoats, „
*Southfield,
Strathendrie, „
Denovan, Forresters of
*Logie, „
Myathill, „
These families are all descended from the Torwood Forresters.
Those marked with an asterisk are illegitimate.
The Arngibbon family ended in heiresses about the end of the sixteenth
century, but, according to a MS. pedigree in the possession of Andrew For-
rester, Esq., W.S., Edinburgh, the lands were acquired by Andrew Forrester,
sometime in Boquhan, and from him the present family is descended.
There were also the following families, owners and tacksmen, whose descent
from the Torwood family, although most probable, cannot be traced exactly:—
Bad, Forresters of.
Braes, Forresters of, afterwards of Craigannet, said to be descended from
Denovan.—" Stirling Antiquary."
Cambusbarron and Chalmerstone, Forresters of, at one time a Torwood
property, descended from Forresters in Kepmad.
Carnock, or Crannock, Forresters of.
Culbeg and Culmore, Forresters of (Ch., i6th June, 1509, /?. M. S.), lands
belonged to Torwood family.
Kepmad, Forresters in, most probably descended from the second marriage
of Sir James Forrester of Torwood, circa 1530.
Kiddisdale, P^orresters of, lands belonged to Torwood.
Pettintoskine, Forresters of, probably same origin, held their lands at as
early a date as the Torwood family, if not before.
Puldoir, Forresters of, mentioned with Torwood in several documents.
Shiphaugh, Forresters in.
Wanlis, Forresters in, lands belonged to Torwood.
IS4 Tor wood.
A branch of the Forresters were tacksmen of Shiphaugh for several
generations. George Forrester in Shiphaugh died in 1575. His wife was
Helen Donaldson. (In his will, Duncan Forrester of Queenshaugh was
appointed oversman.) His son, George Forrester, died in 1606. His wife
was Marion Stevenson. Sir James Forrester of Torwood was cautioner
under his will. He had several sons creditors of Sir James Forrester when
the apprisement took place in i6io.'
Forresters in Kepmad, afterwards of Chalmerstone,
Carsebonny, Cookspow, &c.
Duncan Forrester, most probably a younger son of Sir James Forrester
of Torwood by his second marriage with Agnes Cockburn (relict of William
Murray of Touchadam, and mother of his heir, John Murray), was tacksman
of Kepmad (a Murray property) in 1556, in which year he served on an
inquest held on 6th March. In 1557 he is a wi! along with James
Forrester of Myathill (a son of Sir James by his first ' .), to an instrument
of resignation of tenements in Stirling in favour of A' sander Forrester of
Garden and Torwood. In 1575 he is witness to a sasine of Alexander
Forrester of Torwood, and he was his Bail in the Garden district in
1585. (Stirling Protocols.) In 1592 he is witness to a sasine of the lands of
Cambusbarron and Carnock in favour of Alexander Forrester of Torwood
and Garden, and his son, James Forrester, is also a witness on this
occasion. Duncan Forrester died before 26th March, 1602, when his son,
James, is designed in Kepmad, and is found serving on various inquests,
&c., chiefly in connexion with the Torwood family.
On 15th April, 1596, Alexander Forrester, designed son of Duncan
Forrester in Kepmad, is named, with other branches of the family, in a
bond of assurance granted by John, Earl of Mar, and Alexander Forrester
of Torwood and Garden (See p. 143).
Alexander Forrester, son of Duncan Forrester in Kepmad, was admitted
a burgess of Stirling on 17th January, 1606.= He owned some property
1 R. M. S., Polmaise Papers and Ediuburgh Commissariot Records.
2 Iq the Stirling Biirgh Records he Is designed son of John Forrester in Kepmad,
but there is no trace of a John in Kepmad, whereas it is known that Duncan had a son,
Alexander. Another Alexander Forrester, son of John Forrester in Kippen, was
admitted a burgess about this time, and this may have led to the confusion of the
Tor\A/ood.
in St. Mary's Wynd,' and some lands at Cambusbarron. He married first,
Janet Chalmer, a daughter of Chalmer of Chalmerstone, and had by her
three sons— Edward, Duncan, and Robert — and several daughters. His
wife, Janet Chalmer, died in 1615, and the name of James Forrester in
Kepmad appears in her will. (Stirling Com. Rec.) Alexander Forrester
married secondly, Catherine Ambrose, and by her had one son, Alexander.
Alexander Forrester latterly had a lease of Shiphaugh, and died there in
1619." In his will the witnesses are Edward Forrester, his eldest son, and
James Forrester of Logie (son of the murdered David Forrester of Logie),
and James Forrester in Kepmad. The cautioner was Edward Chalmer
of Chalmerstone. In i5io Alexander Forrester was one of Sir James
Forrester's cautioners, and in his will, Mr. Duncan Forrester, brother to
Sir James Forrester of Torwood, is a debtor.
Edward Forrester (probably named after his uncle, Edward Chalmer of
Chalmerstone), designed son and heir of Ale.xander Forrester, was served
heir to his father in 1619. He was a notary and burgess of Stirling. He
died unmarried, and was succeeded by his brother Duncan, also a burgess of
Stirling. Duncan died in 1647, and in his will constitutes David Forrester of
Denovan and Robert Forrester, younger, of Queenshaugh, sole tutors to his
children. His family became extinct, and his half-brother, Alexander
Forrester, designed of Chalmerstone, succeeded to the property in St. Mary's
Wynd, &c. This Alexander Forrester was a writer in Edinburgh, and
acquired part of the lands of Chalmerstone and the Kerse of Cambusbarron,
otherwise called Carsbonny. He married, first, a Miss Kay, and had a son,
John, who succeeded him, and niarried Euphan Weilwood, of the family
of Weilwood of Touch, Fifeshire. They had, besides other children, a son,
Alexander, who was admitted a member of the Royal Company of Archers,
30th April, 1722, and is then designed Alexander Forrester of "Cars-
bonnie." John Forrester acquired the estate of Cookspow, and the family
were afterwards designed of Cookspow.
Alexander Forrester of Chalmerstone married, secondly, before 1647,
Anna Mitchellson (Edin. Reg. of Baptisms), and by her had several children.
Their eldest daughter, Margaret, married Walter M'Gowan, of an old Stirling
^ The St. Mary's Wynd property passed by inheritance to his lineal descendant,
Patrick Connal, banker, Stirling, in 1813.— Stirling Sasines.
= He is sometimes confused with Alexander Forrester, son of George Forrester in
Shiphaugh, from having had a lease of Shiphaugh.
ijfi Torwood.
family, and left issue. The second daughter, Anna, born at Edinburgh in 1658
(Edin. Reg. Baptisms), married James Burn of Chalmerstone. They had,
besides other children, a son (i) James, ancestor of the Burn-Murdochs of
Gartincaber, &c. (See Appendix to Larbert, p. 12); and a son (2) Robert,
merchant-burgess of Stirling, who married about 17 18 Janet Dalgleish,
daughter of Robert Dalgleish of Tunnygask, Fifeshire (See Appendi.x to
Larbert, p. 12) and by her had a daughter, Marion, the only child who
left descendants, married in 1744 to John Glas of Stirling. Their eldest son,
John Glas, was Provost of Stirling in 1803, and is now represented by his
great-grandson, John Kirkpatrick, Advocate, LL.D., Professor of History
and Constitutional Law in the University of Edinburgh.' Another great-
grandson is Lieut.-Colonel Edward Mayne Alexander of Westerton. Besides
other children, John Glas and Marion Burn had a daughter, Marion Glas,
who was married, in 1775, to Michael Connal, merchant and banker in
Stirling, and for many years Provost of the burgh. He held this office
at the time of his death in 1812. The eldest son of Michael Connal and
Marion Glas was Patrick Connal, banker, Stirling, who married and left
issue (See "Diary of Sir Michael Connal")-"
The annexed pedigree is made up from the public records, both printed
and in MSS., also from MS. pedigrees, one in the possession of Dr. Maitland
Thomson, the other a copy of a MS. in Crawford Priory, made by Mr. W. B.
Cook, of Stirling. The pedigree in Dr. Maitland Thomson's possession is a
most interesting and curious document. The title page is as follows : —
ANE
GENEALOGY
OF THE
FORRESTERS
OF THE HOUSES OF
GARDYNE AND DINNOVAN
COLLECTED BY R. M. YR.
IN MARCH 1708 FROM
YE PUBLIC RECORDS
LAWSON'S COLLECTION OF SCOTS CHARTERS
COLQUHOUN'S tree OF YE FORRESTERS, RECEIVED
TRADITIONS AND OYR DOCUMENTS.
XXXX XXX XX X
1 There are no male descendants either of Glas of Sauohie or of the Stirling
branch, and the name has died out.
v^n/A.i\.i wr rv>
jference in this
tioned that the
1 56 Tor wood.
family, and left issue. The second daughter, Anna, born at Edinburgh in 1658
(Edin. Reg. Baptisms), married James Bum of Chalmerstone. They had,
besides other children, a son (i) James, ancestor of the Burn-Murdochs of
Gartincaber, &c. (See Appendix to Larbert, p. 12); and a son (2) Robert,
merchant-burgess of Stirling, who married about 171a Janet Dalgleish,
daughter of Robert Dalgleish of Tunnygask, Fifeshire (See Appendix to
Larbert, p. 12) and by her had a daughter, Marion, the only child who
left descendants, married in 1744 to John Glas of Stirling. Their eldest son,
John Glas, was Provost of Stirling in 1803, and is now represented by his
great-grandson, John Kirkpatrick, Advocate, LL.D., Professor of History
and Constitutional Law in the University of Edinburgh.' Another great-
grandson is Lieut.-Colonel Edward Mayne Alexander of Westerton. Besides
other children, John Glas and Marion Burn had a daughter, Marion Glas,
who was married, in 1775, to Michael Connal, merchant and banker in
Stirling, and for many years Provost of the burgh. He held this office
at the time of his death in 1812. The eldest son of Michael Connal and
Marion Glas was Patrick Connal, banker, Stirling, who married and left
issue (See "Diary of Sir Michael Connal"). "
The annexed pedigree is made up from the public records, both printed
and in MSS., also from MS. pedigrees, one in the possession of Dr. Maidand
Thomson, the other a copy of a MS. in Crawford Priory, made by Mr. VV. B.
Cook, of Stirling. The pedigree in Dr. Maitland Thomson's possession is a
most interesting and curious document. The title page is as follows : —
ANE
GENEALOGY
OF THE
FORRESTERS
OF THE HOUSES OF
GARDYNE AND DINNOVAN
COLLECTED BY R. M. YR.
IN MARCH 1708 FROM
YE PUBLIC RECORDS
L.WVSON'S COLLECTION OF SCOTS CHARTERS
COLQUHOUN'S TREE OF YE FORRESTERS, RECEIVED
TRADITIONS AND OYR DOCUMENTS.
XXXX XXX XX X
> There are no male descendants either of Glas of Sauchie or of the Stirling
branch, and the name has died out.
GENEALOGICAL CHART OF FORRESTER FAMILY.
I. ROBERT FORRESTER of Totwood died before i ilh February, 1463-4-
Chart, sec Appendix l.
ion of llic MS. Pedigree frequently
may be nicmioiicd that the
L Br\ice (i) Margaret Forsyth = Sir Duncan =\ Marg* Bothwell libell = (i) John Lundie
= Mariota Stralhendry,
istcr 10 William. of Slrathendrie , dau. of Michael S. of
!arl of Montrose „ ^, j ^ of CibliMon,
= (0 Elitflbclh, dau, of Edward Sir John Marian Margaret Agnes
Lo?d Erskin'c Arnvickor Sullcoftti (1) Sir HonryShaw ; Sit John Stirling ThomosB
Justice Clerk and Stcnhoi
me* Campbell I
'^^ ^""^^ I goo, Au^j.t'i».. ^" ftuSoui?'" '"''■
/{. M. s., I Ki,ir Popor.. Lord Justice Clerk
Elitabcth Sandilands, James Margare
dau, of the Laird of of Myatliill, d, before 1 560 IT
St. Monans || (i) Sir James CoMlle
Agnes Sandilands, of East V
r
wi,!~
i RoC::
Balfour of Diirleiijli Daughter
Crawford The Laird of Ki
Dauflhtet John = Elitabeth Nicoll
= Margaret Cornwall, Jantl = -
= " Robert Bertonc "
I of Over " Bomtoun "
t Bcrtanc =j Barbara Moubray
^^Bi: iXii tz'r
T-'
Jm'".
George James Margaret
William, b. 1 652 Margaret
or Myathill
John David Robsrt
of Myathill
RoLrt James Ma|Lune
irjr;^
ofCoegis" 4ttfc&«"i"o
I daughte
Margaret Mary
Sir Wm. Ross of Murieslon "'■ D*'"'' ^omitw.
= Janet Murray, Mr. John. M,C , ss
Agnes (Lady Gartraore) Margaret (
obert Graham Mr. John Home Simor
if Gartniore] of Carolside of K
r ofTorquil M. MB. Pei
ughlero'fMr d. ist Oa.^Ij^o'..
[anics Hay, He had eight sons
daughter of Sir David
Barbara, Christi
called "The beauty 01
Tor wood.
Some of the descriptions of members of the family are very quaint. For
instance, John Forrester [circa 1689], "who was a captain in ye Earl of
Angus' regiment, in ye wars abroad, and yr:after turned W.S., a most
discreet and pretty gentleman now living in Annandale. He married Anne
Teresa Bosque, daughter of Monsieur Bernard Bosque, merchant in Bruxells
in Brabant, but as yet no issue, ye greater pity."
The pedigree at Crawford Priory has such a strong resemblance to the
one in Dr. Thomson's possession that it is probably a copy. I also looked
at the MS. pedigree in the Advocates' Library, by George Crawfurd, the
author of Crawfurd's " Peerage," but it has no information that is not
contained in the others.'
I have not extended the pedigrees of the well-known cadets of Torwood,
such as Strathendrie, which is printed in Wood's " East Neuk of Fife," nor
Logic, printed in the Rev. R. M. Fergusson's " Logie." The pedigree of the
Forresters of Denovan will be found under that estate. I have gone on the
principle that where the origin of a cadet is clearly proved, the indication of
this is sufficient, such as in the families of Calzemuk, Queenshaugh, Myathill,
&c., but where I have collected notes about families which appear from
various side lights to be descendants of the main stem, while it is impossible
to show exactly where they branched off, such as the Forresters in Ship-
hangh, and the Forresters of Chalmerstone, Cambusbarron, Cookspow, &c.,
I have given my notes fully in the Appendix. This is why I filled in
to the main pedigree the descendants of William Forrester, merchant
burgess of Stirling, son of Sir Duncan by Margaret Bothwell. This being a
landless branch, was more difficult to trace than some of the others.
A list of the names of Forresters who were members of the Scots Parlia-
ment, and who held office in the Council of Stirling :—
1 360- 1 Robert Forester
1 361 -2 Robert Forester
1365-6 Robert Forester .
1366-7 Robert Forester .
1411-12 William " Forster "
1412-13 William " Forstare
Bailie
Bailie
Burgess
Bailie
Bailie
Bailie
1464-5 / * Mathew Forestare Renders account of Bailies
1470-1 \ * Mathew Forester Provost
> George Crawfurd published his "Peerage" in 1710,
IS8
Tor wood.
1472-7 /
1477-8 \
1478-9
1479-80
1480- 1
1487-8
1489-90
iSi6-i7(
1517-18]
1520-1 [
1521-2
1521-2
1522-3
1522-3
1523-4 c
1524-5
1525-6 J
1526-7
1527-8 [
1527-8
1527-8
1528-9
1528-9
1528-9
1529-30
1529-30
1529-30
1535-7
1536-7
I54I-2
1545-6
1546-7
1546-7
1548-9
1548-9
1549-50
1549-50
* Duncan Forester
f Duncan Forester
* Mathew Forester
* Duncan Forestare
► Duncan Forestare
^ Duncan Forestare
* Duncan Forestare
''Alexander Forestare
► Alexander Forestare
► Alexander Forestare
►Sir Duncan Forester
Alexander Forester and Sir Walter Forester
Alexander Forester
* Sir Duncan Forester,
Alexander Forster
Alexander Forester
' Alexander Forester
Alexander Forester
Alexander Forester
John Forester
Sir Walter Forester
Alexander Forester
John Forester
Schir James Forester of Garden, knycht
Sir James Forester of Garden, knycht ...
Alexander Forester
John Forester
Alexander Forestare
John Forestare
John Forestare
William Forester
David Forester of Garden
John Forester
Robert Forester of Kilyemuck
John Forester
Robert Forester of Kilyemuk
John Forester
Renders account of Bailies
Provost
Provost
Provost
Provost
Provost
... In name of the Bailies
Provost
Provost
Provost
Provost
Councillors
Provost
... Councillor
Provost
Provost
Provost
Provost
Provost
Bailie
... Councillor
Provost
Bailie
... Councillor
Provost
... Councillor
... Councillor
Provost
Baihe
Bailie
... Councillor
Provost
... Treasurer
Provost
Bailie
Provost
Bailie
Tor wood
553-4 Robert Forester
554-5 Robert Forrester
554-5 Robert Forester of Calyemuk ..
554-5 John Forester of Logy
555-6 Robert Forester of Calyemuk ..
555-6 Robert Forester, younger
555-6 Johne Forester of Logy
556-7 Robert Forester of Calyemuk
556-7 Alexander Forester of Garden
556-7 Johne Foroster of Logy ,
556-7 Alexander Forester
559-60 Robert Forester, younger
559-60 John Forester
560-1 f * Robert Forester ...
560-1 \ + Robert Forester of Boquhan
560-1 Alexander Forester of Arnegibbon
560-1 John Forester of Logy
562-3 * Alexander Forester of Garden
562-3 Robert Forester, younger...
563-4 Robert Forester
564-5 Duncan F. of Arnegibbon
564-5 Robert F. of Arnegibbon ...
564-S * Alexander F. of Garden ...
564-5 * Robert F. of Boquhan
566-7 William Forester
570-1 Robert Forester, younger...
575-6 Robert Forester .
576-7 Robert Forester .
593-4 David Forester
599-l6oo*Robert Forrestar of Boquhan
616-17 James Forester
617-18 James Forester
618-19 James Forester
621-2 James Forester
643-4 David Forester of Logy
653-4 David Forrester of Denovan
Bailie
Bailie
Councillor
Councillor
Councillor
Councillor
Councillor
Provost
Councillor
Councillor
Councillor
Bailie
Treasurer
Bailie
Councillor
Councillor
Councillor
Provost
Bailie
Baihe
Bailie
Bailie
Councillor
Councillor
Bailie
Bailie
Provost — Commissioner to Convention
Provost— Commissioner to Convention
... Commissioner to Convention
Bailie
Bailie
Bailie
Bailie
(Sheriff and Town Clerk) Clerk
Provost
Those marked with an asterisk were members of the Scots Parliament,
DENOVAN
(Parish of Diuiipace.)
THE earliest mention of the lands of Denovan' occurs in the
Cartulary of Cambuskenneth in 1462, when Thomas
Gardnar of Denovane signs as a witness on i8th May of
that year. On i6th August, 1554, Edward Campbell of Denovan
is on an inquest,' and on 3rd July, 1556, Thomas Hart of Little
Denovan is on an assize.
The lands about the end of the sixteenth century, belonged
to the Forresters of Torwood, and we find John Forrester of
Little Denovan in possession before 15th March, 1606.
I. — John Forrester was the second son of Alexander Forrester
of Torwood' by his wife, Jean Erskine. On isth March, 1606,
John Forrester and his wife, Elizabeth Forrester, eldest daughter
of Duncan Forrester of Arngibbon,* had a charter of the lands of
Easter Arngibbon. Duncan Forrester of Arngibbon had left no
son, but he had three daughters — Elizabeth, who was married in
1 590° to John Forrester of Little Denovan ; Grizzel, who
1 The name Denovan — local pronunciation "Dunniven" — is stated in the Rev.
Mr. Johnston's "Place Names of Stirlingshire" to be derived from Gaelic Dun or
Diiiii ablwiinii, meaning hill fort by the river.
!" Ing. Spec.
= See mider Torwood.
* -R.M.S.
s MS. Pedigree of Forrestera of Torwood.
Denovan. i6i
was married to Archibald Bruce of Kennet ; and Janet, who
was married to James Gairdner, burgess of Stirling, afterwards of
Skeoch.'
The three daughters were left heirs portioners of Arngibbon.
The eldest daughter, Elizabeth, acquired the shares of her
sisters.
John Forrester was a merchant-burgess of Stirling. He was
admitted a burgess on 24th August, 1607. He died before
15th February, 1609, as on that date Alexander Forrester,
designed brother-german to Sir James Forrester of Garden, is
legally appointed tutor to David Forrester of Little Denovan,
son and heir of the late John Forrester of Little Denovan." David
was his only son, but he had two daughters, Margaret and Jean.'
H. — David Forrester lived at Denovan, and had also a
house in Stirling, and took an active interest in the affairs of
the burgh. He was elected Provost, 1653-4.* We find him
on the Committee of War for Stirlingshire in 1647 and 1649, and
a Justice of Peace in 1663.^ In 1675 he got a ratification of
his right to his aisle or burial place in the West Kirk of Stirling
It was proved that his predecessors, the lairds of Garden, for
many generations had owned this aisle on the north side of the
church, called Forrester's Aisle. There was no doubt that David
Forrester was the heir male and nearest of kin to Garden, but
his exclusive right had been questioned by William Forrester,
son of Robert Forrester of Oueenshaugh, who, with Mr. James
Forrester of Logie, gave in objections, and said they must be
declared partners in the aisle. It was decided in David
» R.M.S.
» Inq. de Tutela.
' MS. pedigree of Garden and Commissariot Records of Stirling.
* Stirling Burgh Records.
= Acts of Parliament of Scotland.
II
i62 Denovan.
Forrester's favour, and he arranged to put his name and arms
upon it.' David Forrester, second of Denovan, married, first,
Margaret, natural daughter of John Erskine of Balgony, and
'by her had at least two sons and three daughters: — (i) Mr.
Thomas, of whom presently ; (2) David, merchant in Stirling,
died without issue; (3) Margaret (whom Charles II. fell in love
with when he went to Stirling, 1656), married first to Napier of
Balwhaple, and afterwards to Gavin Norrie of Norrieston, and
who heired both their estates ; (4) Mary, married to Robert
Stevenson, Provost of Stirling; and (5) Jean, who died unmarried.
David Forrester of Denovan married, secondly, Janet,
daughter of [Mr. James] Forrester of Logie ; and, thirdly,
Margaret Marshall, relict of Robert Burne, merchant in Stirling,
son of John Burne of Larbert. There do not appear to have
been any children by these marriages. David Forrester settled
his estate on his grandson, the son of Mr. Thomas Forrester,
his eldest son, for reasons which will presently appear. David
Forrester died before lOth June, 1686. He must have lived to a
great and hale old age. We find him a witness to the baptisms
of the grandchildren of his relative, Alexander Forrester of
Chalmerstone, between the years 1677-86. He was one of the
tutors of the children of Duncan Forrester, burgess of Stirling,
who died in 1647, a brother of Alexander Forrester of
Chalmerstone.
III.— Mr. Thomas Forrester, David Forrester's eldest son,
was the heir, but never actually succeeded to the estate. He
was minister of Alva,' "but," as the MS. pedigree relates,
"having turned whiggish was prosecuted for holding conventicles
and went abroad to Holland. Having afterwards returned
' Stirling Kirk Session Records.
> See Dictionary of National Biography.
Denovan. 163
about the Revolution, or rather 'usurpation,' A.D. 1688, he was
some years thereafter made Principal of the New College,
St. Andrews, in which post he died at St. Andrews on
Saturday, 2nd November, 1706. He was buried there the
Thursday following yrafter, his corps being carried most
part by his sons and grandsons, and he being a rigid
presbyterian, and one of ye troublous faction of King
Charles II. his peaceable reign, yet ye said merciful King
grants him a remission for rebellion against his government,
dated ye 13th November, 1689." He was admitted a burgess of
Stirling, loth June, 1686, and is designed eldest lawful son of the
late David Forrester of Denovan.' He married Anne Govan,
eldest daughter of Mr. John Govan, minister of Muckart and
Helen Rynd, his spouse, only lawful daughter of Mr. Andrew
Rynd, minister of " Tuliecultorie.'" Mr. Thomas Forrester, by
his wife, Anne Govan, had six sons and seven daughters": — (i)
David, who succeeded his grandfather in Denovan ; (2) Mr.
Thomas, a regent in "ye old college of St. Andrews, a very
hopeful youth born 1678, and had a mind to have gone abroad
to studie physic, but death prevented him, having died in his
blooming years of a (sic) at St. Andrews, at 11 in ye
forenoon, 18 January, 1707, and was buried 21 January yr:after";
(3) Archibald, died 1699; (4) John, died young; (5) John; (6j
Charles, born 1685, died j'oung ; (7) Margaret, married to Mr.
James Haddow, Principal of New College, St. Andrews ; (8)
Mary, married to Mr. George Park, minister of Killearn ; (9)
Helen, married to Mr. James Henry, minister of Croick ; (10)
' Stirling Burgh Records.
2 Anne Forrester or Govan was served heir to her brother, Jlr. John Govan,
minister at Compsie, 7th August, 1730,— Printed Seryice of Heirs.
" MS. pedigree.
i64 Denovan.
Barbara, married to Mr. Craigie, minister of St. Monans ; (ii)
Marie; (12) Anne, died young; and (13) Jean, who also died
young.
IV. — David Forrester of Denovan, eldest son of Mr. Thomas,
succeeded to Denovan on the death of his grandfather. He was
a Commissioner of Supply for Stirlingshire,' and a Commissioner
of Trade, 1700.'' He was admitted a burgess of Stirling, 9th
April, 171 2.' He married Jean, daughter of Cunningham of
Boquhan, and sister to Adam Cunningham, advocate, to whom
she was served heir general, 2Sth May, 1720.* By her he had
three sons and one daughter': — (i) Thomas, his heir; (2) Alex-
ander ; (3) a son, born 1709 ; and (4) Anne.
V. — Thomas Forrester of Denovan succeeded his father, and
was served heir to his grandmother, Anne Govan, 21st March,
1733.° He married Anne Haldane, daughter of John Haldane
of Lanrick, and had a son, David, who died without issue.'
Anne Haldane died before 14th February, 1789, the date of the
record of her testament.^
VI. — David Forrester of Denovan was admitted a member of
the Royal Company of Archers, loth July, 1768.°
1 Acts of ParliameDt of Scotland, 1695.
= Ihid.
' Stirling Burgh Kecords.
* Printed Service of Heirs.
' WS. pedigree.
« Printed Service of Heirs.
' " Scottish Arms."— R. R. Stodart.
8 Stirling Com. Rec.
' "History of Royal Company of Archers," by Sir James Balfour Paul.
The annexed chart pedigree of the Forresters of Denovan is made up from the
Public Records printed and in MS., also from the MS. genealogy of the Forresters
of Garden in possession of Dr. Maitland Thomson, and other documents.
i64 Denovan.
Barbara, married to Mr. Craigie, minister of St. Monans ; (ii)
Marie; (12) Anne, died young; and (13) Jean, who also died
young.
IV. — David Forrester of Denovan, eldest son of Mr. Thomas,
succeeded to Denovan on the death of his grandfather. He was
a Commissioner of Supply for Stirlingshire,' and a Commissioner
of Trade, 1700.° He was admitted a burgess of Stirling, 9th
April, 1712.' He married Jean, daughter of Cunningham of
Boquhan, and sister to Adam Cunningham, advocate, to whom
she was served heir general, 2Sth May, 1720.* By her he had
three sons and one daughter': — (i) Thomas, his heir; (2) Alex-
ander ; (3) a son, born 1709 ; and (4) Anne.
V. — Thomas Forrester of Denovan succeeded his father, and
was served heir to his grandmother, Anne Govan, 21st March,
1733.* He married Anne Haldane, daughter of John Haldane
of Lanrick, and had a son, David, who died without issue.'
Anne Haldane died before 14th February, 1789, the date of the
record of her testament.^
VI. — David Forrester of Denovan was admitted a member of
the Royal Company of Archers, loth July, 1768.°
» Acts of Parliament of Scotland, 1695.
- nid.
= Stirling Burgh Records.
* Printed Service of Heirs.
'■ MS. pedigree.
« Printed Service of Heirs.
' " Scottish Arms."— R. R. Stodart.
^ Stirling Com. Rec.
" " History of Royal Company of Archers," by Sir James Balfour Paul.
The annexed chart pedigree of the Forresters of Denovan is made up from the
Public Records printed and in MS., also from the MS. genealogy of the Forresters
of Garden in possession of Dr. Maitland Thomson, and other documents.
FORRESTER OF DiNOVAN.
ALEXANDER FORRESTER of Torwood
No. vn., Toraood PedigrM
I. John of Denovan = Elizabeth Forrester, d:
of Amgibbo
H. M. S., 16th t
r Ouncan Forrester
David of Denovan
(i) Mary, natural dat
Br^'
(2) Janet, daughter of. fames Forrester
of Li
(3) *Margaret Marshnclict of Robert
Burne, merchti Stirling
Refer No. VII., Torwood Pedigree
David,
merchant in
Stirling,
(i) Napier of
Balwhaple
(2) Gavin Notrie
1 Writa ot I
d. young
John (2),
probably
ancestor of
Forrester
of Braes
Margaret
I
James Haddo
young d. young
George Park James Henry
MS. QeoH lie Porieet«rB
Denovan. ''65
JOHNSTONE OF DENOVAN.
The lands of Denovan were sold by David Forrester of
Denovan, with consent of his mother, Anne Haldane, to John
Johnstone of Alva, then of Hangingshaw, ist June, 1773.' John
Johnstone of Denovan was fifth son of Sir James Johnstone of
Wester Hall. He commanded the artillery at the battle of
Plassy, 1757, and by his skilful managjement contributed to
that victory. He married Elizabeth Caroline, daughter of
Colonel Keene and niece of Dr. Keene, Bishop of Ely. He
purchased the estates of Alva and Denovan in Stirlingshire, and
when admitted a member of the Royal Company of Archers,
29th March, 1794, is designed as "of Denovan." He was for
some time in Parliament, and died at Alva, December, 1795,
leaving a daughter, married to James Gordon of Craig, and
an only son and successor, James Raymond.
James Raymond Johnstone of Denovan, born 4th June,
1768, married 20th June, 1799, Mary Cholmeley, sister to
Sir Montague Cholmeley, Baronet of Easton, by whom he
had, with eight daughters, one son, James, born 4th July, 1801,
who, on the death of his father in April, 1830, succeeded to
the estate. James Johnstone of Denovan sold the lands of
Denovan in February, 1839,° to WILLIAM FORBES of Callendar,
whose son is the present laird.'
» Writs of DenoTan.
2 Ibid.
s For particulars of the family of Johnstone, see Burke's " Peerage and Baronetage "
under Johnstone of Wester Hall. For particulars re Forbes family, see Burke's
"Landed Gentry,"
i66 Denovan.
It may be noticed that in 1830 Mr. James Graham Adam
adapted works at Denovan to calico printing under the name of
the Denovan Print Works, and in 1845 acquired a small
portion of the estate with a bleachfield and the old mansion
house of Denovan, which was probably built in the eighteenth
century. A further portion of the estate was acquired by
Mr. Adam in 1849. In 1843-5, Mr. Adam altered and largely
increased the size of Denovan House, the front portion of which
was then entirely erected.' He was a large employer of labour in
the district. James Graham Adam was the eldest son of Francis
Adam, merchant in Glasgow, and was born in i8(X). His eldest
son is Sir Frank Forbes Adam, C.I.E., and his daughter, Jane,
was the first wife of Sir John H. N. Graham, Baronet of Larbert,
and the mother of his children."
1 Mr. Adam's trastees conveyed the property in 1858 to Messrs, Anld &
Buchanan, merchants in Glasgow, from whom, after various transmissions, the lands
and mansion house were acquired in 1893 by Messrs. William Baird & Co., Limited,
ironmasters, Glasgow.
2 New Statistical Account of Stirlingshire, Writs of Denovan, &c. I am indebted
to Archibald Adam, Esq., Glasgow (a son of James Graham Adam, Esq.), for some
notes on his family, and their connexion with Denovan,
HERBERTSHIRE.
(Parish o] Dunipace.)
HERBERTSHIRE' Castle is romantically situated over-
looking the river Carron, and the park is studded with
fine old trees. Messrs. M'Gibbon and Ross, in their
" Castellated and Domestic Architecture of Scotland," give a
description of the Castle, and, while criticising the details,
especially of the later additions, admit that the whole makes
a very effective composition. The lands of Herbertshire are
alluded to as a barony in a charter of Robert I. In the reign of
David II. there is a charter by HUGH GiFFORD, laird of
Yester," to John Douglas, son of James, Lord Douglas.
DOUGLAS OF HERBERTSHIRE.
Who this John Douglas really was is not quite clear.
According to Douglas's " Peerage " (Wood's Edition) under the
genealogy of the Earls of Morton, number iv. on the line
is Sir John Douglas, second son of Sir James Douglas of
Lothian. He gallantly defended the Castle of Lochleven against
the English in the minority of David II. Sir John Douglas
was assassinated by the order of Sir David Barclay of Brechin at
> Probably the meaning of the word is " The Share of Herbert."—" Place Names
of Stirlingshire," by Rev. J. B. Johnston. See Appendix.
' Robertson's Index.
i68 Herbertshire.
Forgy-Wood, some time before Shrove Tuesday, 1350, on which
day Barclay was killed by order of William de Douglas in
revenge for Sir John's death. Sir John Douglas was ancestor of
the Earls of Morton.
The barony of Herbertshire seems to have passed in this
same reign to another branch of the House of Douglas, for
in 1388 we find that Archibald, third Earl of Douglas, Lord of
Galloway, called " The Grim," granted a charter of the barony
to Sir William Douglas, Lord of Nithsdale, his natural son, the
reddendo being gilt and white spurs. This charter is dated
8th November, 1388, and is confirmed by Robert H., i6th May,
1389.^
Sir William Douglas married in 1387 the Princess Egidia,
one of the younger daughters of King Robert H. Sir William
seems to have inherited so much of the prowess of his father and
grandfather that his career, as narrated by the historians of his
own time, reads like a romance." He was killed about the year
1392. By his wife he had only one daughter, Egidia, who was
married to Henry Sinclair, second Earl of Orkney, and by him
was mother of William, third Earl of Orkney. The marriage
probably took place about 1407.
SINCLAIR, EARL OF ORKNEY, &c.
On the 17th November, 1407, Archibald, fourth Earl of Douglas,
granted at Edinburgh the barony of Herbertshire in the county
of Stirling to Henry, Earl of Orkney, and his spouse, Egidia,
" the niece of the granter." This charter was confirmed by
Robert, Duke of Albany, the Regent, three days later.^
1 Charter in Crookstou Charter Chest, Douglas Book— Fraser,
- Douglas Book.
» Ibid., Vol. III., Charters 399, 400, and 404.
Herbertshire. 169
William, third Earl of Orkney, who succeeded to Herbert-
shire on the death of his father, was one of the hostages for
James I. when he was allowed to visit Scotland, 31st May,
1421.
Besides being, like his father, Admiral of Scotland, he held
the higher post of Chancellor.' He conveyed the Princess
Margaret to France in 1436 when she was married to the
Dauphin. He was the founder of the Collegiate Church of
Rosslyn, and built the beautiful little chapel there. On 28th
August, 145s, he had a grant of the earldom of Caithness
to himself and his heirs " in compensation," as the charter bears,
for a claim of right which he and his heirs had to the lordship
of "Niddisdale." King James HI. having acquired the islands of
Orkney by marriage with Margaret of Denmark in 1469, the
Earl of Orkney in 1470 resigned his earldom into His Majesty's
hands, and it was annexed to the Crown by Act of Parliament
in 147 1. In part recompense for his right of the earldom of
Orkney, the King granted to him the Castle of Ravenscraig
in Fife, and Carberry, adjacent to the said Castle, by charter
dated 17th September, 1470. He was now styled Earl of
Caithness and Lord Sinclair. William, Earl of Caithness,
married first, Lady Margaret Douglas, eldest daughter of
Archibald, fourth Earl of Douglas, by whom he had a son,
William Sinclair of Newburgh, called " The Waster," who, on
account of his reckless character, was passed over in the
succession- to the earldom. He received from his father the
estate of Newburgh, and his son, Henry," Lord Sinclair, was
' Preface, Exchequer Rolls, Vol. VIII., p. sxxvii.
2 " The Scots Peerage."
» Preface, Exchequer Rolls, Vol. XIII. See "The Scots Peerage," under Baron
Sinclair, now in course of publication.
170 Herbcrtshire.
declared chief of the blood. Henry, Lord Sinclair, fell at
Flodden with the King.
The Earl married secondly, Marjory, daughter of Alexander
Sutherland of Dunbeath, by whom he had, besides other
children* — (i) Sir Oliver of Rosslyn and Herbertshire, and
(2) William, in whose favour his father resigned the earldom
of Caithness, and who received a charter of that earldom, 7th
December, 1476-''
SINCLAIR OF HERBERTSHIRE.
I. — Sir Oliver Sinclair of Rosslyn and Herbertshire is now
considered by genealogical authorities to have been the eldest son
of William, first Earl of Caithness, by his second wife, Marjory
Sutherland, although at one time this was keenly disputed.' Sir
Oliver received from his father all his estates south of the Tay,
and had a charter, loth December, 1476. William Sinclair of
Newburgh (the eldest son of the Earl of Caithness), after
his father's death, raised a reduction of that settlement, and
a compromise was entered into. Sir Oliver gave over certain
lands and baronies to his half-brother, William, and William and
his son, Henry, renounced all title to the baronies of Rosslyn
and Herbertshire, 9th February, 1481-2.* Sir Oliver Sinclair
married Christian Haldane.' He is also stated to have married
Elizabeth, daughter of William, third Lord Borthwick." His
children were — (i) George, fiar of Rosslyn, who married Agnes
» " The Soots Peerage."
' Ihid., also see Preface Exchequer Rolls, Vol. VIII., p. xlvli., n.
' See Preface, Exchequer Rolls, Vol. VIII,, p. xlvii., n.
" " The Scots Peerage."
' Stirling Protocols, 1-182.
" Not mentioned in " The Scots Peerage " under " Borthwick." A third wife,
Isabella Livingstone, is assigned to him by Mr. Roland St. Clair in " The St. Clairs of
the Isles," but no reference is given.
Herbertshire. 171
Creichton, and died without issue before nth April, 15 10';
(2) Sir William, of whom presently ; (3) Henry, Bishop of
Ross," purchased the estate of Stevenson in Haddingtonshire,
28th August, 1536, but made it over to his brother, James, in
1537.' In granting a sasine, 23rd May, 1550, he designs
Mr. Robert Heriot of Lymphoy as his " beloved kinsman or
cousin."* (4) Sir Oliver of Pitcairns and Whitekirk, who
married Katherine Bellenden, with issue." He was a great
favourite of James V., and had the command of the Scots
army at the fatal battle of Solway Moss in 1542. He was also
Captain of Tantallon Castle, and cupbearer to the King." (5)
John, Bishop of Brechin, had the honour of marrying Queen
Mary to Henry, Lord Darnley, in 1565.' (6) Alexander of
Cockburnspath ' ; (7) Arthur of Lessudden '■' ; (8) James of
Stevenson^"; and (9) Margaret, said to have been married to
Sir Thomas Kirkpatrick of Closeburn."
n. — Sir William Sinclair of Rosslyn and Herbertshire was
the second son of Sir Oliver, and became his father's heir
about 1510 on the death of his elder brother, George." Sir
William married Alison Home" (said to have been daughter of
George, fourth Lord Home), by whom he had issue — (i) Sir
» R. M. s.
- See Diet. Nat. Biog.
2 R. M. S., 5th December, 1537,
* Protocol Book of James Harlaw, Record Office. See Dunipace, p. 128.
^ R. M. S., 12th January, 1537.
" Exchequer Rolls.
7 Diet. Nat. Biog., and K. M. S.
s R. M. S., 7th May, 1516.
0 Ibid., 5th March, 1539.
10 Ibid., 5th December, 1537.
1 1 " St. Clairs of the Isles."
12 R.M.S., nth April, 1510.
1 3 Ibiil., 25th August, 1542,
172 Herbertshire.
William, (2) Gilbert,' (3) Patrick," (4) Alexander,' (5) John,*
(6) Oliver,^ (7) Matthew," (8) Edward of Ethay.'
Sir William had the honour of knighthood conferred on him
by James V., with whom he was in great favour. He had a
charter of Herbertshire, 17th December, 1527. On the i6th
May of the same year he was " respited for abiding from the
Raid of Solway.'" He was succeeded by his eldest son, also
Sir William.
HI. — Sir William Sinclair of Rosslyn and Herbertshire was
Justiciary of Scotland. He married Elizabeth or Isabel Ker°
(said to have been daughter of Sir William Ker of Cessford), by
whom he had issue: — (i) Edward of Herbertshire, his heir, and
(2) William, who succeeded his father and carried on the line of
this family. Sir William is also said to have had three
daughters — Elspeth, Isabel, and Helen.'" Edward Sinclair of
Herbertshire, the elder son, married Christian Douglas, daughter
of Sir George Douglas of Parkhead, but had no issue. As
Edward's matrimonial affairs throw considerable light on the
course of justice in these days (circa 1583), it needs no apology
for quoting fully from the Register of the Privy Council. In
the Introduction to Vol. III., page Ixxx., we read : —
"One observes a very substantial notion of justice and of the importance of
law and the necessity of enforcing it, in the decision of the Council itself,
through all the changes of government. Where political partisanship
intruded, one observes, indeed, very high-handed proceedings, and systematic
use of law and construction of law for political ends or the personal advantage
» B. if. S., 25th August, 1542.
" VM. » HAS,. * Ibid. ' Ibid. « Ibid.
' Ibid., and 28th October, 1583.
8 Pitcairn's " Criminal Trials."
= Edin. Com. Rec, loth February, 1585-6. Father Hay gives his wife's name as
Lindsay.
" "St. Glairs of the Isles."
Herbertshire. i73
of those in power. It is difficult to be sure, even in some apparently
indifferent cases, that political motives did not affect the decisions given.
But, where political feeling did not intrude, the Council seem generally to
have been anxious to do what was right, and to have taken much pains in
deliberating and coming to a conclusion. This appears particularly in their
decisions between husband and wife, and in other cases of domestic
difference or family quarrels. See the interesting . . . case of the
Sinclairs of Roslin, at page 568.
" Edinburgh, 4th May, 1 583.— Caution in ^400 by Sir Williame Sinclair of
Rois'ling, and Williame Sinclair, his second son, as principals, and Manis
Sinclair of the Leyis and Mr Johnne Henrysoun of Drydane, as sureties,
that Christiane Douglas, daughter of George Douglas of Parkheid, her tenants
and servants of the lands of Harbertschire, said to belong to her in conjunct
fee, shall be skaithless of the said Sir Williame and his son, in their persons,
lands, and goods.'
" 15th May, 1583.— Complaint of Christiane Douglas, daughter of George
Douglas of Parkheid, and wife of Edward Sinclair, fiar of Roisling, as
follows :— 'The saidis Edwart and Christiane, with consent of thair parentis,
lauchfullie contractit in mareage, and thairefter solempnitlie mareit in the
Abbay Kirk of Halyruidhous upoun a Sonday opinlie be the space of viii
yeiris syne or thairby last bipast ; and, for hir dowrie and conjunct fie, scho
wes infeft in all and haill the landis and baronie of Harbertschire liand
within the sherefdome of Striviling quhair, with help of his fader and
freindis, scho maid reasonabill biggingis and policie for the residence of hir
said spous and hir with him thair, induring the liftyme of the auld Laird of
Roisling ; Like as the said Edward and scho remanit in cumpany togidder
divers yeiris thairefter, but questioun or trouble in onywis, quhill, within this
tolmount bypast, the saidis Edwardis fader and freindis, without ony sufficient
caus, sinisterlie seducit and convoyit the said Edward fra hir, kepand him in
a maner captive ay sensyne within the place of Roisling ; quhair in the
menetyme thai have pairtlie compellit and movit him, upoun manifest
circumventioun of him, to his greit hurt, to gif owir his haill richt of the said
leaving, alsweill of hir conjunct fie landis foirsaidis as utheris, and mak
infeftmentis and alienationis thairof to utheris personis ; quhilkis pretendit
richtis thai ar suittand, at the least intendis to suitt, confermit be our Soverane
1 Reg. Privy Coiuicil, Vol. III., p. 566.
174 Herbertshire.
Lord, and thairby to denude him of his heretage and rychteous successioun
dew to him as eldest son and air of his fader, and als to mak impediment to
hir, a young gentilwoman quha hes godlie and honesthe behavit hirself ay sen
hir mareage, as thai thameselffis can not bot grant, in the peceabill posses-
sioun of hir said dowrie and conjunct fie landis, quhairof thay have urgit him
to gif letters of factorie and baillierie to uptak the samin induring his liftyme
and to mak pretendit contractis thairanent. The quhilkis the said Edward
micht nawyis mak nor lefuUie do, becaus sone eftir thair mareage he wes, be
interdictioun insert in the buikis of Secreit Counsale, with decreit of the
Lordis thairof interponit thairto, and letters of publicatioun past thairupoun,
execuit at the Mercat Croce of the burrowis of Edinburgh and Striviling,
openlie interdytit in maist suir maner fra all contracting, alienatioun, and
away-putting of ony pairt of his landis and heretage in hurt of himself or his
airis. In respect quhairof, the alienationis and dispositionis quhilkis thay
wald have confermit be our said Soverane Lord ar voyd and null in thame-
selffis ; and yit, als lang as thai ar permittit to keip and detene the said
Edward straitlie in thair handis and cumpany, quhair the said Christiane hes
na acces to him, nather may he nor scho provide aganis the saidis pretendit
titillis and inordourlie proceidingis thairof, without that he be put in ane frie
place, quhair he may gif his awin declaratioun how he wes seducit and
compellit thairto, and thairefteir concur with hir to the redres and reparatioun
thairof; as alsua that he may repair and abyde with hir upoun that meane
portioun of his leaving assignit to thame, and in the menetyme treat and
interteny hir as it becummis the husband to do to his wife, conforme to
Goddis' law and ordinance.' — Charge had been given to Sir William
Sinclair of Roisling, and to William Sinclair, his second son, 'to have
comperit personalie and to have brocht with thame, exhibite, and presentit
the said Edward with all contractis, obligationis, charteris, and infeftmentis
quhilkis thay persuadit him to mak during the tyme thai detenit him fra the
said Christiane, and all seasingis tane thairupoun, befoir our Soverane Lord
and Lordis of his Hienes Secreit Counsale' ; and now, 'the said Christiane
Douglas comperand personalie, and the saidis Sir William Sinclair and
William Sinclair, his secund sone, comperand alsua personalie, quha exhibit
and presentit the said Edward Sinclair, at quhome it wes inquirit gif he had
maid dispositioun and alienatioun of his landis and heretage or ony pairt
thairof, quha dedarit that he hes disponit and maid securitie to the said
Williame Sinclair, his broder, of all landis and heretage quhilkis he had or
Herbertshire. I7S
mycht succeid to as air to his said fader,' the Lords, ' in respect of the said
Edwardis declaratioun quhairby it appeiris that he hes bein compellit and
movit be circumventioiin, to his greit hurt and disherissing, to gif over his
rycht of his haill leaving, alsweill of his said spous conjunctfie landis as
utheris, and to mak infeftmentis and alienationis thairof,' ordain ' all con-
firmationis of the saniin to be stayit, and intimation heirof to be maid to our
Soverane Lordis thesaurar, and to the keparis of the signet, privie and greit
seillis, and writtaris thairto and thair deputis, quhairthrow thay pretend na
ignorance of the samin, and in the menetyme that the said Christiane persew
for reductioun of the saidis infeftmentis befoir the judges competent as
accordis.' They also ordain ' the maser of Counsale to pas and charge the
said Edward to repair to the duelling hous of Johnne Fergussoun, maser, in
Edinburgh, within twa houris nixt after the said charge, and thair remain as
in ane frie place quhair his said spous may have acces unto him, and he to
abyde, adheir, treat, and interteny hir as his lauchfull wyfe heirefter, ay, and
quhill forder ordour be tane heiranent as appertenis, under the pane of
rebellioun and putting of him to the home, and, gif he failyie thairin, the
saidis tua houris being bipast, that the said maser or other officiur of armes
denunce him rebell and put him to the home, and to escheit, &c.'"'
"23rd September, 1583. — Caution by Thomas Vans and Archd.
Hoppringill, burgesses of Edinburgh, for Edward Sinclair, eldest son of
Sir William Sinclair of Roisling, that Christiane Douglas, spouse of the said
Edward, shall have peaceable access to him in his father's place of Roisling,
and that he shall appear before the Council on 13th November next to
' underly sic order as sal be tane in that behalf.' "°
Later on in the same year there is confirmation of a charter
under the Great Seal" granted by Edward Sinclair of Herbert-
shire, fiar of Rosslyn and Herbertshire, of all the lands, to his
brother-german, William Sinclair.
IV. — William Sinclair of Rosslyn and Herbertshire succeeded
his father and married Janet Edmondstone.'' There is a story
1 Reg. Privy CoimcU, Vol. III., pp. 568-9.
' Ibid., 600.
» R. M. S., 28th October, 1583.
* Edin. Com. Reo., 3rd October, 1593.
176 Herbertshire.
in reference to this lady in Pitcairn's " Criminal Trials " in con-
nexion with a witch called Agnes Sampson in Nether Keythe.
Agnes Sampson was tried 27th January, 1 590-1, and among the
charges against her was : " Item — fylit that scho being sent for
to the Lady Roslene, quha wes seik, scho knew be hir devilisch
prayer that the said Lady wes nocht liable to recover and
thairfore, scho wald nocht cum to hir.'" Among other entries
in the Privy Council Register about this laird is one in 1600 to
denounce John and Alexander Borthwick for not appearing to a
charge of having sent a challenge to him. Again, in 1605, Lord
Newbottle charges Sinclair of Rosslyn with killing wild fowl on
his property. Another entry tells that a certain Captain William
Rigg complains of being " fiercely assaulted " by a natural son
of the laird of Rosslyn — in 1608 — with swords, daggers and
gauntlets, and " reft of purse, cloak and sword." William Sinclair
sold the barony of Herbertshire to Alexander, Earl of Linlithgow,
in 1608. He had a son, Sir William Sinclair of Rosslyn, who
married Dame Anna Spottiswood, by whom he had issue. ^
LIVINGSTONE, EARL OF LINLITHGOW.
Alexander Livingstone, first Earl of Linlithgow, had a charter
under the Great Seal to himself and Dame Helen Hay, his wife,
22nd September, 1608, of the barony of Herbertshire. In his
earlier days he was known as Alexander, Master of Livingstone.''
1 Reg. Privy Council.
2 For further particulars of the Sinclairs of Rosslyn and Herbertshire, see Father
Hay's " Genealogy of the St. Clairs of Rosslyn," and Roland St. Clair's "The St. Glairs
of the Isles," &c. The family continued to exist till 1778, when William Sinclair of
Rosslyn, the last direct male heir, died. He had sold the barony of Rosslyn to the
Hon. James Sinclair Csecond sou of Henry, eighth Lord Sinclair of Herdmanston), who
died without issue, and the estates eventually descended to the Earls of Roaslyn,
as representatives of his second sister, the Hon. Catherine Sinclair.
' See " Livingstons of Callendar, &c.," by Mr. E. B. Livingstone, F.S.A.
Herbertshire. i77
Being warmly attached to the cause of the unfortunate Queen
Mary, he had been taken prisoner by the Regent's forces at the
capture of Dumbarton Castle in 1571. In 15S4 he was able to
render great assistance to the King in his successful attempt to
throw off the yoke of Gowrie by the prompt manner in which he
assembled his friends and retainers at Falkirk, and by his rapid
march on Stirling, which so disheartened the rebels that they
evacuated the Castle and fled before his arrival, whereupon he
took possession of the town and Castle in the King's name. In
1593, after the death of his father, he took his seat in Parliament
as seventh Lord Livingstone, and was appointed a member of the
Privy Council until the next meeting of the Estates. He was
entrusted with the care of the young Princess Elizabeth (daughter
of James VI.), who was afterwards to become celebrated as the
wife of Frederick, the Elector Palatine. This act of James gave
great offence to the ministers of the Kirk of Scotland, Lady
Livingstone, who was the only daughter of Andrew, eighth
Earl of Errol,' being a Roman Catholic, and at this period
threatened with excommunication by the Presbytery of Stirling
oiraccount of her being " an obstinat and profest papist." . . .
" Master Patrick Simpson, minister of Stirling, who had been the
means of bringing over several noble ladies to the true religion,
dealt also with my Lady Linlithgow, who was obstinate, and
affirmed that the Pope might not err in matters of faith, and
refused to argue with him, referring him to the doctors of
Sorbonne if he desired answers to his questions."
The Earl of Linlithgow,^ who had been appointed by the King
Keeper of the Palace of Linlithgow, as well as the neighbouring
Castle of Blackness, noticed in 1605 that part of the north
' "The Scots Peerage."
' Created Earl of Linlithgow before 13th January, 1601,
I?
178 Herbertshire.
quarter of the Palace was in an unsafe condition, and informed
the King of the fact, who thereupon gave instructions that the
necessary repairs should be effected. However, the officials who
had been entrusted with the repairs did nothing, and in con-
sequence, two years later, the whole northern quarter of the
Palace fell in, whereupon the Earl wrote the following letter to
the King : —
Pleas zour Most Sacred Maiestie,
This sext of September betwixt thre and four in the morning, the north
quarter of zour Maiestie's Palice of Linlythgw is fallin rufe and all within the
wallis to the ground, bot the wallis ar standing yit, bot lukis everie moment
when the inner wall sail fall and brek zour Maiestie's fontan. I had bene to
blame if I had nocht maid zour Maiestie forsein twa zeiris since with the estait
of it, bot saw na furtherance in thes your Maiestie's offisers, quhomto your
Maiestie gave directioune at that tyme for repairatioun of zour Maiestie's said
palice. Heirfore it will pleas zour Maiestie tak sik ordour thairanent as zour
hines thinks gude, and seing the taxatioune is grantit for repairing zour
Maiestie's housis according to zour hines directioune, I sail endeuor my selfe
to sie zour Maiestie's wille performit thairanent.
So praying God to grant zour Maiestie many happy and prosperous
day and long to ring over us.
Zour Maiestie's humble subiect and servant,
LiNLYTHGOW,
From zour M palice of Linlythgow, the 6 Sept, 1607.'
On 22nd December, 1612, there is a charter of Herbertshire
to Sir William Livingstone of Kilsyth, Senator of the
College of Justice, on the resignation of Alexander, Earl of
Linlithgow. Sir William is described as a man of " parts and
learning."
In 161 5 the estate passed from this owner to Alexander
Livingstone of "Penteskin" [Bantaskine]. This was probably
» AnaJecta ScoHca, p. 400. See " Livingstons of Callendar,"
Herbertshire. 179
only a wadset, for in 1632 there is a charter to Sir John
Blackadder of Tullialian, in which Alexander, second Earl
of Linlithgow, resigns the lands, and that same year (ist
December, 1632) there is a charter to John Stirling, son of
William Stirling of Achyle, on the resignation of Sir John
Blackadder.'
STIRLING OF HERBERTSHIRE.
I. — John Stirling of Herbertshire also had a Crown charter
of the lands of Little Denovan, dated 14th December, 1635.
John died without issue, and was succeeded before 1664 by
his nephew, William Stirling, eldest son of James Stirling of
Achyle.
II. (i). — William Stirling, second of Herbertshire, renounced
succession to James and William Stirling, his father and grand-
father, 31st October, 1667.^ As superior of the lands of Little
Denovan, William Stirling granted to David Forrester of Little
Denovan a charter of these lands, dated loth September, 1667."
William married (contract dated 13th February, 1672) Dame
Helen Sinclair, Lady Bannockburn, daughter of Sir William
Sinclair of Rosslyn, and niece of Sir Robert Spottiswoode of
Dunipace.
William Stirling died between ist April, 1678, and 31st
December, 1679. He had a sister married to an Alexander
Short. William Stirling was succeeded in Herbertshire by his
brother, George.
II. (2). — George, third of Herbertshire, was the second son of
James Stirling of Achyle. He had a Crown charter of Achyle
» See " Stirlings of Keir," by Sir William Eraser ; R, M. S, &c.
2 Glorat Writs, " Stirlinga of Keir."
' Denovan Inventory in Callendai Charter Chest,
i8o Herbertshire.
dated Sth July, 1676, and he disponed Achyle to his brother
Alexander in 167S. George Stirling, as superior of Little
Denovan, granted a charter to David Forrester of the lands of
Little Denovan, to be held for three blasts of a horn at the
house of Herbertshire, in name of blench farm, dated 31st
December, 1679.* George Stirling's name is among the
Stirlingshire members of the Darien Scheme (^^300)." This
laird married Jean Crichton, daughter of Sir Robert Crichton,
brother to William, ninth Lord Crichton of Sanquhar.' They
had three sons — (i) William, who succeeded; (2) John, who
became laird of Achyle, and (3) George, a surgeon in Perth in
17 1 5. There were also two daughters. George Stirling died
before 28th March, 1707.
III. (i). — William Stirling, fourth of Herbertshire, was re-
toured heir to his father in the lands and barony of Herbertshire,
28th March, 1707. In 1740 he disponed the lands of Gunnershaw,
part of Herbertshire, to Charlotte, Lady Forrester, widow of
George, Lord Forrester. On 2Sth April, 1718, William Stirling of
Herbertshire and Lady Lilian Forrester, " daughter to the noble
lord, William Forrester of Torwoodhead, compeared and gave
up their names for proclamation to marry," and they were married
30th April of that year.* They had a daughter baptised
Charlotte on ist March, 1719,' and another, Jean, 30th March,
1722. William Stirling died before 28th January, 175 1, and was
succeeded by his brother, John.
III. (2). — Captain John Stirling of Balwill, Achyle, and
fifth of Herbertshire, was the second son of George Stirling
1 Denovau Inventory.
- "Stirling Antiquary."
= " The Soots Peerage."
* Diinipaoe Session Kecords,
■> Ibid.
Herbertshire. i8i
of Herbertshire. He purchased Achyle from his cousin, William
Stirling, in 171 8, married Christian, daughter of Sir William
Stirling of Ardoch, and died at Herbertshire isth January,
1756, at an advanced age." He had a son, George, who
succeeded him, and a daughter, Jean.
IV. (i). — George, sixth laird of Herbertshire, died on 4th
July, 1760, without issue. He was succeeded by his only sister,
Jean.
IV. (2). — Jean Stirling,- seventh of Herbertshire and Achyle,
was married, first to Sir James Stirling of Glorat,' and secondly
to James Erskine, Lord Alva, but had no children. She
sold Herbertshire in 1768 to William Morehead of Cavendish
Square, of the parish of St. Mary-le-bone, Westminster, son of
Robert Muirhead.*
MOREHEAD OF HERBERTSHIRE.
I. — William Morehead, the new laird of Herbertshire, was
grandson of John Muirhead, bailie of Hamilton, said to be a
descendant of the Muirheads of Lauchope. He was entered
as a student in the Middle Temple in 1758, and succeeded to
considerable property on the death of his father's cousin,
William Morehead (the first to change his name to Morehead)
of Cavendish Square, London, in 1767." He married, in 1768,
Isabella, daughter of John Sinclair Lockhart of Castlehill and
Camnethan, in the county of Lanark, and grand-daughter of Sir
1 Scots Magazine.
2 There is a portrait of tliis lady in the '" Magazine of Art," Vol. XII., page 315 —
year 1889. Article by J. M. Grey : the draughtsman is John Brown.
' Scots Magazine (1751).
* Writs of Herbertshire, and family papers.
5 William Muirhead of Herbertshire appears to have changed his name to
Morehead at this time.
i82 Herbertshire.
John Sinclair of Stevenson, Bart. They had at least three sons—
(i) William, who succeeded to Herbertshire, (2) John, and (3)
Robert ; and a daughter, Charlotte Martha. There are interesting
notices of the family and estate in the " Life and Writings of the
Rev. Robert Morehead, D.D." William Morehead died in June,
1793, and appears to have been a friend of Lord Jeffrey, as the
following characteristic letter from Lord Jeffrey to John More-
head will show : —
"On the iSth of this month [June, 1793], we lost a most excellent man,
and an undoubted friend, in our worthy Mr Morehead, who died at Herbert-
shire on that day, after a short and distressing illness. A man whose
amiable and elegant manners were by far his least accomplishment ; whose
unruffled gendeness flowed from the purest benevolence of his heart ; whom
env-y could not injure, nor malice hurt. He was the only man I have ever
known whose character was eminent by virtue, without the taint of a single
vice ; the friend of the friendless, the peacemaker, the liberal. There is no
event that I at present recollect that has occasioned me more sorrow."
Lord Jeffrey' disponed about three acres of the lands of
Hydes" to William Morehead (II.) in 1826.
II. — William Morehead, second of Herbertshire, was educated
for the army, and was served heir to his father, 3rd October,
1793.° He married, i6th August, 1795, Marion, daughter of
T. Brown of Langside, Glasgow,* and had issue, a son, William,
Mving in 1836, and then residing at Glenfuir House, Stirlingshire';
also a son, who died young, and a daughter, Matilda, who was
married to Captain John Stedman Christie. She died at the age
' Lord Jeffrey and the Rev. Robert Morehead (afterwards of Herbertshire)
married sisters.
- Now incorporated with Herbertshire.
' Printed Service of Heirs.
* Scots Magazine.
» Writs of Herbertshire.
Herbertshire. 183
of twenty-one, leaving a son, Captain John Stedman Christie,
and a daughter, Matilda Morehead Christie,' who was married to
the Rev. James M'Farlan of Muiravonside, son of John M'Farlan,
advocate, of Ballancleroch, with issue. William Morehead sold
the estate of Herbertshire to his brother, Robert, in 1832,'^ and
died in March, 1834.
III. — The Rev. Robert Morehead, D.D., who purchased
Herbertshire from his eldest brother, William, was the third son
of William Morehead of Herbertshire and Isabella Lockhart,
and was born at Herbertshire 19th March, 1777. He was
educated partly in England, first at a school in Chelsea, then at
Southampton. Subsequently he went to the University of
Glasgow with his brother, John, as he tells in his autobio-
graphical notes. In 1795 he went from Glasgow to Balliol
College, Oxford, which decided his future career as a clergyman.
Dr. Morehead was at Herbertshire in 1786, and says "the
succeeding months I passed at Herbertshire are pleasing to my
recollection." He renewed acquaintance with the old servants
there — John M'Laren, the old gardener and general adviser
of his father, and Anderson Liddell, the forester, a stalwart
Scot, who lived in a romantic cottage in the woods overhanging
the Carron, and called from Home's play of " Douglas " — the
scene of which was this very spot — " The Cottage of the
Cliffs." Dr. Morehead took orders in the Church of England,
and became Rector of Easington, Yorkshire, having previously
been Dean of Edinburgh (1818-1832) and one of the clergymen
of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, York Place." At one time
1 Mrs. M'Farlan was buried in the family burying-ground of the Moreheada of
Herbertshire at Denny, 20th September, 1890.— Diary of Sir M. Connal.
^ Writs of Herbertshire.
' There is a window in the chancel of this church dedicated to his memnry by
his children.
1 84 Herbertshire.
he was Chaplain to H.R.H. the Princess Charlotte of Wales, and
was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He married,
27th November, 1804, Margaret, daughter of the Rev. Dr. Charles
Wilson, Professor of Church History in the University of St.
Andrews,' and by her had issue, four sons — (i) William Ambrose,
of the H.E.I. C.S., who was served heir to his father (who died
13th December, 1842), as heir special in Herbertshire, &c.=; and
(2) Charles, M.D., C.I.E., Madras Medical Service, born 8th
February, 1807, founder of native medical education in India,
married Harriett Anne, daughter of the Ven. George Barnes, D.D.,
first Archdeacon of Bombay, and died 24th August, 1882,'
leaving issue, a son, Charles Rivett, who died in 1852, and a
daughter, Harriett Anne ; (3) Robert Archibald Alison ; and (4)
George Jeffrey. The Rev. Robert Morehead had sold Herbert-
shire in 1836 to William Forbes of Callendar, Stirlingshire,
and we find him stating in a letter written in April, 1837,
that the house " is a mass of ruins, for [it] is remodelling."
William Ambrose Morehead, H.E.I. C.S., had a distinguished
career in India.* He married, in 1830, Catherine, daughter of
John Magrath of Bawn James, County Kilkenny, Ireland, and
by her had issue, one son, who died in infancy, and five daughters,
viz.: — (i) Mary Geraldine; (2) Margaret, married to Captain
Gunning Campbell, R.A.; (3) Kathleen Leonora; (4) Anne, and
(S) Georgina Caroline, married to the Rev. J. F. Bateman.
In the Dean Cemetery, Edinburgh, there is a tombstone
erected to him with the following inscription : — " Erected by
many old friends in affectionate remembrance of William
Scots Magazine.
Printed Service of Heirs.
Diet, of Nat. Biog.
Ibid.
Herbertshire. 185
Ambrose Morehead, for 36 years in the Madras Civil Service,
during which time he was for five years a Member of Council
and twice officiated as Governor of the Presidency. He died at
Edinburgh, ist December, 1863, aged 58 years." His daughters
were served his heirs portioners 27th December, 1865.* They
were also served heirs to their grandfather, the Rev. Robert
Morehead, D.D., on the same date.
Since the death of Mr. Boyd Dunlop Morehead, member
of the Legislative Council of Queensland, son of Robert
Archibald Alison Morehead, there has been no male repre-
sentative of the family of Morehead.
FORBES OF HERBERTSHIRE.
I. — William Forbes of Callendar, the next laird of Herbert-
shire, purchased the estate in 1836. He was born in 1806, was
Vice-Lieutenant of Stirlingshire and M.P. for that county, and
married, 14th August, 1832, Lady Louisa Antoinette Charteris-
Douglas, daughter of Francis, Earl of Wemyss and March. He
died 1 0th February, 1855, leaving a son —
H. — William Forbes, now of Herbertshire,- J. P. and D.L.,
born 3rd July, 1833.''
1 Printed Service of Heirs.
' William Forbes, Esq., of Callendar, is also proprietor of the lands of Denovan
(including Gunnershaw) and lugleston, in the parish of Dunipacc.
' See Burke's " Landed Gentry."
i86 Herbcrtshirc.
APPENDIX TO HERBERTSHIRE.
Name of Herbertshire (Page 167).
Without offering any solution as to the origin of the name of Herbertshire,
I would draw attention to the following facts. It is suggested by the Rev.
J. B. Johnston, in his " Place Names of Stirlingshire," that a certain Herbert,
who made gifts of portions of the lands of Dunipace to the Abbey of Cambus-
kenneth, circa 1200, may have given the name " Herbertshire " or " Herbert's
share " to the lands.
On pages 86-7 of the article on " Dunipace," it will be seen that this
Herbert was the son of Herbert de Camera, and at the time he made the
gifts to the Abbey the lands were in the barony of Dunipace, but later on we
find from various records that Herbertshire, which originally was only a
portion of the barony of Dunipace, became the principal barony, and
included the lands of Dunipace. (See page 87.) It will be noticed that John
Gifford, who is said to have married a daughter of Sir Thomas Moreham,
whose family possessed part of the lands of Dunipace, had a charter from
Robert I. of the lands of Dunipace (See page 86), and in the reign of
David II. Hugh Gifford of Yester, probably his son, grants a charter of the
lands of Herbertshire to a member of the house of Douglas.
CARBROOK
(Parish of Du7iipace.)
THE lands of Carbrook formed part of the barony of
Torvvood, for many generations the property of the
Forresters. They are mentioned in a charter under the
Great Seal granted to William Murray, eldest son and apparent
heir of Sir John Murray of Touchadam, and his wife, Elizabeth
Gibson, dated 17th June, 1624. In 1630, " Patrick Bruce of
Corsebruik " was one of the sufferers from the sliding of the moss
at that time.' Again they are mentioned in a charter under
the Great Seal to Mr. Thomas Nicolson of Carnock, advocate,
2Sth June, 1634, but as far as I can trace, the territorial
designation " of Carbrook " was not generally used till near the
end of the eighteenth century. The name appears in the writs
as " Carsbrouick," and is probably connected with the Gaelic,
catkair bruic, " fort or den of the brock or badger.""
In the index of writs of Carbrook there is a charter of
resignation by Dame Jean Stirling of Achyle, wife of the
Honourable James Erskine of Alva, 9th September, 1773, of
part of the lands and barony of Torwoodhead. Dame Jean
Erskine succeeded her brother, George Stirling of Achyle
and Herbertshire, in these estates. Carbrook was sold in 1794
to John Campbell, tertms, Writer to the Signet, and he had
a charter, 19th December, 1801.'
• Reg. Privy Council, Vol. IV., second series, 1630. See under Woodside.
' "Place Names of Stirlingshire."
' Writs of Carbrook.
1 88 Car brook.
John Campbell was admitted a Writer to the Signet 24th
November, 1785, and is designed eldest son of John Campbell,
Collector of Excise for the district of Inverness.' He married
Frances Brown, daughter of John Brown, Glasgow.' John Camp-
bell of Carbrook had, besides other children, a daughter, Jane
Mayne Campbell, who died at Edinburgh, 21st July, 1804.°
John Campbell died 14th February, 1821, and his trustees sold the
estate on 20th February, 1846, to James MacLuckie of Stirling,
father of Robert MacLuckie, writer, a well-known and respected
citizen of Stirling. James MacLuckie sold the estate in 1854 to
Joseph Cheney Bolton, of the well-known firm of Ker, Bolton
& Co., Glasgow. Mr. Bolton purchased the estate of Torwood
at Whitsunday, 1883, and thus became a very considerable
proprietor in Stirlingshire. He contested the county in the
Liberal interest in 1880 against Admiral Sir William Edmon-
stone, Bart, of Duntreath, and succeeded in winning the county
from the Admiral. Mr. Bolton represented the county from
1880 to 1892, when he resigned from ill health. He died 14th
March, 1901. For many years he was Chairman of the Caledonian
Railway Company. He married Miss Emma Higginbotham,
and had, besides other children, a son, Edwin Bolton, who
is now laird of Carbrook and Torwood. Mr. Edwin Bolton
married, in 1888, Eleanor Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Sir John
H. N. Graham, Bart, of Larbert, and has issue.
The mansion house of Carbrook was built before the year
1804, and was added to by Mr. J. C. Bolton in 1863. The old
portion was left, and forms the centre of the house as it now stands.
1 " History of the Writers to the Signet."
- There are some notes on this family in the Rev. Dr. E. M. Fergusson's " Logie."
See "Mayne Pedigree," Vol. II., facing p. 88, and pp. 209 and 211. In the " Mayne
Pedigree," Jane Mayne is stated to have married John Burn. This should be John
Brown,
' Scots Magazine.
QUARTER.
(Parish of Dunipace.)
THE earliest reference to the lands of Quarter which 1 have
been able to find is in 1426 (5th January), when John Ker
is designed "of Quattatar.'" In 1452, Elizabeth,
Agnes, Mariote, Margaret, and Marjory Airth" have a sasine of
Quarter, and in 1466 David Drummond has sasine of Quarter
and Carnock." The lands seem to have passed later on into the
hands of the Livingstone family, as on 9th November, 1630,
Alexander, Earl of Linlithgow and Callendar, granted a feu
charter of the lands of Quarter in favour of John Brown and
Barbara Young, his spouse."
BROWN OF QUARTER.
I. — John Brown, first of Quarter, and Barbara Young, had a
son, Alexander."
II. — Alexander Brown, second of Quarter, had a confirmation
of the lands as heir of his father in 1655.° He married and
' Cartulary of Cambuskenneth.
2 Exchequer Rolls.
0 'Ibid.
4 Writs of Quarter. In 1635 John Stirling of Herbertshire was the superior of
Quarter (R. M. S.)
" TbxA.
I90 Qyarter.
left the following children— (i) John, his heir; (2) William, of
Aikenhead, who married (contract dated 17th February, 1749)
Elizabeth Campbell, second daughter of James Campbell, gunner
in Blackness Castle ' ; (3) Alexander ; and a daughter, Margaret,
who is designed as " daughter of the deceased Alexander Brown
of Quarter," 2nd June, 1732.'
III. — John Brown, third of Quarter, succeeded his father in
1709. He married Elizabeth Forrester, and by her had issue —
(i) Alexander, born 1723; (2) John, born 1725; (3) Andrew,
born 1726 ; (4) William, born 1727 ; (5) James, born 1730 ; (6)
John, born 1732 ; and (7) Robert, born 1745.'
In 1744 John Brown of Quarter granted a disposition of the
lands to his eldest son, Alexander.
IV. — Alexander Brown, fourth of Quarter, was infeft in the
lands in 1768. He was a sugar refiner in Glasgow, and married
Elizabeth Stevenson, daughter of *Robert Stevenson, Paisley, by
whom he had issue — (i) Alexander, who died in infancy; (2)
another son, also named Alexander, his heir, born in 1752 ; and
a daughter, Elizabeth, born in 1756."'
V. — Alexander Brown, fifth of Quarter, succeeded his father,
and made up a title to the lands in 1776, and built the present
mansion house. He died in 1830, aged 78, and was succeeded
by his sister, Elizabeth Brown, who, by deed of entail dated
15th September, 1830, conveyed the lands to JOHN Harvie of
Shirgarton, county of Stirling, and the heirs of his body, whom
> Stirling County Bonds. William Brown is designed in thia contract, "brother
to John Brown of Quarter."
' Stirling Protocols.
' Dunipace Register of Births, and family papers in possession of J. A, Harrie-
Brown, Esq., of Dunipace and Quarter.
* Dunipace Register of Baptisms and family papers,
•" See chart on next page.
Qjjarter, 191
failing, to certain other persons. John Harvie of Shirgarton*
succeeded to the estate on the death of his relative, Miss Elizabeth
Brown of Quarter, on 4th February, 1832, and in accordance
with Miss Brown's wish, expressed in her deed of settlement,
assumed the surname of Brown. John Harvie-Brown of
Quarter and Shirgarton married Elizabeth Spottiswoode,
daughter and heiress of Thomas Spottiswoode of Dunipace,
and by her left an only son and heir, JOHN Alexander
Harvie-Brown of Shirgarton, Quarter, and Dunipace, who
is the present laird. °
» The relationship of John Harvie of Shirgarton to the Browns of Quarter was as
follows :—
♦Robert Steven3on=Elizabeth Gumming.
a daughter = — Leckie.
I Elizabeth = Thomas Forrester
Elizabeth I of Avngibbon,
of Quarter.
Marjorie = (1797) John Harvie
I of Shirgarton.
John Harvie-Brown
of Quarter and Shirgarton.
See under Dunipace.
192
Dunipace Parish.
Lands and Heritors in the Parish of Dunipace
NOT separately TREATED.
The undermentioned lands were at one time included in the barony of
Herbertshire : —
References to the Lands in
R. M. S. Charters.
Lands.
Barnego, Easter, ... 28th July, 1632 (No. 2048)
Barnego, Wester, ... Do.
Barnego, Middle, ... Do.
Braes and Broadleys, 14th Dec, 1635 (No. 431)
Braids or Boards, ... aSth July, 1632 (No. 204S),
Broomhill, 17th Dec, 1527 (No. 527)
Buckieside, 17th Dec, 1527 (No. 527)
Burnhouse, ..
Croflfoot,
Douchlage, ..
Greendyke, ..
Risk,
Stoneyinche,^
28th July, 1632 (No. 2048)
28th July, 1632 (No. 2048)
14th Dec, 1635 (No. 431)
14th Dec, 1635 (No. 431)
28th July, 1632 (No. 2048)
* Present
Proprietors.
... William Paterson
f John Gavin Dunmore
t Lang, Sydney, N.S.W.
... Mrs. M. P. Clarke
f Trustees of the late
(Mrs. Agnes Macfarlane
Robert Miller
Mrs. Helen Galloway
Mrs. H. Macfarlane
(Mrs. J. M. Air, wife of
< David Air, Dunmore,
( Dundee
5 Mrs. Margaret Bain,
( Stirling
("Mrs. J. M. Air, wife of
< David Air, Dunmore,
( Dundee
H. G. Henderson, Stirling
/John Collins, Ltd., Paper
\ Manufacturers, Denny
{The Rev. P. A. Wright-
Henderson, D.D., War-
den, Wadham College,
Oxford
See Valuation Roll of Parish of Dunipace, ]
Aljuded to as Stoneyend on p. 69,
CARRON COMPANY.
(Parish of Larbert.)
A HISTORY of the heritors of Larbert and Dunipace
would not be complete without some notice of the
Carron Company, which is a considerable heritor in
the parish of Larbert. This Company was constituted about
the end of the year 1759 as a private firm. The works
at Carron cover altogether about fifty-five acres, of which about
forty-two acres are in Larbert parish, and there are besides
nearly forty acres of water in their storage dams immediately
to the west of the works, and a similar area of open land.
The works were established in 1759, when Ur. Roebuck agreed
to take on feu from Sir Michael Bruce of Stenhouse fourteen
acres of land on the river Carron most convenient for the
erection of furnaces and forges, and for the construction of a
canal, waggon-way, &c. Further ground was acquired from
Sir Michael Bruce and his successors from time to time as the
works extended. In addition to the works, the Company owns
the lands of Crownest, adjoining the village of Stenhousemuir, a
considerable portion of which has been feued for the erection of
dwelling-houses. At various times the Company acquired pro-
perties in the adjoining parishes of Airth, Grangemouth, and
Bothkennar, and is also a proprietor in Denny, Muiravonside,
Kilsyth, and Slamannan parishes, chiefly in connexion with
its mineral operations.
13
194 Carron Company.
About the year 1770, the Carron Company resolved to make
a canal from the river Carron, and to form a dam or reservoir on
the Dunipace estate, and in the years 1774 and 1775 the
Company acquired some land from Mr. James Spottiswoode
of Dunipace for that purpose. The project, however, was never
completed, and ultimately the Carron Company re-sold the
lands."
The original partners of the Carron Company were Dr.
John Roebuck, physician, Birmingham ; Samuel Garbett, mer-
chant there ; William Cadell, senior, and William Cadell, junior,
both merchants at Cockenzie ; Benjamin Roebuck, merchant in
Sheffield ; and Thomas and Ebenezer Roebuck, merchants in
London, with a capital of ;^i2,cxx). The object was to smelt
iron ore and manufacture iron in various forms. The idea of
manufacturing iron in Scotland originated with Mr. William
Cadell, senior, of Cockenzie, who was a shipowner and an
extensive importer of iron and timber from Norway and Sweden.
He was born in 1708 (a son of William Cadell, merchant-
burgess of Haddington), and lived in Cockenzie House, now the
residence of his descendant. Colonel Thomas Cadell, V.C, C.B.,
where he died in 1777. He was a man of great enterprise and
energy, and was much concerned to improve and develop the
industries of Scotland, which were then in a very backward
condition. He wrote and communicated his ambition to Dr.
John Roebuck of Sheffield, the well-known friend and benefactor
of James Watt, and to Samuel Garbett of Birmingham.
The most distinguished name in connexion with the
Carron Company is that of Dr. John Roebuck. He was born in
1 Put of the laads were sold to Mrs. Harvie-Brown of Dunipace in 1879, and the
romaiadet to Sir John H, N. Graham of Larbert, The Company now holds no lands
belonging to the Dunipace estate.
Carron Company. i95
1718 at Sheffield, and was a good scholar, retaining through life
a taste for the classics. He studied medicine and took the
degree of M.D. at Leyden. He then devoted himself to
chemistry, which he applied to the industries of Birmingham,
and associated with himself a Birmingham merchant, Samuel
Garbett. Dr. Roebuck became a consulting chemist, and came to
Prestonpans, where he established a manufactory of sulphuric acid.
It is uncertain whether Roebuck was in Birmingham when he
turned his attention to the manufacture of iron. He was among
the first to re-introduce the smelting of iron ore by coke made
from pit coal ; and, further, to convert by the same agency cast
iron into malleable iron, an industry then non-existent in
Scotland, He thought of establishing such a manufactory at
Prestonpans, and from this idea resulted the formation of the
Carron Company for the purpose of manufacturing iron on a
large scale in Scotland. Messrs. Cadell & Sons of Cockenzie
had already made some unsuccessful attempts to manufacture
iron. Every arrangement of importance in the establishment
of the Company's works was due to Roebuck's insight and
energy.
Roebuck consulted John Smeaton, in whose published
reports' are to be found accounts of several of his ingenious
contrivances in aid of the operations at Carron. The chief of
these was the production of the powerful blast needed for the
effective reduction of iron by pit coal. The first blowing cylinders
of any magnitude constructed for this purpose were erected at
Carron by Smeaton about 1760.
The subsequent story of Roebuck's unsuccessful operations,
and of his friendship for Watt, who admitted that he must have
sunk under his disappointments if he " had not been supported
1 1812, Vol. I.
19^ Carron Company.
by the friendship of Dr. Roebuck," can be read in Snailes's
" Industrial Biography." Dr. Roebuck retained to the last
his faculties and his native good humour. He was much liked,
and the freedom of Edinburgh was conferred on him "for
eminent services done to his country." Dr. Roebuck lived
for many years at Kinneil House, where he died in 1794. He
was buried in Carriden parish, where there is a long and
eulogistic Latin inscription on his grave.' The establishment
of the Carron Works, and the improvements which he intro-
duced into the iron manufacture were of signal benefit to
Scotland. Not only was a new industry, which has since
become of great magnitude, originated in Scotland, but a much
needed impetus was then given to Scottish industrial enterprise.
It was after much correspondence and careful thought that
Carron was fixed on as the best place for a foundry. It had four
of the requisites — it was near the sea, iron ore was in the district,
and there was plenty of water and fuel. There were, of course,
many difficulties to overcome in the buildings, the fitting up of
the furnaces, and the bad roads for land transit, &c. It took,
for example, about three months for goods ordered in Birming-
ham to be delivered in Scotland. Often a month elapsed
without a ship sailing from London for the Forth. Then there
were no skilled furnacemen and moulders in Scotland, and these
had to be brought from Birmingham and Sheffield. This
importation of Englishmen was decidedly against the grain of
the Messrs. Cadell, who were extremely patriotic Scotsmen.
Mr. Garbett, however, had very decided views on this point, and
wrote, " It would be egregious folly to venture any other way
. . . but I hope when these men [Englishmen] have built us
one furnace, that we shall be able to build another without them
' See Diet, of Nat, lliog.
Carron Company. i97
as we will employ some Scotsmen as masons." This seemed to
mollify the Cadells. As the Rev. Mr. Bogle, in his interesting
pamphlet on the founding of Carron Iron Works says, " It
would be difficult to estimate the value of the services which
they [these Englishmen] have conferred upon Scotland. In this
way they were the pioneers in introducing into Scotland an
industry which, with its allied trades, is one of the chief sources
and mainstays of Scotland's present prosperity." One is struck
in reading over the correspondence about a site for the works
with the sagacity of Mr. Garbett. Several sites were suggested
as suitable for various reasons, some not unmixed with senti-
ment, such as the benefiting of a particular neighbourhood, but
Mr. Garbett went straight to the point. He writes, " Honest
men are too apt to think favourably of anything that will serve
their friends. . . . Everybody is apt to be attached to home
and particular situations, and amongst men of sense I have
frequently seen large sums of money laid out upon works in an
inconvenient place for no other reason than that it happened to
be the estate of the undertaker. The undertaking we are going
upon is of great consequence ; let us use our best understanding
in examining every likely place, and not leave the best places for
others to offer us opposition in. If the neighbourhood of
Prestonpans was equal to any other I would prefer it to any
other place . . . but let us examine every place attentively,
and choose the best." Mr. William Cadell, junior, also showed
great forethought, as we see from the following memorandum in
his notebook — " to place the situation of the several works, using
no more land than is necessary for compleat (sic) convenience,
and to remember we may some time have occasion to occupy
every yard of the land and drop of the water, and more if it was
there."
198 Carron Company.
At the close of 1759, or the beginning of 1760, operations
were begun with an air furnace ; the first blast furnace was not
completed till the end of 1760. For many a day Carron
continued to be the largest and most important foundry, not only
in Scotland, but in Europe. It received a charter of incorporation
from the Crown in 1773. The battles of long ago gave much
employment to the Carron Company. The famous guns which
Nelson used against the French were made at Carron.
In 1779 an Admiralty minute says, " Experiments have
lately been made of the utility of small pieces of cannon called
Carronades, and the Comptroller of the Navy . . . [has]
recommended the use of them. In 1781 trial was made of
an hundred pound Carronade mounted on a battery at Leith."
Wellington, in one of his dispatches (1809) says, "You have
omitted to require carriages for the Carronades.'"
The officers of the different branches of the service engaged
in Wellington's army gave a decided preference to Carron over
all the other foundries which were employed, as Carronades were
said never to have been known to burst.
The Carronade was invented by General Robert Melville,
the eminent military officer and antiquary. The credit of the
invention was at one time given to another, but the fact that the
Carron Company presented to General Melville's family a small
model of the first piece cast at Carron in 1779, with the following
inscription on it, seems to place the matter beyond doubt : —
" Gift of the Carron Company to Lieut.-General Melville, inventor
of the 'Smashers' and lesser Carronades." . . . They were
1 Two of the Carronades made in 1797, and brought back from Singapore, are now
in the grounds of the manager's house at Carron. and an 18-pounder made at Carron in
1791, and brought home by Mr. H. M. Cadell of Grange from Bellary Fort, Central
India, iu 1900, is now in the Victoria Public Park, Bo'ness, having been presented
by him to the town in commemoration of the King's coronation in 1902.
Carron Company. i99
first used against the French ships in 1779.' Philologists arc
indebted to this Company for having created a word for the
English language.
During the Boer war many men were employed at Carron
turning out the deadly pom-pom shells.
The first managing-partner of the Carron Company was
William Cadell, junior, the son of the originator of the works.
He was a man of remarkable energy and ability, and was
appointed managing-partner of the Carron Company when only
in his twenty-third year. He managed the works with con-
spicuous ability during the first struggling decade of the
Company's history. Fortune certainly seemed to favour the
Cadells, as whatever enterprise they engaged in seemed to
flourish, whereas most of the other original partners of Carron
fell upon evil days. It is still said in the district that had
there been no Cadells there would have been no Carron, as
the Cadells are believed to have nursed the Company through
its early critical times. William Cadell, junior, purchased the
lands of North Broomage, on which a considerable part of
the town of Larbert was subsequently built. In 1767 Messrs.
W. Cadell & Sons purchased the estate of Banton, in the
parish of Kilsyth, on which William Cadell discovered a
valuable seam of blackband ironstone. The other Carron
partners do not appear to have approved of this purchase,
apparently on account of the withdrawal of capital. In 1770
William Cadell, junior, writes justifying the purchase, and
showing that they (the Cadells) might have it in their power to
accommodate the Carron Company if ever it should be in want
of ironstone. He adds at the foot of his memorandum — " I have
for many years made myself a slave, spent my money, and
' See "Industrial Biography," Smiles.;
200 Carron Company.
neglected my family affairs to save Carron and its partners from
ruin. I shall continue to give all attention to its welfare, though
I will not neglect my family affairs in the manner I have done."
William Cadell, junior, felt himself ill-used after all his
labours to keep the Company from ruin, and retired from the
management in 1769. He lived at the old house of Carronpark,
which he built in 1763.'
In 1786 Mr. Joseph Stainton, who then became manager,
greatly improved the works, and by unremitting diligence in the
execution of orders, and great attention to the quality of the
goods offered to the public, placed the foundry in the high
position which it now holds in the estimation of the commercial
world. Another member of the Stainton family was a title-holder
and director of Carron. He and Mr. Jobson (another director)
were both famous entomologists, who made the greater part
of their unrivalled British collection' at the gangways of the
Carron furnaces. Henry Tibbats Stainton was the eldest son of
Henry Stainton of Lewisham, and was born in London in 1822.
He was educated almost entirely at home, and for several years
was engaged in business with his father, when, it is said,
in order to pursue his studies, he rose at five o'clock in the
morning. He was author of many works, and is considered
the greatest standard authority on British entomology."
As the original capital of the Company proved insufficient,
and additional capital had to be obtained, the number of partners
was increased in 1771, and the capital raised to ;^i50,ooo in
shares of ;^250 each.
^ For the above information about the Messrs. Cadell I am indebted to H. M,
Cadell, Esq., of Grange.
= A very iuje collection of moths was also made by the late Mr. John Dawson of
the Carron Company.
' See Diet, of National Biography.
Carron Company. 201
Some interesting information was given to me by Mr. George
Heggie,' foreman in the Pattern Works at Carron. Mr. Heggie
lias an hereditary interest in Carron — his father and grandfather
both having been in the employment of the Company. He has
in his possession the contract between the Carron Company and
John Heggie, his grandfather, dated 3rd September, 1793.
This John Heggie was a fireman coker, and was bound for five
years at a wage of seven shillings a week, the penalty for either
side breaking the contract being ;^20 sterling. What would the
workman of the present day think of such an arrangement as this?
Mr. George Heggie, who has been for fifty-two years in the
employment of the Carron Company, told me that the patterns
for the Carronades were kept in the shop in which he served his
time. In 1877, when the new works were erected, Mr. Heggie
was ordered to destroy all accumulations of patterns and articles
which had become obsolete. Among other things which he
destroyed were the patterns of the once famous Carronades.
Some years after the works had been in activity, the celebrated
engineer, Smeaton, who built the Eddystone Lighthouse, put up
the first blowing machine in Carron, and William Symington,
another famous engineer, put up the first steam blowing engine
at Carron. The machinery for the first practical steam vessel
was built at the Carron Iron Works in 1801 by Alexander Hart
from a new patent invented by William Symington. The lade
which runs through the estate of Carronvale was originally made
to feed the water wheels for the blowing machinery of the blast
furnaces, also for the boring-mill for the guns. In dry seasons
when the lade was getting low an atmospheric engine was used
for lifting the water out of the Carron and throwing it into the lade.
• Some further notes of details by Mr. George Heggie and the late Mr. MacKenzie,
another employee of the Company, will be found in the Appendix.
202 Carron Company.
All the most famous travellers in Scotland have recorded
their interest in the Carron Company. Pennant, writing about
1767, says that the Carron Works are the greatest of the
kind in Europe. Before they were founded " there was not a
single house [in the district], and the country a mere moor.
This work has been of great service to the country by
teaching the people industry and a method of setting about
any sort of labour which before the common people had
scarce any notion of Carron Wharf lies on the Forth, and
is not only useful to the works but of great service to
Glasgow."
In his travels, published in 1799, the French traveller, Faujas
de St. Fond' gives a most interesting description of his visit to
Carron, which he also describes as the greatest iron foundry
in Europe. He was greatly struck with the thunderous sound
and belching flames, which reminded him of a volcano in actual
eruption. Alexander Campbell, who published his "Journey
Through Scotland " in 1802, was also struck by this similarity to
a volcano.
A traveller of a very different kind, Dorothy Wordsworth,
who published her " Recollections of a Tour made in Scotland "
in 1803, has a note, under date 14th September — " I do not
recollect anything remarkable after we were out of sight of
Stirling Castle except the Carron Iron Works, seen at a distance.
The sky above them was red with a fiery light."
Robert Burns arrived one Sunday, and hoped to see the
famous works, but the fourth commandment was in those days
at least kept rigidly in the letter, and he had to go without
admittance. His equanimity was rather upset, and he
1 A new edition of this work has recently been published by Wr. Hugh Hopkins
of Glasgow.
Carron Company. 203
relieved liis feelings by writing the following lines on the
window pane of the little inn opposite : —
" We cam na here to view your warks
In hopes to be mair wise,
But only, lest we gang to Hell,
It may be nae surprise :
But when we tirl'd at your door
Your porter dought na bear us :
Sae may, should we to Hell's yetts come,
Your billie, Satan, sair us."
In later times, the works have been visited by the Russian
Emperor, Nicholas, in 1821, and by King Edward (then Prince
of Wales) in 1859.
But the history of the Carron Company is not confined to
the prosaic story of a great and successful commercial enterprise.
It has also had its romantic incidents, and its employees have
had exciting times in the far-off days. During the war with
France in the early years of last century, the Carron boats were
eagerly watched by the French, and several crews had the
unpleasant experience of being seized and taken to France as
prisoners. But tradition tells of an incident that might be
entitled " The Biter Bit." The French had several privateers
at the mouth of the Forth. A Carron boat put out and was
captured ; the crew, with the exception of an old man and a
boy, were taken on board the privateer. Several of the French
crew came on board the Carron Company's boat. These
ordered the man and boy to follow the track of the privateer to
France, while they went down to sample the goods and
provisions in the cabin. All was going on smoothly, when the
boy — moulded in heroic temper — received an inspiration. Down
to the cabin went he, locked the French securely in, and turned
204 Carron Company.
the boat back up the Firth. The story goes on to relate that
the crew of the privateer, thinking the change of course was
some move of the French on board, also turned and followed.
In the meantime, a British ship gave chase, and, capturing the
privateer, escorted it up to Leith, where a company of soldiers
marched the Frenchmen off to Edinburgh Castle, and the rest
is left to the imagination.
The Carron Company now possesses considerable estates in
Fife and Stirlingshire, and has expanded in many directions.
It has an engineering department and iron foundry, and in its
various branches the business of the Company includes that of
iron and coalmasters, shippers and shipowners, and employment
is given to five or six thousand hands.'
The main entrance to the Carron Works is surmounted
by a clock tower, bearing the well-known arms of the Company
— crossed cannon, with the motto, " Esto ferpetua.'"
' For further particulars about the Carron Company see "The Founding of
Carron Iron Works,'' by Rev. A. Is. Bogle; "The Statistical Account of Scotland"
(Stirlingshire) ; Article in Scotsman, 17th September, 1904 ; " Encyclopedia Brltan-
nica " ; " Industrial Biography," Smiles ; " Some Professional KecoUectious," by a
former member of the Incorporated Law Society, London, Bcntley, 1870; Priscilla
Watefield's " A Family Tour through the British Empire."
Carron Company. 205
APPENDIX TO CARRON COMPANY.
The first machines used at Carron Works for blowing the furnaces were
driven by water wheels about three feet broad. Each wheel drove the
pistons of four cylinders which were open at the top and supplied the
requisite blast for one furnace. Four of these machines were used, as the
Company had erected four blast furnaces. These machines were designed
by Smeaton, the engineer of the present Eddystone Lighthouse. The second
blast engine was a steam engine, and was made at Carron according to the
designs of the great Symington, whose engines were much used before
James Watt's invention. The third blast engine was made at Carron, and
was erected about 1828 by a man of the name of Macdonald. Neither of
fhese two steam engines had a fly wheel. The latter of these two engines
was discarded early in the si.\ties. The third steam engine for working the
blast was of the James Watt type, and was erected in 1863. It had a fly
wheel, and is in use at the present time. It was also made at Carron.
Some of the older inhabitants of the district will remember a large
number of blocks of sandstone, measuring from three to four feet each way
lying on a piece of vacant ground outside the works, but which is now
within the walls. It was long a mystery what these stones were used for,
but it now appears that they were used for the bottom of the old cold blast
furnaces. The stones left over were probably used in the last reconstruction
of the works.
It has often been stated that the stones, of which " Arthur's Oon " was
built, were used to build a dam across the Carron to supply water power, but
this dam no longer e.\ists, having been washed away soon after it w^ts built.
Its site was just below that part of the present railway which connects the
Carron Works with the North British system near Grahamston.
At present there is only one water wheel in use at Carron, and it is
an old-fashioned horizontal turbine of a well-known type. The mill to
the south of Larbert House, where grates and other articles, after being
floated up the lade, were polished, and which was, with some land known as the
Volley, originally a feu off Dunipace estate, was within recent years bought
by Sir John Ciraham of Larbert, but is not now in use. Sir John acquired at
the same time the Dunipace Mill, which was also originally a feu by the
Carron Company from the proprietor of Dimipace. This mill was sold by
2o6 Carron Company.
Sir John Graham to Mr. Harvie-Brown. When it was used by the Carron
Company it was a Black Mill, i.e. a mill for grinding wood charcoal,
which is used with the sand in making castings.
It is also interesting to know that the dam or weir below the Manse at
Larbert House which supplies the water to the mill-lade leading to Carron
Works, soon after it was first built began to give way, and the great Scottish
engineer, Telford, was called in to put it right, and made the present dam.
There used to be a horse tramway from Carron to Bainsford Basin
which was connected with the Forth and Clyde Canal, and was chiefly used
for conveying castings from the works to the canal and bringing minerals
from the canal to the works. This tramway was led across the Carron River
on a cast-iron bridge. It was superseded in i860, when the present steam
railway was made, but it was only recently that the cast-iron bridge was
removed. Had the Falkirk and District Tramway Company started a
generation ago, when it was first suggested, the Company might have had
the use of this track as far as it runs parallel with the public road.'
1 The above notes were collected by Mr. George Shorriflf of Carronvale from
Mr. Hoggie and the late Mr. MacKenzle, employees of the Carron Company,
INDEX.
AcoRAMBONT, Marohese, 41 (n,)
Adnra, Aroliibald, I6G (n.)
Francis, Glasgow, 166
Sir Frank Forbes, 166
Jaraos Graham, Donovan, 166
— Jane, 166
Agnow, Sir Andrew, of Lochnaw, 24
Margaret, 24
Aikenhead, Mr. James, 98
Airlie, fifth Lord Ogilvio of, 101
David, sixth Earl of, 79
Aitken, James, of Darroch and Glen-
borvie, 74
Airth, Agnes, 189
Elizabeth, 189
Margaret, 189
Mariote, 189
Marjory, 189
Alexander, Lieutenaut-Colonel Edward
Mayne, of Westerton, 156
Tsar of Russia, 80
Janet, 10
William, of Menstrio, 10
Sir William, of Moustrie (Earl of
Stirling), 96
Allan, Adriana, 38
David, artist, 118 (n.)
Elizabeth, 118 and n.
James, 118
Jonet, 11
Ambrose, Catherine, 155
Angus, Earl of (Gilbert do Umfraville),85
Angus, second Earl of (Gilbert de Um-
fravillo), 85
third Earl of (Robert do Umfra-
villo), 85, 86
Matilda, Countess of, 85
Anno of Denmark, wife of James VI., 32
Argent, Adam de, 58
Marjor3', 58
Armstrong, iMajor William Bruce, 15
Arnot, Christian, 61
Arugibbou, Lauds of, 136
Arran, James, Earl of, 2
" /Vrthur's Oon," 24, 26, 27
Auchmoutie, Elizabeth, 59
James, 59
Baillib, Adam, 150
Alexander, 150
Bethia, 53
James, 149
James (afterwards Lord Forrester),
149, 150
John, of Letham, 20, 149
John, of Castlecary, 53
General William, of Torwoodhead,
xix, 21, 148-149
Sir William, of Lamington, 148
William, 150
Baird, Janet, 2
William, & Co., Ltd., Glasgow, 166 (n.)
Balfour, Gilbert, of Westraw, 129
Index.
Balfour, Michael, of Montquanny, 19
Ballok, Ann?, 2 (a.)
Barclay, David, of Mathers, 96-7
Sir David, of Brechin, 167
James Robertson, of Cavill, 71
Mary Robertson, 71
Barnes, Ven. George, D.D., Archdeacon
of Bombay, 184
Harriet Anne, 184
Barrett, Elizabeth, 72
Bartolucci, Vincencio, 56
Bateman, Rev. J. F., 184
Battoni, Pompeo, artist, 41 (n.)
Beaufort, Queen Joan (wife of James I,),
107 (n.;
Bell, John, 81
Bellenden, Katherine, 171
" Bellona," French Privateer, 116
Birnie, Sir Andrew, of Saline, 151
Margaret, 151
Bisset of Quarrell, 45-7
- — in Stirlingshire, 45, 46 (n.)
Alexander, of Quarrell, 46
John, of Quarrell, 47
Katherine, 47
Robert, of Quarrell, 57
Robert (2), of Quarrell, 47
- — Robert, senr., of Quarrell, 46
Thomas, yr., of Quarrell, 46
Thomas, of Quarrell, 46, 47
Blackadder, Sir John, of Tulliallan, 179
Blunt of Kempshott Park, 118 (n.)
Bogball House, 107 (n.)
Bogle, Rov. A. N., 197
Boig, John, of Bumhouse, 124
Bolton, Edwin, of Carbrook, 152, 188
Joseph Cheney, of Carbrook, 152, 188
Borthwick, Alexander, 176
Elizabeth, 170
Hon. Maiy Catherine, or Spens, 73
John, 17G
William, third Lord, 170
Bothkonnar, Lauds of, 51
Bothwell, Dame Margaret, 136, 137
Boultbee, Charlotte Anne, 55
Joseph, of SprLngBeld, Wanvickshire,
.55
Boyd, Isabel, 125
John, of Trochrig, 23
Margaret, 23
Robert, 37 (n.)
Robert, in Drum, 31
Robert, Lord, 125
Brisbane, Thomas, 25
Brooke, Mary, 8
Sir Richard, of Norton, 8
Broomage, Lands of (Bnimeinch, Bremis,
&c.), 76, 77
North, Lands of, 82
Broun, Edmond, " pyper," 3
Brown of Hartree, 1 29
of Quarter, 189-191
Alexander, 21
- — Alexander (1), portioner of Broom-
age, 77
Alexander (2), 77, 78
Elizabeth, of Quarter, 191
Frances, 188
Helen (wodwyf), 129
James, of Broomage, 77, 78
John, Glasgow, 188
John Alexander Harvie-, of Quarter
and Dunipace, 118, 119,121 (n.), 191
John Harvie-, of Quarter, 119, 191
Margaret, of Crofthead, 77
Marian, 182
Sir Patrick, of Coalston, 21
T., of Langside, Glasgow, 182
William, of Aikenhead, 190
Browning, Mrs Barrett, 72
Bruce of Kinnaird, xv, 30-42
of Stenhouse, xv, 15-28
of Woodside and Lethbertschiells,
59-64, 75
Major Alexander, of Airth, 26
Sir Alexander, of Airth, 143
Index.
209
Brace, Alexander, of Bangonr, 19, 20
Sir Alexander, of Brigheame, 16
Alexander, fourth of Kinnaird, 37
Sir Alexander, fifth of Stenhouse, 19,
20,31
Alexander, of Stenhouse(c. 1451), 59
Alexander, of Stenhouse, 15, 16 and
n., 30
Andrew, 17 (n.)
Lt.-Colonel Andrew, 21
Mr. Andrew, sixth of Woodside
(Alloa), 61 (n.)
Anna, 21
Anthony, lil
Archibald, of Keunet, 161
Beatrix, 75
Catherine, 75
Christian, 75
Sir David of Clackmannan, 19
Sir David, second of Kinnaird, 30
David, sixth of Kinnaird, 38
Edward, of Kinnaird, 16, 30
Edward, first of Kinnaird, 30
Edward, of Kinnaird, 19 (n.)
Edward, fourth of Kinnaird, 30, 31
Lady Elma, of Kinnaird (See Lady
Thurlow), 42
Helen, 37
Helen, fifth of Kinnaird, 37 and n.
James, seventh of Kinnaird (the
" Traveller "), xix, xx, 38-41, 54
James, eighth of Kinnaird, 41
— — James, of Capelrig, 18
James, 75.
Janet, of Letham, 20
Janet, 148
John, of Airth, 20
Sir John, of Airth and Stenhouse,
16 and n., 17
John, 75
Captain John, ninth of Woodside
(Alloa), 75
Sir John, of Kincavil, 19
14
Bruce, Lucas, of Cultmalundie, 16
Marian, 18
Mary Elizabeth, ninth of Kinnaird
(Mrs. Cumming-Bruce), 42, passim
Mary, 48, 49
Michael, 24 and n.
Sir Michael, sixth Bart, of Sten-
house, 24
Sir Michael, eighth Bart, of Sten-
house, 25
Ninian, third of Kinnaird, 30
Patrick, of Coraebruik, 61
Patrick Crawford, of Glenelg, 24
Patrick, 143
Patrick, of Newton, 20
Rachel, 50
Robert, of Airth, 17
Sir Robert, of Airth, 15
Robert, of Auchenbowie and Car-
nock, 16
Sir Robert, of Clackmannan, 37
Mr. Robert, first of Kinnaird, xvii,
xviii, xix, 19 and n., 20, 31-36, 37,
48, 147
Mr. Robert, second of Kinnaird, 37
Colonel Robert, third of Kinnaird, 37
Robert, of Kinnaird, 21
Robert, third of Stenhouse, 17
Robert, fourth of Stenhouse, 18
and n.
Sir Robert, fifth Bart, of Stenhouse,
24
Robert, a priest, 20
Robert, third of Woodside, 61
Robert, of Woodside, 75, 144
Robert, seventh of Woodside (Alloa),
75
Robert, eighth of Woodside (Alloa),
75
Mr. Thomas, first of Lethbert-
schiells and Woodside, 17, 59
Thomas, second of Lethbertschiells
ajid Woodside, 59-60
Index.
Bruce, Thomas, fourth of Lethbertschiells
and Woodside, 61
Thomas, of Woodside (Alloa), 75
William, 23
William, apparent of Airth, 19, 20
William, younger of Airth, 142
Sir William, first Bart, of Sten-
house, 20, 50, 149
Sir William, second Bart, of Sten-
house, 21
Sir William, third Bart, of Sten-
house, 22
Sir William, fourth Bart, of Sten-
house, 22 and n.
Sir William, seventh Bart, of Sten-
house, 25, 40, 56
Sir William, ninth Bart, of Sten-
house, 25
Brumeinche (See Broomage), 2
Buchanan, A. W. Gray, of Parkhill, 47 (n.),
72 (n.)
John, M.D., 112. His wife, 112
Susan, 112
Burn, List in Appendix of simdry
families and members of families of
the name from 1480 onwards, 10-13
Burn or Bume family of Larbert, 5-6
Agnes, 6
Edward, of Lisbon, 12
James, of Chalmerstone, Quoiggs,
&c., 12, 156
James, Bailie, 12
James, 156
John, in Gogar, 12
John, of Larbert, 77
John (1), portioner of Larbert, 5
John (2), of Larbert, 5
John (3), 6
John (4), 6
John, epitaph on, in Larbert church-
yard, 6
Marion, 12, 156
of HiU, 11
Bum or Burne, Robert, merchant burgess
of Stirling, 12, 156
Robert, burgess of Stirling, 5, 162
Thomas, 5
WiUiam, of Coldoch, 12
Bum-Callendar of Preston Hall, Wester-
ton, &c., 12
Bum-Murdoch of Gartincaber, Neuck,
and Greenyards, 12
Burns, Robert, 202, 203
Bumey, Fanny, quoted re James Bruce of
Kinnaird, 41
Butter Cor Butler), John, of Kirkland, 21
Cadell of North Broomage, &c., 82-3.
James John, of Grange, 83
John, of Cockenzie, 82 (n.)
Henry, of North Broomage, 83
Henry Mowbray, of North Broom-
age, &c., 83 and n.
Robert, of Ratho, 82 (n.)
Colonel Thomas, V.G., C.B., 194
WUliam Archibald, 82
William, of Cockenzie, 82
William, of North Broomage, 82
WilUam, W.S., of North Broomage,
83
William, senior of Cockenzie, 82, 194
William, junior, 82, 194-197
WUliam, Haddington, 194
" Caich," game of, 136
Caithness, Lady (Lady ilargaret Prim-
rose) 110 and n.
WiUiam, second Earl of, 170
Callendar, Alexander, Earl of, 2
Alexander, Lord Livingstone of, 90
Ann, Countess of, 2
James, Earl of, 2, 99
Cambusbarron, I.ands of, 138
Camera, Herbert de, 85, 122, 186
Herbert de, son of Herbert de C, 86
Campbell, Mr Adam, of Gargunnock, 5 1, 52
Index.
Campbell, Alexander, traveller, 202
Anna, 51
Colonel Dugald, 8
Elizabeth, 190
Edward, of Denovan, 160
Captain Gunning, G. J., ISi
James, 190
James, sou of John of Moy, 37
Jane Mayne, 188
John, Collector of Excise, 188
John, tertius, W.S„ of Carbrook, 187
John, of Moy, 37
Margaret, 8
Carbrook, 187
Carnegie, Lady, of Pitarrow, 104 (n.)
Carron Co., xx, 193-206
Carronades, 198, 201
Carron Hall, Lands of, 43
Carronvale, 76
Carstairs, Euphan, 50
Sir John, of Kilconquhar, 50
Cathcart, Marion Harriet, 25
Mary Ann, 25
Robert, of Drum, 25
Chalmer of Chalmerstone, 122, 155.
of Gadgirth, 9
Edward, of Chalmerstone, 122, 155
Edward, yr., of Chalmerstone, 122
Major Francis Day, 9
• James, burgess of Edinburgh, 122
James, of Gadgirth, 122
Janet, 122, 155
Jean, 122
William, writer, Edinburgh, 122
Mr. William, 122
Chalmers, Alexander, of Larbert, 2, 6, 7
Robert, of Larbert, 7, 78
Chambaud, Comte de, 68
Charles Edward, Prince, 112, 113
Charteris-Douglas, Lady Louisa Antoin-
ette, 185
Cholmeley, Mary, 165
Sir Montague, of Easton, 165
Christie, Captain John Stedman, 182
Captain John Stedman (2), 183
Clark, William, 22, 23
Clarke, Jane, 25
William, 25
Claverhouse, John Graham of (Viscount
Dundee), 104 and n.
Lady (Viscountess Dvmdee), 104 and
n.
Cockburn, Agnes, 138, 154
George, of Ormiston, 151 andn.
John, of Ormiston, 151 (n.)
John, of Ormiston, 138
- — - Sir William, of Langton, 64
Colvill, Margaret, 94
Colvin, Alexander, 118 and n.
Elizabeth, 118 and n.
Sidney, author, &c., 118 (n.)
Colvyl, Sir William, of Kinnaird, 29, 30
Connal, Michael, Provost of Stirling, 156
Patrick, banker, Stirling, 155 (n.),
156
Connell, Anne Patricia Craigie, 73
Arthur, Provost of Glasgow, 71, 72
David, 73
Copland, William, of Collision, 69
Corstorphine, John, Master of, 150
Laird of, 143
Cowane, Andro, 3
Craigengelt, Laird of, and his son, 91
Craigie, Mr., 164
Crawford, James, jr., 71
Jane Tucker, 71
of RochsoUes, daughter of, 31
Crechtoun, George, 46
Jonet, 46
Crichton, Agnes, 170
Jean, 180
Lady, 2
Sir Robert, 180
William, ninth Lord of Sanquhar, 180
Cromwell, Oliver, 7
Gumming, Charles Lennox, 42
Index.
Cumming, Elizabeth, 191
Emmie, 11
Cumming-Bruce, Elizabeth Mary, of Kin-
naird, afterwards Countess of Elgin,
42
Cumming- Gordon, Sir Alexander, 42
Cunningham or CunnLughame, Adam, 164
of Boquhan, 164
Janet, 104
Mrs. Janet, Lady Dunipace, 6
Jean, 164
John, of Enterkin, daughter of, 101
Sir John, of Caprington, 104
John, 114 and n.
Sir William of Caprington, 114 (n.)
Cunninghame-Fairlie, Anne Colquhoun, 25
Sir WUliam, of Fairlie, 25
Dalgleish of Tunnygask (or Dunnygask)
and Foulford, 12 (n.)
James, of Tunnygask, 12 (n.)
Janet, 12, 156
Robert, of Tunnygask, 12, 156
Bailing, Sir Charles, 8
Dalmahoy, Sir John, of that ilk, Bart., 48
Dalmeny, John, Lord, 114 and n.
Dalrymple, J. D. Gray, of Woodhead, 130
Davidson, Duncan, of Tulloch, 56
Mary, 56
Denovan, Lands of, 160 and n.
Dick, Sir Alexander, Bart, of Preston-
field, 113 and n., 114 (n.)
Sir James, Bart, of Prestonfield,
114 (n.)
Janet, 114 (n.)
Donaldson, Helen, 154
Douglas, Sir Archibald, of Glenbervie
(Kincardineshire), 73
Archibald, third Earl of, 168
Archibald, fourth Earl of, 168, 169
Christian, 172-173
Egidia, 168
Douglas, Lady Elizabeth, 107 (n.)
Sir George, of Parkhead, 33, 178
Helen, 21, 50
Sir James de, of Lothian, 167
James, of Parkhead, 33
James, Lord, 167 '
Captain James, 52
Sir John, 167
John, of Herbertshire, 167
Lady Lousia A. Charteris, 185
■ Margaret, 73
Lady Margaret, 169
Marion, 33
Martha or Margaret, 33-37
Robert, Bishop of Dunblane, 73
Sylvester, 73
Sylvester, Baron Glenbervie, 73
Sir William, of Cavers, 21
William de, 168
Sir William, of Nithsdale, 168
Drummond, Alex., of Balhaldies, 71
Sir Alexander, of Carnock, 59
David, 189
George, of Blair Drummond, 52
Helen, 18
James, of Blair Drummond, 51
Mr. John, 51
John, of Slipperfield, 139-141
Marian, 59
Dimbar of Woodside, 67-9
Sir George, of Mochrum and Wood-
side, 65
Sir George, second Bart, of Moch-
rum, 67
Sir George, fourth Bart., 69
Hamilton, 69
Helen, 69
Sir James, first Bart, of Mochrum, 67
Sir James, third Bart., 68
Janet, 69
Ludovic, of Westfield, 68
Mary, 69
Major William, 68
Index.
213
Dunbar, Sir William Rowe, Bart., 69
House, 68
Dundas of Garron Hall, 52-56
Mrs., of Carron Hall— Anecdotes of
James Bruce, the "Traveller," 40
Mary, 39, 54
Lieut. - Colonel Joseph, fourth of
CarronHall, 56 and n,, 130, 152
Major-General Thomas, of Carron
Hall, 54, 55
— Colonel Thomas, third of Carron
Hall, 55
Thomas, of Carron Hall, 39
Bailie Thomas (Edinburgh), 52
Thomas, of Carron Hall, M.P., 53
Thomas, younger of Fingask, 152
Thomas George, fifth of Carron Hall,
56
Dunipace, Lord, Mr. Alexander Living-
stone, 90
Lord, Sir Robert Spottiswoode, 97
Brooch, 84
— Chapel of, 86
Fire at, 119
Hawks kept at, by Alexander IH.,
85
House, 84, 104, 118
James VI. at, 94
Lands of, 84, 87 (n.)
Mounds of, 84
Edmonstone, James, of Newton, 145
and n.
Janet, 175
Edward VII., King, 203
Egidia, Piincess, daughter of Robert II.,
168
Elgin, James, eighth Earl of, 42
Elibauk, Patrick, Lord, 99
Elphinstone of Quarrell, 47-52 I
Alexander, second Lord, 91 I
Alexander, fourth Lord, 47, 57, 64 I
Elphinstone, Alexander de, 15
Alexander, of Kildrummie, 48
Charles, Lord, 55
Elizabeth, 46
Sir George, of Blytliswood, 47
Dame Helen, 04, 65
Mr. James, 47
James, of Barns, 49
James, of Woodside, 47
Jean, 49
Margaret, 37, 91
Michael, of Quarrell, 21, 37
Michael, first of Quarrell, 47-48, 57
Michael, third of Quarrell, 50
- — Michael, fifth of Quarrell, 52
Sir Robert, second of QuarreU, 22,
49
Robert, fourth of Quarrell, 51
Errol, Andrew, eighth Earl of, 177
James, Earl of, 7
Erskiue, Hon. Catherine, 91
Elizabeth, 138
James, Lord Alva, 181
Jean, 139
John, of Dun, 139
John, fourth Lord, 91
John, of Balgony, 162
Margaret, 128, 162
Robert, Lord, 138
Erth Bisset, Lands of, 46
Ewing, James, of Strathleven, 71
William Leokie, of Arngomery, 72
Ferguson, William, of Raith, 7
Fife, Robert, Earl of, 58-9
Fleming, David, of Biggar, 132
— Jean, 20
John, fifth Lord, 20
Dame Margaret, 148
Lady JIargaret, 107
Forbes, Catherine, 71
Index.
Forbes, Waiiam, of Callendar, M.P., 72,
165 and n., 185
William, of Callendar, 76 (n.), 185
and n,
Forrester, List of various landowners of
this name in alphabetical order, 153
Family, Extracts from Register of
Priry Council, 140-145
• of Corstorphine and Torwood, 148
of Denovan, xix, 160-164
Charge of assault against, 144-145
of Torwood, Garden, Gimnershaw,
and Skipinch, 133-148, 153
of Chalmerstone, 154
Adam, 133
Alexander, of Eoquhane, 60
Alexander, of Chalmerstone, 12, 162
Sir Alexander, of Corstorphine, 136,
151
Alexander, of Myathill, 144
Alexander, of Torwood, 59, 60,
138
Alexander, of Torwood (c. 1463), 132,
133
Alexander, burgess of Stirling, 122,
143, 154, 155 and n.
Alexander, 136
Andrew, W.S., 121 (n.), 153
Andrew, in Boquhan, 153
Anna, 156
Annabel, 64 (n.)
Archibald, 133
Barbara, 96
Charlotte, Lady, 180
Sir David, of Torwood, 138
Mr. David, Minister of Leith, 137
David, of Logie, Murder of, 142-144
David, of Denovan, 5, 148, 161
David (2), of Denovan, 163
David, 143
David, of Logie, 59
Duncan, of Arngibbon, 160
Duncan, of Culmoir, 143
Forrester, Sir Duncan, of Gnnnershaw,
Skipinch, Torwood, Garden, xv,
134, 135 (n.), 137, 151
Duncan, of Puldoir, 144
Duncan, of Queenshaugh, 154
Duncan, in Kepmad, 138, 139, 154
Mr. Duncan, 155
Duncan, burgess of Stirling, 155
Edward, notary, Stirling, 155
Elizabeth, 160
George, fifth Lord, 151
George, Lord, 148, 150
George, sixth Lord, 151
George (1), in Shiphaugh, 154
George (2), in Shiphaugh, 154
Grizzel, 160
The Hon. Harriet, 151
Sir James, of Torwood, xviii, 96, 145,
146
Sir James, of Torwood (c. 1528),
138, 154
James, 143, 148
James, apparent of Culmoir,147
James, in Kepmad, 154
Mr. James, of Logie, 161, 162
James, 6 1
James, of Myathill, 138, 139
Janet, 16, 18, 161, 162
Janet, Abduction of, 135
The Hon. Jean, 149
John, of Denovan, 139, 160
John, of Logie, 137, 144
John, 133
John, of Cookspow, 155
Hon. Lilias, 150
Lilias or Lilian, 151, 180
Malcolm, 2
Malcolm, of Pettintostate (Bantas-
kine), 132 (n.)
Malcolm, of Torwood, 16, 134
Margaret, 148, 151, 155
Marian or Mariote, 137
Marjorie, 191 (n.)
Index.
215
Forrester, Matthew, Provost of Stirling,
134 and n., 135
Robert, of Torwood, 132, 133, 134 (n.)
Robert, 61
Robert, Bailie of Stirling (1360), 132
or Foster, Robert, 4
Robert, of Pettintoskane (Bantas-
kine), 134
Robert, of Queenshaugh, 161
Mr. Thomas, Regent, St. Andrews
University, 163
Thomas, of Arngibbon, 191 (n.)
Thomas, of Cranock, 137
Thomas, of Myathill, 61, 138
Mr. Thomas, 162
— Sir Walter, of Torwood, 18, 137
Walter, of Ciilmoir, 147
Walter, of Stirling (1457), 135
Walter, Bishop of Brechin, 133
Walter, apparent of Puldoir, 144
William, burgess of Stirling, 157
— William, 161
William, fourth Lord, 150, 151
William, seventh Lord, 151
William, Bailie of Stirling (1411), 133
William, Lord, 180
Mansion, 139
Aisle (West Church, Stirling), 136, 161
Forresters, List of, in Stirling Council
(from 1360-1654), 157-159
Forsyth of Harthill (Clydesdale), 136
Margaret, 136, 137
Fortune, Jean, 21
Foulis, Mr. Adam, will of, 129
of Colinton, 101 and n.
Elizabeth, 8
George, first of Ravelston, 128
George, second of Ravelston, 101
Henry, of Colinton, 128, 129
James, of Colinton, 128
John, 112
Sir John, Bart, of Ravelston, 8,
101, 102-3, 107 (n), 126, 127
WUliam, of Woodhall, 101
Gair, W. K., writer, 81
Garbett, Samuel, Birmingham, 194
Garden-Forrester, Barony of, 137
Gardnar, Thomas, of Donovan, 87, 160
Gairdner, James, of Skeoch, 161
Ged, , 75
Gervaise f.amily, 146 (n.)
Gibson, Alexander, of Durie, 104 (n.)
Elizabeth, wife of Sir John Murray
of Touchadam, 187
— Elizabeth, 41 (n.)
GifEord, Hugh, laird of Tester, 167, 186
John, 86, 186
Gilbert, Michael, goldsmith, Edinburgh,
128
Mr. Thomas, advocate, 128
Sibilla, 128
Glas of Sauchie, 156 (n.;
John, of Sauchie (1), 105, 106 (n.)
107
John, of Sauchie (2), 110 and n. ;
Sisters of, 110
John, of Stirling, 156
John, merchant burgess of Stirling,13
John, Provost of Stirling, 156
Marian, 156
Glen, Agnes, 38
Glenbervie, 72-3
Baron, Sylvester Douglas, 73
(See Woodside), 58
Golf, game of, 102, 103
Gordon, Charles, of Tersperse, 111
- — James, of Craig, 165
Govan, Anne, 163 and n., 164
Mr. John, 163 and n.
Graham or Graeme, Agnes, 137
Ann, 53
Eleanor Elizabeth, 188
James, of Airth, 38, 53
John, of Skelmorlie Castle, 9
Sir John H. N., of Larbert, 9, 76
(n.), 166
John, of Killearn, 22, 23
2l6
Index.
Graham or Graeme, Louisa, 78
Margaret, 134
Marion, 38
Patrick, of Inchbrakle, 67,78
Gray, Agnes, 108
Sir waiiam, of Pittendrum, 108
William, Master of, 108
Guillamore, first Viscount, 25
Gourlay, Alison, 83
— Gilbert, of Wester Grange, 99 (n.)
Gourlaw, Robert, Edinburgh, 3
Gowrie Conspiracy, letter from James VI.
to Provost of Stirling re, 34 (n.)
Earl of, xvii, 34 and n.
Haddo, Mr. James, 163
Hailes, Adam, Master of, 91
Haldane, Anna, 164
Christian, 170
James, of Gleneagles, 123
Mr James, 129
John, of Lanrick, 164
Margaret, 128. Will of, 128-9
Patrick, of Gleneagles, 151
Robert, of Balwill, 129
Hamilton, Andrew, of Cochno, 18
David, architect of Larbert House, 10
Helen, 68
Jacobina, 63
John, of Newton, 68 (n.)
Katherine, IS
WUliam, of Wishaw, 68 (n.)
narrower, Margaret, 134
Hart, Alexander, 201
Thomas, of Little Donovan, IGO
Hay, Catherine, 75
— David, 37
John, of Woodcootdale, 37
Lady Helen, 176
Father R. A,, Genealogies of Hay and
Sinclair quoted, 125
Mr WUliam, of Aberlady, 125
Heggie, George, 201 and n., 206 and n.
John, 201
Henderson, Christian, 128
Hamilton George, Stirling, 69 (n.),
192
Rev. P. A. Wright, warden, Wadham
Coll., Oxford, 69 (n.), 192 and n.
Hendrie, John, of Larbert, 9
Henry, Mr. James, 163
Robert, alias " Deill amang us," 48
Henrysoun, Mr Johnne, of Dryden, 173
Hepburn, Sir Adam, of Crags, 91
Elizabeth, 91
Rachel, 124
Herbertshire, Barony of, 87 (n.), 167
Name of, 186
Heriot, Anna, 128
George, 34
John, 128
Mr. Robert, of Lymphoy, 128, 171
Heron, Margaret, of Bantaskine, 132
Heugh, James, portiouer of Broomage, 77
Home, Alexander, ninth Earl of, 55
Alison, 171
Charles, Earl of, 2
Lady Eleanor Elizabeth, 55
— — George, fourth Lord, 171
Hope, Mary, 65
Sir Thomas, of Kerse, 65
Hoppringill, Archd,, burgess of Edin-
burgh, 175
Househill, Farm of, 9, 119
Houstoun, Mrs., of Johnstone Castle, 47
and n.
Howkerse, Lands of, 51
Hunter, Alexander, of Blackness, 69
Elizabeth, 69
Helen, 50
INGLIS, Archibald of Auchendinny, 82
Catherine, 82
Tunis, William, W,S., 6
Index.
217
Jackson, John, merchant burgess of
Edinburgh, 21
James I., King, 107 (n.)
IV., XV, 135-6
VI., XV, xvi, xvii, 32, 34, passim ; at
Dunipace, 94
Jardine, John, 41
JefErey, Lord— (letter), 182 and n.
Jervais, Mary, 146 (n.)
Joan, The Princess, wife of first Earl of
Morton, 107 (n.)
Johnson, Dr. Samuel {re James Bruce, the
" Traveller "), 39
Johnston, Archibald, of Hilton, 21
Barbara, 11
The Rev. J. B., quoted, 14, ■passim
Rachel, 21
Johnstone of Denovan, 165 and n,
— Sir James, of Wester Hall, 165
James, of Alva, Denovan, cScc, 165
James Raymond, of Denovan, &c.,165
John, of Alva, Denovan, &c., 165
Robert, of Powmylne, 61
Justice, Sir James, 105
Kay, Miss, 155
Keene, Colonel, 165
Dr., Bishop of Ely, 165
Elizabeth Caroline, 165
Keith, Elizabeth, 101, 107 (n.)
Hon. Sir James, of Benholm, 101,
107 (n.)
Robert, Lord, 107 (n.)
Keneill, or Klnneil, 1
Ker, Isabel or Elizabeth, 172
■ Bolton & Co., Glasgow, 188
John, 86, 87
John, of Quattatar CQuarter;, 189
Sir William, of Cessford, 172
Kilmarnock, Earl of, 108
Kincaid, John, of Warristoun (murdered).
93
Kincaid, Robert, of Bantaskine, 88
Kinnaird, mansion house, 29
Kinross, Margaret, 47
Kirkpatrick, Professor John, LL.D., 156
Sir Thomas, of Closeburn, 171
Knox, John (burial ground), 129
Lanercost, Chronioon de, extract from,
27,28
Larbert, Lethbert &c., Lands of, 1
Lauder, Sir Robert, of the Bass, 1
Lauderdale, Charles, sixth Earl of, 53
Lavalette, Comte de, 24 and n.
Lawson, Catherine, 99, 127
David, notary, 128
Richard, burgess of Edinburgh, 99,
127
Richard, of Boghall, 127
Leckip, Elizabeth, 191 Cn.)
Walter, of Leokie, 123
Leise, , 123
Lent, permission to James Primrose audi
others to eat flesh during, 99 (n.)
Letham, Lands of, 53
Lethbert, Mill of, 1, 2
Lethbertschiells (See Woodside), 58
Linlithgow, Alexander, first Earl of, 176
Alexander, second Earl of, 67, 77,
99
- — James, Earl of, 2
Palace, letter about, from, 178
Lindsay, David, Bishop of Ross, 97
Philip de, 1
Bachael, 97
Sir Simon de, 1
William de, 1, 85
Linton, Patrick, of Pendreich, 71
Livingstone of Bantaskine, 89 and n,,
123-4
of Dunipace, 87-97 (See Chart, 88)
Dunipace, Barony of, 96
Adam, 77, 96 and n.
IS
2l8
Index.
Livingstone, Agnes, 133
Alexander, Lord, 143
Alexander, son of fifth Lord L., 88
Alexander, fifth Lord, 19, 88
Alexander, Lord, daughter of, 15, 16
Sir Alexander, of Callendar, 88
Mr. Alexander, advocate, 5
Mr. Alexander, advocate (senior),
96 (n.)
Mr. Alexander, advocate, 96 and n.
Alexander, of Bantaslsine, 89, 123
Alexander (2), of Bantaslsine, 123
Alexander, first of Dunipace and
Alexander, of Phildes (or Fildes), 88
Mr. Alexander, second of Dunipace
and Fildes, xv, 88, 89, 90
Alexander, of Parkhall, 13
David, of Bantaskine, 48
David, 123
Sir David, first Bart, of Dunipace,
77, 95 and n., 96
David, of Bantaskine, 89, 123
David (2), of Bantaskine, 124
David (3), of Bantaskine, 124
Duncan, burgess of Edinburgh, 96
E. B., F.S.A., 87, passim
Eleanor, 99
Elizabeth, 31
George, son of John L. in Daldurs,
143
Helenora, 123
Henry, of Greenyards, 123
Isabella, 170 (n.)
James, Lord, 76, 88 (1476)
Jeimes, of Banton, 123
James, of Cauldhame, 91
Sir James, of Glentirran, Bart., 124
Janet, 19
Hon. Jean, 47, 57
Jean (Lady Warristoun), tragedy of,
93, 94 (n.)
Jean, 226
Livingstone, John, of Bantaskine, 123
Sir John, of Calder, 123
John,-third of Dunipace, 91
Sir John, fourth of Dunipace, xvii
(extracts P.O. Records), 92, 95, 142
Sir John, of Dunipace, xvii
Sir John, Bart., sixth of Dunipace, 96
Lady, afterwards Countess of Lin-
lithgow, 176, 177
Margaret, 13, 30
Marian, wife of James, Lord Living-
stone, 1
Mariote, 64
Michael, of Bantaskine, 124
Norman, of Milnehill, 123
Patrick, ancestor of Livingstones of
Balrownie, 91
Robert, son of Laird Livingstone in
Galloway, 143
Robert, 226
Sir Thomas, of Westquarter, 9
Thomas, 91 and n.
Sir William, of Coulter, 123
William, son of Laird of Jerviswood,
143
Sir William, of Kilsyth, 31
Sir William, of Kilsyth (1612), 178
William, Lord, 91
William of, 134
Lockhart, Ada, 30
Isabella Sinclair, 181
John Sinclair, of CastlehiU, 181
Malcolm, 30
"Lord Nelson," H.E.I.C. Ship, 116
Lowther, Sir Charles Hugh, third baronet,
226
Lundie, William, 58
Lyndesy, Philip de, 1
Sir Simon de, 1
William de, 1
M'COLL, Elizabeth, 71
James, of Braehead, 71
Index.
219
Maodonald, Flora, 112
(Carron Co.), 205
Macfarlane, Jessie Gray, 83
Rev. John, D.D., 83
MTarlan, Rev. James, 183
John, of Ballancleroch, 183
M'Gowan, Walter, 155
Magrath, Catherine, 18-t
John, of Bawn James, Kilkenny, 184
Macintosh, Farquhar, 136
MacKenzie, , 201 (n.), 206 (n.)
Mackies, portioners of Larbert, 2
Maokie, or Makky, Andrew, burgess of
Stirling (1574), 3, 4
Andrew, 2
George, 2 (n.)
John, in Larbert, 2
John (1529), 3
John, yr,, 2
Malcolm, 2 (n.;, 77 (n.)
Peter Jeffrey, of Corraith, Ayrshire,
77 (n.)
Robert, burgess of Edinburgh, 2
William, 2, 7
Make, or Mackie, John, 3
MacLuckie, James, Stirling, 188
Robert, writer, Stirling, 188
MacMath, Laird of, 125
Marion, 125
M'Nair, of Greenfield, anecdote, 53-4
Maitland, Lady Janet, 53
Mansfield, Miss, 8
Ramsay & Co., 8
Mar, John, Earl of, 142, 143
March, Earl of, 86
Margaret, Queen, wife of James IV., xv,
136
Marisohal, George, fifth Earl, 101, 107 (d.)
Marshall, Margaret, 5, 162
Mary, Queen, Wife of James II,, 76
Maxtone, Christian, 120
Mayne, Agnes, 128
Catherine, 12
Mayne, Edward, of Powis, 12
Meldnun, Andrew, of that ilk, 17
Melville, Gen. Robert, 198
Menteith, Elizabeth, 17
Margaret, 37
Sir WUliam, of Kerse, 17
William, of Kerse, 20
Miller, Janet, 11
Mitchellson, Anna, 155
Moir, Alexander, of Scotstoun, 25
George Charles, of Denmore, 25, 56
Isabella, 25
Margaret Isabella, 56
Monk, General, anecdote of, 7
Montgomerie, Alex., Lord, 17
Euphemia, 17 and n.
Montrose, Marquis of, 98 (n.}, 99
William, Earl of, 137
More, Sir Adam, 15
Alex., 15
David, of Abercorn, 132
Sir Reginald, Lord Great Chamber-
lam, temp., David II., 57
— — Sir William, of Abercorn, 132
Moreham, Sir Adam de, 14 and n., 30, 86
Sir John, of that ilk, 30
Sir Thomas, 186
Morehead, of Herbertshire, 181-5
Boyd Dunlop, 185
Isabella, 226
Rev. Robert, D.D., 183-4, 226
William Ambrose, 184
William, of Herbertshire, 181 and n.
Morison, Sir Alexander, of Prestongrange,
98
Bethia, 98
Morton, James, first Earl of, 107 (n.)
Moss, sliding of, in Stirlingshire, 61-8
Moubray of Cockaimey, 226
Mountain, Colonel Armine S. H., C.B.,
56
Mowbray, Isabella, 83
Henry, of CaJderbank, 83
Index.
Mungall, Lands of, 48, 51, 52
Muirhead of Lauchope, 181
John, 181
Robert, 181
Mure of Skaithmure, 56-57
Alexander, of Skaithmure, 57
James, of Westerton of Bothkeimar, 57
William, of " Skamur," 57
Murray, Earl of, 86
John, of Touchadam, 138
John, of Touchadam and Polmaise, 104
Sir John, of Touchadam, 187
Margaret (Polmaise), 41 (n.)
Margaret, 104
Maurice, 86
Patrick, goldsmith, Stirling, 111 andn.
Sir Patrick, Bart, of Ochtertyre, 68
Lt.-Colonel Peter M'Gregor, 117
William, of Touchadam (c. 1513), 138
William, of Touchadam (1462), 87
William, of Dunipace, 99
WiUiam, of Polmaise, 41 (n.)
Nabsmtth, Sir Michael, of Posso, 21
Naime, Baroness, 108
Napier, of Balwhaple, 162
of Merchiston, daughter of, 137
Nelson, Lord, ss, 198
Newbottle, Lord, 176
Nicholas, Emperor of Russia, 80, 203
NicoU, Elizabeth, 144
James, Stirling, 143
Nicolson, Isabella, 67
Mr. Thomas, of Carnock, 187
Sir Thomas, of Carnock, 67
Sir Thomas, second Bart, of Carnock,
99
Sir Thomas, third Bart, of Carnock,
99 and n.
Nimmo, Alexander, of Westbank, &c., 81
Catherine Jane, 81
Nobill, Elizabeth, 132
Norrie, Gavin, of Norrieston, 162
Norwell, William, 4
Ogilvie, Col. the Hon, Donald, of Clova,
79
Harriet Anne Mary, 79
Margaret, 101
Oliphant, Ameliai, 78
Laurence, of Gask, 78, 108
O'Grady, Charlotte Isabella, 25
The Hon. Walter, 25
Orkney, Henry Sinclair, second Earl of, 168
and Caithness, William Sinclair, Earl
of, 87
William, third Earl of, afterwards
Earl of Caithness, 168-9
Orr, Robert, of Kinnaird, 42
Oswald, Marion, 23
portioner of Falkirk, 123
Park, Mr. George, 163
Paterson, Helen, 6
Patonsoun, Sir John, 3
Pearson, Hugh, of Kippenioss, 71
Peek, Mr., of London, 112
Pellew, Captain Sir Edward, 117
Pennant, the " Traveller," 202
Pinkerton, James C, Perth, 121 (n.)
Pom-poms made at Carron, 199
Primrose of Dunipace, 99-115
Dowager Lady (widow of Hugh, third
Viscount), 112, 113 and n.
Sir Archibald, Bart, of Dalmeny,
Lord Clerk Register, xv, xviii,
55 (n.), 99, 100
Sir Archibald Foulis, Bart, of Duni-
pace, xix, 107 and n. ; notice of , 108 ;
letter before execution, 109, 110
Elizabeth, 55 (n.)
George Foulis, of Dunipace, 6, 104,
105, 106
Index.
Primrose, Mr. Gilbert, 99 (n.)
James (Clerk P.O.), 09 and n., 127
Mr. James, of Barhill, 11
Margaret, 101, 107 (n.), 127
Lady Mary, 108, 109 ; death of, 111
112
Neil, Lord, letter from, 114 and n.
Sir William, of Carrington, 55 (n.)
QUARRBLL, of that ilk, 44
now Carron Hall, 43
Quarle, Thomas de, clerk, 44
Quarles, William (Northamptonshire),
Hon. William, 45
Rae, Adam, of Pitsindie, 50
Anna, 50
Ramsay, David, of Lethendy, W.S., 50, 51
Dean, anecdote of James Bruce, the
"Traveller," 40
" Redgauutlet," 113 and n.
Reidheuch, Andrew, of the Quarrell, 45, 87
Riddell, James, of Kinglas, 7
Sir James, Bart., of Ardnamurchan, 7
Sir James MiUes, of Larbert, after-
wards second baronet, 8
Mr. Robert, author of MS. Baronet-
age, 126
Thomas Milles, younger, of Ardna-
murchan, &c., 7, 8
Rigg, Captain, William, 176
Robert I., King, funeral of, 86
Robertson of Carronvale, 78-80
— Donald, 79
The Hon. Duncan, of Roehill and
Carronvale, 78
Duncan Stewart, of Carronvale, 78,
79,80
James, Captain of Engineers, 9
Colonel James P., C.B., of Roehill,
78-80
Robertson, Julia, 79
Marion, 70
Robert, 78
Sarah Mary Emily, 9
Roebuck, Benjamin, 194
• Ebonezer, 194
Dr. John, 194-196, passim
Thomas, 194
RoUo of Woodside, 64-7
Captain Andrew, 65
Andrew, fifth Lord, 67
Mr. Henry, of Woodside, xvii, 64, 65
Sir Henry, of Woodside, 65
Hercules, 64
James, of Powhouse, 112
John, goldsmith, son of Robert, Lord
Rollo, 67
John, Master of, 67
— — John, of Woodside, 65
Dame Marianne, 37
Mary, 66
Robert, Lord, 66
Robert, fourth Lord RoUo, 67
Robert, Principal of Edinburgh
University, 64
Thomcis, advocate, 64 and n.
or Rollock, David, of Powis, 61, 64
or Rollock, Elizabeth, 61
Roos, Sir Godfrey de, 15
Rosebery, Archibald, first Earl of, 103,
108 (n.)
Ross, Isobel, 37 (n.)
John, 37 (n.)
Sir William, of Murieston, 148
Rosslyn Chapel, 169
Earls of, 176 (n.)
Rowe, Anthony, 151
Charlotte, 151
Isabella, 151 (n.)
Russell of Woodside, 70-72
General Sir David, K.C.B., 72
David, of Woodside, 70, 71
James, of Woodside, 70
Index.
Russell, Colonel James, 71
Admiral John, of iXaulside (Ayr-
shire), 71
Russell, John, W.S., 113
Rutherford, James, of that ilk, 76
Ruvigny and Raineval, Marquis de, 12
Ryud, Mr. Andrew, 163
Helen, 163
Saint Fond, Faujas de, 202 and n.
Salter, Adam, 58
Marjory, spouse of Adam S., 58
Sampson, Agnes (witch), 176
Sandilands, Agnes, 138
Elizabeth, 138
James, of St. Monans, 138
Selby, Angelica Mary, 26
General George, E.A., 26
Shaw, Sir James, of Sauchie, 135
Rev. John, of Kendal, 69
John, 135
Sir Henry, of Cairnsmore, 137
Margaret, 89, 123
Sherrift of Carronvale, 80, 81
J. B., & Co., Ltd., Glasgow, 72
George, of Carronvale, &o., 81 ; death
of, vi
George, manager. Imperial Mint, St,
Petersburg, 80, 81, 226
John Bell, of Carronvale, 26, 80, 81
Margaret, 81
Thomas, 81
Short, Alex., 179
Simpson, David, 146 (n.)
Sir James Young, Bart., 146 (n.)
Simson, David, of Bonally, 83
Eleanor, 83
Sinclair, of Herbertshire (Rosslyn),
170-176, 176 (n.;
of Longf ormacus, 124
of Rosslyn, 124
of Stevenson, oiigiu of, 124-5
Sinclair, Alexander, of Cockbnmspath,
171
Arthur, of Lessudden, 171
The Hon. Catherine, 176 (n.)
Edward, of Ethay, 172
Edward, of Herbertshire (family
quarrel), 172, 173, 175
Elizabeth, 124
George, 124
George, flar of Rosslyn, 170, 171
Dame Helen, Lady Bannockboni,
179
Helen, 125
Henry, Lord, 169-70
Henry, Bishop of Ross, 171
of Herdmanston, Henry, eighth Lord,
176 (n.)
James, of Banks, 64 (n.)
James, of Longf orm acos, 126
The Honouraqle James, of Rosslyn
176 (n.) '
James, of Stevenson, 171
Jean, 101
Joan, 126, 127
Sir John, of Herdmanston, 127
John (afterwards Sir John S., Bart,
of Stevenson), 97, 101, 124, 125,
127
Sir John, second Bart, of Stevenson,
125
Sir John, fourth Bart, of Stevenson,
182
John, yr., of Stevenson, 125, 127
John, Bishop of Brechin, 171
Magnus, of Kynynmonth, 19
Manis of the Leyis, 173
Margaret, 171
Matthew, of Longformacns, 124
Matthew, murder of, 97, 124
Sir Oliver, of Rosslyn and Herbert-
shire, 170
Sir Oliver, of Pitoaims and White-
kirk, 171
Index.
223
Sinclair, Robert, of Longformacus, 97,
124, 127
Sir Robert, third Bart, of Stevenson,
121, 125
Thomas, of Over Bulbuster, 124
Sir William, second of Herbertshire,
171
Sir William, third of Herbertshire,
172
William, fourth of Herbertshire,
175
Sir William, fifth of Herbertshire,
176
William, of Newburgh, 169, 170
Sir William, of Rosslyn, 172
William, of Rosslyn, 176 (n.)
Skaithmure, Barony of, 43, 57
East, Lands of, 48
Smeaton, John, 195
Somervell, Graham-Russell, of Sorn, 72
James, 71
Somerville, Marion, 134
Spens, Mary Louisa, 73 and n.
William George, 73
Spicer, Eliza, 41
William, of Wear, Devon, 41
Spottiswoode, of that ilk, 97 and n.
of Dunipace( second owners of name),
115-121
Allan, 121
Anna, 176
Barbara, 121
Charlotte, 226
David, 115, 120
Duncan (Perth), 115, 120, 121 (n.)
Duncan, children of, 120, 121
Elizabeth, 119
Elizabeth, of Dunipace (Mrs.Harvie-
Bro-OTi), 191, 194
James, first of Dunipace, 114 (n.), 115,
120, 194, 226
James, third of Dunipace, 116, 118
John, of that ilk, 97
Spottiswoode, John, Archbishop of St.
Andrews, 97
John, of Dairsie, 98 (n.)
John, 98 (n.)
John, second of Dunipace, 116
— - Mary, 226
Sir Robert, of Dunipace (Lord Duni-
pace), XV, xviii, 5, 77, 96, 97, 98,
115
Captain Robert, H.E.I.C.S., fifth of
Dunipace, 116-118
Thomas, sixth of Dunipace, 118,
119
William, fourth of Dunipace, 116 ;
killed, 117
Stainton, Mr. Joseph, 200
Henry, 200
Thomas Tibbats, 200
Stanehous, John of, 15
Stanus, Adam de, 15, 85
Stanrigmill (See Woodside), 58
Stenhouse, Stanehous, Stanhois, 14, 15
Stevenson, Elizabeth, 190
Marion, 154
Robert, Provost of Stirling, 162
Robert, 190
Stewart, Christian, of Rosyth, 30
David, of Rosyth, 30
Elizabeth, 137 (n.)
Janet, widow of William Forrester,
complaint by, against Sir James
Forrester of Torwood, &o., 146
Colonel Robert, of Fincastle, 78
Susan, 78
Stirling, of Herbertshire, 179-181
Charles, 72
Charles Douglas, of Gleubervie, 73
Christian, 181
Gordon & Co., Glasgow, 71
Sir Gilbert, Bart, of Larbert, 8, 9,
10, 119
Gilbert Stirling Chalmer,of Larbert, 9
Henrietta, 72
Index.
Stirling, Sir James, of Glorat, 181
Sir James, Bart., Lord Provost of
Edinburgh, 8, 9
Dame Jean, of Achyle ajid Herbert-
shire, 181, 187
Joan, 9
John, 63
John, of Herbertshire, 179
John, of Kippendavie, 71, 73
Mary Catherine, 73
Mary, 71
Mrs., of Glenberrie, 72
Patrick, of Kippendavie, 73
Sylvester Douglas, of Glenbervie,
71, 73
William, of " Content," 72, 73
William, of Tarduf, 72, 73
Major Wm. Geo. Hay, 73
WUliam, of Achyle, 63, 179
Sir William, of Ardoch, 181
William, of Herbertshire, 151
William, 72
Straohan, James, Lieut,, R.N., 69
John, 69 ; afterwards Sir John, Bart.,
70
— — Admiral Sir Richard, Bart., of
Thornton, 70 and n.
Strathendrie, Laird of, 143
Stulcely, Dr., the antiquary, 24
Sutherland, Alexander, of Dunbeath, 170
Marjory, 170
Swinton, Elizabeth, 124
Helen, 128
John, of that ilk, 124, 128
Syme, Barbara, 115
David, of Cartmore, 121
David, Sheriff of Kinross, 121
Mr. James, 115
Professor James, 121
John, W.S., of Cartmore, 121
Margaret, wife of Malcolm Maokie,
2(n.)
Symington, William, 201
Tatlor, Flora, 81
Teindyeard, Lands of, 51
Tennent, Hamilton-Tovey, 69
Dr. William, of Poole Castle, &o., 69
Thirlstane, John, Lord, 2, 77
Thurlow, Thomas John, fifth baron, 42 ;
Lady, 42
Torwood, Lands of, 130
Broch, 139
Torwoodhead Mansion and Castle, 131
Tovey, Hamilton (See Tennent), 69
Helen, 69
— — Captain John, 69
Towers, Archibald, 143
TumbuU, Alison, 21,23
Ufford, Catherine of, 45
Quarles Van, of the Hague, 44 and i
45 (n.)
Dmfraville, GUbert (1264), 85
Gilbert de. Earl of Angus, 85
Robert de. Earl of Angus, 1
Ure, Mariot, wife of John Maokie, 2
Vanderbbnt, Mrs. Agatha, 51
Vans, Thomas, burgess of Edinburgh, 175
Wales, Henry Frederick, Prince of, elder
son of James VI., 145
Wallace, Sir William (uncle of), 86 and n.
Wallace's Yew, 84
Walter, Son of Gilbert, 1
Wardlaw, Andrew, of Otterstone, 10
Henry, of Foulford, 12 (n.)
Isabella, 10
Katherine, 12 (n.)
Nicolas, of Wester Lusoar, 12 (n.)
of Torrie, 12 (n.)
Watt, James, 80 (n.), 194
Wellington, Duke of, xx, 198
Index.
225
Wellwood, Euphan, 155
Robert, of Touch, 226
Wemyss and March, Francis, Earl of, 185
Wight, Sibilla, 128
Wigton, first Earl of, 20, 118
John, sixth Earl of, 107 and n.
Willison, Jane, wife of John Buxne (3), 6
■ John, portioner of Comtoun, 6 and n.
Wilson, Rev. Dr. Charles, 184
— — Margaret, 184
Woodside (See Glenbervie), 58
(Parish of Alloa), Bruoes of, 64
House (afterwards Dimbar House),
description of, 66
Wordsworth, Dorothy, 202
Wright, Euphan, 50
Wright, Mr. James, writer in Edinburgh,
110
John, of Broom, Stirling, 69
Yaik, , "daughter of Gudeman of
Carsie," 135
Yare, Sir John, 135 (n.)
Young, Anabella, 96
Barbara (Dunipace), 189
Janet, 65, 68
Sir John, of Leny, 65 and n., 68
Margaret, 65, 68
Mr. Thomas, of Leny, 99 (n.)
Zetland, Marquess of, 53
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Page 88.— Robert Livingstone, No. 23 on Livingstone chart, married and
had at least two daughters. His second daughter, Jean, married
(contract dated 5th March, 1652) Robert Wellwood of Touch and
Whitfield, County Fife. (MS. Pedigree of Moubrays of Cockairney.
The Moubrays are descended from this marriage.)
Pages 115 and 121.— James Spottiswoode, first of Dunipace, had two other
daughters, Mary, who died in 1835, and Charlotte, who died in
1836. (Tombstone, Dunipace.)
Page 184. — The Rev. Robert Morehead, D.D., of Herbertshire, had several
daughters. The eldest, Isabella, is mentioned in his Journal, June,
1823. She married in 1834 Sir Charles Hugh Lowther, third
baronet of Swillington, County York. (Burke's " Peerage.' )
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