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BURIAL GROUNDS & OLD BUILDINGS

IN
The
North-Eaft
WITH
of Scntland,
Hijlorical,
Biographical, Genealogical,
and Antiquarian Notes,
ALSO,
AN APPENDIX OF ILLUSTRATIVE PAPERS.
BY
ANDRKW
lERVISl^:, KS.A. S COT.,

ETC.
AUTHOR OF 'memorials OF ANGUS AND THE MEARNS,'
EDINBURGH: EDMONSTON AND DOUGLAS.

1875.
[All Rigkis Reserved.]
'
Study their monuments, their gravestones,

lie
:
their epitaphs,
on the spots where
they
their
study,
if
possible, the scenes of the events, their aspect, their architecture,
geography
the tradition which has survived the histoiy

;
the legend which has
survived the tradition
the mountain, the stream, the shapeless stone, which has
survived even history and tradition and legend.'
Dean Stanley.
[250 copies printed.
No.
^2,^^]
1451287
PATRICK CHALMERS,
OF ALDBAR, ESQUIRE,
JOSEPH ROBERTSON,
AND
LL.D.,
PROFESSOR COSMO INNES,

THIS VOLUME IS INSCRIBED
BY THE AUTHOR.
Sculptured Stone at Edzell.
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
Preface
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
Kincardine O'Neil
(Aberdeenshire),
238-40
63-4, 385
KiNGOLDRUM (AngUs), KiNKELL (Aberdeenshire), KiNMUCK ,, KiRKDEN (AngT-is), KiRK-MlCHAEL (Banffshire), Knockando (Morayshire),
.
Nevay (Angus), Newdosk

,,
68-9, 371
. .
311-12
285-7
304-7 304 32-5 69-71, 360 299-301
Newhills
(Aberdeenshire),
Newtyle
(Angus),
(Angus),
138-41, 373
Oathlaw
335-8, 374
Ordiquhill
(Banffshire),
27-9
210-14, 374
Laurencekirk (Mearns), Leochel (Aberdeenshire), Lethnot (Angus), LhaNBRYDE (Morayshire),

.
2S8-94, 361
186-7
Pert (Angus), Peter Culter
(Aberdeensl lire).
16-20
LiFF (Angus),
294-5 271-2 190-2

^^9-8 1,
,
Rathven
(Banffshire),
.
273-9
155-61, 384
Rescobie (Angus),
St. St.
Lintrathen (Angus), LOCHLEE ,, Logie-Buchan (Aberdeenshire LOGIE (Dundee), Angus, LoGiE (Montrose), ,, Logie-Mar (Aberdeenshire), LONGSIDE ,,
.
364
390 197-9 [96-7, 364

382,
Andrews
Cyrus
(Morayshire),
See Enzie.
e),
270-1
36-43, 376
(Mearns),
St. Ninian.
209-10 281-3
95-100, 364 241-4, 366
Lunan
(Angus),
(Banffshire),
Macduff
Mains
(Angus),
244-6 201-3 231-5

132-8, 383
Chapel (Aberdeensh Skene ,, Southesk Howff (Angus), Stoneywood (Aberdeenshire), Strachan (Mearns), Strathdon (Aberdeenshire). Strath MARTIN (Angus),
St. Pol'nar's
.
.
359 226-9
93-4 286 29-32

149-55 204-6
Marnoch (Banffshire), Marykirk (Mearns), Maryton (Angus),

.
MONIFIETH
,,
235-8, 367 106-15, 369, 380

175-8, 371, 386
Tannadice (Angus), TowiE (Aberdeenshire),
45-8
.
229-31
MONQUHITTER (Aberdeenshire MoRTLACH (Banffshire), Murroes (Angus),

.
Ury Howff
I
(Mearns),
80-4
326-34
121-6, 381
Supplement, Appendix,
.
Navar
(Angus),
296-7, 389
General Index,
339-76 377-90 391-400
ERRATA
To the more importa tit errors in
t/iis
volume.
Pg. Col.
PREFACE.
TH E
Author of this volume having occupied much of
his leisure during
a great part of his lifetime in copying Epitaphs and Inscriptions
from Burial Grounds and Old Buildings, has necessarily formed a large
collection.
Of these
transcriptions the present
volume contains upwards
of two thousand, or considerably less than a fourth part of the whole.
The
owing
limited impression (250 copies) arises from the fact that this por-
tion of the
work was
originally intended for private distribution only.
But
to circumstances
which have happened since the Author began to
print the papers
which formed the nucleus of the volume, he has yielded
to the wishes of personal
and
first,
literary friends in offering
it
to the public.
Had
this
been intended at
not only would the
number
of copies have
different,
been doubled, but the arrangement of the book would have been
and various other
particulars
would have received greater
attention.
In addition to epitaphs and inscriptions
from burial grounds,,

bells
this
volume not only contains
inscriptions
and dates from kirk
and
communion
memorials,
so
vessels,
all
from bridges, old buildings, obelisks, and other

it
personally collected by the Author, but

is
also comprises
much
that
new
in genealogical, biographical, historical,

it
and
if
anti-
quarian literature, that he thinks

generally interesting.
It also
can scarcely
fail
to
be locally
not
contains a
number of
hitherto unpublished
EPITAPHS AND INSCRIPTIONS.

historical
and family papers, extracts from kirk-session records, notices
from chartularies and other authentic sources.
Although the unpublished portion of the

and
is
collection has a
wide range,
Aberdeen,
pretty general in
its
character,
it
has reference mainly to the North-
East of Scotland, or the counties of

Banff,
Fife, Forfar, Kincardine,
and Eloin.
Besides
inscriptions from
it
most of the private and
landward burial grounds
in these shires,
includes collections from the
and Kirriemuir; Aberdeen, Petertowns of Dundee, Huntly, and Turriff; Banff, Cullen, Fordyce, and head, Fraserburgh, Portsoy from the Cathedrals and Abbeys of St. Andrews, Dunfermline,
Forfar, Montrose,
;
Brechin, Arbroath,
also
Old Machar, Elgin, Pluscardine, and Kinloss and number of churchyards in Perthshire, including those of from a
;
Alyth, Bendochy, and Meigle.
But whether the remainder of
this
collection, or
any part of
it,
will
ever appear, or in what form, will altogether depend upon circumstances.
Now
that the inscriptions are collected,

;
it
would be an easy matter
to give
illustra-
them alone
tive notes
but to many, indeed to most readers, the absence of

less interesting.
would render them
On
the other hand, the
addition of such notes as appear in this volume,
however
trifling
and
imperfect these
may be
considered,
entails
an amount of labour and
research of which no idea can be formed unless by those
who have been

new information
plagiarists
'
engaged on books of a similar kind, and

regarding persons and places.
in
searching out
Mere book-makers and
the
and
most contemptible of
trouble
'
all
;
scribblers know nothing of
the
toil
of such works
it
although, unfortunately, as the Writer can testify
from experience,
but too often turns out to be more for their benefit
than for that of the authors of the books.
In regard to this volume, the
Author has further
to
remark, that he
has been careful to preserve as
many
of the really old inscriptions as
'
PREFACE.
possible,
and has been

their value
at considerable trouble
and expense
in disinterring
'long-lost'
monuments.
to
The
orthographical peculiarities of these, which
constitute
philologists,
and impart a certain charm
to
general readers, have been as closely adhered to as moveable type will
admit
of.
Some
and
to
'
of the
modern
inscriptions
have been abridged, but the more

'
important and curious, particularly those which relate to
men
of
mark
good and
faithful servants,' are
given
in full.
In every instance the utmost care has been taken to secure accuracy
and the Author hopes that few

noticed either in the
list
'
vital
errors
'
will
be found that are not

or in the body of the
of Errata {supra,
p. vii.),
work.
As
it
was impossible
for the
Author personally
to
compare
all
the
proof-sheets with the original inscriptions, he has pleasure in stating that
these (some of whose
and others have afforded ready assistance. To names are mentioned in the work), and to all others who have kindly aided him in what he may call his inagnimi opus, the Author begs to return grateful thanks.
ministers, schoolmasters,
He
cannot deny himself the honour of stating
how deeply he
feels
indebted to the late Right Hon. Fox, Earl of Dalhousie, who, as on
former occasions, so kindly allowed the use of hitherto unpublished documents.
These documents, which throw much

history,
will
light both
upon personal
and proprietary
Panmure, and
have been selected from the family papers at be found printed in various parts of the volume.
To John
Scotland,
Stuart, Esq.,
LL.D., author of The
Sctilptiired Stones
of
is
and other works of great value and
interest, the
Author
indebted for the revision of
many
of the proof-sheets of the volume.
And

to the
Foveran, he
courtesy of James Anderson, Esq., M.A., lately schoolmaster of is indebted for the excellent translations with which the
enriched,
book
is
and
for
much
valuable and friendly assistance.
The Author
portrait
has also to acknowledge the kind liberality of his friend
Patrick Allan-Fraser of Hospitalfield, Esq., ZT.R.S.A., for the engraved
A.R.A.,
which adorns the volume. It was executed by Mr. T. O. Barlow, The Author is likewise after the painting by Mr. Allan-Fraser.
at Edzell,
indebted to the Trustees of the late Earl of Dalhousie for the use of the
woodcut of the Sculptured Stone

quaries of Scotland for those at
and
to the Society of Anticross

is
Monifieth.
The
which forms a
portion of the ornament on the cover of the volume
from the slab at
Coldstone, see infra,
p.
283.
To
facilitate
list
ready reference, a Table of Contents has been prefixed,

of Burial-places
containing a
of Persons and the

in
and subjoined is an Index to the names more important of the Places and Subjects mentioned
;
the volume, and also to the
first
words of Poetical Epitaphs.
AND. JERVISE.
Brechin,
May
1875.
INTRODUCTORY REMARKS.
introducing IN the North-East
this
volume, upon Fmieral and other Monume?tts in

that,
of Scotland, the Author cannot help remarking

reception,
its
whatever
afforded
may be
its
preparation,
imperfect as
it
is,
has
him much pleasure, and enabled him to spend his leisure in such a manner as, he hopes, may be of some advantage to others, long after the ravages of Time have destroyed the monuments and their inscriptions which the work is intended to preserve. It must have appeared to many as well as to the Author a remarkable circumstance, that, while
monumental
inscriptions are admitted as

is
evidence
in
Courts of Law, no legal step, so far as Scotland
concerned,
should ever have been taken to secure their preservation.

is
The Author
inclined to believe that the Legislature
owes a duty
to
to the country in
this respect,
and that an Act of Parliament ought
be passed, not only
to provide, as far as possible, against the
decay of Funeral Monuments
by
time, but also to prohibit their destruction
every way, whether by relatives or others.

with no great
difficulty,
is
and
at small cost
and removal in any and These ends could be attained to the country compared with
the outlay which

sion,
all
frequently incurred by individuals in cases of succesqualified persons to

earliest
by the employment of
inscriptions,
existing
from the
date
make faithful copies of down at least to the
introduction of the compulsory Registration Acts.
But whether viewed
in this or in
a less
utilitarian light, the subject
'

of Funeral
gestive to
Inscriptions
is
one of the deepest
interest,
and highly sug-
all,
whether as regards the past, the present, or the future of
ourselves and of our country.
In
all ao-es
times
men
:
and nations
it
in
barbarous as well as
in the
most
civilised
have held
a duty to honour the dead by erecting such
memorials over their remains as opportunity and circumstances would

allow
'
To honor ye sepvltor ve may be bald Ve lerne of Abraham ovr father avid.'
Since the time that the Patriarch raised

in the wilderness of
'
the pillar of Rachel's grave
Ephrath, unembellished boulders, cairns of stones,
and
and mounds of earth have been employed to mark the graves of pilgrims others, who have died in lonely and uncultivated wilds, far from the
any known
burial-place.
site of
Many
of those
humble but sincere tokens of gratitude
still
remain
In the
throughout the glens and
among
the mountains of Scotland.
course of agricultural and other improvements, cinerary urns and stone

cists,
often containing articles of personal
ornament and
dress, are
found
in
places which, from the removal

to contain such 'treasures.'
of the original cairns, were never
supposed
early
As dry
in sites
gravel hillocks were generally selected as places of sepulture the
times,
same spots have been frequently chosen

This probably not only accounts
as the
for
of places of worship.
the
elevated situation of
many
of our old churches, but also for the custom of
burying within them,
a practice
and
which continued
to
be pretty general
to a late date.
in
Scotland, in the case of heritors and ministers,
down
Since monoliths and boulders of great size and weight are so often
found upon knolls,

it
hillocks,
in dells, as
guardians of
'
precious dust,'
seems probable that natives as well as strangers had taken advantage
of these as places of interment.
Many
of these stones
to
the removal of
which from one place to another appears
be next to impossible, even
INTROD UCTOR V REMARKS.

with modern appliances
had probably been borne by
ice or
some
similar
agency, and deposited in their present situations, at remote periods of

the world's existence.
But as
slabs
it
is
intended in this volume to deal solely with inscribed

will not enter either
and monuments, the Author

of burial, or
upon the ancient
modes
upon a history of the funeral monuments which im-
mediately preceded the introduction of inscribed slabs.
The
latter are
commonly
called Sculptured Stones
and
these, as well as the subject of
ancient burial, have been so exhaustively treated by Dr. Stuart, in his
work upon the Sculptured Stones of

desired.
It
Scotland, as to leave nothing to be
may, however, be mentioned, that three examples of early inscribed

class referred to, are to
monuments, of the
east of Scotland.
shire
third
;
be met with
in
the northin
;
One
lies
in the
churchyard of Knockando,
Morayand the
another stands at
is
Newton
of Culsalmond, in the Garioch
within the Kirk of St. Vigeans, in Angus.^

first-named of these (which
is
The
name
the only one mentioned in this

is
volume) exhibits the single word 'SIKNIK,' which

of a man.
It
is
believed to be the
is
cut in
Scandinavian runes, and

this respect
supposed to
can be more
belong to the eighth or ninth century (301).

briefly inscribed
;
No monument
it
and although
in
is
possibly unique in
Scotland,
many similar instances occur in Ireland.'' The Newton stone, which contains six lines of an
inscription,
is
within
two miles of the church of Insch, where there is a slab to the memory Although the latter belongs to a more of a priest named Radulph.
modern
interest,
class of funeral
monuments than
to date as far
the former,
it is
of considerable
and supposed
back as the close of the twelfth
century (20).
1 See The Sculptured Stones of Scotla?td, and Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scot/and {vols, i., v., vii., x.).
Edited by Miss Stokes, for Dublin, 1872. 4to.
Christian hiscriptions in the Irish Language. Chiefly collected and drawn by George Petrie. Members only of the Royal Hist, and Archa;ol. Assoc, of Ireland.

The
to the
present volume contains no other inscription that can be referred
same
or the following age.
The
fragments of the monuments of the
Hays and Montifixes

is
at
Cupar-
Angus probably belong
to the fourteenth century (72).
But the most
interesting inscription that the
Author has met with

It is in
within the parish
church of Tealing, near Dundee. and commemorates the death of Ingram of Kethenys, priest of the church of Tealing, archdeacon of Dunkeld, and a contemporary of Barbour, the more celebrated archdeacon of Aberdeen, who wrote the poem of The
Brus.
the vernacular of the period,
Although there
is
is
nothing regarding Tealing in this volume, the

interest, that the
inscription
one of so much
it
Author may be pardoned

the subject, in the Pro(vol. x. p. 290).
:
for reprinting
here,
from
his
own paper upon
ceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
It is
cut
upon a
freestone slab, is in fine preservation,
and reads thus

pri'*
\
^ \v^x
lyis
:
Ingram
a'tb^nc
;
:
0f
:
futljcngs
:
masln'
arlt
:
of bululbir mab^
:
bgs
eîi
iiljea
:
prints
:
for
:
bum
:
iiat
:
bcut
:
Ijafa
nb
x)f
:
nbcrns
o
"
of
iûlb
nt
tlje
^vc
trnst
Irri'.
The
interest
inscriptions
in
this
volume next
lost,
in
order of antiquity and
are those
from the fragments of a monk's tomb at Cuparunfortunately

is
Angus.
The surname
it
but the remaining traces of
a date show
to
have been a
fifteenth century work.

;
Of
the
same age
are the tombs of the Lyons of Glamis (181)

wife, at
Graham
of Fintray and his
Mains (201); Richard,
vicar of
at
law, a
supposed hero of Harlaw,
Kinkell, in the Garioch (305)
Finhaven (338); Gilbert Greenand

;
those of the Leslies of Kininvie, the Constable of Balvenie Castle, and
Farquharson of Lochterlandich, at Mortlach (327-30). Probably the most interesting monuments of the sixteenth century
are those relating to
Abbot Schanwel
(74),
and
to the
Provost of the
collegiate church of
Kilmun
(72),
both at Cupar-Angus.
The
aisle of
;
the founder of Marischal College and his father, at Dunottar (49) the fragment which indicates that the Lords of Innermeath (ancestors of
the the
Marquis of Lome), had their burial-place
at
Inverkeilor (322)
;
monument to the Barclays of Towie, at Gamrie (86) to Forbes of Brux, at Kildrummy (262) to the Bairds of Auchmedden, and to the father of Abbot Whyte, of the Scots College of Ratisbone, at Aberdour,
;
Deer (57); also the interesting fragments to Wood of Bonnington, at Maryton (367), and to the Erasers, at Durris (140), all belong to the same age. The beautifully-executed inscription to Forbes of Ardmurdo, with a text in Greek capitals, which is cut upon the reverse of Greenlaw's tomb at Kinkell (305), shows how soon the work of spoliation commenced among tombstones, which, as already hinted, has been so ruinous to the interests of many families, who have had occasion to trace their
descent for pecuniary or less selfish purposes.
Perhaps the most interesting monuments of the seventeenth century

are those of the Lords Elphinstone, at
;
Kildrummy
(261); the Earls of
Southesk, at Kinnaird (93) the Hays (75), and Barclays of Ury (80), and the Fothringhams of Powrie, at Murroes (122). Although relating
to less conspicuous families, the quhill (28)
;
the Irvines of
Thornton, at
tombs of the Gordons of Park, at OrdiMonboddo, at Fordoun (62); the Strachans of Marykirk (133) and at Keith (165); the Durhams of
of
Grange, at Monifieth (109); the Inneses of Edingight, at Grange (loi), Mathie Mill, at St. Andrews, and of Coxton, at Lhanbryde (270-1)
all
the Stratons of Kirkside, at St. Cyrus (376), are of the period

Barras,
;
noteworthy examples on
as are those of the
Grahams of
Largie, the Ogilvys of

(172),
and that of Mr. Grainger, minister of Kinneff

title
whom
is
the
voice of his country has conferred the honourable

its
of the Preserver of
Regalia.
The
Martyrs'
Monument
It
at
Dunottar Church
another
suffered
further
object of national interest (50).
bears the names of

;
many who
for a conscientious belief in the Protestant religion
and
its site is
remarkable as being the place where Sir Walter Scott met with Robert
c

Paterson, while engaged in retouching the inscription
circumstance
which suggested
to the great
novehst the idea of Old Moj^tality.

Fife, at
The
tombs of the founders of the Duffs, Earls

the
Mortlach (328), as well as those of young Gordon of Glastirim, and that of Bishop Nicolson,
first
Vicar-Apostolic of Scotland, both at Enzie (278), must be of
general interest.
But probably the most peculiar monuments of the above era are those
of the Rev. Mr. Malcolm, and
Roger and Euphan Rolok,
at Airlie (-162).
The former
presents the Passion of
Our Lord,
in
carefully carved
respects, to the
upon the
copestone of the enclosure, and similar,
some
emblems
latter,
upon the aumbry

exhibits
at
Airlie
Church
{infra, p.
378); while the

in
with ornamental top, and vertically cut inscription,
raised characters,
in this
more of the
Celtic type than
any other noticed
volume,
although there are
many and
better examples of the
same
in
style in other
parts of the country.
Eighteenth-century tombstones are to be met with

form.
every variety of
Many
of these are adorned, in the style of the preceding century,
with armorial bearings, ingeniously constructed monograms, merchants'
marks, mortuary emblems, and representations of instruments or tools

Indicative of the occupations of the deceased.
Some of the last-mentioned articles are singularly interesting, and now that many have been superseded by new Inventions, they are
becoming of value
rise
to the antiquary,
arts.
and
to
such as are fond of tracing the
and progress of the useful
The Author
this
has adverted to the peculiarities of some of these in his

tJic
Memorials of Angus and

volume.
it
JMcarns
(p. 195),
as well as in several parts of
In
briefly
referring here to a few of the
most singular
examples,
may be
observed, that instead of the chalice, which was
sculptured upon the earlier tombs of clergymen, open books

fashion (265).
'
became the That of a mill-stone picker (whose surname of Plckleman had probably been assumed from his occupation) exhibits a mill'
rind and a mill-stone pick
(9).
cheese-press
is
upon the gravestone

of a farmer's wife at Tannadice
;
and the
less appropriate figures of
an
inkstand and two penknives are carved upon that of a schoolmaster's

wife at the
same place
(46).
A
is
shield
upon the tomb of a
'
moss-grieve,'
or peat-moss superintendent,
charged with the appropriate emblems of
coil
of rope and a pin or short stake for laying off the moss (251).
The Author
articles;
has never met with any other example of the last-mentioned

bicker or drinking quaich,
and the two spirit-measures and a

at
which are well represented upon the tomb of the infant son of a roadside
Cupar-Angus (344), are new to him. more common cases of farmers and sailors, also of blacksmiths, weavers, and other artisans, the carvings indicative of their respective occupations are often accompanied by laudatory and uncouth rhymes, such
merchant
In the
as the following couplet from a headstone (350) at Farnell
'
:
The weaver's
That
art, it is
renowned
it
so.
rich nor poor without
cannot
go.'
Although the writers of the epitaphs which adorn the tombs of the
higher classes of society are pretty generally known,
it
is
otherwise with
the epitaphs in the north-east of Scotland relating to people in the middle
and humbler walks of

authors of
poets.
'
life,
if
'
we except such
Helenore,'
'
as were
composed by the
The
Minstrel,'
Tullochgorm,' and a few other
Although anonymous epitaphs are often as

different
fantastic in conception as
in
they are rude in execution, and although the same lines are found
and distant parts of the country,
still
they frequently possess

for their
a vigour
and individuality that

back as
in
some measure compensate
want both of polish and rhythm.

tion dated as far
i
At
Monifieth, for example, in an inscripthe germ, certainly in a rude

'
1,
we have
older
of
enough
form, of Lover's beautiful song of the
Angel's Whisper'
(i 12).
great
many
of our
epitaphs
were probably written by

to foster
parochial schoolmasters,
many
whom
not only possessed a considerable
amount of
poetical feeling, but did very
much
and encourage

healthy thought
among
their pupils.
But besides schoolmasters, there
were
in Scotland, as in
other countries,
many
other
'
hobblers round the
base of the Parnassus,' as the minor poets have been quaintly described, who had doubtless composed numbers of these rhymes, and possibly
the most curious of the whole.
By
selecting
examples of these, we have given
in
this
volume a
mixture of the grave and gay.

able merit
;
Some
of the epitaphs possess unquestion-
show the
taste of the times in different districts,
and although others are utterly worthless, still, as they serve to and in various classes
present would have been incomplete
of society, a collection like the
without them.
Those
in
the acrostic style (159, 183) are poor specimens
and there
are only two of a punning nature, one of which refers to the
(319) and the other to the profession (224) of the persons
surname commemorated.
In the former,
it
is
said of Mr. Joshua Durie, that, although he could

live
latter,
no
loncrer o
;
Qxxdure to
in
in
this
world, he Qwdjires and flourishes in
and was a learned grammarian, he neither would

the next the
inflect fate
!
we
are assured that although the deceased

decline death
nor could
One
noticeable peculiarity in epitaphs

living,
is
the oddly expressed oral
warnings which the dead give to the
and of which the following,

:
from the tomb of a clergyman,

'
is
not the least peculiar
This dormitory which thou sees Was once the object of my eyes But now my body is in dust, Thine also death will hither thrust'
(57).
Another feature
felicity is
is
the confidence which epitaphs exhibit in the enthis
joyment of future happiness by the dead, and the means by which

represented as being attained are often very singular
'
:
He while on Earth mankind And genarously befriend,

Has
bless'd his latter end.
did aid
For which we hope Almighty God

INTRODUCTOR V REMARKS.
'
He by God's blessing often did Lame people safe restore To wonted health, altho' their bones
Were
bruised very sore' (373).
Some
of the epitaphs contain quaint alkisions to accidental deaths.
One, by Skinner of Longside, refers to an ancestor of Dr. Tait, the present
Archbishop of Canterbury, who 'was

timber' (97).
killed
by the
fall
of a stack of
Another, at Kirkden, tells us that

'
An
old clay
Kill'd both his servant
chimney that down fell, and himsell
'
(34).
The
Maryton
death of a child by
(236).
'
being drowned
in
a well
'
is
referred to at
in
We
have also the drowning of two brothers, while
search of their father's sheep, recorded in a Latin inscription at Lochlee
The death of two other brothers by drowning also forms the (130). theme of an epitaph by Dr. Beattie (295). But probably the most curious is one by Ross of Lochlee, which has reference to a youth who was
accidentally
burned
to death
'
among
a quantity of heather
From what
befalls us here below,
Let none from thence conclude Our fate shall after time be so,
The young man's
life
was good' (12S).
Of
the enigmatical inscriptions given in the present

:
work
is
one upon
the tombstone of a blacksmith at Fearn

'
this earth,
life is
Full seventy years he livd
upon
He
livd to
dye
the end of
it
death
(355).
Here he was smith
six lustres
The
third three wanted,
and three more, had but two before'
But
it is
not the Author's intention, in the meantime at
least, to
write
an essay upon the peculiarities of the inscriptions which he has collected,

although
sive
many odd instances could be enlarged upon, such as the submishusband who 'died with the concurrence of his spouse' (145); the

erected a monument to the memory of her first and 'with concent of his successor' (371), and the considebeloved' husband
grateful
woman who
'
rate son,
'
Who
To
hindered not his father dear
sleep into his bed' (137)-
These, and
many
similar points, as well as the
still
more
interesting
question of longevity,
to complete his work.
may be
entered upon should the Author be spared

to the question of longevity,
But with respect
he
may state
and
that, besides the casual notices of
Peter Garden (209) and Lizzie
Wilkin (365), who are said

103, the
to
have died respectively at the ages of 131

centenarians are
deaths of four other
recorded
in
this
volume.
Of
the lives of two of these (147, 370)
little
has been told.
One, who died at the age of others have been more fortunate. no, was a sergeant-major in the rebel army at Culloden, and enjoyed a pension from George IV. (219); while the other was twice married, and had twenty-six children by his two wives, as he himself quaintly tells us, in thus speaking from his tomb
The
'
In Wedlock's
Band ue Procreat
Lauffully us Betuix,
Loues Pledges, whos Right number wer, Euen tuo tymes tenne and Six.'
Notices
the volume.
of nonagenarians and
octogenarians occur
in
all
parts of
But the most remarkable instances are given from eight

appears from these that the united ages of ten
females
tombstones which stand within the area of the picturesque ruins of the
persons
years.
Kirk of Cowie (53-4). five males and
It
five
amount
to the
long period of 877
Among
of the late
the octogenarians at
Cowie are the
father
and paternal aunt
Cosmo
Innes, the celebrated literary antiquary,

to the lovers of Scottish history,
whose name
to
must ever be dear

those
and doubly so
who had
the pleasure of enjoying his acquaintance.
INTROD UCTOR V REMARKS.

Little did the
lication of this
that
Author think, when Mr. Innes was urging the pubvolume, for which he kindly supplied some particulars, he so soon should have to speak of him as 'one of the past.'
year, he
Although
75th
feeling
Mr, Innes, who died on 31st July 1874, had attained his possessed much of the buoyancy of youth, both in
;
and sentiment
and down
to the very last he continued to
com-
municate information to kindred
spirits,
with the geniality and exactness
which are so characteristic of the true gentleman and the profound

scholar.
Mr. Innes, who was born
in
the old mansion-house of Durris, in
Kincardineshire, was Professor of History in the University of Edinburo-h.
He
was
also a Principal Clerk of Session
and on opening the Second
Division of that Court on 15th October 1874, the Lord Justice-General

Inglis concluded
some
feeling
with this tribute to the
memory
remarks on the death of Lord Benholm of Mr. Innes Nor do the calamities
:
'
which have
befallen us
end here.
We
shall see
no more at our table the
pleasant and friendly face of Mr.
Cosmo
Innes, a
man whose
varied
accomplishments added lustre to the body to which he belono-ed, and distinction to the office which he held. His loss will be long deplored by
a
much wider
circle
than that which frequents these halls
and having
I
enjoyed his friendship and intimacy for more than forty years, refrain from paying this imperfect tribute to his memory.'
cannot
and
this volume which deals with Epitaphs most valuable and interesting will probably be the hitherto unpublished documents so kindly lent by the late Earl of
Apart from the portion of

Inscriptions,
the
Dalhousie and others.

the
life
But
of
for these, the interesting notices concerning
Murroes would still have been matter for have come so clearly to our knowledge that, in 1701, the Earl of Panmure, and certain others of the nobility and gentry of Scotland, with a view to the improvement of the useful
conjecture.
of Mr.
Edward
Neither would
it
and ornamental
arts of their
country, proposed to send a son of Mr.

Edward's
to the Continent, to study, sketch,
and report upon the more
important works in architecture, mining, planting, etc. (122-3). and his Besides the interesting facts connected with Mr. Edward
volume many particulars respecting father of others of their old brethren, such as Mr. Dempster of Monifieth, letter from the parson the first Dempster of Dunnichen (108) and also a vestments of Fettercairn, who took the wise precaution to have his
family.
Churchmen
will
find in this
and ye
'
silver chalice
'
returned to him by his cousin, the Laird of Car-
myllie, in 1523, for 'feir' of
an uptaking of the thirds of the benefices

.
(352).
And now
and others
is
that the presentation to Scotch parish churches
by
heritors
logy used in
numbered among the things that were, the quaint phraseothe presentation to the Kirk of Carmyllie by the laird and
1609
will
'
his curators in
Nor can be looked upon with interest {343). own account of how he was supLord Strathnairn's great-grandfather's ported' during his incumbency as Episcopal minister at Lochlee (382)
this
be perused without a feeling that
worthy man had not only been
strong in faith, but that, like the Israelites of old, he and his family
must
have been fed upon manna. The curious letter from Erskine of
Dun
to his uncle, the Laird of
Panmure,
in
which he pleads
for a
marriage between his neighbour, the
young
those
laird of
Bonnington, and a daughter of Mr. Maule's, will please even

little
who have
or no turn for antiquarian lore, and
may
supply
of
hints to such as take
a delight in
the
generally
thankless
task
'match-making' (389). The letter in which Earl Marischal promises rather to break 'his
necke and
fortun,'
'
than to
fail
in his
agreement with those who became
security for his
good behaviour,' presents many points worthy of being to heart both by peers and commercial men in our own day (353). laid It shows, at the same time, how much the education of this grandson of
the founder of Marischal College had been neglected, as compared with
that of his friend
and contemporary, the Earl of Kinghorn.
INTRODUCTOR V REMARKS.
The
at St.
ing;
inventories of the outfit of the latter,
when he went
most
to
study
Andrews, and of
his winter's clothing, in 1655, are
interest-
while his letter to young Arbuthnott of Findowrie, dated from the

at Strathblane, offering
Camp
in
him the command of a company of horse

is
the
Angus regiment
in
1685,
highly characteristic of the dignified
cavalier of that eventful period (386-8).
The
laird of
account of the funeral charges of a grand-daughter of the same

Findowrie,
who
'
died of a decay
'
or consumption in
704, throws
much
light
upon the
funeral customs of the period,
and contains many
items of expense not
now
to
be dreamt of (383).
in the parish of
The
first
Feu-Charter of Balfour,
by Cardinal Beaton, 20th February 1539,

in Airlie, is
if
to
Kingoldrum, granted James Ogilvy of Cookstone,

it
of considerable interest, in so far as

list
contains a pretty
full,
not a complete,
of the
members
of the Convent of Arbroath at that
date {385).
Ogilvys, possibly ancestors of Cookstone, leased

;
Balfour
built
from about 1478

contrary.
to
and although
tradition asserts that the castle

in
was
by Cardinal Beaton, the Charter
question
may be
taken as proof of the
The
old houses of Claypots, Colliston, and Ethie are also said
have been
built
by the Cardinal as residences
for female favourites
but documentary evidence shows that these were erected long after his
time by the respective proprietors of the lands.
Indeed, the Castle of
Melgund in Angus
his wife,
is
;
the only house that the Cardinal

his
is
known
to
have erected
and there
own
initials
are to be seen, together with those
of Marion Ogilvy,
who was
the mother of a family by him, and probably
by that
in
sort of morganatic marriage
which was frequent among
churchmen
Roman
Catholic times.
'
The
'
'
testificatione
this kirke
enemie of
buikes
'
anent the wasting of Naver by the malitious and kingdome,' and the destruction of the minister's
' '
and other property by

evils
barbarous heighelanders,' conveys a

civil
fair
enough idea of the

the
attendant upon a
war,
and the hardhad to mind of every
ships which
people of those days
both
lay
and
clerical
undergo (389).
This paper cannot
fail
to carry to the

reader the conviction, that the social condition of Scotland is far better now than it ever was in the good old times,' so highly lauded by writers
'
of a certain class, and that the blessings of peace and freedom are cheaply
purchased at any
price,
however
great.
The
there
old rentals of
West Ferry
of
Dundee and Monifieth show

and no doubt some of the
to find
that
was two hundred and
a considerable population, as well as shops, in these parts

thirty years
some
local
ago;
farmers, merchants,
and
if
others will
be pleased
mention therein
made
of namesakes,
not ot ancestors (380-1).
Although not consistent with the dignity of agriculturists of the present time, the quaint manner in which the unlettered miller of Coullycan preferred his claim to the laird of Troup for a renewal of the lease of
his mill
must be looked upon

it
as a curiosity in
is
its
way
(87).
Still,
how-
ever strange
may
seem, there
evidence to show that, even in recent

for similar pur-
times, similar
arguments have been frequently employed

of the soil in Scotland.
poses by
tillers
Inscriptions from funeral
and other monuments have been collected
and printed
in
most
countries,
all
and
their value has
been admitted not
only by historians, but by

of a people or a country.
who
take an interest in the past and future
Scotland
is
by no means destitute of such
collections.
;
Many
valuable
inscriptions are Incorporated with local histories
but the
first collection,
properly so called, was
burgh merchant.
This unfortunate author,

at
made by Robert Montelth, the son of an Edinwho was minister first at

Neither the time of Montelth's death nor
Borgue and next

year
Carrington, was deposed for drunkenness In the
1685 (Scott's Fasti).

Is
the place of his burial

Mortality, 2SiA the
first
known.
part,
His book Is entitled Theater of comprising 'Illustrious Inscriptions' from

Its
the burial-grounds of
1704,
Edinburgh and
part,
neighbourhood, appeared
In
and the second
containing 'a further collection of Funeral
INTRO D UCTOR Y REMARKS.

Inscriptions over Scotland,'
was published
in
171
3.
'
Both parts were
reprinted at
tions,'
in 1834, with eighty pages of Additional Inscripprofessedly collected from numerous burial-places in Scotland, but
Glasgow
which appear to have been
chiefly copied
from
local histories,
magazines,
occasion
and newspapers.
to
Although the Author
has, as yet,
had
little
make
use of Monteith's collection, he has tested

it
its
accuracy in
many
ways, and can speak of
as a trustworthy
and valuable work.
Yard, Edinbzu'gh, published

the
Brown's Epitaphs and Moimmental Inscriptio7is in Greyfriars ChurchBesides in 1867, is also an excellent work.
more modern inscriptions, it contains a number of reprints from MonIt also possesses a duly acknowledged as such by the editor. valuable introduction by David Laing, Esq., LL.D., of the Signet Library, Edinburgh, and some interesting extracts from the Records of
teith,
the
Town
Council of that
city.
The Mommients and Monumental

for the
Inscriptio7is in
Scotland, printed
Grampian Club (187 1-3), and edited by the Rev. Charles Rogers, Besides other matter, these volumes embrace LL.D., is in two volumes. a reprint of the greater part of the Glasgow edition of Monteith, also
over 360 epitaphs and inscriptions, copied from the imcorrccted versions
of the papers
tributed to the Montrose
letter
upon these subjects which the Author of this work conStandard newspaper, as noticed by him in a
in the
which appeared
Scotsman of 12th January 1874.

in
These
papers, as stated
the Preface, formed the nucleus of the
present volume.
They were
^
corrected and supplemented after appear-
ing in the Montrose Standard, but thirty-five of the notices (as detailed
in the subjoined footnote)
are not given in this volume.
These may
These were notices of the parishes of

Aberlour.

possibly appear in an amplified and
period.
more
interesting form at
some
future
In the course of publication, which extended from January 1868 to
November
1874, these contributions frequently contained strictures
upon
ill-kept burial-grounds.
Although these are omitted
in the
volume, the
Author has been gratified to learn that his remarks have led to the He improvement of many of those interesting and hallowed spots. earnestly hopes that the good work will continue to be carried out
wherever
fathers
it
is
found needful, until the

'
now
too just reproach of
'
out
of sight out of
mind as applied to the last resting-places of our forebe wiped out, and give place to the grateful and humanizing
sentiment of
Though
lost to sight, to
memory
dear.
Old Kirk-yard of Edzell.
Hpitaphs
Sf
Jnsciî PTIONS
FROM
BURIAL GROUNDS
WITH
and
OLD BUILDINGS,
NOTLS.
ILLUSTRATIVE
mowyn
of-
to hyme be his vife," and the possession " the Deray Croft of Banquhoriterne," are
;
(S.
TERNAN, BISHOP OF THE

of Banchorytarny^
PICTS.)
on record (Reg. Ep. Abd.) also legends of the bell having the power of following S. Ternan, of
its
locality, were granted to the Abbey of Arbroath by AVilliam the Lion. The church belonged to the diocese of Aberdeen. It is said that S. Ternan died at Banchory, A.D. 440, and that a church was built over his remains. It is probable that Banchory was an early seat of learning, since Camerarius speaks of some of the old Scotch saints having been educated at the monastery of Banchory.
THE church the
with lands in
own accord, when on liis religious pilgrimages The new church, built in 1824, has a modern
bell
that upon " the watch-house" in the churchis
yard, which
.
tolled at funerals, bears

.
.
:
.
.
PETKVS STENS EOTTERDAMT ME FECIT AO 1664. SOLI DEO GLORIA.

. . .
The burial-ground lies in a hollow, or come, on the north bank of the Dee. It contains a number of monuments but all trace of the
;
"cross church" has disappeared;

for the Burnets of Leyes."
is
also the "isle
Tradition says that some of the buildings stood

in the present
The
site of their aisle

is
bed of the Dee, opposite the kirk
marked by an
enclosure, in
:
which there
and I
am
informed by
Mr
Steuart, inspector of
tablet thus inscribed
"a few years ago, when a pathway was being made along the brink of the river from Banchory Lodge to the Railway Station, the men employed dug up a small square hell."' Possibly this was the j-onecht, or bell of Banchory-Ternan, which is said to have been presented to the Saint by Pope Gregory the Great but, unfortunately,
poor, that
;
lu memory of Charles-Spearman Burnett, youngest sou of James H. Burnett, Esq. of Arbeadie,
and Caroline
his wife
born 20th July 1835,
died 21st June 1836.
[Mark
x. 15.]
The erector of
this tablet (the ninth,

is
and pre-
sent baronet of Crathes),
directly descended
from Alexander Burnett who had a grant from

Robert the Bruce, 1324, of the lands
of Killie-
this interesting relic has
been
lost sight of.
Notices of the ownership of the bell by John

Stalker (1490)
"be reson of heritage pertening and

I.
nach Clerach (Candieglerach), and others in the The Burnetts were also same neighbourhood.
VOL.
EPITAPHS,
AND INSCRIPTIONS
Very Reverend Dean Ramsay
Burnett, a
Scultie Hill,
of
king's foresters in the North, and a small hunting-
Edinburgh, and
horn of ivory at Crathes, set with garnets, is said to have been given by Bruce to the first Burnett
of Leys.
succeeded to the estates of his grand-uncle. Gen.
monument
is
to
whose memory, upon

:
thus inscribed
younger brother of Leys of one of the lairds is celebrated in the ballad of the " Baron of Leys." is Their residence of Crathes, built about
-was the son of a
;
The hall)
celebrated
Bishop Burnett
(v.
Keith-
Erected to the
Burnett
of
and a continental amour
died 7 Feb.
memory of General William Banchory Lodge born 19 Feb. 1762, 1839 by his numerous Friends and
Tenantry, 1842.
The
burial aisle of the Douglasses of Tilwhilly,
a fine example of the

Glamis,
Craigievar,
Scoto-Franco
style
of
a plain building with slated roof, stands near the
architecture, being pretty similar to the castles

of
middle of the kirkyard.

J.
:
The
:
initials
and date
of
and Muchals.
Billings
gives
three plates of
Crathes in his Baronial
D M. A
1775,
and
Ecclesiastical Antirjuities of Scotland.
An
enclosure on the north-east of the church-
yard of Banchory-Ternan contains three mural

tablets of red granite.
upon the door lintel, refer to John Douglass and his wife Mary, sister to the sixth Viscount Arbuthnott. To their only son, a marble monu-
Upon
the centre slab
ment
(inside) bears this inscription
In memory
Sir Alex''.
wife
of Thomas Eamsay, second son of Ramsay of Balmain, Bart., and of his Dame Elizabeth, daughterof Sir Alexr. Banner-
Here lies Interr'd among his Ancestors, John Douglass of Tilliwhilly, Advocate, who died at
Edini'.
March Gth
1773, in the 36th year of his Age,
man, Bart.
He was a Captain in H.
B. M.'s
Army,
:
born 24th Feb. 1786, died 18th Deer. 1857, aged 71. And also of Thomas Ramsay, R.N., second son of
the above Capt.
T.
served in the Peninsula and at Waterloo
and in his Fathei-'s lifetime. He was only son of John Douglass and Mary Arbuthnott, was early educate in principles of true religion, which appear'd well in him all his Life. O Eeader, here drop a Tear for a young man so soon cutt off. But
!
Eamsay, and
of
Margaret,
daughter of Sir Robert Burnett of Lej's, Bart., his second wife, born 13th Jany. 1S2S, died 17th Jauy.
1856, aged 28.
Capt.
T. Ramsay's
first
wife
was Jane, a
comfort thee, that he has gain'd infinitely by dying, for Blessed are the dead that die in the and we have reason to believe that his ; righteous soul is now in a happy state, waiting for the resurrection of his body to eternal life.
let this
Lord
daughter of Pat. Cruickshank of Stracathro, Esq.,
The
In
above
:
is
built in the south-east corner of

is
by whom he had the above-named Wm., also Catherine, and two other daughters. Upon righthand side of the above
:
the vault
The next
near
it
of
memory of Mrs Hannah Douglass, widow

of
the late John Douglass of Tilwhilly, advocate, and
T.
Catherine Ramsay, second daughter of Capt. Eamsay, and Jane Cruickshank, born April 16,
[Luke
xii.
daughter
the late Sir G. L. A. Colquhoun of
Tillj'quhoun, Bart.,
Api'il 1835,
who departed
this life 10th
1822, died Augt. 21, 1843, aged 21.
40.]
aged S3 years, and lies interred here, in the same grave with her husband. This tablet
is
The
third slab bears
placed as a small testimony of respect and affec-
William Bdrnett-Ramsay
late Captain in
H. M. 's Rifle
Banchory Lodge, Brigade, and Lieut. of
tion
advocate.
by her only surviving son, G. L. A. Douglass, She lived beloved, and died lamented.
Eev.
Colonel of the Forfar and Kincardineshire Militia

Artillery, born 11th April 1821, died 6th
Blessed are the dead that died in the Lord.

xiv. 13.
Nov. 1865.
[John
xix. 25.]
A
mory
Upon a marble slab

Here
whilly,
lies
in the
south-west corner
fountain, constructed of granite, has been
the body of
John Douglass
lies also
of Til-
erected at Banchory, by subscription, to the

of Capt.
me-
who
died on the 6th of July 1812, in the

iige.
Ramsay.
He was
nephew
of the
40th year uf his
Here
the body of his
BA NCHOR Y- TERNA iV.

only brother, George-Lewis-Augustus Douglass, who died on the 30th of October 1847, in the 76th year of his age. Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the
Sheriff- Depute of Kincardineshire,
life.
of the
scendant of the family of Pitfodels, the first pastor church of Banchory after the Reformation ;
the Rev.
John
xi. 25.
Mr Robert Reid, son of the said James ; and the Revd- Robert Eeid, grandson of the said Robert, both ministers of the same church. Here
From a dark grey

In
granite slab, built into the

:
wall above the last-noticed
Mr Thomas Reid, who died in Eslie, in the 76th year of his age, and Joanna Burnet, his wife,
lie
who
of Tilquhillie,
memory of John Douglass

at Inchmarlo,
and
died in the 90th year of her age. Also Thomas Reid, formerly in Pitenkirie, who caused this mon-
of Falkenhorst (Thueringen Vorarlberg, Austria.)
ument
to be erected,
Born
March
28,
1804
died at Til-
in the 76th year of his age
and who died 31st Jan. 1733, and Agnes Ferguson,

;
quhillie,
October
11, 1870.
;
his wife,
;
who
;
died 22st Dec. 1728, in the 70th year
Quotations from John xiv. 12 v. 28 and ix. 25 (slightly destroyed by damp), are painted upon the plaster on the north wall. The Douglasses had a pretty early settlement on Deeside, it having been about 1479 that David
Douglass, a cadet of Douglass of Dalkeith, married
the heiress of Ogston of that Ilk and Tilwhilly.
of her age
Peter Reid, and Catharine Reid,
their children]
by
The first-named Mr Robert Reid was succeeded Mr Alex. Cant. Mr Alex. C. was deposed
being
lyffe,
before 4th Nov. 1661, as of that date the Earl of
Panmure,
"doctrine,
sufficiently
informed
of
his
The Douglasses have

1857,
Esq.,
heirs,
possessed Tilwhilly from that
time, with the exception of from about 1812 to
and good conversatioue," issued a presentation in favour of Mr George Innes, minister of Dipple. It was subsequent to this
that the second
of the parish.
when
it
it
belonged
to
Henry Lumsden,
the
Mr
Robert Reid became minister
advocate,
Aberdeen, from whom, or his
was reacquired
by
Douglasses
castle of
during the last-mentioned year.

Tilwhilly, dated 1576,
The
and now occupied by the
son of James Reid, after became Greek and Latin Secretary to James VI.,. and some of his Latin poems are printed in Johnston's Delltiai Poetarum
travelling over Europe,
Thomas,
tenant of the farm,
is
in a tolerable state of repair.
Scotorum.
He
founded the
office of
librarian at,
Bishop Douglass of Salisbury, born at Pittenweem, in Fife, was descended of this family.
and made valuable additions

Marischal College, Aberdeen,
to
the library of
A marble
slab, set in granite (on east side of

aisle), is
Hebrew
Another
Bible,
son,
among which is a supposed of the 12th century.

physician to Chas.
I.,
the Tilwhilly
1730, First
thus inscribed
erected
;
Alexander,
published several
professional
works,
and be-
monument
Second in 1776
and
1842.
this
by the Pievd. Dr Leslie of Fordoun, in Hie Jacent Keverendi Magistri Jacobus
queathed books and money to King's College, Aberdeen also money to his native parish for
;
Reid, a familia de Pitfodels oriundus, Banchoriensis Ecclesice Pastor a Eeformatione primus ; KoBEKTUS Eeid, dicti Jacobi filius, et Eobertus Keid, Roberti dicti nepos, uterque Ecclesi;B ejus-
educational purposes. The Robert of 1620 was grand -father to Dr Thomas Reid, author of the Inquiry into the Human Mind. The Reids of
Pitfodels were sprung of a burgess family
of
Hie Jacent Magister Thomas Reid, et Joanna qui obijt in Eslie, anno setatis 76 Burnet, ejus conjux, quas obiit anno ajtatis 90. Necron Thomas Reid, quondam in Pitenkirie, qui
dem
Pastores.
Aberdeen.
existing
scription
Dr
Leslie
who
erected the third
and
in-
monument, from which the above

is
copied,
was
related to the
slab
:
through his mother.
From another
Reids
monumentum hoc
erigicuravit, et obiit, 31 Januarii
1733, ajtatis suae 76, et
Agnes Ferguson,
ejus con-
jux, quas obiit 21 die Decembris, 1728, ^tatis 70.
Georgius Read, M.D., in Classe Britanuica dein Londini, medendi arte functus, natalis
apud suos confecit, voluit, anno 1754, 87
et
diu,
soli
Petrus PiEiD
[Here
lie
et
Catherina Reid, eorum
desiderio tactus non inutile senium, sed quietum

inter majores
liberi.
ossa condi
the Rev''.
Mr James
Reid, a de-
retatis.
EPITAPHS,
[Gkorge Read, M.D.,
for
AND INSCRIPTIONS
a son, and tlien by a grandson, on whose death,
in
after practising tlie art of
healing in the British Navy, and theu in
London
the year
(v.
1770,
the property passed to the
many
years, feeling a desire to revisit his native
female line
Cluny.)
soil,
spent his declining years usefully but quietly

his friends,
At
also
the top of the last-noticed slab stands a
among
and wished his bones to
rest
small round-headed stone, with the date of 1716,
beside those of his ancestors.

his 87th year.]
He
died in 1754, in
From
left of
a mural tablet, within au enclosure, on

:
DMS. in monogram. The initials, T.S. and M.S. are upon another part of it but the inscription is ill to decipher, though the letters
;
churchyard gate
scription
MARGT
sc
If
and the date

fully
of
In memory of Duncan Davidson, of Tillychetly and luchmarlo, born I7th March 1773, died 8th
Dec. 1849.
1716, are clear enough.
read, the in-
would probably be found to have some
And of his wife, Frances-Mary

whose
ancestors
Pirie,
connection with JMartin Sciiank,
who (as shewn

Records
born 29th April 178G, died 15th Nov. 1859.
by an extract
of
from
the
Presbytery
Mr
Kincardine O'Neil, kindly communicated by

of
came from Tarland, was an advocate in Aberdeen, and bought the prettily situated house and property The of Inchmarlo from Mr Leslie of Warthill.
Davidson,
Tilwhilly, from
the Rev.
ister
house of Inchmarlo was built by Mr Douglass of whom the property passed to Mr
Mr Mackenzie, Aboyne), became minBanchory on 7th Oct. 1694, and died Mr Schank married Margaret 18th April 1747. Dauney in April 1698, and at the time of hia death he was a widower, with an only son, named
Alexander,
chory,
" above the age of sixteen years."

of the property of Castle-
Davidson, a banker in London, and a luchmerlach and son of a minister of Rayne. Arbady (Arbeadie) were wrongously held from the Earl of Angus by Cumin of Culter in 1479
Walter
S.
This son bequeathed 100 to the poor of Ban-
became designed
rig in Fife,
to which ultimately
succeeded the
(v.
Rev.
Mr
Alexander Shank of St Cyrus
Lau-
(Acta Dom.)
Upon
:
flat stone,
at eastside of
Crathes
aisle
Sub hoc marmore requiescunt Reverendus Magister RoBERTUS Burnet de Sauchen, qui pastoral! sedecim auuos officio apud hanc ecclesiam
. . .
rencekirk.) Mr Schank was succeeded in Banchory by Mr George Campbell, afterwards a professor in, and
principal of IMarischal College, Aberdeen, author
of a Treatise
decimo octavo die mensis Junii anno supra millesimum septingentesimo primo, et aitatis sue quinquagesimo tertio; necnon Joanna Eeid, sponsa eius, quse obiit 9no die mensis Aprilis,
functus
est, et obiit
on Miracles, &c.
It
was upon the
removal of
Mr
C. to Aberdeen in 1757 that
Mr
Dauney came from Lumphanan

Tcrnan
:
to Banchory-
anno 17-2, ietatis sute -3. [Uuderneath this marble rest the Rev. Robert Burnet of Sauchen, who was minister of this church for 16 years, and died 18th June 1701, in his 53d year and Joanna Reid, his spouse, who died 9th April 17-2, in the -3d year of her age.]
;
Memoria; S. M. Margaret.e Chalmers, viri Reverendi Mi;i Francisci Dauney, Bauchoriensis Ternani pastoris, conjugis, quaj obiit 9>i.o Januarii 1790, aitat 64. Necnon C atharin.e Dauney, eorum filiai, quse obiit 7" Junii 1787, .-etat. 34, Quatuor
liberi,
qui in
teneris
annis
obierunt,
juxta re-
Sauchen,
once Huntly property, was acquired
quiescunt.
by Burnets, between 1662 and 1673.
On
24th
Ac etiam memorife S, M. pra^fati Mri Francisci Dauney, prius Lumphanani, poshujus

ecclesiaj
February 1699, the minister of Banchory, who was some time at Fintray, was served heir to his father Thomas, in the lands of Sauchen and His wife is said to have others (Retours, Abd.)
been a daughter of
his predecessor at
terius
per annos
LVIII
pastoris,
qui
annum
retatis
LXXXII
of
agens obiit 2do Aprilis
1800.
[Sacred to the
wife of the Rev.
memory
Margaret Chalmers,
of
Mr
F.
Dauney, minister
Ban-
Banchory.
first
chory Ternan,
year.
who
died 9th Jan. 1790, in her 64th
Mr
Burnet was succeeded
in Sauchen,
by
Also of Catharine Dauney, their daughter,
BANCHOR Y-TERNAN.
who
died 7th June 1787, in her 34th year.
Four
also
children,
who
died in infancy, rest beside them.
posed of a merchant's mark, and the

bears the following
:
mortuary emblems, and a monogram cominitials A. E..,
Sacred also to the
Dauney,
wards
minister, first at
memory of the foresaid Mr Fkancis Lumphanan, and afterfor 58 years,
of this church April 1800, in the 82d year of his age.]
who
died 2d
Mr
school.
Dauney
is
said to have been in every re-
Here lyes Alexander Eetd, son to Alexander Reid, Merchant in Abd., indweller in Banchory, who departed this life March 26, 1717, student at the King's College in Old Abd., in the 15 year of
his age
:
spect a good example of the clergyman of the old
Some anecdotes Deeside among others,

:
are
it
still
is
told of
him on
in
said, that
Mr
Dauney's old age

perform
Mr Douglass of Tilwhilly charged

inability to
and on words cast an eye Old and young, take Christ your rock.
My
last
him publicly on some occasion with

his parochial duties.
And
Gross
prepare to
die.
flight,
This
Mr Dauney
and vulgar mynds take
This to God's glory,
determined to disprove, and one Sunday, while the laird was in church, he preached " two turns of
the sand glass," and was about to
third,
my
salv^n.,
& my parents'
amisi tanquam
shyning
light.
Haberem eum tanquam amissurus,
commence a
church, upon which
when Mr Douglass moved to leave the Mr Dauney exclaimed, with emphasis " Will you say noo, Tilwhilly, that I
canna
insist ?" (i.e. preach.)
habeam. [I would have him as if I were about to lose him I have lost him as if I had him i.e., While I had my son, I always wished to be prepared for his loss, and now that I have lost him, I feel as if
Sacred to the memory of the Rev. JAires Gregory, minister of Bancbory-Ternan, who died on
the 8th Sept. 1829, in the 83d year of his age, and
still
had him. ] Alex. Rhaedus de

;
Glasel, obiit 24 Augti
anno
1726, a^tatis 57.
Also
1
Margaret
years
;
Reid, aged 2
52d
of his ministry,
having been
first
pastor to the
years
Mary
Reid,
and Thomas Reid,
congregation of the Gilcomston Chapel of Ease,
Aberdeen, from which charge he was translated to

this parish in the year 1800.
of
aged 1 year, all children to Alexr. Reid. Quern amabas extulisti; quajre quern ames; satius
est
Also to the memory Elizabeth, his daughter, who died here 3d January 1827.
amicum reparare quam

;
Here.
[Thou hast borne to the grave him

lovedst
whom
thou
seek another to love
it is
better to replace
a friend than to
mourn
his loss. ]
:
Upon a
:
flat slab
1720 Hie quiescit corpus Iacobi Farquhar in Lochtoun de Leys, qui obiit 24 die Septembris, 1712, sptatis suse 5-; ejusque conjugis dilectse CHRISTIAN.9E Spalden, quse obiit 25 die Septembris,
1719, astatis sua; 59.
From an
adjoining head-stone
of
To the memory
George Donald,
late farmer
living,
in Bocharen, in the parish of Straen.
When
[Here rests the body of James Farquhar in Lochtoun of Leys, who died 24th Sep. 1712, in the 5-th year of his age. Here also rests the body of his beloved spouse, Christian Spalden, who died 25th Sep. 1719, in her 59th year.]
he maintained a fair character, and was a loving Husband, an Indulgent Parent to a prosperous family whom Providence had blest him with. He died Sep. the 29, 1766, aged 81 years. A. D M. D.
:
This stone was erected by the sons of the above

deceased.
William Collie, farmer

living as a dutiful
this transitorj-
in
Lightwood, "after
From
a flat slab
lyes
and examplary parent, finished Life," 14 Nov. 1772, aged 61 years:

lie
Here
William Mair, who departed

20,
this
Wake
And
thoughtful in this sacred place.

;
lyfe Janry.
aged 81 and Margret Burnet, his spouse, who departed Aprile 28, 1708, aged 72 years.
1710,
;
Where our remains do
A fiat stone,
with the Reid arms nicely carved,
meditate most seriously, One day that thou most die. Deep silence where Eternity begins.
EPITAPHS,
Near north wall
of burial-ground
:
AND INSCRIPTIom
produced in the extent of his literary and scientific In this secluded valley, far from Hall
Sacred to the memory of Howard L. Tkew, R. N. son of Henry and Phebe Allen Trew, Grove Cottage,
attainments.
Banchory, 13 Feb. 1861.
Upon
a table-shaped stone
also of his only
Sacred to the
this parish,
memory
of
Williaw Shaw, born

;
and University, a true votary of Apollo, he long and faithfully served at once medicine and the muses. He was born at Lumphanan, 13th March 1796, and died at Banchory, 26th Feb. 1861. This monument was erected by his friends in token of
their regret for the loss of one
in Inveraven, Dec. 27, 1757, died at Bellfield, in
whom
they held
who died on 27th Isabella Elder, wife aged 80 years. Francis Adams, M. D. LL. D. translator of "Paulas ^gineta," "Hippocrates," and other learned works, died at Bellfield, 26th Feb. 1861, aged 64 years. Eliza. Dauney, his second daughter, died in Aberdeen, 2d Jan. 1862, aged 30 years. Francis, his third son, Lieut. 37th Madras Grenadiers, died at Jeypore, Madras Presidency, 10th Dec. 1862, aged 28 years. William-James, his
Dec. 1845, in her 46th year.
of
on the 19th Dec. 1833 child Elspet, spouse of Dr Adams,
very dear.]
William Shaw, died at
Bellfield, Dec. 1849,

, ,
The great district of country which lies between Crathes and the Hill of Fair appears to have been early peopled, and of considerable importance in old times.
lake dwelling, in the
There was a crannoge, or

of Leys, in
relics
now drained Loch
and about which some interesting bronze
have occasionally been discovered {y. Proceed. In addition to this, So. Antiq. of Scot., vol. vi.)
there
is
eldest son, surgeon,
died at Bellfield, 25th June
reason to suppose that Kilduthie, about a
1865, aged 39 years.
Elizabeth Forbes, wife
of
mile from the Loch of Leys, was the seat of a

religious house at a
William-James Adams, died at Bellfield, 10th Jan. Isabella-Hay Adams, only 1863, aged 29 years. child of W. J. Adams and E. Forbes, died at Peterhead, on 22d March 1866, aged 3 years and 7 months. George, an infant son, and Jessie Adams, granddaughter of Dr Adams, are also interred here. An infant grandson died at Kamptee, Central India, 5th Sep. 1858, aged 3 days.
remote period. If so, the kirk had probably been inscribed to S. Duthac, who had several dedications in Scotland, the chief of which was at Tain.
or chapel
On
the west side of the parish, near that pretty
The
father
above-named
Mr Shaw was
at
Canny joins the Dee, stood the wood or forest of Trustach, which Alan the Durward bestowed upon the monks of Arbroath,
spot where the
long post-
master at Banchory-Ternan.
Dr Adams (whose
far-
was gardener
Aboyne, afterwards
In this locality are traces of old earthwhich some suppose to have been the dykes of a camp, others those of an ancient town1203-14.
works,
ship.
mer
commenced practice in Luniphanan, from whence he removed to Banchory. The following inscription, composed by Professor
at Ordenhove),
of
:
But the ruins
of the Castle of
Cluny-Crichton
(near Raemoir), dated 16G6, and the fragment of

a coffin slab, which exhibits the top of a wheelcross, built into a
Geddes
Aberdeen,
is
from a granite obelisk
at Bellfield
dyke near the manse, together
In memoriam Francisci Adams, M.D., LL.D., medicorum omnium, quotquot Scotia tulit, literarum thesauris necnon scientiarum opibus eruditissimi.
with part of the old market cross, in the last-named locality, are, along with the castles of Crathes
Diu
and Tilwhilly, probably the most tangible

existing
of
the
in hae valle reducta,
ab aula
et
academia pro-
cul, mediciiiaj
simul et musis, vir vere Apollinaris
monuments
is
of antiquity in
Bancbcy^
Anderson's
fideliter
inserviit.
Mart.
Mart. amici posuere.

[In
MDCCXCVI. MDCCCLXI.
of
all
Natus Lumphanani III. Id. Mortuus Banchoriaj IV. Kal.

Carissimi capitis desiderio
very good account of the antiquities, &c., of

given in the Rev.
Banchory
Statistical
Mr
;
memory
Francis Adams, M.D., LL.D.,

the physicians that Scotland has
who
surpassed
Account of the parish but the best history of ancient Banchory is in the Antiquities Guide of Aberdeen and Banff (Spald. Club.) Books contain modern histories of it and a
;
ABERLEMNO.
pamphlet
" Banchory-Ternan Sixty Years Ago"

that
is
On
24th October 1482,
Mr David
Stewart,
lias
much
interesting
regarding the
pensioner of Rostinoth,
held the
" benefice of
an account of the cantrips of " The Witch of BalJarroch," which happened some thirty years ago. These, which were enquired into by lawyers, and are celebrated by more than one local poet, turned out to be nothing
distiict, as well as
Abirlempuo," and had Sir John Lowtholt as his

chaplain.
airlie]
In 1567, Mr David Lindsay [of Pitwas minister of Aberlemno, and of the two neiglibouring churches of Forfar and Rostinoth,
more than the ingenious freaks of a servant girl, though believed by many at the time to be the work of supernatural agency The date of 1798 is upon the bridge of Dee
near the village of Banchory.
girder bridge, with stone piers,
In 1862 an iron-
was erected about
four miles below the bridge of Dee, chiefly at the

cost of
Mr
Mactier, late of Durris.
The bridge
of Feugh,
which crosses the river of that name on

is
Mr George Lyall was reader at Aberlemno, with 20 Scots of salary. In 1574 (Wodrow Miscellany, i.), there appears to have been a dififerent arrangement. Possibly the most noteworthy of the succeeding ministers at Aberlemno, were the two OchterLONYs. The first came to the parish about 1655. He was brother of the contemporary minister of Carmyllie, and both were sons of John Ochterlony, who was provost of Brechin in 1641 (Documents
with a stipend of 200 merks.
at
the south side of the Dee,

object,
a singularly romantic
Panmure.)
Mr
Ochterlony preseiited a silver
and has been frequently sketched and
communion cup
inscribed
:
to the kiik of Aberlemno, thus
engraved.
is
This
Cup
Gifted
by M>' John
Ochterlonmj,
of Aberlemno, For the Celebration of the Lords Supper in the sd Church 1683.
Miur.
^
f^HE kirk of
3L
Ii
Um
Mr O. died about 1695, and was

tt
succeeded by
his
nephew, also John, son of the minister of Carmyllie [q.v.) He was served heir to an uncle
in
(S.
and aunt
juror,
1693, and to his father in 1699
Ahirlemenavh belonged to St Andrews, and was dedicated, along with a great

other churches in that diocese, by Bishop
in
(Retours, Forfar.)
many
David
vol. i.)
after
his
He was deprived as a nonand an intruder into parish churches and, convening his adherents for some time in
;
1242 (Robertson's
Concilia
Scotise,
In 1275-9 (Reg. Vet. de Aberbrothoc),

of Rostinoth,
own house of Flemington, he left the locality. He was afterwards consecrated Bishop of Brechin,
at
the church was taxed at 20 merks.

It
and died
Bishops.)
It
Dundee
in
1742 (Keith's Lives of the
was dependent upon the Priory

of
and, along with that house, became attached to

the
Abbey
Jedburgh.
it
From
memorandum
was
after the translation of
Mr
Ochterlony's
appears that the church of Aberlemnach was in the gift of " Mr John"
of 18th Jan. 1230,
immediate successor to Idvies, that Mr Thomas Mitchell came to Aberlemno, to whose memory,
This was possibly John Roman, or Romanus, " of the city of Antine, our writer," arch-deacon of York, who, in 1239, " for the good and services he did to the Roman church for a considerable time," had an annual pension of 100s., and was recommended by the Pope to the Abbot and Convent of Jedburgh, to have " some suit(jMisceh Aldhar.^
and that
of
some
of his descendants, there are

:
three inscribed tablets within the kirk

[1.]
Mr Thos. Ml. ordained 1714; Mr And^. Ml. ordained 1750 ; Mr Ja^. Michl. ordained 1794. This monument was erected by Mr Thomas Mitchel, minister of the Gospel at Aberlemno, and
Marie
of
AJiller his spouse, in
able or competent ecclesiastical benefice such as

is
memorie
of their
two
died
given
to, or
conferred on secular clergy, as soon
children,
Thomas and Agnes Mitchels, who
as
any
falls
vacant."
non
age.
EPITAPHS,
Below
chell,
also lys interr'd ye Rev.
AND INSCRIPTIONS:
Gulielmi Chalmers de
;
Mr TboK MitHie oonduntur

reliquiae
who
serv'd ye cure in this Parish 34 years

;
and 9 months For Piety, Generosity, Hosijitality, and Friendship, Extensive Charity, and Moderation, In Affability and Good Nature, Inferior to none. zeal for ye interest of Christ, and Examplifying in his conduct what he inculcated on others, he was
Equal'd by few.
yet he
Aldbar, qui vixit annos 65, ob. 7 Id. Jul. 1765 et C^ciliê Elfhinstone, coujugis adamatae, qua;
Non. Mart, 1761. Sacrum memoriae parentum bene merentum hoc marmor filius
vixit annos 58, ob.
posuit.
He courted not human applause, He lived in peace with all men, obtained it.
regretted, ye 9th
[Here
Aldbar,
lie
the remains of
died July
9,
William Chalmers
1765, aged 65
;
of
who
and
of
and died much
day
of Jany. 1770,
lies
in ye 60th year of his age.
Also here
interred
Cecilia Elfhinstone, his dearly beloved wife, who This monument was died March 7, 1761, aged 58.
raised to the
their sou.]
Mitchell, son and successor to the above Thomas, who lived much respected, and died regretted by all who knew him, the 3rd day of Jany. 1794, being the 65th year of his age, and 44th
of his ministry.
Mr Andrew
memory
of his excellent parents
by
May
Eev. Jas. Mitchell died 13th 1S41, in the 72nd year of his age, and 47th of
his ministry.
[2.]
was a son of Chalmers of Hazelhead in Aberdeenshire, was a successful merchant in Spain, and his wife was a daugliter of Elphinstoue of Glack. The first Elphinstone of
Glack was Arthur, brother to Bishop Elphinstone, founder of King's College, Aberdeen. Mr Chal-
Mr Chalmers, who
Below
lie
the mortal remains of
Mrs Jean Craw,

She died
Sic
of her age.
spouse of the Rev.
Andrew
Mitchell.
27th Sept. 1809, the 87th year pragterit species mundi.

[3.]
Aldbar in 1763 {v. Mem. and was succeeded by his sou Patrick, who was sheriff of Forfarshire from 1774 to 1819. To him the following refers
mers bought the lands
of
of
Angus and
INIearns),
Sacred to the
memory
wick, first wife of departed tliis life on the 3d May 1821, and 54th year of her age. Also in memory of her children, Elizabeth-Burnet, Alexander, Marmaduke,
Mrs Elizabeth SedgShe the Revd. James Mitchell.

of
[2.]
Patrick Chalmers, Esqr.
of Auldbar, advocate,
died on the 15th February 1824, aged 87.
Virtuous and learned, polished and refined, Of pleasing manners, and enlightened mind
Andrew, Jean-Craw,
Georgina, Margaret, Eliza-Tailyour, and Francis-Nicol Mitchells, all of whom, except Alexander and Andrew, were dead before herself. Likewise in memory of Elizabeth, daughter of the Rev. James Mitchell, by
Janet Webster, his second wife.
Fiat voluntas Dei.
Beloved
in Life,
lamented
in his end.
Here sleeps the Sire, the Gran dsire, and the Friend,
[3.]
Tribute of Affection to the
Memory
67.
of
Isabel
TiNDAL, who died 2d Nov. 1811, aged
The church and
aisle of
Aberlemno, both erected

iwiproved in appearance
From an
1803
:
adjoining tablet
in 1722, have been
much
Erected by George, John, Robert, Ann,

in of Balbinnie,
memory of their father, who died 5th Jany. 1793, aged 65 and of Barbara Wallace, spouse to George Jarron, junr., who died 15th April 1797, aged 33 and Barbara Jarron, their child, who died in nonage also of Robert and Isabel Jarand Jean Jarrons,
by recent repairs. 'Ihe belliy is upon the west end of the kirk and the bell bears
: ;
George Jarron
;
THE BELL OF ABERLEMNO. KOBERTUS MAXWELL ME FECIT, EDIN,
1728,
The tombstones
churchyard.
are pretty numerous in the

these the following inscrip-
From
ROn's children.
tions (the earlier of
which are carved in interlaced

:
The next
three inscriptions are from marble
Roman
capitals), are selected
tablets, also within,
and upon the south-east
side
of the church
Heir rests ane faithf vl sister qvha livit vith hir mariet hesbent Viliam Alerdya borges in Dundie
ABERLEMNO.
29
zeiris,
calit
this paries the 19
Ianet Ademson, qvha depertit day of luli anno 1600.

faithf brother
in
1756
stone
in
V.
Heir rests ane
V. A. qvha
John Spence, Grisall Colvill. This was erected by John Speuc in West Milldens, memory of his father and mother, who lived
:
departit this put lyfe the 17 day of Avgvst anno

Christi
sometime in Broomhill
of Balgavies
...
fa
I.
A.
riet
Here
vyf
this
ly's
an honest old
race.
Heir restis ane Ianot Vobster

lyf
Who
FuU
in Ballgavies land
zer of hir aig
.... Ivuii ....
zeir
and departit
Of residence, as
may
had a place be seen,
1605
....
66
years three hundred and eighteen.
Heir
restis
in the
Lord ane
faithfvl brother
Alexander Watson svmtym

V.
in
Crostvovn deA.
pairtit 28 of Febrvarii 1622 aige 51.
This old race of Spences came there about the year 1438, where they and their offspring resided from Father to Son, till the year 1820.
M.
D
.
W.
I live to die
I die to
The
live.
...
Vnder
GITIE
as DAiGATt qvha leivet yt his

ther dav
last clause and some names were added in 1850 by Andrew Spence, Broughty Ferry.
:
Alixandr
Daigati, Iohn Daigati
....
this ston lyes the corps of

89,
Andrev Dal;
and
of his age 70 yier
also
EvPHAM
Bell, his wife, depairted December 24,
1672, age 41 yeirs.
The
slabs.
James Taylor (1774) Here lies the man, who peace did still pursue, And to each one did render what was due With meek submission he resign'd his breath To God, the Soverign Lord of life and death. Here different ages do promiscuous lie The old man must, the young may die.
; :
six inscriptions given
above are from
flat
James Peter
Here
(1797)
Those below are

;
chiefly
from head-stones.
The
In hopes in peace his Lord to meet.

lies iuterr'd in dust.
first
exhibits carvings of articles belonging
to the weaver trade
One
d. 1728, a.
in his
temper ever kind.

dealings just.
John
Nicol, weaver, Lochead,
33
In
all his
Tho' this fine Art with skillfull hand, Brings Forreign Riches to our Laud ; Adorns our Rich and Shields our Poor, From cold our bodies doth secure,
Kind
widow's friend, always did remain, Till heaven's great Lord by his decree
to the poor, the
He
Keeall'd his
life
again.
Yet neither Art nor Skill e'er can Exime us from the lot of man.
David Milne
Man's
is
life
(1734)
on Earth, even From the

;
Womb,
Full of Troubles to his Tumb He enters in with Cryes and Fears, And paseth thro' with Cars and Tears, He Goeth out with sighs And groans, And in the Earth doth Loge his bons, O that our Souls with Christ may have
From the peculiar symbols and other carvings upon the well-known sculptured stones which stand at, and near the kirk of Aberlemno, it is probable that the locality was an early seat of
Christianity,
as well as a place of considerable
population
district
in
old times, long even before the
A Lodging place beyond the Grave

To rest, and Hallouge
sing
was known as a thauedom (v. Proceed. So. of Antiq. (vol. ii), and Sculptured Stone
Monuments
of Scotland.)
of the
Eternally to Heaven's King.
sibly those of Balgavies,
From
a stone, upon which a mill-rind and mill:
stone pick are represented
George Anderson, sometime Pickieman
at BalI
garrock Mill, died the 9 day of March, anno 1747.
arms of the Lindsays, posis at the kirk of Aberlemno. The foundations of their castle are on the south side of the parish. It was destroyed by order of King James, in 1593, in consequence of Sir Walter Lindsay having joined the Jesuits.
A portion
10
EPITAPHS,
AND INSCRIPTIONS
The armorial bearings of James Beaton of Melgund (grandson of the Cardinal), and those of his wife, Elizabeth Menzies, are built into the outer and north wall of the church, dated 1604, and initialed I. B E. M. The arms and initials M. O. (Marion Ogilvy), the mother of Cardinal Beaton's children, are upon the ruins of Melgund Castle. A monogram of the initials of George, first Marquis of Iluntly, and of his wife, Henrietta Stewart, similar to those at Gordon Castle, is built into the farm-ofiices at
:
(s.
rated along with the kirk
ftffHE church of Aldebar, dedicated by Bishop Sa David of St Andrews in 1243, was given to the College of Methven, by Walter Stewart, Earl
of Athol, in 1433.
of Kiunell in the
It
is
Taxation of 1275-9 (Theiner
Mon.
Mains of Melgund. Melgund Castle, notices of which will be found in Memorials of Angus and Mearns, p. 278, is one of the most picturesque and interesting ruins in The property of Melgund belongs to Forfarshire. the Earl of Minto, to whom it has descended from Henry Maule, a cadet of the noble family of Panmure, and the reputed author
Picts.
of a History of the
merks 10s was served, in 1574, along with the kirk of Brechin and four others adjoining, by Mr John Hepburn, who had 202 4s 7d of stipend. Andrew Ker, then reader at Aldbar, had 20 merks and kirk lands.
Hist. Hib. Scot., p. 114), at 4
It
8d Scots.
The chapel
is
situated in the
Den
of Aldbar,
where a sculptured stone and fragments of coffin slabs have been found. There are a few old
tomb-stones, but the inscriptions are defaced.
On the death of one of the Melgund family the following invitation to the funeral
(here printed from the original at Panmure), was sent by the laird, to " his Louing Cousing lohn
The
perty,
church, which was long a ruin, was re-
stored as undernoted.
it is
Although private pro-
occasionally used for public service.
Maule chamberlane
off
panmure":
:
It contains
two
brasses, designed
by
Billings.
:
" Melgund 1672 May 16 Cousing Satturday next be ten in the forenoone So vith your is the dyet I Intend the buriale, conveniencie come or not as you find cause, either shal be taken by Your Louing Cousing, H. Maule, the buriale is on IS Instant."
They bear
In
respectively these inscriptions

[1.]
Aldbar,
He was
on
London. born at Aldbar a.d. 1777, and died there the 8th day of December 1826. Also of
in
memory of Patrick Chalmers, for many years a merchant
Esquire, of
Frances Inglis, his wife, who died at Aldbar on the 10th day of February 184S, in the 70th year
of her age.
[2.]
Alexander Irvine of
birlot,
Drum and
of Kelly in
Ar-
held considerable pro2)erty in Aberlemno
in the early part of the 17th century, from which
Outside the walls of this Chapel are interred

the mortal remains of Patrick Chalmers, Esquire,
of Aldbar, lateCaptainin
he made a " mortification" of meal to the schoolmaster, and to the poor of the parish, similar to that which he made to those of Arbirlot, about the
year 1629.
sometime Member
District of
H.M.'s SdDragoouGuards, Parliament for the Montrose Burghs, Author of the " Sculptured
of
In 1707 Sir Alex. Murray of Melgund (an ancestor of the Earl of Minto^ obtained an Act of Parliament to allow a weekly market (long since
discontinued) to be held at Aberlemno "in
all
Monuments
1854.
of
in the year 1853.
Angus." Died
He
at
re-edified this
Chapel
Eome, on June the 23d,
Soon after the death of
time coming."
Mr Chalmers, a monument, similar in design to the Ancient Sculptured Crosses of Scotland, which he did so much to preserve and illustrate in the admirable
work above
ALDBAR.
referred to,
II
was erected by his
late brother, Joha-I.
moved from Aberlemno

There, too,
cessor,
lie
to that romantic spot.
Chahners, Esq.
of his birth
coffin-slab
his grave, inscribed with his
was also laid over name, and the dates
the ashes of his brother and suc-
and death. Mr Chalmers was principal editor of the Chartularies of Arbroath and Brechin. The latte'^ work was completed after his death, and prefaced with a genial Memoir, by his friend, Prof. Cosmo Innes of Edinburgh. The work was a free contribution by Mr Chalmers to the members of the Bannatyne Club, and contains an excellent portrait of Mr Chalmers, engraved by Bell, after a miniature by Eobertson. Mr Chalmers contributed many valuable papers to archaeological publications and at the time of his death he was a Vice-President of the Society
;
of great
JoHN-IxGLis Chalmers, Esq. a man humour and goodness of heart who died
18G8, leaving a family of sons and
15th
May
daughters.
Notices of the castle of Aldbar, and of the early

proprietary history of the lands,
are given in
It need only
Memorials
of
Angus and Mearns.
be briefly remarked here that before Aldbar came into the hands of the Chalmers', it belonged first
to a branch of the Cramonds of Midlothian, and next to the Lyons of Glamis, one of whom. Sir
Thomas,
built the oldest part of the existing castle.

it
From
the Lyons
passed to Sir James Sinclair,
and afterwards to Peter Young
His remains were interred on 15th July 1854, on which occasion the following lines were written as a tribute to his
of Antiquaries of
Scotland.
of Easter Seaton, grandson of Sir Peter, almoner to King James VI. It was acquired by Mr Wm. Chalmers from
the Youngs.
memory
May'st thou in peace repose, Peace to thy Soul And. no rude hand thy sacred shrine profane Thine was the heart that felt the poor man's woe
!
:
The initials and monogram of the late Mr P. Chalmers are upon some of the recent additions to Aldbar Castle. The Lyon arms and the
initials,
S.T.L. (Sir T. Lyon), also D.E.D., those
i?eliev'd his wants,
and sooth'd
of
his ev'ry pain.
his
second wife.
Dame Euphemia
INIorton, are
In thee siirviv'd the best of mental powers, Oombin'd with meekness, modesty, and grace iTeen to perceive in judgment, good and true Ooncise and fair Old Manners thou did'st trace. Hovi much thou wish'd poor Scotia's state to know, .^nd bring to light her ancient Arts and Lore,
daughter of the Earl of

tower.
Douglas upon the old
The
lintel of the mill
door at Blackiemill bears

initials,
the date of 1698, and the
R.Y A.G.
:
Xong hid
Jl/ix'd
in mists of ages past, or else

in fable
up
jE'nchanted
by her Poets of yore. by that wish, and, doing good,

:
was to their son that Ruddiraan, the celebrated grammarian, was tutor afact referred to by Ruddimaa in his pamphlet entitled " Animadversions" on
It
(Robert Young and
Ann Graham).
Love's Vindication of George Buchanan.
i?oird past thy too short years of fifty-two
(Sound may'st thou sleep in that sweet lonely spot.
Where, but to-day, we bade thy corse Adieu!

Since the death of
Mr
Chalmers two magni-
ficent folio volumes, illustrative of the Sculptured
Monuments
of
of Scotland,
have been issued by the
Spalding Club, under the able superintendence
^tWu,
(S,
or
^trdtalrcrjsi,
Mr
Chalmers' old friend, John Stuart, Esq.,

Sec. A. S. Scot., &c., in
ANDREW.)
LL.D.,
which work much
of the letter-press
and
all
the engravings of
Mr
IF^HE
Chalmers' publication have been reproduced.
patronage of the kirk of Bellie belonged to
Chalmers re-edified the chapel of After Aldbar, the remains of his ancestors were re-
Mr
the Priory of Urquhart, in consequence of a
grant of territory, by David I. about 1150-3, which included Finfans, on the west of the Spey, and
12
EPITAPHS,
AND INSCRIPTIONS:
Montrose's eldest son,
lies at Bellie, but no stone marks the spot. His father had passed frora Elgin on 4th March 1645, and come to the Bog of Gight, now Gordon Castle, " with the bodie of his army." While there, his son, "a proper youth about 16 yeiris old, and of singular
Fochoper (Fochabers) on the east, with a common for pasturage, and a fishing on the Spey, &c.
Mr George Hay was minister of and the three parishes of Rathven, Farskan, and Dundurcus, with a stipend of 212 16s 8d. Robert Grant was reader at Bellie with 16 and the kirk lands.
In 1574,
Bellie
expectatioun, takis seiknes, deis in the
Bog
in a
In 1725, part of the east side of the parish of Bellie, including St Niuian's, and part of the
west side of Rathven, including Fortgordon, and Preshome, &c., were formed into a preaching station. In June 1851, these districts were
erected into a quoad sacra parish, under the
of
few dayis, and (continues Spalding) is bureit in the kirk of Bellie, to his fatheris gryt greif."
The tombstones
are numerous at Bellie.

is
The
slab,
;
first-quoted inscription
from a marble
within an enclosure, near the kirkyard-gate
name
This tablet is placed by Jean, fifth Gordon, to the memory of her dear infant daughter, Charlotte, who died the 10th of Dec. 1810 ; and also, to her beloved mother, Mrs Susan Robertson,
year.
Enzie where there are a parish church, manse, and school-house, &c. The churchyard of BeUie is about two miles from the village of Fochabers, near to where the Spey joins the Moray Firth. In the only remainglebe, school,
Duchess of
who
died the 2d of June 1822, in her 91st
much defaced tablet, with Latin inscription, bears the name of " GuLlELMUs Annand," who appears to have died in But the gravestone of Mr Wil1770, aged 70.
ing fragment of the kirk, a
liam Sanders, which (says Shaw) bore " that

he lived 108 years, and was minister of Bellie 77 Mr Sanders was oryears," is not now visible.
dained about 1607=
" fifth Dnchess of Gordon," was humble birth and parentage, who reHer good looks and handsided at Fochabers. some person fascinated Duke Alexander long
a
Jean Christie,
woman
of
before the death of the fourth Duchess, the
Lady
Jane Maxwell
Twenty
years afterwards,
mantic part of
to a
and probably not the least roJean Christie's history is that
he was censured by the Presbytery (Scott's Fasti), *' for making ane pennie brydell within Straithboggie to his dochter in law, at quhilk wer present
almost at the very
man
in her
moment of her being united own station of life, a carriage

assembled,
off
drove to the door of the cottage, where the marriage
excomuHicat papists, to the

Christians."
It
greiff of all
honest
party
were
abducted and carried
and Jean was from her betrothed.
was
in
Mr Sanders' time,
16.32, that the
on 15th September Earl of Angus " wes mareit at the
kirk of Bellie Avith lady
Mary Gordon
[third]
dochter to the Marquess [of Iluntly], be Maister
the Erll of
Robert Douglass, minister at Glenbervie, whome Angous brocht with him of purpoiss."
the 28th November following, the Master Abercorn and Huntly's youngest daughter were married in the same place, "be ane Irish minister." Spalding further informs us that the " corpis" of
of
On
the
first
in 1636,
Marquis of Huntly, who died at Dundee " wes convoj'it with sum freindis to the
Belly,"
She bore nine children to Duke Alexander, to after proclamation on three several Sabbaths," she was married " on the 30th day of July 1820, by the Rev. William Renuie, minister According to the Bellie of the parish of Bellie." Register of Burials, " Jean Christie, Duchess of Gordon, Second Wife to Alexander, Fourth Duke of Gordon," was interred at Bellie upon the 2d August 1824, " aged 54 years." Her body was laid in a vault, under a handsome mausoleum of Elgin freestone, with canopy, supported by
whom, "
twelve
pillars.
Her name
is
not recorded
but
kirk
was kept a night, while on its way to the family tomb at Elgin. The same authority says that Lord Graham,
of
it
where
the following, upon a marble slab, relates to her
son Adam, whose remains were laid beside those

of his
mother
BELLIE,
In this vault are deposited the remains of
OR
FOCHABERS.
departed this
life
13
Adam
the 8th Sep. 1782, aged 50 years.

his wife,
GoRDOX of Newtongarrie, son of Alexander fourth Duke of Gordon, who died at Burnside, lith Aug.
1834, in the 37th year of his age, deeply regretted
And
of
Katharine Gordon,
who
dis-
by
all his friends.
his spouse,
tion.
This marble was placed here by Jane Grant, as a testimony of her affec-
charged the duties of a daughter, a wife, and a mother, with a piety and affection offering bright example to their descendants. She was born Ist Sacred to the Jan. 1743, died 17th Sep. 1795.
memory
who,
of
John Ross,
Esq.
sometime Professor
of
Mrs
Gordon (like her mother-in-law, Jean Christie), was of humble parents. She belonged to Buckie or its neighbourhood, and subsequently married Mr Reid, sometime a bank agent in Fochabers, by whom she had two sons and a
daughter.
Oriental Languages in King's College, Aberdeen,

after passing a long life
in the practice of
virtues
Newtongarrie
is
a property in the
of the
which rendered him an ornament and blesswas removed to that better world, where he will meet their just reward, on 9th July This humble 1814, in the 84th year of his age. tablet has been inscribed by parental affection.
ing to society,
parish of Drumblade.
Near the middle
burial-ground at Bellie:
Svb hoc cippo tvmvlatvr corpvs exsangve Eliza-
beths Milks, Angligenae, Andrese Hossack ivnioris qvondam sponsag, principis Dvcissfe Gordon qvondam ancilla;, qvae obiit tertio Octobris, anno Dom.
1G87.
Sacred to the memory of John Menzies, Esq., The best died loth March 1831, aged 72. eulogium of his character is, that, for the long during which time he period of nearly 50 years,
who
acted as cashier to the
Duke
of
Gordon, his employer
never sustained any loss by his incorrectness, or neglect of duty and that the many thousands with
;
[Beneath this stone is interred the body of Elizabeth MiLNS, a native of England, spouse of Andrew Hossack, junior, and formerly chief maid to the first Duchess of Gordon, who died 3d Oct. 1687.]
whom
he transacted business, were equally
satisfied
with the integrity of his conduct, against which no complaint was ever heard, even from those who
The
were not his
friends.
:
first
Duchessof Gordon was Lady Elizabeth
Howard, second daughter of the Duke of Norfolk. Her husband, the fourth Marquis of Huntly, was created Duke of Gordon in 1684. He died at Leith in 1716, she at Edinburgh in 1732. Although their names are unrecorded at Elgin, both were buried there.
From
a bead-stone (enclosed)
Erected by Lieut. -Col. William Marshall, as a sincere but inadequate tribute to the memory of a revered parent, 1857. This stone was originally placed by William Marshall over the graves of his
son Major Alex. Marshall,
who
died at Keith-
From
flat
slab
Heir lyes Elspet Gordon, spous to Alexr. Gordon of Upper Dalochie, alies. Major, who departed
more, 31st Jan. 1807, in his 33d year ; and of Jean Giles, who died at Newfield Cottage, Dandaleith, 13th Dec. 1824, in the 85th year of her age, whose
remains
lie
both here interred.
Here
also lie the re-
May
12, 1690.
mains
inscriptions are
of
The next two monuments

:
from table-shaped
Giles, a
William Marshall, Esq. husband of Jean man of virtue and integrity. From a humble
by the indus:
station in life he rose to distinction
trious cultivation of a natural talent
eventually
Here lyes Issobell Knight, spous to Androu Haj% wywer in Fochabers. Shee departed the 13 Manney hath donn werteusly, but of Febr. 1712 shee heath excideth them all.
:
Here lie the remains of James Ross, Esq., who, with unblemished integrity, conducted for many years the important affairs of the Great Family of Gordon and, whilst zealously anxious to promote He their interest, raised no fortune to himself.
;
he became Factor on the estate of Alexander Duke of Gordon, an office which he held for many years, performing its duties with fidelity, and to the satisfaction of his Employerand the Tenantry. Although self-taught, he made considerable progress in mechanics and other branches of natural science, to which his leisure hours were frequently devoted.
But he was
chiefly noted for his skill
in music, the Scottish airs
and fine taste and melodies composed
14
EPITAPHS,
appreciated.
AND INSCRIPTIONS
He
took up his resi5, and from the service in dence in the pretty cottage of Newfield, on the banks of the Spey, near Craigellachie, where he died, beloved and re-pected by all who knew him,
by him being widely known and

died universally esteemed,
at
Dandaleith, 29th May a family of six children, besides the above-named
Newfield Cottage, Of 1833, in his 85th year.
Alexander, Francis, a jeweller, died in Loudon John, a Capt. in the army, died in India and George, a Lieut, in the army, died in Spain. Jane,
; ;
an only daughter, widow of John M'Innes, Esq. Dandaleith, and William, a retired Lieut. -Ool. in
the army, being the sole present survivors.
on the 29th August 1870, in his 91st year. (i>. Elgin Conrant oi 2d Sept. 1870.) The next two inscriptions are from the oldest of four inscribed monuments within an enclosure
:
William Marshall, who was originally a footman

or page at Gordon Castle, was perhaps second only
to the " famous Neil
Gow"
as a performer
upon
the violin, and probably superior to Neil as a com-
poser of national
is still
airs.
Marshall's music, which
Here lyes the body of George Geddes, late in Mains of Kempcairn, who dyed the twenty first day of Octr. 1746. In memory of Catherine Milne, of the Mill of Towie, and relict of Thomas Geddes of Dallachy and Todholes she survived her husband 33 years, and died the first Sept. 1821,
;
sought after in the North, consists of a

of beautiful strathspeys,
aged
87.
number
was
so
after people
and places that
named by him he knew and Burns

;
In this burying ground are interred the remains of Thomas Geddes, of Dallachy, who died in 1789,
much
a'
pleased with jNIarshall's music to his
aged
ton,
and
of his son
John Geddes,
in Orblis-
song, " O'
the airts the wind can blaw," that he

letter
died 23d Dec. 1817, aged 64, by whose disconsolate widow this simple record is placed over
who
wrote him a complimentary

Marshall,
on the subject.
his grave as a small his affection
token of her remembrance of
who had also a taste for mechanics, employed much of his leisure in the art of clockmaking, a specimen of which
is
and worth.
:
Upon
a table stone (enclosed)
preserved at
Gordon Castle. A portrait of Marshall, engraved by C. Turner, from a painting by John Moir (ancestor of Moir-Byres of Touley), with violin
in
Geo. Anderson, farmer, Burnside, "a man distinguished for ardent piety and pure Benevolence, whose manners were as simple as his morals were
unblemished,"
d. 1797, a. 71
:
d. 1779, a.
hand, is to be seen in many houses in the Northern counties. His son, Major Alpixr. Marshall, served in
India,
69 his wf.
;
Helen Shand,
Unknown
to
Pomp, and bred
to rural Toil,
To him the
Christian'sFaith and
Hope were given;
and
at the siege of Seringapatam. Capt.
Unskill'd in Art, nor trained in Courtly Guile,
John,
insular
of the 26th Regt.,
was present
in the
War, and died
of cholera at
PenMadras in
He
liv'd to
God, and died
to wake in heaven.
and
11 of Bellie, pre-
1829, and Lieut. Gi-.orge, of the 92d Regiment,

died from fatigue in
Lieut.-Col.
the
In same grave are deposited the remains of the Rev. John Anderson, who was 27 years minister
of the parish of Kingussie,
1812. The fourth son, William Marshall (the erector of monument at Bellie), who became a Lieu-
vious to his retirement from the church, and who died on the 22d of April 1839, in the 80th year of
his age.
tenant in the Gordon Fencibles in his eighteenth

year, served in almost all the
engagements durincluding those of
Mr Anderson knew much of

of Alexander, fourth
the private affairs
ing the French Revolution,
Duke
of
his
of
Gordon, and long

that
office
Aboukir and Corunua, and Marshall was so severely wounded at Waterloo, that his right arm had to be amputated. After this Lieut.-Col. Marshall was employed in Canada during the rebellion of 1837, and afterwards in various responsible military offices at home.
acted as Commissioner upon the Gordon estates.
The circumstance
during
his
holding
He
retired
incumbency having been brought before the Church Courts, and the General Assembly disapproving of his being engaged in that His capacity, he demitted his charge in 1819.
IBELLIE, OR
FOCHABERS.
15
mother was a near

the
relative of
Mr
West
Indies,
afterwards laird of
Shaud, once in The Burn,
of ]\Ioray.
foundation was given to the Bishop and Chapter This place of worship appears to have
near Fettercairn (j.u.)
Upon
to
a chest-shaped stone
r^
But
S.
been situated somewhere about Gordon Castle. the old fairs or markets of S. Catherine,
Erected, at the expense of his fellow-servants^
MuNGO, and the Holy rood, which were long held in the neighbourhood of Fochabers, possibly
either altarages within the
Aug.
John Barondon, who 16, 1853, aged 39 :

It
died at Gordon Castle,
show that there were
chapel, or that chapels in different parts of the
was
in the
bloom
of
manhood's prime,
sent
parish were dedicated to those saints.
When
Be
death to
me was
The Hays
of
Gycht and Enzie were the same
All you that have a longer time,

careful
as those of Tillybody, in Clackmannanshire.
The
and repent.
it
O, the grave, whilst
covers each fault, each defect,
Leaves uutaruish'd the worth of the Just His memory we'll cherish with tender respect, Whilst his body consumes in the dust.
male Hne failed about 1426-8, when Sir Alexander Seton of Gordon, afterwards Earl of Huutly, married as his second wife, J])gidia, heiress of Gycht,
Enzie, and Tillybody, by
lands.
whom
he acquired these
still
Those
of
Gycht and Enzie are

of
in pos-
session of descendants of the Gordons,
now
repre-
sented by the
Duke
Richmond.
The
antiquities
of
the parish are
few
the
It was by the second Earl of Huntly that the House of Bog of Gight (now Gordon Castle) was
80- called
Roman Camp
to the north of
Gordon
founded.
Castle, traces of a Druidical temple at Greencairn,
and the Court Hillock, at the last-named of which places the barony courts of the district had possibly
Since then it has been rebuilt, and from time to time altered and added to, until it has assumed the palatial appearance which it now
exhibits.
The
Castle stands in the midst of a
been held being almost the only objects worthy of notice.
vast park, studded with magnificent old trees,

laid
and
out with great taste and judgment.

the more interesting features within the are
As
to the proprietary history of the district,
it
Among
policies
appears that about 1238 King Alexander acquired

the second teiuds of the lands of Fochobyr, and
others,
presenting
from the Bishop of Moray, in exchange
the Quarry Gardens at one time unseemly holes filled with stagnant water, and hillocks of quarry debris. That locality
for lands
and teinds
in another part of that pro-
is
now
;
the
most
lovely
and
enchanting
of
vince.
At
a later date, other parts of Fochabers
places
and, apart from nice walks and flower-
were exchanged for the lands of Wynn (^? Whinnyhaugh), and Bynin (? Binns.) In 13G2, John Hay of Tullyboyle (Tillybody)
had a charter of the whole lands from the Spey to the burn of Tynet, which are described as lying About within the Forest of Awne, or Enzie.
twelve years
later, the
beds, there are
some old carved

of
stones,
which
fall
more within the scope
our
present
work.
Some
initials of
which present, in monogram, the Marquis and Marchioness of Huntly, are said to have been brought from
of these,
the
first
Huutly
Castle.
They
are oval-shaped
but un-
same baron (Reg. Morav.),
fortunately the centre oruameuts, as well as the

inscriptions, are mostly defaced.
with consent of his son, founded a chapel at the
The two
ii.
:
texts
Geth (Gycht), in honour of the Blessed Virgin and All Saints. This was endowed with au annuity of 20, also four acres of land at Ladardach, with a house for the chaplain, and pasture for twelve cows and a bull, sixty sheep and lambs, two horses, &c., while the jurisdiction of the
which follow (Ps. xxxiv. 9
Phil.
10), both
dated 1614, are the only parts decipherable
TIMETE DOMINXTH OMNES SANCTI QVIA NON EST INOPIA TIMENTIB'

.
EIVS*
.
EVM.
As
there are traces of
"a
glory" or halo upon
16
EPITAPHS,
it
AND INSCRIPTIONS
the next slab,
had probably beeu adorned with
George appears to have been the second

sons.
of four
;
a carving of
Our Saviour
.
.
The
first,
Alexander, was born in 1740
OMNE
GENV FLECTATVR .... NOMINE

market cross
of
lESV.
the third, Thomas, in 1748, in the note of whose
The
old
Fochabers
is
also within
baptism bis father
is
described as a " fewer" in
the policies of Gordon Castle.

santly situated place,
It consists of a
is
The town,
a plea-
main
street,
an old burgh of barony. with diverging lanes,

of trees.
and the fourth, Peter, was born in 1760. Their mother came from the parish of Deskford, as is shown by the following entry of
Fochabers
;
and a spacious square, planted with rows

It
her marriage
contains the Established Church, erected in
Roman
1789, a Free (1844), an Episcopal (1834), and a Catholic Church (1828) also some ex;
cellent houses
and shops, a branch bank, &c. Milne's Institution, which was founded by Alex. Milne of New Orleans, a native of Bellie, for the
free education of natives of the district,
is
July 25, 1736: " James Chalmers in ffochabera and Isabell Ruddach in ye parish of Dessfoord gave up their names to be proclaimed in order to their marrige according to Law."
a fine
building a
little to
the east of the town.
The river Spey, which is of considerable width and beauty at Fohabers, is crossed by a handsome bridge, with an iron arch of great span, erected soon after 1829, the floods of August
of that year having carried
bridge, which
ftXtx (^wMtx,
(S.
PETER, THE APOSTLE.)
away
of
the previous
stone.
ING AVILLIAM
was constructed
The
stone bridge consisted of four arches, and was
li
the
the LION bestowed the church of Kulter, " iuxta Abirdene," upon
opened
in 1805.
George Chalmers, who must ever be looked upon as one of the most celebrated of those men who have brought documentary and other reliable evidence to bear upon the elucidation of Scotch History and Antiquities, was a native of He wrote several books the town of Fochabers. of National value and interest, particularly " Caledonia," of which great work he lived to issue only three vols. Accounts of Chalmers' life will be found in all biographies. He was educated at King's College, Aberdeen, and after a residence of some years in America, he returned to England, when he became a clerk to the Board of
Trade, and died in 1825.
Abbey and monks of S. Mary of Kelso, about The gift was afterwards confirmed by Mathew, Bishop of Aberdeen, within whose dio1165-99.
cese the church
was
situated.
Alan been an
of
of
Soltre, chaplain,
who had probably
ecclesiastic of the hospital, or
Soutra,
in Lothian,
monastery was presented by the
Abbot
of Kelso, to the vicarage of the church of It

is
Culter, 1239-40.
at 54s 4d.
rated in the Old Taxation
In 1287-8, an agreement was made between the of Kelso and the brotherhood of the Knights of Jerusalem, regarding the Templars' lands of Blairs, Kincolsi (Kincousie), on the south side of the Dee, by which a chapel, erected
Abbot and Convent
The
following extracts
by the Templars at
their house of Culter,
was
from the parish register reg arding the marriage of his parents, and his own baptism, may be interesting to the admirers of his works
:
recognised as a church for the inhabitants of the
Dec. 26, 1742
"George Lawful! Son
to
James
above lauds and others belonging to them, with parochial rights (Reg. Abd.) S. Peter's Well, remarkable for the fineness
of its water,
Chalmers and Isabel Ruddoch in Fochabers, was baptized before Witnesses John Chalmers, John Geddes, Robert Chalmers, and Andw. Mitchell, all
in Fochabers."
east of the church
name
of
upon the Glebe Haugh, and Peter's Heugh is the an adjoining part of the north bank of
is
situated
;
the Dee.
PETER CULTER.
The
bank
kirk of Peter Culter, surrounded
17
by some
view
of
old trees,
has a conspicuous site on the north
of the Dee,
and commands a
fine
To the memory of Patrick Duff of Culter, Esq. He was born Nov. the 16, 1692. He dyed Oct. 20, 1763. He examined Christianity, believed it firmly,
and loved
it
the church and district of
Mary
Culter, &c.
;
The
warmly.
From
;
Christian principles he
and a slab built into the north wall, initialed M. J. K., and dated 1715, refers to the incumbency of Mr John Kennedy, who was minister from about 1704 to
date of 1779
is
upon the church
practised social virtue

of his
in relieving distress
and
promoting useful arts he delighted.
The
affection
Widow
1721,
raises this
monument.
'23, his predecessor
having been deposed (Scott's
and negligence." shew that " the fabrick of the kirk fell to the ground vpon the 16th day of October 1673," and " the sandglasse" having been broken by the ruins, the session, on 18tli January
Fasti), " for lying, immorality,
his cousin Margaret, only daughter of William Duff of Braco, by Helen Taylor, " a woman of very much inferior rank to
In
Mr
Duff married
The
session records
him, though come of very honest parents."

Duff,
Miss
who was only eleven years of age at the time of her marriage, had no family to the laird of Culter; and some years after his death her
second marriage is thus recorded (5th Jan. 1769), " Udny of Udny married to JNIrs Duff of Culter,"
Besides Culter,
following, ordered another glass to " be bought."
The tombstones are numerous. The first quoted

inscription
is
from a slab built into the outer and

:
Mr
south wall of the church
the low country estates of

lie
Duff acquired the " most of Drum," which adjoined
Close to this wall, in front of this tablet,
the
Culter.
of
He
died at Culter House, which Baird

describes as " one of the most
remains of Sir Alexr. Cuming of Culter, Bart., and his Lady, Elizabeth Dennis, co-heiress of
lie
Auchmedden
Puckle Church in Glostershire. Where they now was formerly under their own seat in the Old Church, where they were buried.
beautiful and best finished Gentleman's Seats in the North." Culter is still Duff property, being
owned by R.
esso
\\'.
and Glassaugh,
P.
Abercromby-Duff, of Fetter&c., Esq., M.P., who married
Philip Cumin, son of Jardine Cumin of Inverallochy, in Rathen, succeeded to Culter
(1871) a daughter of Sir

Bart.
Wm,
{v.
Scott of
Ancrum,
by marryof
DuS of Culter was 4th son of Craigstone,

of
ing Marjory, heiress of Sir

Culter.
Adam Wauchope
;
and grandson
Keithmore
Mortlach.)
Part of the property belonged in early
times to Alan the

in 1247,
Durward and subsequently, King Alexander bestowed Culter and

(Nisbet,
ii.,
table-shaped stone, on south side of church, presents a bold carving of the Irvine arms, and
this inscription, the first, or oldest part being in
adjoining lands upon Robert, son of Allan of
Roman
capitals
Wauchop
Appx.
56.)
Alexander Cumin of Culter was created a Baronet in 1672, and

Sir Alex, wrote a
Here lyeth Ieane Irvine, spovse to Maister Robert Irvine of Cvlts, in hops of a blised resvrrection,
by him,
it is said,
the oldest
who
depairted this lyf the 21 of
March
167S,
part of the present house of Culter was erected.
the 32 yeir of hir aige.
poem on the death

man
of Bishop
:
Forbes (Funerals), which thus concludes

"Though
in
few acts
could abridge his playes:
Also Robert Irvine, Esq. who died the 10th of April 1728, aged 89 years. Likewise Margaret CouTTS, his second wife, who died in 1710, aged 45
years. And Charles Irvine, Esq., who died the 28th of March 1779, aged 83 years. And Euphemia DuGLAS, his spouse, who died 21st of Deer, 1766,
In manle schens divyded are his dayes.

Since then
wee
see the tapers doe decay,
(When
't 's
dark) the candlesticks
may be
a prey."
The baronetcy of Culter has long been

and about 1726, the
ander
It
is
extinct
aged 55 years.
estates
were sold by Sir Alex-
Cumin
to Patrick Duff, then of Preranay.
Sir Alex.
Irvine of
Drum
had a charter from
to the last-named that the following inscrip:
Walter Caidyow
of the
lands of Cragtoune of
tion at Culter relates
Petyrcultyr, with pertinents, within the regality
18
EPITAPHS,
Andrews and barony
of Rescobie,
AND INSCRIPTIONS.
her niece, Jane
of
of St
23d April
fell
Anne M'Leod),
left
the interest
1526.
His grandson, Gilbert Irvine of Culairlie
(fourtli son of Alex. Irvine, yr. of
Drum, who
of
100 annually for the repair and preservation When not required for these monuments.
was the ancestor of the Irvines of Murthil (Murtle) and Cults. A good part of the
at Pinkie),
that purpose, the
poor of the parish.

stones bears
:
money has The most
to be given to the
southerly of these
Irvine property in this locality, as above seen,
was bought by Patrick Duff of Culter. granite monuments within an enclosure

:
From
who
Mrs Anne Murray (relict of Alex. Murray, of Elm Place, Finchley, Middlesex, Esq. died 2d Jan.
),
In
memory
of
John Thurburn
of Murtle,
1841.
In the grave adjoining, on the north, are

her father
died 31st of January 1861, aêd 80.
interred the mortal remains of
and
In memory of Barbara-Anderson Thurburn, third daughter of John Thurburn of Murtle, who died 5th October 1858, aged 32.
Smith, late paper manufacturer in this parish, and Martha Reid, his spouse,
mother,
&c.
Mr Richard
]Mr
T.,
who was
in
a native of
Keith
{q.v.),
Upon
the most northerly stone
bought Murtle
1821 from the executors of
Mr
William Dykak,
1830, aged 74.
surgeon, R.N., died 28th
June
John Gordon, who bequeathed the Murtle Bursaries and Charities to the University and City
of
Aberdeen.
Mr
Thurburn's
widow,
only
Also Hannah, wife of William Dykar, daughter of the late Mr Richard Smith, of Paper Mill, who died 2d May 1848.
daughter of the Rev.
Mr
Findlater of Cairnie,
gave 1000 towards the erection of the Thurburn Cooking Depot in Aberdeen, for the benefit of
AVorking Men.
An
intermediate stone bears the following epi-
taph on
Lewis Smith,
proprietor of the Culter

:
The next two

:
paper mills, who died in 1819, aged 42
inscriptions are
from
flat
stones
of Hellen Simpson, laufull daughter to Patrick Simpson of Concraig, and spouse to John Milne in Brotherfield. She died
Here lyes the body
While manly beauty in meridian bloom, Untimely hastuing to the ghastly tomb,
Calls from the eye the sympathatic tear
;
Pause, Friend, and shed the mournful tribute

If social
March
25, 1742,
aged
years, &c. :
manners, with a taste
refin'd,
[here.
If sterling
So, reader,
underneath ther lyea

If filial
;
worth, with unassuming mind,
The
virtuous, prudent, chaste, and wise Of beauty great, and gentle blood,
tenderness possess a charm,
If steady friendship can your
bosom warm,
The
darling of the neighbourhood.

of her bright generous soul,
Think then
Then, Reader, imitate, applaud, revere, W^hat triumph'd in the man that's buried here.
And
first
admire, and then condol.
Wm. Martin,
Within
Grindlawburne,
d. 1753, a.
88
Here lyes under the hope of a blessed resurrection, Mary Gib, spouse to William Meff, tenant in Bing-
this
narrow house
of clay,
who depf. this life the William Meff, who dep^t.

hill,
lisli
18th of
May
1710
and
Four table-shaped tombstones relate to an Engfamily named Smith. The Smiths established a paper manufactory at Peter Culter, which is still carried on, and is believed to have been the first of its kind in the North of Scotland. The works
are situated in the
The bones of William Martin ly ; He was an honest man and just, All honest men might well him trust. By sweat of brow his bread he M'on,
He
liv'd
and dy'd an honest man.
Lord, said he, thy strength and grace

1 ever will
admire ; For by thy sending
me
releif,
Thou'st taught
me
to aspire.
set.
Den
of
Culter, one of the
The heavens thou hast open
most lovely and romantic places in the district. Miss Hester Smith, who died in 1851, aged 70, (to whom one of the tombstones was erected by
And rent the vail that I May upward look, and thy
Wîth glory crouud espy.
dear Son,
PETER CULTER,
19
Isabella
d.
,
a. 96.
Knowls, spouse The next three
of
Wm.
Martin,
inscriptions (here
:
vendible commodities."
uplift the
March and October annually, "for all kinds They were allowed
"
haill profites,
tolls,
of to
. .
abridged) are from table-stones
customs,
The Eev. George Mark, died 23d Dec.
1811, in
the 76th year of his age, and 4'2d of his ministry.
The Rev. John Stirling, 27 years minister

his age.
of
this parish, died 5th Oct. 1839, in the 54th year of
His widow Helen [Fowler], died 4th
Dec. 1862, aged 66.
Mr
left
Stirling,
who was
a native of Dunblane,
a son
who
studied the fine arts.
In early
life
Mr
S. painted portraits, also
The Sermon,
a scene
in a Scotch Kirk, &c.
He
is
presently (1872) at
Tangier, engaged upon a picture of

the Sultan of Morocco,
The Court
of
and ryde the sd fairs," &c. William Forbes, A.M.. author of a poem in Scottish verse, entitled " The Dominie Deposed," was sometime schoolmaster at Peter Culter. The session records (extracts from which have been obligingly communicated by Mr Smith, parish schoolmaster), bear that ou 15th Nov. 1724, " Mr William Forbes entered Precentor, and is to begin to teach the school at Whitsunday next." The school was opened accordingly, and from that time nothing of any importance is recorded of Forbes until 2d Jan. 1732, when the minister " acquainted
to proclaim
Rev. David Gillatlt, minister of the Shiprow Chapel of Aberdeen, died 20th Aug. 1821, aged 58. Erected by his Relict and Congregation.
the session that (the former Precentor, William

Forbes, having entirely turned his back upon his
office,
one which
received)
Mr
acc"^ he was not again to be William Mories, who this day pre-
cented, was the person
recommended by the
heri-
Upon the highest point of a rising ground called the AVeather, or Wedder Craig, is the " Cupstone" indented in the shape of a bowl.
It
is
tors for the
s<^
office."
commonly
called the Doupin'' Stane
and, accord-
On 23d of same month 10 10s due to the schoolmaster " for the poor boys in the land of Culter" were " detained at the instance of William
Forbes, late schoolmaster's creditors ;" and upon
ing to an old custom, the youngest burgess of
Aberdeen present at the riding of the outer marches of the city, undergoes the ceremony of
being dotqnt or dipt in
it
;
7th Jan. 1733, he acknowledged, by

paternity of a child
in Brotherfield.
;
letter,
the
by IMargaret Forbes, servant He was then summoned before
There
another
is
a stone circle on the farm of Eddieston
also a single rude stone pillar (the remains of

circle),
on the farm
of Milltimber.
Cir-
the session but as Forbes " compeared not," and the minister understanding that he " had gone off a recruit to Ireland," the session were
cular stone structures, supposed to be ancient, are
upon the heights above Xether Anguston. Traces of the so-called Roman camp at Norman Dykes and of the British earth work at Camphill, noticed
;
" obliged to sist further procedure as to him." " The Dominie" is generally confounded with
''
Rohert Forbes, gent.," a contemjwrary writer,

translated into the
who
his
Buchan
dialect
"Ajax;
is
in the Statistical Accounts, are
now
slight.
The
Speech to the Grecian Knabbs."
This poem,
a re-
"Norman Well"
still
remains.
like that of
"The Dominie
;
Deposed,"
The Burn of Culter is bridged both upon the old and new Deeside roads. There are also stone
bridges over
;
markable production
with
tlie
and
copies of early editions,
Waulkmill Drum and over the Ord, at Nether Lasts. An Act of Parliament was passed in 1707 in favour of Sir Alex. Cumin of Culter and his heirs,
;
Leuchars (dated 1710^, near over the Gormack, near Milton of

the
exceedingly rare.
the history of
Latin text in the form of foot notes, are I have learned nothing of
Robert Forbes.
It
is
clear
that he was a scholar, also a native of Aberdeenshire,
and much engaged
in the stocking trade
then, and for long afterwards, a lucrative branch

of business in that county.
by which they were empowered to hold fairs upon the muir of Beinshill, on the second Tuesday of
"
Shop
Bill,"
In one part of his Forbes says that he has " some
20
EPITAPHS,
sell," also caps, gloves,
AND INSCRIPTIONS.
and
shanks (stockings) to
napkins.
edit,,
The
belfry of the church
is
of
an ornamental
In another part of the poem (Glasgow
character, with floral carvings, also the initials,
1755) the following verse occurs

"I likewise tell you by this bill, That I do live upo' Towerhill, Hard by the house o' Robie Mill,
Just
i'
M. I. L., (Mr John Logie), and The bell is inscribed

:
the date of 1613.
SOLI
the neuk,
ALBERTVS
DEO GLORIA, GELY FECIT ABD,

.
,
1706,
Ye canna
miss't fan 'ere
you
will,
The
sign's a bulk."
Gely was " a

tially
ffrench ffounder,"
who,
in 1700,
proposed to recast the bells of the steeple of ''the colledge" of Aberdeen, a proposal which was par-
agreed
to.
Some
years ago, during the levelling of the
(S.
DROSTAN, ABBOT.)
of Insch (vicarla
is
ground on the north side of the kirk of Insch, a coffin-slab was disinterred. It is about 6 feet long, by about 18 inches broad, and is preserved in the
in the
THE church
Old Taxation.
Inmlax)^
outer wall of the vestry.

unfortunately,
injured.
The
original carving has

late date,
diocese of Aberdeen,
rated at 6 merks in
by
revision at
some
been
was served by the same minister as served the kirks of Clatt, Kinnethmout, and Christ's Kirk, and, like these parishes,
In 1574
it
The
slab
presents a dedication crossj

:
and
this inscription in Irish characters
had its own "reidare," or schoolmaster. Being a part of the lordship of the Garioch, the church of Insch was probably given, as were some
Insch
of the neighbouring churches, to the
4- rate
pro
antma
ralrulfi
sacrtrotts.
This
of
is
probably the grave-stone of Radulph, a
chaplain of the bishop of Aberdeen,
who
witnessed
Abbey
of of
a grant of half a carrucate of land in the parish
Lindores,
when
it
was founded by the Earl
Rayne
to the convent of Melrose,

i.
about 1172-
Huntingdon.
99 (Reg. Ep. Abdns.,

is
10.)
If this conjecture
The
present place of worship and burial-ground
correct, this
is
among
the oldest lettered
monu-
are upon a slight eminence near the middle of the

village of Insch.
Before being gutted, the kirk

in
contained some interesting carvings
ments in Scotland those at Newton of Culsamond, in Aberdeenshire, and St Vigeans, in

Forfarshire, excepted.
wood.
Among
these were the arms of the Clan Chattan,

set
which were
up
in the
Wardes pew by Robert
A tombstone in
of
the churchyard bears the
name
Farquharsou, ancestor of the Invercauld family, then proprietor of Wardes.
The only
scroll
and the date of 1600, also a merchant's or mason's mark, resembling the figure
Henry Clekk,
reniaiuing
It consists
specimen
is
in the Drumrossie seat.
4, except that a horizontal line crosses the middle of the lower half of the perpendicular line.
of three panels,
two with
ornaments, and
the third, or centre panel, bears a shield, charged
The next
oldest date
is
possibly that
upon a
dyke,
Burnet,
with a
between three boars' heads. An esquire's helmet, surmounted by a demi-soldier

fess
granite slab,
placed
against
the
south
which pi'obably
relates to a son of
Mr W,
holding an old-fashioned
musket horizontally,
crest are the
.
who was
1680.
minister of Insch from about 1661 to
forms the crest.
Over the
.
words
It bears
:
,
....
VKL
1669
SONE
TO
M. W. B,
TAX
VEL
BELLVM.
initials,
The
below
The next
G, G., and
are
three inscriptions are from contiguous

:
shield
is
is
flanked
by the
tombstones
the date of 1G78.
The same arms
upon a
refer to
slab at Drumrosssie House, and both Gordon, the laird of the period.
Here lyes James Jopp, feuar in Insch, wbo depr. this life August the 2-, 1672, and of his age 50
years
-,
tNSCH,
Here lyes
lusch,
21
Andrew
Jopp, sometime merchand in

Alexji,,
place,
who
and
died in
three
1779.
By
her he had two

eldest
who
;
dept. this life Feby. 2G, 17-2, aged G7

his children,
sons
daughters.
first
The
son,
years
and
Andrew, and
Alexander, was minister
at Towie, next at
Mary
In
Jopps.
of
memory
Staats Forbes of
Jean Jopp, spouse of James Lochermick, who died 8th June

relate
Cluny. The eldest, and only married daughter, Janet, became the wife of a manufacturer and woollen dyer, whose death is thus recorded upon
These
an adjoining head-stone of a similar shape to

to
inscriptions
ancestors
of
of
that of her father
burgess family of Aberdeen.
them was One provost of that city when Dr Samuel Johnson was presented with the freedom of the burgh a compliment (says Boswell), " Provost Jopp did with a very good grace." Near the last-mentioned
slab
:
This
is
the burial place of
Adam Maitland,
late
manufacturer in Insch,
who
died in the year 1781,
aged
57.
A marble slab
bears
:
near east wall of burial ground

of the
Sacred to the
memory
Rev. George Daun,
Jas. Beattie in Insch, died Apr. 17, 1787.
The
above
is
froai
one of several tombstones
which belong to Beatties.
One
A.M., minister of Insch, who departed this life, on the 21st day of May 1821, in the 70th year of his age, and the 31st of his ministry in this parish.
of
the family
was a medical practitioner at Insch, and descendants still tenant the farm of Dunnideer. Near
to these
Mr
ioch,
Daun was
had two
previously a schoolmaster in
Elginshire.
His successor, a native of the Garassistants
tombstones another, but to a different
and
successors, the latter
race (here abridged), bears
:
who Margaret
of
whom, the Rev.
Adam Mitchell,
Dr M. was
School,
LL.D.,
Sacred to the
died 7th Jan,
memory
of
Joseph Beattie, A. M.
years.
died in 18G3, aged 64.

rector of the
previously
for 33 years parochial schoolmaster of Leslie,
Grammar
Old Aberdeen,
1854, aged 58
Meldrum,
3'ears.
his wife, died 18G1, aged 64 years. Their eldest son, James, C.E., died 1860, aged 39
which he taught with success and reputation down to the time of his appointment to the church of
Insch, his native parish.
Wm. Breck,
a round-headed stone
at east
feuar, Insch, d. .June 1818,

d.
a. a.
63
Upon
kirk
:
end
of
hiswf., Janet Milne,

their
a.
April same year,

of
58;
son,
Alex., student
divinity,
d.
1820,
Hie jacet cum familia Rev. Alexr. Mearns in hoc templo fideliter ministravit annos, mirum, 60
;
22
in hoc sepulchro
cum
Nipt by the wind's untimely blast, Scorch'd by the sun's directer ray
multis lachrimis depositus
est
anno 1789.
lies
Alex. Mearns, who was a faithful minister of this church for the wonderfully long period of 60 years, and was laid in this tomb with many tears, in the year
his
[Here
with
Lamily the
Rev.
The momentary glories waste. The short-liv'd beauties die away. Yet these new rising from the tomb. With lustre brighter far shall shine
Safe from diseases and
decline.
d.
Reviv'd thro' Christ with 'during bloom.
1789.]
Mr Mearns, previously schoolmaster at Rothiemay, was ordained minister of Insch, 19th Nov. 1729, and died 4th Oct. 1789, in his 89th year. He was a native of the village of Drumrossie, then a hamlet of some importance, in which woollen
weaving, dyeing, &c., were carried on with energy
a.
Francis and Peteh Wiseley, 11 and 9 yrs. respectively

:
17 Feb. 1843,
In one house they were nursed and Beneath one mother's eye ; One fever laid them on one bed,
fed.
On one bed both their spirits And in one grave they lie.
1834,
Hed,
and
profit.
Mr
Mearns married Janet Shank,

in the
daughter of a respectable tradesman
same
Alex., s. of Wm. Benzie, farmer, Coldwells, a. 25 y. :
d.
22
EPITAPHS.
AND INSCRIPTIONS:
One
fact only
Here with the aged lies a lovely boy, His father's darling, and his mother's joy
may
be noted viz., that Gregory^
Yet, Death, regardless of the parents' tears,
Walls are of a similar construction to the remains upon the Lady Hill at Elgin, and to those of the
old castle at Duffus
;
Snatch'd him away, while in the bloom of years.
also that these places
(which
Upon
the base of a granite cross

:
William Gartly, reporter In memoriara 'Scotsman' newspaper, died 6th June 1869, tet. 27
:
were inhabited by Edward I.), indicate an earlier style of building than any part of Kildrummy,
residence of
"God's
linger touch'd him,
and he
slept."
and Kildrummy is said to have been the principal David Earl of Huntingdon.
But, whatever doubts
may
exist
among "
hill
the
learned" as to the origin of the fort of Dunnideer,
The
hill
of
Dunuideer
(?
Dun-a-tor. or the
level.
hill
is
the question of the origin of the
was long
fort^, is
about 875- feet above sea

slopes rapidly
It
conical in form,
is
on
all sides,
and
ago solved by Gordon of Rothnie, who, when reproving one of his ploughmen for " feiring" a
field in
one of a
series of
similarly shaped hills in the
such a fashion that one furrow
fell
same
district,
which are best seen, as a group,

called
the top of another, exclaimed in a passion

needless to speak to you,
idiot like
!
" It's
upon
from Barrahill, in Bourtie. " Dunnedeur (says Monipennie)
is
the
Golden Mountine, by reason of the sheepe that pasture thereupon, whose teeth are so extraordinarie yellow,
as
if
they were coloured with
gold."
man It's been some you that rais'd the hill o' Dunnideer !" Apart from the ruins upon the hill of Dunnideer, there are other remains in Insch, which show that the district was a place of early importance. The sculptured monument called the " Picardy Stone," and the Earl of Mar's Stone (an
There appears to have been an early

Dunnideer.
vitrified
work, with surrounding trenches, upon the top of
unadorned boulder),
terest.
The
vitrified walls enclose

hill
;
a great
Some
are both objects of inyears ago part of a " brass sword"

;
portion of the
summit of the
It
is
and with-
in these walls, at a
later period,
another fort
cist,
had been
erected.
the remains of this later
was found at Dunnideer and in 1867, a stone containing bones and an urn, was got on Greenlaw, The urn, which was about 4 J inches
wide, bore the
erection which give so

terest to the hill
;
much
character and in-
but, as will be seen from an
engraving in Cardonell's Picturesque Antiquities, the ruins were of greater extent in his time (1788)
Reupon the farms of Wanton Wells, near Temple, and on Nether Boddam,
zig-zag markings.
common
mains of stone
circles are
also in other parts of the parish.
than they are now.

in
Upon
the
hill
top
is
a well,
The Bass
about
is
the
name
is
of a piece of flat ground,
which there was water in 1867.
five acres in extent,
which belongs to the

of the
is
ruins are locally called Gregory's Walls, from a tradition that King Grig, or Gregory died
at
The
Parochial Board, and

village.
on the north side

the
Dunnideer
but.
according
to
the Pictish
Chronicle, he died at
Strathern.
Dundurn
or Duu-d-ern, in
Moatach Well. The Moot or Moathill of the district had probably been in this locality, although no trace of it now
Nearer the village
remains.
The
fanciful llardyng says that
Dun-
nideer was one of the places where held his round-table :

"
King Arthur
" The Glens of Foudlen," celebrated in the

ballad of the
Duke
of
Gordon's Daughters, are in

in
AU
of worthie Knightis
also in
At Donydoure,
moo then a legion, Murith region."
the
upper part of Insch,

of the lands of
;
which there are
valuable slate quarries.
But, in the absence of authentic record, nothing can be said of the true history of Dunnideer, nor of the age of any of the masonry, the peculiarities
of
But
it is
Drumrossie that the

appears that in 1257
earliest records exist
and
it
a gift of the teinds of these,

Lindores,
made by the abbot
of
which have been often and
fully described.
was
ratified
by Pope Alex. IV.
to the

BERVIE,
vicar of Inchemabayu.
OR
INVERBERVY.
23
In 1396, Thomas Earl of

the lands of Drumrossie to
of Garintully.
Mar gave a charter of Andrew Barclay, lord

seen,
As
before
Drumrossie was afterwards possessed by

:
"^^x)i^t,
or
(?S.
^Mv^vln*vjj.
MARY.)
Gordons
late
it
now
belongs to
Mr
Leslie of Wartle,
M.P. for Aberdeenshire. The Village of Insch is an old

(called
burgli of barony,
THIS district
"De
chin
;
is
thus mentioned by Theiner in

:
in which, with other properties,
Mr John
Ross,
of
the Taxation of Scots benefices for 1275
minister of Foveran
Dr John Ross
Magistro dd.
De
Inuleruy, 39 sol."
It is
Insch), was served heir to his father in 1680, the
placed by Theiner within the
diocese of Bre-
same having been previously held by his grandfather, who was reader or teacher at the church of Birse. The superiority of Insch, held in 1724 by Mr Leslie of Balquhain, now belongs to There are Colonel Leith-Hay of Leith Hall. in Insch a Free Church, branch banks, and some good dwelling-houses and shops.
by others (Proceed. So. Antiq. Scot.^, to lie within that of St Andrews, and to belong to the Chapel Royal of St Mary of Kirkheugh of that city. It is certain that Bervie was a
is said,
but
seat of the Carmelite Friars
sion of monasteries in Scotland
down to the suppres(Mem. of Angus

dependent upon
and Mearns.)
A
S.
family named Tyrie long owned the lands of
The church
is
said to have been
Dunnideer, where there was a chapel dedicated to
that of Kinneff until
1618,
when Bervie was
John.
The Tyries were Roman

in
Catholics,
and
erected into an independent ecclesiastical district.
reported as such by the minister of Insch to the
But
it
had
its
own
schoolmaster, or reader, in
Presbytery of Garioch
family,
1704.
One
of the
1567,
who had
a salary of 20 a year.
James Tyrie,
a celebrated Jesuit,
died in 1597, aged 54, wrote, under the

of
who name
George
Scoticfe.
Thomson, De Antiquitate Ecclesise John Knox wrote an answer to this

Tyrie replied in a pamphlet
is
A fair or market was held at Inverbervie in September (Edinburgh Prognostication for 1706), on " Latter Mary day" a name which possibly
preserves that of the titular saint of the church.
work, to which
(Paris, 1573),
able.
The present parish

erected in
kirk, a neat
which
of
reckoned rare and valu-
building, with a square
tower or
and commodious steeple, was
1836.
It
stands in the principal
The Tyries
ites ;"
and
it is
Dunnideer were " gryte Jacobtold that but for the prompt constill
street of the town, to the north of the old kirk-
yard.
The
bell
now
in use,
which was gifted to
duct of one Roger, a farmer in Insch (some of
the town by the laird of Ury, while provost of

the burgh, bears this inscription
:
whose descendants
there), the life of
hold responsible
offices
Mr Mearns would
'45,
have been in
jeopardy from a Tyrie attempting to stab him with

a dirk one Sunday about the
while engaged in
GIVEN BY PROVOST BARCLAY TO THE BURGH OF BERVIE,

THOS.
1791.
MEARS OF LONDON
is
FECIT.
The residence of the Tyries stood near the burn of Shevock, upon the southern slope of the hill of Dunnideer. This family was posDivine service.
sibly a
The kirkyard
on the south-west of the town,
near the railway station.

that remains of the old kirk
The west
;
gable
is all
branch of the Tyries of Drumkilbo and Nevay, in Strathmore (v. Nevay).
and the inscriptions
below are selected from some of the tombstones.
The
first quoted, and possibly the oldest dated, is from a much defaced slab. It also bears a shield charged with a ship in chief, the Rait arms in
base,
and the
initials
P.
K.
R
:
probably for
P. Davidson, and his wife K, Rait
24
EPITAPHS,
.
.
AND INSCRIPTIONS
DSON
.
From
Jul.
a headstone:
fil
:
B\RGES CEMBER
IN
BERVI
.
DEPARTED
20
OF
DE-
clauduntnr intus
David
:
nat,
1634
much destroyed tomb, with bevelled sides, bears a shield charged, iu pale, with the arms of
Arbuthnott, and those of Macduff, Thane of Fife. This impalement is possibly founded upon the re-
28mo 175-, mort. Jan. 28mo 174- fil. Makia Denat. Ap. 12mo 1730, mort. Feb. IQmo 1744. positi hie sunt cineres Helena Austin, conjugis
Gulielmi
Clerici,
Ludimagistri
sal.
Ennerbervieusis,
qua? obiit 3tio Id. Jan. anno

[
1738
puted connection of the Arbuthnotts
with the
within
lie
a son David, born July

;
Clan Macduff, by which,
it is
said,
Hew of Arbuth-
28, 175-, died
January
28, 174-
a daughter
Mary,
Here
wife of
born April
12, 1736,
died February 10, 1744.
nott received protection for the part he took in
are deposited the ashes of
Helen Austin,
of
]
" boiling" Sheriff Melville and " supping his broo" on the hill of Garvock, in the time of James
I.
William Clark, schoolmaster

died 11th January 1738
Inverbervie,
who
The
following
inscription
(the concluding
lines of
which were printed in Monteith's Theater

is
In printing a translation of
Synod
of
the Decreet of the
o/Moriality, 1713),
. .
upon the same stone

. .
. .
Perth
of 11th April, 120G,
regarding a
dispute between the Bishop of St
Andrews and
MAN ROBERT ANE HONEST HEIR LYIS VHO DEBVRGES OF BERVIE ARBYTTINOT OF IN THE YEAR PARTED AND MARGARET MONAND OF HIS AGE DEPARTED IN THE CVIR HIS SPOVSE VHO
. . . , .
.
Duncan of Arbuthnott, Mr Pinkerton, iu his "Enquiry into the Early History of Scotland" (vol. i. p. xiv,^ says the translation was made
" from the original Latin in the possession of Lord Arbuthnot about 1700 by a Mr Clerk, schoolmaster at Bervie." The next inscription is upon
east side of
1663
AND
. .
OF
HER
.
AGE 65
. . .
HAVING NOW FOVND BY COMMON SENSE THAT ALL THINGS NOTHING BE HEIR REMANE VITHIN THIS GRAVE I AS NOTHING TO THE EYE
. .
same stone
Margaret
Moncurs
of
is
Moncur was probably one
of
the
Knapp, in the Mearus, a branch of the family " of that Ilk," one of whom, Andrew,
a witness to a charter by Rait of
III. (Nisbet's Heraldry,
i.
Hie jaceut Magister Gulielmus Clark, Ludimagister Bervise, qui diem obiit 9 Deer. 1770, natus annos 7-. Margareta Lovr, secunda G. C. uxor, nata Juuii 21, 1710, nupta Aug. 17, 1745, Hora tertia matuMartii 16, 1762, N S
:
tina repentino ac insolito

(?)
morbo correpta
obiit,
spiravit
;
Hallgreen,
t.
moribunda, motu, lingua? usu, ac sensibus expers
Robert
185.)
flat slab
demum
same
sub
solis
occasum
marito ac tribus
In addition to the following epitaph, a

also bears that a son
liberis relictis.
and daughter
of the
:
family died respectively in 1G96 and 1714
Bervie,
^^ Hier lyes AIargaret Mill, lawful spows to lames Dickie, swmtime cai-penter iu Johnshaven, who departed this life the 28 of September 1713, and of hir age 47 years
:
[Here lie Mr William Clark, schoolmaster of who died 9th Dec. 1770, aged 7- years, and Margaret Low^, second wife of W. C, who was
21,
born June
1710, married
16, 1762.
August
17, 1745,
and
who
died
March
Seized at three o'clock

illness,
in the
morning with a sudden and unusual
Hier lyes on bereaved of her life, Who in her time was a most wertiovs wife Her works and wertve did so her grace, Yc might admire her cvmlie face.
she contiuued to breathe in a dying state, deprived

of the
;
power
of motion, of speech,
and
of her senses,
until about sunset,
when
she expired, leaving a
husband and three children. ]
Bvt willingly was to leve this world, and Hoping to be in heaven inthroned
;
I have ascertained (through the kindness of Mr

J.
of Bervie), that although
of teacher there,
With
faith continued to her
death
H. Stewart, the present parochial schoolmaster Mr Clark held the office no notice of the fact
exists in
Wntill
she had any breath.
B Eli VIE,
the Presbytery records the
office
;
OR
INVERBERVIE.
25
and that
in
March 1701,
Greig.
was held by
Mr James
]\Irs
Mr
Stewart has also learned from
Barclay, a
grand-daughter of
Mr
Clark, that he was the son
Croll, who had the merit of being " a selfmade man," was first appointed schoolmaster, then minister of Bervie. It is said his memory was so retentive that by hearing a sermon once
Mr
of a Lieutenant in the
Navy, and
of a lady of the
name of Middleton from about Laurencekirk. The Lieutenant went to sea soon after the birth
of
Alit verbatim. though he was three times married, the death of

read or preached, he could repeat
his third wife only is recorded at Bervie.
From
more heard of and his mother being disowned by her relatives, supported herself and her son by her own industry. Two of Mr Clark's sons were watchmakers in London. One of them, David, died there, and the other, James, afterwards came to Arbroath. He had a son who entered the Navy, and two daughters who were respectively married to manufacturers of the name of Kircaldy and Butchart
Clark, and was never
;
Mr
a stone adjoining the last-mentioned
Sacred to the memory of Miss Isabella Farquharson, youngest daughter of the late Alexander Farquharson of Balfour, who died at the Manse of Bervie, on the 19th day of April 1816, in the 27th
year of her age.
Upon
a head stone
A true Philanthropist lies here,

To whom Rich and Poor
James Souter,
late
in Arbroath.
Mrs Barclay
still
lives in Bervie,
alike
were dear.
and her mother, Ann, a daughter of Mr Clark, by his second wife, married James Sherret, a tailor
there.
Post-Master in Bervie, died 12th July 1845, aged 61. His wife Ann Greig or Souter, died May 17th 1861, aged 73.
From a
table stone
:
From
ly the
a headstone,
:
in
north-west corner of
W.
life
R.
C Here
bodys
of
Willi A3i
this
churchyard
:
Eaitt, tennant in Thre Wells,
who departed
;
January 4, 1743, aged 77 years and of Ianet Cook, his spovse, who departed this life 1757, aged 90 years. Also their son John Raitt, sometime tenant in Hillside, who died 1776, aged 79 years ; and his spouse Elizabeth Scott, who died 1764, aged 88 years.
Erected by James and Ann Burgon, Ber1851 wick-on-Tweed, in memory of their son Robert Cowan Burgon, whitefisher, aged 21 years, who was drowned, with the whole of his crew, in Berwick Bay, on the 26th of Aug. 1850. His body was picked up in Bervie Bay by a boat's crew belonging to Gourdon, and
lies
interred here
life,
A stone near the last-quoted
bears
We lost him
:
in the
prime of
;
The
first
ane honest man in hop of a gloris resvrrection, George Fetvs, laf vl hvsband to Margret Anderson, who departed this life Janvary 24, 1729,
of his age 60.
But now we
unto us given trust he's with his God,
Enjoying bless in Heaven.
On
north-east side of burial ground
Abridged
late
In
memory
of
George Small, founder
of the
:
Alexander Aberdein,
of
Deputy Commissary
House of Refuge for the Destitute, Edinburgh Born in Edinburgh, 26th May 1782 ; died at Bervie,
11th July 1861.
Ordnance, Bengal, East Indies, died at Bervie,
Dec. 1810, aged 53.
From
a table-shaped stone (enclosed)
In memory of the Rev. Robert Croll, who was upwards of 40 years minister of the parish of Bervie, who died on the 3d day of June 1820, in the year of his age. And his widow, Jean FarquharsoN, died 12th February 1837, aged 83 years.
Small was a magistrate of Edinburgh at the time he founded the House of Refuge in that He also established the Lock Hospital (now city.
Mr
amalgamated with the Infirmary), and organised and superintended the clothing stores, soup kitchens, and Cholera Hospital, and did many other kind and humane actions to the poor of
26
EPITAPHS,
(v.
AND INSCRIPTIONS
The Viscounts
of
the Metropolis
1861.)
cible
Mr
Small,
Edinburgh newspapers, July who was an officer in a fen-
or " Uidgin" at Bervie
Arbuthuott had a residence but of it, as of the house

;
regiment until the Peace of 1802, became, in after life, a partner in the house of Muir, Wood, & Co., music-sellers, Edinburgh. He retired from business in 1848, and died in the house of
the Rev. Mr J. G. Small, of the Free Church, Bervie, author of " The Highlands and Upon a headstone other Poems," &c.
his son,
:
of the Carmelite Friars, the site only remains.
Interesting and varied prospects are obtained
from the bridge of Bervie, including Arbuthnott and Allardyce on the north, and Craig David on the south. The present bridge, which has one handsome arch, was begun in 1797, and finished in 1799. The first bridge, which crossed
the river about the same point as the present one,
consisted of
Erected by James Gilchrist Gibb, in memory of his father David Gibb, who was born in A native of 1783, and died 1858, aged 76 years.
1859
:
"2
large arches."
It
was
built in
1695, chiefly through the enterprise of William

Beattie, a bailie of the burgh,
Perthshire, he removed to this place in 1828,
and commenced Flaxspinuing, which business he proAn affectionate secuted up to the time of bis death.
husband, a kind father, and a good member
society,
of
who
in the
same
year successfully petitioned the Estates of Parlia-
ment
for the vacant stipends of certain churches
to assist to rejDay his outlay,
and to enable him

Part of
stands in
still
by a happy death, regarding the grave as a temporary abode, and

he closed a useful!
life
to finish the undertaking (Acta Pari.)
the middle pier of the old bridge

the river.
looking forward in faith to a blessed resurrection.
Before the time of railways this bridge
[Though worms,
&c.
was of great importance to the North, and the town of Aberdeen held a fund which was mortified for the
support of the bridge of Bervie.
Bervie was erected into a royal burgh
by
Hallgreen Castle, in the immediate vicinity of

the town of
Bervie,
is
David
Its
II.,
his return
who is said to have landed near it on from France with his queen in 1341.
is still
the chief object of anti-
burghal importance
represented by the
shaft of an old
market
steps.
cross in the square, siu"-
oldest parts, as shown by dates and armorial bearings, were erected by Raits towards the close of the 16th and in the
quity in the parish.
The
rouuded by a few
It of
is
17th centuries.
said that Bervie
was burned
in the time
it
The
first
Rait, according to Nisbet,
took re-
Queen Mary, when,
in all probability,
had
In a
fuge in the Mearns during the 14th century,
consisted of only a few thatched houses.

scarce
having had to leave his native

shire for
district of
Nairn-
and curious volume, entitled " A Journey through part of England and Scotland," by a Volunteer, who accompanied the Duke of Cumberland to Culloden,
the following account
is
some
capital crime.
It
is
certain that
Raits were settled in the Mearns, and held the
Owres or Uras and others at the period mentioned by Nisbet but it was not until towards
lauds of
;
given of the treatment which the Royalists received at Bervie in 1746, on which occasion tlie
the close of the following century that they had
Duke was
the guest of the parish minister
any connection with Hallgreen. It appears from the inventory

of
of the title-deeds
good honest old Fellow, whose Face shewed -what he loved. His Wife told us, she had brought out Wine to present when the Duke and Army came by, but could get none of her Neighbours to back her. We were here first obliged to eat Oat-Cakes in this Journey, which was a great Hardship to
several of our unexperienced Travellers."
" Here we put up
Hallgreen
(for the
ready use of which I
at the Provost's House, a
am
indebted to the kindness of Messrs Morice, advocates, Aberdeen), that the lands of Hallgreen
were partly held under the Crown, and partly under the family of Arbuthnott. The oldest writ
concerning the property shows that on 12th June
1478, James III. confirmed a charter
by Alex-
ander Menzics, burgess of Aberdeen, dated 21st

ORDiaUHILL.
January 1471, in favour of David Rait of Drumnagair, " of his Blench Lands of Inuerbervie, commonly called Hallgreen, with Twa Ninth Parts of Inuerbervie and their Roods, and Fart
of the Mill thereof
;
27
was succeeded by
his nephew, the present laird, who, about 1840, restored the Castle of Hallgreen.
By more
recent improvements
Mr
Farquhar has
otherwise added to the value, as well as to the
And an Annualrent of Twenty

Beuholm, the said Alexander Menzies for
amenity of Hallgreen.
Shillings upliftable furth of the Stane of
To
be held Feu of
payment
of 9. 13. 4 Scots."
From
the above period until the year 1724, the

;
same family of Raits were possessed of Hallgreen and from them all the Raits of any note in Angus and the Mearns, whether landholders, ministers,
farmers, or merchants, claim to be descended.
(BLESSED VIRGIN MARY.)
Some
of the Raits of Hallgreen married into
the families of Gardyne, Douglass, Syramers, and
THE vacant
hill,
office of reader,
valued at 20 merks, waa
at Ordiquhill in 1574.
The
is
church,
(?
Arbuthnott,
The
last laird,
William, died about
sometimes called
or
hill
TuUehule, or Tillycide
wood
burdened by mortgages, were sold by order of the Court of Session. The chief bond holder was John Coutts, merchant in
1724, and the lands,
corner), in old writing's,
said to
have been originally a chapel dependent upon, and

situated within, the parish of Fordyce.
Edinburgh, son of Provost Coutts of Montrose,
and father
of the celebrated banker.
The pur-
chaser of the lands, at the judicial sale in 1724,
of Montrose,
was James, brother of John. Coutts, and a burgess by whom they were acquired at the
The church was looked upon with suspicion as an auxiliary to the Papists by the General Assembly of 1608, when it was resolved (Book of Univ. Kirk), " that ordour be takin with the
Pilgrimages in the Chappell
callit
Ordiquhell,
price of 31,500 sterling.
James Coutts was twice married, first to Jane Vanderheyden, next to Ann Crauford. By his first wife he had a son, Hercules, who, on 13th Nov. 1747, gave his father a discharge " of all
legittim portion natural Bairns part of Gear,
all
and the Chappell of Grace [in Dundurcas], and ane Well in the bounds of Enzie, on the south syde of Spey." The year before this " ordour"
was
issued, it appears that
woman from
laitit for
Margaret Taylor, a Castleton of Rothiemay, " was deis
and
passing in pilgrimage to Ordequhill."

said to have been
others which
He
could claim thro' his Death."
Ordiquhill
formed into a
a chapel which
by his second wife, succeeded to Hallgreen, and was maternal grandfather of Mrs Scrymgeour-Fothringham of Tealing. About the year 1768, Mr Coutts sold Hallgreen to the Hon. Thomas Lyon of Pitpointy, sou of the Earl of Strathmore and in 1778 Mr R. Barclay- AUardyce of Ury purchased the estates of Hallgreen and Kingornie from Mr Lyon. Kingornie previously belonged to Mr William
C.'s only son .James,
;
Mr
separate parish about 1622-8, and the church to
have been erected upon the
site of
was dedicated to
S.
Mary.
:
This church gave
place to the present building about 1805.

bell is thus inscribed
The
IN
lOHN MOWAT, ABD. ME FECIT, 1754, USUM ECCLESI^ DE ORDEQUHILL. SABATA PANGO, FUNERA PLANGO.
Johnston.
use of the church of Ordequhill.
[John Mowat, Aberdeen, made me, 1754, for the Sabbaths I pro-
The
estate of Hallgreen again
changed hands
claim, at funerals I toll.]
in 1799,
having become the property of
Mr David
The
kirk stands in the middle of the burialis
Scott of Dunninald,
by whose
son, afterwards Sir
ground, which occupies a hillock, and
suris
David Scott, it was sold to Mr James Farquhar, M.P., in 1806. Mr Farquhar died in 1833, and
rounded by some good trees. The following from a marble slab, within the kirk
:
28
EPITAPHS,
the
AND INSCRIPTIONS:
brothers,
it is said,
To
for
memory of
the Eev.
two years minister
of this parish,
Egbert Knox, A.M., who died 3d

regard from
John and James,
to the former of
whom,
left
he sold the property, or pretended to
May
A token of
sell it,
before he joined the Rebels.

;
John
his affectionate parishioners.
lawful issue
and the
heirs of his brother

title,
no (who
Mr Knox was tutor to the Ballindalloch family,

through whose influence he got the presentation
to the church.
predeceased him), claimed the

to the estates.
in
and succeeded
marble tablet,
is
To one
of them, a
the family aisle at

:
Ordiquhill,
thus in-
Gordons of Park is at Bold carvings of the the east end of the kirk. family arms, with " S. I. G. of Park," and
The
burial aisle of the
scribed
Sir
Ernest Gordon
55.
of Park,
Bart.,
died 6th
Nov. 1800, aged
mottoes, aj)pear upon
the east gable of the aisle.
Over the entrance

arms, with the
are the
S.
Gordon and Sibbald

I.
Sir
initials,
G., the motto,
BYDAND, D. H.
same
a separate slab
;
S.,
and the date of 1665.

cut in
is
initials are prettily
The monogram upon

round the
widow and a daughter lie in Sfc Edinburgh (near the Cluny mausoleum), where two flat slabs are reErnest's
Cuthbert's
church-yard,
spectively inscribed as follows
and the following

:
Under
this stone is interred the
body
of
margin
Dame
Horn
of the stone
Mary Dalrymple, daughter of General

. . . .
R. D.
ERECTED
BY
.
SIR
AND
lOHN GORDON OF PARK, HELEN SIBALD 1665.

.
Elphinstone of Horn and Logie Elphinston, and
The erector of
of the family
;
the aisle was the

his wife
first
baronet
was a daughter of Sibbald of Rankeilor, descended from the old Mearns family of that name. Sir Robert Gordon
and
tells
She was born on the 13th day of February 1761, and on the 3d day of July 1810, departed this mortal life in peace, and charity with all mankind, and looking with trembling hope to the mercifuU judgement of a Blessed Redeemer.
of Sir
widow
Ernest Gordon of Park, Bart.
us that " the nixt yeir following ("1617) Sir

of the
Adam Gordoun
been the
In
Parke (Cariiborrow
memory
of
Mrs
Mary
Elizabeth Gordon,
,
his
sone) was knighted."
Sir
Adam
appears to have
daughter of Sir Ernest Gordon of Park, Bart., and widow of Capt. Alexander Gordon, R. N. who died
at
first Gordon of Park, to which property and barony, previously known as " Corucarne," he gave the name of Park and built the Village of Old Coruhill, which, through his influence, was erected into a burgh of barony, with weekly and yearly markets. By the establishment of these fairs, an impetus was given to agricultural industry, as well as to the growth and manufacture of lint, particulars which this well-known
;
Edinburgh, 24th June 1851, aged 65 years.
In
consequence of male-heirs of Sir William Gordon being in existence at the time Sir Ernest assumed the title, it is generally held that he, as
well as his son, did so improperly
;
but as the
has
legitimate
male
line
of
both
It
brothers
failed, the title is extinct.
local
rhyme appears
"A'
to celebrate
o'
the wives
Corncairn,
Drillin' \\y their
hain-yani
was a female descendant of Sir Wîlliam's younger brother who married Duff of Drummuir, and brought the estate of Park to that family, in consequence of which the Duffs of Drummuir prefix Gordon to
their paternal surname.
They ha'e corn, they ha'e kye, They ha'e wobs o' claith forhye."
Sir "William, the fourth baronet of Park,
who
The following inscriptions monuments in the churchyard
are
copied
from
:
of Ordiquhill
married a daughter of William Earl of Fife,

joined the llebellion of
attainted.
'45, for
which he was
1751, leaving
He died at Douay, about

Sir
[tumulum] inhumantur Joannes MoRisoN, qui fatis cessit Apr. 8, anno 1686, ejus(j uxor Elspeta Mackay, quce obiit Octobris 3, A"
infra
Hunc
two sons and a daughter.
William had two
1702.
STRACHAN.
[Beneath this
son,
his
29
mound are interred John Moriwho departed this life, 8th April 1686, and wife Elspet Mackay, who died 3d Oct. 1702>]
a plain stone
:
The
is
earliest
recorded proprietor in Ordiquhill

of Normanville,
From
who, by charter dated at Forfar in 1242, had a grant of the lands of Correncrare, Tulichule, and others, which are
described as lying in the waste, or unimproved
parts of the king's forest of Banff.
Sir
Walram
Here is interred the body of John Goodall, late merchant in Culphin, who died July 14th, 1760, aged 86 years. Near this place also are interred the ashes of Margaret Taylor, his spouse, who died Feb. 16, 1733, aged 48 years, & of George, Patrick, George, Charles, & William Goodall,
their sons.
The Abernethys of Rothiemay and Sal ton had an interest in the district for sometime before the year 1492. According to a writer of 1724, the house of " Park was built, anno m.d.xxx., by a
lady dowager of the Lord Saltoun of Abernethy,
The
INIary
above were the parents and brothers of wrote a Vindication of
who was
Buchan."
It
herself a daughter of Stuart
Earl of
Walter Goodall, who

Queen
of Scots,
Fordun's Scotichronicon, &c.
and edited an edition of Born about 1706,
appears that about the year 1600
Lord
Saltoun disposed of his estates of Corncarn (Park)
Goodall became sub-librarian in the Advocate's
Library at Edinburgh, first to David Hume, and next to his own countryman, Thomas Ruddiman
;
and Rothiemay to the Lord Ochiltree, from whom they were bought by Gordons about 1606. But it would appear that the Gordons were not allowed
to remain undisturbed
Sir
in
their possessions, for
but being improvident, he died in indigent circumstances. Chambers says that soon after his
death (28th July 1766), his daughter presented a petition to the Faculty of Advocates, in which
she stated that the furniture and other moveables
John
of
Park as well
as his
kinsman
of Rothie-
may were
forced to raise an action against the
Abernethys (Acta Pari., ix. 431), for "tearing and lacerating the Decreet of lousing the late
Lord Saltoun,
Registers
cealling
all
of her father's funeral,
would scarcely defray the expenses and that " she was in such want of clothes and other necessaries, that she
in the house
his Interdictioun, out of the pblick
and
for their fraudulent con-
and keeping
can scarcely appear in the streets."

peal
This sad ap-
likelihood, from the apparently
was answered by the
substantial,
though
nature of the case,
Tn " fraudulent" the Gordons had received a

uj) of
the said Decreet."
not extravagant, gift of ten pounds sterling.
decision in their favour.
Wm.
his wf.
Broun, Culphin Jean PcOBERTson,
of
Park,
d.
1763,
a.
56
Apart from the Established Church, there is a Free Church at the present village of Cornhill,
about two miles to the north-east, and within a
mile of the railway station of Cornhill.
d. 1781, a.
71
Although by nature's firm decree, Parent and child must part
Yet while
apart, like test as this,
Displays a Son like heart.
Margt. Lorimer
Yet where,
fall?
d. 1854, a.
!
66
O where
can even thy thunders
^t
;t
It
n.
which belonged to
is
(?S.
MARY.)
Christ's blood o'erspreads,
and shields me from
them
all.
Abridged from a table-shaped stone
THE kirk the cathedral

in the
of StratJieichin, of Brechin,
The Rev. Alex. Gray, died 26th Feb. 1823. Mrs Mary Grant, daughter of the Eev. Mr Grant
of
CuUen, died 1815, aged
49.
rated at 20 merks Old Taxation. The incumbent was the Arch-deacon of the diocese, and in virtue of his office he had a manse or residence at Brechin. It stood on the south side of the Bishop's Close in
30
EPITAPHS,
and
his
AND INSCRIPTIONS
In memory of Colin Campbell, Esq, of Kilmartin and Blackhall, who died 27th April ISGl, in his 33d year.
that city
grange or farm, called " the
Arch-deacon's Barns," was near West Drums (Reg. Ep. Brechin.) In 1574, the church of Strachan was served
along with those of Nigg and ]\Iary Culter. The contemporary reader at Strachan, John Irving,
Mr
F.
Campbell, who was an
officer in
the 92d
Foot, and at the time of his death Major of the
&
K.
Militia, left
an only son, who inherits
had a salary of 16 and kirk lands.

until 1865-G,
the estates.
uncle),
Colonel John Campbell (the Major's
The church stood within the burial-ground when a new place of worship was
founerected on the north side of the road. tain is placed in the dyke in front of the church,
bought Blackhall about 1828 from the of Mr Archibald Farquharson of FinEean, Mr Farquharson, who was sometime an M.P., acquired Blackhall by marrying Miss
trustees
Russell,
upon which
quotations
is
the date of
1866, also this in-
one of
the
co-heiresses.
The
house,
scription (r. p. 2 supra,)
which
is
;
followed
by
which
is
beautifully situated
is
from
John
iv.
14-15
Rev.
viii.
of the Dee,
upon the south bank surrounded by extensive and thrivgoat (the Russell crest),
of the
life
17:
IN EEMEMBRA.SCE OF
ing woods,
is
size,
upon the top of each
two principal
pillars
WILLIAM BURNETT-RAMSAY
OF BANCHORY LODGE.
of the gateway, prettily cut in stone, with the
motto CHE SARA SARA (What will be, will be), Mr Russell of Blackhall was also proprietor of
Strachan, which was bought, about 1822, by the
late Sir
There
is
also a
of Strachan, in which the Rev.
Free Church at the Kirktown Mr D. S. Ferminister of
guson (sou
ciates.
of a late
Maryton)
offi-
of Southesk.
James Carnegie, Sir James
Bart,, father of the Earl

built the shooting lodge
He was
ordained at Strachan in 1835,

in 1843.
a
Dye.
" lovely
and seceded at the Disruption
granite
Highland home" near bridge of In 1856, the property was sold to Sir Thoof Fasque, Bart.
is
obelisk in the kirkyard bears that his successor,
mas Gladstone
The Rev. David Martin, M. A.,

parish, died
age,
minister of this
J.
The
following epitaph
from a headstone
a.
June
13, 1861, in
the 59th year of his
Abernethy,
If at this
tenant, Gateside, d. 1705,
36:
and 18th
of his ministry.
humble urn
The
following inscription (round the margin
An
honest relative should come and mourn

rests
of a flat stone) appears to be the oldest in the
" Here
my
friend"
they weeping at my
churchyard
ta' IIIC
.
grave
,
DORMIT
OB
H
.
TEC.ER
QVONDAM
.
NAVARCIIVS
AVTHINLECT VIR VITJE IN DEIDONEN ET IBIDEM AN 1610 ET ^TAT SV^ 48.

. .
Shall cry,
It's
all
the Epitaph I have.
CIVIS
.
[Here sleeps H. Auohenlect, late citizen of Dundee, and shipmaster there, a man of blameless life,
The next inscription and lines were composed by Alex. Laing of Brechin, author of " Wayside Flowers," who wrote some verses on the death of
Grant, also a brief notice of his In
of
life:
who
died in 1610, in his 48th year.]

Aiichcnleck, or Affleck
The surname of
the
some note and antiquity in and about Dundee is of territorial origin. There are various places of
one of
Scot-
Joseph Grant, author of " Tales the Glens," and other pieces in prose and verse,
memory
of
who
by
died April 14, 1835, aged 30 years.
Erected
name
(?
Auch-na-clach, stoney
fields), in
and mother, Robert and Isobel Grant, Affrosk, Banchory-Ternan

his father
:
land, one of which lies in the parish of Monikie.
mural monument, to the right of the ento the kirkyard,

slab
:
Tho' young in years, and not unknown to fame Tho' worth and genius both had told his name ;
Tho' hope was high, and certain honor near,
trance
bears this inscription,
upon a marble
He
left
the world without a sigh or tear ;-
STRACHAN.
Yes
!
31
trusting in the Saviour's
No
sting
had death, no
terror
power to save, had the grave
There
a
called
is
also a bridge across
The
Spital Burn,
name which
was a
invariably implies that the place so
His parting words, in prospect of the tomb, Were, *' Dearest Mother, 1 am going home !"
Grant died
little
while the Tales of the Glens were

It
is
Jiospiiiiim, or place of refreshment for In Strachan there was a Spital near the lodge of Glen Dye, for the convenience of
wayfarers.
passing through the press.
an interesting
pieces,
travellers
by the Cairn-o'-Mounth
road, which, in
volume, and preserves

the Mearus.
many
both in
old times, was one of the chief thoroughfares be-
prose and verse, illustrative of the history and

traditions of
Since the stone was
raised to Grant's memory, the deaths of his father and mother have been recorded upon it. The former died in 1868, aged 82, and the latter in 1855, aged 71.
tween the Highlands and the Lowlands (v. FetTERCAIRN.) Those welcome retreats, which were one of the many holy and benevolent institutions of the Early Church, were planted in almost all the passes of
They appear to have been conducted upon much the same principle as the famous
the country.
hospice of St
pied
Bernard on the Alps, and were occuby churchmen, who were accountable for
Strachan was granted by William the Lion

to William
their doings to the Bishops of the Church, or the
Giffard (ancestor of Lord Yester),
Prior of the
Abbey upon which they were de-
who was sent on a mission to England in the year 1200. At a later date Alan the Durward is said
upon the Castlehill, about a mile west from the Kirktown, where Fraser, Thane of Cowie, had a stronghold in 1351. The once powerful, and still common surname of Strachan, in Angus and the Mearns, is said to have been assumed from this locality. The place itself seems to have been named from its abounding in rivers and streams, the Gaelic words, Stratli-a'en, or Srutlian.1 having some such meaning. The Lady Bridge, which maij indicate the name of the patron saint of the church, is between the kirk and Whitestone. The bridge of Dreip between the Kirktown and Glen Dye, and that of the Feugh, near Banchory-Ternan, are romantic and picturesque objects. Views of the Bridges of Dye and Feugh, also of the house of Blackball, are given by J. S. Paterson, drawing
to have had a residence
pendent.
But, if certain names of places in the locality and tradition are to be relied upon, something more than refreshment and shelter were required by travellers crossing The Cairn., since not a few
places are pointed out as the haunts of robbers
and murderers,
curious affair of
stories of
some
of
whose deeds
are given in Grant's Tales of the Glens.
The
Dr Rule and an apparition in a " deserted house," as related in Wodrow's Anahas formed the basis of a ballad in the
Scottish Journal
o'
lecta,
of Cairn
(i. 214), entitled " The Murder Mount." " The Stane o' Clochnaben" (? the hill of the stone), an immense granite rock which projects from the face of Clochnaben, is a striking feature It is seen from many different in the district. and distant points and, according to local rhyme, it is one of two prominent landmarks
;
:
master, Montrose, in a series of interesting local

views, with short notices
(folio,
about 1825.)
It
The Bridge
of
[?
of
Dye was
left
" There are two landmarks off the sea Clochnaben and Beuachie."
is
built at the cost of Sir
Alex. Fraser of Durris, assisted by a mortification
said that the Rev.
Andrew Cant, who
2000 merks,
,
by
Mr
tolls
George
Meldrum
of
Melville] minister of Alford.
By Acts
Par-
played a more prominent than consistent part during the times of the Covenant, was the son of
the laird of Glendye.
It
is
liament (1681 and 1685),

levied for persons
were allowed to be
&c., for the pur-
certain
that Earl
and animals,
Marischal held a large part of Strachan during the

Civil
pose of keeping the bridge in repair.
Wars, and that the Highlanders, on more
32
EPITAPHS,
AND WSCRIPTIONS:
which
it
occasions thcan one, plundered his lands of " horss,

nolt,
was removed
to its present position
about
and scheip."
Spalding also
relates,
1644,
the beginning of the last century.
Possibly an
that " ane feirfull vnnaturall fyre, quhilk kyndlit

of
old font, which lies in a neglected state in the
brynt the bigging" of the EarVs town of Gellen, including " ane byre with nolt and oxin, none knowing quhairfra it cam ;" an
itself,
burial-ground,
was taken
fi-om that place.
It
presents a grotesque carving of a
human
face.
After the Reformation, the kirk of Idvies, and

those of three adjoining parishes, were served
event which Spalding quaintly remarks, "seimit

to be ane prognostick of far gryter fyre raisit on
this Earllis landis."
by
one minister, at a stipend of 133 6s 8d and kirk lands. David Guthrie, reader at Idvies, had
the
Dr Thomas Reid, author of the Inquiry into Human Mind, was born at the manse of
His father was parish minister,
his
20
of salary.
Strachau in 1710.
and
mother,
who had twenty-nine
her husband, was a daughter of
Kinairdy, a relative of
cians of that
by Gregory of the famous mathematichildren
of 1655 is upon the " kirk ladels," which corresponds with the time of Mr John Balvaird, who was translated to Glamis (Scott's
The date
Mr
Fasti. ^
am
told that the kirk bell bears the
words, "
Bell of Idyie."
is
name
(v.
Maknoch.)
The
present church, which has a square tower

in
at the west end,

tablet in the
good
repair.
An
inscribed
porch bears this account of the
building
'îVlltUtt, or
(?S.
%i\ms,
MAELRUBHA.)
and was dediIt
is
RUFFUS, OR
S.
I^HE church
Davide Carrutheks ijasCarrie presbyteris, A.D. MDCCCXXV, Joannes Baxter de Idvie, Thomas Gardyne de Middletoun, Alexv^nder Lyell de Gardyne, Jacobus Mudie de Pitmuies, Joannes
c-edera,
Hanc
Rev.
tore,
D. Paterson et J.
of Edeinjn, or Id vies, belonged to
Watt
de Kinneries, domini pra;diorum in parochia
the diocese of St Andrews,
jacentium, denuo struendam curarunt.
Andrea
cated by Bishop David in 1243.
rated at
15 merks in the Old Taxation.

to
Spence, architecto, Don. Mackay, Jac. Milne, Geo. Fyfe, artificibus.
James Victie, parson of Edevyn, swore King Edward in 1296.
fealty
[John Baxter
of Pitmuies,
of Idvie,
Middletoun, Alex. Ly'ell of Gardyne, Jas.
Thomas Gardyne of Mudie

of Kinneries, j)roprie-
In an ordinance issued by the Bishop for the purpose of changing the site of the manse of
Idvies in the year 1388, the
and John
Watt
tors of lands situated in this parish, caused this church

to be rebuilt in 1S25, the Rev.
new ground
is
de-
David Carruthers
scribed as being bounded
on the east of the
being minister, and D. Paterson and J. Carrie,
church by a ford upon the Vuany, at a heap of stones, near the foot of the rock, called Craignacre
(Reg. Prior. S. Andree.)
locality still bears the
is
Spence, architect. Don. Mackay, Jas. Milne, and Geo. Fyfe, artificers.]
elders.
Andrew
well or spring in the
The Middletoun pew,

of the kirk, contains five in pale, with the
in the south-east corner
name of Sinruie. This probably a corruption of the name of S. RufFus, or S. Makluubha, to whom the kirk may
have been dedicated.
oak panels,
all
charged,
of the
Gardyne arms, and those
wives of various lairds.
contemporary panel
There are other wells

{? twatJiil,
in the
presents the Gardyne and Arbuthnott coats, initialed I.
district,
one
is
called I'othel
the north)
E. A.
These
initials refer to
John
well, a second the
Medicie well
(a sort of chaly-
Gardyne and
Arbuthnott
his wife Elizabeth,
daughter of Sir J.
beate),
It
is
and a third the Spout.

said that the old kirk stood
field called
of that Ilk.
This lady bore twenty-
upon the lands
four children to her husband (c.
of
Gask, in a
the Kirk-shed, from
The other
shields (which are
Inverkeilor.) modern) exhibit the
RIRKDEN,
Gardyne arms, and those of (1), Watson of Barry (2), Graham of Duntrune (3), Wallace (of Arbroath) and (4), (a saltire wavy, between a heart in base and chief, and a rose, sinister and
; ;
OR
ID VIES.
33
Mr Lyell, who devotes

pursuits,
his time to agricultural
and the improvement of his property, writes that the Lyells of Gardyne are descended from
dexter, for
(?)
The Gardynes
"Walter
of that ilk appear to
Lyell, hereditary town-clerk of
have
lost
trose,
who was
the son of James Lyell of
MonBaUma-
the lands from which they assumed their surname, during the latter half of the 16th century (v. Memorials of
Angus and Mearns.)
James Gardyne
the lands of the
of Lawton, bought a part of
Middletoun of Gardyne about 1682, the remainder having been subsequently acquired from an
ancestor of the present laird of Gardyne.
The
is
and Jean Hay, daughter of William Hay He was born in 1595, and first married a Miss Hamilton, from the South Country, by whom he had one son, Mr David Lyell of Ballhall, and Minister of Montrose, who had two sons 1. Mr James Lyell, advocate, who died unmarried 2. Mr Peter Lyell, married to Dowager Lady Halkerton,
leddie
of Urie.
property of Middletoun, upon which there
who
'
'
also died
without
issue.
neat mansion-house,
is
possessed
by
Mr
T.
M.
Bruce-Gardyne, representative, through a female,

of the Gardynes of that ilt.
Walter Lyell married for his second wife Findlayson, daughter of Findlayson of Gagie,
slab built into

initials,
by
whom
I
he had one sou Thomas Lyell

also
of
the farm offices at Middletoun bears the
from whom I am descended.

"
Dysart,
D. G., the date of 1692, also the Gardyne arms and motto, my hoip is only in the lord. The laird of Lawton, and two namesakes, joined their fortunes with the " Royal Stuarts" under the Earl of Panmure, in the respective positions of captain, lieutenant, and adjutant. They were all and the laird of Lawton, and at Sheriffmuir
;
may
remark that
in 1798
my ancestor,
Thomas Lyell of Gardyne, and merchant in Montrose, who married Marjory Renny, daughter of Patrick Renny of Usan, pulled down a large portion of the old Castle of Gardyne,
large portion of the present house.
and
1.
re-built a
"It appears from
my old charters,
of Sir
that, in 1602,
Andrew RoUock, son
Walter Rollock, con-
Charles Gardin of Bittistern (Bellastrine^, were
veyed the whole lands and barony of

Sir Robert Creighton of Cluny,
among
The
the prisoners (Patten's History),
who were
is
;
who
brought to Stirling on the 14th of Nov. 1715.

Castle of Gardyne,
{v.
years
to
2.
Sir
Robert Creighton
of
Gardyne to held it two Cluny conveyed

;
Inveekeilor),
occupied by the present laird, Alex. Lyell, Esq.
and a granite monument, within an
enclosure, at
the east end of the kirk of Kirkden, bears this record of his father and some of the family
:
James Curie, the same subjects, in 1607 3. James Curie to Jean Connolly in 1610 4. Jean Connolly to Margaret Connolly in 1620 5. Margaret Connolly and Sir John Scott of Newburgh, to William Ruthven in 1623 6. William Ruthven, son of the former, to James Lyell, merchant in
;
;
London,
her beloved husband,
in 1682."
Erected by EIi;âbeth Gibb Lyell, in memory of Alexander Lyell, Esq. of

1852,
:
Gardyne, who died Nov.
aged 68 years.
The church-yard of Kirkden contains several tombstones. The oldest, so far as I have noticed,
(from a
flat
And
of their children, viz.
slab,
with sand
glass,
skull,
and
Thomas, who died Nov. 1821, aged 6 months, Charles, June 1825, ,, 8 weeks, ,,
Aug. 1842, ,, 11 years, ,, Dec. 1842, 13 years. Jane, Also Dr Robert, who unfortunately lost his life on the night of the 3d July 1857, in the 32d year of his age, while quelling the Insurrection at Patua
during the rebellion in India, and whose remains
lie there.
cross bones), bears this inscription
Andrew,
(^ Heir lyis Robert Dvthie, hvsband to Evphane Gvdlet, somtyme in Balmadie, who died
in
Desem. 1667, and
of his age the 47
hope and shal Aryse To reigne with Christ J- above the Skyes.
I rest in

;
:
34
EPITAPHS,
slab,
AND INSCRIPTIONS^
A
parent with 5 children
live,
Another
is
with the name of
Agnes Dall,
dated 1668.
dateless
:
From an
,
adjoining stone, broken
Doth
while death
is
mo may call
us
so.
and
LLiAM
Beatrix Stv
. .
Stevinsone
the
hvsband
to
from a broken slab, Graceful and well-proportioned richly carved. figures of Justice, with a balance in hand, and of
inscription
The next
.59 age and of Novr. The next epitaph is from a monument erected by Jaimes Lesly, in memory of his wife (date
. .
Faith, with an open book, respectively flank the

first
four lines
leaueth the,
As death
So
shall
defaced)
A N E
TO THIS
.
T
.
A
.
judgment find the. Deal] justly fear no death.

I
.
SPIK
.
S-VTES
A D
VYEP CHILDREN OF VYES CAKFOVl AND TO THY NE ANE KYND GHBOVRS AND OP HONAST VOMAN
.
.
PEAISEE THY VAS THOV AN VERTOVS

.
E.
Here lyes Janet Roy, spouse to John

Easter Idvie,
tuo sons,
Hay
in
who departed
this life Gth of
Novem-
ber 1716, and brought forth by her six children,
David and John, and four daughters,
Margaret, Issobel, Jannet, and Agnes Hays.
LIBRAL
:
IIYND
From
dust
John, Morgan,
lyis the
a.
16,
son of
:
David
Hay
and Margt.
d.
1744
In hopes of a blessed resurrection, here

of
HoBERT Alexander, sometime Teunent

were procreate six children,
vizt.,
in
Parconon, late husband to Isobel Scot, betwixt
whom
He
William,
Jean, Isobel, Robert, John, and
Thomas Alexander.
died the 19 of June 1738, of age 43 years
The penetrating
Unfold
art of
man,
this secret never can,
How
And
long men shall live on the Earth,' how, or where give up their Breath.
of
The person
whom
this I write,
;
Here lyes a youth, an eldest son, But ere a man away he's gone, And left his parents both to mourn. While here below they do sojourn. Their hopes of him no doubt were great, Which the more sorrow does create A good advice he had to give To those behind him he did leave. Oh, fading, fleeting, empty show, Is every comfort here blow ; But cease from fears which you annoy
;
Ah An
dy'd by a mournfuU fate
He's enter'd into his Lord's joy.
chimney that downfall Kill'd both his servant and himsell, Which should alarm men every where For their last hour well to prepare. That death may never them surprise For as the tree falls so it lies.
old clay
David Hay,
Here
a. 5,
another son,
d.
1746
lyes a child, of sons the last,

this family
Where with
was
blest
He like a morning flower appear'd, By him his parents' hearts were cheer'd
But what
are children but a loan
?
Quce
mea
sors hodie eras fore vestra potest.
[My
fate to-day
may
be yours to-morrow.]
When God
Long
calls back, are we to groan He's gone to heav'n and got the start
An
adjoining stone, embellished with carvings
to be there, you'll no
more
part.
of fire-tongs, a shovel,
thistle, bears this
and broom, and a rose and epitaph upon Isabella Clark,
Janet Greig,
wf. of
Wm.
Mill (1730)
who
died in 1740, after bearing 13 children to her
husband Wm. Scott, blacksmith : Here rests the bones of six and on WhoB ghosts are to the heavens gon
Let none suppose the Relicts of the Just, Are here wrapt up to perish in the Dust No. Like last fruits her time she fully stood.
Till being
grown
in Faith,
and
ripe in
good
1451287
KIRKDEN,
With
steadfast
rise
OR
ID VIES.
35
Hope
that she another day-
Should
with Christ
with
Notices of some of the old proprietors of Idvies

will be
Death here down
found in
Mem.
of
Angus and
the Mearns.
she lay.
It need only be here said that the property of

;
The Poor her almes the World her praise The Heavens her soul and the Grave her body has.
; ;
Upon a
plain headstone
Idvies was bought from the heirs of Mr John Baxter, bank agent, Dundee, by Mr J. C. Brodie, W.S., in 1865, and that Mr Brodie, who is Crown
for Scotland, and a son of Brodie of Lethen (descended from Alexander, son of Brodie of that ilk), has very much added to the value and ap-
Here lies interred the body of the Reverend Mr Iames Moir, who was ordained minister of the Gospel at Kirkden, the 30th of April 1735, and died the 28th of January 1753.
Ferguson of Arbroath when he was appointed to Kirkden. A plate for collecting " the offering" bears his name,
]\loir
Agent
pearance of Idvies.
Besides
to,
new
carriage drives,
Mr
was
and large additions

assistant
to
]\Ir
and alterations upon, the mansion-house, gardens, and offices, the farmsteadings over the property are being renewed, or otherwise made suitable to the present ad-
and the date of 1735. His initials upon a slab (built into the east side
yard gate), along with
this couplet
:
also
appear
of the kirk-
vanced state of agriculture. Pitmuies belonged to a cadet of Airlie in the

time of Guynd,
who
(c.
1682), says
it is
"a good
on the
M.LM.
^Sr All ye
house, well planted,
and
lyes pleasantly
is
who
enter at this gate

last state.
water of Evenie."
of
Pitmuies
now
the property
now prepare for your

1739.
From
flat slab
Mudie, the worthy representative of an old It is near the Guthrie railway station, where there is a
Forfarshire family (v. Inverkeilor.)
Mr
Erected by William, James, Elizabeth,

Cowie, &c.
of the
,
Elizabeth and Grizel Knox, in
& Mary memory
sculptured stone, which, according to tradition, had some connection with the defeat of the Danes
at Barry.
Revd. Wîlliam Milligan, minister of Kirkdied [in the] 89th year of his age, and 49th of his ministry, Nov. 15, 1823.
den,
who
The
Feus"),
village of Friockheim (formerly
" Friock
Adjoining the
last
quoted
Erected by Margaret Carruthers, in grateful remembrance of her uncle the Rev. David Carru-
was begun about 183-. It is now a populous place, situated on the east side of the parish, and holds of JNIr Bruce- Gardyne of Middleton.
In the vicinity
is
a well-kept cemetery, with
thers, late minister of this parish,
who
died 21st
a number of tombstones.
Novr. 1846, aged 61 years. RoBT. Taylor, farmer, Backboth,

d. 1772, a.
An
65
:
Extension Church, opened in 1835 in con-
Deus dedit, Deus abstulit Benedictum sit nomen Dei.
nection with the Establishment, was erected into a quoad sacra parish in 1870. The Rev. Mr Thos.
[Job
Wilson, the
i.
first
21.]
minister of the church, seceded
Backboth, which
still
at the Disruption,
is
in the parish of Carmyllie
when a Free Church was

crossed
arches,
(qv.), was once the site of a church.
The
erected at the village.
site is
pointed out, not far from the inarch between Dunnichen and Carmyllie.
The
river
which joins the parishes of Kirkden and Dunnichen at the village of Letham, is dated 1820. The bridges at Pitmuies House, and Pitmuies Toll, were built respectively in
IVIill is
bridges.
Vinny is One of two
by a number
of
Idvies
of the thanes, Gyles

also those of
was a thanedom, and the names of two and Maiise, are on record
persons
and 1771, and that at Hatton
dated 1819.
who bore
the surname of
Idwy.
36
EPITAPHS,
AND INSCRIPTIONS
NETHER,
OR
LOWER KIRK-YARD.
made
there
;
Interments are
still
and the Stra-
tons of Kirkside had their burial-place near the

(S.
GRIG, OR
S.
CYRICUS, MARTYR.)
^T
Jt
is
supposed (Skene's Chronicles of the Picts),

St Cyrus,
also
end of the kirk. An old tomb (enclosed), ornamented with curious heraldic and mortuary devices, presents these traces of an inscription
east
:
that the church of
called
Ecclesgri(j,
was founded by Grig, or
Ciric,
who
1646
MARGARETS LEONIS Qy M ^TATis sv^ 68 .......

.
. . .
OBllT
....
succeeded to the Pictish throne about A.D. 877. Some writers suppose that there was a priory
at St Cyrus.
This was the wife of Arthur,

of Kirkside.
the
first
Straton
This opinion appears to be founded
He
acquired the lands by purchase

;
by William the Lion, who (Reg. grants and confirms to the monks of St Andrews the church of Eglesglrg, with all its just pertinents, in free and perpetual alms gift^ with the chapel of S. Rule, and with
Tipon a charter
Prior.
S. Andree),
from the Lord of the Regality of St Andrews and in 1657, his son Mr Arthur was served heir
to these, as well as to the towns and lands of
Scotston and Marchrie
(îndg.
Mercury),
8a;.
The
last-mentioned were within the

stou,
barony of Wit-
the half carucate of land in which the said chapel is situated, by all their righteous and ancient
and regality of Lindores.

succession of the Stratons of Kirk-
The male
side failed in
and with the Ahhey land of Eglesgirg by all its ancient and righteous marches, and with common pasture to the canons, and their
marches
;
Joseph Straton.
He was
his
succeeded
by
his
nephew, Joseph Muter, afterwards General

uncle's
will,
own
dwelling on the foresaid lands, along with
thanes (or stewards), and along with viy men throughout the whole parish of Eglesgirg, &c. The expression " my men" in this sense means
my
Sir Joseph, who, in virtue of assumed the surname of Siraton. monument of Peterhead granite
Upon
is
a massive
the following
:
succinct account of the General's career
the puri nativiihQ
serfs,
or
tillers of
the
soil
who were
at,
and
for
long after the date of this
Joseph Straton of Kirkside, Companion of the Bath Knight of the Guelphic Order of Hanover, and of the Order of St
Sacred to the
of Sir
;
memory
charter, conveyed along with property in Scotland from one landholder to another.
Vladimir of Russia; Lieut. -General in the British Army youngest son of Willm. Muter, Esq. of
;
The
site of
the chapel of S.
Rule
is
unknown
Anufield, Fifeshire, and

side,
Mrs Janet Straton

This brave
of
Kirk-
but in 1242, the church of EgglesgercTi was dedicated by Bishop David of St Andrews (Concilia It is rated in the Old Taxation at 60 Scotise.)
merks.
Kincardineshire.
oflficer
plished
entered the
army
in
and accomearly life, and
served with distinguished honor during the Peninsular
In 1574, Mr Alexander Allardes, who had "his awin pensioun, &c.," officiated there and John Burnet at Aberluthuot, now Marykirk.
War and
at Waterloo,
under Field Marshal

the
the
Duke
of Wellington.
At
commencement
was reader at Ecclesgrig, and had a salary of 17 15s G'iid. The ancient church had a romantic site at the
foot
of
Waterloo he commanded his own regiment the 6th Dragoons untill the fall of the gallant Ponsonby, to whose brigade it belonged,
of the battle of
when the command

him.
of the brigade
devolved upon
the highest rocks,
locally
called " the
Towai-ds the close of the action Sir Joseph
steeples," near the sea,
and thither the people
repaired for worship until about 1632,
when a
of the
Straton was wounded, and upon the termination of the war, in reward of his services, he had various Military Honors conferred upon him. He died
Colonel of the Inniskilling Dragoons, at London,
2.3d Oct.
new church was
built
upon " the brae heads," near
the site of the present edifice.

old church can be traced in the
The
site
1840, in the 63d year of his age,
and
is
interred here by his
own
desire.
ST.
CYRUS.
37
Sir Joseph Straton was succeeded by a nephew,

to
whose memory a handsome granite monument feet in height, (erected by his widow), about with a medalHon of Mr Straton by Steele of Edinburgh, is thus inscribed
TVSrVLVM POSVIT VBI SEPVLTA lACET CHARISStMA VXOR JLiRGARETA CARNEGY ET 4 FILII FILIiE 5 DVO NEPOTES CVM TRIB' AMICIS.
. . . . .
[A.D. 1673.
Mr
David Campbell, pastor
of St
lie in-
Gregory's church, erected this tomb, where
In memory
side
:
of
George-Thomas Straton
68.
of
Kirk-
Died 16 Feby., 1872, aged

to
tradition,
terred his dearly beloved wife Margaret Garnegy, 4 sons, 5 daughters, 2 grand-children, together with
According
time of
riston"
3 friends.]
Stratons
possessed
certainly
Lauriston from a remote period.
They
Mr
was
INIarat
owned lands somewhere
in
the Mearns in the
Careston.
Campbell was previously minister at While there, on 4th April 1643, he

Sess.
Edward
fell
I.
at Harlaw.
In 1411, Straton " of LauThe tower of the old
(^Brechin
Records),
"contractit with
:
fortalice still stands at Lauriston, adjoining the
modern mansion-house
little
to the eastward, stood
and at Chapeltoun, a an ancient place of

(v.
worship, dedicated to S.
Laurence
Mem.
of
Carnegy in this paroch caur for them both, Alexr. Carnegy of Cuikstoune." Carnegy of Cookstone, near Brechin, was a cadet of the Southesk family. Wodrow says that Campbell was a non-conformist but this (Fasti) appears
;
Angus and
to be a mistake.
JNIearns.)
bell
Dr
Scott also states that
CampIn
Another monument, with the Straton and Ogilvy arms impaled, and the motto, tento,
bears
:
attended the army to Newcastle in 1640.
1674,
he was served heir to his father, John
monument was
Campbell, in the sunny half lands and town of
composed by Robert Straton, Here table tacksman of the Lands of WardroptoD, descended of the autient family of
This
Lauriston for a burying
Cowbyre, in the lordship of Cupar, and county

of
Perth (Retours.)
.....
:
burial place here, but
Upon
a more modern tablet, batted to the stone

is
from which the above
copied
In memory of Robert Straton, who erected this monument anno 1731, and died 4th March
1740
:
also
his
spouse
;
died 29th Dec. 1744
also their son
Katherine Burnet, who Robert, who died
Morphie had their chief no stone bears their name. The only old funeral monument, so far as I know, which belongs to the family, is a slab within the church of Kiuneff {q.v.) The Morphie aisle at St Cyrus, long ruinous, was recently rebuilt by Mr Barron Graham, who is laird of Morphie, and representative of that branch of the Grahams.
of
The Grahams
Mr Graham
of
Morphie,
who
studied at the
aged 80 years ; also his spouse Girzal Lyon, lawful daughter of the Rev. Mr Patrick Lyon, sometime minister of the Gospel at Roscobie, who died 11th Oct. 1765, aged 74 years had issue George, Katherine, Janet, and Helen.
28th Oct.
1764,
Royal Academy, London, followed the profession

of a painter for several years, until his eyesight
Since then he has was accidentally injured. amused himself with collecting coins and medals,
The
lands of
family in old
Warburton gave surname to a times, one of whom, John of Ward-
roperisthone, granted a charter of " Wardroperis-
thonue in the Marnys," to Sir John of Inchmartin, knight, 1331, in exchange for certain
lands in the Carse of Gowrie, (Spald. Club Mis.,
V. 10.)
&c.,with the view of illustrating the progress of art from the earhest period. Besides Morphie, Mr Graham owns Stone of Morphie, a property so named from an undressed stone which stands The stone is about 11^ feet in the farm-yard.
high, varying in breadth from 3 feet 4 inches
at bottom to 2 feet 4 at top.
It varies
in
thickness from about 2 feet 4 to 1 foot 9 inches.

:
From
the door lintel of a roofless aisle

.
. .
Tradition
connects
" the Stone
o'
Morphie,"
ANNO
BELLVS
,
DOM. 1673
ECCLESI.*;
.
MAGISTER GREGORIAMiE
.
DAVID CAMPPASTOR HVNC
and a place called the Dane's Den, with the Danish conflicts of Malcolm's time. Be this as
38
EPITAPHS,
AND INSCRIPTIONS:
tenant in Ston-of Morphie, and Bonsetter, in me-
it
may, when a search was made some years ago, remains, " of large size," were found below the stone, which proves it to have been a
humau
funeral
monument.
Owing
to erroneous infor-
mory of his wife and children, viz., his wife Jean Stevenson Hellen, Jean, John, James, Alexr., Margret Websters.
:
mation, the late Sir Jas. Simpson, in his Address to the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, stated
that the stone had been destroyed.
A group
of five ill-proportioned
are represented upon the
monument.
its
human figures One is in

;
The Grahams
of
Morphie (says Nisbet) were
the act of setting the bones of another's arm
an ancient branch of the house of Graham, in the time of Robert I., and the lands of Morphie were There were confirmed to them by Robert II. and three Knights in the family of Morphie
;
owing to the part which the Grahams took in the Civil Wars, and other causes, the lands were
sold
for
hand round the knee of another twice its size and a fifth, also of small stature, is represented holding up its arms in the attitude of wonder The date of 1759 is upon the top of the gravestone and round a sandglass are the words
dwarf looking figure has
;
!
behoof
of
creditors,
after
the death
sister of
As
runs the glass, man's
life
doth pas.
of the last lady of
Morphie (who was a
memento MORI.
Another tombstone (table-shaped), belonging to same family, is thus inscribed
:
Claverhouse), about 1727.
The bulk
of the pro;
perty
fell
into the hands of Scott of Brotherton
but the Mains of Morphie was re-acquired by the

son of the above-named lady,
the
who
served in the
Here
lies
James Webster, sometime tenant
in
Warsof Queen Anne. The present laird excambed

the lands of Balindarg, near Kirriemuir, for those
of Stone of Morphie. It was to his kinsmen, the lairds of Morphie and Fintray (Spalding Club Misc., vol. v.), that the second Marquis of Montrose, by letter dated 30th March 1661, requested the provost and magistrates of Aberdeen to deliver the hand of his celebrated father, which had been placed upon a pinnacle of the Tolbooth of that City by order of the Scots Parliament. According to a contem-
Stone of Morphie,
who departed
the
SS^l
this life the 24 of
December
172-4, in
year of his age.
As
also
tuo of his daughters,
Mary, who
died in infancy,
14 June 1714, and Isobel
He was
wonderful
and his numbers of distressed people made him equally useful and beloved while alive, and now justly regretted.
skill
a person very well esteemed,
and success
in curing vast
From
lies
man
deof
Heir
interred the corps of ane discreet
named David Walker, somtyme

partit this lyfe the 7 of October 1693 years, his age 55
:
porary record, " that
member
of
his fatheres,"
and
which had been buried in the church of St Nicholas, was disinterred, 25th February 1661, by the local authorities, and put in a coffin "coverit
with ane reid crimpsone velvit cloth, and caried
Remember all as yov goe by Vpon lasting eternity

:
And
Grahame, sone to the Laird of Morphye" to the Town House, accompanied by the magis-
by
Ilarie
mvst Betvrn again vnto the dvst.

that e'er long yov all
inscriptions are
The next seven

stones
:
from head-
trates,
.
the inliabitants " goeing before in armes

.
with sound of trumpet and beat of
drum," and there the hand was to be kept until requested to be given over to the son of " the
laite murtherit
Francis Graham's wife (1747) :
Remember, man,
Marques."
is
As thou
art
as thou goest by, now, so was I
The
following
from a monument which was

:
Into that palace I will look.
built into the wall of the old kirk
Where Christ hath gone before, To pave the way into his flook.
This monument was erected by Alexr. Webster,
And
keep an open door. &c.
ST.
CYRUS.
39
Katren,
dr. to
Geo. Barclay,
dreu
;
d.
1780,
a.
29
When
Life
:
first I
the breath of
:
Within an enclosure, near the south-west corner of the burial-ground, a neat monument,
with marble
slab, bears the following inscription
I nothing kneu at all yet Long before my Death I kneu That I with Adam fell my body lays neer to this stone
from the accomplished pen Burues of Montrose

:
of the late
Mr James
Waiting the morning
call
When
hand
:
Christ will take
me by
the
he
is
my
d.
all
and alL
;
Alex. Roberts Straton, d. 1795

If
1798
his wf.
Catherine
memory of George Beattie, writer in who died 29th Sept., 1S23, in the 38th year of his age. This monument was erected by the Friends who loved him in life and lamented him
the
To
Montrose,
in death.
table,
In his Disposition, he was

;
just, chari-
honour wait on pedigree,
And
ancient blood
I claim descent
we boast from Adam,
mankind was first. From Noah next my line I have, Through Cambria's hardy sons, To Scotia's bleak, but friendly clime,
of
Who
and and pathetic ; and in his Manners, plain and social. His virtues are deeply engraved in the hearts of those who knew him, and his literary productions will be admired while taste for original humour and vigorous
in his Principles, firm
and benevolent
;
independent
in his Genius, forcible
expression remain.
In earth to lay
my
bones.
Beattie was
"John
the son of a crofter and salmonin this parish.
1798. Robert Burness and Janet Ritchie, was married 10th April, and had the following issue [8 children recorded, 4 of whom appear to have been
alive in 1798]
fisher at Whitehills,
His father
subsequently held an appointment in the Excise. Young Beattie wrote, besides other poems, that of
o'
:
and be with
Christ.
Arnha'," a humorous and satirical pro-
All shall die and turn to dust
duction, in the style of Burns' "
Tam
o'
Shanter."
We hope to rise,
Anonymous
The
:
Beattie's poems, which have been often printed,

possess
Wm.
more than ordinary merit, and

:
his sad
end
has a melancholy interest
He died
in the
solemn
saints are Pilgrims here below,
and lonely spot where
his remains lie buried.
And
S.,
tow'rds their country heaven go.

writer in Montrose, son of
21
David Spankie,
tenant. Brae of Pert,

a.
was drowned, 2d Aug.
1807, while bathing,
THE UPPER KIRK-YARD.

As
site,
Low
here his mouldering body laid.

before stated, the parish church of St Cyrus
Now
wrapt in death's oblivious shade ; with the blesst, In mansions of eternal rest. Let every one who reads his fate, Reflect on life's uncertain date ; And learn to run their worldly race, That they through Christ may die in peace. His parents hope to meet again Their son, beyond the reach of pain. And sin, and death, when saints shall rise. To reign immortal in the skies.
I trust his soul dwells
was removed from the sea-shore to the present not far from the top of the cliffs, and at the Village or Kirktown, about the year 1632. This was during the incumbency of Mr Andrew Collace, who was previously minister at Garvock,
and
latterly at
Dundee
(_Scott's Fasti.)
Free Church stands near the railway station. It was built for the Rev. Dr Alexander Keith, author of the Evidence of the 'Iruth of the
Christian Religion, and other works,
at the Disruption in 1843.
who
seceded
Abridged
Robert Brown,
died 1822, aged 88.
"He was an
father
elder in said pariah for 51 years."
whose was minister at Keith-hall {q.v.)^ succeeded Mr Trail at St Cyrus in 1816.

Keith,
Dr
40
EPITAPHS,
AND INSCRIPTIONS^
To him courage, June 19th, 1858, aged 42 years. who, uniting every domestic with every knightly virtue, was thus prematurely summoned to the
grare, this tablet
is
The corner
ton's
stone of an inclosure, called Laurisaisle of
Aisle a,n
the old parish

:
church-
initials, in monogram, of I. S E. O. Within the same enclosure were interred the remains of Alexander Porteous, Esq., of Lauriston, who died there on the 7th of June 1872,
bears the
erected by hia wife, as a faint

is
token of a love for which there
no expression.
Mr Patrick
Gibson
Orr, W.S., who bought the pro-
in his 74th year.
Mr
Porteous,
who made a
for
perty of Bridgeton towards the end of the last

century, married Marjory, daughter of
of Little Fithie, in Farnell.
tune abroad, is said to have been the first to send into this country from India samples of jute a,
the successful management of be said, the manufacturers in the counties of Forfar and Fife, &c., are indebted for IMr Porteous, who was also the their fortunes.
Mr Wm. Mr Orr was

office
kind of
flax,
to
long sheriff -clerk of Forfarshire, in which
which,
it
may
he was followed by a son, also named Patrick.
An
elder sou, William, succeeded to Bridgeton,
principal promoter of the Montrose
and Bervie
and was the father of the two officers above commemorated, and several other children.
Their
1845.
uncle,
Railway, belonged to Crieff in Perthshire, and

married a
sister of
Mr John Orr,
Accountantabout
the in-
Mr
Scott of Brotherton,
by
General at Madras, died at Edinburgh
whom
he leaves a family.
kirk was erected in the burial-ground
It contains
He
left
a considerable fortune,
of
A new
terest of
1000
which he bequeathed to the

his will
nearly twenty years ago.
two hand-
parish of St Cyrus to be distributed annually in
some marble
tablets.
One
of these, built into
the odd
manner thus prescribed by
the east wall, bears the arms of the family of Orr,
and motto, true to the end, also elaboi'ate carvings of war trophies, and this inscrij)tiou
:
"To
the Clergyman of the Established Church
of Scotland, Parish of St Cyrus,
dine, for the time being, 1 give
County of Kincarand bequeath for
To the memory of Bridgeton, in this parish, Companiou of the Bath,
William-Adam Orr
of
ever the annual interest accruing from the
sum
of
One thousand pounds

as follows
:
sterling
the interest
to be
Colonel in the lloyal Artillery, and Aide- de-Camp

to the Queen, eldest sou of the late William Orr,
divided into five equal portions, and appropriated
Ceylon Civil Service, and of Bridgeton, who, after an honorable and distinguished career in the service of his country, died at Westonsuper-Mare, on the 11th of Sept. 1869, from the effects of illness contracted during the arduous
Esqre.
of
H.M.
"Fimt: One
portion to be applied to the purj
chase of tea, sugar, meal, candles, flannel, and any

other comforts that may, by the Clergyman, be
j
campaigues
of 1857
is
and 1858,
in Central India.
This tablet
affectionately dedicated to a beloved

sister.
thought proper, and given by him to such Poor and Needy Parishioners as he may think fit this distribution to be made (if possible) at the season of Christmas ;
'
brother by his sorrowing
" Second
Another portion
The
border
second slab
is
in the north wall (F. LeighIt has a
tion to the Tallest
Woman
to be given as a donabelonging to the Parish

;
ton, inv. et sculp. ^

;
handsomely carved
who may be Married during

Shortest
and a group
in relief (within a circle
near the middle of the slab) represents a female

kneeling by the couch of an invalid.
Below the
the year " Third: Another portion to be given to the Woman belonging to the Parish who may be Married during the year " Fourth : Another portion to be given to the
;
group
is
the following iuscriiition, together with

:
a verse from Ps. 88
In memory of Sutherland -George -Gordon Orr, Commandant of the 3rd Eegt. of Cavalry, Hyderabad Contingent, who, after many years of
distinguished service,
fell
Oldest Woman belonging to the Parish who may be Married during the year ; and, Last : The remaining portion to be given as a donation to the Youngest Girl belonging to the Parish who may be Married during the year.
'
'
a victim to his enduring
These sums to be paid to the respective parties,
or,
ST.
CYRUS.
executors, to
deposited,
41
in the event of death, to the heirs of the deceased,
mark the
power
is
spot where his ashes are
by the Clergyman, on the Thirty -first day of December each year. The Clergyman should ascertain the height and age of every woman married in his Church during the year, and distribute the several portions according to his judgment his de-
and
as the last tribute of regard they to
had
it
in their
beloved relative.
that the
silence
They Mould
bestow towards a near and tell his worth, but
Tomb
not the proper place for praise
cision in every case to be final."
The mansion-house of Bridgeton, which undertasteful alterations

is
and they know that on such a subject humility and would have been considered a more suitable proof of their attachment by the departed spii'it of
their Friend.
went
time,
trose
during the late

side of the
laird's
situated
upon the north
Mon-
Mr
Trail,
who was
a son of the Eev. Robert
and Bervie turnpike.
Bridgeton belonged
Trail of Panbride, published a translation from
at one time to the Stracbans of Thornton.
the Latin, of a curious, and

tion of the
now
scarce, Descrip-
The
inscriptions copied below are

:
from tomb-
stones in the church-yard
County of Angus in 1678, by the Rev. Robert Edward, minister of Murroes.

In memory of Agnes Campbell, spouse of James Watson at St Cyrus, a very successful midwife there
for nearly
6S.
Here lyes Bessie Smith spovs
to
William
Burnet who
died both in the year 16S8 of ages SO

:
and 80 tvo years Death is the end of al tribvlation, And therefor to wyse men a swit consolation.
is followed by an inscription Greek capitals, to this effect " To him that overcometh will be given the fellowship of angels." From an adjoining slab
40 years,
best.
who
died 24th !May 1822, aged
She
will be longest
remembered by those who
knew her
Erected
died 15th
The above couplet
to
the
memory
of
Mr Alexander
of his spouse,
in
Anderson, 33 years parochial schoolmaster, who
May
1834, aged 67.
Also
Mary Campbell, who

74 years.
died 4th January 1846, aged
Hier lyes Dauid Broun, lavfvll son to Dauid Brovn and Effie Vill, indvellers in Miltovnhavien, vho departed this lyf the 6 of Febrvary 1697, and
of his age 12 yiears.
Stone
cists,
urns,
human bones, and
also imple-
From
flat
stone
Hier lys Iohn Hoge, svmt5Tne in Gapes Hall, who departed this lyfe the 24 of Svptember, and of age 57, in the year of God 1703 Grim death arests me hier to ly, To rest vntil the iudgement day ;
:
ments of the stone and bronze periods, have been found in different parts of the parish, particularly in the localities of Morphie and Canterland. About twenty years ago, bones were discovered in a cave near Warburton, including, as some
supposed, remains of certain extinct, or antediluvian animals.
Yet me
to life
God
will restor,
The
ruins of the
Kaim
of
Mathers stand upon
Vhom
I vill praise for ever
more.
" Gapes
Hall," or Gapieshaugh,
was Straton
It
is
the top of an isolated rock, which juts into the According to tradition, this stronghold was sea.
built
property from before 1631, until about 1669,
by Barclay, the
laird of
Mathers,
who
joined
when it belonged to a Mr George Gordon. now part of the Ecclesgreig estate. The next inscription is from a brass plate,
into an obelisk of freestone
:
the Mearns barons in boiling
Sheriff MelviUe
fixed
Here
lie
the mortal remains of the Rev. James
Trail, minister of St Cyrus, at which place he died on the 1st day of May 1816, aged 59. This monument was erected by Ann Burn, his widow, and
upon the hill of Garvock. This strange etory, and the cause of the building of the castle are told by Balfour, in " the Kaim of Mathers, a tale in Scottish verse," which first appeared in the Dimdee Magazine for July 1822. The following Unes are copied from it
:
"The land
of Mathers all
its
was hys,
Thomas
Trail,
and James
Dow
of Montrose, his
And on
steeple shore
42
EPITAPHS,
A
fearful rocke looks o'er the waves,
AND INSCRIPTIONS
similar to that
upon the monument within the
A-lysteiiing to thaer roar.
parish church of St Cyrus.

Kaim
So there
tliae tiuyld
a lordlie
All onne the stonie rock,
The house
of Ecclesgreig
was
called
Mount
Which mote defle the Sovereign's arm, And eke the tempest's shock."
Cyrus at one time, and at an early date the house
and lands were known

latter
A little to the
station, is
eastward of the Witston fishing

It
the entrance to a cave of considerable

is
height and length.
frequented by seals and

;
as Crigie. They bore the when they formed part of the Morphie estate, and were possessed by John, son of Sir Robert Graham of Morphie.
name
in 1659,
other amphibious animals
and although
easily-
reached at neap,
is
inaccessible at
spring tides.
The Kirktown
According to tradition, the cave stretches as far

inland as the Castle of Lauristou
said that a blind
;
and
his
it is
further
bag -piper and
dog having
There are several hamlets within the parish. and is the most considerable, next to it in size is the village of Roadside. The established church and parish school, both of which are ornamental buildings, are situated at
found their way into it, the wail of the pibroch and the howl of the dog were heard for some days below the kitchen hearth of the old fortalice. In course of time the sounds died away and bleached human and animal bones having been found in
;
and at Roadside are a handsome and school-house. The last-noticed were erected by, and maintained chiefly through the
the Kirktown
school
;
liberality of, the late

side,
or about the cave, the peasantry had no difficulty

in identifying
Btrel
Mr G. T. Straton of Kirkwho, although long an invalid, was an unostentatious and liberal benefactor to the people
of St Cyrus.
them
as those of the luckless
miu-
little
to the
westward
of the
and
his faithful
companion
Straton school, a fountain of freestone bears these
The mansion-house of Ecclesgreig, which has a commanding position to the north of the village of St Cyrus, is surrounded by well kept grounds It was greatly improved and thriving woods. and enlarged by the late laird, whose remains
were interred in a private burial place, which was consecrated by the Bishop of Brechin. It is situated within the policies and there, shaded by yew trees, which are planted in the form of a
;
words
1870
Erected by Mrs Straton of Kirkside, for the benefit of the Village.

of Milton of
ha', are situated to the eastward,
cross, a coffin-slab of
Aberdeen granite bears
this
Mathers and Tangleand close by the seashore. The former of these was erected into a burgh of barony by the name of INIiltonhaven (v. Mem. of Angus and Mearns), and both are inhabited chiefly by a fishing population.
The hamlets
inscription
Some
interest,
of the bridges in St
particularly that
Cyrus are objects of which crosses Den
clesgreig
In memory of William Forsyth-Grant of EcBorn 10th Feby. 1804 ; died 18th Oct.
:
on the east side of the parish. Besides being the reputed scene of the death of Lady
Finella,
Finella,
III.,
1863.
We have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. 2d Cor. v. 1.
who is said to have killed King Kenneth Den Finella is a singularly romantic and picwith fine waterfalls and walks.
viaduct crosses the lower part of the and a bridge on the Montrose and Bervie
is
turesque place,
Mr
Mr
Forsyth- Grant,
who was a gentleman
of
The railway
den turnpike
;
large benevolence, acquired Ecclesgreig from a maternal uncle, who was a native of Strathspey,
dated 1815.
The old bridge
is
little
Grant was succeeded by a son, late Captain in the 3d Hussars, who married a daughter of Colonel Orr of Bridgeton. The remains of Col. Orr also lie at Ecclesgreig, and the pedestal of a handsome granite cross, of the wheel pattern,
about
six
to the north of the last-mentioned.
Before the Lower North Water bridge was

erected, the parish of St
Cyrus was reached from
the west, or Montrose side, by a dangerous ford and a ferry-boat. The ford was near the Mills of
feet
in height, bears
an inscription
Kinnaber, and the boat was at the Poii'age, or
GARTLY,
Pontage Pool.
OR
GRANTULY.
43
which has been celepoem of " John o' Aruha'," was a favourite haunt of the Waterkelpie, who, in allusion to the assistance he gave
pool,
The
brated by George Beattie in his
^HVtht,
(S.
or
(^X^XXXXXX^,
at the building of a mansion house at Morphie,

said to have
is
ANDREW, APOSTLE.)
warned passengers of impending danger at the pool, by giving vent to the following plaint, and malison against the Grahams
:
" Sair baok
an' sair banes,

o'
Carryin' the Laird
Marphie's stanes
The Lairds o' Marphie canna thrive As lang's the Kelpie is alive !"
was one of the mensal churches Moray. In 1574 Mr George Nicolson had a stipend of 53 6s 8d Scots as minister of Gartly and three adjoining parishes, and John Leslye, the contemporary reader at Gartly, had a salary of 20 merks.
^&
ff%
RANTULY
of the Bishops of
The
The bridge upon
joins the
present church
a long narrow building

Mr Wm.
the tiurnpike road (which ad-
was erected
Reid,
in 1621, during the time of
viaduct of the Montrose and Bervie

;
who
(Scott's Fasti), " taxed the faults of
and the following inscriptions (the one copied from a tablet at the south-east end of the bridge, the other from a
railway), consists of eight arches
slab built into the opposite parapet), give a concise history of the building
:
and not ia the language quherby the people, insteade of being edified, wer moved to laughter and derisione." The church belfry is an ornamental work, and upon it are three slabs with these words
his parishioners bitterli,
of Scripture,
[1-]
. .
YIS
IS
RETHE
.
built
^rabclkr Pass safe and free along this Bridge, by Subscription, to which the Town of Mon:
10
BVLT . 1621 KOS meason 1621.

.
and the two adjacent Counties, contributed a large share. The work was first projected, and a liberal sum directed to be given by Thomas
trose,
The
bell bears
an inscription in Latin, nearly

It
ia
similar to that at Ordiquhill (supra p. 27.)

locally rendered thus
:
Christie, Provost of Montrose. He died before the Subscription was opened but the design wai
;
ablj-
taken up and successfully followed out by his eldest son, Alexander Christie, the succeeding
" John Mowat made me, For the use of Gartly, To call upon the Clergy,
Provost, an active and public spirited citizen, who, with the assistance of a Committee of the Subscribers, happily brought the work to a period. The foundation was laid, October 18, 1770, and John the work was finished, October IS, 1775. Smeaton, John Adams, and Andrew Barrie, were the architects. The same Andrew Barrie, mason in Montrose, and Patrick Brown, mason in Dryburgh, were the undertakers. The Bridge and the Approaches cost Six Thousand Five Hundred
And mourn
for the
Dead."
According to a writer of 1726, " the church has an aisle wherein the house of Huntley ia buried." This was possibly the Frendraught, or
Crichton Aisle, which entered from the nave of
the church.
The
site is still indicated
by a mound
on the south
bones" of
servants
side of the kirk.
Spalding states that "the ashes and brynt the unfortunate barons and their
Pounds
Sterling.
[2.]
This Building Erected A.D. 1775. His Majesty gave in aid to it, out of the Annexed Estates, 800 stg.
Viator, tvto transeas
;
sis
memor
;
who perished at the burning of Frendraught in 1630, were put in " sax kistis in the haill, which, with gryte sorrow and cair, wes had to the kirk of Garntullie, and thair bureit." The church of Gartly, which has been frequently repaired,
is
beneficii Eegii.
a sorry fabric, and the surit
[Traveller, pass over in safety
be mindful of the
King's bounty.]
rounding burial ground, although
contains a
number
of
monuments, presents
little of
general
44
EPITAPHS,
One
AND INSCRIPTIONS
who
departed this life 18th of Dec. 1789, in the 25th year of his age. His merits were such that they are to be held in estimation of all who knew him As also Marv v.'hile memory can record worth.
interest.
dateless stone, fixed to the south

:
wall of the kirk, bears this brief iusciiptiou
Mr Geo. Gordon, Gartly, an honest man, regarded by all, aged 92.

From
the area of the church-yard
:
Garioch, espoused to James Black in Daugh, who departed this Ufe the 9th of Jany. 179G, in the 73d
year of her age.
Sub spe
Filice'
beatse resurrectiouis hoc jacent
tumulo
c'
et contumulantur in
uno coguati Pater,

in
Filii
Abridged
stone,
Alexander Mitchell, who

erected this
ie
Mater.
173G, aged GO years
Drumbulge, and his ; spouse Bessie Christie, dyed March 17, aged
Alexander Smith, sometime
died 9th Jan. 1840, aged 94 years, and
dyed Novr. the 20th

43 years, &c.
[In this grave
their Sons
lie
here interred
From
a headstone
buried together,
m the hope of
a happy resurrection, a Father and Mother, with
In memory of George Forbes, late farmer in Whitelumbs, who died in 1833, aged 84 also of his
spouse Christian Thomson,
who
died in
1822,
and Daughters.]
:
aged 41.
It
From
1801,
a table stone
Wm.
a.
Jessiman, born in Currilaar, died there

84; his
sp.
may be worthy
lie
of note that, within the
Elspet Burges,
d. 1759, a.
43 :
kirk-yard of Gartly,
the ashes of a female, who,
The smiles of fortune or her frowns They never could me move. My heart was fixed on God, my hope
according to local story, was lost by her husband
on the day of her marriage, and whose remains were forgotten by him upon that of her funeral
Was
The next
shaped stones
in his boundless love.
three inscriptions
:
are from
table-
While both incidents show the convivial state it would be ungenerous to look upon the latter act (for the former is not unof society at the time,
Here lyes Elizabeth Chalmers, who died in

Kirkhill, the 4th of Aprill 1768,
known
in Scotland even at the present day), in
aged G3 years,
lawfull spouse to the deceased
Mr John Chalmers,
sometime notary public in Ersfield, in the parish of Kinnethmont. Also Janet Chalmers, spouse of Alex. Ingram in Coxton she died7 Jany. 1814, aged 73years. Alsoherson John Ingram, farmer, Coxton, who died 14th April 1859, aged 88 years [2 drs. recorded dead.] Also his wife Janet Green, who died on the 14th February 1871, in her 78th year. Keraembcr, man, as thou goest by, As thou art now, so once was I.
:
any other light than that of the widower's anxiety to show hospitality to those who attended the funeral of his wife, many of whom had come from
distant parts of the country.
The facts of both cases are these A well-todo farmer in Gartly was married at a considerable distance from his own residence and, when the
:
;
bride left her father's for her
new home
in Gartly,
she tvas placed, as was then customary, upon the

pillion
behind the bridegroom.

at
his
When
the bride-
groom arrived
friends,
house,
he called to the
Here
lies
interred the mortal remains of
James
Sangster,
sometime
farmer
in
Moshead,
who
who had assembled to welcome the pair home "'Tak'doun the gudewife, sirs!" "There's
nae gudewife here
!"
departed into Eternity upon the 13th April 1800 years, after he had troad the stage of Time for the
space of 70 years
:
was the
'at
reply, to
bride,i:room, after a short pause,
which the answered " I'll
At Angel's
voice and Trumpet's sonnd.
Shall dust arise, and bones be joined.
gaed kbit i' the burn o' Aul' liayne !" Messengers were despatched in s.ârch of the lost bride, who was found in a house,
near the scene of the disaster, drying her garments by the side of "a blazin' ingle !" It is told, as a sequel to this " slip," that when
wager yon was her
Under this stone is laid all that was mortal of James Black, son to James Black in Daugli, late Lieutenant in His Majesty's 98th Regiment of Foot,
TANNADICE.
woman died, and when the fuueral prowas sorae distance upon the road to the kirkyard, thewidower suddenly called out, " Stop,
the same
cession
stop, sirs! there's a mistak' here !"
45
there,
upon a
is
slab built into a gable of the
farm
coat
steading,
a shield bearing a
much defaced
of arms, probably those of
Strange to
say the remains of his wife had been forgot to be placed into the cart (there being but few hearses
in those days), in which they were to be conveyed
to their last resting place
I
Gordon. The parish of Gartly, which is wholly the property of the Duke of Richmond, is situated partly
in the
county of Aberdeen and partly in that of
Banff.
A Free
Church was erected on the north
side
of the Bogie in 1844, the parish minister having
seceded at the Disruption of 1843.

Besides the parish kirk, at which,
in 1650
(Acta Pari.,
hill
vi. 608),
a servant of Leith of Hart-
was
killed in cold blood
brothers, there
worship in
by two of Leith 's were at one time three places of One of these stood at KirkGartly.
There is a neat hamlet, with some shops and an inn, at the railway station of Gartly, from which the pretty district of Strathdon, and intermediate
mail car.
localities,
may be
reached daily by the
the second at Talathrewie (S. ney (S. ), FixNAx), and the third at Brawliukuow (S. .) According to tradition, an infant son of the Baron of Gartly was drowned in the Bogie, in a pool still called Lord John's Pot, while being carried home, after baptism, from the chapel at Brawlinknow. Barclays, of the Towie race {v. Gamrie), were designed lords or barons of GrantuUy from at and Sir Alexander, the laird of the least 1367 period, fell at the battle of Arbroath in 1445-6.
;
(S.
tt
ft i
f ^.
TERN AN,
BISHOP.)
X'^
Jt
the year 1187, Pope Gregory
VHI. granted a
confirmation charter of the church of Tanedas to the Prior and Canons of St Andrews (Reg.
Prior.
S.
About a century afterwards, the lands

don
of
of Gartly
Andree)
and
in
appear to have passed from the Barclays to Gor-
Concilise), the kirk of Tanatheys
1242 (Robertson's was dedicated
Auchendown
of
and upon the death of Sir

the
heir male.
Patrick Gordon of Auchendown in 1600,
Marquis
Huntly succeeded as
The
very
castle of Gartly, of
little
which unfortunately now remains, stood upon the farm of the
by Bishop Bernhame. The church was a rectory of St Andrews, and is rated at 40 merks in one copy of the Old Taxation, at 8 merks in a second, and at 16 6s 8d
Scots in a third.
The
old orthography of the

;
Mains of Gartly. According to Chalmers, Mary Queen of Scots rested at Grantuly both on her way to and from the North. It was also the scene of a ballad, called " The Barone o' Gairtly,"
which
of
tells
name
is
as different as the rating
for, besides
is
the examples above given, the

ThancJiais and Tannadyse, &c.
name
spelled
that the
baron's lady, during
his
absence in the wars, became the wife of Gordon
Lesmore, and that, the baron having consulted " weird sisters" in a cave on the Binhill of Cairuey
affair,
James Rait was minister of Tannadice and Aberlemno, with 100 Scots of stipend. In 1574, Alex. Garden was reader, with a salary of 16 and kirklands. The patronage of the
In 1567,
I\Ir
kirk belongs to St INIary's College, St Andrews.
regarding the
revenged the insult by burnits faithless
The present
kirk,
;
which
is
a neat building, was
ing the castle of Gartly,

the rest ef the inmates.
Tillieminit
is
lady,
and
erected in 1846
and, on 4th
March 1866
Rev.
(the
day upon which the widow

corries in Gartly
of the late
Mr
in-
perhaps the most beautiful of the

glens
Buist died), the internal fittings were jured by an accidental

fire.
much
many romantic
and
and
4G
EPITAPHS,
AND INSCRIPTIONS
Upon a small headstone, embellished with carviugs of pen-knives, inkstands, open books, &c. :^
This stone was erected by David Dakers, schoolmaster in Tannadice, in memory of his spouse MarGRET BiNNY, who died the 2Sth of March 1728
years, of age 68.
towards the east
has been considerably enlarged and the old portion, trenched a few years ago, has been otherwise improved. But, as some of the old lying and table-shaped monuments have been set upon end (a sin which,
The church-yard
;
unfortunately,
is
not confined
to
Tannadice),
certain portions of the inscriptions are buried. The following is from a stone in the position referred to
:
The above-named
were maternal ancestors of David Dakers Black, Esq. of Kergord, author of

the History of Brechin, &c.
tSf Hear lyes Greige at the
Iean Yovng,
spova to David
Another part of the church-yard contains a
the 27 of December 16S6, and of her age 19 years
monument to the memory of the late schoolmaster, Mr Herald, who died in 1863, aged 58. It was
erected by some of his old pupils,
tion,
Thir lines engraven doe record This Jean nov is with the Lord, Her body in the grave doth rest in peace,
Her sovl vith saints above hath place. Heaven keeps the sovl, here the body lies,
In earth she lived both virtvovs kind and wise.
and the inscripwas composed by Mr JaS; Whamoud, now schoolmaster of Dalziel, and author of an interesting volume entitled " Jamie
which
is
in Latin,
Tacket."
It
was at a meeting of the heritors and minister,
From
a headstone
rests the
presided over by
of
Mr Wedderburn
of Islabank,
James Wilson, sometime in Baldoukie, who died the 25 day of Aprile 1678, And Jean Wobster his spouse, of age 60 years. who died the -7 of March 1718, of age 78 years. And James Wilson, his son, sometime in BalHere
bodys
doukie.
24th Jany. 1824, that Mr Herald was admitted As the minute of schoolmaster of Tannadice.
Mr
Herald's appointment presents some peculiar
features, the extracts
from
it,
given below,
may
not be uninteresting, particularly since the good old Parochial system of education in Scotland has
now
stone (ornamented with carvings of a cheese:
given place to a National system.
The
minute provides
"Firat: That the person elected shall have no
press, the culter of a plough, &c.) bears
David Cuthbert, tenant
in
Mains
of
Murthill,
right
or
till
Whitsunday
;
first
to
raised this stone over the remains of his late spouse
Margt. Mitchell, who died 14th May 17G7, aged She bare him seven children, 68 years 6 months. vizt., Thos., David, Margaret, Elizabeth, Helen, Jean, and John, of whom Helen died 3 years and JouN 6 weeks of age
:
emoluments,
excepting
the
any accommodation schoolroom and
school fees
the half year's salary to be collected at
the ordinary time, and in the usual way, by the schoolmaster, and to be put under the management
of the
the behoof of the family of the late

;
Think, ye that on these mouldring Ashes tread, Yourselves must soon be mingled with the dead
Prepare, prepare ye, for the silent
Kirk Session and Heritors, to be applied for Mr Wm. Elmsly sometime schoolmaster " Second : No cockfigbting to be permitted in the
schoolroom, under any ijretence, under the penalty of two pounds to the poor of the Parish, to be prosecuted for by the Kirk Treasurer
;
Tomb
The dreaded Dungeon, or the expected Dome Or, when the nearest, dearest joys forsake,
And
Pleasure
which Earth could give or take ; is fled, and Beauty quite defac'd. The Pdeh lie stript of all, the Proud disgrac'd Or, where the Saints are husht to sleep in Peace, While all their Labours, all their sorrows cease, Where in firm Hope, the Friends of Jesus rest,
all is lost
:
That he shall assist the Minister of the Parish, or any other in teaching any Sabbath
Thi7-d
:
"
School, the latter
may
institute
and,
"Lastly: They,
viz.,
the Meeting, unanimously
made
to
choice of
Mr Wm.
Herald, assistant Teacher

to be Parochial
;
To
Mr John
Reid,
Kirriemuir,
rise
Immortal,
&
be ever blest.
Schoolmaster of the Parish of Tannadice
and, on

TANNADICE.
his being found properly qualified by the Presby. tery of Forfar to teach the branches of literature
47
that on one occasion,
when
acting as Presbytery
The reading of English in the most approved manner and Grammatically, also writing,
following, viz.,
Clerk, a late minister of Forfar remarked, on looking upon a paper that Mr Buist was writing
arithmetic, Book-keeping, Practical Mathematics,
Land Surveying, and
Latin, as fully as to qualify
out" You have got a cypher too many there, Mr Buist." To which Mr Buist (who was the
senior of his reverend brother), sharply retorted
the Pupils for entering into an University,
the
meeting find him entitled to the emoluments and fees arising from the ofifice under the condition firstmentioned."
"
We
since
have always had a cypher too many here you came amongst us I"
Four marble
In regard to Mr Buist's eldest son, it need only be said that he was a person of great literary
attainments.
slabs,
inserted into a freestone
monument (on
He died
while Editor of the
Bombay
the
south side of
the burial:
ground), are respectively inscribed as follows

[1.]
Times, having been previously engaged upon several
provincial
newspapers in Scotland.
He
wrote,
among
other works, an interesting guide-
Sacred to the memory of the Eev. John Buist, who died at Tannadice, on the 9th Dec. 1845, in the 92d year of his age, and 50th of his ministry.
And
of
Margaret,
his youngest daughter, born at
book to the scenery of the Tay between Dundee and Perth, as seen from the steam-boats an Account of the Visit of George IV. to Scotlaud, &c.
;
Tannadice, 12th June 1812, died at Edinburgh, 1st Also in memory of Margaret Jefferson, wife of the Rev, John Buist, who died at
George Sandeman,
All ye in
Aug. 1846.
Hamilton, on the 4th March 1866, in the 86th year

of her age.
And
of
eldest son,
George Buist, LL.D., F.R.S., who died at Calcutta, 1st Oct.

[2.]
their
1860,
aged 55 years.
Sacred to the
28 : gay morn who come, To view this youth's grass-cover'd tomb. Know that you to the grave are nigh, For youth as well as age may die. In early life, then, serve thy God, Ere thou art laid beneath the clod. That those who to thy grave draw near. To drop the sympathetic tear.
d. 1822, a.
life's
the beloved wife of
memory of Jessie-Hadow Hunter, Dr G. Buist, Bombay, who died
May truly say, as He was an honest
of this
man
Christian.
:
at that Presidency, on the 5th

[3.]
May
1845, aged 27.
Sacred to the memSry of James Buist, merchant, Dundee, second son of the Rev. John Buist born
:
Charles Sandeman (1824) His was the soul that sympathy could touch. His was the heart that friendship's flame did
warm
at Tannadice, 10th July 1810, died at Dundee, 28th
And
March
1844.
[4.]
he the pilgrim, who at death's approach, Lean'd for salvation on his Saviour's arm.
Sacred to the memory of John Buist, third son of the Rev. John Buist, who died at Tannadice, 7th June 1824, in the ninth year of his age. Also of Charles Buist, his fourth and youngest brother,
John Cummin,
a. 74 (1849) : man here lies at rest. As e're God with his image blest The friend of man the friend of truth
An
honest
who
died at Dundee, 3d Dec. 183G, in the fifteenth
The
year of his age.
The Rev. Mr Buist, who was a native of Abdie,

in Fife, gained a
friend of age, and guide of youth In paths of vice he never would abide, For even his failings lean'd to virtue's side.
:
premium
for
at St
Andrews
in
1782
(Scott's
Fasti),
the best Discourse on the
Evidence
of the Authenticity of the
New
It
Testa-
ment
Scriptures.
Mr
Buist had a great sense of

is
When the Old Statistical Account of Tannadice was written by Dr Jamieson, author of the Scottish
humour, and was ready at repartee.
told
Dictionary,
about 1793, there appears to
48
EPITAPHS,
AND INSCRIPTIONS:
but,
have been a sculptured stone at the church

unfortunately, no trace of
it
Rattray.
There
is
private
burial-place
at
now
remains.
Downie Park, where there was, and possibly

is,
still
Tannadice was a thanedom, and farmed by the king down to 1363, when, along with that of Glamis, it was given to John of Logy, probably
the father of Margaret Logy,
a tablet thus inscribed
memory of departed worth. Lt. Col. WilliAjW Eattkay of Downie Park, late in the
Sacred to the
Queen
of
David
II.
(Mem.
of
who became Angus and
the
the
Hon. East India Company's Bengal Artillery born 30th Octr. 1752, died 20th Decemr. 1819, aged 67
;
After the forfeiture of Logy, both thanedoms reverted to the crown, and were again farmed for the interest of royalty. In 1369 (Reg. Mag. Sigill.), the same monarch granted a charter at Perth in favour of William, the son of John, who is described as " our bound
Mearns.)
years.
Col.
of dee.
Rattray married a daughter of

his
Mr Rankin
Dudhope, and
remains were removed to tho
burial place of that family in the
The
estate of
Howff at DunDownie Park, which was ori-
ginally part of the Inverquharity property, has
and born
serf of
the thanedom of Tannadice."
been recently purchased by the Earl of Airlie,
William to be "our free man," as well as those that shall issue from him and their posterity. The same charter provides that William and his descendants shall freely dwell in any part of Scotland they may deem expedient, and that they shall be free and at rest from all born servitude for ever. This interesting charter, which forms an additional illustration of
It also declares the said
and that
of
Tannadice by
Wm.
Neish, Esq. of
Clepington, near Dundee.
Since Tannadice was
acquired by
Mr
Neish, he has doubled the size of
the house, and otherwise improved the property.
The
dice
;
river
Noran
rises in
it
the parish of
TannaIt
and, in Glenogil,
has a romantic and

at Wellford,
pleasing course, with some pretty waterfalls.

is
crossed
by stone bridges
Court-
the position of the jmri natlvi of Scotland to that

before given (v. p. 36), had doubtless been granted
for
some
was
special service to the
crown, the nature
of which has not been recorded.

It in 1371-2, that
and at Nether Careston, where it joins the South Esk. The bridge at Justenhaugh, on the Esk, about a mile above the Kirktowu of Tannadice, was built in 1823.
ford,
ferred the thanedoms of Glamis
King Robert IL conand Tannadice

;
upon Sir John Lyon, who married Princess Jane and the Earls of Strathmore assume one of their titles of Baron from Tannadice.
Ennan's, popularly called St Arnold's Seat, hill in the parish, and is about 800 feet above sea level. There is a Free Church at jNIemus, about half
S.
is
the most conspicuous
way between
tachy.
the kirks of Tannadice and Cor-
collateral
branch of the Lyons, who
still
hold
is descended from David, the first Lyon of Cossens, second son of the fifth Lord Glamis. A door lintel at Mains of Ogil is thus initialed and dated, " 16 G. L
:
the estate of Glenogil, in Tannadice,
LN.-80."
Notices of Marcos, Morthil, and other old lands in Tannadice, are given in the Land of the Lindsays, and need not be repeated here. The
nnotinv.
(S.
BRIDGET, VIRGIN.)
of
modern mansion-houses are, as may be supposed, of various ages and styles of architecture, and are pleasantly situated upon the respective properties. The more considerable of these, Tannadice House, was built by Dr Charles Ogilvy Marcus Lodge by Col. Swinburn and Downie Park by Col.
;
;
f^JlIE church
David, Bishop of St Andrews, in 1276. The kirk and chapel of Danotyr are rated at 40
merks, in the old Taxation.
Dunothyr wag dedicated by
Towards the
the church of S.
close of the fourteenth century,
Ninian was
transferred from the

DUNOTTAR.
rock upon which the ruins of Dunottar
49
now
stand,
The Hon.
Jas. Keith, brother of the tenth Earl
by
Sir
Wm.
Keith, to the banks of the Carron,
Marischal, was perhaps the most illustrious
mem-
near the
site of the parish kirk.
A
of
bits
chapel forms part of the ruins upon the rock

this
Dunottar at
day
and some of the older

the door
need only be here remarked, however, that, having been attainted along with his brother, he entered the service
It
ber of his family.
particularly
the lower parts of
of the
King
of Prussia, in
which he rose to the
lintels
are
of considerable antiquity.
deep
rank of Field-Marshal.
bravery, he
fell
After a career of great
is called S. Ninian's and the chapel mentioned in the old Taxation roll, had probably occupied the site of
ravine, near the castle,
at the battle of Hochkirchen,
Den
where
his body, stript
dentally discovered by his friend,
by the Austrians, was acciCount Lasci,
the parish kirk of Dunottar.
who had
It
it
hurriedly interred within the church.
In 1567, John Christisua was minister of Dunottar and Fetteresso, for which he had " jc merkis with the thyrd of his benefice extending to
.
.
salary of
John Paton was reader at Dunottar, with a 20 Scots. In 1576, John Wylie was reader, with a salary of 16 and kirk lands and the contemporary minister was Mr Andrew Mill, " his stipend jclvjlb. xijs. ijd. with the manse and
.
."
was afterwards more decently buried by the local curate and eventually removed to Berlin by order of Frederick the Great, who had a marble statue erected to the Field-Marshal's memory. This marble has recently given place
;
to a statue of bronze, a duplicate of which
tl
King
head.
of Prussia
was pleased to present

:
to Peter-
Upon
the pedestal of the lattei
kirkland of Fetteresso," &c.
FIELD-MAESHAL KEITH,
which was
;
The present kirk

the bell was
of
Dunottar,
Born
at Inverugie, 1696,
erected in 1782, has been recently enlarged
and
Killed at the Battle of Hockirchen, 14 Oct. 1758.
made
at Aberdeen in 1783. or
vault,
The
Earls
Gift of
The
It
burial
is
aisle,
of
the
Town
of Peterhead,
King William of Prussia to the August 1866.

vixit, fortis ob'tit.
is
Marischal
ujron the east side of the kirk-yard.
Prohus
had never been roofed, and appears to have been constructed for a recess tomb. The recess
only remains.
The
castle of Inverugie
a roofless and pic-
turesque ruin,
about a mile north-west
from
shield
upon the door
lintel
Peterhead
and the baptism
of the future Field-
bears the Keith arms, also
Marshal
is
thus recorded in the register books of
the parish of St Fergus,
now
in the
custody of the
1582
G. K.
Registrar- General
The above
refers to George, 5th Earl Marischal,
the founder of Marischal College, Aberdeen.
He
succeeded his grand-father the year before the

date upon the
in 1623,
aisle; and, dying at Dunottar Castle was interred within the aisle at the
" 16 June 1696 The Earl of Marchall had a Son baptized called James-Francis-EdwaivD, befure these witnesses', John Earl of Errol, Charles Lord Hay, & Sir William Keith of Loudquharu."
:
The
following inscription, composed
by Me-
church of S. Bridget of Dunottar.

Sir William Keith, Sir Alex.
who married
the heiress of
first
Fraser of Cowie, was the
Keith
from Douglas' Peerage (vol ii. p. 196), is upon a tablet which was erected in the church of Hockirchen, by Sir Robert Keithtastasio, copied
of Dunottar.
He was
descended from Hervie,
Murray of Ochtertyre,
Bart., soon after the death
who
acquired the lands of Keith in East Lothian
of his cousin, the Field-Marshal
from King David I., from which he assumed his surname (Chalmers' Caledonia.) The family of Keith Marischal, ennobled in 1455, was attainted
in 1716, for their adherence to the Stuarts.
"Jacobo Keith, Gulielmi Comitis Marescalli Hered. Regni Scotise, et Marite Drummond, lilio,
Frederici,
Borussorum
Regis,
summo
11
exercitu
Prajfecto, viro antiquia
moribus et militari virtute
50
EPITAPHS,
dum
in prselio,
AND INSCRIPTIONS:
near Kirriemuir, and descended from the Inver-
claro, ejui,
tam suorutn
1758,
acieui,
non procul hinc, incliuamente, manu, voce, et exeinplo

anno
quharity family.
His wife was a daughter of
restituebat, puLîians ut heroas deoet, occubuit,
Strachan of Bridgeton, and a niece of Thornton.
meuse Oct."
of Eurl
Their only son, George, married a daughter of

William, Herediof Scotland,
[To Jajies Keith, son

tary Marischal of the
Kingdom
and
Douglas of Barras and, from the share which Ogilvy and his lady had in saving the Kegalia,
;
Mary Drummond, Commander-in-Chief of the Army of Frederick, King of Prussia, a man distinguished
for his primitive character and military qualities, who, while he was striving by voice and example,
when
in charge of
Dunottar Castle, he was created

ii.
;
a baronet (Nisbet,
infra, p. 170).
About
thirty-five years after Ogilvy's gallant
to revive the drooping courage of his troops in an
defence of Dunottar Castle, a hundred and sixtyseven men, women, and children were brought
action fought not far from this spot, fell lighting
with heroic bravery, in the month
of Oct. 1758.]
from the west

of its
of Scotland,
and imprisoned
in
one
dungeons, for their adherence to the Coveiv.) Nine of them died and a plain head-stone, with inscrip-
The Marischal
upon the
latter of
aisle,
and a mutilated stone, which are the supporters of
nant (Wodrow's Hist.,

at Dunottar,
the family arms, the initials E. K., the date of 1635,
tion in interlaced capitals,

their death
:
bears this record of
with the words
dochtek
are the only traces of the
if
DEPARTET
marble
gate.
Keiths in Dunottar church-yard,

slab, built into the
we except a
left of
HERE
lAMES
LYES
lOHN
. .
STOT
lAMES
.
ATCHISON
.
dyke on the
:
the
The
slab
is
thus inscribed
D. 0. M.
S. [et]
Memorise Elizabeth.^ Keith,

Georgius M'Kenzie, miestis-
eximise virtutis et vera geuerositatis, quae obijt
trigesimo Mali 1695.
simus conjunx, [ponendum] curavit. [Sacred to God the Best and Greatest, and to the
memory
of
Elizabeth Keith, a lady
of
virtue and truly honourable birth,
who
eminent died on
dis-
RUSSELL & WILLIAM BROUN AND WHOSE NAME WEE HAVE NOT GOTTEN AND TWO WOMEN WHOSE NAMES ALSO WEE KNOW NOT AND TWO WHO PERISHED COMEING DOUNE THE ROCK ONE WHOSE NAME WAS lAMES WATSON THE OTHER NOT KNOWN WHO ALL DIED PRISONERS IN DUNNOTTAR CASTLE ANNO 1685 FOR THEIR ADHERENCE TO THE WORD OF GOD AND SCOTLANDS COVENANTED WORK OF REFORMATION REV
. .
ONE
'.
the 30th May, 1695.

erected.]
George M'Kenzie, her
JJ
CH
12 VERSE
consolate husband, caused this
monument
to be
well-sculptured skull occupies a niche on the

;
It was in 1793, when on a visit to the Rev. Mr Walker, that the future Sir Walter Scott " saw
right of the church-yard gate
and a grave-stone, which long formed a step to the church door,

presents the date of
IG-iO,
for
the
first
and
last
time,
Peter Paterson,
the living Old Mortality,'"

in
who was
then engaged
and
aisle,
the
words
retouching this inscription (Lockhart's Life

i.
AKCHIBALD BISSED ANE HONEST MAN

Adjoining the Marischal borately carved stone bears
Heir
lyes
of Scott,
210.)
A table-shaped stone bears the

Mr
Walker, also those of
his
flat
and
ela-
name
In
of the said
:
parents
William Ogilvy
famovs and worthy gentillmaa of Lvmger, and Catharin Stka-
memory
of the
Rev. James
Walker, who was

1736 to 1772,
Also, of their
minister of this parish from a.d.
QViiAN his spovs. He being 76 yeirs of age he departed his lyfe in peace 3 Jany. 1650, & shee being 89 yeirs of age departed hir lyfe the 28 of
Febr. 1651.
where he died aged 66

his spouse,
and
of
Margaret Shank,
who
died a.d.
1769.
only son, the Rev. James
Walker, who succeeded

same
parish,
his father as minister of the
Mr
linns),
Ogilvy of Lumgair
(;?
Ljn-fjar, the rough
was the son of the
laird of
Balnagarrow
where he 23d July A.D. 1772, to his death, on the 2Gth Nov. 1813, in the 63d year of his age.
continued from the time of his settlement,
DUNOTTAR.
Heir lyes ane lionest man William Lintovn in hvsband to Agnes Richie, vha derespect they are quite the
siller for sin I"
51
same they
baith tak'
Stonehaven,
pertet ye 31 Ivlie 1644.
From an
Here
White.
years.
adjoining head-stone
Here lyes a virtuous gentlewoman Helen Griegory, spouse to James Scot, mercht. in
husband
to to
lies Tiios.
Herdman,
principal
1st
Mary
Earl
Stonehaven,
who
departed this
life
Appril 1737,
He was
&c.
servt.
Wm.
aged 78 years.
Marishall, and died ye 31 of
May
1713, aged 36
Abridged
late
William Gregory,
feuer in Drumlithie,
The
following inscription (from a plain head-
stone, on the north side of the Marischal aisle)
died April 12, 1796, 'aged 95 years, ChristianSmith, spouse to Wffl. Gregory, feuer in Drumlithie,
prefaced by a quotation from Psal. xcv. 3
died April 20, 1788, aged 87.
&c.
Mr Alexander Dawson,
of Dunnotter,
parochial schoolmaster
From
To
:
late
died at the schoolhouse in Stone-
haven, on the morning of Wednesday the 13th day

of
the
memory
of
Alexander Straton,
:
January 1S30, in the 79th year
of his age.
Mr
merchant
in Stonehive
he died the 7th day of
Dawson was
for his
a native of the parish of Cabrach,
in Aberdeenshire.
vr-'rifmical
He
attended Marischal College
education,
where he
distin-
guished himself in the science of Mathematics. He was appointed Parochial Schoolmaster of Dunnotter
in the year 1780,
and continued in that
office till
This monument to his ruemory is placed at his grave by a few of his Friends who had a regard for his worth as a single hearted and inhis death.
genious man.
Anonymous
(1756)
1743, aged 67 years. And of Christta^ Robertson, his spouse, a virtuous wife, an affectionate mother, and benevolent friend ; she died the 20th day of Oct. 1763, aged 83 years. Also of Thomas Straton, Esq., their son, who died in Jamaica, May 1777, aged 73 years, with a most unblemished charactei, esteemed by all his connections. He acquir a genteel fortune, which he left to his surviving sisters. Here lies interred Patrick Cushnie, who died 23d of May 1790, aged 38. Also Elizabeth Straton, his spouse, who died the 24th of Nov. 1792, in the 36th year
'.
May
Reddenda ex
terra terra
of her age.
And
their son, the
Rev. Patrick
Sic super nascitur

Sic itur ad astra. Sic transit gloria mundi.
Cushnie, M.A., incumbent
of St Mary's,
Montrose,
who
age,
died 10th June 1869, in the 90th year of hia
and 69th
of his ministry.
[Earth from earth must be returned,
Such Such Thus

in
is
is
the second birth. the path to the skies.
There was a burial place at
THE BOG WELL,

upon the brae, behind the county buildings at
Stonehaven.
passes
away the glory
of the world. ]
Erected by John Ross Hutchinson, E.I.C.C.S., memory of his grandfather the Rev. Robert
Two inscribed
slabs
mark
the spot
Memess, Episcopal Clergyman

63 years,
who
died Feb.
2,
Stonehaven for 1818, aged 90 years.

in
both are embellished with mortuary emblems, and
And
June
his spouse
Elizabeth Ross, who died 17th

&c.
words memento mori. The first quoted has the M. T. in monogram. According to tradition the place was set apart for the burial of
tlie
letters
Of
Mr
person of
Memess, who appears to have been a great individuality of character, and
those
who
died of the plague, a statement which

:
the first-quoted inscription appears to bear out

[1.]
common
sense,
many
anecdotes are
still
told in
the district.
When a discussion took
place on one
occasion regarding the difference between Popery
and Presbytery, he quaintly remarked
" In one
ANE HEIR LEYS SEYMAN TAILLIOVR

. . .
HONEST
MAN
OF
.
MAGNVS
.
QVHA
DI
.
IN
STANEHYVE
IME
PEST
1608.
52
EPITAPHS,
[2.]
AND INSCRIPTIONS:
Wallace
;
but
record
shows that in
his
day
HONEST MANS BEARNES LYES ANE HEIR SONES LAWFWL OKIE ALEXANDER TO ALEXANDER BROKIE WHO DEPARTET THE 12 OF IWNE OF THE AGE OF TVALF AND NYN YEIRES OLD IN ANO 1648.
.
the rock was the site of a church only, which,
had taken the place of the older and been raised over the ashes of king Donald. An admirable plan of the rock and buildings of Dunottar was made in 1872 by Mr A. Gibb, F.S.A. Scot., by whom the Sculptured Stones of Scotland, &c., were drawn and lithoin all probability,
castle,
was from King Grig, or Circ, that the name Mearns (" Magh-Circin, or the plain na of Circin"), originated; and the "Viri Moerne," or Men of the Mearns, as the inhabitIt
of
graphed for the Spalding Club.
the
There are some carved stones at Dunottar,

of a late date.
all
A
E.
triangular-shaped slab (pos-
sibly the upper lintel of a window), dated 1645,
ants were called even at that remote
period
bears the
initials,
W. M.,
with the Keith arms,

;
(A.D. 877-89), had their stronghold at Dunottar, then " Dunforther." This is probably the oldest
and
known form
of the
name
and, in regard to
its
Veritas vincit also those of C. S. E. M., with the Wintoun arms, and motto, HAZARD YiT FORVAHD. Thesc initials and arms
motto,
his first wife, Elizabeth Seaton, the latter of
meaning, the Bishop of Brechin kindly suggests that " Dun-forther would be the hill of the road
refer respectively to the seventh Earl Marischal,
and
Fotlier or
For being equivalent
to the Irish
whom "departed
this lyffe at
Dunnottar
of
Bother, a highway."
fewer, one Sunday, 16 of Junij 1650, aged 28."
King Donald,
Pictish throne,
foes at
is
who
succeeded
Grig on the
recorded to have dispersed his
Fotherdun (Fordoun), and to have died at Dunforther, " where he lies on the brink of the
waves" (Skene's Chron. of the Picts.) It also appears that Constantine, king of the Scots, penetrated into Pictland, in
The Castle of Dunottar belongs to Sir Patrick Keith-Murray of Ochtertyre, baronet but the house and the greater part of the lands of Dunottar are owned by VV. N. Forbes, Esq. of Auch;
ernach (infra, p. 151.) Many years ago fragments of sculptured stones
foeder (Dunottar)
A.D. 934, as far as Dunand soon thereafter (c. 954), it is stated by the same authority, that Malcolm was slain by " the men of the Mearns at Fodre. According to tradition, the sach," or Fetteresso.
;
were found upon the top of the isolated rock near

the harbour of Stonehaven, called Dunicare.
The
rock has a fine grassy top, and upoft

of a rude building,
it
are traces
which some believe to be the

(Sculp. Stones,
pi. xli
remains of a religious house, or of the residence of

a recluse or hermit.
i.
body
of
Malcolm was buried
in a gravel
mound
to the west of the gate of Ury.

that, in 1822, a
It is certain
is
The town
of Stonehaven, anciently Stanehythe,
human
skeleton was found there
in a covering of a superior description to those
generally
met with
(Prof. Stuart's Essays).
The
by the
ruins of Dunottar stand
upon an
1680),
isolated
rock which, long ago, had been almost surrounded

sea.
prettily situated on the west side of the Bay, where there is a good harbour. Stonehaven is a burgh of barony, and became the seat of the County Courts after the suppression of Kincardine as the county town (v. Mem. Angus and
In Slezer's print
(c.
some
of
is
Mearns).
the buildings appear to be thatched, and a flag

displayed upon the tower.
The
existing ruins
are those of the buildings which were erected
by
the Keiths, to
whom
the rock
belonged from
about the end of the fourteenth century, when (c. 1390) the square tower was built. According to story, the tower existed in the time of
Stonehaven contains a tolbooth and the old market cross. Episcopal and U.P. Churches, also a few modern, and a good many antiquated dwelling houses. The house is still shown in which the Duke of Cumberland slept, when on and the following extract his way to CuUoden
;
from the
"
Journey" of a Volunteer, previously
COWIE.
quoted "
(v.
53
p. 26), gives a graphic picture of the

:
away some
of the roof of the chapel,

little
and
built a
housing of the Duke's followers at Stonehaven
house therewith, and in a
thereafter the
We
Laivson,
put up here to lodge at a Doctor's, named who kept a Public House, his Wife was
;
whole house rained drops of blood."

Descrip. of the East Coast, p. 10.)
(Duncan's
to the
lame, and he none of the wisest of his Profession
There was an
;
altar at
Cowie dedicated
but had
fjreat
Quantities of
Wormwood,
Sage,
and
other Herbs, hanging up in the
Room where we
supped
the Dust of which, diffused itself amongst

it
Virgin and the following rhyme, which contains the name of the principal patron of the church, is still preserved among the fishermen at Cowie
:
our Victuals, and gave
no small Relish."
"
Atween the
lies
tairk,
and the kirk
ford,
The
of
river
Carron, which divides the parishes

is
There
Saint Nauchlan's hoard."
Dunottar and Fetteresso,
crossed
by
several
is
The
area of the ruins of " the kirk of Cowie,"
bridges.
The key-stone
:
of the principal bridge
thus inscribed
; ;
.
contains some plain

inscriptions,
tomb -stones.
The
first
two
Theobald Barclay, 1150; Mathers, 1351 Ury, 1647 Cond
1781.
quoted below, refer respectively to the father and aunt of Cosmo Innes, Esq., the well-known literary antiquary, and Professor of
History, in the University of Edinburgh
:
The
perties
first
of these dates appears to refer to the
time the Barclays came to Scotland, the next two

to the periods at which they acquired the pro-
[!]
named, and the

itself.
last
to the building of
Here rests John Innes, formerly of Leuchars, and for many years sheriff-substitute of this county,
the bridge
who
In
died 10th
May
of
1827, in his 80th year.

[2.]
memory
is
Jean Innes, who died 26th June

:
The next
a^
(S.
at
from a table-shaped stone

of
Wit,
S.
NATHLAN, and
MARY.)
is
died the aged 74 years. This stone is erected by John Innes of Cowie, in whose family the
To
memory
Mary
Seaton,
who
18th June 1815,
IX5HE
chapel of Collyn, which
situated within
she served faithfully and affectionately nearly half

a century.
the parish of Fetteresso, and about a mile to
the east of Stonehaven, was dedicated by William,
A flat
Here
stone, at west
lyes the
end of the kirk, bears

of
Bishop of St Andrews, in 1276, " ita quod nullum prejudicium generetur matrici ecclesie de Fethyressach" (Robertson's Concilia Scotise.)
body
Iohn Neper,
life
in Muchall,
who
departed this
seaman the 28th day of

late
March
ro-
The
the sea.
ruins of the chapel of
Cowie have a
cliff
At
the opposite end of the kirk, but in less

is
mantic position upon the top of a
adjoining
correct orthography,
this record of the
death of
:
east wall is pierced by three lancet windows of the First Pointed period; and the aumbry, although much destroyed, is still an
The
another patriarch, and some of his descendants

1799
GK A
.
M.
In
memory of
object of interest, near the north-east corner of
the church.
The
chapel had possibly been sup-
pressed as a place of worship, some time before
1567
(i)ifra, p. 75.)
George Keith let Tenant In Edeslau Who died No the 1st 1798 aged 90 years also Ann Middleton his EsPous Who died Deer the 29 1792
According to Keith's Remarkable Things, the chapel of Cowie was " demolished by reason of
the superstitious resorting thereto
Aged 72
years also ther son

also five of ther
James who died June the 3 1771
man,
called
and a certain William Rait of Redclock, brought

;
Aged 24 years
Children
who
died In Infency
54
EPITAPHS,
AND INSCRIPTIONS
[3.]
Besides the above records of nonogenarians,

four other tomb-stones Calso within the church),
1837
To the memory
for 41
of
the
Rev.
George
present these instances of longevity, viz.
Garden, who
her son,
years was minister of the
Episcopal Congregation of Stonehaven.
He
died
Mary Maix
Thos. Briugeford IsoBEL Howie
died 1806, aged 97,

,, ,,
13th Nov. 1834, aged 72.

[4.1
1825,
1836, 1868,
,, ,,
84.
96. 81.
Elspet Smith Wm. Smith Elspet Donald

,,
1853,
1868,
88, 87.
liis
wife,
Beneath, in hope of a glorious resurrection, rest the remains of the Rev. James Smith, for 27 years
pastor of the Episcopal Congregation of Muchals,
The
shield,
oldest visible grave-stone at
Cowie (with a
:
who
departed this
life
on the 16th day
of
March
and mortuary emblems, &c.), bears

.
1854, aged 52.
This stone has been erected by the
Members
.
of
the Congregation, as a testimony of
^.
IIIC
lACET
VIR
PIUS
DE QUADRAGESIMO
.
lOANNES QUI COWIE
AUCHINLECK
OBIIT
.
GEN DE TOUNHEAD ANNO ^TATIS SU^

.
HONESTIS
.
.
gratitude for the care he bestowed on their wants,
both Spiritual and Temporal.

daughter, aged 5 years,
is
[The death of a
also recorded.]
[Here
lies
a pious
man
of
[?
In the same grave with the ashes of Messrs

of respectable parentage,
in]
John Auchinleck
Townhead
of
Cowie,
]
Thomson and Troup

a tomb-stone,
is
lie
those of Messrs Garden,
who died in The next

tomb-stones
In
the 40th year of his age

five inscriptions are
:
Smith, and Ironside, to the last-named of
whom
from adjoining
ornamented with a Celtic

:
cross, &c.,
thus inscribed
[5.]
: :
:
memory
of
the worthy
Thomson, Episcopal
& Reverend Mr Egbert Minister at Stonehive, who

;
Also died ye 7th of Nov. 1737, aged 75 years. ye Body of Mrs Ann Lindsay his spouse she died
Georgius Ironside, Eccl Scot Sacerdos, in Xto obdormivit iiij Non Oct. MDCCCLXI. Det illi Dominus invenire misericordiam a Domino in
Jilia die.
May
ye 24th 1729, agd 68.
[George Ironside,
Episcopal minister
copal Church,
fell
priest of the Scottish Epis-
Mr Thomson
at Stonehaven,
was the
first
asleep in Christ, 4th Oct. 1861.
and the existing church, in the old
May
the Lord grant that he
may
find
mercy from
town, was built for him.

[2.]
the Lord on that day.]
The next
inscription (from a head -stone) re-
1778. Here lyes the body of the Rev. Mr John Troup, late Episcopal Minister at Muchalls, who departed this life at Muchalls the 17th of August And Pv,ebecca Mouat, his 1776, aged 75 years. spouse, died the 4th of June 1791, aged 77 years. Also three of their children, Isobel, Rebecca, and
Irvine.
whose " genius" lay in construct" which he made from beginning to end ;" and in being a superior weaver of bed-covers, and table-cloths, &c.
lates to a person
ing eight-day clocks,
To the memory
genius,
of
William Kilgour, an
original
who
exercised the craft of a weaver at
Mr Troup,
of
along with his Episcopal brethren
Drumlithie
and
Stonehaven,
suffered
six
Glithnow the same house. He departed this life on the 12th day of March 1837, at the advanced age of 86 years.
for the long period of sixty-two years in
months' imprisonment, for contravening the Act
By
Here That
lyes the
his friends
for
which prohibited Episcopal ministers from preaching to more than four persons at a time, exclusive
of their
own
family.
jail
It
is
said
Mr Troup
carried
a bagpipe to
with him, and that on bis way
ought we know, liv'd and died without a foe. Now mould'ring here beneath that clod An honest man's th' noblest work of God.
man,
thither he played the Jacobite air of
" O'er the
1866
In
memory
of
Anne Edwards,
born 22d
water to Charlie
I"
Novr. 1794, died 11th June 1866.
Erected by the
ABERDOUR.
family of the late Arthur Duff-Abercromby of Glassaugh, and Elizabeth Innes of Cowie, as a mark of
of Aberdour.
55
Mess
right.
Johii's
Well springs from a
rock on the
left side of
esteem and appreciation of her character during the 30 years she resided with them.
Besides the parish church, and the Chapel of Cowie, there was at least one other religious house
in Fetteresso in old times, to
the bay, and S.
Drostan's
Well
S.
is
on the
Drostan
year 809.
died at Glenesk, in Angus, in the His remains were conveyed from Glen-
which a burial place

is
esk to Aberdour, where they were deposited in a " tumba lapidea," or stone coffin, and were long
believed to
was attached.
The
site,
which
called
work wondrous cures upon the
sick
THE CHAPEL OF ELSICK,

is
and
Elsick.
afflicted.
Interesting notices of Aberdour,
ecclesiastical
situated near
the mansion-house of
still
Book
of
;
Traces of
the church
;
remain within the
Stuart
and territorial, will be found in the Deer (Spalding Club), edited by Dr John and of S. Drostan, in Kalendars of
burial-ground
visible, is
and the only tomb-stone, now

:
thus inscribed
Georg Hepburn, indweller was at who departed this lyfe the 2d day of Kouember 1702, and was of age 67 years, who lived
Here
lyes
by the Bishop of Brechin. In 1318, Bishop Chein erected the church into a prebend of Old Machar.
Scottish Saints,
of Aberdour is rated at 28 merks Old Taxation. In 1574, along with the kirks of Gamrie, Philorth (Fraserburgh), and Tyrie, it was served by Mr David Howesoun, as minister and Alexander Ramsay was the contemporary reader, or schoolmaster at Aberdour.
Gilibrans,
The church
in the
in the foresaid place since the year 1680.
" Gilibrans," and a great extent of surrounding

territory,
which, not long ago, was owned by

lairds,
about a dozen different

estate of Elsick, as held
constituted the
-
MAN.
1682
trict,
;
One
but,
by the family of Banner them was created a baronet in owing to the decline of the family forof
The
earliest parts of the old kirk of

;
Aberdour
but the
possibly belong to the 16th century

piscina,
or lavatory, and a hexagonal baptismal
tunes, they lost all territorial interest in the dis-
with the exception of the old kirk-yard,
until the present baronet re-acquired the estate
font, seem to be of an older date. The latter was brought from Chapel Den, about four miles to the westward, where, it is said, there was an-
and mansion-house of Elsick. The more immediate ancestors of the Bannermans of Elsick were merchants in" Aberdeen. According to tradition, the name originated from
the family having been bannermen, or standardbearers, to the kings.
It is certain that, as far
other place of worship.
The nave
of the old church of
Aberdour
is
is
used
stone
for interments.
The
east portion
walled off
and divided into two separate

panel,
aisle,
aisles.
over the entrance to the

bears these words
:
more
easterly
back as 1373
(inf. p. 287),
Donald Bannerman was

in Newhills.
This Sepulture luas erected by

Chas. Leslie, Esq., M.D., Fraserburgh, 1819.
king's physician,
and held property
The
following
is
abridged from a marble slab

:
within the same aisle
Margaret Robertson, wife of William Leslie of Coburty, who died 3d July William Leslie, Esq. of Coburty, 1808, aged 52.
To the memory
of
(S.
DROSTAN, ABBOT.)
died Dec. 1814, aged 69. Their sons and daughter, William Leslie, died 11th Aug. 1819, aged 37;
the burial-
I^HE
Jt.
ruins of the old church of Aherdovyr are
picturesquely situated within
ground, which overlooks the romantic den and bay
Grace Leslie, died 3d March Charles Leslie, M.D., who died March 1839, aged 64.
1821,
aged 32;
at Memsie, 11th
56
EPITAPHS,
Leslie,
AND INSCRIPTIONS:
George, was a daughter
brother to Earl Marischal.
obliterated (between the
of
Dr
who was
a native of Rosebearty, and
Keith of
iruup,
a medical practitioner in Fraserburgh, married

the heiress of Rlemsie.
The name
aUo;.;etlier
The
is
burial aisle of the Bairds of
Auchmeddea
It contains
that of
cession,
his
GiLBKKT Baird.
two Georges) h;id been He was third iii suc-
to the west of the last-mentioned.
three stones, inscribed as below, each of which
present carvings of the Baird arms
and died 23d Feb. 1620, havinti h.id, liy kinswoman, the heiress of Ordinliuivys, uo It fewer than thirty two sons and dauglitL-r.s. was in 1597, during the absence of this land, that James Chein from Peuuan, and others attacked the house of Auchmedden. In a conteuipurury
account of the
ants
affair, it is stated
[1]
HIC
.
.
lACET
HONORABILIS
. .
GEOROIVS
. .
BAIRDE
.
DE AVCHMEDDEN QVI OBIIT 20 ANNO AVTEM ^TAT SV^ 76

.
. . . .
MAII
1593
that the assiil-
honourable George Bairde of Auchmedden, who died 29th May 1593, in the 76th
[Here
lies
the
"clam
to the tops of thair hous&i^, k;iist in
Btanes at the
chymney," and shot the lady "

;
tlirovv
year of his age. ]

[2.]
the claythis, sche being grit with barne

of the quhilk schot,"
.
for feir
.scliortlie
it
is
added, "she
OBIIT
23
DE AVCHMEDDEN BAIRD DIE MENSIS FEBRVARI

.
. ,
QVI
thairafter pairtit with the said barne."

.
In the year 1534

of Posso, in Peebles,
Andrew
Baird, a son of Baird

of Laverocklaw,
and designed
[3.]
in Fife,
.
. .
avchmedden de ANDRE.E SVORVM MONVMENT HOC EODEM BAIRD DE GEORGII OEORG SEPVtTA QVORVM CORPORA HIC FEB 1543 ET OBIERVNT 10
1559
.
:
lAcoBVS
baird
bought the lands of Auchmedden from Stewart, Earl of Buchan. The cliarter is attested
by George Baird
sold to
of
Ordynhuiff and others,

it
ihe
Bairds held Auchmedden until 1750, when

in the rebellion of 1745.
waa Lord Haddo by William Baird, who juinud

first
MAII 1642
1593 .;"... 1620 29 AC ETIAM . ANN^ KETHE MATRIS ELISABETHS EIVSDEM

. .
.
et
ET
feb
12
ER
. .
ET
Mr
Fife,
Baird married a sister of the
Earl of
PROAVjE
[1559
this
James Baird
of
Auchmedden
[erected]
monument [to Andrew, George
the memory] of his
....
;
....
of
George Baird
1593,
the same, whose bodies are here interred, and [who]

died 10th Feb. 1543, 29th
1620,
of
May
and
....
memory
by whom he left a numerous family, none of whose descendants now remain, except those of his daughter Henrietta, who married Francis Fraser, Esq. of Findrack (infra, p. 239.) It ought to be added that Mr Baird wrote two interesting works, one, which gives an Account of
his
own Family,
has been edited by his descendant,

;
and r2th Feb. 1642
also to the
Ann
....
of the
is
ER, and
Elizabeth Keith,
mother and grand-mother
of the same. ]
N. Fraser, Esq. and the other. Genealogical Memoirs of the Duffs, has been privately printed by Major Gordon-Duff of Drummuir, accomjânied
W.
The erector
Banffshire,
monument from which

copied,
the
by a photographic
from the
first of
portrait of the author.
The
third inscription
was high
sheriff of
above notes regarding the Bairds are made up

these books.
of
affairs of his time.
and took an active part in the public He was knighted by Chas. II., and married Christian, daughter of Walter Ogilvy of Boyne. Her initials and arms are also upon the monument.
Auchmedden, which has been hands since 1750, now belongs to Jas. Baird, Esq., one of the Gartsherrie family.
in several
The property
An
aisle
on the south side of the ruins
of the
The
mother
half-obliterated
name
of
Ann Fraser
church was erected by

It contains
Mr Gordon
;
of
Aberdour.
with the
refers to a daughter of
of Sir
Lord Saltoun, who <vas the James Baiid. Sir James' grand.
a handsome marble Gordon and Rose arms, quartered

:
tablet,
also an inscrip-
mother, Elizabeth Keith, wife of the first-named
tion to the following effect
ABERDOUR.
of Aberand of his wife Mary Rose, eldest daughter of William Rose and of Ballivat, who died IS Jau. 1828, aged 49 of their children John, who died in October 1802, in infancy Alicia, who died 2 August 1810, aged 14 Anna, who died 4 Feb. 1822, aged 16
tlie
To
memory
of
William Gordon
;
that John-James "Whyte became
Abbot
of
the
dour,
who
died 11 Nov. 1839, aged 67
Scots monastery at Ratisbone in 1595, and died

in
Germany
in 1629.
The above
in,
inscription
appears to relate to the father of Abbot Whyte.
Whytes tenanted Ardlawhill

1696, under Lord Pitsligo.
and long
before,
The following
the churchyard
:
inscriptions are from stones in
Elisabeth,
who
died 28 Augt.
of
Alexander, lieutenant
aged 16 the Coldstream Guards,

1826,
;
who
died
April 1818, aged 20

;
in Surrey, 7 Dec. 1820, aged 7
George, who died and William, who
died at St Kitts, 18 June, aged 40.
Heir lyes William Gordon, sometyme in Little and Mardeparted Feb. 9, 1724 Byth garet Dalgarno, his spouse, Avho died Sept. 8,
. . .
The
1713.
father of the above first-named
Mr
Gor-
There
is
don was tenant of the Milltown of Aberdoiir, also factor for tlie 3d Earl of Aberdeen and for General Gordon of Fyvie. lie bought tlie estate of Aberdour, and founded the village of New AberJour.
His son,
a pretty complete set of tombstones to
the old ministers of this parish.

noticed are the
initials,
Upon
:
the first
;
M. G. C
I.
O.
a shield
who
died as above in 1839, sold the

It
is
bearing (1), a fesse-chequy, between a crescent and 2 mullets, a boar's head couped in base (2),
;
2 lions
rampant
in chief,
:
and 3 lozenges
in base
estate shortly before his death.
a tradition
also this brief inscription
that the Lieutenant
fell in
a duel with a Frenchhis wyf.
man,
man, who appears to have been a good marksfor it is added that he had previously shot
three or four antagonists under similar circum-
Heir lyes
Mr Georg Clerk and Iean Ogstone Mr Georg Clerk enti-ed person of Aberof Febr.
dovr the 20 day

this lyf the 18 of
1614 years, and deiârted

years.
Agvst 1644
stances.
Lieut. G.'s grandfather died in 1785.
Having accidentally heard of a carved stone in the more westerly part of the nave of the church, and on the site of the old pulpit, I had diggings
The next
stone presents the initials
M. W.
R.,
and the armorial bearings, boldly carved, of a double-headed spread eagle in chief, and 3 leisters
in base
:
made when
at Aberdour sometime ago, and dis-
covered, at the depth of from one to
two
feet,
an
interesting slab of freestone, measuring four feet
nine inches by two feet
but
it is
unfortunately
Here lyes Master William Ramsay, a faithful minister of the Gospel, who was entered person of Aberdour the 2 day of Januar 1651, and departed this life the 31 day of December 1690 years.
broken.
cross,
It
is
embellished in the centre with a
terminating in a fleur-de-lis at the top

foot,
Here lyes
;
Mr Alexander Reynold,
in the ministry,
a faithful
and at the
within a circle or belt, there
is
servant of
God
being admitted
his spouse,
shield charged with three cinqiiifoils in chief,
and
is
thereto at Aberdour, Sei)teml)er 17, 1665, and dyed
a martlet displayed between two cinquifoils in

base, for
White.
relief
The
.
following inscription
carved in
.
round the margin of the stone:

. .
in
August 9, 1691, and Margaret Forbes, who dyed Feb. 28, 1695 : This dormitory which thou sees.
Was
once the object of
my
eyes
Heir lye ArDLAHIL QVHA

.
hone
Qvhyt
.
svtym
.
But now
my
body
is
in dust.
DECEISIT
YE
XI
OF
Oc.
1590.
a letter from Professor Baird of Lyons, to his brother of Auchmedden, dated from Lyons,
In
]\rr
R.'s wife
Thine also death will hither thrust; was a daughter of John Forbes of
Pitnacaddel, by Christian, daughter of Johnston

of Caskieben.
The
writer of the rare verse
is
not
23 Jan. 1603, he remarks " As to the Abbot,
recorded
Mr John
Quhyt, John Quhyt of Ardlyhill's son, thair is half a yeir since T hard he is in guid helth." It is stated (Edinburgh Review, No. 243, p. 180),
Memorise Rnd'
oilli,
admodum
Di Iac. Broun, qui in
meridionalibus hujus regionis parrechiis dc Kilhochnatali, et
Walston, aliquot annos in Evangelii

I
EPITAPHS,
luboribus versatus, liuic
7'"'^
AND INSCRIPTIONS
The Rev. Thomas Kidd, A.M., ordained minister
14 May 1829, died at Aden, where he had been tutor for several years, three days after his settlement, aged 34 years.
of Longside,
Cal.
et
Sep.
1697,
tandem admissus parocbife postquam Christo fidelitate

indefessa
iiiserviisset,
siimma
cessit,
vigilantia
fatis
pridieCal. Aug., 1732, a>tatis 70, ministerii

filius
41.
Monuinentuin hoc extruendum curavit
ejus unicus loannes, pastor Longsidensis.
[To the memory of the very reverend Mr James Broun, who, after having been employed for some years in the work of the Gospel in the south coun-
Kilbucho (his native parish), and Walston, was at length appointed to this parish, and after serving Christ with the 27 Aug. 1697 utmost faithfulness and unwearied vigilance, departed this life 31 July 1732, in the 70th year of his age, and 44th of his ministry. His only son,
try, in the parishes of
;
Here lyes the ashes of ane honest man named Iames Bruce, who lived sometime in Mininy, who and likelife Febry 23, 1718 years wise Iean Brown his wife who died This stone is erected by Alexander Bruce, lawful son of the said lames Bruce, who departed this life May 10, 1705, also Ianet
departed this
;
....
Spence, spouse to Alex. Bruce,

life
who departed
this
May
12, 1759.
Notwithstanding the apparent contradiction in

the above inscription,
original.
it
is
a literal copy of the

to have
John, minister of Longside, caused this

tu be erected. ]
monument
The middle paragraph appears

last
been the
31
65.
engraved part of
d.
it.
Mr Thomas Anderson,
Aberdour, died 1765, aged
years minister of
John Moncur
d. at sea, Oct.
22 Ap. 1853,
a.
15 y.
Robt.
13, 185G, a.
22
y.
The Rev. Andrew Youngson, A.M., 43 years

minister of Aberdour, died 15 June 1809, aged 83.
Ye
readers all both old and young.

will not be long
;
Your time on earth
Agnes Anderson, his wife, daughter of the Rev. Thomas Anderson of Aberdour, died 22 May 1825,
aged
76.
We
His piety, sweetness
of disfjosition, mild-
was like two lilies fresh and green Who was cut down and no more seen. We grew in beauty side by side,
ness of manners, fortitude, and cheerful resignation
We hlled one home with glee

Our graves
are severed far
under the greatest bodily

all
distress,
endeared him to
of the
and wide.
which forms
is
who knew him and

;
set a
happy example
By mountain,
stream, and tree.
power
of that religion
which he taught
to others.
The allusion to
painful fact,
tlio
The
The
site to
last
verse of this epitaph,
" bodily distress" refers to the that Mr Y. suffered from cancer in
such a contrast to the preceding
lines,
copied
from a poem by Mrs Hemans.

parish church was
throat for the long period of 30 years. His son,
Oct. 1839, aged 55.
Major Thomas Youngson, H.E.I.C.S., died 27 Erected by his widow.
the village of
is
The Rev. Georoe Gardiner, for 46 years He was born at Smithston ill Rhynie, A.D. 1782, and died at Manse of Aberminister of Aberdour.
date of 1771
removed from the old Aberdour in 1818. The upon the belfry and the bell was
New
put up in 1859.
A
:
tablet
outside the church
bears this inscription
John Dingwall,
,
dour on the 30 January 1857.
Many
This church was erected by
stories are preserved of
Mr
Gardiner's
Esq. of Brucklay, Patron and Pi-incipal Heritor of
erratic habits
and uncompromising disposition. He wrote the New Statistical Account of the I'arish, and in speaking of the character of the
remarks that they are " strangers to
the Parish, and Charles Forbes, Esq.

of
proprietor
Auchmedden.
1818.
A neat
New
The
district
Free Church was recently erected at

tliis
people, he
Abei-dour.
Earls of Douglas were proprietors of
that fanaticism which acts as a nurse to sedition,
and that pharisaical hypocrisy which serves as a cloak to the most heinous sins, their maxim is, to fear God, honour the King, and not meddle
'
and for sometime after 1408. About the time mentioned Fraser of Pliilorth acquired part of the lands of the barony of Aberbefore
with those that are given to change.'
"
dour from the Earl of Douglas as superior.
A BERD URELL ON.

Dundarg Castle
of which little
59
more than the
through a female on the above named John Leith

Ross,
Freefield,
arched gateway remains, stood upon a peninsula
which juts into the sea. It is said to have been built by Cumin, Earl of Buchan, and to have been garrisoned in the 13th and 14th centuries.
Tradition says that the roof was taken off the
castle to replace that of the old church,
who was a cadet of the family of Leith of The first Ross of Arnage married a
daughter of Forbes of Echt, and died at Amster-
dam
in 1714, aged 50.

of freestone,
A tomb
which was
is
built into the
which
inner wall of the old church,

three compartments.
divided into
inscriptionarras,
had
fallen into decay.
Over the centre

is
where that nobleman lay in hiding after the rebellion of 1715, and amused himself by scooping out a little reservoir, is between Dundarg and Rosehearty, in an almost in-
Lord
Pitsligo's cave,
panel (which
is
blank), are the
Annand
with supporters.
Below
the motto, sper abo.
On the left, the initials, D.A.D., and on the right " Obiit 1326." The Annand and Fraser
arms, with the
initials,
accessible part of the
cliffs.
A. A:
iSI.F.,
and motto,
ET SALUS
it is
are over the east panel.
Upon
the following inscription, which, though but
recently restored, will, owing to the inferior sort

of stone employed, require soon to be
renewed
Monumentum marmoreum
honorabilis
Alexax-
{THE BLESSED VIRGIN.)
KING
of
in 1310.
ROBERT
the
BRUCE
gave the kirk
Elan to the Abbey of Kinloss, in Moray, It was sometimes called Kinloss-Ellon ;
DRi Annand, baronis quondam de Ochterellon, qi i ejusque pise conjugis, A.D. 1601 Margarets Eraser, filia? quondam do de Philorth, quae obiit Aug., A.D. 1602. Salus per Christum.
obiit ix Julii,
;
[The marble monument
and possibly the church was granted to Kinloss by Cumin Earl of Buchan at the time of its
foundation.
the late honourable baron of Ochterellon,
According to the Edinburgh Prognostication

for 1706,
and of 9 July 1601 Eraser, daughter of died Aug. 1602.]

;
Alexander Annand, who died his pious spouse Margaret the late laird of Philorth, who
of
August, and
the
ilk
Marymass Fair was Rudk Fair in May.

to which, in 1380,
held
here in
Over the panel, on the west, are carved
the
:
There was an altar within the church called
HoL\ Rood,
Lcask
of that
Annand and Cheyne arms, with the initials A. A M.C. and motto, mors ciikisti vita nostra. The panel bears the following renewed inscrip;
(whose burial place was within the church),

certain grants of
tion
made
tomb.
money and wax
for saying
Sub hoc quoque tunmlo resurrectionem expectant

corpora
mass, and for lights to be burned at his family
Alexandri Annand de
,
Ochterellon,
filii
dicti Alexandri, qui obiit
et caxse suae conjugis,
The
present church was erected in 1777, within

is
Margaretae Cheyne,
obiit
filial
do de Esselmont, quse
the resurrection, the
which a marble
aged 63
son 22
;
thus inscribed
of
John Leith-Ross
:
Arnage, died 15
May
1839,
[In this
tomb
also await
Elizabeth Young,
his spouse, coheiress

:
of Bourtie, died 9
William Ross, M.D.,
June, 1852, aged 70 their third died 28 Sep. 1834, aged

son,
George, their fourth
and Frederick,
their grandson, died in childhood.
John
the
jine of
Ross, a merchant in Aberdeen, bought
Alexander Annand of Ochterellon, son and of his of the said Alexander, who died beloved wife Margaret Cheyne, daughter of the laird of Esslemont, who died Henry Annand, who left a widow called Marjory Cullen, and who was succeeded by his son
bodies of
,
property of
Arnage in 1702.
The male
devolved
Ross having
failed, the succession
Alexander in Ouchterellon 1505-6 (of which tho Earl of Crawford was superior), is the first An-
GO
EPITAPHS,
I
AND INSCRIPTIONS.
motto, SALVS
naud
have foiuKl mentioned
in
connection with
these hitids.
Alexander, son of the baron
who
The
other fragment bears the

:
PER CI1RI8TVM VIVK VT VIVAS. fi Hewing words

F.
1.
died in IGOl, was served heir to his father in
incised
by
.
.
and the inscription (hist quoted) appears to refer to him and h.h wife Margaret Cheyne. From the Poll Book of Aberdeenshire (1G9G) we learn that the laird of Auchterellou was married, had three daughters, and two sons but the surname of the laird of that period is not given. Anan, or Annund, is a territorial name, and the family were early settled in Forfarshire (Mem. of Angus, p. 288}. where they subsisted down to about 1500, and were
of that year
;
August
Built
of
W.
...
son to
W.
in
F.
of
Tolqu
&
E.
dauf
to Balmain,
1637-
Rebuilt by T. F. of
W. and M. M.
in 1755.
Forbes of Waterton appears to have acquired the property, and to have " finished the house" of
|
Waterton, during the early part of the 17th cenI
tury.
of
His wife was a

;
sister to the first
baronet
Balmain and the historian of the Forbes's says that "she bare to him Sir John Forbes of
Watertoune, with diverss oyr bairns."
long proprietors of lands adjoining the chief residence of the Earls of Crawford.
ellon
James Bowman, builder and farmer, KeMton

Fechil, died Aug. 14,
of
The Auchterbranch had probably sprung from the Angus

and may have acquired a footing
in
1806, aged 85.

15,
Margaret
:
Taylor, his spouse, died Aug.
1805, aged 78.
stock,
Buchan
Katherine
(their dr.) died 1790,
aged 45
through the Crawfords.

I can offer
Of
the " Ubiit 132G"
no conjecture.
in front of the
Stay, reader, stay, remove not from this tomb,
Before thou hast considered well thy doom.
Within a railed inclosure, nand monument :^
An-
To the memory of Keith Turni: n of Turnerhall, this stone is erected by his sorrowing widow. He was born January 20, 1768 departed this life Oct. 20, 1808, and was, by his own desire, laid into the grave of his beloved mother, Elizabeth Urquhaet of Meldrum, born July 10, 1735; died Feb. 28,
;
The grave that next is opened may be thine With patience, then, sustain thy mortal load, And daily strive to walk approved by God, That when thy body's numbered with the dead,
;
Thy
soul
may
rest
with
C'hi-ist,
thy living head.

there are eleven
Apart from the

ginning
j
above
lines,
others extracted from IMichael Bruce's poems, be-
"The curtain
of this grave."
Elaborately
1786.
Also to the memory

a'.
of
his
widow, Mrs
ob
carved masonic emblems adorn the lower part of

the stone.
head, died
Anxa-Margaret Turner
Oct. 1823,
of Turnerhall,
50 years.
The
deen
author of the
says
View
of the Diocese of
Aber-
Mrs Janet Forrest, sometime residing in 1 March 1812, aged 48.
Peter-
(1732),
that Turnerhall
[previously
Eosehill, formerly Hilton],
was purchased for him (Mr Turner) by a rich merchant, who had returned home from Poland to Aberdeen, and was extremely desirous that, seeing he had no children, one of
Several tombstones bear the name of Ligertwood. two of which are respectively inscribed
:
James LiGERTWOOD, born

1681,
in Cairnhill,
5, 174.5.
June
11,
and died there Januai-y
own name should have the estate, which should be so denominated as to preserve his memory. The above Keith Tukxeu is called John in Burke's
his
Here lys in hopse of a blessd Ressurrection, the Dust of John Ligarwood, sometime in tartie, wh
died
Suptmb
27, 1767,
aged 74
yeai's.
Landed Gentry.
fragments, from the Waterton aisle, which stood on the south side of the old church, are built into the church wall. One stone, with the
Sacred to the
memory
of the Rev.
Nathaniel
Two
Grieve, M.A., clergyman of the Church in Scotland, and Incumbent of the Episcopal Church,
Ellon.
He died at x\berdeen 18 Feb. 1863, in the 84th year of his age, and 00th of his ministry.
Upon monuments on
the east side of the kirk
minister of Ellon for 32
:
Forbes and Ramsay arms impaled (the latter with 3 mullets or stars round t!ie head of the eagle), is initialed and dated, I. Y .W J R., 1G37, also the
-.
door
Rev.
Andrew Moir,
ELLON.
years, died Feb.
61
1774, aged 73.

74.
His wife Jean,
died Oct.
MoiR
aged
aged [erector of the

1789,
Their daughter Jean

died 16 Sep. 1816,
(the first
Georgina, son and daughters of George Gordon Hallhead, and his wife Henrietta Hope Napier.
of
tablet],
Gordon
of
Hallliead
was nephew to George,

of
70.
Mr
head,
Earl of Aberdeen, and his wife was a daughter of
M.,
who succeeded Mr Milue

of the Rev.
Lord Napier.
line
minister here after the abolition of Episcopacy),
Leochel-Cushnie,
The Gordons who became
Hallhead,
in
extinct in the male
was father
Tough.
prietor,
Mr
Moir, M.D., of Peterof Tonley, in
on the death of the above-named Charles-
who married a Miss Byers

Through
this
Napier Gordon, were descended from George,

son of
marriage the present pro-
Thomas Gordon
of
Daach
of
Ruthveu, who
Mr
Moir, succeeded to that estate.
acquired Hallhead towards the close of the 14th

century.
his sive estates of the family of
Rev. James Milne, minister of Ellon, died 31
May
1797,
aged
79.
Mrs Elizabeth Ker,
Eslemont was long a part of the extenCheyne.
spouse, died 28
May
are
1807, aged 73.
The following
upon monuments on the west

:
The
iii.,
Antiquities of Aberdeen and Banff (vol.
side of the church door
Spald. Club), contain valuable charters and
Elizabeth Gordon, spouse
to the Kev.
Thomas
aged
50.
other information
regarding Ellon, from 1157,

to the See of
in
Tait, minister of Ellon, died 8 Jan. 1804,
Her nephew, James Gordon, son

(jlordon, minister of
to the Eev.
John
when Pope Adrian IV. confirmed

Ellon,
It
Cabrach, died at Ellon, 7 July
Aberdeen the lands which Master Philip held
1808, aged 13 yrs.
The Rev. Thomas Tait, died

1831,
down
to a late date.
in
Aug. 1810, aged
67.
would appear that
1387 an inquest was
The Rev. Robert Douglass, died 21 Dec.

aged 48, and in the 21st year of his ministry.
made conceining
the property of the church of
The Rev. William Brewster, died 27 Aug.

1859, aged 07,
in this parish.
and
in the 16th year of his ministry
Ellon, by which some peculiarly interesting payments were found to belong to it, such as the hereditary rights and duties of the scologs or
scholars,
who were apparently
the forerunners of
Erected by the U. P. C'ongi-egation of Savoch of

Deer, in
memory
of their late pastor the Rev.
John
the readers and parochial teachers of this country. In Ellon, the " soologs' lands" were bound to furnish four clerks for the parish church, able to read
Hunter, who died 3 June

his ministry,
1865, in the 32d year of

of his age.
and the 61at
The Episcopal Church

the bridge of Ellon.
of S.
Mary
" on the
rock" stands on the south side of the Ythan, near
and sing while another part of the same lands had to find a dwelling-house for the scholars. The lands of Candellon (? Candle- Ellon), were burdened with the payment of 24 wax candles
;
stained-glass
window
of
yearly for the high altar of the church of Ellon;
one
light, in the
north wall, bears, in the chief or
centre compartment, a representation of Christ,
with lantern in hand, illustrative of the text,

" Behold, I stand at the door and knock.'' the lower compartment, Christ
lieving a
is
and the lands of Ferley were held by vassals who bore the surname of Flrlly, on the tenure of maintaining a smithy at the town of Ellon.
trict, it
In
represented re-
In regard to the proprietary history of the disneed only be stated that Ellon formed an
It was the seat of justice for and upon the moot hill, or Earls'
lamb from a thicket of thorns, with the words, " I am the good shepherd." The following
is
important part of the great territory of the old

Fkrls of Buchan.
that
in the base line of the
window
16
earldom
Charles-Napier Gordon, died
June
1864.
hill,
A
In
these barons received formal investiture of
marble
:
tablet,
on the south
wall, is thus in-
scribed
of
the earldom.
This mound, which was removed
many
Charles-Napier Gordon of sisters Harriet, Frances,
Esle-
years ago, stood below the bridge of Ellon,
memory
opposite to the
last part of the
New
mont,
and hia
and
Inn. The Earls' hill was the Buchan property which descended
62
EPITAPHS,
title
;
AND INSCRIPTIONS:
with that
century
and about the middle of the 17th

;
it
belonged to the Earls of Paumure
afterwards to those of Strathmore.
^
(S.
fl (J
The
proprietors of the estate of Ellon, formerly-
were Hereditary Constables of Aberdeen, the seal of one of whom, Wilyeame

called KtrmucJcs,
PALLADIUS, APOSTLE.)
is
Kynidy, 1487, shows a key and baton, saltireForbes of Waterton was at one time laird of Kermucks and, during the early part of the 18th
;
FORDO UN
Scotland.
believed to have been one of the
earliest seats of Christianity in the
north of
After the death of S. Palladius,

it
is
who
said
came
to
century, the property belonged to Gordon,

of a farmer in Bourtie, a
''
son
that his
shrine.
Fordoun in the 5th century, relics were long kept tliere

or S.
in a silver
and once a
built
bailie
there,
merchant in Edinburgh, and a rich man." He
The
aisle,
Palladius'
Chai:)el, is all that
"a
very great house," the picturesque ruins a Bordeaux merchant, and a de-
remains of the old church.
It has been for long
of the
tower of which, now ivy-clad, only remain.
the burial place of the families of Glenfarquhar
From James,
scendant of the above-named Gordon, the third
Earl of Aberdeen bought the lands of Ellon and
Waterton, &c., in 1750.

of his
His Lordship died at

;
Ellon House in 1801, aged 80

ceeded,
and on the death
and Monboddo. No stone preserves the names of any of the Falconers of Glenfarquhar. They were descended from William de Auceps, hawksman to William the Lion at Kincardine Castle; and are now represented by the Earl of Kin tore. Sir
second son, the present proprietor suc-
Alexander Falconer
left several legacies for
of
Glenfarquhar,
who
by whom the estate of Ellon has been and beautified. A freestone slab, ornamented somewhat in the style of the old sculptured stones of Scotland, stands upon a mound near the east gate of Ellon. It is commemorative of a meeting of the different members
vastly improved
of
educational purposes, was

last of
father of the 4th
Lord Halkerton, and the
the family that was buried in the vault below. Lord Falconer, who died in 1685, whose eldest son became 5th Lord Halkerton, was of the Glenfarquhar branch and Catherine, daughter of the 5th Peer, was the mother of Hume, the philosopher and historian. A chest-shajDed tomb (within S. Palladius'
;
Mr
is
Gordon's family under their paternal roof,

thus inscribed
:
and
l- IN MEMORIA. THE BROTHERS AND SISTERS MEET AGAIN AT HOME. ADVENT 1862. DEO GRATIAS. J-
chapel), embellished with bold carvings of
the
Irvine and Douglas arms, and the initials C.R.I
The bridge
and was
E.D.,
of Ellon,
is
thus inscribed
which crosses the Ythan,

is
consists of three arches,
dated 1793. It built at the expense of the third Earl of
1668.
svfiitvs
In
spem
beat;e resvrrectionis hie velvti
Aberdeen, the road trustees having previously
make the Aberdeen and Peterhead turnpike to suit the locaUty chosen by his lordagreed to
ship for the bridge.
thalamo svaviter in Domino obdormit dux RoBERTVS Irvin, a Monboddo, Dominvs, qui pie fatis cessit 6 Ivlii, anno salvtis hvmanaj 1652, et aitatis sva; anno 80
:
C'onjvge, progenia felix, virtvtis, honesti
the
Places called the Kirkiiill of Turnerhall, and Chapkl of Savoch, in this parish, possibly
Cvltor, et antiqvis exorivndvs avis,
Hoc cvbat Irvinvs mouvmento. Mvsa et vitiferis Scqvana clai-vs

[1668.
Caatera norvnt
aqvis.
indicate sites of early places of worship.
the hope of a blessed resurrection, perfumed chamber, sweetly sleejêth in the Lord, Captain Robert Irvine of Monboddo, a gentleman who piously yielded up his spirit
here, as in a
(as above)
:
In
FORDOUA^
and in his offspring, a man and honour, descended from an ancient Moreover, family, Irvine reclines in this tomb. the ]\Iuse had knowledge of him also the Seine, famed for its vine growing waters. ]
63
Happy
in his consort
That
to the poor they liberall. to all
of virtue
And wer
Upon
men
ivst.
a stone lying at south side of

of
aisle
Heir lyes a faithf Ia departed the 9

. . .
Bard
De
spovs to
Capt. Irvine, who was of the Drum family, married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir
of Glenbervie.
Robert Douglas
From them, through a female, was descended the well-known Jamks Buknktt,
Lord
]\lonbodilo, author of several metaphysical
Love convgal in lyfe keeps amity, Bvt death doth come and break society Yet heir is love com behold and see. That vith death st got the victory.
;
.
books, and
aged 85.
who One
died at Edinburgh, 27
of his daughters
May
1799,
was the " Fair
Burnett," celebrated by the poet Burns. Another
daughter (who died about 1833, and was buried at Fordoun), became the wife of Mr Williamson,
keeper of the Outer House Rolls at Edinburgh.
Together they did live, together dy. Together ver both bvried in one day ; Together they within this grave do ly. Together they shall ring with Christ for ay. Heir lyes a faithfvl brother Iames Farqvhar,
vho departed
of his age the
this lyfe the 9 of
December
1671,
and
81. LP M.B.
: :
son.
The present laird, Capt. Burnett, is their grandThe property came to the Irvines by marriage with the daughter
of
William Lay
and Monboddo, a descendant
heiress of Strachan
of the old house of
Thornton.
in
Part of Monhodachyn, and other lauds

his
Here lies William Lay, Sometime in Tippertie, W^ho dejjarted this life The last Sabbath of April
1725.
Fordoun, were given to the Monastery of Ar-
broath,
by Robert Warnebald, and
spouse
Richenda.
ISOBEL LOUSEN, 1706 : Deset nor proud she coud not endure,
The new
But
church, erected in 1828-9, stands to
aisle.
still
a mouther to the poor.

wife, 1764
:
the north of the old
Upoi> the bell

1835.
George Watson's
Thomas Meares, London Foundhy,
This dust which
now
obscurely
lies.
A marble
In memory
slab in the lobby,

is
above the north

:
Once animated was by one
door of the tower,

of
thus inscribed
Whose amiable
Seldom,
if
qualities
ever,
were outshone.
43
:
Alexander Crombie
of Phesdo,
who
lived
much
respected and beloved, and died
David Walker,
d. 1772, a.
deeply regretted, Nov. 21, 1832, aged 66 years.
In him the Poor of this parish lost a most generous

benefactor.
This dust which here doth rest in sacred peace. Once lodg'd a soul eurich'd with every grace
;
A safe
companion, and a friend approv'd.
Mr Crombie, who was an advocate in Aberdeen,

bought Phesdo and Thornton.
In death regretted, and in life belov'd. Well pleased. Heaven crown'd his virtues with
success,
He was
is
succeeded
author of
by
the
of
his
cousin-german,
&c.,
Dr Crombie.
Gymnasium,
Thornton.
whose eldest son Phesdo became, by purchase, the

laird
now
property of the late Sir John Gladstone, bart.

[in
And soon receiv'd him to the seats of bliss At life's mid age he gain'd that happy shore, Whei-e friends unite, & death can part no more. David Watson, by his widow, Jean Milne, who
;
churchyard] :
composed these
Deeply the
lines,
1825
Heir lyes a faithfvl brother Thomas Crol, vho departed the 27 of April 1678, of age 81 and his spovs Christian Covt;', de. Ap. 28, 1608, ag. 72 :
;
Widow and the children mourn The best of husbands, & the Father kind Their earthly joys & hopes were from them
;
torn,
Theirs non in qvestion this will
call.
When
he to dust his mortal frame resigu'd.

46,
Which
I write
on their dvst,
David Glass, mason, aged
"died
in conse-
64
EPITAPHS,
of a fall
AND INSCRIPTIONS:
it
from the old church when taking
demolished about 1802.

lating to the
Some carved
still
stones re-
down on
the 17th April 1828." a table-shaped stone on
Wi-sharts are
to
be seen at
Upon
church
:
north side of
Pitarrow.
of
lands by Carnegie of Kinnaird in
The Wisharts were succeeded in these Angus and Sir

;
Here are interred the remains
Dr James
James (great-grandfather
of the present Earl of
died 26 Dec. 1797, Also of Mrs Axne Grahame, his wife, who died 6 Aiigt. 1815, in the 63d year of her age. Erected by their son James
of Whiteriggs,
Badenoch
who
Southesk), sold Pitarrow to a younger brother,
in the 54th year of his age.
George, one of whose descendants resold the lands

to
Mr On
Crorabie, late of Phesdo.
north wall of parish school, formerly on

:
Badenoch
of
Arthurhouse.
grandfatlier to
south wall of old church

the present
And on the
of
Dr
B.,
who was
J. Badenocli-Nicolson, yr. of Glenbervie, married
Under the fiat stone, 5 feet south from this wall, lies the body of James Leith of Whiteriggs, who
died 20 Feb. 1788, aged 63.
of that stone, lies the
a daughter of the laird of JMorphie, sister to
Lady
south side
Arbuthnott.
body
Margaret Young,
The
Alex. Milne, A.M., who, having been 46 years

schoolmaster of Fordoun, died 16 Dec. 1812, aged 72.
his wife,
who
died 6 April 1783, aged 58.
virtue of their lives
made
their deaths lamented,
Upon
flat
stone
Erected by
merchant, Canada.
and
this stone is in gratitude erected to their
Captn. James Leslie, 15th Pêgt. of Foot, died

at Kair, April his son,
1,
mories by their children.

the body of
meThere are also interred
James
Leslie,
Within a
railed enclosure,
:
on the
left side of
churchyard gate
Margaret Hacket, his mother, who And Doctor Charles died in April 1765, aged 56. Leith, his brother, who died 6 of May 1731, aged 56. And also of two of his children, PiAMSAY Leith, and Leith, who died in infancy.
James Gammell, Esq, of Drumtochty, died at Drumtochty Castle, 15 Sep. 1825, aged 89, and is interred here. Janet Giels, spouse of the said Jas. Gammell, died 28 April 1818, aged 79, and is interred at Greenock. Their son William Gammell,
died
in infancy.
Lieut. -Gen.
A
who
and
stone, within
an iron-railed enclosure, at
:
north side of parish school, bears

Sacred to the
of his wife,
Esq.,
;
memory
of
James Arnott,
died at Arbikie, in Forfarshire, 3 Dec. 1799
Andrew
Gammell,
Lieut. -Col.
ique.
interred in Westminster
Abbey; and
William Gammell,
interred at Martin-
Janet Leith, who died at Edinburgh, 29 Aug. 1827 and of their two younger sons, Charles Arnott, Esq., formerly solicitor in
;
A granite pillar,
by an urn, erected
This monument
of Scotland's
first
parish, 21 Sept. 1841,
London, who died at Leithheld Cottage, in this and whose body is here in-
with square base, surnwuntcd

in 1850, bears
terred.
And David Leith Arnott,

Company's
Esq., a
Major
the fullowing
in the East India
service,
who
died in
inscription round the

is
column
India, 19 Oct. 1840.
one and most illustrious martyrs,

of
erected to the
memory
ter,
And of their j'oungest daughHelen Arnott, who died in Montrose, 21

James Leith Arnott, grandson of 1807. James Arnott and Janet Leith, died at Edin-
Feb.
said
George WiSHARTof
Pittarrow, in this parish
and
as a testimony of gratitude to the great
Head
of the
burgh, 10 Novr. 1818, aged 2 years.
Church, for the work of the Reformation, on behalf of which his servant suffered. He was born in 1513, and was burned at St Andrews, 1st March
1546.
'
[On west
James Leith
front of
same stone]
of
Whiteriggs or Leithfield, and

spouses,
The righteous
'
shall be in everlasting re-
Margaret Young
children,
viz.
whose names are men-
membrance.
tioned on a tablet erected near this stone, left six

Jan. 1805, aged 53.
in 1805,
Charters show that Wisharts

this district as far
were settled in back as the year 1200 and

;
Alexander Leith, died at sea in John Leith, died at Surinam,

at Madras, 12
surgeon of the 16th regiment of Foot, aged
that they exsisted
17th century.
down to the The old house
early part of the

of
49.
James Leith, died
Nov. 1829,
Pitarrow was
a Major-General in the service of the East India
FORDOUNECHT.
Janet Leith, or Arnott, Company, aged 65. wife of James Arnott, mentioned on tlie other side,
died at Edinburgh,
65
The Luther, which

washes
church stands.
is
bridged in various places,

hill
the base of the

It flows
upon which
the
dell,
aged
73,
leaving
a family.
through a pretty
Leith, died at Edinburgh, March 13, aged 77. Elizabeth Leith, died at EdinErected by the burgh 29 April 1841, aged 81. three surviving children of the said James Arnott
Margaket
1835,
the beauties of which are celebrated in Beattie's Minstrel, the poet having been schoolmaster here.
The burying-place
of the old
of
Chapelyard
(S.
Cathertwo small
ine), on the west side of the parish, near the site
Mr Leith of
bouglit
and Janet Leith. Whiteriggs was father of MajorGeneral James Leitb, long Judge AdvocateGeneral in the East Indies.
AN'hiteriggs,
town
of Kincardine, contains
" Judge
it
Leith"
and gave
the
name
head stones, bearing respectively these names and and William dates : AViLLiAM Rdss, 1739 Taylor, 1786. It is marked by a few trees,
;
of
Leithfield.
His nephew, James Arnott, W.S.,
and an enclosing
wall.
succeeded.
relict of the Eev. Lewis Eeid, Manse of Fordoun, aged 88. The Revd. Alexander Leslie, minister at Fordoun, died Sep. 15, 1807, in the 74 year of his age, and 49th of his ministry. Margaret Reid, relict of the Eevd.
Janet Eraser,
1798,
In 1707, Sir D. Carnegy of Pitarrow had a grant (Acta Pari., xi. Appx. 144), to hold two fairs, in addition to that of Palladius, or Paddy,
minister at Strachan, died at
26 Jan.
which were named respectively Cammock and S. first to be held on the last Tuesday of May, the other on the 3d Tuesday of June.
John's the
Another
fair,
called
Lady
Market, was held at
Alexander Leslie, died at Fordoun, June 20, 1829, Their daughter Grace, in the 92d year of her age. died at Manse of Fordoun, Dec. 23, 1837, aged 62. Their daughter Janet, died at Bathlodge, 18 June 1850, aged 80 ; Their daughter Eliza, relict of William Lindsay of Oatlands, died at Aberdeen, 22 July 1855, aged S3 and the Revd. James,
;
the kirk of Fordoun on 6 July.
A somewhat
odd case
of obstructing the design-
ing of a manse and glebe took place at Fordoun

in 1601, as fully set forth in Pitcairn's
Trials, vol.
ii.
Crim.
p. 362.
D.D., their son, died at ilathlodge, 20 March 1858, aged 94, having resigned his charge at Fordoun, in
1843, after being minister there for 55 years.
The
parish of Fordoun contains
many
interest(S.
ing historical and topographical features, such as

the ruins of the royal residence of Kincardine
Castle,
FINCAN, VIRGIN.)
granted
THOMAS, son of Malcolm of Lundin,

the
the sculptured stone at S. Palladius'

;
the church of Eych, Hachtis, or Heijth, to
chapel, &c.
as elsewhere described
by the writer
of these notes.
The Fordoun portion of the parish has been Arbuthnott property from at least 1608. According to the Aberdeen Breviary, the Pictish Saint
monks of Scone, about 1220. The present parish church was built about 1804, when Mr Forbes of Echt gave a new bell
1783.
in
Erchard was
a native of this parish
exchange for the old one, which was dated This bell was preserved at Dun Echt House until lately, when it was accidentally
broken.
I'he front of the loft of the old kirk
panels,
and
it
it is
generally agreed that
John
of
Fordun,
author of the Scotichronicon, was connected with
was ornamented with carved

Cottage.
[in
some
of
by birth or residence. Lord RIONBODDO, previously referred to, and James Beattie, professor of Natural History in
either
which, dated 1688, are preserved at Whitehill
churchyard] :
lies
Marischal College, Aberdeen, were also natives

of
I.E :M.L.
Bellabeg,
Here
Iohn Elphinston,
this life the 10th
late of
Fordoun.
who departed
day
of
G6
EPITAPHS,
Also
life
AND INSCRIPTIONS
having been heard
at,
Oct. 1742, aged 70 years.
Mary
the
Leslie, his
or near the
to
foretell
Barmakin,
the coming
I.,
spouse,
17
,
who
departed this
years.
day
of
which
were
supposed
aged
Likewise Jean Elpiiinston,

this life the Gth
struggle of the hapless reign of Charles

told in Gordon's Scots Affairs (vol.
i.,
are
their daughter,
of
who departed
day
pp. 56-8.)
February 1752, aged 29 years.

sold the small estate of Bel-
Elphiustone, who
(S.
There was anciently a chapel at Munksecht ), now Monecht.
labeg, in Strathdou, to Forbes of
Newe,
is
said
Thomas, or Thorn of
the
Loch^ a natural son of

is
to have gone to the Mill town
of Culairlie, in
Alex. Forbes of Brux (Alistcr Cam),
said to
Echt, to reside with a daughter

to the farmer.
who was married

The Elphin-
The date
of his wife's death has
have acquired Echt by marrying INIarjory Stewart, the heiress, and neice of the Earl of Mar, 1437-60.
never been cut upon the stone.
The
estate of
stones of Bellabeg are supposed to have been de-
say, heir apparent to the
Echt now belongs to Lord LindEarldom of Crawford,
scended from the Lords Eljjhinstone,
who
held
Kildrumy and other lands on the Don,

Erected to the
memory of William Smith, A. M.
who
In 1829 he completed his studies at the Divinity Hall of the U. S. Church, where he displayed talents calculated
died 21 October 1830, aged 22.
to inspire
and author of the Lives of the Lindsays, &o. Dun Echt House, an elegant castellated mansion, has been recently erected by Lord Lindsay, almost under the shadow of the Barmakin.
in the church,
:
hopes of future eminence and usefulness had it pleased the Lord to sj)are iim Ere yet his lips proclaim'd to guilty men That Grace Divine which he had liv'd upon, The silver cord Avas loosed Affection mourns An only Son, an only Brother, dead. The church below, a choisest Jewel lost. And Friendship, all bereaved, adores, and weeps.
;
(S.
COLUMBA.)
is
COLUMBA's well
marked by a
tall
pave-
ment
slab,
near the gate to the House of
Glenmoriston, which, with similar stones, erected
Revd. Alexander Henderson, died 30 1813, aged 57.
May
1848,
some years ago, give a strange, weird look to the

locality.
Eevd. William Ingram, died IGth aged 79.

Cairns and tumuli
called the
lie
May
The
family of Glenmoriston bury within the
cemetery of S.
handsome monuments.
hill
Columba, where there are several From some of these the

:
along the base of the
following inscriptions are copied
Barmakin
of Echt.
Some remarkable
This stone
is
erected here in
memory of
the
specimens of the so-called Druidical circles are also in the parish. These, as well as the entrench-
honoured John Grant, leard died 1730, aged 79.
of Glenmoriston,
much who
John
ments which surrounil the Barmakin, are described in the Old and New Statistical Accounts of the Parish. The summit of the Barmakin, which is from 800 to 900 feet above the level of the sea, is flat, and contains, within the upper rampart, about an acre of ground. Theie are a series of
entrenchments, with gates, or entrances, farther down the hill. It is one of those ancient structures,
A.D.
1840
Alexander
Grant,
son of
Grant, fifth laird of Glenmoriston, and his spouse Janet Mackenzie, grand-daughter of Capt. Alexander Mackenzie of Gairloch, ancestors of Capt. George Grant of the Indian Army, has erected this monument as a token of affection, esteem, and regard, with which he cherishes their memory. They died at Bre, about the year 1730. Deut. 32, 7
Prov. 10,
7.
known
as British forts, of
which
class are
the two Caterthuus, near Brechin, and Glenshiora,

in
The tomb
2d son
of
of
James Grant
Grant
of of
of Burnhall,
W.S.,
Patrick
Glenmoriston,
by
Badenoch.
Amusing
stories of
odd sounds
Henrietta,
daughter
James Grant
of Euthie-
GL ENMORISTONESSIE.
murclius, died 1834, aged 66 jêars. His family, James, died at Barbadoes, 1829, aged 20 ; SiMOXFraser, died at Edinburgh, 1829, aged 11 JoHX Charles, E.I.C.S., Bengal, died at Singapore, 1836, aged 28, at whose desire this tomb of his father and family was erected. Helex, spouse of Alexander Macdonald of Berbice, tlied at Dawlish, Devonshire, 1840, aged 34.
;
67
AT FOYERS.
Beautifully situated upon the south bank of
Loch Ness,
in the parish of
Abertarf, near
the
John -More Grant of

of Freuchy),
this
Culcabock (son of Grant
had a charter of the lands and barony of Glenmoriston from King James IV. From
and the celebrated Falls of Foyers, stands an obelisk, ornamented with the Eraser and Grant arms, and an urn upon the top. A marble slab, sunk into the pedestal, presents nicely executed carvings of two angels in altorelievo, with upcast eyes, and the words, "Thy will
old mansion house
John -More, the
i^resent
Grants of Glenmoris-
be done
I am ready."
:
The monument also
bears
ton are descended.

right,
If the
above inscriptions are

revision.
this simple inscription
the pedigree of this family, as given in
Burke (Baronage, 1850), appears to want

Sacred to the
Sacred to the memory of Jaxe, spouse of Thomas Fraser of Balnain. She was the only child of Simon
Fraser of Foyers, and of Elizabeth Grant, his wift. She added to superior personal graces and talents of the first order, the humblest piety, the sweetest temper, and the most devoted filial affection. Her spotless life was closed by a tranquil and christian death, on the 7th of July 1817, in the 22d year of
memory
of
Patrick ]\I'Donell,
M.D., H.E.I.S., only child of Donald McDonell of Aonach, and of Barbara Grant, his spouse. Born at Inmerick, Glemuoriston 1798, died at Maudivie, in Cutch, Bombay, 1825. Erected by his father similar to the tomb placed over his remains by his
brother officers in India.
her age.
Matt.
v.
&
8.
This place belongs to Fixlay M'Leod, piper, Glenmoriston, who died 1842, aged 70. [Here fol-
low the names
of several children.
]
:
Upon
a shield built into the wall
Erected by Peter M'Leod, son of Finlay

piper to Glenmoriston.
1848.
M 'Leod,
monument was a young lady whose memory it preserves, and of whose excellence and worth many interesting traits are yet remembered in the district. The first Fraser of Foyers was the fourth son of Hugh of Lovat and Kinnell, who died about 1410. Elizabeth Grant (Mrs Eraser's mother) was a daughter of Glenmoriston.
It
is
told that the site of this
favourite retreat of the
Glenmoriston and Urquhart

in Inverness-shire.
ai'e
united parishes
places in
There are a number of burial both districts, which mostly bear the
names of local saints. Urquhart Castle, situated upon a rock overhanging Loch Ness, is one of the most imposing and picturesquely situated ruins in Scotland. It had been a place of great size and strength and,
;
(S.
.)
in addition to
the ordinary
means
of
defence
arrangement appears about the windows, by which molten lead,

in old times, a peculiar
known
or other destructive substances, could be poured
upon the heads of invaders. It was besieged and taken by the forces of Edward I., 1303. In 1509, it and the barony of Urquhart came to the chief of the Clan Grant, and now belongs to the Earl
of Seafield.
and Neuyth, both in the e^ diocese of St. Andrews, were respectively rated at 14 and 20 raerks each. In 1309, Robert the Bruce gave the advocation and donation of the kirk of Essy to the monks of Newbattle. The parishes of " Essie and Neva" were unite
T^ff
HE
churches of
Est'ij
in 1600.
The
ruins of the old church of Essie are pic-
turesquely situated upon a rising ground, close to
the burn of Essie, which
is
the most considerable
68
EPITAPHS,
It rises
AND INSCRIPTIONS.
Be
rich or poor, or
rivulet in the parish.

hills,
among the Sidlaw
what you may,
from which it flows through the Glen of Dunoon, and falls into the Dean, not far from the
old kirk.
You'll die
&
be forgot.
:
D. Chisholm's mother (1774)
She honoured as she bore the

of the united parish, erected
Cln-istian
name,
;
The church
eqûi-distant
about
30 years ago, is conveniently situated, and nearly from the two old churches. Within the area of the ruius of Essie church
Her Her The
closet nourish'd her celestial flame
social hours with love & pleasure flew, love no art, no guile the pleasure knew. Unclouded virtue shone thro' all her life
;
a mutilated tombstone bears the arms of
Lamy
:
and Forbes,
also these
. .
remains of an inscription
....
loANNis
C. F.
AMMEE, qvontlam de Dvn-
The blameless virgin, & the faithful wife Long she endur'd affliction's sharpest pain But turn'd her crosses into heavenly gain.
All this her husband,
this express'd,
&
her son
who
witnessed
kennie, qvi obiit 26 die mensis Septembar
D.L: 1603:
Lamies
least
Go
live like her,
&
die for ever blest.
were designed of Dunkenny from at Subsequently the estate belonged to 1542.
Eev.
Adam
Davidson, ordained
minister
of
Essie, Dec. 1702, died Oct. 1720
Bishop Lindsay (a cadet of Edzell),

1640.
who
died in
Lamies reacquired it before 1682. Possibly they were of the old stock, and may have been ancestors of the present laird, Capt. L'Amy, whose father, James L'Amy, was long sheriffdepute of Forfarshire, and died in 1854.
[in
His soul still breathed upward, and a last, Arrived above the mantle's here downcast.
Rev.
Alexander Finlayson,
ordained minister
of Essie, Sep. 1721, died 1731.
churchyard]
now no
:
Excepting the name, and a spring well, there is trace of the " Chapel of the Blessed
at Balgownie, in the parish of Essie," of
is
Mary
;
Thomas White
(1665)
which there
Isabella,
charter evidence in 1450.
We ar bvt earth, and earth is bvt fvme We ar bvt novght, as novght we doe consvme.
John Lyon and
This
wife (17
Countess of
Mar,
in
the time of
:
was
;
man and
every
his wife
diligent,
And in
their dealings just
Who
way was
Eobert III., gave a charter of the lands of the Kirktown of Essy to Walter Ogilvy and his successor, Alexander Ogilvy of Auchterhouse, gave 10 merks out of the barony of Essy, for the
;
excellent,
But now they

Waiting
till
fouudation of a chaplain within the Cathedral
ly in dust.
Christ come in the skies,
Church
of Brechin.
With angels all around, Commanding them straight
to rise
And
be with glory crowu'd.

:
David Wightoun, a. 75 (1717) Below this Tomb there lyeth thus, Fan David Wightoun in the Bush
(S.
A Eabie Father was indeed

As you may
see this
.)
tomb
to read.
l^HIS
church
is
sometimes called Kirhinch, or
In English and arithmetic both
He
could both write and spell
In Greek a great proficient In Hebrew did exoell.
William Gibb, Balkerrie (1737) : Remember man, that against Death,

There
is
M> the kirk on the island, the knoll or inch upon which it stands having been at one time surrounded by a marsh, or swamp. The date of 1651 is upon the ruins of the old church and the door lintel is also inscribed,
;
not an antidote
Upon the surrounding wall D. N. 95. Built by Subscription, 1843.

16
:
NEVA YKIRKMTCHAEL.
A
mutilated tombstone withia the area of the
:
69
church bears these traces
.... YRIES
IN
FOLLOVS
This
is
is all
that remains of an inscription which
locally said to
ly the Tyries in
have read when entire "Here Nevay, honest men and brave
(S.
MICHAEL, ARCHANGEL.)
of the Bishops of
fellows."
Tyries were designed of
Lunan
in the
15th century.
They were long
proprietors of
;
THEmensal church
a
church of KirkmicheU in Banffshire, was
Moray and
;
the estate of Drumkilbo, in Meigle
and one
of
the district belonged, in property, to the M'Duffs,

the old Earls of Fife.
S.
them was slaughtered by Crichtou of Ruthven, 1581. The family was knighted, and Sir Thomas of Drumkilbo was at Aberdeen with Montrose,
in 1644.
Michael's
fly,
AVell ad-
joins the church where, at
one time, " the winged
guardian, under the semblance of a
was never
There were
Nevoys
of that ilk, one of
absent from duty," and which the superstitious
whom,
Nevoy.
Sir David, a lord of Session,
the title of
assumed first Lord Reidie, afterwards that of Lord
invoked to their aid on

of life or of
all
emergencies, whether
death
The
of
church, a plain building, erected in 1807,
stands upon the haugh, on the south side of the

d. 1827, a.
MjUIGARet, wf. 55 : Whilst
David Barrox,
Lieut., R.N.,
Aven.
It contains five
freestone,
monuments. and thus inscribed

:
One
is
of
Oft shall sorrow heave
my breast,
at rest
my
dear
Margaret lies
I've spent
Oft shall reflectiou bring to view,
Here lies the body of Ann Lindsay, spouse of John Gordon of Glenbucket, and daughter of the
Right Hon. Sir Alexander Lindsay of Evelaek, who departed this life on the 9th day of June 1750 aged 50 years. Also Hellen Reid, spouse of William Gordon, Esq. of Glenbucket, and daughter of the Right Hon. Sir John Reid of Barra, who died on and Lilias the 5th of May 1706, aged 52 years McHardy, spouse of John Gordon, Esqr. of Glen;
The happy days
ndth you.
David Barron, on two sons
(1853)
Here are reposVl two goodly youths,
Which loving brothers were Endu'd with grace beyond their

;
years,
And
virtues very rare.
Such was
their life that we may hope, They're gone beyond the sky.
bucket, and daughter of William

Delnilat,
McHardy,
late in
who
died
May
30,
1829,
To
sing
and spend, without an end,
And of Elspet Stewart,

Esq. BaUentrewan,
spouse of
aged 78 years. Charles Gordon,
A sweet Eternity.
A
remarkable sculptured stone, which lay long
Esq. St Bridget, and daughter of William Stewart,
who
died 2d February 1856,
aged 03 years.
in the burn,
now
A slab in the churchyard, which has disappeared

within the last year or two, bore the following
epitaph to the lady first-named in the above inscription
:
stands between the burn and

at Castleton of Essie, ap;
the old church of Essie.
A
and
circular
mound,
pears to have been the site of a baronial residence

at Ingliston, traces of a large
Here
the body of
encampment
are said to have existed towards the end of the

last century.
to the Hon. Lindsey, lady Glenbucket, d Evlack, who in the Sir Alexander Lindsay departed this life on the 9th 50th year of her
.
Alex. Ogilvy, sheriff of Angus, had the barony

of Neve,
of
June
ham
on the resignation of William Cunning(t. Rob. III.), out of the farm of which he gave 10 merks to the foundation of a
of Kilmauris
chaplain in the kirk of Auchterhouse.
Her stately person. Beauty, Great, Her charity and lowly heart Her meekness and obedience Her chastity, and her good sense,
;
70
EPITAPHS,
Do
all
AND INSCRIPTIONS.
portrait painter,
is
combiue to
eternise,
the fourth son of the above

is
Her fame ami
praise above the skies.
Francis
Grant
and the 5th son
the brave
late
The
Gordons of Glenbucket were descended of those of Rothiemay, whose grandfather was of the The Lindsays of family of Lesmore (Nisbet). Evelick (Perthshire), were descende:! of a younger
brother of Sir Walter of Edzell.
Lieut. -Gen. Sir
James Hope Grant,
Com-
mander-in-Chief at Madras.
beautifully executed
monument
of
Aberdeen
granite (upon which are carvings of the insignia
In I0G6,
baronetcy was created in the Evelick branch of The Reids, who bought Barra the Lindsays.
sword and shield cross ways, from are suspended, and inscribed, NivE, victoria, and to the bpitish army,
of the Bath, a
which
medals
about 170 years ago, were created baronets iu

1707.
1793-4), bears
:
of
Another
tablet, within the kirk,
the death of
John Stewart
(of
commemorates the Auchnahyle

in
Underneath lie the mortal remains Alex-^nder Gordon, Lieut. -General
Williaji-
in
H. M.S.,
Colonel of the 54th regt, of foot, C.B.

1856, aged 87.
Born at
and Lynchork family). Captain

regt.,
H.IM. 39th
Croughly, 21 March 1769, died at Nairn, 10 Augt.
who
died at Bangalore, E.I., iu 1835, aged
46
two of his brothers, Robekt, who died at Jamaica in 1824, aged 25, and Charles, ]\LD., 86th regt., who died at Kurrachee, E.L, in 1844, aged 40, &c.
;
also
Two
his
monuments
relating to the
same family
and
are within the church.

Esq., Croughly,
wife
One
to
James Gordon,
who died
in 1812, aged 86,
Anne Forbes, who

is
died in 1818, aged
Upon
a circular marble slab, built into the south
82 (the jjarents of Lieut.-Gen. Gordon.)

second
The
Esq.,
his
wall, embellished
inscription
of
with the Grant arms,
is
this
monument
in 1828,
to
Robert Gordon,
who died
children.
of
aged 47, and to several of
To
the
memory
and
Patrick Grant, Esq.
of Glen-
Upon
the top of a table-shaped tombstone in

:
lochy, lately of Stocktoun,
who died
15 April 1783,
of
the churchyard
aged 74
Beatrix, his wife (daughter
Donald Grant, Esq. of Inverlochy), who died 24 January 1780, aged G9. This monument is erected in testimony of filial affection and gratitude to the best of parents, by John Grant, Chief -Justice of
Jamaica.
To preserve this burying ground, and in pious regard to the memory of Finlay Farquharson of
Auchriachan, who possessed this place since 1569, son to Findlay Farquharson, Esq. of Invercaiild ; likewise William Faequharson who died anno 1719, aged 80 years, who was the ninth man of that family who possessed Auchriachan, and Janet Grant his spouse, who died anno 1720, aged 78. Also William Farquhaeson, son of Inver ....
A table-shaped stone, outside the church,

scribed as above, except that
it
is
in-
bears to be erected
" to the best of parents by Francis Grant of Kilgraston." This branch of the Grants
is
descended
who
also
died anno 1723, aged 30, and Elizabeth Far;
from John of Freuchy, 4th sou of Grant of Grant. The above-named John, long Chief-Justice of
Jamaica, bought the estate of
Perthshire.
Kilgraston,
in
He died issueless, and was succeeded younger brother, the above Francis Grant, who married a daughter of Oliphant of Rossie, and died in 1819. Francis was succeeded by his
by
his
his spouse, who died anno 1772, aged 78 Sophia McGrigor, who died 15 May 1769 aged 59, spouse to Robert Farquharson in Auchriachan, who erected this monument, 1789. The said Robert Farquharson died in 179. William, his son died in Aprill 1811, and Alexander, the last in the male line, died 11 Nov. 1835,
quharson
eldest son
John,
who married
issue,
IVIi-
aged
78.
Janet
is
Fai-quharson,
Piobert's
eldest
a sister of Lord
daughter, married James Cameron, Ballenlish, and

this tablet
Gray.
Lord Gray and

of the
his elder sister
having
renewed by their
son,
Angus Cameron
rest,
both died without
Grant's daughter
is
of Firhall, 1851
:
lie all
(widow
Gray.
Hon.
Mr Murray),
now Baroness
well-known
Sir Francis Grant, P.R.A., a
These bodies low With hopes with
here consign'd to
to rise
among the
blest
KIRKMICHAEL.
Sweet be tlieir sleep, and blessed their wakening. Reader pray for those that pray for thee. " Achriachan, which, for about 200 years, was the inheritance of a branch of the Farquharsons,
71
As
such,
it is
relic of
much
local interest,
and
is
possibly of high antiquity.
A chapel
dedicated to S.
;
Buidget
is
stood near
in the lime-
Tomintoul in old times

of S. Jessie.
and a spring
now (1775)
Within a
the property of the
Duke
of
Gor-
stone rock of Craigchalkie
known by
the
name
in
don."
railed enclosure,
:
upon a handsome
at
granite cross
of Capt.
The
sists of
Village
of Tomintoul, which was begun
1750, occupies the top of a bleak hillock.
It con-
In
memory
James G ordon, who died

aged
90.
Ivybauk,
Nairn, 9th April 1867,
He
served in the Peninsula with the 92d Highlanders,
and received the war medal with seven clasps. He was also present at Waterloo, and received the medal. He never made an enemy, or lost a friend.
one street, about half a mile long, built on both sides, with a market square near the middle of it. Many of the houses are ruinous.
As a
whole, the place
tourists, unless
has few attractions for about Delnaboe, where there are
Near the above

Capt.
is
the following record of an:
other race of gallant Highlanders
Clan Alpine
Robert McGregor,
and 14th
of the
Feucibles,
Battalioji of Reserve, died at
Delavorar, 5 Oct. 1816, in the SOth year of his age.
His sons, Peter, Lieut, l/thregt. of foot, was killed head of the Grenadiers of that regt. at the storming of Fort Chumera, in the East Indies, in the 26th year of his age John, Lieut, in the 88th regt., was killed at the attack on Buenos Ayres, in the 17th year of his age James, Lieut. H. P. 84th [The regt. died at Delavorar, in his 32d year.
at the
, ;
some fine bits of romantic scenery. But were the means of communication less dilEcult between the Dee, the Don, and the Spey, by the way of Tomintoul, it would improve the place, as well as the habits and tastes of the people. A quoad sacra church and manse were erected
at the village about 1826.
The Roman CathoHca

district,
being a numerous body in the

inscription
have
This
a chapel, school, and priest's house here.

is
over the front of the chapel
petram.
deaths of other members of this family are also recorded. ]
Bene fundata est Domus Dom. supra firmam Deo sub tutela B. Mari^ Virginis et B. MicHAELis Archangeli dcdicata 1837. [The House of the Lord is well founded on a firm
Dedicated in 1837 to God, under the proBlessed Virgin
rock.
tection of the
Mary, and the
A rudely-shaped
gneiss,
about
five
through the shaft,

stands beside the
formed out of a slab of feet high, with a hole pierced between the arms of the cross,
cross,
Blessed
Archangel Michael. ]
adjoining cemetery contains several neat
The
sents
tombstones.
One
of these, erected in 1843, pre-
James Gordon. It is said to have been used by the natives for resting their spears or lances upon when tliey came to Divine service and a story is told of some of the more sacrilegious of the Highlanders having killed a priest by the side of the stone, for his being too strict iu demanding atto Captain
;
monument
some orthographical
Trouble
Till
sore, I
peculiarities
shurely bore
izi
'
Physicians was
vain
pain.
God
above, by his great love,
Reliev'd
me
of
my
tendance at church
of S.
Adieu dear friends who laid me here Where I must lie till Chiist appear And on that day I hope it '11 be
This, however, had very possibly been the cross
A joyful
rising into me.
Michael, round
which, iu byegone times,
the people of these parts (as w as customary elsewhere), had assembled for the purpose of buying
and
selling
originally held in churchyards,
commodities markets having been and upon Sundays.
EPITAPHS,
AND mSCBIPTIONS:
the mutilated effigy of a knight in armour.
sibly
Pos-
two
of the figures in the panels are intended
to illustrate
(THE VIRGIN MARY.)

upon Cupar-Augus THE burial-grouud Abbey, which was founded the the
of
is
Luncarty.
site of
by King Malcohn
in
1164.
It
is
said to have
Hays and Hays were descended of an Anglo-Norman baron who settled in the Lothians He had two sous who bein the 11th century. came resiêctively the ancestors of the Hays of The male Errol, and the Hays of Tweeddale.
the absurd story of the
Tl'.e
been previously used as a Roman camp. A monument to a monk of the monastery, who died in 1450, bears the effigy of a priest
incised,
line of the latter
branch
is
still
carried on
but
of
that of the former failed in the person of Charles,
twelfth Earl of Errol
(v. p.
43.)
;
The Hays
the upper portion of which

lost
has
been
broken and
sibly at
the recent rebuilding of
within the last few years posthe church.

state,
aud, according to " the coppy of the Tabill quhilk ves at Cowper of al the Erles of Erroll quhilk ver buryd in the
Errol had their burial place here
When
these
the stone was in its more entire words were round the margin
:
Abbey Kirk
Earl,
thair," as printed in the Spalding
Club Miscellany
anno
.
....
tini
.
monarljfas
.
"at
ciipvo
qtit
.
obiit
who
(vol. ii., pp. 347-9), the seventh died at Slains in 1585, was laid at
miUcsimo
qbaBttngcixtcsima
qtqgcsio
Cupar, beside fifteen of his ancestors.
There
the
Another slab, preserved at the manse, appears to be the tombstone of Archibald Macvicar, who was provost of the collegiate church of Kilmun, Argyllshire, 1529-48
:
were two Gilberts
Hay
buried here, one in
1333, the other in 1436, to the last of
whom
%lit
iarrt
Diis
.
arcijibalti'
m'bir
olim
fragment above referred to had possibly related. In south-west lobby of the church, two marble tablets are respectively inscribed as below
:
prpos
Be
kilmbu
I have been told
ments
of other
by old residenters of fragtwo monuments one bore

: : .
Erected by the parishioners of Coupar-Angus, to the memory of their late worthy pastor, the
Rev.
John Halkett, who
died 21 April 1828, in
the 51st year of his age, aud 21st of his ministry.
asaiUijclmiis
trc
ittontrfuxo
Adjoining the above
The
other
(Silbcvtiis
iic
Iljag
The
first of
someone
of
monuments had referred to the family of Montifix, orMusciiEX,

these
which lauds they had a grant from William the Lion. They were considerable benefactors to the Abbey, and failed in the male line towards the middle of the 14th century, when one of three coheiresses became
lords of Cargill, near Cupar, of
In memoriam parentis amautissimas et percara; quae A.D. 1771, obiit 68 annos nata, filius Robt"s Robertson, M.D., F.R.S., F.A.S.L., Nosocomij Reg. Grenovic Medicus ; Itemque, in memoriam Ann^ sororis sute, hoc marmor ponendum curavit.
[To the
mother,
also to
memory of a most loving and very dear who died A.D. 1771, aged 68 years and the memory of his sister Ann. Robert
;
Robertson, M.D., F.R.S., F.A.S.L., Physician to
the wife of Sir
John Drummond, ancestor
of the
the Royal Hospital, Greenwich, caused this tablet

to be erected.]
Earls of Perth.
other issue,
By
her husband she had, with

of
Annabella, Queen
Robert
III.,
Dr R. wrote
and mother of James I. of Scotland. The other fragment belonged to the Hays of Errol, who were by far the largest benefactors to the Abbey. It may have been part of a recess tomb, the front of which (engraved in Memorials of Angus and Mearns), still remains, as well as
numerous books and essays relatI have been unable to learn anything of his parentage and have to thank H. F. Prowse, Esq., senior clerk, Royal Hosijital,
ing to his profession.
;
culars of his official career
Greenwich, for the following interesting parti" Robert Robertson,

:
M.D., was appointed Physician
of the Institution
COUPAR-ANGUS.
20th Dec. 1790, aud was superannuated on his
full salary of
73
Erected by the Kirk Session to the
memory
of
500 per annum, 30th Nov. 1818,
John
CxISLpbell, taylor in
ster. to
upwards of fifty years' service. During the time of his holding the ofRce of Physician, he was also a member of the Board of Directors and continued to be a member of the same until its dissolution in May 1829. He died
after a period of
;
queathed 100
Session.
Cuper Angus, who bethe Poor of the Parish, and
directed the interest to be ajDplied
by the Kirk
A native of Badenoch, he resided the last
30 years in Cupar, & died the 23d day of May 1814, aged 50. [Acts xx. 35, cut in Greek characters.]
30th Sept. 1829.
may
add,
as
a tradition
sixty
Upon
a plain head-stone
amongst
us,
that he married
when over
years of age, and saw two of his children attain

the age of twenty-one years."
The
following inscriptions are from tombstones
Sacred to the memory of Mr Thomas Bell, comedian, late of the Theatre Royal, Edinburgh, a respectable performer, an agreeable companion,
(erect, fiat,
and table-shaped),
:
in various parts of
the burial-ground
and an honest man. While ou the Stage of life he' encountered some of the rudest shocks of adversity, and felt the chill gripe of penury in many a
checquered Scene j but, possessed of a happy equanimity of temper, a social disposition, and a well informed mind, the arrows of misfortune fell powerless.
Heir lyes ane honest woman named Anna Blak, spovs to lohn Makfarland, who depairted the 16
day
of Apprile 1685,
and
of her
age 61 years.
Heir layes George Malice, son to Androw Malice and Margaret Pinkerton in Cowper, who deprêd 24 day of Apryl 1685, of age 10 years.
On
the 31st of August 1815, the Curtain of
fate dropt on the
Drama
of his existence,
and ha
dear child, since
We Can
not
Betired from the Theatre oi the world, to the sorrow and regret of all who had the pleasure of his ac-
Thy
quaintance.
converss here Enjoy,
Wêll heast to the Where thou shal be,
Happy without Anoy.

Heir laycs ane honnest
Erected by the Dundee Eccentric Society, in testimony of their esteem and respect for Mr Bell, an honorary member.
;
man Alexander Thom,
and of his age 60 and Cristan Christy, his spoves, died the 24 of March
in
who departed
May
1684,
In
noticing the death of
Mr
Bell, the
Dundee
1701, of hir age 62, indvellers in Bilbo.
&c.
1799
To
the
memory
of
George Nicol,
Esq. of
Pleasenthill, this stone
is
erected.
He
died the 3d
Janr. 1798, aged 53 years.
Magazine (Aug. 1815) says that " he went under the appellation of Cousin -Bell.' He was descended from a very respectable family in Ireland and commenced his theatrical career (we beUeve) in Dundee, when the celebrated Old Bland was manager. Mr Bell was a very respectable per'
'
'
Erected
by
the Relief
Congregation,
Coupar
former, an agreeable companion, and an honest
Angus, to the memory of Jajvies Stewart, builder there, who died 3 Aug. 1861, aged 85 ; and who generously conveyed his whole property, heritable and moveable, for the support, in all time coming, of the preaching of the Gospel iu the Relief Church, Coupar Angus.
man."
Thomas Edward
(1799)
:
span,
Each revolving year, Each hour of Life's short
Damps
The
Angus,
1799,p.
the bige hopes,
And points
Jean Porter (who
d.
Mortality to Man.
1800,
a.
45), bore
twelve
following, said to have been at Cuparis
children to her h. Geo. Stevenson, farmer, Balbrogie (who d. 1836, a. 84)
copied from the Dundee Magazine for
221:-
Alexander, Jean, Robert, & Agnes, Are here laid in the dust
The twelth
with her iu the Submit to death we most.

is
coffin laid
" Erected hy the deceast George Small, and hia mother Margaret Husband, and all her children,
Except
John"
74
EPITAPHS,
only remaiuing portion of the ancient
AND INSCRIPTIONS
Ab1829
:
The
bey
of
Erected by Subscription of the Parish,
Cupar stands at the south-west corner of the church-yard, and consists of an arched doorway flanked by buttresses. The remains of stone cofiins, mouldings, and monuments, are frequently found in the kirk-yard. About four years ago a mutilated slab was disinterred. It bore the following inscription, which has been kindly communicated by the Rev. Dr Stevenson
. :
supplemented by Measrs Jn. Storrier, Wm. Hunter, Wm. Gellatly.
Wm.
Don,
Towards the
old waulk,
close of the last century,
or fulling mill of
lintel
when the Cupar-Angus was
taken down a door

bore representations
of the
:
was discovered which objects mentioned
below, also these names
Andrew Chapman and Marget

.
Tod,
DOMINUS PATER lACET VENERABILIS f-IIIC HE lOHANNES QUONDAM ABBAS SCIIANWEL CUPRO QUI OBIIT A D M 1) VI.
. .
.
[The waulk-mill sheers, and the pressing brod.]
sayirig,
embodied in the three

of the places
lines
which
[Here
lies
a venerable father in
SciiANWEL, late of the Abbey of
John Cupar, who died

God,
follow, had, possibly, at the time been illustrative

of the
characteristics
named, but
first-named
latter is
A.D. 150G.]
when
is
not condescended upon.
The
:
According to the Rccj. Ep. Brechin., (i. 220), Thomas (?^ Schauvel was sub-prior of Cupar in 1500, and is a witness to a deed by Abbot John
Campbell regarding the lauds of lledgorton, dated Gth May of same year. Carved stones are to be seen in some old houses at Cupar and other bits are placed round the
;
parish joins
Cupar on the south, and the

side of the Isla
upon the north
Kettius for singin'
Cupar for Bendochy
riugin'
for preachin'
.'
watch-house which stands near the middle of

burial-ground.
tlie
As
in
most
cases, this building
The annexed wood-cut (from Memorials of Angus and the Mearns, in which there is an account of the Abbey of Cupar),
to the
is
was put up during the resurrection-mania.

bears the followiiig inscription
:
It
part of the
tomb
Hays
of Errol, referred to at p. 72, i>vfra.
amsM^msss
FETTERESSO.
The
following inscriptions are from
75
monuments
u-itlun the
Old Kirk.
The
:
first is
it is
from a mutilated
a shield charged
slab, in the area,
and upon
with the
(S.
Hay arms
. .
.
CAR AN, BISHOP CONFESSOR.)

of Fethiressach
and its chapel, the <*t latter of which stood at Cowie (siqn-a, p. 53), are rated at 20 merks in the Old Taxatipn. Both places of worship belonged to St Andrews and in 1246, the kirk of Fethirassach was dedicated by BishoiJ David.
;
fpi HE church
HEIR LYIS FRANCI TO THE LAIRD OF

. .
....
.
SON
1610.
WRY
MEMENTO
MORI.
The
A
Ury about 1413, from Fraser, thane of Cowie, of which thanedom Ury formed a portion. In 1648 Ury passed, by
of Errol acquired
Hays
purchase, to Colonel Barclay (iii/ra, p. 82.)
In 1425, Bishop Wardlaw converted the church of Fetteresso into a prebend, and gave it and its
pertinents to the royal chapel of S.
or Kirkheugh, of St
marble slab, built into the south wall of the

:
kirk, bears this inscription
Mary de riipe,
:
To the memory of theRevd John Ballantyne, late

pastor of the United Secession Church, Stonehaven, who died Dec. 5th 1830, in the 51st year of his age,
The
bell
Andrews. upon the church bears

FETTERESSO, 1736
;
and 24th
religious
of his ministry.
He was
man
greatly
distinguished for his intellectual
endowments and
and the belfry

side.
is
dated 1737.
The church conupon the north

but the walls, which
worth
exemplary
for personal Godliness,

;
sisted of a nave,
with an
roofless
aisle
;
and the
diligent discharge of his official duties
Both are now
are clad with ivy, are pretty entire, and occupy a
ground in the middle of the church-yard. Being situated upon the banks of the Carron, and close to the hamlet of the Kirktown, with its tile and heath-covered cottages, and surrounded by spreading trees, the locality is altogether one of much picturesque beauty. It ought to be stated that the preservation of the old kirk is due to the good taste of the late Lieut.-Col. Duff of Fetteresso, who bought the fabric to prevent its being
rising
young to remember their Creator, and wise and condescending in the edification of all who were placed within the sphere of his
zealous in teaching the
His body lies 10 feet to the north of monument, erected by the members of his congregation and some others, who enjoyed his friendship, and admired his character.
usefulness.
this
Mr Ballautyne, who was a native of Kiughorn,

in Fife, wrote
An Examination of the Human Mind, &c. (r. "Recollections" of Mr Ballautyne, by the Rev. Dr Lougmuir. Abdn. 1862.)
From
a table-shaped stone (enclosed) within
:
demolished.
A
aisle.
skew-put stone bears

is
16
A. F.
and
the area of the old kirk
the date of 1720
upon one
of the lintels of the

of
An
Under
this stone are interred the mortal remains
arched door-lintel, cut from a single
Margaret Kemp,
wife of George Thomson,
block of red sandstone, and the remains of a piscina

(built up), are both objects of
interest.
some antiquity and
fragment of a grave-stone within
and over the north-west door, presents these detached letters

:
She died on the 4th day June 1836, aged 56 years. And also the remains of the said George Thomson, who died on the 15th July 1862, in the 88th year of his age, and the 62d
minister of this parish.
of of his ministry,
patr
nnno
Mr Thomson, who was a
native of Grange, in
shield in
the east wall, with the arms of
Banffshire, left considerable means, the greater
Mowat and
tury work.
the Mowats,
along with the
Rait (?) impaled, and boldly carved, initials, I, A is a 17th cen-
part of which he bequeathed to build and
endow
a church in the Glen of the Cowton.

son's will
This
may have been part of a tomb who were at one time iu (Jlithnu.
to
manse have been erected in terms and in August 1872,

;
A church and of Mr Thomthe Rev. Mr
76
EPITAPHS, AND INSCRIPTIONS:

is
Keith was inducted to the charge, v/hich
known
estate of her grand-father. General
Abercromby
of
by the name
of
Eickarton.
is
Glassaugh. Their grand-son, M.P. for Banffshire,

also a kirk at
is
Besides that of Rickartou, there
now
proprietor of Fetter&sso, &c. {ivfra, p. 17.)
CooKNEY.
It occupies an elevated position about
a mile north of Muchals Castle. This church was built about 1816, siuce which time it has been much enlarged to accommodate an increasing
population
and the district was erected into a quoad sacra parish in 18. A school adjoins the church, and the manse is a little tathe s.-west.
;
Admiral Duff and the lairds of Whitehills, Culter, and Hatton of Auchterless, were sous of Patrick Duff of Craigston, who had five children by his first, and twenty-one by bis second wife. Eour marble tablets, built into the south side
of the north aisle, are respectively inscribed
:
The
original church of
Newhall.
It
was
built about 17G0,
the Sod Kirk, in
Uookney stood near to and was called consequence of the walls and
According
offer-
Sacred to the
memory of
Lieut. -Colonel
William
seats having been constructed of turf.
PiICKARt-Hefburn of Rickarton, who died in London in 1807. And of Mrs Janet Rickart-HepEURN, his spouse, who died at Stonehaven, 2d Oct.
1842.
to tradition, the Sod
Kirk was the grateful ing of a seaman who was saved from a which wag wrecked upon the neighbouring
vessel coast.
[2.]
Robert Rickart-Hepburn, Esquire

arton, died 17
of
Rick-
Witliin an enclosure, in the north-east corner

of the kirk of Fetteresso (surmounted by the Duif arms and motto, virtute et opera), two slabs
August
1837, aged 39.

[3.]
In
memory
of
Catherine Jane Hepburn,
eldest
are respectively inscribed
[1.]
" Blessed are the dead which
die in the Lord."
daughter of RoJjert Rickart-Hepburn, Esquire of Rickarton, who died 7th May 1844, in the ISth year of her age ; and also of her sister Juliet, who
died 22d July 1844, in the 15th year of her age.
Robert William Duff, Esq. of Fetteresso, died Mary Abercromby 22d March 1S34, a<:;ed 66
;
Malachi,
iii.
17.]
Duff
aged
of Glassaugh, his wife, died 65.
6th Nov. 1833,
[4.]
They were endeared
to their family
and
In
memory
of
Robert William Rickart-Hep-
friends
by their benevolent dispositions, and genuine

This monument
is
burn, Esquire
of Rickarton, Kincardineshire,
who
1857,
integrity of heart.
erected in
died at Rickarton on
erected
Wednesday 2Sth October

[Matt.
v.
veneration of their memory, by their affectionate

son,
7.]
This
Robert Duff. The mortal remains of their eldest son and heir Robert Duff, Esqre. of Fet-
tablet
is
by
his
widow.
Lieut. -Colonel W.
teresso
and Culter, repose beside those of his parents. He died aged 71, the 30th December mdccclxi, respected, lamented, regretted by all who knew him.
[2.]
]M.P. for Kincardineshire.
George Duff
years.
died the 8th July 1793, aged two
Erected by his parents in
memory
of this
promising child.
R.-Hepburn was sometime He was the eldest son of Catherine, daughter and heiress of David Rickart of Rickarton, and of her husband, James The last Hepburn, of the Congalton family. laird, who died in 1857, was succeeded by an The first Rickart of Rickarton was deuncle. scended from the Rickarts of Arnage in Ellon,
v;ho were at one time merchants in Aberdeen.
Admiral
Earl of
He married his relative,

by
his son, the
Duff acquired Fetteresso about 1782. Helen, 4th daughterof the Fife, and dying in 1787, was succeeded
A tablet in
north wall of same
aisle bears
above-named R.-Wm., who wag

IMilitia.
Sacred to the memory of Alexander Gordon of Newhall, who died 16th May 1849, aged 85 years ;
Lieut.-Col.of the Forfarshire
Lieut.-Col.
and Margaret Leith, his

wife,
who
died 3d
May
Duff married the only child of George ]\Iorrisou, Esq. of Haddo, and by her, he succeeded to the
Mr
(iordou was the sou of a farmer in Gartly.
PETTERESSO.
He made money
in Jamaica,
77
and
left
an
only-
p. 21.)
Mr
Milne was apiôiuted

{sup7-a^
first
to the
daughter, -who married the late
Dr Thomson,
church of Dunlappy, and afterwards to Dunottar
medical practitioner in Stonehaven.
and Fetteresso
in
p. 49.)
In consequence
The next
inscriptions are
various pai-ts of the
from monuments Church-yard
AKDROV
ELSPET CHALMER SPOVS MIL QVHA DEPART ... OP AGE

.
TO
3
.
The above
of
is from the grave-stone of the wife A. Mill, senior. She died in 1610, and was the mother of the minister mentioned in the next
Mr
and owing to the smallness of the living at Fetteresso, " quhilk is not able to sustane him convenientlio as becometh," King James, in 1601, made a special grant to him of the third of the stipend of Cowie. Milne had much intercourse with Erskine of Dun and his son's wife may have been in some
;
of the elder Milne's services to the Church,
His tombstone has been lately placed upon two stone rests. U]3on one of the rests are the words " The grave of Mr Andrew Milne,
inscription.
way related to that family. One tomb-stone, name defaced, is dated 1600. Upon another slab, of date 1668, these words only
are traceable
:
minister of Fetteresso, 1605-40." The following

is
upon the face of the stone

. .
.... ANE WERTOVS woman

From
other two fragments
:
IEAN GORDON
....
.
HIC lAOENT MAMTVS . KEVERENDVS FIBELISQ' . DEI . SERWS MAGR ANDREAS MILEVS IVNIOR . 35 ANNI3 . MYSTES . FETTERESSANVS . ET . CON. . . . . .
HERE LYES ..... ANDER FALCONER IVNE 1604, OF AGE SO, AND
lACOBVS FEB . ANNO
.
TVELF
CHARA F^MINA GENEROSA VIZ ^RESKINA. CVM EOR' LIBERIS 18 IS OBIIT 12 OCTOBRIS DIE ANNO DOI 1640 .ffiTATIS SV^ ANNO 58 EA FATIS CESSIT KAL MARTII ANNO 1631 uETATIS 44 AC KATIIARINA FARQ'rSONA AVIA PRJEFATI MINISTRI JSECVR' RECVBO MVNDI PERT^SVS
. . .
. .
IVNX EJ' KATHARINA

. . .
EST lAM OCTOGENARIVS 4

10-2.
From
flat
stone
Heir lyes ane godly and vpright man, Villiam Greig, sometyme in Elfhil, vho departed the 27
yeir of his age, 23 Dec. 1648
:
^ INIQVI JET
.
DIDICI
ET
DOCVI
J-
WLNERA
:
CHRISTE
C.I.
Sharons fragrant rose, To give his angels charge to be his train ; This is throvgh Christ his sweit bed of repose,
is
And
he come vho
TVA -^
:
While from the dvst

:
all flesh shall
ryse again.
M,A.M K.^ K.P M.I.M

:
A stone
(upon which the

:
Mowat and Harvey
MEMENTO MORI VITA

. .
LABITVR.
arms are impaled) bears
a revered husband, and a faithful servant of God, Mr Andrew Milne, junior, for
lie
[Here
35 years minister of Fetteresso, and his beloved wife Katherine Erskine, a lady of honourable birth, with 18 of their children. He died 12th Oct.
1640, in the 5Sth year of his age,
Heir lyes a godly and provident man John MowAT, somtime in (jrhthno, who departed 6 of Ivlii 1655. IsoBEL Hervy, his vcrtvos spovs, who departed the 1 of Avgvst 1650.
and she on
1st
Near the above
March 1631, in her 44th year. Here also lies Katharine Farquharson, grand-mother of the foresaid minister. Weary of an unjust world I rest
secure, having both learned
X Heir vnder lyeth in hope of a

tione, the bodie of
;
blessed resvrec-
ane honcste man, David Mackie,
and taught thy healing
wounds,
Oh
Christ.]
vho dyed the j4 May 1068, late indvellar at the and heir lyes his Milne of Covie, of age 40 yrs. brother Robert Mackie, vho dyed 24 Novr. 1661,
age 50 years.
Mr
Milne, junior, succeeded his father in the
R.M:D.M:
A.C.
church of Fetteresso.
IMclvill,
The
latter
began
life
as a
teacher in Montrose, and was preceptor to
James
lionest,
Ovr lyfe is shorte, and tis fvUe of sorrovc, Vere here today, and straight are gone tomorrove.
who describes him as "a lerned, kynd man .... vcric skilfull and diligent''
Two
tablets, within
an enclosure at the east

;
(Diary,
end of the old
kirk, arc inscril)ed as follows
78
EPITAPHS,
[1.]
AND INSCRIPTIONS
30th December, 1791, aged eighty-two.
Also his
Burial jjlace of the Rev.

ister of this parish for
John Hutcheon, minhis wife,
daughter Ann,
who
died 17th August 1784, in the
37 years, died 27th Feb.
fourteenth year of her age.
1800, aged 67.

of
Mary
Morison,
daughter
Abridged
Provost James Morisoii of Elsick, died 11th Aug,
David Hutcheon, advocate in 1775, aged 32. Aberdeen, died 10th Dec. 1832, aged C7. Alexander, their eldest son, died in the Island of St
Vincent, in the year 1812, aged 46.
Mary,
their
second daughter, died 19th April 1704, aged 63. Also two sons, James and John, who died in infancy.
This tablet was erected by Isodel, their only surviving daughter, relict of the Eev. William Paul,
Professor of Natural Philosophy, King's College,
GeorCxE Silver of Netherley, died 25th Sept. 1840, aged 72 Jane Smith, his spouse, died 2d Dec, 1830, aged 59. [3 sons & 5 daughters, aged from 4 to 19 years, recorded dead, also] George, who died at Madeira, 7th April 1843, aged 35 ; John, Lieut. 2d Pi,egt. Bengal Fusiliers, died at Rangoon, 4th Nov. 1853, aged 30. James, died at Bath, 8th July 1870, aged 54 , also three of his
;
children.
The
to
estate of Netherley passed,
by purchase,
Old Aberdeen, in memory of her beloved parents and their deceased children, who are aU buried here
except the said Alexander.
[2.]
some years ago, from the
Silvers to Horatio Ross,

It
Esq., the celebrated deer-stalker.
now
belongs
W. N,
Forbes, Esq. of Dunottar.

lies
head-stone
below one of the monuments
Sacred to the memory of Mary, daughter of Robert Farquhar, Esq. of Newhall, who died May 1786, aged 23 years ; and of Hobert, son of Capt. Arthur Farquhar, RN., C.B., &c., who died 14th
Sept. 1816, in the 5th year of his age and of Dr Peter Grant, sometime physician in Aberdeen, who
;
some ornamental caramongst which is a shield charged with a pair of compasses and a square. It has reference to the parents of the first Silver of Netherley, and is
above-noticed.
vings,
It presents
thus inscribed
Here under lyeth Agnes Silver, spouse

Silver,
to
John
died at Mansefield, 23d Feb. 1837, aged 76 years
wright at Maryculter,
who
departed the 8th
and
of Amelia Farquhar, his spouse, who died at Mansefield, 1st Dec. 1838, aged 69 years.
of Feb. 1721,
and
of her age 35.
From
monument
lie
(enclosed), near west gate
The first
Farquhar of Newhall was Robert, a merchant and stationer in Aberdeen, who married
Here
intei-red
the remains of
Dr William
to his second wife the eldest daughter of Provost Morison of Aberdeen, laird of Elsick. The above-
NicoL, who died at Stonehaven, 25tli Nov. 1827, aged 62 years. Also of his fifth daughter, Grace, who died 18th March 1811, aged 20 months.
mentioned Mary and Capt. Arthur were by that marriage. The latter, who became a Rear- Admiral and K.C.B., died in 1843 and another son
;
died a general officer in the East India Company's

Service.
The next two

is
inscriptions (the last of
which
Dr Nicol, who was the son of a local farmer, and a medical practitioner in Stonehaven, married Margaret, daughter of Mr Dyce of Baden toy, in Bauchory-Devenick, a merchant and burgess of Aberdeen. Dr Nicol had six daughters, all of whom married opulent merchants, and an only
son,
abridged) are from

:
table-shaped stones (en-
James-Dyce,
The
latter,
who
little
entered a
closed)
mercantile house in India
when
over four-
Beneath this stone arc interred the remains of
teen years of age,
made a fortune abroad.

and represented
On
Alexander Silver
of
Balnagubs.
Having
ac-
returning home, he added Ballogie and others to

his
quired a moderate fortune abroad, he purcliascd tlie residence of his Ancestors, the place of his Birth,
paternal estate
his native
and for many years after he lived to it, beloved, esteemed, and respected, as a husband, father, friend, and neighbour. He died
enjoy
in this parish,
county in Parliament from 18G4, until his death in 1872. He was buried in the church-yard of
Birse, in
which parish
his residence
and property
of Ballogie arc situated.
"
FETTERESSO.
Wm. Cruickshank,
a.
79
tenant, Mountboys, d. 1795,
1844
for
Here are interred the remains

of half a
of
Thomas
74
Tait, who, after discharging with faithful assiduity
"He was admitted an Elder of this parish in 1754,

the duties of which he discharged with great integrity
till
upwards
century the duties of a teacher
at Gateside of Muchalls, died there 21st
May
1837,
his death.
to be wished for kindness of Providence, appointed for him.
consummation devoutly by every good man was, by the
aged 86.
This stone
is
erected to his
memory by
remem-
some
of the
many
persons,
who
gratefully
On
hia
ber the benefits conferred by his tuition in the days

of their youth.
way home from church he was

Donald Christie, d. Cameron in 1809, a. 79
1813,
:
instantly translated,
Euphemia Mearns,
his wife, died
without a groan, from earth to heaven.

a.
21st
his wf.
Dec
IS-S, aged 81.

ser-
S3
Jean
In memory of Alexander Fielding, late
geant-major, Sappers and Miners, H.E.I.C.S., a

native of Stonehaven, who, after serving with distinction at Delhi,
" They lived happy in the fear of the Three onk Dhia mor prisdl ; and, as time passed on, their hope in the Branch grew strong." &c.
In memory of William Monctjr, late sergeant Regiment of Foot, who, after suffering the fatigue and calamity of war, viz., in Spain and
at Waterloo, died in peace at Toadstack, in Fetter,
esso, the
and other
seiges
and
battles,
during the mutiny in India, died from sunstroke

at Bareilly, 25th
May
Erected
by
his widow.
in the 71st
It esso
24th Oct. 1816, aged 32 years

the term to
all
was about 1813 that the old kirk of Fetterwas disused, and a new place of worship
Fix'd
is
the race on Earth,

of our Birth
;
erected.
The
present church stands about a mile
And such is the condition No force can death resist,
to the east of the old one,
and within the lobby

:
no flight can save. All fall alike, the fearful and the brave ; Live to the Lord, that thou may'st die so too, To live and die is all ye have to do.
are two marble tablets inscribed as follows

[1.]
From
In
a head-stone
:
memoriam Robert Dutiiie, late baker in Stonehaven, who died 8th May 1847, aged 49 years.
Robert, eldest son
of the above, died 4th
Sacred to the memory of John Lumsden, Esq. of Blairmonmonth, whose remains are interred in the burying-ground of his relatives, church-yard of Feteresso. He died 1799, aged 84.
January
sie,
Blairmonmonth, now Blairmormoud, or Knowis at the foot of the hill of Mormoud, in

Buchau, Aberdeenshire.
[2.]
The
last-mentioned in the above inscription
contributed several articles in prose and verse to

local periodicals
To the memory
of
Captain William Gavin, a
and newspapers.
volume of
his life,
his poetry,
prefaced by a Alemoir of
appeared some time after his death.

collection of
MSS. on
local history,
He left a which was

31
:
diposed of by his widow.
who was born Nov. 14, 1736, and died Dec. 1, 1792. This monument is erected by desire of his affectionate wife, Margaret Garioch, of the family of Mergie, who, having survived him fifteen years, was buried by his side
native of this parish,
in the church-yard of Fetteresso.
Robert Christie, Skaterow,

Paiu was
d. 1856, a.
my portion, physic was my food. Sighs was my devotion. Drugs did me no good Till Christ my Redeemer, who knows what is
best.
had the merit

;
To
Jas.
ease
me
of
my
pain, has taken
me
to his rest.
a Soldier, he from a Private station to the rank of Captain in the 51st Regiment of Foot, in which he continued to enjoy the esteem and respect of all who knew him a steady, brave, and experienced officer As a Man, he was possessed of a most enlightened mind, strictly honourable and
of raising liimself
As
Robertson, d. at Futteresso, 1863, a. 63 : Tlmt James had failings must be confcss'd, But he had virtues by few posscss'd.
benevolent
of a Disposition so mild, inoffensive,
and amiable, that he was generally beloved while living, and regretted when he died.

AND INSCRIPTIONS:
A
80
EPITAPHS,
The Gariochs of Mergie were a branch of those

of Kinstair,
in Alford.
tablet over the entrance to the Barclay por:
They were
followers of
tion of "the aisle, bears this inscription
tha Stuarts, and " Alex. Garrioch, Ensign," was
Auno
1741 couditum auspicio Roberti Barclay de

fratris sui,
among
the prisoners that were brought to Stirhng
Ury, sumptibus autem

dos,
filii
Davidis Barclay,
Castle on 14th
November 1715.
mercatoris Londononsis, ad
majorum cineres tegeunenipe Avi, Colonelli Davidis Barclay de Ury,

Matheris ; Patris,
;
et hasredis Davidis Barclay de
THE URY BURIAL PLACE

situated in Tie Hotvff Park, upon one of the most elevated spots on the estate. It is surrounded by a stone dyke and some trees, and hag
is
Roberti Barclay de Ury, Apologite Auctoris nee noil Matris, lectissimaj ob vitaj sanctimoniam et raram boneficeutiam qua miseris et regris quotidie
opitulabatur.
Exemplum lueidum
;
posteris iudica-
tum
est
moribus
ingenio,
candore, et sanguine
clari, cultores verai religionis erant.
much the appearance of a place of worship. The Friends, or Quakers, occasionally met
it,
in
[Built in the year 1741, under the auspices of
and some
of them, although not Barclays, are
Robert Barclay
brother,
of
Ury, but at the expense
of hia
interred there.
first
The
vault was added to by the
the outer and north wall,

part,
Baird of Ury, so that what was originally now separates the old
where the Barclays
lie,
from that
of their
successors.
name who
of
Capt. Barclay (infra, p. 88), was the last of bis He married Mary possessed Ury.
whom he had two daughters. One them attained woman-hood, and married first Mr Samuel Ritchie, secondly Mr James Tanner. She had three sons and one daughter by her first, and one daughter by her second husband. On 12th Jan. 1859, Mrs Tanner was served " nearest and lawful heir in general" to her father and in 18G9 she resumed her family name of BarclayDalgarno, by
;
David Barclay, merchant in London, to cover the ashes of hia ancestors viz., of his Grandfather, Colonel David Barclay of Ury, son and of his Father heir of David Barclay of Mathers Robert Barclay of Ury, author of the Apology ; and also of his Mother, pre-eminent for holiness of life, and for the rare benelicence displayed by her In in the daily relief of suffering and sickness. their lives a bright example was set to posterity, and they were distinguished by their intelligence, their candour, their lineage ; and also for their
; ;
sincere practical piety.]
D. Barclay, the erector of the

Anne and
the
first
aisle
(second son
of the Apologist), entertained successively
three Georges,
Queen when they
Allardice.
In 1870, she claimed the Peerage of
visited the city
on Lord Mayor's day.

first
From
his
is
Strathern, Mouteith, and Airth, before the House

of Lords
second son Alexander, by his

Surrey,
marriage,
a claim which was previously made

Sir
by
descended Arthur-K. Barclay of Bury Hill, Esq.,
her father as heir to these Earldoms, through his
who
claims (Burke's Landed Gentry) to
mother
{v.
H.
Nicolas' Histoi-y of the Earl-
doms of Strathern, &c., Lond. 1812.) As above stated, the northern portion
be the male representative, and chief of the old house of Mathers and Ury.
of
The
The
The
best account of the BarcLays

ii.,
is
given by
free-
Uowff
is
set apart for the Bairds.
Baiud, Esq., of the Gartsherric bought Ury in 1854 for about 120,000, died at London in 18G2. He erected the present mansion-house of Ury, and was succeeded by his brother John Baiud, Esq., who died at Naples in 1870. Both brothers wei'e interred in The Hoirjf at Ury and the last-mentioned was succeeded by his eldest son.
;
Alexander family, who
Nisbet (Heraldry, Appx., vol.

first inscription,
pp. 236-41.)
is
quoted below,
from a
stone
(1.)
monument within The
Ilorcff, at
Ury
Theobald de Berkeley, born A.D.

(2.)
1110,
lived in the time of Alexander the First
and David
hia
the First, Kings of Scotland.

son, cousin of lain of the
Humphrey,
domain
in
Walter de Berkeley, Great ChamberKingdom, became owner of a large thia county, and from the lands of Bal,
URY HOWFF.
feith,
81
Monboddo, Glenfarquhar, aud other portions

granted to the monks of Aberbrothwick,
married
first,
the daughter of Sir
Thomas Erskine
;
of
it,
of Brechin,
Secretary to James V. of Scotland
donations that were confirnaed by William the Lion. (3.) PiiCHENDA, his only child, renewed and made
additions to these donations, aud her grants were
second, the daughter of

his son
Wood
of Bonuington, to
of
1
by her he gave the lands

(17.
)
Bridgeton and
1th of Mathei's,
Jackston.
Thomas Barclay,
(18.)
by K. Alexander the Second. (4.) Dying without issue, she was succeeded by Johk DE Berkeley, brother of Humphrey, who dispossessed the monks of all these donations, but was obliged to compromise and give them instead,
coufii-med
elder son of George, married the dai;ghter of Straiten

of
Lauriston.
David Barclay,
12th of
Mathers, son of Thomas, was born anno 1580. Polite and accomplished, he lived much at Court, incurring extravagant expenses, to the great im-
a portion of his lauds of Conveth, aud that transaction

(5.)
was contirmed by K. Alexander the Second. Robert DE Berkeley, son of John, had con-
curred in his father's compromise with the monks.

(6. ) Hugh de Berkeley, son of Robert, obtained from King Robert Bruce a charter over the lands of Westerton in Conveth. (7.) Alexander de Berkeley, son and successor of Hugh, married Catherine, sister of William de Keith, Marischal of Scotland, A.D. 1351, and by that marriage added to the paternal estates the then extensive domain of Mathers, conveyed by charter from the Marischal confirmed by King David Bruce. (8.) David de
he was obliged to he married first, Elizaof Dunnipace, by beth, daughter whom he had five sons and a daughter ; second, Margaret Keith, grand- daughter of Earl Marischal. To his daughter he gave a handsome fortune, to
pairment
sell five
of his fortune, wherebj^

;
valuable estates
of Livingston
his sous a liberal education
young.
the two eldest died ; David, the third, became eminently conspicuous ; Robert, the fourth, was rector of the Scots College at Paris ; James, the youngest, a
Berkeley, 2d of Mathers, married the daughter of John de Seton. (9.) His son, ALEX-iNDER de Berkeley, 3d of Mathers, married Helen, daughter
Their son, David de Berkeley, 4th of Mathers, who built an impregnable castle called the Kaim of Mathers, and, according to tradition, there took refuge on account
of
Captain of Horse, fell gloriously at the Battle of PhiUiphaugh. (19.) Colonel David Barclay, the first of Ury, third son of David 12th of INIathers, was born anno 1610, at Kirktonhill, the ancient seat Instructed in every accomplishment of the family.
Grahame
of Morphie.
(10.)
he entered as a volunteer the service of Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, in which he so disof the age,
tinguished himself as to gain the favour of that Monarch ; but called home by the Civil Wars which
distracted Scotland, he was, anno 1646, placed in the Colonelcy of a Royal Regiment of Horse, aud was repeatedly entrusted with the command of an army, and the military government of considerable
concern in the murder of Melville, the Sheriff;* married the daughter of Strachan of Thornton. 5th of (11.) His son, Alexander,
of
his
^Mathers, married the daughter of
arow
Wishart of Pithe changed the spelling of the family name to Ba)-daj. His son, David Barclay, 6th (12.) of Mathers, married Janet, daughter -of Irvine of
;
portions of the kingdom, in
all
which positions he
acquitted himself with skill and bravery, and rendered important service to his country. In 1647,
Drum.
13.
Alexander Barclay, 7th

;
of ^tlathers,
son of David, married the daughter of Auchiuleck of Glenbervie and, anno 1497, sold the lands of
Slains
he married Catherine, daughter of Sir Robert Gordon of Gordonston, who was second sou of the Earl of Sutherland by Jane, daughter of the Marquis
of
Huntly, and was also cousin to King James the
and Falside
to
Moncur
of
Knapp.
(14.)
Sixth of Scotland.
The
estates of the Barclays of

all disposed of by his by purchase from Earl Ury, aud there fixed the
George B.\rclay, 8th of Mathers, his son, married the daugh^r of Sir James Auchterlony, of Auchterlony and* Kelly. (15. His son, David Barclay,
)
Mathers having been nearly

father, the Colonel acquired,
9th of ]\Iathers, mariied, first, the daughter of Rait of Hallgreen, by wliom he had a son, George ; and
second, Catherine
her,
Marischal, the barony of He sat in the Scots Parresidence of the family. liament as representative successively for Sutherlandshire aud the counties of Angus and Mearus. See his gravestone adjacent hereto.
Home, and to John, his son by he gave the lauds of Johnston. (16.) George B.VRCLAY, 10th of JNIathers, elder son of David,
*
V.
above,
p. 14.
Six separate tablets are inserted into uiches iu
82
EPITAPHS,
-wall of
AND INSCRIPTIONS
fol-
the west
the
aisle,
from which the
lowing inscriptions are copied:

[1.]
" vnder guard as prisoners in the lauch counsell

hous" of Aberdeen.
The
[4.]
following
{v.
relates
:
to
Robert, suruamed the Strong
No. 7 below)
The grave of Colonel David Barclay of Urie, son and heir of David Barclay of Mathers, and Elizabeth, daughter of Livingston of Dimipace. He was born Anno 1610 bought the barony of
;
The grave
O'Brian,
of
Robert Barclay
heir of Kobert Barclay of
of Ury, son and Ury, and Elizabeth
having religiously abdicated the world in 1666, he joyned the Quakers, and died 12 of October 1686.
Urie,
1648
Col. B. was
the Quakers.
the
first of his
family that joined

little
He became
farmer, but had

;
daughter of James O'Brian, Esq., of London, and son of Colonel O'Brian of the Kingdom of Ireland. He was grandson to Eobert Barclay of Ury, Author of the Apology for the Quakers ; was born 20th July 1699,. and died 10th October 1760.
knowledge of agricultural
affairs
and being a perrecorded

tliat
The
son of great bodily strength,
it is
he often had recourse to
it,
and
effectively,
not
above Robert, who was of a turbulent and quarrelsome disposition, was fond of travelling through the country incognito. When on
one of these excursions,
at
it is
only to enforce obedience from servants, but to

protect the rights of property from the incursions
of his neighbours.
told that he arrived
Panmure on
a dark winter's morning, and going
The Livingstons
of
Dunipace
straightway to the brewhouse, the brewer,
who
were descended from a second son of Sir Alexander

of Calendar, ancestor of the Earls of Linlithgow.
[2.]
The Grave
of the
of
Kobert Barclay
Urie,
of Urie,
Author
Apologie for the Quakers, son and heir of
and Katherin, daughter of the first Sir Eobert Gordon of GordonHe was born Dec'J'' 23, 1648, and died Oct^'' ston.
Colonel David Bai'clay of
daughter MoUison, merchant in Aberdeen. She was born, anno 1647, and died Febry 14, 1723.
3,
1690.
Also, of his wife, Christian,
of Gilbert
Mr
of
Barclay was
born at Gordonston, near
was an Englishman, and taking Barclay for an itinerant mender of old brass, exclaimed " You are well come tinker, for my Lord's kettle requires mending." "What say est thou, fellow ?" and, with a cudgel which said Barclay in a rage he had in his hand, he struck the brewer over the leg and thigh, and broke both bones. When Earl William of Panmure heard of the occurrence, and guessing it to be Barclay, his Lordship traced him to the House of Fothringham, and there made him sign an obligation which secured the brewer in a small pension from the estate of Ury, which
The Gordons Gordonston are descended from Sir James, 4th son of the 2d Earl of Iluntly, by his wife AnnaElgin, the seat of his grand-father.
bella,
he lived long to enjoy.

[5.]
daughter of James
I.
wife of Robert Barclay of Ury, and daughter of Sir Evan Cameron

of
The grave
Une Cameron,
[3.]
The Grave
of
Robert Barclay
of
Ury, son and
heir of Robert Barclay of Ury, and of Christian, daughter of Gilbert MoUeson, merchant in Aber-
She was born March 1701, and died March 1762. Also of Jane Barclay, her daughter, who was born in 1726, and died August 1750.
of Lochiel."
According to tradition, the Camerons

family of Denmark,
tion of
of Lochiel
deen,
and
eldest
son of
Thomas Molleson,
of
are descended from a younger son of the royal
LauchintuUy.
born March yo 25th 1672, and died March the 27th 1747.
He was
who
assisted at the restorain
The
clerk
estate of
LauchintuUy
is
in the parish of
certain
King Fergus of Scotland that the Camerons had
404
It
is
possessions
in
Kemnay, and Thomas Mollison was long townof
Lochaber, and were a powerful clan before the
Aberdeen.
During
Montrose's wars,
time of James
Gilbert Mollysone and several other citizens were
L The above named Sir Evan Cameron joined the Royalists at Killiecrauky, and
thrice
detained for a short time by the Covenanters
was
married,
his
last
wife being Jane,
URY HOWFF.
daughter of Barclay of Urie, so that his daughter
in three successive Parliaments.
83
Une
married her cousin german.

[6.]
Distinguished by and patriotism, and honoured with the intimate friendship of the great Wdliam Pitt, and
his loyalty
The grave
of
of
Anne Barclay, the eldest daughter
Robert Barclay of Ury, great-grandson of Robert Barclay of Ury, Author of the Apology for the Quakers and Sarah Anne Allardice of Allardice, daughter and heiress of James Allardice of Allardice. She was born 13 September 1777, and died 29th October 1782. Sarah Anne Allardice, who brought the estate
;
other eminent statesmen of the time, he died at Ury, the 7th of April, 1797. Mr B. wrote an interesting paper for " Archseo-
logica Scotioa" (vol. 1) on Agricola's
engagement
with the Caledonians under Galgacus, in which he gives grounds for believing that a great battle
(possibly that of
Mons Grampius), was

near Arduthie.
[8.]
decided at
Kempstone
Hill,
of Allardice to
the
Barclays of Ury, was the
grand-daughter of Lady
Mary Graham,
a lineal
To the memory
Irmes,
of
descendant of King Robert
II. of Scotland,
and
Esquire of
Une-Cameron, wife Cowie, M'ho was born
of
John
in 1778,
and Monteith. Until the above failui-e of the male line, the Allardices appear to have been regularly represented, and to have held the lands from which they assumed their surname, from the time of King William the Lion.
heiress of line of the Earls of Airth
and died at Cowie
bom
1803.
in 1780,
born in
Mary, in September 1809. who died in 1799. James Allardice, died in the Island of Ceylon in 1784, who
On
the east wall of the aisle four
monuments
bear respectively the inscriptions undernoted

[7.]
To the memory
David, Major in the 28th Regiment of Foot, in 1786, and died at Otranto, in Italy, Rodney, born in 1782, who died in 1853, in 1826. all children of Robert Barclay AUardice, Esquire of Ury, and Sarah-Anne Allardice of AUardice, heiress of line of the Earls of Airth and Monteith. The above John Innes was the eldest son of
who was born
of
Robert Barclay of
in 1731
;
Allardice,
Esquire, 5th of Ury, ^r eat -grandson of the Apologist,
who was born
at
Ury
and having acquired
by marriage the estate of Allardice, thereupon assumed that additional surname. Inheriting from his father, Robert the Strong, symmetry of form and great muscular power, he excelled in aU the athletic
exercises,
first Innes of Cowie and Breda, by a daughter Davidson of Newton, who was a merchant, and sometime Provost of Aberdeen. Mr I.'s father, who died in 1788, was commissary of Aberdeen, and 2d son of Innes of Edingicht. His youngest and son, William, bought Raemoir about 1820
the
of
Succeeding to
Ury on
his father's death,
Cowie now belongs

Junes'.
to the
Raemoir branch
is
of the
it was yet in the rudest condition, he zealously devoted towards its improvement the energies of a vigorous mind, stored with a thorough
in 1760, while
The
following inscription, which
cut upon a
knowledge of agriculture, attained by assiduous study of its theory and practice, in the best districts of England. Accordingly, he brought into high cultivation 2000 arable acres, planted 1500 acres of wood, and executed the manifold operations connected with such works, in a manner so unexampled and successful, that his practice became the conventional standard over an extensive district, and placed him m the foremost rank among Scottish agriculturists. By the grant of feu-rights on his estate of Arduthie, he laid the foundation of the New Town of Stonehaven, and lived to see it become a populous and thriving community. By unanimous election, he represented his native county
white marble, inserted into a black marble panel, presents an incorrect carving of the Barclay arms, accompanied by those of Airth
tablet of
and Monteith:
In memory
of
[9.]
Robert Barclay Allardice,
Esquire of Ury and Allardice, heir of line of the Earls of Airth and Monteith, born August 25th 1779, died on the 1st of May 1854, in the 75th
year of his age.
[Upon a slab, which covers the grave] : Robert Barclay Allardice, of Ury and Allardice,
Robert
born 25th August 1779, died 1st May 1854. Barclay-AUardice, to whom the last

AND INSCRIPTIONS.
occasional residence of our kings long before there
84
EPITAPHS,
two inscriptions
In early
life
refer, was a Captain in the Army. be was celebrated for pedestrian and latterly he acquired fame as an athletic feats improving agriculturist. His Essay on Training
;
was a
castle
upon the noble rock
of Dunottar, or,
possibly,
before there was a harbour at
"the
Slanehythe,'^ or Stonehaven.
Subsequently,
when
Pedestrians, &c. (published along with Thom's
the thanedom of Cowie was given
account of Barclay's great feat of walkiog 1000

miles in 1000 hours),
is
now
much more
rare
original jîece of writing than that of his
and Tour to
last ex-
the U.S. and U. Canada, which he undertook in
1841.
Captain Barclay was one of the

district of
amples in the
gentleman."
tious kindness
" the fine old country
He was
remarkable for unostentaand warmth of heart and, in con;
away by the Crown, the Frasers continued to have their prinand one of them had a cipal residence at Cowie royal charter by which the town of Cowie was erected into a burgh of barony. It is also worthy of note that a great part of the road through " the Cowie Mouuth," between Stonehaven and Aberdeen, lies in this parish. Although traversed now a-days by an excellent
;
cluding a genial notice of his career, the author of " Field and Fern" justly remarks that, " at home,
turnpike,
it
had, for
many
ages, consisted of
;
dan-
gerous swamps and gullys
and from the

it
fact of
were very quiet and simple. He was always ready with his subscription for any good object, and every Monday 20 or 30 people would
his habits
these being filled up with native boulders, and a
track of road thus formed,
acquired the well-
known name
It
is
of the
Causey Moss, or Causey Month.
be waiting for him about the front door after breakfast for their sixpences, of which he carried
a supply in his waistcoat pocket.
interesting to
know
that in these old times,

of
there
were worthy benefactors
their
race,
On New
round
Year's-
day he had always
his friends to dinner,
and he
of beef
sat obscured to the chin behind the
which two men brought

slightly
in
on a trencher
some of whom, by gifts or mortifications of money, gave needful aid towards the suj^port of this great thoroughfare. Among others, was Paul Crab, who, in 1384, mortified a sum of money out of
his lands of Kincorth,
For sometime before his death he had suffered from paralysis, but a kick from a pony produced a crisis, and two days after, when they went to awake him on the May morning of '54, he was found dead in bed." Like many other human beings, he found a faithful companion
in one of the kindliest of the lower animals. It
in Nigg, to assist in its
support and maintenance.

at Kincorth,
The road terminated
where there was a ferry boat, by which passengers and goods were carried across
the
Dee.
To
the readers of
Sir
W.
Scott's
works, the Causey 3Ioss, which, even yet, has a

bleak and uninviting aspect, will be familiar under the name of " the muir of Drumwhackit."
predeceased him, he had
it
buried in the old
garden, and placed a stone in the wall beside

its
The
and
Castle of Muchals, about four miles north

is,
grave with this inscription

of
east of Stonehaven,
however, a pleasing
it
To the memory
of R.
object for the student of bygone times,
being an
orna-
Dan, the
faithful
of
companion
f^. sixteen
Barclay Allardice, Esq.
Uiy
17.
interesting
specimen of the architecture of the
years.
Dotr.
Died 5th Feb. 184G, aged
A favourite
17th century.
The
ceiling of the large hall
is
mented
(as that of Glamis) with pargetted plaster-
work, containing the heads of
Roman
Emperors,
;
and and ecclesiastically, the district of Kolly, or Cowie, was of early importance. The forest, which stretched almost from the Dee, to the sea at Cowie, was royal hunting ground and the castle, which stood upon a headland near the kirk of Cowie, where the green mound, formed by the debris of the ruins, still remains, was an
civilly
;
classical heroes of antiquity, &c.

:
also this
Both
admonitory legend
. . .
CEDE ADVEESIS REBVS NEC CREDE SECVNDIS.

the left of the building, a slab, with an inin beautifully interlaced letters,
all
On
scription,
the history of the building past
doubt
.
puts
THIS
WOllK
BEGYN
ON
THE
EAST
&

GAMRIE.
ÔRTH ENDED
HIS
.
85
BVRNET OF LEYLS BE ALR BE SIR THOMAS BVilNET OF SONNE 1627.

. .
1619
LEVIS
north-west of the town, and in point of elegance outstrips most of our landward churches. The
Further evidence of
chimney
162'i, Sir
its
history
is
given over a
walks in the neighbourhood are numerous and picturesque and there is a chalybeate spring on
;
in the interior,
upon which is the date of Thomas' monogram, and this motto :
the south bank of the Cowie, almost under the railway viaduct. It has an elegant fountain, of
ALTERIVS NON SIT QVIS VTILE POTEST.
Peterhead granite, above which a tablet

inscribed
:
is
thus
The
sive
lands of Muchals were part of the extenof
barony
Cowie, which Sir Alex. Fraser ob-
ST kieran's well.
tained from
The Bruce.
They belonged
to the
ERECTED BY PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTION, 1860.
Hays More
of Errol before the
Buruets acquired them.

to the trustees
There
of the
were two SS. Kteran, the one was a

;
recently, Silver of Netherley possessed the
bishop, the other an abbot of Ireland
the feast
lands and castle, which

of the late
now belong
one
is
held on 5th March, the other on 9th
Dr Milne
of
Madras, and are a part of

receive
September.
the property from which certain of the school-
masters
in
Aberdeenshire
well-merited
augmentations to their livings.

view of Muchals Castle
sibly
is
An
excellent
It may be added that S. Serenus, Caranus, or Caiian (the patron of Fetteresso), under the name of Corinnu, is said to have died amongthe Picts. (LiberdeArbuthnot,p.lxxxiv.)
given in Billings.
Pos-
from the umbrageous and rocky nature of

it
the burn of Muchals,
may have been
of old the
haunt of badgers or wild boars, as the Gaelic words Muich-alt favour some such meaning.
Not
far
from Muchals stands a neat Episcopal

(S.
Ternan. Pathick Panter, of the Newmanswalls family, secretary to James IV., was sometime rector of the kirk of Fetteresso, as was also Alex. Gordon, a son of Gordon of Haddo, who succeeded Bishop
church, dedicated to S.
JOHN, EVANGELIST.)
Gameryn was gifted
to the
Jtfl'HE kirk of
Abbey
of Arbroath byAVilliam
theLion in 1189-98,
and was subsequently confirmed to it, along with In 1250, the whole of the the chapel of Troup.
church property, with the tithes of the parish,
Elphinstone in the See of Aberdeen.
Andrew Steven,
of Bishop Forbes of
or
Stevenson, who was

life
schoolmaster at Fetteresso in 1634, wrote a
were reserved to Arbroath, the vicar only receiving the altarage and two acres of land.
Edinburgh
in Latin verse,
The
old church, which
is difficult
of access,
was
published in the Spottiswoode Miscellany.
The Kev. Dr Longmuir

of Fetteresso,
is
of Aberdeen, a native
;
when a new house was erected at a more convenient spot. The old church is quite
used until 1830,
a voluminous writer
is
and among
other publications,
to
the author of a guide book
Dunottar Castle, &c.
a ruin, partly roofed, and picturesquely situated upon a kaim, or slope, overlooking the sea, at the mosc precipitous and crooked part of the coast,
in the vicinity of hills or knolls, remarkable for
The
New Town
of
Stonehaven was founded
about 1760, by Kobert, the 5th Barclay of Ury,
their pointed or
peaked appearance.
As Cam-
who, shortly before, purchased the property of Arduthie, upon which the new town is built. It
is
ruie in Gaelic possibly
means the "pointed kame or slope," the church may have had its name from
it
a well planned, clean, salubrious place, and a
the physical appearance of the locality in which

is
favourite resort for sea bathing.

tains
The town con-
situated.
some nice houses, churches, and banks, and
The
east half appears to be the
most ancient
last
has a population of about 3000.

parish church,
The
present
part of the ruin, the west having been added at a
erected in
1813, stands to the
comparatively late date, possibly during the
86
EPITAPHS,
when the
walls of the east portion
AND INSCRIPTIONS
may
trary)
century,
whether the Barclays had any connection
have been heightened.
Although, according to an inscription cut in characters of the 18th century over the lintel of the west window
:
with Tolly or Towie until the time of Robert the

Bruce,
who gave a charter of
these lands to
It
is
Walter
Barclay of Ktrko, knight.

his cause, for in 1305, his last
certain that Sir
it is
THIS CHURCH WAS BUILT 1004, more probable that the oldest existing portion
Walter of Kyrko followed Bruce, and suffered in
when King Edward made
had been built much about the time that the Barclay monument (noticed below) had been There is an awmbry, with fluted moulderected.
ings,
wall, as well as
attempt upon Scotland, Barclay's lands were among those which the English king was petitioned to give to his follower Gilbert Peach.
Barclay was subsequently accused of treason, but
acquitted, along with
on the east wall. Another on the north an awmbry or press on the south,
lintels.
have plain
the latter of
Hamelinus whom was possibly a
de Troupe,
vassal of the
Three round
holes,
each about the size of a
old lords of the lands from which the
surname
human
skull, in
the more modern part of the
was assumed.
north wall, are said to be the places where the

skulls of three
The Barclays appear
to
have held Tolly until

17th century, when
Charles,
Danish kings were once preserved. These unfortunate foreigners are said to have been killed in an engagement which local story avers took place at Gamrie between the Danes and
Scots in the time of Malcolm
stance also
the
is
the failure of the male line, which took place dur-
ing the early part of the

Isabella,
heiress of TuUie, married
2d
of
son of the 6 th Earl of Lauderdale.
The date
filled
I.,
to
which circum-
Patrick Barclay's death has not been
in
popularly attributed the origin of
name of the parish. A monument of some
upon the above monument. His wife had possibly (though not mentioned in peerage books) been
a daughter of Ogilvy of Findlater.
teresting notices of the Barclays of
pretensions in design,
Some
will
in-
and beauty
in execution, built into the east wall

:
Towie
be
of the church, bears this inscription

patrtcius
f)ie
. .
found in Pitcairn's Criminal Trials of Scotland.
bVlag
Z
.
f)oc
me
iti
firve
Probably the Tolly race was a branch of the

fecit.
.
inret
tic
.
.
Ijonorabilis
.
tie
patricius
.
barclag
Berkeleys of luverkeillor, afterwards of Mathers

.
ins
aito
tollg
.
qui
.
obiit
ct
.
mrius
.
and Ury.
.
(v. p. 81.)
iiti
.
m"^
.
q'""
.
ioneta
iie
.
.
ogiug
.
etus
A stone
motto,
with a bold carving of the Keith arms,

initials
sponea
quae
.
obiit
qbi"^
.
cnta
menrs
iamtarti
with a boar's head in base, the
A. K., and
ano
5m m"
lie
qualirnse''
septimo.
victoria limes,
:
is
thus inscribed round
[Here
an honourable
man Patrick Barclay,

day
of
the margin
rycht lionorabil Alexander
laird of Tolly,
who
died on the
Heir
lyis the
Keyth
1G05.
anno Domini 15 ; and Janet Ogilvy, his spouse, who died Januaiy 6, 1547.] The Barclays of Tolly or Towie early possessed
of Trvp, depairtit yis lyf the
xxv
of
Marche
The
Keith of Troup was Sir Robert the Marischal,'who married the heiress, and granted
first
lands in Gamrie,
having held those of Melros towards the close of the 14th century, possibly
a charter of that barony to his second son John

in 1413.
This John was progenitor of the Keiths
also those of
CoUane and others at the same time. It was in the Castle of CuUen, in Gamrie, that William Barclay, an eminent scholar and father of the author of the Argenis, was born in 1541 and it was a descendent of those scholars who became a field- marshal in the Russian army, and
;
of Northfield, one of
whom was
served heir to the
barony of Troup, &c., 1628.

Northfield was served heir to
George Keith of Sir Robert the
Marischal in 1782.
the old kirk, bears
:
A mutilated stone, also within
Heir
et Cvminc his spovs, qvho

zeirs.
....
figured during the wars of Napoleon.
It seems
September 1G95
doubtful (whatever
may be
averred to the con-
Another slab has
this simple
motto
GAMRIE.
Bessy Strachan, and Mrs Bathia Forbes, ladies
of Troup, .1781.
87
According to Burke, Major Garden, son of

last
the
Garden of Banchory, entered the service of Gustavus of Sweden, and returning to Scotland in 1654, bought the lands of Troup, and married
Betty, a daughter of Strachan of Glenkindie.
By
her he had a son, Alexander,
who married
Bathia, a daughter of Sir Alex. Forbes of Cragievar. The same authority shows that these lastnamed were the grand-parents of Francis, Lord Gardenston, a well-known judge in the Court
of Session,
kirk,
and founder
of the village of
Laurence-
shuk hans we myio granmother, and said, Onest Mady,il I trow, ho [tlio'] my fethar flegati^ you for kilenis a Sandey but it is you that his kepit him in live, and it shal no be forgotten to you nor yours, and my fokl-1 shal niver Gari5 your fok flit ;16 and your oner promest the sam to her when you was a very young Gentleman, and I hop your oner his mor Gretated,i7 and likwis mor Goudnes, nor to brak ther word and your ane word, or to be on gretfouis to them that seved your lif, when non but them could a savt it ;19 and so God bUs your oners Humlet Sert, and alwise unto death, "James Morrison. " Becas I was not Goud at writin letterss right, I
;
iu the Mearns.
The
elegant frame of a
hafe goten a frind to do
monument
only remains, which was raised in the
" God
blis
it for me. your Onar remember me."
old kirk of Gamrie to the late Lord
Garden-
stone, who died in 1793. He was succeeded by his nephew, not his brother as Burke says, for Lord G.'s 2d brother and the laird of Troup both died in
1785.
The churchyard of Gamrie, which is strewn with "moisty bones and broken skulls," and otherwise
ill
cared
for,
contains numerous monuments.

inscriptions are
se-
From
lected
:
these the following
Lord
G.'s younger brother having married
is
the heiress of Glenlyon, assumed the additional
name and arms

Gardenston's
of Cumphell,
which continue to
It
This stone
in Dec. 1683
dedicated
be used by his descendants.

elder
was to Lord
to his deceased father

;
by lames Wood in Doun, Robert Wood, who departed
brother
Alexander, who
as also here lyis in
to lames
Wood
Mary Reid, spous Doun, w^ho died July 27, 1702.
died 21 Dec. 1785, that a tenant of Coullycan, iu
Gamrie, addressed the following letter (here printed

for the
fii'st
time), iu which his claims to a renewal
of the lease of a mill are so quaintly set forth. It
Under hope of a blessed resurrection, here lyes the ashes of Iohn Ross, sometime in the Mdl of Fortrie, who departed this life Aprile 17, 1699.
Here
lyes the ashes of
was addressed " To the Onerable Laird

:
of
Barbara Reid,
of Fortrie,
;
spous to
Troupe," and runs thus
7,
Iohn Ross, somtyme at Mill

1785.
who
de-
"Culy Can, June
" Oneribel Sir, Gif it plies your onari I hop you wil lat me know how you ar to set this Mil and I will ofer as much as aney on can gif. And my forbiers2 his bin heir so Long and my Granmother coifreds your oner of the Gandis* when non could Dow, when you was a child and when you fantit your grandfather, the old leard, sed whow5 that he ould shuts her, and shi was nar did for fier ;7 and when you Gru^ beter he promest to
; ;
December the 18, 1690 as also the ashes of Iames Eoss, somtime in Ballgrien, lawful son to the saids Iohn Ross and Barbara Reid, who also here lyes Alexdied Sept. 13, 1727
pairted this
life
ander Ros, son to lames Ross in Balgreen, who depairted March the 7th 1707 ....
Here lies interred the ashes of Marget Roger, spouse to Iohn Ord att Shore of Crivie, who died Jan. the 15, 1754 ; as also the ashes of Marget
my
of
Granfether [that] him nor yet his son, nor his sons son, would never put on9 of his Generation out
horn,
1,
Watt, spouse to Iohn Ord, sometime at MiU of This is erected Melross, who died Jan. the 7, 1707. by Alex., and John Ords, their lawful son and
gi-andson.
10,
Culy Can. And when your onars fethar cam and heerd whou that your lif was seavt, he
Please your honour.
5, 9, 2,
7,
Shook hands with my.

13, Killing of
11,
Ancestors.
3,
Cured.
4,
dice.
How.
One.
6,
Shoot.
Nearly died from fright.
Jaun8, Be-
Frightened.
16,
Alexander.
18,
Remove.
it.
17, Gratitude.
Ungrateful.
Honest Magdalene. 12, 15, Make, 14, Fulk, 19. Could have
came.
saved
88
EPITAPHS,
AND INSCRIPTIONS:
Wm. Watt,
(1763)
sliipinr.
,
The next
three inscriptions are on the north-
Gardeustone, on 3 children,
ly.
east side of the church,
tombstones of
Inscribed
and upon table-shaped white marble

:
:
low in dust the mortal part doth
When
by James and Alexander Chalmers,
merchants in Banff, in memory of their parents William Chalmers, merchant in Gardeustouu, who died 3 June 1809, aged 82 and Helen Strachan, his spouse, who died 9 Feb. 1811, in her 71st year. By laudable industry, joined with
;
At Christ's right hand, the soul doth dwell on high Then repine not parents, at your childrens' death. The flowers which bloom in spring, cut off are first.
Kenneth Fimister, shipbuilder, who was put on shore hear the 13 November 1832, aged 50 yeais.
Pleaced hear by his son John Fimister, carpenter
in Burghead, in
the strictest integrity, by a faithful discharge of the relative duties of

Christian piety,
sincerely regretted.
remembrance
is
of his
Father
is o'er.
and an uniform course of they lived respected, and died

life,
]My voyage
mead,
my
sorrow
The troubled sea of life I'll cross no more. My life was short, reader take notice.
late
memory of James Clalmers, Esq. merchant in Banff, who died 19 Feb. 1829, aged During a period of 50 years, extensively en69. gaged in business, lie uniformly maintained a chaSacred to the
racter of the strictest integrity
;
Where
am
now, you
all
most surely come.
The
luded
tradition of the lauding of the
Danes
at
al-
faithfully dis;
Gamrie, and their defeat, have been already

to.
charged
all
the relative and social duties
and
re-
In the
New
Statistical
Account
of the
accpiired the esteem of a
numerous and highly
Parish,
tlie affair is
!
detailed with marvellous mi-
spectable circle of acquaintances.

versally regretted.
He
died uni-
nuteness
This tablet
is
erected
by
his
On
the opposite side of the den from the old
surviving
brothett"
Alex. Chalmers, Esq. of Clunie,
church, a conical mound, called the Castlehill,

presents traces of old walls.
joining
hills,
as a testimony of his affectionate regard.
Sacred to the
Esq. of Clunie,
memory of Alexander Chalmers, who departed this life 11 Aug. 1835,
Upon this and adand at a height of more than 150 feet

level, shells of various
from the present sea

are found
hills
kinds
aged
70.
He
lived exemplary for generosity, be-
embedded
in the sand.
These sand-
nevolence, and disinterested integrity, and died in
the hope of a blessed immortality.

as a
This
is
erected
Miller
were a favourite retreat of the late and are still visited by students
;
Hugh
of the
humble tribute by
his afflicted
widow Elspet
interesting science of geology.
Chalmers.
The
ruins of " Wallace's Castle" on the farm of
It
was on the death of Alex. Chalmers of Clunie, and by mutual consent, that the large amount of 70,000 was placed at the disposal of trustees, for the "founding, erection, and endowment of an hospital and free dispensary of medicines," &c., at Banff, to be called
Pitgair (the rough hollow), overhanging the valley
and burn
of INIinonie, consist of
two huge masses

Kinedar, or
of vitrified walls, of
much
the same period, iôs-
sibly, as the ruins of the castle of
King-Edward.
corded of
the Lion
;
We
know
that this castle was a
Chalmers'
a large and
seat of the ancient Earls of
Buchan, the
first re-
Hospital.
This building, which
is
whom was
Edward
a contemporary of William
imposing structure in the Elizabethan style of architecture, has an airy position upon the rising
ground, overlooking the Seatown.
in operation for
cupied by
It has been
and been the means of supplying medical attendance and support to many, who could not brook the idea of receiving parochial relief, and were otherwise unable to proyears,
some
Kinedar was ocand as the Earl of Buchan was then lord of most of the district, possibly " Wallace's Castle" was erected either by him or some of his vassals. Of the later proprietary history of certain parts
also that his castle of
I. in
1296
of
Gamrie,
it
is
recorded that in 1226 Alex. II,
cure the necessary comforts of life, which are so very essential in time of distress.
confirmed the lands of Lethenoth to the monks of

Kinloss, which lauds
had been previously granted
FARNELL.
to them by Robert Corbett. Glendowacby was a thanedom in the time of Alex. III., and valued at 20 a- year. It was given by Bruce to Hugh of Ross. In later times, the Earls of Buohan, and Moray, had an interest in Glendowachy. Doune was also a thanedom, of which John of Bothuille had a grant in 1365.
89
other presents a plain cross in low relief upon one

side of a circle, the satne figure, in
state,
an unfinished
coffin-slabs
being upon the reverse.

:
Two
were also found
one shows traces
of the figure of
a sword, and the other has a smooth unorna-
mented
surface.
Upon
is
another fragment, the
base of a Calvary
cation Cross
incised, together
;
or three old English letters in reUef

is
with two and a Dedi-
built into the kirk-yard dj^ke.
With
the exception of the bit above noticed,
the oldest lettered fragment at Farnell bears
.... AGNES
{>.
DAIS CHIL
S.
NINIAN, BISHOP CONFESSOR.)

of
a THE kirk Ferneval wasand deanery Cathedral Brechin, rated

of
is
of the
JAMES DA IN CAECAEI
IS
MAEGAKIT YO
AIRTED IN
at 20
1G3S
merks in the Old Taxation. In 1574, Faruell and Cuikstoun
Several other fragments, less legible than the

{infra, p. 92),
above, were discovered at the same time

as
as well
along with four other churches, were served by
two
flat
tomb-stones.
The last-mentioned
:
are
one minister, who had a stipend of 202 4s 7d Scots. Thomas Sewan, who had " the haill
vicarage" and kirk lands, was the contemporary
reader or schoolmaster at Farnell.
both embellished with mortuary emblems, and

respectively inscribed as follows
[1.]
The present church

near the Row,
(erected in 1806), stands
D. E I. S. Heire lyes interd vnder this ston IsOBEL Shilgreene, spovs to David Enererity,
:
within the church-yard, upon a rising ground
indweller in Fithie,
who departed
this life the 27
The
.
bell is inscribed
.
.
lOHANNES
EVRGERHVYS ME ANNO 1662.

.
FECIT.
monument, with a beautifully inand a representation of the Fall of our First Parents, &c., which was found upon the site of the old church, was some time ago prefreestone
terlaced cross,
Shilgreene
November 1675 years, and of hir age 70. Remember man as thov goes by, As thow art now so was I As I am now so mvst thow be, Remember man that thov mvst dye. Anno Dom. 1676 Memento mori.
is
a territorial name, probably as-
sented to the IMontrose
Museum by
the Earl of
Southesk.
It
is
a late type of the well-known
sumed from the property of Shielagreen in Aberdeenshire. The surname of Enereritij is of like origin, and assumed from luverarity in Angus.
[2.]
I. A. Heir lyes spose to Androv Andrson, indvelers in Villen Yeards, vho departed this lif the year of God 1717, and of age 53. Also heir lyes Walter Tyler, husbaut to Barbra Crch: :
Sculptured Stones of Scotland, and
may
possibly
have been erected over the grave of a
now un-
known
ecclesiastic of Farnell.
first
This interesting
W. T A. A :B. C Barbra Crichton,
stone was
engraved in
of
Mr
P. Chalmers'
Sculptured
Monuments
Angus, and afterwards
in the Sculptured Stones of Scotland.
When the kirk-yard of Farnell was being extended and improved in 1870, the workmen came upon a line of coffins on the east side of the
church, which were carefully constructed of stone
ton, age 49, 1698.
Memento mori
My glas
is
run.
Andrew
Anderson
in Willanyards, 1729,
was
reported by the factor for the
York
Buildings'
The heads of two crosses were also discovered. One is pierced with four holes, and the
slabs.
Co., to be " a Right honest like man^ pretty well upon it, and has the Town very well plenished."
"
90
EPITAPHS,
thus inscribed
AND INSCRIPTIONS.
:
marble tablet (enclosed)

Sacred to the
is
of this church.
He
calmly and devoutly
fell
asleep
memory
of
Dame Christian
Doig,
in the Lord, A. D. 1G72, in his 77th year.
In this
relict of Sir
James Carnegie,
Bart, of Southesk.
Died
Novi-.
4th 1820, aged 91 years.
tomb, along with him, are laid his first wife Helen Lindsay, and ten of their children. It seemed
This
heiress
good to inscribe here an anagram composed by

lady was the daughter of David Doig of
himself.
Cookstou, near Brechin, by his wife, Magdalene,

of
To Master David Carnegy,

(Anagram)
Great Jesus
!
Symers
of
Balzeordie,
iu
Menmuir.
Symers' were designed of Balzeordie from the

middle of the 15th century (Laud of the Lindsays),
guide
me
thro' Grace.
(Distich)
and Doigs held property in Brechin (Reg. Ep.), from before 1532, of which city some of them were chief magistrates, 1700-41. Reswallie, in Eescobie {infra, p. 158), was owned by Doigs during parts of the 16th and 17th centuries. Doig was the name of a churchman of Dunnichen in 1372. About a century afterwards, James Doig is celebrated by Dunbar, the poet, as "the wardraipper of Venus' bour," or wardrobe keeper to the Queen of James IV. But probably the most eminent person of the name, in modern times, was Dr David Doig, a native of Monifieth, and master of the Grammar School of Stirling, whom Lord Karnes pronounced to be "a genius;" and said he loved him because he told him " his mind roundly and plainly" (Memoirs of Kames.) A freestone monument, which stood within
the old kirk, bears this inscription
:
While
dwell on earth expecting the joys of heaven,

!]
May
of
thy Grace ever guide me, Great Jesus
Dean Carnegy, who was descended from a laird

Cookston and Unthank, was the founder of the Carnegys of Craigo. His seal, attached ,to a
letter of 5th
March 1663,
exhibits (^sans difference
and colour), a shield with an eagle displayed and a cup upon the breast, surmounted by the letters M. D. C. The charge of the cup was afterwards exchanged by the Craigo family, for that of an
open Bible, in allusion to the Dean's profession.
The Dean's first wife was a daughter of Bishop Lindsay of Edinburgh. Two of his sons were churchmen. Robert, the youngest, was an " expectant" {infra, p. 210), and the eldest, James,
ecclesire,
Sepulchrum Mstri Davidis Carnegy de Craigo,

decani Brichinen
:,
rectoris
hujus
:
qui
primo hujus
1G72,
fuit
ecclesiastes
Brechinen
annos
2,
postea
ecclesipe
pastor fidelissiraus annos
36, qui
placide ac pie in
Domino obdormivit anno Dom.
In hac urna simul cum eo recubant prior ejus uxor Helena Lindesay, ac
setatis sufe 77.
decern eorum
liberi.
Placuit hie inscribere aua-
gramma
a seipso compositum.
Magistro Davidi Carnegy'
anagramma
Grandis Jesu, due
me
Gratia.
distichon
Dum dego in terris expectana gaudia cceli, Me ducat semper tua Gratia, Grandis Jesu.
[The burying place of Mr David Carnegy of Craigo, dean of Brechin, and rector of this church.
was long minister of Barry. In a deed of 1703, David Carnegy is described as " lawful son and heir to said Mr James." The Dean left 800 merks, or about 44 2s 8d sterling, to the poor of the parish of Earn ell. Mr Carnegy's predecessor in Farnell was Mr Dugald Camjabell, who went there iu 1581. He was moderator of the General Assembly in 1606, and died before 8th July 1633 the date of Dean Carnegy's presentation to Farnell. Mr Campbell married Katherine Mackure, daughter of a carver and burgess of Edinburgh (Scott's Fasti). A handbell at the Manse of Farnell, which j)robably belonged to Campbell's time, is initialed M. D. C. It also bears a monogram, which appears to be composed of the letters, W.A.T.H.
From
monument
beside
Dean Carnegy's
Sacred to the
minister of
memory of the Rev. James Wilsoit, Farnell, who died on the 18th of Octoand universally regretted by all
He was
at first minister at Brechin for 2 years ; and afterwards, for 36 years, the most faithful pastor
ber 1829, in the 74th year of his age, and the 52d of
his ministry, justly
FARNELL.
Also to his two sons, James and of whom died an infant, the Also to his latter in the 22el year of his age. mother, Ann Burnett, and his sisters, Margaret and Catherine, all of whom are interred here.
91
who knew
him.
society of his relatives and friends.
He was much
in the
George, the former
respected for his integrity, benevolence, and charity,
and died upon the 29th December 1815,

year of his age.
83d
Mr
in
Wilson was translated from Maryton to Farnell in 1794. His father was minister first at Edzell, and next at Kinnaird, where he died
1787
{inf.,
In May 1783, Mr Lyell, merchant in Gottenburgh, gave " 250 scots to be distributed to the
nell.
most indigent and needful of the poor" of FarHe died unmarried, and the lands of Gallery
to
p.
92.)
The
minister of Farnell
passed
James Gibson, a
sister's
son,
who
married a daughter of Sir

bervie, Bart.,
W.
Nicolson of Glen-
assumed the surname of
Lijall (infra, p. 212.)
and had two sons and five daughMr David Smith, parochial schoolmaster ters. at Farnell, married the eldest daughter, by whom he had Mrs Day of London, and other
Another daughter, who married Dr Badenach of Arthurhouse, in Garvock, was mother of the present laird of Arthurhouse, J. BadeuachNicolson, Esq. Mr Nicolson, who passed as an advocate in 1855, has published an edition of
children.
stone at Farnell thus records the death of
A Mr
Gibson's parents, and a brother
1818
Erected to the
memory
of
James Gibson,
who was born 22d March 1719, and died 16th Feb. 1817 also of Margaret Lvall, his spouse, who
;
was born in July 1731, and died in August 1786 ; and of David Gibson, their son, who was born 8th April 1760, and died in his seventh year.
The
Gibson
father
also
of
the
above-mentioned
James
left
Erskine's Institutes of
the
Law
of
Scotland,
belonged to Farnell, but
his
which has been favourably received. From a head-stone on south side of the kirk
1810
:
native country for Riga after the Rebellion of

:
1745, in which he took part.
Erected by the Reverend

the
gusson, minister of
Grand-father,
Andrew FerMarytown, in memory of his Reverend David Fergusson,

;
chant in that
died.
there.
city,
He became a merwhere he long resided and

of his family also settled
Some members
who was admitted

17 IG,
minister of Fernell in the year
The next
obelisk)
three inscriptions
(the
first
two
and died in 1751 and of his father the Reverend David Fergusson, who succeeded him Here also are in the above year, and died in 1793. interred their spouses, Anna Russel, and Janet [Dan. Mitchell, with some of their children.
xii. 3.]
from table-shaped
from a granite relate to a family v/ho have been tenants

stones, the third
upon the Southesk two hundred years

:
estate for considerably over
[1.]
The
which
Fergusson of Farnell gave two silver communion cups to the church, one of
first
is
Mr
Here
lies
Robert Lyell, who

dpi',
dp'",
this life tha
14 Oct. 1707, age 43, and 3 of his children, viz.
Patrick Lyell
14
;
this life
Jun
24, 1710, of age
thus inscribed
Robert
L. dpr. 28 of Nov. 1706, age i

9,
y.
This Communion Cupp, and another like to it, were gifted to the church of Farnwell, by the Rev. Mr David Fergusson, late minister of the Gospell
there, 1751.
Ann
L: dpr. April the
1701, of age 2 year
Under this monument of stone. Here rests in peace the bones of Robert Lyell, call'd by name,
one,
monument, immediately to the south

is
of
Mr
Who
fear'd
God,
glass,
&
hated shame.
life
;
Fergusson's,
thus inscribed
Like to the
man's
does pass,
Sacred to the
of Gallery,
memory
of
David Lyall, Esquire
And
Or
Till
all
are born to die
ruary 1733, but
who was born at East Carcary, in Febwho left Scotland, and went to
as the sun, his time does run,

't
grasp eternitie.
Gottenburgh in 1757, where he resided as a merchant till 1787, when he retui'ned to his native country to enjoy the fruits of his industry, and the
Pallida mors a^quo pulsat pede
Pauperum
Candide
tabernas,
lector, vita nostra
regumque turres. qua fruimur brevis
est.
92
EPITAPHS,
also in
AND INSCRIPTIONS
bred a merchant in Montrose, became a purser in
And
remembrance
of
James Lyall, some-
time tencaut in East Carcary, and afterwards tenant of Mains of Gallery, who died there, the 27th day
of Feb. ISOS, in the seventy- second year of his age.
one of H.M.'s ships during the American war, and bought Kinnordy about 1780-3. He was succeeded in 1796 by his son,
profession,
[Pale death knocks with impartial foot at the

cottages of the poor,
who was a lawyer by and published a translation of Dante.

:
fierce is
Candid reader, the
life
and the palaces of kings. which we enjoy is short.]

[2.]
Wm.
son of John Cobban, shoem. in Greenden,
d. 1786, a.
26
In hope of a blessed resurrection, here lyes Isobel Mitchell, who was spouse to Charles Lyell, tennant in Carkary, who departed this life the 12 of April the year of our Lord 1727, and of age 50 years. Likewise two of her children, to wit, Robert, who departed July 1707, and Walter, who died March Also here tyeth Charles Lyell, husband 1717.
to ye s^ Isobell Mitchell,
Death,
thy
firie
dart.
No
Forester like the.

cuts the cyder while
it
Who
grows,
And
spars the withered tree. hd. of Helen Smith, d. 1791,

a.
John Brimner,
75:
'Tis here the fool, the wiae, the low, the high,
In mix'd disorder, and in silence ly
who departed
this life
No more
beneath
life's
weighty load he goes,
March the 2Sth

in
1729, aged G3 years.
Also here
13,
lyeth John' Lyell,
who succeeded his father Charles

life
But in this chamber finds a quiet repose. O humbling thought. Pride must be thus disgrac'd,
Carkary
he departed this
September
And
all
distinctions here at last effac'd.
1736, aged 34 years, with one of his children called
Margaret. She died in the 3d year and 8 month of herage. Also Margaret MuDiEhisspouse, whodied 20th Dec. 1761, aged 59 years. Also James Lyall,
tenant in Carcary,
who succeeded
life
to his father
John.
He
departed this
the 14th day of
May
(i\\x\\$X^\x\\, or
(?
giwniuvl
was the
callit
1806, in the 75th year of his age.
Spence, his spouse,
who
Also of Isobel died at Brechin the 26th

of her age.
day
of
January 1813, in the 71st year
Margaret Mudie was a daughter of the

Pitrauies
;
S. RUMON or RUMALD.) \UYGSTOUN, or CUIKSTOUN,
laird of
^$
" parish
kii-k of
the Prebendary
the
and Isobel Spence belonged to a family that were notaries public and town clerks in Brechin for more than two centuries. The latter was the mother of the first-named in the next
inscription
:
Subdeanerie of Brechin."
A place
This
near Quygston
is
called
Rumens Cross.
may
possibly indicate not only the
name
of
the saint to
whom
the church was dedicated, but
also the site of

[3.]
there
factor
is
now no
an ancient cross. Of the cross and S. Rumald, whose trace

;
In
memory
of
Egbert Lyall,
1778
;
on the
feast is held of the kirk.
on 1st July, was probably the patron
estate of Southesk from
1817 to 1850. died at
Born
Arrat,
at
Carcary,
27 Novem.
13
When
the kirk or chapel at Quygston became
January 1863.
second wife,
Of his wife Elizabeth Campbell, who died 25 April 1832, aged 52 years ; and of his
" altogidder ruynous and decayit," Sir David

rebuilt
sion.
Mary Brown, who died

succeeded in the
at
11
June 1854,
Carnegie of Southesk, who died in 1598, had it upon a site nearer to his own man-
aged 59 years.
Mr Lyall was
The
district
office of factor
that time under the
was formed into a parish at name of Kinnaird, and it

p. 91),
by his second son, now The grand-father of
Old Montrose.
continued to be a separate cure until the death

of ]\Ir
Sir Charles Lyell, Bart.,
George AVilsou in 1787, (supra,
the celebrated geologist, was descended from one of the brothers named in inscription [2.] He was
when
the parish was divided between those of
Farnell and Brechin.
The only
existing memorial
CUIKSTOUN,
of Mr Wilson manse garden
of
OR
KINNAIRD.
upon the north and south
sides respectively.
93
Kinnaird
Faruell,
is
a sun-dial in the
inscribed,
The
at
which had probably

It
is
been brought there by his son.
former of these presents a carving of the Southesk arms, and the latter those of Southesk and Lauderdale impaled.
"1767, Mr. G. W."
Below the respective

:
shields
The
was
old burial-ground, which
is
within the
of
are these inscriptions
deer park, and to the west of Kinnaird Castle,

enclosed,
some years ago, by the Earl
[1.]
Southesk.
It contains a
number
of tomb-stones.
One
and
bears a bold
carving of
the
Rait arms,
capitals
:
Carnegiorum Carolus, Comes
gentis insignia,
cujus princeps,
Southesquius, natus est Lonidni
this inscription in raised
Roman
Heir lyes Henrie Rait, son to Mr David Eait, minister of this place, vho departed this mortal life in the 18 year of his age, October 1669
:
Anglorum, die 7 April anno 1661 patr ..... rto, Comite Southesquio, matre Anna, filia natu maxima atque hajrede Gul., Duels Hamiltouii, obiit in Arce sua Leucharensi, die 9 Augusti mensis, anno
jerre
Christianas 1699.
The tender grse it springs, it flovrs, it fades. The day begins, ascens, declines, in shades Frail mans like grase, his life a day, and most
;
ornata est a
sal.
Maria M.etellana
Hasc ianua extructa atque eius coniuge anno
hum.
1704,
Rvn
ovt his race, and be disolved in dvst.

three ministers
Mr David Rait was one of

1
who
were commissioned by the General Assembly, in

644, to supply the north-west parts of Ireland.
[The arms of the Carnegie family, whose chief, Charles, Earl of Southesk, son of Robert, Earl of Southesk, and Ann, eldest daughter and heiress of William, Duke of Hamilton, was born at London,
in England, 7th April 1661.
of Leuchars, 9th
He
died at his Castle
Newburgh, next at Dairsie, and finally at Kinnaird, where he died sometime His father was minister before 2d Feb. 1676. of Mains, near Dundee (Scott's Fasti.)
was settled
first
He
at
Aug. 1699. This gateway was erected and ornamented by his wife, Mary Maitland, in the year of human salvation 1704.]
[2.]
James Kar, spouse
to E.
Simpson (16-0)
.
MEMENTO
.
MORI.
. .
nVE DOE NOT THIS FOR NO WTHER END. BWT THAT OW^R BWRIAL MAY BE KEND.
. .
.
Jas.
of
Soutter, hammerman in Nether Tenements Oaldhame, d. 1760, a 54 :

claid
Here James lyes
with a mournfull shade,

sad,
Hath teft his Friends and Loving spouse And now is gone above the stars to sing,
Eternall prais to his imortaU King.
Charles, Earle of Southesque, was married on Lady Mary Maitland, second daughter of Charles Earle of Lauderdale, brother and heir to lohnDuke of Lauderdale, by whom he had a son James, now Earle of Southesque, & two daughters. Lady Anna and Lady Mary Carnegy, whom he survivd Thes are the Armes of the said Charles Earle of Southesque & Lady Mary Maitland, Countes of the same, who put up thir coats, & built this gate,
in the year 1704,
The
burial vault, which has an arched roof,
is
near the middle of the enclosure, and an orna-
THE SOUTHESK FAIMILY

BURIAL VAULT
occupies a rising ground, to the south of Kinnaird
Castle, at the
It
is
;
mental stone cross
is
placed over
its
entrance-
The
was erected by the present Earl of Southesk, who had the ground and dykes put into a becoming state of repair.
cross
end
of avenues of
grand old
trees.
ivy
surrounded by a freestone wiill, covered with and is entered from the west by a handsome
A neat marble monument is erected within, and upon the north wall of the enclosure, to the
memory of the Earl's first wife. Lady Catherine Noel. She was the second daughter of the Earl
gateway.
Two
stone panels flank the gateway
94
EPITAPHS,
AND INSCRIPTIONS
Baliuhard and his descendants dropt their old of " Balinhard," and assumed that of
{infra, p. 249.)
of
Gainsborough, and died 9th of March 1855,
leaving three daughters and a son.
There
wall,
is
surname
a similar monument,
the
upon the south
to
Carnegie
memory of his Lordship's father and mother, who died in 1849 and 1818 respectively,
history of the Carnegies, edited
by
Mr Wm.
vols. 4to,
Eraser of Edinburgh, was printed for private

circulation
A free-stone slab,
HEIR CALLED
.
which
:
lies
within the enclo-
by Lord Southesk,
in
two
sure, bears this inscription

. .
. .
. .
.
This shows that the family writs are better cared

they were in 1646, when the Earl regard to a " bond given iu to him by Argyll," that, " Be reasone of the troubles my
for
REST IN THE LORD A GENTLEMAN CHARLES CARNEGY WHO DYED THE 15 DAY OF lANVAR 1655 YEARS AND OF HIS AGE 60 YEAR.
.
.
now than
in
wrote
The
time.
Carnegies of Southesk
first
acquired a
me and if they were," adds his Lordship, " they are so confusedly
writes are not presently beside
;
portion of the lands of Kinnaird in 1401, and

the rest of the property became theirs in course of
cast
togither,
that I
cannot
fall
vpon
it
in a
sodantie."
The valuation roll of Angus for 1682 shews that the parishes of Faruell and Kinnaird both belonged to the " Earle of Southesque" with the exception of the small estate of " Litle
Feithy."
During the spring of 1868, a

discovered
Fithie.
to the
Pict's House, or
feet long,
underground chamber, about ten

west
of
was
of
The
Earl's estate within the
was valued at '243;3 Gs 8d Scots, which was acquired by the Carnegies, during the early part of this century, is set down at 133 6s 8d Scots. Sir David Carnegie of Kinnaird, who was raised
affairs of his
two parishes and the latter,
the
farm-house
Among
it
other evidences of
human
occuI'ed
pation,
contained the remains of an urn of

also
embossed Samian ware,
bones of animals, &c.
These
relics are
now
of
and an account
land, vol.
viii.
in the National Museum, " the find" is given in the
to the peerage in 1616, took an active part in the
Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scot-
country.
Probably he made im-
provements upon his Castle of Kinnaird, for, in 1656, his son wrote, on his father's behalf, to the
Earl of Panmure, who at once granted the request, " for Libertie to win some stones in the
quarrell of Buthergill, the lyke q'of," adds Lord
The
nell
lauds of Farnell belonged at one time to

;
Carnegie, " he (the Earl of Southesk) has not in
any part
of his
owne ground."
and the Castle of Farwas a palace or residence of the Bishops of that diocese. It was visited by Edward I. iu 1296 {v. Mem. of Angus and Mearns.) One of the skew-put stones bears the sacred monogram ii)s; and another has the crowned jiH, as symthe Cathedral of Brechin
bolical of the
The
but the
1855.
fifth
Earl of Southesk was attainted for

;
Virgin
both here represented

:
the part which he took in the Eebellion of 1715
were restored His Lordship was

titles
of the Thistle in
Peer in also created a Knight March, 1869, and a British

to the present
Peer iu November following.
The Carnegies
previously bore the surname of
Balindard, which was assumed from the lauds of
BaUnhard, or Bonhard,
in the parish of Arbirlot,
the property of the Earl of Dalhousie.
But, on excarabing these lands with AValter of Maule, about 1350, for those of Carnegie, in the parish of
Carmyllie, and barony of
Kinnaird Castle, which was remodelled by the

present Earl of Southesk,
is
Panmure, John
of
one of the
finest
LONGSIDE.
buildings in the district.
It stands within a
95
park
ornamental belfry.
belfry are
Upon
the west side of the
of about
1000 acres in extent, which is well stocked with deer, and studded with many fine
It is described by Guynd (c. 1682), as " without competition the fiynest place, taking
the Sibbald arms,
and the
initials,
A.
S.
Mr Abraham
am
Sibbald was minister of Old

not aware that he, or any of
latter parish.
old trees.
Deer
his
at the time of the building of the church at
Longside, but I
altogether, in the shyre."
name, had an interest in the
The Pow runs through the

and
is
is
parish of Farnell,
crossed
by two stone
bridges.
One
bridge
The Bruce arms, dated 1620, with the initials, G. B., and the words, " MR. meason," are also
upon the belfry
43),
;
near the church, the other near the junction of
and these, as at Gartly
(snp.^ p.
the
Pow with the South
Esk.
The former is dated

visit to his
may
indicate the
name
of the builder of the
1802, and the latter was originally built in 1617,

to accommodate
friend
church.
third slab presents the initials, A. R.,
James VI., when on a
Lord Carnegie.
This appears from the

stated that a collec-
accompanied by a mason's mark. One of the skew-puts upon the church exhibits
the
initials,
Kirk-Session records of Brechin, in which, under
G.
E. M., and the date of 16
date of 18th Oct. 1620,

tion
it is
Upon
another are the Keith and Cheyne arms,
Pow
was ordered to be made "for help to the bridge betwixt Kinnaird and Auld JMontrois
quarterly.
This quartering has reference to the
marriage of Keith with the heiress of Cheyne of

Inverugie,
qik ovr Sovereigne
K. James the Sext caused lay over for leading of his Maties provision to Kinnaird in anno 1617 yeiris."
by
w'hich
the
Keiths acquired the
gceater part of their territory in Buchau.
The
area of the old kirk, which

contains
is
now used
is
for
burial purposes,
several
tomb-stones.
thus
The
oldest,
:
formerly in the church-yard,
inscribed
Here lyes the corps of Androv Taylor in Over Kinmundy, who departed ovt of this lyfe the 23
of
Apryli 1712.
(S.
The
).
rest of the
monuments within
the kirk are
modern.
solicitor
!!ÎIE parish of Longside was formed out of that JL of Peter-Ugie, now Peterhead. The church was erected in 1 620, under the name of " the ower kirk of Peter-Ugie ;" and its disjunction was ratified by Act of Parliament in 1637. In 1611, it acquired the name of Longside, and was "erectit in ane severall paroch kirk be it selff, and disvnited fra the said mother kirk of Peterugie"
One was erected by Keith Forbes, Esq., in Peterhead, who is said to be the last
Forbes of Brux.
:
direct male descendant ef
second monument bears this inscription
Erected in memory of James Bruce, Esquire of Innerquhomery and Longside, second son of James Bruce, late farmer, Middleton of Innerquhomery, Born at Middleton and Barbara Gray, his spouse 3d June 1787, died there IGth May 1862.
:
(Acta Pari.)
Mr
Alex. Martin, brother of the minister of

first
Peterhead, appears to have been the

of the parish.
minister
Mr Bruce, who acquired a fortune as a shipowner, &c., bought the above-named estates from Mr Fergusson of Fitfour about 1820-24. His
landed property was heired by a nephew, and upwards of 40,000 were willed to the clergy of
the Presbytery of Deer, for distribution
Being there only for a few months,
he was succeeded by
mitted about 1661.
Mr
Alex. Irvine,
who
de-
From
that period to the
among
present time, there have been eight incumbents.
the non -pauper poor within their bounds,

Catholics excepted
Roman
The
the
old church of
Longside,
little
which stands
to the south of
within the burial ground, a
new
kirk,
is
a long, narrow building, with an
The supposed builder of the church may have been an ancestor of " laird Bruce," for the sur-
96
EPITAPHS,
is
AND INSCRIPTIONS
name
one of the oldest in the parish.
Besides
In
the
Poll
Book
of
Aberdeenshire (1696),
is
a tomb-stone, which Mr Bruce erected to his parents in the church-yard, there are several
other
Margaret Robertson, " widow of Invervcdy,"

described as a portioner of the lauds of
Kiumundy
monuments
to the
same
:
race.
One
of these
bears the following epitaph
and as having above 500 merks, and under 5000 merks of stocked money.
Here lyes the corps
life
their parents,
Alexander, Margaret, aud Helen Bruce, by Alex. Bruce and Margt. Cuming,
of
of
Francis Duncan, some-
time Chamberlain to Kiumundy,

the 20 of June 1716, of age 89
his spous,
who departed
;
this
Nethertou
Here lies, In hope to
Erected 1771 : consigned a while to promis'd rest
Inverquhomry.
rise
who departed
this life
Jean Reid, the 15 of August

also
to,
again
among the blest,

life
strife.
1706.
The
precious dust of one whose course of
About the time above referred

mundy belonged
The next two
Pitlurg and Straloch.
Knew
neither fraud, hypocrisy, nor
to a branch of the
Nether KiuGordons of
A Husband loving, and of gentle mind, A Father careful, provident, and kind, A Farmer active, with no greedy view, A Christian pious, regular, and true.
One who,
in quiet, trod the j)rivate stage
inscriptions relate to ancestors of

:
Dr
Tait, Archbishop of Canterbury

[1.]
Of rural labour, to a ripe old
age.
Sub hoc
lapide cineres
Gulielmi Tait, carpen-
Belov'd by neighbours, honour'd by his
own
;
Liv'd without spot, and dy'd without a groan.
Long may his humble virtues he rever'd Long be his name remember'd with regard
Ludquharn, et Agnetis Clerk, ejus conjugis ; ille, humauaj salutis, 1725, aitatis suib 57 ; ilia, 1739 aitatis 79 anno, obierunt ; necnon JoanNis, Gulielmi, alterius Gulielmi, et Agnetis Tait,
tarii in
may Agriculture's school produce Such honest men as Alexander Bruce.

long
And
He
died April 25, 17S5, in the 81st year of his age,

of conjugal felicity
and 51st
wife
with his one beloved

3
Margret Cuming, who survived him only months, and was then laid down here, aged 78.
None
of the
eorum qui pra;decesseruiit, sepulti sunt. Hie quoque conduntur exuviae Tuom-E Tait in Thunderton, filii S. D. Gulielmi et Agnetis natu maximi, qui in arte lapidaria, dum potuit, gnavus, in alenda familia failix, moribus probus, auimo
sobolis
fequus,
vicinis
amicus,
P.
fideejue et spe fultus,

a3t.
tandem, annorum satur, ad patres migravit anno 1770,
called ancient.
monuments at Longside can be The oldest is possibly that of the
79.
R.
I.
Keiths of Ludquharn, in
of the family
whom
a baronetcy was
created in 1629 (Douglas' Baronage.)
Only
traces
upon the tomb, which is built into the east dyke of the kirk-yard. Ludquharn also came to the Keiths by marriage but the family and title have been
to be seen
;
arms are
long extinct.
The property now belongs

Aden.
to
James
Russell, Esq. of
is
[Under this stone are interred the ashes of William Tait, cartwright in Ludquharn, and of Agnes Clerk, his wife, who died, he in the year of human salvation, 1725, aged 57, and she in 1739, aged 70 ; and also of their children, John, William, a second William, and Agnes Tait, who predeceased them. Here also are laid the remains of Thomas Tait, in Thunderton, eldest son of the above William and Agnes, who, dilligent, while strength permitted, in
his calling
of stone-mason,
There
happy
possibly no older date
upon any grave-
in his family,
man
of virtuous character
and even temper, and
stone in the church-yard, than that in the follow-
a friendly neighbour, at length full of years, and
ing inscription
sustained by faith and hope, departed to his fathers,

in the year 1770,
Here lyes ane honest werteous man called Thomas Duncan, sometym of Elneruerdy, who depairted this life the 8 of September 1094, and of his age 58 years and Margaret Robertson, who de;
aged
79.
May they rest in

in
peace.]
[2.]
To the memory of George Tait

after
Redbog, who,
of
having
liv'd
48 years in the fear of God, and
perted this
life
the 8 Sept. 1G97.
love of all good men, was,
upon the 30 th
May
LONGSIDE.
1758, killed
97
by the by and
fall
of a stack of timber at
Peterhead,
justly lamented
all
by
his
friends,
:
and
property of
sincerely regretted
who knew him

a tear.
;
John, the son of Thomas Tait, acquired the Harviestou, in Clackmannanshire, about 17 and about 1805, his son Craufurd
Stay, reader,
let fall
On
Tait, Esq. (the Archbishop's father), bought the
looking at this stone
But call not anything severe, That Providence has done.

Expecting death, the good man Prepared from day to day ;
lives.
adjoining estate of Castle Campbell from the
Duke of Argyll. Both properties now belong to Sir Andrew Orr, a publisher in, and sometime
Lord Provost
of,
Glasgow.
God's will the summons gives, He's ready to obey. This good man lived by all belov'd,
And when
table -shaped tomb-stone at Longside bears

:
this epitajth
And,
is
she gone, the once so lovely maid
?
!
And dy'd by all deplor'd Dwelt here awhile, and then remov'd,
;
Gone
heuce, and
now
a dear departed shade
Call'd from this world in early
dawn
of life,
?
To dwell with
Christ the Lord.
Where but beginning
to be called a wife
The above-named George was
third brother of
Ye
virgin tribe,
whom
chance
may
lead this way,
Thomas Tait, and his wife was Ann, daughter of Alex. Mundy, in Ennervedie. She was baptised
28th Nov. 1713, and died 14th Sep. 1772, after having had a family of three sons and four
daughters,
(v.
Where
Behold
brightest beauty moulders in the clay,

this stone, nor be
A while o'er Mary

Then pause a
little,
asham'd to mourn Alexander's urn while these lines you read,

:
Burke's Landed Gentry.)

Longside.
Taits have been long resident in
One
of
them
lived at
Savoch
in 1625,
and others
were located, down to a pretty late date, in difProbably the more important of the family were Alexander and
ferent parts of the parish.
John, the former of
whom was
in
quharn
in 1729,
and the
latter in
v. y.)
Mains Mains
of
of
LudKinis
mundy in 1741
said to
(Par. Reg.,
The bridge over
the Ugy, near the railway station at Longside,
draw instruction from the dead She, who lies hei-e, was once like one of you, Youthful and gay, and fair, as you are now One week beheld her a young blooming bride, In marriage pomp, laid by her husband's side The next we saw her in Death's livery drest, And brought her breathless body here to rest. Not all this world's gay hopes, nor present charms, Nor parents' tears, nor a fond husband's arms, Could stamp the least impression on her mind, Or fix to Earth, a soul for Heaven design'd ;
learn to
:
And
have been built by Thos. Tait, mentioned in

lie
is
Camly she
Heav'u
left
a scene so lately try'd,
inscription [1.]
also locally said to
have
call'd her
home, with pleasure she com.

friends,
been the great-grand-father of Archbishop Tait. In connection with the fact of Dr Tait being
.
Embrac'd her sorrowing

dy'd.
then smil'd, and
Scotchman who has filled the Archiepiscopal chair of England, and the travelling about London on underground railways, the following
the
first
Here lies the body of Mary Alexander, spouse John Robertson, mariner in Peterhead, who departed this life January the 3d, 1767, aged 24 years.
to
curious prophecy of IGOl, by Richard Burbage,

of the Globe Theatre, Loudon,
may
be said to
Also from a table-shaped stone on the south

side of the church
:
have been
'
fulfilled
Scot our King ?
The limping State
What next? In As Primate of
That day must need a crutch. time a Scot will prate our Church.
such shall be,
it
in Rora, an affechusband, a tender parent, and faithful Conspicuous for benevolence of heart and friend. integrity of conduct, he gained the esteem of alL
S.
M.
of
James Aebuthnot
tionate
When
why
then you'll
see,
That day
will
be found,
The Saxon down through London town,

Shall burrow under ground."
Possessed of the virtues which adorn the man and the Christian, his life was amiable, and his end was He dy'd Apr. 16th 1770, aged 73 : peace.
98
EPITAPHS,
AND INSCRIPTIONS:
Skinner was a native of Birse, Aberdeenwhere his father was schoolmaster. His mother was first married to Donald Farquharson, She surlaird of Balfour, in the S9,nie parish. vived the birth of her son only about two years. His father afterwards went to Echt, where he
shire,
Happy the man whose God, who reigns on high, Hath taught to live, and hath prepared to die
;
Mr
His warfare o'er, and run his Christian race. Ev'n Death becomes the messenger of peace Dispells his woes, then wafts his soul away.
To
Here
endless glory of eternal day.

also ly
in hopes of a
blessed immortality,
died in 177G.
Margaret Gordon,
his spouse.
An
affectionate
friend.
wish that
shells lie
;
" Where
In obedience to his
own
expressed
the Pitcher breaks let the
wife, a tender mother,
and sincere
She
dy'd Nov. 1st, 1783, aged 84. Here are also deposited the remains of Elspet Arbutunot, their daughter, an amiable young woman, who, upon the
15th day of Nov. 1750, in the 21st year of her age,
her soul to God.
The next inscription

into an upright
is
from a marble
slab, fixed
but let not a stone tell where / lie" no monument marks the grave of Mr Skinner. An epitajjh, however, was composed to his memory by his eldest and youngest sons, which is engrossed in the sederunt book of the Kirk-session of Echt. It is here printed from a copy, kindly made by the late Mr Malcolm, schoolmaster:
monument, within an
enclosure,
:
on the north-east side of the church-yard
the Revd
Glory to God above. Sacred to the memory of John Skinner, for 64 years and upwards Episcopal clergyman in this parish, whose attainments as a Scholar, and Scriptural Research as a Divine, of which many written documents remain, acquired him a name, never to be forgotten in the Church in which he exercised his ministry, while his Pastoral Labours in the charge committed to him endeared him almost beyond example to the sorrowing flock, by whom, in testimony of their
heartfelt regard, this
" Dilectissimi parentis, Joannis Skinner, M.A., annos magistri dignissimi, qui in officio ad extremum sedulus idem et probatus, in alenda prole, qua pater optabat, qua pauper potuit liberalitate, felix, animo ffiquus, moribus inculpatus, religionis tenax, ad vitia severus, jucuudus amicis, discipulis charus, probis omnibus in pretio habitus, tandem octogenarius et secunda quam per 40 annos habuerat conjuge nuper
scholar in hac parochia per 50
orbatus, dysuriai
morbo
intra
biduum extinctus
est.
May
220 1776."
monument
is
erected.
[Erected to the memory of their beloved parent JouN Skinner, M.A., for 50 years a most deserving schoolmaster of this parish.
On
the 16th day of June 1807, aged 86 years, he
He was
diligent
slept the sleep of death in the
arms
of
the Eight
and approved
fully brought
in his office to the last,
and success-
Rev. John Skinner, Bishop of the diocese of Aberdeen, his only surviving son, who, with his family, and other numerous descendants, shall never cease
to feel the
up
his children with all the liberality
that the limited means of an affectionate father permitted. He was even in temper, blameless in character,
strict
most devout and
lively veneration for
in the observance of his religious

of
vice, pleasant to his
the talents, the acquirements, and character of a

progenitor,
duties, a stern reprover
who
lived so justly respected,
and died
friends, beloved of his scholars,

all
and esteemed by
1776, in his SOth
so sincerely lamented.
good men.
illness of
He
died at length of dysuria, after
an
two days, 22nd May,

with
[From a
flat stone, in
front of the above]
year, having been a short time before bereaved of

his second wife,
monument
husband,
In the same grave over which the adjoining is placed to the memory of her venerable
lie
whom he had lived 40

is
years.]
the remains of his beloved wife Grizel

21st day of Sept. 1799,
Mr
Life
is
Skinner of Longside
believed to have
Hunter, who died on the

through
life,
written the contemporary epitaphs printed in this

notice of Longside.
in the 80th year of her age, having
shewn
herself,
An
is
excellent account of his
the humble Christian, and, for nearly,
prefixed to his Poetical Pieces (Edin. 1809),

referred.
It need only be
58 years, a partner of every conjugal virtue. " When such friends part, 'tis the survivor dies."
to which the reader
here said that,
among
other works,
Mr
Skinner
LONGSIDE.
wrote An ecclesiastical history of Scotland, which
is
99
much sought
after.
His name, however,
is
died,
Peter and Margaret Sangster, Kinmundy, aged respectively 25 and 29 years, in
more generally, and popularly associated with his which TuUochgorum, the Ewie wi' the Crookit Horn, &c., are too well known to require coiaament and every reader of Burns is aware of the friendly nature of the correspondence which passed between these two
poetical writings, of
;
1791-98
Reader, suppose thy neighbour's case thine own,
And
breath a fellow feeling o'er this stone.

d. 1786, a.
Francis Greig, Torhendry,
72 :
The man
of honest heart,
and prudent head,
Is lov'd while living,
and esteemed when dead,
great masters of Scottish song,
Mr
S. lived in a
And
S.
such was he whose epitaph
we
read.
thatched cottage at Linshart, with little more accommodation than " a but and a ben ;" and there
he reared a large and meritorious family, one of
In dutiful remembrance of an attentive husband, an exemplary parent, an agreeable neighbour, an expert farmer, in business active, in ad-
M.
whom became
Bishop of Aberdeen long before

{v.
versity cheerful, in principle conscientious, in practice irreproachable, the sensible
his father's decease,
p. 32.)
Mr Skiuuer
con-
man and
sincere
tinued to reside at Liushart until 4 June 1807,
Christian
this
small
monument
of family love is
when
it
was thought advisable to remove him to

;
laid over the mortal part of
Andrew
aged 75
of rest,
Kidd, who
the house of his son, the Bishop, at Aberdeen

space of twelve days,
dy'd in Kora, March
10, 1795,
its
but he survived the change only for the short
Peace to his body in
bed
when he died
as above.
Till call'd to join the soul it
once possest,
Combined with
"
infinite
his scholarly
acquirements, and
And
soul
and body be
for ever blest.

27,
devotedness to his church and people, he possessed
His spouse Elizabeth Seller, died Dec.

1801, aged 79.
humour," which he enjoyed and exercised almost to his last moments. Being at a
marriage in the parish soon after he came to the
district,
Near Mr Skinner's monument, enclosed by a

low wall, a stone with a long laudatory inscription, is prefaced by these words
:
and remaining to enjoy the festivities beyond the time that a worthy dame thought
of advising
S.
M.
scarcely decent for a minister, she took the liberty
his age,
Dy'd Febr. and 58th of
3,
1790, in the 85th year of
his ministry,
[v.
John Brown,
p. 58.)
that
" If
Mr
S. to leave the
company by sayiug
sir,
A.M., minister
of Longside, &c.
ye dinna gae hame,

!"
folk
'11
be
On
the right of the churchyard gate,
two
in-
speakin' aboot ye
to which he curtly replied

;
" Maybe, gudewife but I'll wager there'll be naebody readier than yersel' !" It is also told
that a poor
scribed
monuments, the
:
oldest in Latin, the other
in English, record the death of
two
of the parish
woman
ministers
called
one day at Linshart,
while he was busily employed in some matter of
The
Pv.ev<i
John Lumsden,
15 years minister of
:
importance
assistance,
and, with the view of not being dein the gratitude of

bless
the parish, died January 1732, aged 47
His wife's
tained by her, he at once gave her some pecuniary
name
-was
Frances Fullarton.
when the woman,

;
her heart, exclaimed
" May the Lord
and your family,

the nicht
!"
sir an' may ye a' be in " I'm very much obliged to you,
you Heaven
The Rev<i William Greig, aged 72, died on Sunday 17 Aug. 1828, " having that day preached
to his ijeople. "
7 Oct. 1827,
His wife Margaret Skinner, died

69.
my
aged
good woman," quo' the old man, "for all your kind wishes only, you needua be so particular as
;
Amelia Milne, widow

Burnside, in
of
Charles McDonald,
of
memory
of
her beloved son William,
to the time
.'"
whose
life
was taken away near the Kirktown
St Fergus, on the 19 Nov. 1853, in the 29th year

d.
William Kidd,
1834,
'tis
a.
84
:
last.
of his age
The
secret of his death is
Tho' 84 be long,
And
here in i)eace
gone and past, I'm resting at the
with the Lord, who also hath the record of his humble faith, his Christian character, and his
"
luo
EPITAPHS,
life,
AND INSCRIPTIONS:
day
blameless
to be all disclosed on tbat great
The south window

M.
in
S.
of the chancel contains a

:
when He
eousness,
deeils.
shall
come
to judê the world in right-
painting of S. John, with the following
and give
to every one according to his
JoANNis CuMMiNO, qui per multos annos hoc grege curam pastoralem fidelissime exercuit.
It was for the murder of this person

was
tried at
tliat
Smith,
Mr
C, who was
a grandson of
Mr
Skinner,
au unqualified medical practitioner at St Fergus,

the Spring Assizes,
died pastor of this place in 18

of him,
and a portrait
Aberdeen, in
effected
1854.
It appears
that Smith had
an
assurance on the
life of
M'Donald, and met him
by
ai:)pointment on the evening of 29th
Novemfrom
to
by Mitchell, is preserved in the vestry. There is a painted window of two lights in one picture is illustrative of the south aisle the Lord's Prayer, " Thy kingdom come, thy will
;
ber,
when
the
young man came by

Smith,
his death
be done
;"
another of the text,
" Suffer
little
a pistol shot.
who afterwards went
children to
New
Zealand, was acquitted on the verdict of not

;
proven
to him.
but the insurance money was never paid

of
come unto me." Brasses record the death of John Hutchison, late in Monyruy, who died in New Zealand, 1863, aged 54 and
;
Near the north dyke

granite obelisk bears
:
the churchyard, a
Fleeman,
Erected in ISGl to indicate the grave of Jamie in answer to his prayer "Dinua bury
Catherine Arbuthnot, who died 1856, aged 43. Another window of one light, representing the good Samaritan, is in memory of Rop.ERT Cheves, who was born in 1791, and died
his wife
in 185G.
me
like a beast.
This
The Established and Free Churches

Ludquharn
in
are also
singular being was born at
good plain buildiugs

side,
and the
village of
1713, and died at
Kinmundy
in 1778.
His re-
which
is
on the
increase, contains
Longsome neat
markable sayings and doings are narrated in an interesting pamphlet entitled The Life and Death
dwelling houses.
The Reverend Charles Arbuthnott, Abbot

of the
Udny's Fool, by Rev. Dr Pratt, Episcopal minister, Cruden. It ought to be added that Dr Pkatt, who was also the author of " Buchan," and other meritorious works, died on 20 March 1869, beloved and respected by all who could appreciate unobtrusive worth, and real merit.
of of
Jamie Fleeman, the Laird
Scots College of St James' in Ratisbon,
who
died 19 April 1820, aged 84, was a native of
Longside.
for his
that,
So highly was the Abbot respected worth and learning by the German Princes,
it
when
was resolved, by the Diet of Ratis-
bon, to secularise the church lands of the Empire,
an express exception was made in the Abbot's

favour.
The
;
respect
his
abated
and
funeral
A handsome
striking object
in 1853,
Episcopal church, built of native
highest dignitaries in
for him never was attended by the Germany.
and esteem
granite, with nave, side aisles,
and chancel,
It
also a
central tower about 90 feet high,
Longside.
to S.
is the most was founded
and dedicated
John.
stained
glass
window
of three lights, illustrative of the

life
principal events in the
of
Our
Saviour, orna-
ments the church

is
and a brass below the window

Skinner:
(BLESSED VIRGIN MARY.)
inscribed to
Mr
T^HE
church of Grange was originally a chapel
In memoriam admodum Reverendi Joannis Skinner, M,A., per sexaginta quatuor annos hujus gregis pastoris, qui natus iij Octob. J721, obijt l(i Jun: 1807.
<*> belonging to tlie Abbots of Kinloss, to which Abbacy the lands of StratJti/lo/] with their pertinents, &c., were granted by William the
Lion, 1195-0.
GRANGE,
Grange was formerly a part of the parish it was disjoined in 1618.
old church,
OR
STRATHISLA.
Upon
101
of
the wall of the burial aisle of the Innes'
Keith, from which
of Edingicht, the gate of
which
is
dated 1816
of of
The
which stood in the burial

In 1795,
This monument
is
erected
of
by John Innes
Thojias Innes,
ground, was in a ruinous state in 1793.
Mwiryfold to the memory

JVlAviryfold, his father,
the present kirk was erected upon an adjoining
who
lyes here interred.
He
mound Alexander,
died the 12 of Sept. 1754, aged 73 years. the first
Duff
of
Braco,
who
Thomas
of Fife, in
Innes of Muiryfold was a son of the
died in 1705, was buried in the aisle of the old
laird of Edingicht,
and long factor
for the Earl
church, where there was a handsome

to his
monument
lost.
memory, now buried, or otherwise

failure of the
It
son.
which capacity he was succeeded by a Another son was a W.S. in Edinburgh,
was in consequence of the
male suc-
cession in the person of William, son of the
above
Alexander Duff, that Alexander's next brother of Dipple succeeded to Braco and it was the eldest son of William Duff of Braco and Dipple who was
;
and became founder of the family of Innes of Netherdale, in Marnoch. The Innes' of Edingicht are cadets of Innes of that ilk in Morayshire, and have held the property of Edingicht from about the middle of the 16th century. On
the death of Sir William, the 8th in succession
the
first
Earl of Fife.
A
stone,
slab of
Portsoy marble, encased in free
built into the

:
churchyard dyke,
is
thus
inscribed
Alexander Kerr,
hujus
doctus,
non
doctor, ecclesite
ab instaurata
religione
pastor
secundus,
varum officii fideli exercitio nemini secundus, vir magni iugenii ac indefessi laboris, donis omnibus foris domique mystoe necessariis abunde refertus
veritatem, pietatem, charitatem, voce, vita, exemplo
docuit, coluit, promovit.
exiivias deposuit,
aitatis 06.
from Robert of Innerniarkie and Balveny, who was created a baronet in 1628, the title descended to John of Edingicht, whose 2d son is the present It is told that one of the family of baronet. Edingicht, who was an officer in the army, when on his way to Holland during the war towards the close
of the
last
century, was repri-
manded by
hat on his
commander for not having a proper head, upon which Innes jocularly rehis
Hie, ubi vires exantlavit,

43,
marked
(in allusion to the

if
coming
struggle,
anno Dom. 1G93, minister ii
the source from which,
spared, he
and meant to
Memento mori. [Alexander Kerr, a learned man, although not
supply himself), " that there

hats than heads
!"
wad soon be mae
a doctoi-, second pastor of this church after the Reformation, but second to none in the faithful dis-
Upon
yard
:
a tablet built into the wall of the church-
charge of his sacred duties
man
of great ability
the gifts necessary to a minister at
endowed with all home and abroad, taught, cultivated, and promoted, by voice, Here, life, and example, truth, piety, and charity. where he spent his strength, he laid down his remains, A.D. 1G93, in the GGth year of his age, and the 43d of his ministrj\ Ptemember death. ]
and unwear-ied
activity, richly
Arciid. Camreel, minister of Grange 22 was Diligent in Office, Learned in Science, the Animated Friend, and Chearful Companion. He lived 00 years. Died the 10, was buried here
years,
his birth day, the 19 October 1774.
Mr
Friend and
erects this
Trustee,
John Innes
of
His intimate Muryfold,
monument.
of Keith, d.
Upon another
Associataj
stone
a.
:
James Shepherd, Poolside

83
1817,
:
a
Doino,
Ana
Hie coquiesctit in August 16, 1606 Gordona, uxor piissima D. Air. Keri,
,
As
mark
of respect for his virtuous life
symmystai Grangen. natapque 4 code busto.

[Associated (married) Aug. 16, 1600
:
Now
reaping the fruit of his gain,

is
This stone
erected
Here
rest
Till in glory she
by Isobel his meet him again.

Shepherd,
:
wife.
together in the Lord,
Anna Gordon,
in the
the most pious
wife of
Mr
Alex. Kerr, joint minister of Grange,
Isobel Birnie, wife of
.J.
d. 18.32, a. 84.
and four daughters,
same tomb.]
Upon
102
EPITAPHS,
AND INSCRIPTIONS
slie
A morte et potestate sepulcliri nuUi redemptio. Vive memor lethi. Beati iu Domino qui obeiuit. Hie eonduntur cineres Patricii Wilson, quondam in Cantlie, et Isojbell.e Strachan, ejus conjugis,
mortem obiere, ille Apr. 4, 1723, ilia Dec. P.W. I.S. Hie itidem GuL. Wilson, eorum natu filius minimus, et Alex. Gairden, eorum
qui
.
1709.
herself, wrote She afterwards became an actress, for a brief period. She ultimately led an irregular life, and died in poverty iu a miserable garret, in Old Round Court, Strand (now removed), 27 January 1792, aged 47 years." Ferguson himself was born in a secluded but
had disgraced, to
maintain
articles
for the magazines.
nepos, flore retatis exuvias deposuere.
picturesque spot on the Deveron, at a place called

the Core of
[From death and the power of the grave there is no redemption. Live mindful of death. Blessed Here lie the ashes are they who die iu the Lord. of Patrick Wilson, sometime in Cantlie, and of IsoBELLA Strachan, and his wife, who died 4 April
1723,
Mayen,
in
Rothiemay, Banffohire,
upon the
left side of
the road from Rothiemay to
the kirk of Maruoch.
His parents were
in
poor
circumstances.
He was
the 2d son of John Fer-
and Dec.
1709, respectively.
Here
also
guson and Elspeth Lobban, and was born 25 April

1710, and died at
are laid
the ashes of
William Wilson,
their
youngestsou, and of Alex. Gairden, theirgrandson,
For other interesting particulars, see

derson's Life of Ferguson.
London 16 November 1776. i)v HenNov. 1803, aged 62
who were
cut oif in the flower of their age.]
An
adjoining
monument
beai'S
John Priest
died,
Sacrum memoriae, Georgii Wilson, nuper in Cantly, qui mortem obiit 22 die Martis, A.D. 1742,
As pensively you pass, Above the silent dead.

Improve your time note And at your leasure read from
Psa. 37-3, 6
6,
1,
;
Hoc amoris et doloris monumeutum oetatis su; 04. uxor superstes et mcerens posuit.
[Sacred to the
in Cantly,
of his
this
memory of George Wilson, late who died 22 March 1742, in the 64 year
Prov.
7, 7,
1,
3,
;
5,
Isa.
1,
;
16-18
53,
viii.
His surviving and sorrowing wife erected this monument in token of her love and
age.
grief.]
13 14
Matt.
14
John,
;
v.
39-40
Rom.
2d
Pet.
5, 11
Rev. 23, 12-17.

of the Associate
Revd.
of
Andrew Young
This was the father-in-law

the astronomer.
is
James Ferguson,
gations of Keith and Grange

tion of the
" after
Congre-
the disjunc-
His mother-in-law (whose death
not recorded upon the stone) was Elspetii,
daughter of Archibald
Grant
two congregations in 1785, minister of Grange only" died 21 May 1788, in the 37th year of his life, and 12th of his ministry.
of
Edin Valley,
Ptevd.
She died 29 Jan. 1771. It was on 31 May 1739, that " James Ferguson,' in the parish of Keith,
John Primrose
of the Associate
Congre-
gation, Whitehill, Grange, died 28 Feb. 1832, aged

81,
and in the 43d year
of his ministry.
and Isobel Wilson" were married at Grange. They had one daugliter and three sons, all born in London, where the two eldest sons died respecThe youngest son died tively in 1772 and 1803. in Edinburgh in 1833. The daughter Agnes, who was born in 1745, was, says Dr E. Henderson, in
bis Life of
Revd. .John Smith of the Wesleyan Methodist Society, sometime missionary iu Barbadoes and St Vincent, West Indies, died 17 Sep. 1855, aged 27.
A recently erected mural

of the father of ]\Ir Duff,
tablet to the
memory
who, under the assumed

is
Ferguson
(p.
468), " remarkable for

;
name
of
Andrew Halliday,
the author of several

:
her beauty and intelligence
she suddenly dis-
popular plays and other works, bears
appeared about the end of July, or early in Aug.

1763, and was never more seen by her parents.
late researches regarding her show that she was decoyed by a young nobleman and taken to Italy. He abandoned her, and she,- being probably ashamed to return to her parents, whom
The Rev. William Duff, 23 years minister

Grange, died 23 Sep. 1844, aged 53.
of
Our
The
district of
Grange, or Strathisla, having
belonged to the Abbey of Kinloss, the whole lands
were anciently held under the superiority of that
GRANGE.
house
(v.
103
Records of the Monastery of Kinloss, by
any other distemper.

ordinarie sin,
it is
That in respect
it is
not an
LL.D.) The monks had a castle, or residence, upon the knoll now occupied by the church of Grange. It was surrounded by a ditch and about 1574, a "tour, fortalice, and orchard," adorned the mound. The neighbourhood of the church of Grange possesses much natural beauty. Near it stands the hamlet of the Kirktown, with " the noisy mansion," in which the youth of the district have been long taught by a most accomplished master.
John
Stuart,
referred to the preabyterie."
The next
that a
extract (11th
young woman
in the parish of
June 1683) goes to prove Grange was
so sorely afflicted with scrofula, that she resolved to go to London, in the hope of being cured of
the disease,
by the Royal Touch, which was long

:
deemed
to be eflficacious in that complaint
"Marjorie Gray being to go up to London for seeking remedie to her disease, supposed to be the
free
Although, now-a-days, there

at
the
is
no ale-house
it
King's Evil, got a Testificat declairing her to be from church censure aud public scandal."
clachan of Grange, the door-linlel of the

is
old hostelry
at Muiryfold,
and upon
is this
William
of
Malmesbury says that Edward the

first
quaint couplet:
Confessor was the

miracle was
prince
who pretended
;
to
YE GENTLEMEN, AS YE GO BY, COME lOIN YOVR PLACE, FOR IAMIE'S DRY.

Besides the Established Church, there are also
have the power of curing scrofula and that the first performed upon a young married
Free and U.P., Churches in the parish.

former
kirk,
The
is at no great distance from the parish and the latter is situated at VVhitehill, where there has been a congregation for about a century. A bridge which crosses the Isla, near the church, "was built in 1699, by Alexander Christie, tenant
woman. He farther states that the ceremony was done by the king stroking the afflicted parts with his hand dipt in water also, that the cure was perfected within a week, and the woman, previously childless, gave birth to twins in due time The celebrated Dr Samuel Johnson was touched for the same disease, when a child, by Queen Anne, but without any good effect and, doubt; ! ;
God, and the good of the people of Grange." The stone which bore this inscription is said to have fallen into the Isla and the Kirk-session records shew that the sum of 100 merks Scots, which was left by Christie
in Cautly, for the glory of
;
less,
although unrecorded, the

to
visit of
INIarjory
Gray
King Charles was attended with no
better success.
for the
before 1740.
maintenance of the bridge, was expended The bridge was originally built for
It
Additional Inscriptions at Orange.
foot passengers.
in 1783, for horses
was repaired and widened and carts, &c. The two extracts below, copied from the KirkGrange, are interesting.
The following is from a recently erected monument within the Edingight burial aisle
:
Near
this tablet, mingling

lie
with the dust of his
Ancestors,
the remains of Sir
eession records of
first
The
Balvenie and
Edingight,
Baronet,
John Innes, who died
of
at
shows the gravity with which old Kirktreated a seemingly harmless
sessions
circum-
stance, while the latter implies a belief in another
act of even a
more superstitious character than
the former.
The
:
first
entry, dated 21st April,
1686,
is
as follows
Aberdeen, 23rd March 1829, aged 71. Also those of his spouse, Dame Barbara Forbes, who died 12th August 1844, aged 74. Of his eldest son, Sir John Innes, Bart., who died 3rd December 1838, aged 37. Of his daughter, Barbara, who died 14th March 18G5, aged 61. Also of his grandson,
" Isabell Reid compeared for charming, and concharme the eyes for the mark, by spitting, blowing, into the eye, and repeating an orison, one of which she repeated before the Session, bot denyed that she could charme for
fessed that she used to
Alexander, who died 3rd March
1845, aged 3.
Sir
I
James Innes, Bart., the erector of this monument, succeeded to the titles and estates of
Edingight on the death of his brother in 1838. He married a daughter of Alex. Thurburn, Esq.,
104
EPITAPHS,
of
AND INSCRIPTIONS:
Wm.
Keith
Sacred to the
[2.] of the Rev. William Duff, 23 years minister of Grauge, died 23rd Sept. and of his children, James Uuff, 1844, aged 53 Mary-Keith Duff, died in infancy, July 1826 John Duff, A.M., died died Sep. 1848, aged 16 aged 21. Feb. 1849,
sometime tenant
Thurburn, Esq.,
{infra, p. 167.)
solicitor
Drum, and a sister and bank agent
of in
memory
In memory of Alexander Howie, carrier, Rotliiemay, who died on the 14th Sep. 1839, aged 26 years. This stone was erected by those Merchants in the
district,
who were
his principal employers, in token
of their respect for his uniform integrity,
and
his
Mr W. Duff, who came from Dumfriesshire, had

one son who has attained the rank of a General in the American army, and another, under the name of " Andrew Halliday," has acquired fame
as the author of several popular plays, &c.
latter
unremitting attention to business.
The next
inscription (from a flat slab),

its
is
chiefly
remarkable for
odd orthography
Alex'"
The
Sub hoc Saxo Jacet
Long
was named
after his father's
friend and
muir Antiquis InteJerrimisque Pro

genitoribus editus qui post
fellow-student. Sir
Andrew
Halliday, sometime
Domestic Physician to the Duke of Clarence.
30 Aunor' Stadi' SePtris
11 mo
Anno Supra milU

4to fatisCeSit*
Sep*
20mo
[* sic.
trAnsuverie* patres Sic est* trAusib'mus Omnes
Vita in patintia mors in

desiderio
5UXX
(S.
%.
non
est mortale
qd opto
CONGAL, ABBOT.)
is
Ûnder this stone lies Alexr. Loxomuir, descended from an ancient and most respectable family, who, after a career of 30 years, died 11th Sep. 1724. Our fathers have passed away, in like manner shall we also all pass away.
Life in patience, death in desire,
is
f^HE
^
church of Durris, which
rated in the
old Taxation at 10 merks, was a rectory in
the diocese of St Andrews.
Messrs George Eraser and Archibald
Hog were
ministers of Durris in 1568 and 1574 respectively.
what
wish for
The former had probably been

Blairiedryne.
I
related to the
not mortal.]
Erasers of Durris, and the latter to the
Hogs
of
The
above inscription probably relates to an ancestor of the Longmuirs in Keith (infra, p. 166), one of whom has recently presented his fellow-
have seen no record of any old
" reidar" at Durris. After the Reformation the church was attached
to the Presbytery of
townsmen with a handsome public
hall.
The
Eordoun
but, in 1717, it
sur-
North from Ayrshire, where there is a place called Langmure, In 1477 (Reg. Honoris de Morton), James Langmour, presbyter, witnesses a deed regarding the Collegiate Church of Dalkeith. The next two inscriptions (from tablets built
carried to the
name may have been
was annexed
city
it is
to that of
Aberdeen, from which

a plain building,
distant about 12 miles.

is
The
present kirk, which
pleasantly situated on the south banks of the Dee,
was erected
lOHN
in
in 1822.
:
The bell
OLD ABD.
(sup., p. 27), bears
this inscription
into the kirk-yard dyke), and note, are
more
fully
MOW AT
FE.
1765
given here than below {v. pp. 101-2). The first slab was " removed from the church" in 1795 :
[1.]
USUM ECCLESIiE DE DURRIS. SABATA PANGO, FUNERA PLANGO.
The
:
burial aisle of the Erasers of Durris
is
at
Agvst 16, 1666 Hie coqviescvt in Doino, Ana Gordona, vxor piGtissia D. Ari. Keri, symystse Grangen natseque 4 code busto.
Associatse
:
the east end of the kirk.
It contains a recess
tomb, dated 1594.

initials,
The Eraser arms, with
the
T. F., and motto, constant, are upon a
DURRIS.
panel below the date. Sir A. Fraser, chamberlain,
105
and brother-in-law to Bruce, had a grant of the thanedoms of Durris and Cowie from that king. The Fraser tomb has been used by subsequent proprietors. It was re-edified in 1869 by the late laird of Durris, who put up six granite slabs, four of which are respectively inscribed as follows
:
Ternan, was appointed minister of Durris in 1675, and that he was deposed in 1716.
[2.]
Magister
Andreas
Dur
Magistri loannis
ris ecclesije
sacrosanctaj
....
memory of Anthony Mactier, Died 5th Aug. 1854, aged 81. Of Maria Mactier, wife of the late Anthony Died 30th Dec. 1852. Mactier, Esq. of Durris aged 52. Of Eliza-Kose Mactier, eldest daughter of Anthony and Maria Mactier Died 14th Oct. 1841, aged 16. Of Henry Mactier, 8th son of the said Anthony Born 1st Sept. 1836, died and Maria Mactier
1869
:
To
the
:
heologife studiosus
Esq. of Durris
decimo die Sept.

26
.
17
walled enclosure,
is
kirk-yard,
called
on the west side of the the Lines Aisle. Although it
15th Sept. 1836.
Mr
Mactier,
in
who bought
;
Durris about 1837,
made money
India as a merchant.
He
be-
was long used as the burial place of the Inneses, who were lessees of Durris, the tomb contains no monument. The last of this branch of the family was John Innes, Esq., sheriff-substitute of Kincardineshire, who was descended from the house of Leuchars, in Moray, and father of Professor Cosmo Innes of Edinburgh (sup., p. 53.) The next four inscriptions are from fiat stones
in the burial-ground
:
was a daughter of Alex. Binny, Esq., who resided in St Andrews,

his wife
longed to Galloway
and
[1.]
Fifeshire.
Her
uncle,
Thomas Binny, Esq.
of
1715
1.
Fearn and Maulesden, in Angus, possessed a large by Sir Thos*. Lawrence, of Mrs Mactier and her father, &c. possibly one of Lawrence's grandest family groups. Mr T. Binny had also a number of early pictures by Sir H. Raeburn, Sir J. Watson-Gordon, and Colvin Smith. The Binnys were come of a burgess family in Forfar. By judicious management and improvement,
painting,
in Mill of
Here under lyeth John Fraser Doors, who departed the 6 day of July
:
C. F.
1711, in the 63 year of his age.
[2.]
Here lyes William Bisset, late farmer in Darnfourd, who died ye 2d ... 1743, aged 70 years. Also Isobel Pierie, his spouse, who died Nov.
.
1742, aged 70. Vain mortals, learn from hence to know,

Its vain to search for bliss below,
Mr
who
Mactier
is
said to have doubled the value of
the estate of Durris.
He was
Since here ye virtuous, wise, and just

Lies mould'ring to his ancient dust.
[3.]
of William Hogg, late farmer in Mickle barns, who died 26th Feb. 1751, aged 72 We see impartial death cuts down, &c. years.
succeeded by a son,
sold the property in
1867 to James
oil
Young of
Here lyes the body
Kelly, Esq., F.R.S., paraffin
manufacturer.
When
the Fraser Aisle was undergoing repair,
two mutilated grave-stones, were found with the

following remains of inscriptions
[1.]
:
Here lyes Isobel Fr minister lohn

.
er, spous
....
aster
of Duries,
who
David Walker, 1775, a. 76 :
[4.] farmer, Mill of Montquigh, d.
departed
this life the 13 of
May
No
lingering sickness, or long warning pains,
1716, in the -2 of her age.
This
of
is
possibly the grave-stone of the first wife
The pious want to purify their Stains ; To pray forbearance from impending fate,
Mr John
left
Reid, for according to Scott's Fasti,
And urge
repentance on a death-bed state,

fit
he
a widow.
The same
authority states that
Heaven found him
in
any hour
to die,
Mr
Reid, previously schoolmaster at Banchory-
And sudden
snatch'd
him kindly
to the joy.
lOG
EPITAPHS,
Durris the history and
AND INSCRIPTIONS
The
district of
tradi-
tions of which have been given in Memorials of
Angus and Mearns was a thanedom, with a royal hunting forest, &c. The castle of Durris stood where a monument to the late Duke of Gordon
is
P aui
(S.
"^xJf
U
of
t It,
RULE, OR REGULAS.)
erected.
It
was a place
of
the times of Alexander III. and

(as
some note during Edward I. and

;
ÎLCHRIST, EARL
ANGUS,
gave the
church of Munifod to the monks of Arbroath
shewn by Spalding) the house and lands were
soon after the foundation of the Abbey.

his grand-son,
In 1220,
oftner than once harried during Montrose's Wars. bridge crossed tlie Dee near the old castle
Earl Malcolm, gifted the Abthane
lands of Monifieth to Nicolas, the son of a priest

at Kirriemuir.
There are at preone sent two iron-girder bridges in the parish

in the time of Alexander III.
Countess
Maud
About twenty years later (1242) confirmed a donation to Arbroatli,

and
croft,
at iPark, and another near Crathes, the latter of
of lands, with a toft
on the south side
which was erected

laird of Durris.
chiefly at the cost of the late
of the kirk of Monifieth,
pretty Highland
The Shiach stream is
or Fairy's
crossed
burn
Culdees, in
which were held by the her father's time (Reg. Vet. de Aberb.)
of Sculptured Stones,
by a stone
number
which were
bridge near the parish kirk.
found at the church of Monifieth, are
now
prefirst
The Free Church

parish kirk of Durris.
of Durris
and Mary Culter
served in the National
Museum.
They were
stands about a mile to
the north-west of the
engraved by
Mr
P. Chalmers of Aldbar, and

Descriptions
afterwards by the Spalding Club.

held in the parish, near
Statutory fairs are

the Bridge of Park.
still
of the locality are given in both these works, also

in Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of
Probably these represent
which (Edinburgh Prognostication for 1706) was held " at the kirk of Doors
fair,"
" St Coxgal's
Scotland, vols.
1.
and
ix.
the opposite page (kindly lent
The engravings upon by the Society of
in Mernshire."
Antiquaries of Scotland), 'represent two of the

latest discovered of these
As in most parts of the country, Superstition had a firm footing in Durris in old times and, according to story, it wiis fostered there by a pedagogue who played upon the credulity of his neighbours by occasionally personating his Satanic
;
remarkable monuments.
The church
latter of
p.
of Monifieth
and
its
chapel, the
which was at Broughty Ferry (//>, 114), are rated (Old Taxation) at 40 merks.
writers affirm that a chapel, dedicated to
Some
Majesty
one occasion he appeared among the rafters of the church at an evening meeting,
!
On
Our Lady,
stood in ancient times upon the
Lady
This
Banks, in the Tay, opposite to Monifieth.
in the guise of a horned ox, with glaring eyes,
would imply the existence

able distance from
of a population upon,
and nearly
terrified the people out of their wits.
Mr
or near that spot, which, although at a consider-
Pieid,
minister of Banchory, being in the
the shore
now-a-days, had
locality at the time,
was asked
to
go
to the kirk
likely been of comparatively easy access at the
and it is said that, upon seeing the parson, who was remarkable for strength of body as well as of mind, " homey" bawled out
to lay Satan
; :
period referred
last
to.
am
Tay
told that, within the
twelve years, the

feet
has encroached fully
twenty
"
What
are you doiu' here,
Rob
:
Eeid,
Wi' your hard head
?"
To which Mr Reid
" Whether
naively replied
head be hard or saft Come you doon, Or I'll crack your croon !"
my
upon the Links of Monifieth. "Truel Fair at the Kirk of Kinnethmont, and at Kirktown of Monifieth," appears under Oct. in the Edinburgh Prognostication for 1706, In 1574 the churches of Monifieth, Barry, and
Murroes, were served by
as minister
;
Mr Andrew Auchenleck,
and James Lovell was the contem-
porary reader, or schoolmaster, at Monifieth.
107
>
<vs>.\
^?'
[Two Sculptured Stones
at Monifieth.]
108
EPITAPHS,
AND INSCRIPTIONS
Mr
George Dempster took a very decided part and whether owing to that circum;
The
It occupies
present church was erected in 1812-13. much the same site as the pre-
in politics
vious building, which possessed considerable archi

tectural beauty.
stance, or to
of dearth
which is a fine toned, prettily moulded instrument, is adorned with two medallion portraits. It has also a floral ornament
The
bell,
round
its
rim, and this inscription

:
HENKICVS
[Henry
IE
SVIS
TOVT
M.
F.
lACOB
:
SER
POVR MDLXV.
.
VRAI.
an outburst of the populace at a time and scarcity, is not stated but it appears that, during his absence from Dundee in February 1720, his premises were broken into and plundered by the inhabitants. This affair is described in the following letter, addressed by Mr Dempster to the Hon. Harrie Maule of Kellie
;
:
I am all for truth. Jacob
Sermademe,
1565.]
:
From a marble monument

Here
lyes the
within the church
" DuNDiE, 27th Febry. 1720.
"Sir,
am honoured w'
I seed at
yours of the 16th,
George Dempster of Duuuicheu, Merchant in Dundee, who died 2d June

Body
Year
of
1752, in the 75th
of his
Age.
And
also the
Body
of
Margaret
Rait, his Spouse,
who
died
April 1740, in the

his Father,
Year of
her Age.
And
also
JOBN DEMPSTER, îwi&t&y: of

1710.
this Parish,
who died April The above
inscription
contains
some inac-
curacies.
George
According to the Kirk-session records, Dempster and his wife were interred
within the church of Monifieth, on 2d June 1753,
and 9th
May
1741, respectively
while the Pres-
most melanchoUy Eeturue to this wicked Place, the Ruins of a well pleuished Hous, Shope, and Cellars and of all the hundreds that Robed me in a most Barbarous mauer, there is not one secured but, upon the Conterar, are incou raged by the Magistrals, whose slackness in punishing any of them, hath, in place of quieting the minds of the People here, inraged them more than formirly, soet hat if there were not some souldeirs here to supress the Mobe, they would be up againe. I am still perswaded that, if it were layed before the Parliment, the Town would be found layable for my damages,
signifying your simpathy in
affliction.
my
my
bytery books show that the minister died in 1708.
which
of
will
amount
to
1000
str.,
Besids the loss

all
The above-named George Dempster was an

extensive general merchant
my
pappers,
&
turning
me
out of
Bussiness
and corn -dealer
in
here, for they are so inraged at
me
lett
in this place,
by
Dundee.
He was
also
chamberlain or factor to
;
the above incouragement, that they threaten to

asationat
the Countess of
Panmure and at the time of his death he not only owned the barony of Dunnichen, but also the estates of Newbigging, Laws,
me
wherefor pray
me
have your
asistance."
Omachie, Burnside, Restennet, Wester Denhead, New Grange, now Letham Grange. In 1753, these properties yielded a gross annual rental of 9233 16s Scots, or 769 8s 4d sterling. Mr Dempster was married 19th Oct. 1699. His wife was a daughter of Mr Wm. Rait, minister of Mouikie, and laird of Pitforthy, near Brechin, by Margaret Teaman, a daughter of the laird of Dryburgh. Pitforthy came to Mrs Dempster's
Galry, Hillock, Ethiebeaton, and
grand-father,
The
minister of Monifieth
is
said to have been
descended from the Dempsters of Careston and Auchterless (Douglas' Baronage). A branch of
that ancient family
was designed
of Pitforthy,
near Brechin, long before that property came to

the Guthries, above noticed.
sters of
Some of
the
Demp-
Careston and Pitforthy were merchants

of Brechin at
and burgesses
rulers of the
an early date.
No
fewer than three persons of the surname were

being then a
councillors.
bailie,
who was
minister of Dundee, and
burgh in 1641, Robert Dempster and Charles and James townof
Principal of the College of Aberdeen, through his
marriage with the heiress.

of the last Guthrie of
She was a daughter Pitforthy, and a niece of
The Rev. Mr Dempster

was one
of three sons
Monifieth,
who
the Rev. James Guthrie of Fenwick, author of the

Christian's Great Interest.
"laufuU to George Dempster, citiner of Brechin," began life as preceptor of the Maisondicu or Grammar School of his native
MONIFIETH.
city.
109
on
his
He was afterwards Diinister of Brechin ; and appointment to that living, he was succeeded
by
his brother
a monument to the memory of Mr Barclay within " the queer" at Monifieth. A shield, with the
in the preceptorship
James.
the church of Monifieth became vacant in 1675,
When Mr
Barclay arms, and the

portion of
initials,
M.
I.
B., &c.,
now
built into the gable of the church, is possibly a
Dempster was translated to it from Brechin by and patron, the Earl of Panmure. It was sometime before 10th July 1678, that Mr Dempster married Anna Maule. She was the widow of Mr Alex. Erskine, chamberlain to the Earl of Panmure, and brother to the laird of Carhis friend
that tomb.
The
following couplet,
which
is
given by Menteith from
Mr
Barclay's
monument, although inapplicable
to himself,
may
some
possibly have reference to the condition of
member
*'
of his family
Barclaium
Falleris
;
forsan culpas de coelibe vita

ille
buddo.
She bore at least three sons to Mr and had a numerous family by Mr Dempster, the eldest of whom was the aboveErskine,
first Dempster of Dunnichen Panmure). Mrs Dempster died 27th June 1722, and was buried within the church
uxores duxerat
novem.
'
Of Barclay's single life if you complain, You err ; he had for wife the muses nine.' "
stately
named George, the

{Documents
at
But the most

that of
tomb
at Monifieth
was
Durham
of Pitkerro, who, in 1626, after
of Monifieth.
giving 300 merks to the poor of the parish, was allowed to erect a burial aisle on " the north-side
of the queer" of the kirk.
In addition to the above inscription, the names and good deeds of the minister of Monifieth and
his wife were recorded upon a panel, which was taken from the church in 1812-13. It was kept
This monument, along

at
with that to
Mr
Barclay, was wantonly destroyed

;
when
the present kirk was built
which time,
not only were the fine mouldings of the church
in
since which time
an adjoining wood-yard until about 1856, Along with it has disappeared.
allowed to be utilized, but the very tombstones
were carried
off
to
pave houses and shops in

This disgraceful outrage
A bold carving of the Dempster and Maule arms,

the panel bore this inscription
:
the adjoining village.
QVAM AMAVI DECOREM DOMVS
TV,E. O
BOMINE.
Lord, I have loved the habitation of thy house, and
upon good taste and feeling was perpetrated during the incumbency of the Rev. Wm. Johnstone, author of a pamphlet upon the Decline of Piety
!
the place where thine honour dwelleth.
One
of
part of
troi^hies,
the Pitkerro
lies
tomb, consisting
;
MR JOHN
DEMPSTER, AND ANNA MAULE HIS SPOUSE, CEILED THIS CHURCH.
war
in
the church-yard
and
other portions are built into the east gable of the

kirk.
Mr
fieth
High up
capitals
:
in the
same
wall, a slab bears the
Dempster's immediate predecessor in Moni-
was
Mr John Barclay,
following inscription, prettily cut in interlaced
a son of the laird
of Johnstone in the Mearns.
He was
1649.
Roman
HiC
.
previously
.
minister at Kinnaird, near Brechin, and was ad-
SITVS
.
SEPVLCHRVM
.
HOC
.
SIBI
.
POSTER.
mitted to Monifieth, 9th
May
He
took the
ISQVE SVIS EXTRVENDVM CVRAVIT VIR CLARVS

.
oath of allegiance to King Charles within the
church of Monifieth, 5th Sept. 1662, before Sir

Jas. Ogilvy of
Newgrange, knight, and Andrew

married, had a large
Gray
of
Hayston, sheriff-clerk of Forfarshire.
Mr
Barclay,'
who was twice

in 1675.
;
family,
and died
his father's profession
His son, John, followed and a daughter, Grizel,
PiTCARR PIVS AC PROEVS DVRHAME DE SEMPIVI ARGENTARIVS lAC QVONDAM R EADEM MAIORES TERNiE MEMORI^ CVIVS H^C NOMEN ET ARMA GERENTES HAC IN SESE DEIN R. I* RO PAROCHINA REGNO POSVERVNT VBI EXINDE HVC VSQVE CLARVERVNT
.
.
[In this tomb, which he caused to be constructed

for himself
who married "
the tutor of Omachie's relation,"
and
his posterity, lies
Durhame
of Pit-
appeared before the kirk-session in 1688.

Before the present church was built, there was
carro, a distinguished, pious,
and good man, cashier

of
to the late
King James VI.
immortal memory
Ill)
EPITAPHS,
ancestors,
AND INSCRIPTIONS:
into garden walls
at
aud whose
wbo
bore the same
name and
dis-
Monifieth
aud a tomb-
arms, were settled in this parish in the reign of
stone, approiDriated to the sacrilegious purpose of
King Robert
I.,
where they have occupied a
paving a workshop, presents the family arms, aud

this in-cription
. :
tinguished position up to the present time.]
" cashier" was knighted at Dundee (Balfour's Annals), " at my desyre," 21st Feb. 1651.
The
The same author states that Patrick Ruthven, Earl of Forth, who died at Dundee, 2d Feb. 1651, " was interrid in Grange Durhames ile, in the
paroche churche of Mouefeithe."
the
It
HEIR LYES. ANE. WORTHIE. GENTLEMAN CALLED ALEXANDER DVRUAM QVHA DECESD THE 17 I'EBERVAR 1563 AGED 05 YEARIS.
. . . .
.
more modern tomb -stone
lies
in the
place.
It bears representations of a sailor's
same com:
was from
pass, a ship's anchor, &c., also this inscription
Durhams
of Pitkerro
(who came
to Forfarshire
Here
lyes under this stone,
Andrew
Spink, ship-
from Kirkcudbright), that the Durhams of Luffness and Largo, were descended.
In consequence of the family
affairs
master in Dundee, who departed this

31st day of
his age.
March
1748,
life upon the aud iu the 44th year of
having besecond
come much embarrassed,

son of Sir James
Adam Durham,
Durham
of Luffness, with con-
The next
first
three inscriptions are from Hat slabs,

side of the kirk-yard.
sent of trustees, sold the estate of Pitkerro to
upon the south-east
The
James, Earl of Panmure, in 1685, for the sum of 23,000 merks. About 1705, his Lordship resold
Pitkerro to George Mackenzie, Esq.
longs to
It
presents three shields, charged with mortuary

;
emblems
also this inscription
now
beliEIR
.
1655.
LYE.S
.
Dick, Esq., whose ancestors were
.\NE
FAITIIFVLL
.
BROTHER
Dundee merchants.
tered,
The
oldest or
more southern
DAVID
MO RAM.
or
part of the house of Pitkerro, though
much
al-
The
still
surname
of
j\Ioram
Murham, which
is
was possibly built by the "cashier" of James YL, aud the northern or later portion, may have been erected by the jNIackenzies. The house of Pitkerro, which is well cared for by the present tenant, John Laing, Esq., merchant, is surrounded by some line old trees. Grange of IMonifieth also belonged to the Durhams. It will be remembered that, when on his
survives iu the adjoining parish of Barry,
one of the oldest in Angus.
John
of
Morham
illiam the
obtained the lands of Panbride from
Lion
and about 1214 he confirmed the King's gift of that church to the Abbey of Arbroath The surname was ori(Reg. Vet. de Aberb.) but, on obtaining the lands ginally De Malherb
; ;
of
Morham,
in Lothian, they
assumed Morham
way as
a prisoner to Edinburgh, in 1650, the
quis of Montrose was lodged at the house of

for the night
outsider,
;
MarGrange
as
a surname (Chalmers' Caledonia.)

Ilossie, in
it
The De
Gowrie,
Malherbs held the property of
and, but for the noise of a drunken

to gain admittance,
and
also
gave a donation out of

initialed
to the
monasI.
who wanted
Mon-
tery of Arbroath.
trose
would have escaped from
his guard, chiefly
The
second slab
is
M.
I.
M.
:
through the stratagem of Lady Durham, who had
him
attired in a suit of her
own
is
clothes.
Guynd
charged with three boars' heads, for Urquhart also, these traces of an inscription
It bears a shield
;
says that the laird of Grange
of
" ane ancient
family and chief of his name," and describes the

place as " a good house, yards, and planting, with
Monumentum Urquhart
hoc
Ioi-iannls
Monufuthensis
quod Ianeta
charissima erigendum
salmon fishings in the river Tay."

last
William, the
MoRUM
MDCLXIIII anno
obiit
Durham
of Grange, sold the property about
1702, to R. Martin, Edinburgh

Neish, Esq., of
{Mem. by James
built
The Laws.) (v. Appx.) Good carvings of the Durham arms are
10 Cal. lulij
anno Christi Secundo anno Salutis humana;

Trigesimo
"
MONIFIETE.
Ill
Since
laid
I last
scription, the
upon
its
found traces
the
words,
saw the stone with the above inMr Young has kindly had it face, and on turniug it over, he has of Hexameter verse, in which are
Rev.
" ferulaiu tulit."
The
of
inscription
and in 1459, David Gardia had charters of the lands of Lunleithein, which were held in ward, on the resignation of Thomas, father of David Gardin (MS. Notes of Scotch Cliarters at Panmure.)
Fither of Spalding
;
and Janet,
his spouse,
ought possibly to read

[This monument, to the
From
memory
Monifieth,
a table-stone to the eastward of the last:
HART, schoolmaster
of
John Urquwho died 16th

his
mentioned monument
Here
lieth the
body
of Sir
Edward Smith
Lees,
June
1664, in his 32d year,
was erected by
forty-five years Secretary to the Post Office of Ire-
beloved wife, Janet Morum.]
land and Scotland, and who, at Broughty Ferry, on

elaborate carving,
flesher's
The
also
third stone bears
much
the 24th of September 1846,
fell
asleep in Jesus.
of
a shield charged with a
cleaver,
knife,
and axe
This
gentleman had the honour
knighthood
visited Ire-
conferred upon him
when George IV.
Here lyes Robert Lorimer husband to Christian Horn sometime flasher in Monifieth who Here lyes Ianet Finlaw, spoues to Robert Morum in Monifueth, who died 11th February 1G76, aged 44. Also here lyes Christian Horn, sometime Spouse to Robert Lorimer, who was flesher in Mouefieth. She died Dec. 8, 1742, aged QQ.
land in 1821.
His lather, originally from Ayr-
under the Government in Ireand was created a baronet in 1804. The next inscription is from a flat stone (enclosed), with a carving of the Scott arms
shire, held office
land,
Her
lyes ane honest
man
.
called
.
Robert
Scot,
marble
tablet, within
an enclosure on the
is
vho dyed the 3 of December age, anno Domini 16

. .
the 40 year of his
north side of the church-yard,
thus inscribed
Scotts, waulkmillers
of
at Balmossie, are said to

lost) at
Here
lies
interred the
Body
of
James Erskine
have had a monument (now

with these punning lines
:
Monifieth,
Linlathen,
who departed
this life
August
of
1816, at Broadstairs, Isle of
on the 26th of Thanet, County

the Victory
Kent, aged 28 years. " Thanks he to Cod which (j'lveth us throwjh Our Lord Jesus Christ."
Two
of his
Infant Children,
Ann and
here,
James-
" On earth I loaulked for many years, But here I now do sleep ; Where I shall walk when I awake, To you's a mystery deep.
Katherine, are likewise interred

and Katherine.
and
viz.
the Greyfriars Churchyard, Edinburgh,
Two in Mary
dateless slab, within
same enclosure, has tea
initial letters
down
the sides, which possibly re-
present those of the names of as
many
children of
Uavid
of
Erskine, advocate, father of the above-
the Websters.
Upon
the face of the stone
named James
Cardross.
Erskine, was a cadet of the family
He
lathen, &c., from
Graham
bought the property of Linof Fintray about 1805

;
This stone was erected by Andrew Webster tennant in Downieken, and Barbara Scott his spouse,
in remembrance of his deceased Grandfather and Grandmother, vizt. Andrew Webster and Margaret Scott his spouse. He was tennant in Omachie and was both interred here.
and married Ann, daughter of Graham of Airth. His younger son, Thomas Ekskine, LL.D., the friend of Thomas Carlyle, and author of several theological works, who died at Edinburgh in He was 1870, aged 82, was buried at Monifieth. succeeded in Linlathen, &c., by a sister's son, James Paterson- Erskine, Esq., a cadet of the Patersons of Castle Huntly, in Gowrie. During
the early part of the 15th century, certain portions
of Linlathen
These
himself,
were ancestors of the AVebsters who bought Flemington and Meathie, the last recorded of whom (upon a marble slab at Monifieth), Avas "James Webster of Meathie and Flemington
who
died 12th Feby. 1848."
Upon
lyes ane vertuous
:
and honest man, called
and Craigow
(Craigie), belonged to
Here
ll'i
EPITAPHS, AiVD IMCRIPTIO.VS:

iu the Ferrie,
Iames Hill, skipper

Elspeth Urquhart,
and husband to
(siq). p. 9.
who departed
life
the 29 of Decem-
ber 1711, of age 37. Man's
on earth,
Here is interred James Webster, late tenant iu Balmadoun, lawfull son to William Webster, tenant in Ethiebeaton, who died the 11th of August 1758,
aged 30 years.
Here
STiVEisr,
lyes ane virtuous
woman
called
Matilda
Also
his
only child
William
wbo
spous to George Kirkcaldie, in Balgillo> died the 8 December 1732, and of age 67.
a small head-stoue adjoining the grave of
Webster, who died the 1st of Nov. 1710, aged 2 years 6 months, who was procreated by Jean Low
his spouse.
From
D. Bowman, engineer, Pernambuco (son of Captain Bowman of 93d regiment), who died at Broughty Ferry in 1872, aged 55
:
Mr W.
Margret Greig, wife of Robert Tullo, tenant iu Omachie, who died April 27th 1801, aged 35 years.
Matilda Donaldson,
Asloody,
d. in
dr.
of
Isobel
Duncan,
a.
" a languishing decay," 1708,
17
Here lyes James Bowman, smith in Cadgertown^ who died December the 9th day 1753, his age 56.
Round
the margin of a table-shaped stone
Here lyes Alexander Anderson, husband to Margaret Sturrock, some time tennant iu Kingennie, who died May 24, 1722, aged 66. Here also lyes
In the cold bed Christ dearest saints must ly, Till they be wakened by the angel's cry The bed is cold, the dust lys here cousum'd, But Christ in grave did ly, and he the grave per;
Margaret Stctrrock,
derson, who died
his spouse,
who
died
Novem-
fum'd. Their souls dislodg'd, to mansions bright do soar, Where Christ is gone to keep an open door
;
ber 29th, 1746, aged 86.
Here
also lyes
Iean An-
The
clog of earth
must stay a while behind

till
May
12th, 1716, aged 22.
No
guest for Christ
thus
it
be
refin'd.
The following
is
upon the face of the same stone.
Arsludie,
estate of
in
now
Ashludie,
formed part of the
It will be seen that the concluding couplet of the
epitaph embodies the same beautiful idea as iu the modern song of " the Angel's Whisper"
:
Grange of Monifieth, and was occupied 1692 by John Durhame, " whose house was
in the nicht,
burned
the
and he in
it" (^Session 7ie-
Here lyes ane vertuous young woman caled Elizabeth Andersone, daughter to Alexander Andersone and Margaret Storak, who departed the 31 day of March 1711, and of her age 22 : O my soul, the Lord prepare thee. When death comes here, then I must leave thee
;
cords, per J. Neish, Esq.)
Ashludie belonged to
Bamff from about the beginning It was bought from that family in 186- by Alex. Gordon, Esq., millsiînner, Arbroath, who has erected a mansion house upon the property.
of of the present century.
Ramsays
Wheu death comes here, he stays no man's leasure.

Therefor adeu
all
worldly pleasure.
But what more pleasure would I have Then the Lord to bring me to the grave.
Into
my
grave while I lye sleeping.
Alex. Paterson, Cotton, Arsludie, hbd. to Marg. Brown, d. 1784, a. 66 : All men live in the same death power, Who seised my beloved man hour One word to me he could not speak,
;
The angels have
my
soul iu keeping.
Though Hoods
of tears
ran
down
his cheek.
Kingennie has long been Wedderburn property.

and some carved It still stones at the old house present their arms and One is dated 1637, and another with initials. the Wedderburn and Ramsay arms impaled, is
belongs to that family
;
David, sou to John Cairncross, mercht., Monifieth, and Agnes Henderson, d. 1744, a. 3 m.
:
Here
lyes a hermles bab.
Who
And
only came and cryed In baptism to be washed,

in three
initialed
A.
W.
E. R.
stone,
months old he deyed.

20
:
The farm gear carved upon the

whicb the next inscription
family, but
is
from
Silvester Steven,
d. 1734, a.
copied,
and the
Life's everlasting gates
blacksmiths' arms, indicative of the origin of the
For ever had been
shott,
of Christ
more particularly a
skull,
and thigh-
bones, &c., are very elaborate pieces of carving.
Had not the death Them pulled up.

MONIFIETH.
Since the previous sheet was printed, 1 have re-
113
1618 {Fasti Abd.,
p. 469),
was married
to
Janet
ceived a full copy of the inscription from the
Moram
at Monifieth, on the 24th of October 1656,
tombstone of
tially printed
Mr
on
Urquhart
p.
at Monifieth
(par-
110), which the Rev.
Mr
Young
has succeeded in deciphering sooner than
he anticipated, the turning over of the slab upon its face, which was suggested by the Earl of Dalhousie, having
had the
effect of
completely clear-
ing the stone.
The
inscription,
was probably
composed by the Mr Barclay who (sup., p. 109), " had for wife the muses nine." It will be remembered that Orbilius, referred to in the epitaph, was tutor to Horace, and so noted
for his severity that his pupil calls
and by her he had two sous, William and John, and a daughter Margaret. The last recorded was born in 1662, and the baptism of the first-named, in 1657, was witnessed by Wm. Durhame elder, and Wm. Durhame, younger of Grange. These particulars have been kindly furnished from the Parish Registers in the possession of the Registrar-General at Edinburgh, together with the minute relative to the appointment of Mr Urquhart to the office of parish teacher of Monifieth. As the minute presents some points of peculiar interest,
him " flagosus."

Horaces much
not only to the

it is
local,
full
:
but also to the
Mr Young
in
his
suggests that, as the Poet had watery
general reader,
given in
eyes, Orbilius " perhaps thrashed
"At
Monifuithe
Febi'. sixt
1653 yeares.
of
youth that watery eyes became chronic
" Which day the heretores & sessione

master to ye
fors"!.
Moni-
with him."
The Corycian crocus, which was a famous and much esteemed perfume, is alluded to by Horace in Sat. iv., line 68. The inscription
is
fuith being conveened for ye electing of a School-
parish e
&
for setling of a pro-
visione vnto him, after publick intimOue
had beene
as follows
made two
Paroe-
severall Lords days out of pulpit that
Monumentum Mr Johannis Urquhart,
chi Monufuthensis moderatoris fidelissimi, quod Janeta Morum, coujunx amautissima, erigendum ouravit. Obiit 16 Oal. Julij anuo salutis humana;
MDCLXIIII, anuo
Siste,
Trigesimo Secundo.
!
proh jacet hac Urqvhaet' in urna Ingenuus, sceptrum qui ferulamque tulit. Non erat Orbilius pueris, ast instar amantis Nutricis, tribuens ubera blanda labris.
Viator
!
Mauibus
inferias igitur tu fundito vota
C'orycium spiret quae tegit urna crocum.
[The monument of
his
Mr John Urquhart,
a most
faithful teacher of the Parish of" Monifieth,
which
to be
most loving
wife,
Jaxet Morum, caused

lGti4,
erected.
year.
He
died IGth June,

in this
in his
32nd
non might pretend ignorance, all who were present did declare yt in yre judgement Mr Johne Wrquhard was fittest to be yre Schoolemaster, who, after he had presented his testimonials (on qreof uas from ye Masters of ye Colledg of Old Abd. where he was educated & made master, the other fromye minister in Barrie in whose parishe he had resided since his coming frome Abd.) after yt they wer read was elected to be Schoolmr to sett the psalmes & to be clerk to ye Sessione ; and for ye maiutainance of ye sd Mr Johne it was agried vpone by these heretores who wer present at his electione & the sessione fors'l. That euerie ploughe within the parishe should pay two markes zeirlie vnto him, the one halfe yreof was to be given presentlie vnto him, the other halfe at the first of August nixt, & in all tymes coming at two termes in ye zeir Candlemas
Stop, Traveller
tomb, alas
lies gifted
&
rule.
Urquhart, who swayed the sceptre of scholastic To children no Orbilius was he, but like a
care.
pennies
fuithe
Lambm'as, everie ploughe thirteenth shilling four the number of the ploughes extending to fourtie & seven were given vp as foUowes, Moni;
loving nurse, he fed their infant minds with tender
two ploughes, Burnsyd & Barnhill foure
As
offering to his
manes, then, pour out a
fervent prayer that from the
tomb that covers him
the fragrance of the Corycian crocus forth

breathe. ]
may
Balmossie thrie ploughes, the milles of Forth on ploughe, BalBalmossie on ploughe. giilo foure ploughes, the mill of Balgillo halfe ane
ploughes,
Mr Urquhart, who
ploughe,
Lumlethum
six
ploughes,
EflSbetoune
appears to have taken his
six
ploughes, Grange six ploughes, Ardounie
two
degree of A.M. at King's College, Aberdeen, in
ploughes,
Laws
two,
Pidditie
&
Arsludie thrie
114
EPITAPHS,
AND INSCRIPTIONS.
Couper, William
ploughes, Kingenuie two ploughes, Legsland ane

j)lougbe
Durhame
elder of Gi-ange, Alex.
&
ane
lialfe,
Finrack
two
plouglies,
Oraacliie thrie plotiglies.
The minister did
pro-
mise to pay foure merkes zearlie during the tyme of his miuistrie, & the enjoying of his stipend at the 8*1 kirk. Further it was agried vnto yt
everie
Wedderburn of Kingennie, Michael Ramsay of Forth, James Durhame of Ardounie, heretores Mr John Barclay, Minister^ Hew Maxwell, Hendrie Dog, William Mill, James Nicoll, elders, & other
;
elders
&
deacons
who
could not subscribe gave
gentleman's
chyld
should
give
threttie
yre consent thervnto.
shillings in
twentie shillings,
ye qrter, euerie husbandmans chyld if he be able to pay it ; these

able,
who
are
in
lesse
thrcttin
shilling
it
foure
pennies
the
qrter.
Further,
was agried
rank
vnto yt persones of good qualitie
&
& who
The " Temple Lands," a name which almost

invariably implies an ownership on the jsart of
were
is
able,
should give tuentie foure shillings Scots
at yre marriage or proclama"ne, qi'cof the Schoolm''
the Knights' Templars, are in the neighbourhood

of
have eighteenth shilling and the beddel six These y* are of meaner qualitie or lesse shilling. able to pay, twelfe shillings at yre proclamaOne or
to
Drumsturdy Muir.
Besides the parish church of Monifieth, and the
chapel of Broughty Ferry, there were, at least,

three other places of worship within the parish in
old times.
marriage.
Strangers uho live without the parishe
desyring the benefit of a burial place in the kirkzard Monifuithe were oppointed to pay to the of
One
which
S.
of these, dedicated to S.
;
Bridget,
" Chapel
stood at Kingennie
Dockie,^^
is
a second,
known
as
besyde that which is Twelfe due to the beddell for ye graue making. shillings was appointed to be given at ye baptisme
Schoolemi' twentie
shilling
a probable corruption of the

situated upon the
third,
name
of
Murdoch, was
;
of everie chyld, eight shilling qreof to be given
lands of Ethie-Beatou
and the
called
to ye Schoolemr,
Further
it
was
ye
agried vpone
Ecclesmonichtie, was upon the banksof the Dichty,
yt the nixt
builded
wt.
summer
a
there should be a schoole

to
near Panmure Bleachfield.

It
chamber
School mn
as
has been
conjectured
by Bishop Forbes
neere the mids of the parishe as could be convenieutlie
(Kalendars of Scottish Saints), that S. ]M*Uren,

the daughter of Iluugua and Fiuchen,
vpon the charges
of
ye parishioners, the
particular place for building of ye schoole to be
made
choise of and condescended vpone
by the
King and Queen of the Picts, v?as born at Ecclesmonichtie. The site is still marked by the Lady Tree ; and,
according to the Chronicle of the Picts, Fincheu
greater part of the voices of ye heretores
&
vther the
persones having
scholler's parents
interest
therinto,
&
that
or others
who
hes neerest in-
gave Moneclatu (Monichtie), the place where S. J\J UREN was born, to God, and to the chm-ch of
St Andrews.
terest in
them
shall bring in ye
sumer seasone
The
is
kirk of Ecclesmonichtie was
ye vse ye winter seasone, & yt proportionallie according to yre rank & condione. Furthei'it was agried vpone that ye Schoolem'' should have libertie to remove at auie Candlemas or Lambmas heirafter, provyding he intimate the same to ye sessione fourtie dayes befor his removall. It
of ye Schoolemi'
peets, coales, or truffes to the Schoole for
probably dedicated to Our Lady.
and bairnes
in
Although there
chiefly to those
cottage, at Ecclesmouichty
now no hamlet not even a and the site is known
who have a
taste for archaeological

of
pursuits,
tie," in
"the towns and lands
Egglismonichof
the regality of Kirriemuir, are particularly
is
agried vpone
&
inacted
by the heretores &

of the lands
specified in a charter granted to
James Lovell
sessione that all heretores residing w'in the parishe
Ballunibie,
by the Earl
of
Angus, at Cupar-Fife,
&
all
husbandmen & labourers
do
sett
27th Oct. 1619 {Writs at Panmure.)

Tliis
yre hand to this present act obliedgeing heirby themselfcs to ye fulfilling of thir premisses.
charter also conveys to Lovell the lands
of Murrois,
A
hard
Carmoatie, and Labothie, with the

of the same, in the
double
for
lifcirof
was given
his suretie
Johne Wrqusubscribed be James Lord

to
Mr
mill
and mill lands

;
barony of
Inverarity
the lands of
West
Ferry, with the
BROUGHT Y FERRY.
salmou-fishings, called "
duris," in the
lie
15
Westcrukis
;
et
Ferry-
found carved upon a fragment between the covers

of the cist.
barouy
of
;
Dundee
also the lands
and mills of Balmossie the lands of Monifieth and Jnstingleyis, with cunnielairs the Links, and salmon-fishings in the Tay, together with Barnhill, Balclochar, Bracqûhan, and Lie Camp lands to the west of the pont or boat of Monifieth, the salmon-fishings of Polmonichtie, which are described as adjoining the said pont and a
;
;
The
greater part of the district, including the

to the
place called the Blackcraig, all situated within
the regality of Kirriemuir.

or "
But the concentric walls upon the hill of Laws, Lawyes of Easter Athy," are probably not
the most remarkable of their kind in Scot-
Maormors, At a later date, the lands of Athy were owned by Sir David of Beaton, who was Sheriff of Angus under Edward I. and from that knight the property acquired its present name of Ethie- Beaton (u. Memorials of Angus and Mearns.) Monijieth was a surname about 1310, as in that year Michael DE MoNiFOTH was hereditary lord of the Abtheiu
thanedom of Monifieth, belonged
or Celtic Earls of Angus, in early times.
lauds thereof.
only the most ancient objects in the parish, but
among
land.
WWWW^^^W^'WWWXÂ/VWWWWW
p?V0Oltt\|,
The hill, which is about two miles north from the parish church, is about 500 feet in height, and the summit, which is oval-shaped, measures about 500 feet from east to west by about 200 feet in breadth. So far as seen, the walls show a series of concentric and converging chambers, constructed of rude undressed stones. Many of the stones are
of
or
(S.
l]m\\\
)
.
$,txx\s,
THIS
place, like the village
upon the opposite
shore of the Tay, was called Portincraig in

old times.
It is of considerable antiquity; and,
great
size,
and
work.
traces of
vitrification
cists
run
prior to the foundation of the
Abbey
at Arbroath,
through
skeletons,
the
Stone
containing
Gillebryd, Earl of Angus, contemplated the erection of
and relics of stone and iron have been found in the course of excavations also the bones
;
an Hospital at Broughty Ferry.

earliest record, the chapel of
From
Broughty
of
and quantities of charred barley. This curious work is described in an interesting paper by Jas. Neish, Esq., F.S.A. Scot., proprietor of Laws, accompanied by plans, in
animals,
Ferry has been dependent upon the church of Monifieth. The old church stood near the middle
of the church -yard
Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, vol.

iii.
but no trace of it exists. ; In consequence of the rapid increase of the population of Broughty Ferry, handsome churches have been erected in it by almost every denomination of Christians.
The plan
all
of the
work
of
at
Laws
presents a re;
semblance to the
probability,
jjaJis
it
New
Zealand
and, in
Chapel of Ease, in connection with the
had been an abode of "our ancient forefathers" possibly a township during

the Pictish period.
Established Church, was built about 1826.

sacra parish, and sanctioned as such in 1838.
Ten
years later, the district was formed into a quoad
When
the late
Dr
Joseph
remarkable structure, he felicitously described it as " the Dundee of the ninth century !"
this
Robertson visited
The
to
old burial-place (recently closed against

is
interments)
the river
of small area,
and situated
I.
close
is
Tay.
The
I.
oldest
tomb-stone
L.
At Cairn Greg,
and a spear-head
i-eculiar
to the north of Linlathen, a It contained
dated 1C89, and initialed

in the north wall,
these traces of lettering:
A fragment
stone cist was lately found.

of
an urn
slightly
ornamented, shows
bronze; and the more in-
teresting object of the

to
symbol
of the elephant, so
RET
&
,
lEAN
, .
,
the ancient sculptured stones, was
THE 29 OE MAY THE
1729.
116
EPITAPHS,
head-stone, witli a blacksmith's
initialed
AND INSCRIPTIONS:
Besides a
A small
Here
Weles,
crown
at
new cemetery
at Barnhill, an older
and hammer,
T. S
I.
W., bears
burying-place surrounds the quoad sacra church
day of lanuarie 1712, and of his age 28.

Margaret
North Ferry,
d. 1785, a.
lyes Thomas Smith, husband to Isobel who dwelt in the Ferrie, who departed the
Broughty Ferry.
monuments, cue
The
of
latter contains se-
veral
which, an obelisk of
:
Peterhead gTauite, bears this inscription

In memory of Thomas Dick, LL.D,,
Ross, wf. of John Kid, shipmr. in
45 :
Now
she for
whom
this gravestone's placed

;
Author
of
The
Christian Philosopher, &c.

;
Was in virtue ever steady When asked a reason of her hope. Had ay an answer ready.
Tho' silent and forgotten here.
Born 1774
Died 1857.
Dr Dick, who was born in Bucklemaker Wynd,

Dundee, was at first a preacher in the Scottish Secession Church, but afterwards becamea teacher and lecturer, and ultimately adopted literature as
a profession,
The day
She mouldei's with the clod, will dawn, a voice she'll hear Say, Come and meet your God.
wf. of
A few
years before his death, the
Queen was pleased
to confer a pension
upon Dr
Janet Webster,
d.
David
Liddell, shipmr.,
Dick, in recognition of his literary labours.
1801
:
Besides the elegant modern churches before re-
Justice and truth, even from youth,
Adorn'd her deportment Never revenging, nor exchanging

Evil for evil treatment.
Tender dealing, without failing. Was everly her aim ; Even to those, who were her foes, Beneficent and plain. She had to give, while she did live. The sample of a mind ; Ever rejecting, but never respecting, Resentment of any kind.
71, his wf.,
and the many costly villa-residences which have been erected in and around the town of Broughty Ferry by Dundee merchants and
ferred to,
Broughty Castle and the old military fort upon the hill or law of Balgillo are both objects of
others,
antiquarian interest.
The Castle, which has a commanding position upon a rock, near the mouth of the Tay, has been called " the Gibraltar of Forfarshire." It was
a.
:
George Caithness, shipm., N. Ferry, d. Feb., Agnes Lyell, d. Mar., a. G9, 1801 They were a couple good without pretence,
Bless'd with plain reason, and with sober sense
Pride to them unknown, while they drew breath,
when he was Montrose in 1488 (Lives of the Lindsays) and the property of Balgillo was gifted by King Robert the Bruce, to Patrick, his chief physician (Mem. of Angus and Mearns.)
given to the Earl of Crawford,
created
Duke
;
of
Lovely in their
lives,
undivided in their death.

:
From
pillar,
with urn on top
ship-
Sacred to the
master,
memory of John Kid, late Dundee, who died the 15th April
Cura
pii diis
1800,
aged 61 years. This

life
sunt
he steer'd by land and sea With honesty and skill. And, calmly, suffer'd blast, and storm Unconscious of ill. This voyage now finish'd, he's unrigg'd And laid in dry-dock Urn ; Preparing for the grand fleet trip, And Commodore's return.
(S.
ANDREW, APOSTLE.)
J^
BOUT
^Ss
1199-1207, the church of Afford was given by Gillechrist, Earl of Mar, to the
Priory of
Monymusk.
confirmed to
The gift was afterwards Monymusk by Pope Innocent and
some
of his successors.
ALFORD.
117
The church
Taxation.
is
rated at 18 marks in the

it
Old
Fragments of a monument, which stood within

the old church, are preserved at the west end of the present building. These consist of a skeleton
In 1574
was served by one minister,
along with three neighbouring churches.
John
Paton was then reader at Alford. The bell, which appears to bear an
similar to that at Durris (sup., p. 104),
and three human

inscription
figures, all rudely carved.
The
skeleton, which
lies in
was re-cast in 1761, by John JNIowat, Old Aberdeen, at a cost of 9 6s sterling, less 3 12s 2d for the old instrument and the iron work. The former church bore the date of 1603 and the following is upon the west end of the present
;
upon the base of the monument, a horizontal position, and a nude, winged
is
figure
is upon the top. Two clothed figures, which fiank the inscription-panel, have scrolls upon their garments, which are respectively inscribed Fertre Deum (fear God), and Nosce te
ipsum (know thyself.)

Within
The panel
bears
building
this isle inter\l
behind these stones,
BUILT A.D. 1804; ENLARGED A.D. 1826.
marble tablet within the church bears
of this parish of Alford, left, in 1816, to the
late Mr Joseph Taylor of London, a native Poor 100 sterling, and desired this inscription to be put up as an example to others.
The
Are liious, wise, good Mary Forbes' bones; To Balfluig daughter, and of blameless life. To Mr Gordon, Pastor here, the wife. Expiravit Apr: 27, A.D. 1728, JEt. suce 46.
here,
Mr Gordon,
ford,
who was
Professor of Divinity in
King's College, Aberdeen, before he came to Al-
The following inscription, kindly communicated by the late Rev. Dr Gillau of Alford, is from a
slab below the pulpit
:
was translated
to Alloa in 1736,
where he
the
first
died about 1750.
He wrote notices of some of

Being the
called
is said,
parishes in Aberdeenshire.
Presof a
tacheusis in
GuLiELMUS Badenoch, A.m., Eccles. CorCom. Angus XII an., hujus autem EccliiB VIII an. Pastor, qui vitam LVIIl an, explevit V die Feb. M.D.C.C.XLVI. Virtutis amans & veritatis, fidem quam docuit Christianam
H.
I.
byterian minister at Alford, and, as
haughty
fluig,
disposition, he
was
The Bishop.
Balstill
His wife was probably born
in the Castle of
a considerable part of which
remains,
with the date of 1556 over the entrance door.

first
The
factis probavit et charitatem.

filia
Dorothea
Conjugi,
etiam,
ob.
Forbes of Balfluig was John, fourth son of
unica,
gaudium breve VIII mensium, qua;
Forbes of Corsindae.
estates in 1753,
is
John Forbes, who
sold the
XXVI
Mar. M.D.C.C.XLII.
quocum
said to have gone to Rotterdam.
VI an., et filiolaj ab ubere rapta; Barbara Forbes hoc monumentum non sine lachrymis posuit. [Here lies William Badenoch, A.M., minister
feliciter vixit
head-stone (upon the south side of the kirk)^
bears a shield, charged with the Forbes arms, also

this inscription
:
laful spouse to
Here
lyetli
Mary Moreson,
:
John
of the
church
life of
for 12 years,
of Cortachy in the county of Angus and of this church for 8 years, who
closed a
58 years, Feb.
5,
1746.
Forbes in Mains of Balfluig, uho dyed the 30 Jan. Here lyes J Forbes, who died in Kinstair,
Jany. 11, 1751.
lover of
life
virtue and truth, he exemplified in his
the
Christian faith and charity which he inculcated.
The next
four inscriptions are from an enclosure

side of the church.
Here
also lies
Dorothy,
his only daughter, a brief
on the south
The first
is
from
8 months' delight,
her husband, with
years,
who
died
March
26,
1742.
To
a panel built into the church wall, and the others

are from coffin-slabs, or
stone, each of
whom
she lived happily for 6
Templar tombs
of free-
and to her little daughter, torn from her breast, Barbara Forbes, not without tears, erected this monument.]
which has an ornamental cross upon

[1.]
the top
There
memory
first wife.
is
an inscription at Cortachy to the
John Farquharson, Esquire

A.D, MDCCCXXVI.
of
Haughton,
in-
of
Ann
Farquharsou,
Mr
Badenoch's
closed this burying ground for himself and family,
118
EPITAPHS,
[2.]
AND INSCRIPTIONS
Sir Archibald
Grant
of
Monymusk,
Bart.,
and
>^
Here
restetli
the body of
Iohn Farquhaeson,
:D :ccc:liv, aged
died in 1854, bad a numerous family, of

the present laird
whom
is
Esf|iure,
who departed xiv May m

[3.]
(who has courteously supplied a

the
Lxxvi
years.
note of the above particulars of his family)

fifth
4- Here resteth the body of

of
,
Mary-Anne,
wife
lohu Farquharsou, Esq. who departed the xviii Oct. M D ccc Li, aged LXIV.
: : :
[4.]
f- Here lyeth the body of Andrew FarqukarsoN, Esq., of the xxxviii Bengal Light Infantry,
son of Iohn Farquharsou, Esq., died viii No\'.
and youngest son. He married a daughter of Gen. Sir Alex. Leith of Freefield and Glenkiudie, and has issue. The House of Haughton, which is pleasantly situated upon the south side of the Don, was It erected in 1791 by Mr Francis Farquharsou. has lately received extensive additions and improvements, and was visited a few years ago by
M D
:
ccc XLix, aged xxxi.

:
Haughton.
The
Farquharsou of Haughton was " John Farquharsou in Breda," who bought the lands of
first
Over and Nether Haughton, and others, with salmon fishings on the Don, from William Reid,
These he conveyed to his eldest son, John, in 1730, on whose death, in 17-J:5-G, his second brother, Francis Farquharsou, accountant
in 1721-22.
in Edinburgh, served himself heir to the property.
Her Majesty the Queen. The Farquharsons of Haughton are said to have sprung from the Cumins of Altyre (Douglas' Baronage.) The present laird bears the Cumin
garbs, along with his maternal and paternal coats.
A
In
granite tablet, built into the south wall of

:
the church, bears this inscription
memoriam Joannis Davidson de

retat. Gl,
Tillychetly,
qui obiit 31 Mar. 1802,
ejusque conjugis
In 1750,
Alford
Mr
in
Farquharsou acquired the superi-
Ann^
Farquharson,
et
libcrorum Henrici, Jo-
ority of the aforesaid lands from

;
and
John Forbes of 1753, he bought from the same
annis, Jacobi, Alexandri, Olivarii, et Jan^,

qui omnes adhuc adolescen. obierunt, et
hie i-equiescuut
;
cum
patre
gentleman the lauds of Archballoch, IMorescroft, Gamphrey's croft, and the lands and barony of Alford, which comprehended Balfluig and Wellhouse, &c.
It
is
tilii
etiam Caroli, qui in insula

ccelebs,
Grenada medicinam exercens decessit

1804,
;etat.
A.D.
30.
Posuit hoc
marmor
solus diet,
the last-named
]\Ir
Farquharsou
his mother's
liberorum superstes Duncanus Davidson de Tillychetly, 1845.
who
is
spoken of by the celebrated Sir William

his
Duncan Davidson
lies
of Tillychetly
&
Forbes of Pitsligo as
own and
luchmarlo, died 8th Decemr. 1849, iu the 77th year

of his age,
best and earliest friend.
and
interred iu the church-yard of
Farquharsou, who died 28th Feb. 1767, married Grizle Strachan. Leaving no issue, he
Mr
Banchory.
1850.
conveyed
Ogilvie,
his estates to his
nephew, Alexander
who
age
[To the memory of John Davidson of Tillychetly, died 31st March 1802, iu the Gist year of his
;
eldest
son of the Rev.
Mr
Ogilvie of
nephew, who assumed the surname of Farquharson, married Miss Mary Hay and, dying in 1787, was succeeded by his son,
Rhynie,
F.'s
Mr
Ann Farquharson, and of Henrv, John, Jîjmes, Alexander, Oliver, and Jane, who all died young, and rest here with their father also of his son Charles ;
and
of his wife
his children,
Francis,
who was
also
an accountant in Edinlaird
who
died, unmarried, iu the
island of Grenada,
where he was practising
as a physician, in 1804, in
burgh.
It
the 30th year of his age.
Duncan Davidson
of
was the last-named
in 1794, also Little Endovie, to the
Haughton was succeeded by

tioned,
estates.
who added Brainley and Kinstair in 1800, He died in 1808, and

John,
Tillychetly, the sole survivor of the children of the

aforesaid, erected this
monument. ]
Tillychetly,
his brother
the family burial-place at Alford,
who made out The last-mena daughter of
The ancestors of the Davidsons of

luchmarlo, and Desswood
flat
lie
at Tarland,
who married Mary-Anne,
stone, with a curious inscription,
where a marks the
ALFORD.
spot. Mr Duncan Davidson (siqn-a, p. 4), was an advocate in Aberdeen. A daughter of the present laird of Inchmarlo is the lady of Sir Francis Outram, whose father distinguished himself so
119
daughter of the Rev. Walter
Syme
of Tullynessle.
Mrs Johnston's
elder brother,
Mr James Syme,
minister of Alloa, married Mary, eldest sister of
Dr Wm.
left
greatly in India that,
among
other honours, he
Robertson, the historian, by whom he an only daughter, who became the mother of
was created a baronet. He married a daughter of James Anderson, Esq., corn-merchant, Brechin, by whom he had his successor in the title. In 1696, and for sometime afterwards, the properties of Tillychetly and Carnaveron belonged
to a
Lord Brougham.
The next inscriptions are from various parts of the kirkyard to the west of the west walk
:
Here
Wife
lys
below this stons,
Pious, wirtus, Iean AVisharts bons,
branch of the Gariochs of Kinstair.
The
above-named John Davidson bought Tillychetly from Gariochs and, according to Tradition, Carnaveron was given in dowry with an illegi;
Some time
to John Bain in Bridgend* Of Knockaudoch.
[*prou. Brhjaln.
All that was dicent
&
descret,
timate daughter of a laird of Craigievar,
who
married a person named Stewart. However this may be, the Barony Court Books of Craigievar
(M.S., 1707-66), shew that a Duncan Stewart in
Did in her parts & in her person meet She mead apper thro hir wnbilemeshd
life,
The tender & the loving

departed this aged 42 years.
wife,
Who
life
the 4 day of Febry, 1759,
Norham was
that
bailie of the
Court in 1723
also
in 1729, the same person is designed " Duncan Stewart o/Carnavern." Duncan's last
bailie is
;
A flat stone is adorned with a nude figure standing upon a globe

the
:
it
bears a sandglass in the right
appearance as
upon 5th June 1732 and in 1735, James, "sou of Duncan Stewart of Carnaveron" held the same ofSce. It is interesting to find that the same authority
confirms the tradition (infra,
p.
hand, a scythe in the
left, and a libel issuing from, mouth is inscribed F/t-e hie memor mortis. Below the figure is this inscription :
Here
5,
lies
Jean Connan, who departed

:
life
April
174), of
the
1751, aged 73
Stewarts having borne the

it
in
appears that in 1724, Norbara paid his own rent, he also paid 15s.
name oi AllanacJt, for, when Duncan Stewart
Expect, but fear not Death, Death has not power, To cut the threed, till Time point out the hour, Death's patent's void, till Time set to his seal,
Scots " for Peter Alanach
Ms
hrotlier his
part of
From whose
joint sentence there is no appeal.
a custom wedder for Whitsunday 1725."
The above-mentioned were

sometime
of sons
laird of
ancestors
{q.v.),
of
the
Rev. Patrick Stewart of Kinneff
who was
Carnaveron.
;
and daughters
He had a family and the property now beof the
Hold Death in mind, hold Time in high esteem, Time lost since thou cannot recall, redeem, Waste not thy Time in vain on trivial things, On Time the chain of thy Salvation hines.
a family
longs to the descendants of one of the daughters.
From one of several tomb-stones, named Benton

:
belongiug to
She married a medical practitioner Stewart, and went abroad.
name
of
Here
lies
Barbra Bruce,
Upon
of
a broken table-shaped stone on west side

:
Haughton enclosure
Sacred to the
of
farmer at Mickle Endovie, aged 50
....
who
The
first is
spouse to
Wm.
Benton,
died Nov. 17SS,

.
The next
the Revd.
three inscriptions are on the east side
memory
Alexander
of the church-yard.
upon a flat slab

Mains
Johnston,
late minister of the
Gospel at Alford,
who
died the 2d of
March
1778.
Margaret SyME,
Alexr. Thomson, farmer

lies
in
of BalUmcre
his spouse,
who
and
died the 16th September 1802.
here interrd.
Mr Johnston was
in
80 years.
parent,
ordained minister of Alford
He died May 2, 1767, aged about He was a dutiful husband, an affectionate an obliging neighbour, & kind & affable
Jean Gairdne,
his relict
1746,
in
1751
he
married Margaret,
even
to the poorest.
120
EPITAPHS,
AND UVSCRlPflONS:
lie
who lived comeudably with him uear 50 years, has

purcliasecl this stoue to his
at Alford.
grief iudeed
all
memory, not without but considers that tis most certain
in a ballad of that
The Battle of Alford is celebrated name as is also the Chase of

;
Callivar, which refers to a local superstition (v.
must
die.
:
Laing's Thistle of Scotland, and Repertory of

Scottish Ballads, Abd., 1823-34.)
,
Upon
a plain head-stone
lys
Iean Aitken, lawfuU daughter to George Aitkeu in Hoodhouse of Alfoord, aged three years, dyed May 17, 1724.
Here
The Earl
of
Mar
possessed the greater part of
Alford at an early date, and granted certain lands

there to William of Rossy, 1418.
The
term
for
" Hoodhouse" or Headhouse, is an old an inn or hostelry. The Headhouse was
Parts of Kinstair and Endovie were acquired by Lord Forbes from the widow of James of
generally situated near the parish kirk, as were

those of Alford and Clatt.
Garviach about 1467.

first
These were possibly the
lands which the Forbes' possessed in Alford.
mausoleum upon the estate of Breda, near is surrounded by a cluster of trees. It was prepared for, and withiu it was buried, the first I\Ir Farquharson of Breda. He was a son of the laird of Cluny in Braemar, who was familiarly
the Don,
William Garioche of Tillychetlie, and George,

portioner of Kinstair, were at the meeting of
heritors
tt>e
and others in 1C33-4, when an obligation was entered into " for the constant provisione of
ane schoole at the kirk of Alfoord." The lastnamed subscribed the deed with his " hand at the pen ledd l)e the notar," because he " could nott
writ."
still
known as " the muckle factor of Invercauld." The factor sold Cluny to Invercauld and his son, having made money in the West ludies as a sur;
geon, bought Breda from a sister of Mackenzie of

Seaforth.
The surname of Garioch or Gerrie is common in the district. Sometimes it takes

It
is
had no
issue,
Dr Farquharson's was a daughter
wife,
by
whom
he
the odd form of Heriegerrle.

territorial origin,
evidently of
of
Mr
Robertson,
portrait painter, Edinburgh.

litigation, the late
After a lengthened
Robert Farquharson, sometime provost of Paisley, and a thread manufacturer there, succeeded to Breda {infra, p. 283).
Mr
Several objects of antiquarian interest have
and had been assumed from the well-known district of The Garioch. On the 30th of September 1720, the laird of Balfluig left an annual sum of 2 sterling for the and the late benefit of the parish school-master incumbent, the Rev. Mr M'Connach,* in order to testify his gratitude for the donation, had a
;
been discovered in the parish of Alford.

consist of ancient dwellings,
portrait of Balfluig painted for the schoolroom.

'I'his
I'hese
was done by the
late
John
Philip, R.A.,
flint-arrow heads,
stoue axes, aud bronze weapons.
stone mould,
while Philip and his friend Stirling were painting

studies, in the
probably for metal castings,
now
in the National
({'.
schoolroom of Alford, during the
Museum, was found upon

N.
Stat. Accts.)
the farm of Dorzel

iv.
;
vacation of 1854, for their respective pictures of
Proceed. So. Antiq. of Scotd., vol.
O. aud
The
Collecting of the Offering,
and The Sermon
{sup., p. 19.)
The Battle of Alford, which was fouglit between the Covenanters aud the Marquis of Montrose, 2d July, 1645, is supposed to have taken
place to the north-west. of the village of Alford.
The Covenanters were

and Montrose
lost
defeated on that occasion
* This W'Orthy man (Infra, p. 281), who was nearly 50 years parochial teaeher of Alford, had a It was buried favourite dog, which died in 1870. within its master's garden at Crobhlar, wdiere the following epitaph, upon a brass plate, is fixed to a fme old lir :
George, Lord Gordon,
Mowat
To mp favourite Dog, Forres. Almost imbued with human mind, Throughout life faithful, true, and kind
JicMieath this verdant fir-tree's shade,
;
and Ogilvy of Milton of Keith. Lord Gordon was " buried in the cathcdrall church of the Old Toun of Aberdeen, hard by
of Balquholly,
his
My
good Dog, Foeres, now

IGth
'S laid.
mother."
The
other two officers are said to
May
1870.
MURROES.
The principal Don about two
Station.
built in 1811.
121
bridge in the parish crosses the

miles above the Alford Railwaythree arches, and
that 40s. were paid
Edward's time regarding the teinds of Ballumbie, " for evrie pleughe" upon
It consists of
was
wire bridge, dated 1869, crosses

minister at Alford,
the
Don near Montgerrie.
two Gagies, Westhall, and and as Mr Edward could see " no reason hou Balumbie can be exempted from payBrichtie
;
the two Powries, the
Mr George Melvill, who was

Burn
of Leochel.
ing vicarage, according as the rest of the pleughes

of the parioche," he closes his note of
1668-79, built and endowed the bridge over the
"Informa-
He
also
founded three bur-
tion"
upon the subject by
stating, that
saries at Bang's College,
Aberdeen, and gave a
gran t towards the building of the Bridge of Dye,

in Straclian (supra, p. 31.)
considerable village has arisen at
Alford
;
since the opening of the branch line of railway
and important monthly markets are now held there. The Village contains a good inn, some neat houses, and shops also handsome Episcopal, and Free Churches.
;
"seavin chalders victuall to be the constant and perpetual stipend of the said kirk of Murroes in al tyme coming by and attoure the vicarage teinds of the said parioch ipsa corpora and tuentie merks yearlie furth of the tack dutie and teinds of the lauds of Balumbie according to the decreitt of the ijlatt in anno 1618."
The church and church-yard

upon the west
side of the
of Murroes are
of Powrie, near
burn
the old house of Murroes. The church is a plain, but neat building, erected in the time of the Rev.
Mr John-Ikvine
junction,
Cuurie, who died 20th July
1863, in the 43d year of his ministry.
The
inis
Ora
et
lahora (Pray and labour),
Puj^rioije^.
(S.
carved over the east door of the kirk, and that of Laus et honor Deo (Praise and honor be to God),
is
over the west door.
IF^HE
cA.
chm-ch of Muraus, with
its
chapel, were
given to the
Earl of
Abbey of Arbroath, by Gilchrist, Angus, 1211-14. The church belonged

is
The Jougs^ a well-known instrument of punishment, which old Kirk-sessions employed in the
case of scolds and Sabbath-breakers, are fixed into
the south wall of the kirk.
to the diocese of St Andrews, and
rated at 20
stone panel, upon

:
merks
of the
in the
Old Taxation.
stood in the den, to the south-east
of Ballumbie,
the same wall,
is
thus inscribed
The chapel
House
where the site is still shewn. In 1574, the church of Ballumbie was served by Mr Cristeson, minister at Dundee, and that of Murroes by Mr Auchinleck of Monifieth. William Oliver was the name of the contemporaryreader at Murroes. He was probably descended from David Olifer, who (Reg. Aberb.), was designed of Gagie in 1457. It is also recorded in 1574, that " Ballumby neidis na reidare." The parishes were probably united about the close
of the 16th century, since
Christo,
Luci mundl,
A.D. 1843 et humarwe
salutis Auctori,
hac cedes consecrata est. I. I. G. [This church was consecrated to Christ, the Light of the world, and the Author of human salvation,
in the year of
Our Lord,
1843.]
The
is
burial vault of the
Fothringhams of Powrie
upon the north

is
side of the kirk.
The remains
of a figure, holding a shield with the
arms,
built
Fothringham into the adjoining dyke. Over the
entrance to the family

the Fothringham
pew
is
a fine carving of
initialed,
Henry Duncan, who
and Gibson arms,
was minister at Ballumbie, and having Murroes also in charge, removed to the latter (Scott's
Fasti) about 1590.
It appears
T.
and dated 1642. These have reference to Thomas Fothringham and his wife,
:
F M.
G.,
Margaret, a daughter of
Sir
Alex. Gibson, Lord
from a dispute which arose iu IMr
Durie, and a grand-daughter of Sir Thos. Craig
12-2
EPITAPHS,
AND
by-
INSCPiIPTIONS
at the early age of 27,
of Riccarton,
Lord Advocate, now represented
and was buried

below,
is
in the
Sir
Wm,
Gibson-Craig, Baronet.
slab within
family vault at Murroes.
the church, with the names of the same laird and lady, exhibits sevea shields, labelled with
the names, and
The
first
inscription,
from a table-
charged respectively with
the
shaped stone at the west end of the kirk. A rudely carved angel at the top of the gravestone
is
arms
of
represented blowing a trumpet.
Two
FOTIIRINGnAM. GIPSONE.
CRAIGE.
LYNDSAY.
SCOTE.
blank
shields, also
the
initials,
A.E., precede the

the
inscription,
and
below,
amidst
words
iERTUE.
HERIT, the
" EXPERGISCIMINI
& LAVDATE, HABITATORES
According
to
tradition,
Fothringhams
came to Scotland from Hungary with the Queen Record shows that Hugh of Malcolm Canmore. of Foderiugeye, of the county of Perth, did homage to King Edward at Berwick-upon-Tweed, also, that Thomas, sou of Henry of in 1296 Fodringhay, had a confirmation charter of the lands of Balunie, near Cupar Angus, which lie
;
PVLVERis " (Awake and sing, ye dwellers of the dust^, are four nude figures (two standing the
others
kneeling),
with
uplifted
arms
iu
the
attitude of prayer.
Besides the above text iu

is
Latin, the same (Isa. xxvi. 19), the stone in
repeated upon
iu the latter
Hebrew
characters
and
(as the Rev.
Mr
1
NicoU kindly informs me), the

is
reference to the chapter
given, but not that

is
upon the confines of Perthshire, in 1378 (Rag. Reg. Mag. Sigill.) There was a knight, Rolls Sir Hugh, in the family of Fothringham, about 1370 (Laing's Ancient Scottish Seals, i. 223.) The lands of Wester Powrie, which belonged to Malcolm of Powrie, and were held of John
;
to the verse.
Cor. xv. 62,
also cut in
Greek,
but not being a correct copy of the original, the

text
may have been
given from memory.

occupies the chief part
The
laced
following inscription (in incised and inter-
Roman
capitals),
:
the tomb-stone
Ogilvy
of Easter
Powrie, are said to have been
Alexander
VIS
II
.
.
Edvardvs
.
ci
given to John of Fothringham on his marriage with a daughter of Ogilvy of Auchterhouse.
Deidonanvs
:
Qvi
.
22
Ma
an
.
Ann
.
DoM
1655
.
êtatis
Lord Lindsay (Lives, i. 145), says that Thomas Fothringham of Powrie was the " familiar sqûire" of David Earl of Crawford, from whom he received various lauds out of gratitude for " faithful
service
G7
TJE
NEPTESQVE
.
BIN^
. :
MaG
vr
VI
:
:
dalena
.
Edvarea
.
bien.se
4to
.
Qv^ Ann Dom

. .
. :
1650*
.
&
Marthe
. .
Edvaroa
,
QV^.
and constant attentions." His Lordship also gracefully remarks that " The Fothringhams were always closely allied iu blood and friendship with the House of Crawford, and the hereditary regard has manifested itself most
kindly to our behoof in the present generation." By tlic marriage of the father of the late laird
of
TJE
MENSE ITIDEM 4tO ANN DOM

.
*1660
OEIERE
HIC
HVMANTVR
[*SIC,
j\Ir
Robert Edward, son
of
the above-named
Alexander Edward, citizen of Dundee, was presented " to the paroche kirk of the Murrays, personage and viccarage thereof," by Patrick, Earl
of
Fanmure, 8th
]\Iarch 1648.
The
'53,
A\aluations
Fothringham with. Miss Scrymseour, he acquired the property of Tealing which adjoins
In consequence
of this alliance,
of the Shire of Forfar,
1649 and
show that
Mr Edward
more.
owned' two wadsets, one of which,

also appears to
that of Powrie.
Crachie or TuUoes, he had from the Earl of Strath-
the lairds of Powrie prefix Scnjmseour to the sur-
He
have been a
man
of
name
of
Fotlir'ingliam.
James Scrymseouk-
FoTiiKiNGHAM, Esq. of Powrie and Tealing, died He was succeeded by his son Captain in 1857.
means, for down to past 1676 he had considerable sums of money lent upon the Ballumbie and
Powrie
estates, &c.
is
Thomas, who married Lady

sister to tlie
Charlotte Carnegy,
Mr Edward
best
known
as the author of a
Earl of Southesk.
He
died in 1864,
Description of the County of Angus, in Latiu,
MURROES.
which was accompanied by a map of that shire. was engraved by Gerard Vale and Peter Schenk of Amsterdam, at the expense of the Earl of Panmure, whose arms are upon the map,
It of St
123
Andrews recommended that

Robert,
Charles' brother,
"
Mr
who was
rabled out of his
own
church," should supply that of Murroes.

son,
A fourth
and
to
whom
the
work was
30th of Oct. 1671, rex dollars to be bestoued on the printing of the
Upon the the Earl gave Mr Edward " 60

dedicated.
Angus" (Documents at Panmure ;) but the was a broadside, did not appear until 1678. Edward's Angus was translated by the Rev. Mr Trail of St Cyrus (gup., p. 41), and published at Dundee in 1793 (13 pp. 8vo.) In
of
map
publication, which
1832, another edition (12mo),
appeared at the
same
place, but neither has the
map.
It con-
Mr Edward
wrote another work, entitled The
Doxology Approven (Edinr. 1683, 12mo.)
tains a curious dedication to the Earl of Aberdeen,
then High Chancellor of Scotland, in which the author attributes " all the Miseries and Confusions in this
describes
Land" to schism in the Chui'ch. He King Charles as "a glorified Martyr;" and compares the Earl to " the wise and greatly
beloved Daniel,"
that very City
Mr Alexander Edward, became minister of Kemback, and was deprived as a non-juror. The minister of Kemback appears to have had a taste for architecture. He was much patronised by the Earl of Panmure and many of the improvement.s which his Lordship made about Panmure House and Brechin Castle were executed after plans by Mr Edward, who also acted as inspector of works. Indeed, so highly had Mr Edward recommended himself as a draughtsman, that the Earl of Panmure, along with eleven other noblemen and gentlemen of Scotland, agreed, on 6th Oct. 1701, to give Mr Edward 10 each to assist him to travel through England, Flanders, Holland, and part of France, " for veiwing, observing, and takeiug drawghts of the most Curious and Remarkable buses. Edifices, Gardens, Or;
chards, Parks, plantations,
Land Improvements,
shall occurr in his
Coall-works, mines, waterworks, and other Curiosities of
now
sitting suj)reme
judge " in
Nature or Art that
and Judgment-seat, where your Father suffered so sad and unjust a Sentence." Mr Edward married Jean Johnstone, who was " ane old, infirm, and indigent gentlewoman" in
1697. In that year she had an assignation of the sti-
traveling
Throw
the saids places."

is
This very interesting document, which
pre-
served in the archives at Panmure, shows an
anxiety on the part of certain of our Scotch

nobility
and gentry, not only
to improve
and
pend
from Lord Panmure, in return for having " bein at ye trouble and expense to invite
of INIurroes
beautify their native country nearly two hundred
years ago, but also a wish on their part to develope,
from tyme to tyme to discharge the duty of a minister" at Murroes.
and procure
several) preachers
by comparison with foreign

It
is
practices, its
mineral and other resources.
just possible
named in the above inhad at least four sons, who all grew up and were educated for the church. I have not ascertained the date of Mr Edward's
Besides the twin-children
scription,
that the publication of Slezer's Theatrum Scotia;,
Mr Edward
death
but, in 1696, when his son, " Mr John Edward, governor to Sr. James Fleeming's son," had an assignation of the stipend of Murroes from Lord Panmure, it is said that " there hath been no minister serving" at Murroes " for severall years
;
and of similar works which appeared in England and on the Continent about the close of the 17th century, had suggested to the Earl of Panmure and his colleagues the idea of sending Mr Edward abroad. I am not aware, however, that any effect was given to this laudable proposal. It
is
just possible
that the disasters
consequent
its
upon the Rebellion had prevented

carried
out.
being
past."
I have seen no evidence of
Mr
Mr
Charles Edward,
who had been appointed

have
left
" conjunct with
his father," appears to
Edward's having gone abroad, or that any of the guaranteed subscriptions were paid except that
of the Earl of
the parish, temporarily at least, sometime before
Panmure,
for
which there
is
a dis-
27th August 1692
for of that date, the Lishop
charge by
Mr Edward among
the family papers.
124
EPITAPHS,
table-stone, near to that of
AND INSCRIPTIONS
:
From a
Mr Edward
in the 20 year of her age
Erected by Colonel Henry Imlach, in the service of the East India Company, to the memory of his father, the Rev. Alexander Imlach, during
Arklay, who died Dec.

his age
.....
;
1773, in the
and their son Peter 3d year of
From a monument
joining the above
:
(within an enclosure) ad-
XLVII
and
years minister of this parish,
V day of Nov.
of his
who died the MDCCCVIII, aged LXXXI years mother Susan Ogilvy, who died the
In
ton,
of
aged LXTII years, both interred under this monument. Also to the memory of Ann Imlach, his sister, who died the
ninth day of Sept.
third day of
MDCCXCI,
memory of David Arkley, Esq. of Clepingwho died 2nd Augt. 1822, aged 74 years and Margaret Criciiton, his spouse, who died 19th
;
May MDCCLXXX, aged XVIII

this place.
Novf. 1836, aged 86 years. Their son, Silvester, died 12th Feb? 1794, aged 12 years.
years,
and interred near
Mr
beaton
Arkley was sometime tenant of

;
Ethie-
Mr
Imlach obtained the church of Murroes
through the influence of the Airlie family, his wife having been a daughter of Ogilvy of Baikie.
and upon succeeding to the fortune of a relation in London, he bought Clepington, near Dundee. His son, IMr Peter Arkley, bought
Dunninald, near Montrose It now belongs to his two grand-daughters; and Clepington was sold, some years ago, by Mr P. Arkley's second son
to
He was
previously a teacher at Kirriemuir.
Here lys William Gibson, sometime in Hole of Murhouse, who died the 13 day of October 1710, and of his age 61 and Agnes Nicol, his spouse, to whose memory Alexander Gibson, there son, hath
;
Mr Wm.
Neish,
now
of Tannadice.
caused this monument to be erected
This couple lined a uirtuous
life
While here they did remain ; Their honesty and uprightnes.
of Peter Arklay, and Helen Kerr, his spouse, who lived in this parish. Hellen Kerr died 2d June 1810, aged 86 years ; Peter Arklay died 23d May 1811, aged 87 years.
Sacred to the
memory
From
a head stone (enclosed)
No
blot did ever stain.
Also his son, Alexander Gibson lyes here, he dyed April 17, 1739, aged 45 years.
memory of David Miller, Esq^. of Ballumbie, who died 19th July 1825, aged 71 ; and of Jane Miller, his daughter, who died 4th
Erected to the
smith's
Upon a stone with a bold carving of hammer and " royal crown," &c.
a black:
Feby 1820, aged 17 years.
Mr
Heir lyes ane honest man, William Covper, hammerman, vho dCcit in Leigsland vpon the 18 And his of November 1649, and of his aig 63 yeirs. spovs Matild Wobster, vho deceisit vpou the 5
of
Avgost 1646, and
of hir aige 70.
David Miller, who was a tenant farmer, bought the property of Ballumbie in April 1804, from the Hon. Wm. Maule of Panmure. The present mansion-house was erected by Mr Miller in 1810. From the trustees of his son, John, the property was bought in January 1847, by the
trustees of the late
A flat
slab, at the east
end
of the kirk,
with
the following simple inscription, marks the grave

of a foreigner,
Dundee.
It
Mr Wm. M'Gavin, merchant, was afterwards arranged for with
who came
to this country to study

:
farming, and died of fever, at the age of 2G
Peter Orloff Bergstrome, from Wermeland, Sweden, died at Westhall, xxiv Nov. mdccclvi, is I sleep, but my heart waketh. here interred.
Song
V. 11.
them by his brother, the present proprietor, Robert M'Gavin, Esq. Ballumbie was long the property of the LoveUs, who were among the most potent and influential They came to Forfarof the old Angus barons. shire during the loth, and had an interest in
century,
Upon
the face of a prettily carved slab
This stone is erected at the expense of George Arklay, farmer in West Hall, in memory of his
spouse Alison Arklay,
Ballumbie down to the early part of the 17th when it was bought by the Earl of Pan(v.
mure
Mem.
of
Angus and Mearns.)

is
who
died
May
28, 1773,
Castle of Ballumbie
described by
The Guynd (c.
MURROES.
1682), as '' ane old ruinous demolished liouse but a very pleasant place." The old portion, which joins the new house, and is used as a stable, has some of the characteristics which distinguish the towers of Dunottar and Edzell, the former of
;
125
and
in 1577, Sir
Walter Graham
of Fintry
and
others were delated for
Beaton of murder of Ramsay, tutor of Laws, in 1568 (Pitcairn's Crim. Trials.) Westhall was Beaton property until past 1631.
communing with Robert Westhall, who was concerned in the
which was built towards the close of the 14th

century, as was probably also the latter.
In 1662,
it
was possessed
Pearsons
Anonymous
Its pride
by the Dundee
;
coheiresses of Tliomas Scott, a bailie of
(Retours.)
(."/>.,
;
It belonged to the
p. 160), in,
and
its
pomp
of Balmadies
are all
naked and bare
And ruin, and pale destitution are there. From a marble slab fixed into an obelisk
freestone
:
time of
of
and long after the Guynd and was acquired by Ogilvy,
about 17.
The most important

that of a
To the memory of James Horne, for upwards of 26 years schoolmaster of this parish. He died on the 14th day of December 1840, aged 52 years. Erected as a mark of esteem and regard by a few of those who enjoyed the benefit of his valuable instruction in their youth, and his disinterested friendship in their maturer years.
Si sapis, utaris totis, Viator, diebus
;
discovery of pre-historic
is
remains which has been made in Murroes,
weem, or Pict's house. It was of the ordinary form, and about 36 feet in length. The sides were constructed of pavement siabs, similar
to those
found at Gagie quarries, &c.

of the
notice
and sketch
all
weem
are in Proceedings of the

viii.
Extremumque
[Traveller
!
if
tibi semper adesse putes. you are wise, usefully employ
Society of Antiquaries, vol.
your days, and think that your

hand. ]
last is
always at
Although Murroes was a part of the Earldom of Angus, the Earls of Crawford appear to have
held a considerable interest in
it
during the early
Two
granite crosses (enclosed), respectively bear
ages.
In 1450, Alexander, Earl of Crawford,
George Rajmsay-Ogilvy
Taken 22nd Nov.
[2.]
of Westhall.
*i>
gave a charter of Wester Brichtie to David Fothringham of Powrie and in 1463, the same
;
1866, aged 44.
Jesu mercy.
Earl gave Richard Lovell of Ballumbie, and his

wife Elizabeth Douglas,
whom
the Earl styles
Ann-Mary
Born 22nd April 1854.
Ogilvy,
"
1865.
his oye,"
a charter of the lands of Murroes.
Taken 2d July
Mr Ramsay- Ogilvy was a grandson of the Rev.

W.
of
Ramsay, minister at Cortachy, by a daughter John Ogilvy of Jamaica, a son of the laird of
In the year 1473, Alexander, Earl of Crawford, gave an annual of twelve merks out of the lastnamed lands towards the support of a chaplain in
the parish church of Meigle
(MS. Notes of Scotch
Westhall.
Mr
R.-Ogilvy, who
passed
as
first
an
at
Charters at Panmure.)
advocate in 1844, was sheriff-substitute
The Fothringhams had

rie
residences both at
Pow-
Forfar and latterly at Dundee.
He
succeeded to
Westhall on the death of a maternal aunt, when he assumed the additional surname of Ogilvy.
Mr
him
R.-Ogilvy's only
(as above),
cliild
having
predeceased
and at Murroes. There are still the remains of two houses at Powrie, the elder of which, with arched dining hall, and chambers below, was probably erected in the 15th, and the latter building,
which
pied
is still
he
left
Westhall to his cousin-
roofed, probably belongs to the 17th
german, the Rev.

riemuir,
Mr Ramsay
(now
Mr
Ogilvy-
century.
The
old house at Murroes,
now
occu-
Ramsay), formerly minister of the parish of Kir-
by farm
labourers, possibly belongs to the
now
minister of the beautiful parish of
same period
Closeburn.
Guynd says that Powrie and INIurrocs are " both good houses,
as the last-mentioned.
Beatons were designed of Westhall about 1526
sweet and pleasant places, excellent yards, well
12G
EPITAPHS,
AND INSCRIPTIONS
burgh,
1SG3.
planted parks, and hay meadoas, and dovecoats

extraordinary good."
who was a
native of Murroes, and died in
Nothing now remains

there were
traces of
it
of the " very
good house"
about 1794.
200, the interest of which is to be applied by the minister and elders " towards
left
He
of Easter Powrie, mentioned
by Guynd, although
castle"
of the old Karls
"the
Tradition says
of Angus.
was a residence
little
and girl," natives of the and each for the space of two years. Mr Sibbald, some of whose relatives are still in Murthe education of a boy
parish,
roes,
may have been a descendant
of the old lairds
The charming
of Murroes,
is
chateau of Gagie, which
of
Gagie and Raukeilor.

It
has a secluded site on the south
bank
of the
Burn John
is
kept in good repair, and made an
teacher and pupils were so

heritors, that the
would appear that in 1724, the wants of the ill cared for by the
compelled to Supply to " modify David Crombie, schoolmaster, and
occasional
residence
by
the
proprietor,
Rev.
Mr Marr was
Guthrie of Guthrie, Esq.

in front of the house
'4oupin'-on-stane,"
petition the Commissioners of
or steps for assisting one to get on horseback,

;
a salary" for
also a
and a
cluster of four
magor
nificent
yew
trees
is
in the garden.
sum to build a school and school-house, " the parish being defective in both." hundred
In the adjoining
initials,
summer-house, a door
of 1014.
merks
Scots, or
10s 5d sterling, were settled

;
window-lintel exhibits the Guthrie arms, with the
as " a competent salary" for the teacher
and a
It
W.G., and the date
These have
of
sum was
also
named
for building purposes.
reference to
William Guthrie (second sou
appears, however, that a long time was allowed

to elapse before the necessary house
Alexander Guthrie of that Ilk,) by

lands of
whom
the
accommodahis pupils.
Gagie were bought from Sibbald of Rankeilor in IGIO. The same person had a por-
tion -was supplied for the master
and
tion of Hallton
and Milton
of Guthrie, 29th Dec.
Like most Scotch parishes, Murroes, at tlie date last-mentioned, and for long afterwards, was
in a very poor condition socially.
1574.
bie, in
On
11th June 1603, he purchased llavens-
In 1794,
Mr
Barry, from John Cant, and in the charter
of these lands
William
is
designed brother-german
to Alexander Guthrie of that Ilk (Fcnnili/ papers,
kindly lent by John Guthrie of Guthrie, Esq.)
Imlach writes (Old Stat. Acct.), that more money had been made in Murroes by farming, during the previous thirty years, than for two hundred years before and adds that the farmers " even
;
The
first
Guthrie of Gagie
is
said to have married
use some of the luxuries of life"

It
Isabella,
shield,
daughter of Leslie of Balquhain.

of
initials, I.
may
be added that a belief in some of the
on the front wall

slab, originally
Gagie House, bears L.
superstitious of the darker ages lingered in
Murroes
the
the Leslie coat, with the
down
body
to a late date.
of a suicide
Not long
ago,
when
Another
over the old entrance,
or court gate to Gagie, bears an elaborate carving

of the family arms, with the " label," or heraldic
buried in
was found in the parish, it was the clothes in which it was discovered,
mark
I.
of a first son.
I.
The
coat,
which
is
initialed,
and upon the north, or shady side of the kirk, which was long believed to be the peculiar property of his Satanic jNIajesty
!
H., and dated 1737, belongs to the time

of Guthrie,
and his wife Jean, daughter of the Rev. James Hodge of Longforgan. Their son became the twelfth baron of Guthrie, and they had two daughters who were married respectively to John Scrimgeour of Tcaling, and William Alison, merchant, Dundee.
of
John Guthrie
When
silver,
the grave of the unfortunate
man was
opened, his snuff-mull, and the
The only bequest
for
educational purposes,
Cd in and a penny in copper, were found in it. These had been buried along with the body and as it was conveyed to the kirk-yard in the parish hearse, the feeling was carried to such a height that the hearse was never again used, but allowed
of Cs
;
sum
which has been made to the parish, is that by Mr George Sibbald, surgeon, Argyll Square, Edin-
to stand in a shed
and
rot
LOCHLEE.
What's mortal here? have it
127
Death
in his right
woud
it
The
(S.
spritual part returns to
God
that gave
DROSTAN, ABBOT.)
founded the
to,
first
While both at parting did their hopes retain That they in glory woud unite again,
church in
gT
and
DROSTAN
Glenesk.
To reap the harvest
of their
He
died there about
A.D. 809,
And
The
join the soog of the
Faith and Love, Redeem'd above.
his
remains were carried
and buried at
int(J
Memento mori.
above, also the next four inscriptions, are attributed to Ross. The first is from a mural
Aberdour, in Aberdeenshire (supra, p. 55.^ Down to ] 723, when Lochlee was erected
an indej^)endent parish, it was attached to that of Lethnot (q-v.) These, and other points in the history of the district, are given in " the Land of
the Lindsays," including notices of the families of
and much decayed tablet, dyke :
built into the north-east
Hoc jux
monumentum
coudiuitur
cineres
De
Glenesk, Stirling, Lindsay, and ]\Laule. The Glen now wholly belongs to the Earl of Dalhousie, as representative of the last-named family.
The ruins of
of the
the kirk of S.
Drostan
of Glenesk
JoANNis Garden a Midstrath Armigeri, necnon Catharine Farquharson, conjugis ejus dilectissimje, qui matrimonio conjunct! 29" Oct., 1G9G, per annos 42 vitam conjugalem degerunt, tandem apud Invermark diem obieruut supremum, hie
26^0 Aijrilis, 1745, retatis 73
bris, 1738, tatis 63.
;
stand in the old kirk-yard, at the north-east end
ha)c vero 24'o
Novem-
Loch of Lee. is enclosed by a wall, and surrounded by some venerable trees.

the north of the burial-ground are the ruins
The cemetery
Quos
Hymen
vitae,
th
erat annis
;
To
Queisq' dedit multos viv
of the house and school of the author of " Lindy and Nory," to whose memory a granite monument was raised by public subscription, upon which is
Peracto
summo
cu
,
Componit tumulo, nosce, Ast probos, provides, beuevolos,
....
atq' benignos,
Veridico vivens buccinat ore Fama.
the following
Hunc tumnlum
extruxit Robertus Garden,
A.M.
Erected to the memory of Alexander Ross, A. M. Schoolmaster of Lochlee, author of " Lindy and
verbi Divini ad Sti Fergusij praico ex fdiis ejus
174.
[Beside this
Nory Poems
;
or the Fortunate Shepherdess,"

in the Scottish Dialect.
and other
;
monument
are laid the ashes of
John
Born, April 1G99
died,
May
17S4.
finely nature
How
An'
Garden, Esq. of Midstrath, and Catharine Farquharson, his dearly beloved wife, who, having
been united in marriage 29th October 169G, lived The former died at Invermark, 2Gth April 1745, aged 73 ; and the latter, 24th Nov. 1738, aged 63 :
together in wedlock for 42 years.
aye he paintit,
ne'er
0' sense in
rhyme he
was
stintit,
it
to the heart he always sent
" Wi' might

An' no
a'e line
an'
main,"
he
e'er inventit offen'
"
Need ane
When Hymen
in their
youth
in marriage bound,
Ross was a native of Kincardine O'Neil, and at one time assistant teacher at Laurencekirk. He married the daughter of a farmer in Logic Coldstone, and her grave is marked by a head-stone
thus inscribed
;
Whom with long life and mutual bliss he crown'd,

Together having finished
Life's career,
And won the crown of spotless honour dear. Know passenger these now by heav'uly doom He lays united in one friendly tomb,
!
This
stone was
erected
by
Mr
Let Truth anJ Fame with loud acclaims approve, Their prudence, truth, beneficence, and love."]
Alexr.
Ross,
schoolmaster at Lochlee, in
1779, aged 77 years
NACii, his spouse, here interred,
memory of Jean Catawho died May 5th
The poetical portion of the above translation fs from Thomson's edition of Helenore (Dundee,
1812.)
The
erector of the
monument was
minis-
128
EPITAPHS,
AND INSCRIPTIONS:
From what
befalls us here below,
Buchan, from 24th Sep. 1745, on 7th Nov. 1772. It appears from the Poll Book that the above-named John Garden was living in familia with his father at
ter of St Fergus, in
until his death
Let none from thence conclude. Our lot shall aftertime be so
Midstrath in Birse, the year of his marriage. sold the property of Midstrath about 1722.
He
The young man's Life was good. Yet Heavnly wisdom thought it
In
its all
fit,
sovereign way,
kill
The
flames to
him
to permit,
The Gardens came^to Gleuesk

their relative.
as factors for
And
30 to close his day.
who leased the estates from the York Buildings' Company. They were also factors for the family of Panmure and
Garden
of Troup,
;
the last of their race, Miss Garden, died at Brechin
The quaint allusion in this epitaph to future punishments had possibly been suggested from the fact of Christison having been accidentally burned
to death
among
a quantity of heather.
'I'he
next
;
nearly forty years ago.
The
allusion to the military life of

in the
Mr
Charles
slab
two
inscriptions are from a stone near the above

is
Garden
next epitaph, which
is
upon a
Here
reposed the Dust of
David Christison,
in front of the
mural
tablet, has reference to the
part which he took in Mar's rebellion. at Sheriff muir,
and taken prisoner there
He was
who died 20th Decer. 17G1, aged 61 years, a Man of Integrity and veracity, and charitably disposed to the Indigent. He left
farmer in Auchronie,
of children,
John, David, Charles, Hugh, Jean, and
Here
lie
deposited the Bodies of
Charles Garof
Magdalene, by his spouse Helen Mill.
den
of
Bellastreen, Gent.,
who
;
died upon 22ud
Nov. 17GI, aged above 90 years
and
Mrs Marabove
son, late
garet Garden,
GO years
:
his eldest daughter, aged
Helen Miln, spouse to David ChristiTenent in Auchrony, who died December 19th, 1775, aged G4 years
Here
lies
:
Stop, Passenger, incline thine head,

lies what's mortal of the man, with honour Life's extended span
Entomb'd here
And
I
talk a
little
with the Dead
Who
fill'd
Of stature handsome, front erect and fair, Of dauntless brow, yet mild and debonair. The camp engaged his youth, and would his
had my day as well as thou. But worms are my companions now. Hence then, and for thy change prepare,
age,
With bent endeavour,
earnest care,
Had cares domestic not recaU'd his stage, By claim of blood, to represent a line.
That but for him was ready to decline. He was the Husband, Father, Neighbour, Friend,
1800
For Death pursues the as a Post, There's not a moment to be lost,

:
1799, aged 85 years
Donald Nicol, who died October and David Nicol, his

;
9th, son,
And
all their special
properties sustain'd.
of morals sound,
who
here
died August 11th, 1798, aged 52

:
are interred
Of prudent conduct, and
And who
tanner,
bears),
poll is
is
at last with length of days
was crown'd.
The
In 1G96, James Garden of Bellastrain, in Glenrated at
grave. Great Teacher to one level brings. Heroes and Beggars, Galley-Slaves, and Kings,
!
of poll, but (as the record

his
his
" he classing himself as a gentleman, 3, and the generall poll for himself,
in familia,'''' is
This
prison,
couplet
is
from the
Earl of
Orford's
epitaph on Theodore,
King
of Corsica,
who, after
long confinement for debt in the King's Bench
wife,
and three children

of Papists"
" A.ne List
In which was furnished to the

10s.
was released
in 1756,
and died the same
year.
Presbytery of Kincardine O'Neil in 1704 (Blackhall's Narrative), it is stated that " Bathia Gardyne, spouse to Charles Gardyn of Ballastreiu,
is
His remains Street, London.
lie
in St Anne's Church,
Dean
copal Clergyman, Lochlee, in
Erected by the Revd. Peter JoUy, 57 years Epismemory of his son

of
and hath been ane obstinate papist."

this
James, who died 14th
Here lies Daniel Ciiristison, who departed life June 4th, 1751, aged 3G .
And May
also of his spoupe,

12tii
March 1798, aged 10 years. Jean Dieack, who died
LOCHLEE.
Mr Jolly, who was the first resident Episcopal clergyman in Glenesk from the time of the Revolution, resigned his charge in 1840.
to Brechin,
129
He
retired
by Dr Beattie in his address to Ross on the publication of his poems of Helenore, &c. The next inscription relates to one who had
referred to
where he died in 1845, aged 82, universally respected by all denominations of Christians for his unobtrusive, kindly disposition.
of his daughters
One
was the wife of the
late
Bishop
Moirof Brechin. Glenesk was long a stronghold of Episcopacy. On 16th Aug. 1745, Bishop Rait confirmed about 70 of that congregation, and on the previous day he confirmed about 25 persons in the dwelling
house of the clergyman (Rev.
some celebrity as a local rhymester. He tenanted the farm of Glencatt, a remote place to the north of the farm of Baillies and, like most of his contemporaries in the Glen, he had doubtless enjoyed many a " pint at Drousty :"
;
1846
years
Erected in
memory
of
John Milne
of
Glencatt,
;
who
died on the 2d Septr. 1818, aged 50
and his spouse, SirsAN Farqtjharson, who
died on the 2d Sept. 1843, aged 75 years.

left
They
Mr
Lunan's Diary,
Glenesk
two daughters, ^Magdalene and Agnes.
MS.)
and
the
its
The
strength of Episcopacy in
neighbourhood attracted the attention of

;
Government
and
in 1746, not only did the
Royalists burn the meeting-house in Lochlee, but
THE NEW CHURCH-YARD.

A new
1803.
old kirk,
they also carried the minister a prisoner ou board
The incumbent of that period was IMr David Rose, who dweltatWoodsideof Dunlappie. Hewas the father
a frigate which was lying
off
Montrose.
parish church was erected at Lochlee in
It stands about a mile to the east of the

;
Kon. George Rose, and great-grandfather of Lord Strathnairn. The Episcopal church and parsonage are at Tarfside, where a hand-bell is preserved, which bears this record of the generosity
of the of the old minister
. . :
between the Mark and the Brawny and there the deaths of one nonogenarian and two octogenarians are recorded upon head-stones. Another stone (enclosed) bears the following record of the
the
first
person that was interred within

:
New
Burial-ground
Inglis,
of
MK DAVID KOSE
GIFT
TO
GLENESK
1728.
Erected by the Revd. David Inglis, minister of

Lochlee, in
Accounts of
in the
memory of his mother Christian

life
Mr
Rose and
his family are given
who
departed this
on the 15th day

age.
July 1808,
pro-
Land of the Lindsays; also, infra, p. 294. From the sides and edges of a head-stone in
:
the old kirk-yard of Lochlee
73d year of her peramus ad unam.

in the
Nos omues metam
The erector of the above-mentioned tombstone

died at Lochlee, 28th January 1837, in the 66th
Her lays Donald MDonel, Margaret Ddfs, John MDonel, and Margaret Tohou, May the
21, 1733.
year of his age, as recorded upon a marble slab,

fixed into the top of
Remember man
as thou goes by,
Death, Judgment and Eternity.
monument.
an adjoining chest-shaped Another marble slab (in the same
stone) bears that
Edward Hart,
son of General
The next two

stones
:
inscription are also from head-
Here lies Margaret Campble, spouse to David CouTS in Drowstie, died 5'li Septr. 1794, aged 24 years. Also his mother, Jean Gibe, died 18^^ March
1794, aged G5 years.
Hart of Doe Castle, Kilderry, Ireland, died at the manse of Lochlee, 1st May 1836, in his 26th year. Mr Hart's brother wrote some verses to his memory, the first of which is engraved upon
the
tomb
Droirsiie, which
S.
is
a corruption of the
name
of
Drostan, was a hamlet or village where there was an alehouse. The
in Lochlee,
Far from his father's home he rests, Cut of hi early bloom. Triistlntj to God and his behests,
hostelry
is
He
sank
into the tomb.
130
EPITAPHS, AND INSCRIPTIONS

inscription
The next
which
late
was " written

Rev.
head-stone (near the kirk-yard gate) bears

:
under the direction" of the
Mr John
the following inscription

1811
:
Whyte
of
Lethnot and Navar
brother of the
Erected by William Reid, shoemaker in
two young men whose deaths are recorded drowning which occurred during a snow storm, and while
discloses a painful instance of accidental
Aberdeen, in
perished
memory of his son George, who among the snow about the end of Jauy.
bounds
of this parish, in the 30
1810, within the
the
brothers
:
were
employed
collecting
their
year of his age.
father's sheep
Vos
igitur estote
parati
quia qua hora nou
putatis, Filius hominis veniet,
Davidi Whyte an. 27, ejusque minori fratri Akchibaldo Whyte, an. 18, natis, qui cum torrentem rapidum transilire couarentur, qua, dejectu
gravi in barathrum profundum, etpnijruptis utrinque
When
ment
also
Reid's grave
was opened
for
an inter-
in 1873,
fragments of clothes were found,

in
a
is
bonnet
good
40.
preservation.
The
rupibus clausum, prteceps defertur, prior hoc jam

superato, fratrem in gurgitem conspicatus delapsum, amore pio, necnon ejus servandi spe
facile
text
from Luke
xii.
e6dem prajcipitavit, unc\que Gleumarki valle, parochia comitatus Forfarensis Lochleio, Sext. Kal. Nov. A.D. 1820. Horum mortis immaturae, nee minus pietatis, ingeuii, amoris mutui iusignis, caeterarumque virtutum eximiarum, flentibus amicis heu quam subito abreptorum, hoc monumentum pro suo ingenti desiderio posuit pater Jacobus Whyte.
vaua impulsus,
miserrime
se statim
periit,
number
of ancient funeral cairns
have been
found in various parts
of the Glen, as noticed in
the Land of the Lindsays. But the most conspicuous " cairns" are two modern erections, the
one upon the
Rowan
hill,
the other upon the

is
Modlach.
its
The former, which
pyramidical in
The
translation (reprinted from
Land
of the
form, was lately erected by the Earl of Dalin
Lindsays, p. 74), was
made by
the late Rev.
Mr
Whyte :
["In memory
of
bis younger brother,
David Whyte, aged 27, and of Archibald Whyte, aged 18.
honour of the ancient Family of and the latter, which consists of a tower, with a place for shelter, was built a good many years ago, by the St Andrews Lodge of Freehousie,
Maule
As
the two brothers were proceeding to leap across
masons, Lochlee.
where the Mark, contracted by craggy rocks on either side into a narrow and rapid torrent, anon pours headlong over a high precipice into a deep eddyiug abyss, when the elder, having already
at a spot
neat Free Church with spire, also a
commo-
dious manse, and the
new
parish school and school-
house, are to the east of the hamlet of Tarfside,
crossed with facility, perceived that his brother
and in the pretty district of Cairncross, out of which a davoch of land was given by Morgund,
son of
had
fallen into the
impetuous stream, urged by the
Abbe
(the lay
Abbot
of Brechin^, to his
impulse of holy afiectiou and by the vain hope of saving his life, rushed in heedlessly after him, and both lamentably perished together, on the 27th of
October,
1820, in the glen (or valley)
of
sou Michael, in the year 1230 (Note from

Stuart.)
Dr John
But the most picturesque parts

in the
of Gleuesk are
Mark,
parish of Lochlee, and county of Forfar.
To com-
memorate the premature death, as well as the illustrious example of mutual affection, the talents, the piety^ and other excellent endowments which
adorned the hapless brothers alas so suddenly snatched away from their weeping relatives this monument was erected by their bereaved and dis!
neighbourhood of Invermark, where the old roofless and ivyclad tower of the " lichtsome
Lindsays," with
its
ingeniously constructed
yett,
or gate of wrought iron, stands upon a rising
ground at the foot of Glenmark. In the same locality, but upon a more elevated sjwt, is Invermark Lodge, the shooting quarters
of the Earl of Dalhousio.
consolate father,
James Whyte. "j
The
Lodire overlooks
LOCHLEE.
the Loch and water of Lee, " the auld kirk-yard," the peak of Craigmaskeldie, and a variety of other
points of
travelled, save
131
by
tourists,
it
was by the
last-
named
the late
route that
great
natural
is
beauty.
" Highland Retreat"
also interesting to
This grand " all
Her Majesty the Queen, and Prince Consort and suit came incognito
good and loyal subjects," for there the Queen, and other members of the Royal Family, have
been guests of
its
from Balmoral to Fettercairn in 1861. The royal party were met on Mount Keen by the Earl of Dalhousie, and lunched in a cottage
occupied by one of his Lordship's foresters.
this
noble proprietor.
river rises
From
The North Esk

falls
from the Loch of

it
they passed, en route, through the wild pass
Lee, and after a course of from 30 to 40 miles,

into the sea near Kinnaber.
of
Glenmark, and refreshed themselves at the
Ponskeenie, a
Toher-na-clachan-gealaich (the white stone well),
picturesque old bridge of three arches, near Dal-
and another of one arch, which is just being erected by the Earl of Dalhousie across the ford at Gleneffock, are the only stone bridges upon the Esk to the north of the Gannochy. A stone bridge was built over the Taif or Tarf about 1750. It was carried off by the floods of 1829, when the present structure was erected.
brack,
where there is a copious spring, famous for its clear and cooling water. A fine view is obtained from the spot, which is about 60 yards east of the Mark, and about 300 yards from where the Ladder Burn joins the Mark. In commemoration of the Royal visit, and the sad loss which followed to the Queen and the
The bridge
Edzell,
is
across the
Turndhd
or Turret, wliich
separates the
parish of
Lochlee from that of

date, as
is
also of
modern
that over the
Brawny, near the parish church. The old bridge over the Mark, improved in 1870 by Lord Dalhousie, was contracted for at Droustie, 11th April 1755, by John Montgomery, mason in Pitcainlaich. The work was estimated to cost 31: sterling, exclusive of the materials, which were to be brought to his hand but it was agreed that if Montgomery should show himself to be "a real Loser thereby," his loss was to be made up when the work was completed. The bridge, which was to be ready for traffic on the 29th of September following, was to be 12 feet of breadth, with " be;
Country by the death of the Prince Consort, Lord Dalhousie had a memorial erected at the well. It is composed of six roughly-hewn arches of native granite, which converge to a centre not unlike the top of St Giles' steeple at Edinburgh and rise to the height of about 20 feet, the whole being finished by a cross of hewn freestone.
Upon
the centre arch
is
this inscription
Her Majesty Queen Victoria

and
his
Royal Highness the Prince-Consort,
visited this Well,
and dranh of its refreshing ivaters, on the 20tk September 1861, the year of Her Majesty's great sorroio.
is
The following
Best, Traveller,
round the margin
of a basin
:
f freestone, into which the spring falls
twixt fourty and fourty-four foot of an arch."

{Oricjinal Contract, kindly
on
this lonely green,
Rev.
Mr
Walter Low.)
:
the bridge bears
communicated by the mutilated tablet upon
And
drb^, and pray for Scotland's
"This Bridge was Built on General Contributions, chiefly of the Parishioners of
Lochlee
Besides the old foot-path, or Priests^
Road from
Ponskeenie to Lethnot, there
is
a rugged road
through Glenturret
to Charleston of Aboyne. Another road leads from Lochlee by Glenmark
and Mount Keen to Ballater, &c.
Though seldom
132
EPITAPHS,
AND INSCRIPTIONS
[Here rest in the Lord
my
dear parents,
Mr
James Rait, a true minister
of the Gospel,
who, for
25 years, presided faithfully over this church, not without great benetit, and then exchancfed life for
(THE BLESSED VIRGIN.)

ifJfiHE church of Ahirlothenot, which is rated at cE) 20 merks in the Old Taxation, belonged to
the Priory of St Andrews, and was dedicated by
death, 1st May 1642, at the age of 59 ; and his beloved wife Isabella Blackburn, who died 19th
Jan. 1637, aged 32.
Erected by their son,
W.
R.]
-The erector of
the living of
the above
monument succeeded
Bishop David in 1242.
his father in the church of Marykirk; and although he was unsuccessful in his application for
The name of AUrluilicnot appears to have been assumed from the burn of Luthnot, which runs past the village of Marykirk. An early, but
dateless
Meumuir (Land
of the Lindsays, p.
338), he was afterwards translated to Brechin.
charter
(Reg. Yetus de Aberbrothoc),
shows that a piece of land was granted to the

church of Mariiigtun, which lay to the west of the burn of " Luffenot," and extended to a bridge This called " Stanbrig," on the North Esk.
charter not only proves the existence of an early
Aberand during the following year became one of the ministers of Dundee. He was a cadet of the House of llallgreeu, and his wife was heiress of Guthrie of Pitforthy, near Brechin,
Princi[)al of King's College,
He
was made
deen, in
1661,
bridge upon the river
but
it
also discloses the
His mother was probably related William Blackburn, a contemporary burgess of Aberdeen, who took a great interest in church
sup., p. 108.)
to
interesting particular, that the donor, " Willelmus
matters.
Auceps," or William the Hawker, (who is the first recorded of the old family of Falconer of
Halkerton), offered a turf of the land upon the
altar of the church as a
The
old kirk consisted of a transept, with a north

aisle.
and a south
The north
aisle,
which be-
longed to the Barclays of Balmakewan, presents

a carving of the Barclay arms, initialed
symbol
of investiture.
LB,, and
In 1574, the churches of Eglisgreig and Aberluthnot were both served by one minister (sup., and Thomas Ramsay was the contemp. 36)
;
dated 1653.
The south
aisle,
which belonged to
the Strachans of Thornton, contains an
a font, and an elegant tomb.
awmbry, The date and ini-
porary reader at Aberluthnot.
tialsof'A
1615
aisle
S," upon a slab built into the
The name
of the parish
was long ago changed
outside of the west wall, probably refer to the
from Aberluthnot to that of ]\Iary-Kirk. Before the old church was re-roofed, it contained a ceiling of carved oak, an escutcheon of the Halkerton
family,
time that the
The
of
old ceiling
was erected. of the Thornton
aisle
was
painted with armorial bearings.

carvings, the
Among a variety
and date
:
and an inscribed
in
liis
tablet, notices
tomb bears the Strachan and

initials
of which, along with a copy of the inscription,
Forbes arms, with these
are given by
Mr Brymer,
in
excellent
Account
is
of the Parish,
1793.
The
inscription
as
S.LS
61
D.E.F.
pilasters,
it
follows
Domino reqniescuut parentes mei

annos
chatideliter,
marble tablet, flanked by

is
:
bears
an inscription, which
appears
here printed as
now
Hie
rissimi
in
M. Jacobus Raitus, pastor vera Evangeli-
cua, qui prsefuit huic ecclesise 25
noa
sine
magno emolumento tunc vitam cum morta

;
lectissimic,
Epicedium threnodicum memoriam faaminas Dominai ELizABETHiK Forbes^, Do. .
commutavit, calend. Mali, anno 1642, tetatis sum 59 ; et dilcctissima ejus conjux, Isabella Black-
miuaa a Thornton,
a^ternitatis
candidate,
meritorum
fato
.
.
nissima,
puerpera,
immaturo
vigesi.
BURNE, qu;b
suaj 32.
obiit 19 Januarii,
filius,
anno 1637,
astatis
repta est,
dum annum
ajtatis
Parentavit
W.
11.
mum
quintum agebat, die decimo lanuarij
61
MARYKIRK.
Cujus fragrantissse memorise, licet de monumentis oinni asre perennioribus abuiide satis litatum
. . . .
133
Lady Strachan left a son and two daughters, 60). who were brought up and educated by their maternal grandiuother
;
sit,
hoc tam
magnifico mausoleo, parentaudum
but,
it
appears,
notwithin
conjunx ipsius puUatus, D. Strachanus a Thorntone, asques auratus.

curavit
Siste, viator,
lacobus
standing the high
eulogium which the baronet

little interest
passed upon his lady, he took so

her offspring that, in
raised a
habes summi monument

. .
1665, their grandmother
Virtutis tumulum, Pieridumq' vid
summons
against
him
for
having ne-
Omnis una
fuit brevis hfec
quam con
glected his affairs, and abandoned his children
Lux nuper
Aurea
si
patria? ..... levis
umb
tantas fudere crepuscula
(Watertoune Faviihj Papers.) Elizabeth Forbes' son possibly grew up and succeeded to the title
Luxisset, quanto sydere
and
estates, for in 1692,
John Strachan
of Belly,
Quanta fuit pietas quam stemmatis Enthea mens, roseus quam sine sente sinus. Quautus et oris honos Phctnix vixitq' oaditq', Qualem non poterant reddere decem, At matura polo cecidit Christoq' quid
;
;
son of Sir James Strachan of Thornton, married

Isobel, daughter of Sir
John Forbes.
of Sir
Alexander Strachan, who succeeded his grandfather in 1606,
and married a daughter
William Douglas of Gleubervie, and a

the 10th Earl of
sister of
Ignavi.numerant
ssecula, facta boni.
Mors
Angus (Doug.
'
Peer.),
was created
ipsa
non
separabit.
a baronet in 1625.
the
title
;
[A funeral song to the memory of a most excellent woman. Dame Elizabeth Forbes, lady of Thornwho, possessed of all the merits that can adorn her sex, became a candidate for eternity 10th January IGGl, in the 25th year of her age, having died prematurely in childbed. Altho' her worth is i^reserved by monuments more lasting than any brass, her sorrowing husband, Sir James Strachan of Thornton, knight baronet, has caused this magton,
uiCcoiit
but, so
He had several successors in far as I am aware, no reliable

exists.
genealogy of the family
ful branches of Carmyllie
The once powerand Glenkindie are sup-
posed to have been offshoots of the Strachaus of
tomb
to be erected to her
most fragrant
memory.
Stop, traveller, you have before you a
of the deepest grief
;
monument
you see the tomb of a virtuous and accomplished lady one who, lately a light to
Thornton and the name is believed to have been assumed from the district of Strachan, in Kincardineshire. The property of Thornton is said to have come to the Strachans by one of them marrying the daughter and heiress of Thornton of that Ilk, in the time of David II. (v. Mem. Angus and Mearns.) It may be added that, in addition to Hugh
;
Strachan, or
gives the
Ramsay
(infra, p. 165),
her
If
country,
the golden
now flits an unsubstantial shade. dawn showed so bright a light, with
names
of other five of this race
Dr Oliver who be-
what splendour would the noontide have shone ? How great was her piety, how befitting her illustrious race was her inspired intellect, how thornless her rosy
Jesuits. Among these is Alexander, eldest son of the sixth baronet of Thornton, Avho " suc-
came
bosom,
how
great the graceful dignity
of her look
Phcenix, she both lived and died,
such as not ten ages could reproduce.

died ripe for
Heaven
What
The
slothful reckon ages,
But she more was needed ? good men deeds. Death
and some time tutor in a private family, and was succeeded by his brother Eobert, who was long a mercantile clerk, and died at Exeter in 1826, aged about 90
ceeded to the
title
its
and
slender income,"
for
died at Liege in 1793.
He was
itself shall
not part us.]
The
1654,
above-named lady, who was married in when her husband was designed of Inches-
There were other two brothers. One went to America, and the other is said to have taken the title on the death of Sir Robert Strachan, after
tuthell,
was
tliird
daughter of Forbes
of
of
Waterton
{supra, p,,
and
his wife
Jean Ramsay
Balmain
was assumed by his nephew, who died Teignmouth. It is added that Sir Alexander, the Jesuit, was offered 5000 to give
which
it
at Cliffden,
134
EPITAPHS,
AND INSCRIPTIONS
The Ta-vlors
burial-place, but
of Kirktouhill
up
his
family pajêrs to Admiral Sir Richard
hare an inclosed
Strachan, and that, poor as he was, he refused

the bribe.
The Thornton papers

Robert
left
are said to be
no monument, within the area of the old kirk of Marykirk. Robert, a younger
son of Tailzour of Borrowfield, near Montrose,
in the possession of a family in Devonshire, to
whom
Sir
any
little
that he died pos-
was the
first of this
family.
He
bought (as the
sessed of.
present laird courteously informs us) the lauds

of
of Kirktouhill
Thornton now belongs to and the has been altered and old family residence added to by Mr Crombie with much taste and
The property
Alexander Crombie, Esq. of Pittarrow
man
in
1755
and Balmanno, from James Aikand married a sister of Sir James
udgment.
The square tower
of
Thornton Castle
is
dated
1531, and the weather vane bears, " 1680."
The
round tower, at the north-east corner, which is supposed to be the oldest remaining portion of
the building, although dateless, exhibits a carving
of the old family araas.
Carnegy of Pittarrow, afterwards of Southesk, by whom he had a family. Mr Taylor died about 1780, when the properties were both sold. Kirktouhill was bought by Colonel David Gairdner, and Balmanno by Mr Alex. Smith and from them the estates were re-acquired, in 1797 and
;
present laird,
1798 respectively, by the grand-father of the who made a fortune in Jamaica.
The
family arms, with
He
also
changed the spelling

which
is
of his
name from
the
James Strachan and Dame Elizabeth Forbes, and the date of 1662, are also upon the north wing of the building, or that part which connects the two towers.
initials
of
Sir
Tailzour to Tai/lur.
Kirktouhill,
within the barony of
Rescobie, was anciently called the Kirktown lands

of
Aberluthnot.
The lands were

;
held of
the
was probably during the time of the lastmentioned Sir J. Strachan, and possibly by some family arrangement, that Thornton passed to the
It
Priory of St x\ndrews
and
in
1540, Cardinal
Beaton gave a charter of Kirktouhill to David Barclay of Mathers. Barclay gave the lands of
Johnstone, near Laurencekirk, to his eldest son
Forbeses, since about or soon after the year 1686,
the property was acquired by
James Forbes
of
John, by a second marriage.
In a
letter of
5th
Saach or Savoch, in Foveran parish (^Watcrtoune In a deed of 1723, Thomas Family Papers).
Forbes of Thornton
is
described as the son of
October 1660, Barclay of Johnstone says that " the Earle of Northesk and my uncle Cadam have now ended their differences" a statement
the late James Forbes of Auchmacoy, in Logie-
Buchan.
Mr
is
Troup
of Hartville, Bridge of Allan,
who
which proves the relationship betweeen the Barclays of Johnstone and those of Caldhame at that time. Carved slabs, embellished with the Barclay arms, are
p. 138.)
still
presently preparing an Account of the Forbeses,
to be seen at
Caldhame
{injra,
kindly writes that James Forbes of Thornton,

died in 1713, was succeeded by his eldest Thomas, and that the affairs of the latter became so much embarrassed, that the estate was sold in 1763, by authority of the Court of
who
The
present church of Marykirk, which stands

of
son,
on the north side

erected in 1806.
the burial-ground,
was
Within, and upon the east wall,

is
a marble
monument
thus inscribed
:
of this
Session,
The only memorial

of
at
Mary kirk to the

slab
Thornton
is
a mutilated
Forbeses within the
The Eevd. James Siiand, A.M., minister

College Church, Aberdeen, son of
parish from 1S05 to 1837, and previously of the
family burial
of
aisle,
:
which exhibits these traces
James Shand,
his
Esquire, merchant there, born ISth August 1757,
an inscription
died 5th Jany. 1837.
Margaret Farquhar,
Hie iacet Thornton obiit 2do Octob
Philippus Fo Natua 22do Dec
de
wife, born 11th August 1767, died 11th January 1840,
daughter
of
by
his wife Eliaabeth
Alexander Farquhar, Esq., Kiutore, Harvey, great-grand-daughter
MARYKIRK.
James Harvey of Kilmuiidy, and his wife MarAuchmedden. He was an accomplished scholar, a kind husband and father, and a devoted pastor In all the relations of life she was equally exemplary. Both were united in that faith and hope which vanquish death, and realize the rest which remaiueth to the people of God. This tablet is affectionately dedicated by their surviving
of
135
a lawless and predatory
life,
and to have made
garet Baird of
themselves so obnoxious that their neighbours
assembled and drove them from their stronghold.
No
writer makes allusion to this castle

further affirms
that,
but tra-
dition
place,
before leaving the
Montgomery " hid a
kettle -full of gold in
the
sons to the
memory
of the best of parents.
faithful unto death,

life,
and
I will give thee a
Be thou crown of
Knap !" The next inscription is partly round the margin,

Near the bottom
of the stone
partly upon the face of a well-proportioned slab

of red sand stone.
Charles-Farquhar
Shand, third son of the above-named minister of Marykirk, passed as an advocate in 1834. He edited an edition of the Funeral Sermons and Orations on Bishop Patrick
Forbes, for the Spottiswoode Society, in 1845.
are the initials, A. G., the date of 1630, also boldly executed carvings of a blacksmith's shovel,
tongs, a
hammer, the horns
of
an
anvil, a horse
is
shoe, &c.
The
first
portion of the inscription

last three lines are incised
. :
cut in
relief,
and the
, .
The volume
contains,
among
other interesting
Heir
IN
.
matter, a copy of the Latin inscription in the
the
.
Thornton aisle, as it appeared in 1828, accompanied by a poetical translation of the verses. In 1860, Mr Shand was appointed Chief Justice of the Mauritius, and in 1869, be received the honour of knighthood. The church-yard of Marykirk was levelled and otherwise improved in 1868, in the course of which some old gravestones were discovered. One of these presents a shield, charged with the Montgomery and Mclvill arms, &c. The words " Died in Apryl 5, 1591," are below the shield; and the following inscription, in rudely incised capitals, is given round the border of the stone
:
tyjie
lyes Adame Glyge smith Hill Morphye some howsband to isobel low
.
who. departed. the 10. of. awg\yst Adam Gle died in April 1698 AGED 86. John Gleig died May 15, 1737, aged 83; IsoBEL Gleig died March 4th,
.
.
1761, aged 78.
"John
trose.
Gleig,"
(great-grandson of "
Glyge"), was the father of Provost Gleig of
Adame Mon-
Elizabeth, daughter of Provost Gleig, married James Burnes, cousin-germau to Burns, the Poet. Mr Burnes, who was a writer in, and
sometime Provost of Montrose, had a large family,
Here lyes Margret Melvil, who died ye 20 Apryl 1686, hir age 60 years. She uas spous to Robert Montgomry,
among whom were Sir Alexander and Charles, who both fell at Cabul Sir James, K.H. and Adam. The last-named succeeded to his father's
;
business in Montrose, where he died in 1872.
He
Whos
corps interd belou
was much esteemed

disposition.
for his upright conduct, as
Whose
Lyes hyd from eyes souls advancd with Chryst

skjes.
well as for his great humour, and generosity of
Above the
Dr
unknown
to the
Gleig, Bishop of Brechin (the father of the
Melvill
that of
district.
is
an old surname in the Mearns, but

is
present venerable and accomplished
Chaplain-
Montgomery
almost
General of the Forces), and the Rev.
Mr
Gleig,
heart-shaped piece of ground, to the

is still
parish minister of Arbroath, were both descendants of " Adarae." Their fathers were both the former followed his blacksmiths by trade
;
south of Hatton House,
called
3Io)/t(/o)ii''r}fs
Knap. marsh
site of
It appears to have been surrounded

;
and, according to tradition,
it
by a was the
useful calling at Boghall in Arbuthnott,

latter at
and the
a castle which was tenanted by a family
Balrownie in Menmuir.
Some members
named Montgomery.
They
are said to have led
of the
Montrose branch of the family were famous
13a
EPITAPHS,
AND INSCRIPTIONS^
let,
for the manufacture of " Jews' Harps," or trumps
which
is
it is
to
be hoped
will
soon be re-lettered,
fact
which has made the name
of
Gleig
&c.,
about 16 feet west of the east dyke, and

:
familiar to the lovers of that instrument in
many
bears this suggestive inscription
parts of Scotland.
The next
inscription
is
interest, in so far as it
also one of some general marks the grave of the
29 feet south from this stone are interred the remains of I\Ir David Herd, v/riter a man of
:
probity, of a kind and friendly disposition, of mild,

tolerant principles,
Literature.
mother of David IIkkd, the celebrated collector of Ancient and Modern Scottish Songs, Heroic
Ballads, &c.
:
and
of taste in ancient Scotish
Here lyes Marget Low, spouse of John Herd, sometime tennent in Muirtoun of Be .... n, who died 14th Dec. 1751, aged 60 years :^
nor anxious to he lost few friends, and made few enemies. These qualities had their influence ; for, they averted many of the wants and evils of desolicitous to shine,
Not
become
rich,
clining years.
He
died a true believer upon the
10 June 1810, aged.
loving and a virtueous wife she was,

surpass.
That few or none could her
Sir W.
Scott,
who
characterises Herd's
work
Songs
It has been stated by Chambers, and other biographers, as well as in the recent reprint of Herd's
as " the first classical collection of Scottish
Songs, that he was born in St Cyrus
but about
1853, while searching the parish records of Marykirk for anothef purpose, I came accidentally
and Ballads," says that he was known and generally esteemed for his shrewd, manly common sense and antiquarian science, and that from his hardy antique mould of countenance, and his venerable grizzled locks, he was known among
his
upon the following entries of the marriage Herd's parents and his own baptism
:
of
acquaintances by the
name
of Greysttil.
Nov.
14,
1730
order to Marriage,
The qch day were contracted in Jon Hied & Margt. Low,
from a tombstone near to that of Herd's mother at Marykirk, possibly relates to some of his relatives
Tlie liext inscription,
:
both in this parioch. Caurs for the pledges, Da. Hird, in Balmakelly, for the Bridgroom, & William Low, in Deuside, for the Bride. Married
on Dec. 29th.
Oct.
23,
memory of JNIargaret Herd, late spouse to James Strachan, who died March 30, 1763, aged 50 and of their sou, David Strachan, who died iu infancy. James Strachan
This stone
is
erected to the
1732
This day W3s baptized David

to
died June
6,
HiRD, lawU. son

in
John Hird and Margat Low,
Balmakelly. before these wittnesses, David

iu
&
The next two

John Lyal,
epitaphs are from headstones

Potbeidlie, d. 1742,
is
a.
William Herd, both
Balmakelly.
first
.53
These
by a
extracts,
which
appeared in
Deaths shade
AVillis'
made the hiding
place,
;
Current Notes for Nov. 1854, were accompanied

suggestion, founded on the authority of the
When When
It
uordly troubles do increase
conuerts young are called home,
Before those troublous days do come,
Retours (Kinciirdine, No. 88), that Herd's motlier might have been descended from a family of the
warning giues to older sort
name
of
Low, who were
proprietors of Little
and
Nether Balmakelly,
Balmakelly
liohn,''^
in 1655.
To fly to Christ, their chief support, Though ye be young as well as I, Yet faith will learn you how to dy.
Herd's father appears to have removed from to, probably, the " Muirton of Bcnfor the final letter n in the destroyed
in.
EoBERT Hill,
45th year of his
schoolmaster,
office
:
d. 1784, a. 69, in
the
word
looks like part of an
Be
this as
it
may, David
Hkkd
died at Edinburgh, and was buried in the
Thou hast the promise of eternal truth, Those who live well, and pious paths pursue, To man and to their maker true.
Let 'em expire in age or youth, Can never miss
Their
Buccleuch Church-yard of that city, where a tablet (which is being fast obliterated by the
.weather),
is
built into the north wall.
The
tab-
way
to everlastiug bliss.
MARYKIRK.
The
following instances are given to show the
137
Because that the oppressor,
long ages attained by some of the old residenters

of the parish
:
Upon
his side
had power
And
A
none to comfort me,
Margaret Clark, died 1833, aged 96 her daughter Elizabeth Sheret, died 1864, aged 90.
Alex. Pyper died at Rosehill, 1825, aged 72 spouse Elspet Cruickshank, died 1846, aged
;
Altho' I mourned sore.

pair of silver
:
(1789.)
to
his
the parish bear
communion cups belonging
84.
David Towns, in 1729 :
vill
Arrat's Mill, predeceased his wife
Given to the Kirk of Aberluthnott by David Meland Jean Eait of Pitgarvie, 1715.
It appears that
Heel order Death, that porter rude, To open the gates of brass For, lo, with characters of blood Thy husband wrote thy pass. At Jordan deep then be not feared, Tho' dismal-like and broad Thy sun will guide, thy shield will guard Thy husband paved the road. Heel lead thee safe, and bring thee Home, So still let blessings fall Of grace while here, till glory come Thy husband's bound for all.
;
David Melvill was in Pitgarvie month of March of that year his " victual house" was broken into, and " several pockfulls of meal" stolen from it, by Wm. Edmonstone, and his three sons, who lived at Bogmuir near Fettercairn, for which, and a number of other thefts, the elder Edmoustone was sentenced " to be hanged on a gibbet till he be dead." (Black Book of Kincardineshire.)
in 1699, as in the
Aberluthnot was anciently a thanedom. one of the stones, about which was found in the walls of the old church, had covered the grave of some of
It
is
David Wood's
.Stop,
wife, aged 21 (1796)
:
:
just possible that
passenger, here and read
six feet long,
The living may get knowledge from the dead Here lies the mortal part of a beloved wife Who only lived 5 months a married life. Beside her father's dust and mother's. At the left side of a sister and brother's Our family 7 in one arrangement be Consider this, man, that all must die.
:
The church
1773.
at
Sauchieburn, now occupied by

the
Mary kirk. It " was carved round had the impression of a large broad sword, suspended at no great distance from the top, the whole length of the stone. Opposite to this sword was engraved a figure of an elliptic form, from which jjroceeded a lance or spear, nearly the same length." (Old Stat. Acct.)
the lairds of
the edge
;
the Independents, was built
One
of
by the Bereans in two remaining tombstones
bears the curious inscription given below.
The
composition of the epitaph

;
is
ascribed to
Mr
M'Rae, a Berean preacher and the person commemorated, (a son of Robert Wyllie, aged 12
years),
to
is
said to have been accidentally scalded

:
death in a cauldron of boiling water
were with me, As in the days of old.

Oh, that
it
With children about me, In number manifold. But here mine only son,
At Balmanno (anciently a seat of the AuchinLECKs of that ilk), ia S. John's Well, where, possibly, there had been a place of worship in old times. With some probability, a like inference might be drawn from the ancient spelling of Inglismaldie (Ecclesmadie), and Maidie's (? IMagdalene's) Well. A circular hollow in the woods of Hatton is called the Popish Kirk, where, it is said, there was once a chapel. There was an Episcopal church at the village of Luthermuir and there, in 1782, Bishop John
;
Skinner
of
lochgorm, was consecrated.
Aberdeen, son of the author of TulThe church was sub-
Who
To
In this dark grave is laid, hindered not his father

sleep into his bed.
sequently removed to Rosehill, near the bridge which crosses the Luther, on the Laurencekirk road,
where
it
long remained.
It is
from
this place
138
EPITAPHS,
AND INSCRIPTIONS
bridge across the North Esk, near to where the
that the Earl of Xorthesk takes his second title

of
Lord
Rosehill.
burn of Luthnot joins that

12th
century.
river, as early as the
was acquired by Sir John Carnegie, afterwards Earl of North esk, in 1635, by whom, or bis successor, the castle was erected. Like many castles of the jjeriod, the beams in the ceiling of the hall were painted with scripture quotations but these are now covered by lath and plaster. Inglismaldie was afterwards bought by Lord Halkerton, and came by heirship to the
Inglisiiialdie
;
The present Marykirk Bridge

58
feet
consists of four arches, each of
span
its
350 feet. The bridge was founded in 1811, and opened for traffic in 1815, at a cost of about 10,000. The church bell of Marykirk is dated 1826.
extreme length
is
It
is
said that a previous bell
was broken by
being hit by a stone by some of the
Duke
of
Earls of Kiutore.
Cumberland's
soldiers in 1746.
It
is
also told
There was
this
title of
also a castle at
Caldhame.
From
that one Sunday, while the bell was cracked, a
property the Earls of IMiddleton took the
waggish schoolmaster,
and, believing
it
or precentor,
handed a
;
baron
and
it
was
here, while sitting in
paper to the minister as he entered the pulpit
his chair, that jMontrose's soldiers shot the father
to be a bona fide production re-
of the first Earl of Middleton.

built into the
carved stone,
farm
offices, is
inscribed
:
lavs deo.
the ini-
garding a dying parishioner, his reverence gravely announced, at the proper time, that " the prayers
of the congregation
Two
other slabs bear shields
One with
were requested on behalf

.'"
of
tials I. B.,
and the date
of 16-7, is
charged with
jSIaru Bt/I, in great distress
the Barclay arms.

I. S.,
The
other,
initialed
A.
bears the same arms impaled with those of
Caldhame became the proand a stone slab, built into the wall of the bridge at Caldhame, bears a shield, with the arms partially effaced, and this inscriprecently
;
Wood.
More
perly of Keiths
1^W1
(S.
11
c.
tion
1744
:
George Keith of Caldhame. Renewed, 1783.

Luther on the
This
sists
bridge, which crosses the
I'f'HE church of Newti/l, in the diocese of St gb4b Andrews, dedicated by Bishop David in 1242, was given to the Abbey of Arbroath by King William the Lion.
road between Fettercairn and Montrose, and conof
The
present church, built in 1767 (which

edifice), stands
is
three arches, was
first
built
its
by Keith,
about to be replaced by a new
who gave 100

the
upon
Scots towards
maintenance.
a slight eminence at the west side of the village.
If not required for that purpose, the interest of
In early times
it
had been surrounded by a marsh,

is
expended annually among the poor of the parish, not on the poor's roll. The last Keith of Caldhame left an only daughter. She married Ogiivy of Lunan, and he sold the
to be
estate.
money has
tablet
is
fixed into the outside of the south
wall,
upon which
Post mortem vita. Infra conditiir qnod reliquum est Jacobi Alison, hujus paroechite quon-
Just the year before the bridge of Caldhame
dam
incolaj et decoris
nisi
quod
viri praestautis-
was
dell
built, Keith's
house was broken into by Ran-
simi supersunt et vigent virtutes hoc
marmore
an entrance by going down the kitchen chimney. Courteney was hanged near (Scots Magazine.)
effected
still
Courteney, an Irishman,
who
perenniores
charissimus,
rara soil prudentia intaminata fides, et

certus
pietas nescia fraudis.

et
Pater fuit facillimus, conjux amicus, omnibus a'quus,

et ut
benevolus,
et charus,
Itaq,
cetera
complectar,
forti,
Fettercairn, at a place
known
as Randell's
eximie probus.
sanctotj^ auinio,
cum
honesto, humili,
Knap, 21 Sep. 1743.

According to old charters, there was a stone
hominibus, maritis, socijs omnibus exemplum consecrasset integerrimum, terris animo
NEWTYLE.
major,
139
ad similes evolavit superos.

denatus 4 Feb. 1737.
Natus erat
....
Mors
certa est, incerta dies, incertior hora
Consulat ergo animo qui sapit usq, suo.
Ex's to deliver up the Book, and Col. Fothering. ham's Bond to you. A minute should be made in the Book of your being chosen Trustee in Mr Alison's Poom, which j\Ir Hallyburton would sign
[Beneath is laid what remains of James Ausok, sometime an inhabitant of this parish, and its ornament, save that, more lasting than this monument, the virtues of a most excellent man viz., rare prudence, unsullied honour, and piety without guile survive unimpaired. He was a most indulgent father, a most affectionate husband, and a sure
now, and I the first Time I come to that Country. beg to offer respectfull Compliments to Mrs Murray and Capt. Murray, and that you ^vill consider
I
this offer as the secret
I
mark of respect, with which am, Dear Sir, " Your most obedient and most humble Servant,
"George Dempster."
Several
friend
just,
kind, loving to
all
and, to
sum
up,
monuments
are built into the west wall
man of distinguished probity.
Accordinglj^, after
of the churchyard.
Not long
ago, the oldest of
he had set before husbands, companions, and men iu general, a most perfect pattern of integrity,
humility, fortitude, and piety, his soul, fitted for a
these presented familiar quotations from Horace,
nobler sphere than earth, soared aloft to join the

society of kindred spirits in the realms above.
He
was born .... and died 4 Feb. 1737. Death is certain, the day uncertain, the hour more uncertain. Let him then who is wise ever
consult the interests of his soul. ]
These stones, however, have been removed, for a pavement slab, which bears that " this ground was purchased from the Kirksesion of Newtyle as certified and recorded."
&c.
to
make room
The
following Latin inscription (surmouted
shield bearing the Blair

paled),
is still
by a and Pattullo arms im:
in
good preservation
Mr
iu
Alison was long factor and manager of the
Hie reqviescit
de
vir prvdens, ac gravis, generosa
estates of
Belmont
office
for
Lord Privy Seal Mackenzie,

son
Stonee,
which
he was succeeded by his
Patrick.
The
latter died proprietor of
Balgillo familia ortus, Magister Gvlielmvs Blairvs, qvi placide ac pie obiit 16 ISTovem. an. In cvjvs memoriam Dom. 1656, setat. svse 58.
conjvnx
ejvs
amantissima
Evphana
Pattvllo
filiam
part of Balbrogie, and Newhall, &c., near
Cupar
Angus,
in the year 1795,
on which occasion,
appointed
Mr
hvnc tvmvlvm extrvxit jvxta evm, ex qvo

habet octennem, sepelienda. Vivit post fvnera virtvs.
P. Alison
being a
trustee
by the
celebrated Geo. Dempster of Dunnichen to act

alonpf
with him in the administration of a grant
Cvjvs hie tvmvlvm cernis nvuc incola cceli est, Corporis exvvias qvam premis abdit hvmvs.
[Here rests a grave and prudent man, descended from the honourable family of Balgillo, Master ^yILLIAM Blair, who died calmly and piously (as This monument has been erected to his above).
tullo,
by
Mr
James Taylor,
Kettins,
of Middlesex,
of certain
funds for the education of poor children in the

parish of
{q. r.)
Mr
Dempster, in
of Lin-
offering the vacant office to

trose,
Mr Murray
wrote that gentleman the following chaletter
racteristic
upon the
first
subject, which
:
is
here
memory by his most loving spouse Euphana Patwho intends to be herself buried beside him,
by
published for the
time
whom
"Skibo, by Tain, Dec. 19, 1795. "Dr. Sir, I learn from Mr Blair of Dundee that poor Peter Alison has paid the Debt of nature. There is a little mortification for poor scholars in
He And 'neath your feet his lifeless ashes lie.] There were Pattullos contemporary lairds
Kinochtry, near Cupar-Angus,
she has a daughter eight years of age. Virtue survives the grave. whose tomb you see now lives on high.
of
the Parish of Ketins, which he took the trouble to
Patrick Blair,
of
manage. I wish you would do me and the poor Children in that Parish, the favour to take charge of this Fund. If you will have that goodness, this
Letter will be Authority enough for
4th
in
of
Balthayock,
had
charters
Balgillo
Angus, 1393.
One
of the Balgillo Blairs
was
knighted.
Possibly the partial mutilation of the above
Mr
Alison's
140
EPITAPHS,
AND INSCRIPTIONS:
Near the foregoing
.
tomb and the late purchase of the ground were effected by a family named Watson, once farmers at Auchtertyre, to whom there are two or three monuments within the enclosure. One of these,
with armorial bearings, and the motto,
have
FAITH,
is
thus inscribed
Sacred to the memory of George Watson, Esq. Bannatyne House, and Jean Rose, his beloved
Heir lyes ane honest man Iames Ramsay in Avghtertyr of age 50, with his wif Ianet Whitton, died 15 Octor '73, of age 52 and Iames Ramsay y"" son died 11 Nov '77, of age 20 as also Iames, David, George, and Ianet PtiVJiSAYS, laefvll children to Wîliam Pâmsay and
:
Agnas Lovnie,
in the said tovne.
He, as a magistrate and man, was most justly esteemed. She was sole heiress of the ancient families of Moray, and Kiunaird of Culbin Morayshire. As a mother and wife most exemin
wife.
Wm. Ramsay,
Vnder
This
in Auchtertyre,
a.
this stone interred
36 (1682) doth ly
;
man
of
honest fame
And
of his wirtues while
he liv'd
plary.
All
who knew
her loved her.
1813.
It
stated in the Kilravock papers Cp. 82), that " John Rose, now of Bredley, who by Jean
is
Kynaird, a daughter of the familie of Culbin,

father to
is
His name doth fresh remaine. to his wife and pai'ents both A help and comfort was But now the Loi-d hath crowned him With joy in heavenly bless.
Who
Hugh and John Rose." This fact probably bears out the statement in the inscription.
Upon
flat stone, initialed
G.
M K
:
B M.
:
B.,
Hugh,
the last of the Watsons
who farmed
Auchtertyre and Keilor, born 1787, died 1865, was eminent as an agriculturist.
The
Heir
in the surrounding burial

lyis
ground
and dated 1675, is the following epitaph in the form of an acrostic. It will be seen that Gii.kert MiLLE was the name of the person commemorated, that he was the father of twenty-six children by two wives, and that he attained the long age of
100 years
Great
is
:
aue famos honist
man Georg Mitchel,

d.
the
Wonders God hath Worked

;
of age 52,
indvaler in Balmav,
1625
and
his
In Heaven, and Earth, and Sia
spovs C. B.
Andro Mitchel, and his spovs I. E. Heir lyis Isobel Mitchel, spovs to A. S. : Death, oft deplor, bvt in thy dealing ivst,
Pvtis vith the sped, the sheptor in the dvst.
a stone bearing a shield with the arms impaled (a cheveron, with a rose in base), and
the initials T.
Upon
M. H. :
Lykuays he many mercies hath, BeStoued Wpon Me. Euen in this World, an Hundred Years, Remain'd I honestlie Tuo Weded Wives the tym I had Much Comfort was to Me. In Wedlocks Band ue Procreat
;
Lauffully
ane famovs honest man Ihon Movo, being of age 66, deperted the 2 of Agvst in an. 1632, he being hvsband to Magrat Halden.
lyis
Heir
The
of the
is
from the oldest of

of
four stones erected to the
memory
&c
:
members
still
same family.
Direct descendants
Ws Betuix ; Loues Pledges, Whos Right number wer, Euen tuo tymes tenn and Six. My Spritt to God, I do committ, My Body to the Graue When Christ shall com and jidg shall sitt, Shall them Both Recauie.
a stone near the middle of churchyard
:
survive as merchants in Dundee,
Upon
Thom,
Heir lyis Iames Iobson, son to lames lobson and Barbry Scot his spovs, indveler in the Haltown of Nevtyl, vho departed in Ivly 16G0, of age 9. And
heir lyes
Heir lyes the bodies of Iohn Don, and Barbra

his spovse, iudvellers in Hill of Kellor.
His
age 60, hir age 65.

of Ivne '98.
They both dyed
in the
month
Barbray
Scot, his mother, frvgall and
vertvovs, departed
March
24,
My glas is rvn,
anno 1684,
of age 67.
stone, near the south wall, bears:
Here
lys ane honest
man Allexander Badan,
NEWTYLE.
w^ 4 wiues, and 4
children,
141
who
departed this
life
plain headstone, near the south-east corner

:
luly 18, 1702, of age 59.
All dyed iu Bvrnmovth.
of the kirk, presents this inscription
Also James Badan, hvsband to Agues Horn. dyid in Denhead, 1715, aged 36
:
He
Erected at the instance of Robert Small, farmer

in Boghead, in
memory of his
:
father
Robert Small,
That tyrant Death of him did us bereave. But we beleive that C4od did him receive.
who
died 1771, aged 72
Here
AnnWilkie, wf. of David Baxter, d. 1753, a. 59: that men in this world would live, said I, As not to be ashamed to live, nor afraid to die
For
all
lies the dust of Robert Small, Who, when in life, was thick, not tall But what's of greater consequence.
He was endowed
;
with good sense.
how
joyful the day in
which
free,
our friends and neighbours to us dear.
Death's pris'ner shall be
Unto our lives can't add a single year. The righteous need not fear the sting. For Christ will them to heaven bring.
Heir lyis ane honest man Iohn Sliders, and IsoBALL Marten his spovs, indvellars in Ballmav. She died May 1678, her age 56. He died 18 Apryl Isoball Sliddrs, dovghter to 1702, of age 75. Iohn Sliddrs and lanet Small, of her age 9 yeirs This honest man Is from us gone, Whose body Lyes Within this Tomb ; His honest Reputation ShaLL
:
And
triumph o'er all his foes His God in mercy see. [Revised 1838.]
in
There was a chapel

of
(S.
) in old
times upon
the Hill of Keilor, about a mile west of the village
tured stone.
Newtyle, not far from which stands a sculpA weem, or underground chamber,
Remain To Generations
ALL
His Blessed Soull for Ever more, Doth magnify The King of Glore. Heir lyes ane honest man William Iackson, merchant, and hvsband to Anna Meal, indwellers in Newbigging, with seven children, sons and
davghters.
of his age 61
and other traces of early occupation, have been found in the same locality. Hatton Castle, a picturesque ruin, south of the village, bears the date of 1575, which corresponds with the period of the 4th Lord Oliphant, whose ancestor. Sir Walter of Aberdalgie, had a grant of Newtyle and Kinpurnie, from Robert I.,
iu
1318.
These lands continued
iu
the noble
He departed the
:
16 ilay of
March
1703,
family of Oliphant until the early part of the 17th

century,
The man here lyes who did always While here he being hade .... wpright both to God and man, To what he did or said.
;
when they were
sold to Hallyburton of
Pitcur, from
whom
they passed, in the course of
50 or 60 years, to a son of the celebrated Sir George Mackenzie. An observatory, the roofless
walls of which form so striking an object
small stone cross bears
daughter of David
the
summit
of
Kinpurnie
;
In
memory
of
Wee Maggie,
inherited
Privy Seal Mackenzie by the Stuart-Wortley
upon by Lord and the property was

hill,
was
built
family,
now
the
Duncan, leader of the psalmody in this parish. Died 4 June 1864.
represented by Lord AVharncliffe.
Bannatyne, or Ballautyne House, near

church, which
is
Upon an
of
obelisk
in excellent preservation, built
of the parish Newtyle, died 17Feb. 1838, aged 82, andinthe52d year of his incumbency. Erected by the pupils of the deceased, who, during his day on earth, faith-
George Browster, schoolmaster
about 1589, belonged to the family of George Bannatyne, the collector of the ancient poetry It was in honour of him that the of Scotland.
famous
iiatijne
literary society of
Edinburgh the Ban-
fully
and usefully discharged the duties
of
his
Club
was named.
office in this parish.
1840.
Invitum sequitur honor.
142
EPITAPHS,
AND INSCRIPTIONS;
the remains of his father, the Revd.
minister of Abernethy,
John GranT,
who
died 21 January 1820.
^ utlti
(S.
I.
It
Moray, and was
the Earl
is
told that the minister, having several sons
PETER.)
in the
army during
to
his
the Peninsular war, was in
THE bend
given to
kirk of DotJiol, in Elginshire, was a preof the cathedral of
the habit of reading the newspapers upon Sun-
days
congregation,
when anything
of
it
by
Gilbert, eldest son of
importance occurred regarding the progress of

events.
of Strathern, 1224-4-'.
In 1630, the parishes of Uuthil and Rothiemurchus were united.
The
closure
:
following
is
upon a stone
witliin
an en-
A
Stat.
rude baptismal font, of granite, stands at
the church of Duthil.
According to the Old
February 1828, aged
Account (vol. iv. p. 311), the kirk was built which is possibly a misprint for 1600, or It stood until about 1826, some later date. when the present house was erected.
in 1400,
TuUochgorm died 28 and Makgaret Grant, his wife died 15 April 1850, aged 67.
of 97,
Alexander Grant
Alexander Grant
22d Feb.
1829,
of Tullichgriban, Esq., died

;
Margaret
by
and his widow aged 98 years Grant, died 15 April 1849. Erected
child,
mausoleum
of granite, belonging to the Earls
their only
Isabella-Elizabeth,
wife of
of Seafield, adjoins the church

said, the
Grants
is
of
and there, Castle Grant have had

;
General Sir Lewis Grant.
it
is
their
John Grant, and Elizabeth Lumsden,

spouse,
his
place of burial since the year 1585.
The
both departed this
life
on the 9th Feb.
first of
the Grants
of
said to have been
Gregory
1806.
(sheriff
II.,)
Their son, Colonel Sir ]\Iaxwell Grant,
K.C., died 22d Oct. 1823.
Inverness in
the
time of
Alexander
who married a daughter of Bisset, lord of Lovat. From that time the surname frequently occurs in
charters and other authentic documents.
in It
The above refers to one of the Muckroch family,

the
first of whom was the 4th son of Sir John Grant of Grant, who was knighted by James VI., Muckroch and died soon after the year 1625. castle, the ruins of which still remain, is said to
was
consequence of Sir Ludovick Grant having

that Grant of Grant succeeded to the
titles of
married Margaret, daughter of the 5th Earl of

Seafield,
have been built in 1598

for those of
also,
that the lands of

laird of
estates
and
the Earldom of Seafield, &c.
Muckroch were excambed with the

Rothiemurchus.
CtnviiNG, died 20th
Grant
The
following inscription, upon a marble tablet
within the church, relates to a grandson of the
under-mentioned minister of Abernethy, who was

previously at Duthil
Capt.
:
82, wife first of
June 1/90, aged Robert Grant, farmer, Aangormack, next to Patrick Cuming, farmer, at Easter Duthil.
Margaret
William Grant, 27th
Regt. Bengal N.I.,
"Name what
a Consort, a Parent, and a Friend,
Assistant Adjutant General of Affganistan, eldest
in her station, should be
and
she was that."
son of the late Major Grant, Aiichterblair, was

killed in miction at Gundermiick, during the dis-
rough
slab,
upon which a hammer, square,

this
chisel,
and a gun, are rudely carved, bears

:
Army from Cabool, on the 13 of January 1842, aged 38 years. Erected by his bereaved widow. The next bears the names of the uncle and
astrous retreat of the British
brief inscription
Here lyes Donald Cuming, son

ing, Duthil.
of Patrick
Cum-
1774.
grand-father of the above Capt.
W. Grant
The next
called
:
three inscriptions are from tombstones
Erected by James Augustus Grant, Esq. of Viewfield,
erecte<l to certain of
The Men, as they are
locally
in
Milton,
memory of his ancestors of the family of who have had from a remote period their
;
last resting place here
and where too are deposited
Coilum, Rothiemurchus,
Duncan Cuming, merchant. Bridge of Endy, who died 21 Feb. 1839;
"
D UTFIILIN VERA VON.

aged
65,
143
"was
the last 26 years of
liis life
efTec-
Manndacu,
lodeu,
or
Lom, the celebrated Jacobite
tually called to an enlightened
mind
to love
and to
poet, who, after the defeat of his party at Cul-
believe the
Holy Scripture."
late farmer, Torspartan, died
:
John M'Intosh,
zeal, love,
27 Nov. 1843, aged 65 years of his
"A man distinguished for

He was
to fly
sweet communion, was, for the last 35

life,
called to repentance.
gifted with a spirit of love, prayer,
and charitable
feelings to distressed souls, persuading
them
from the wrath to come.

towards him."
Feb. 1848, aged 79
life
This
is
erected by his
found, in his flight from the battle field, an asylum in the farm house of Lochauhully, where he died, after a brief illness, caused by fatigue and disappointment. Although there are few objects of antiquity in the district, it can boast of many curious and interesting traditions the more noteworthy of which have been preserved by Sir T. D. Lauder, and by
;
affectionate neighbours, as a token of their regards
local writers, particularly
by "Gleumore,"
in his
Legends
of Strathspey.
George Cameron, farmer, TuUochgorm, died 5 : " For the last 28 years of his
he was brought to sharp repentance, to be a and to have love to the
self-denying Christian,
brethren.
The
Men were those who professed to have been brought to a sense of their error by some miraculous means, after which they made it their business to go about and expouud the Holy Scriptures
to
their
Ij
nV
(S.
^ V
(itt
FETEPv.)
ALCOLM,
Earl of Fife, gave the church of
neighbours.
The
appellation
to
of
Inverhoven, and a davoch of land, to the
The Men of Ross has been long given

of that county,
laymen
Bishop of Moray, 1228.
Inveravon was the seat

;
who
acted in the
way
:
indicated.
of the chancellor of the diocese

of
and the vicarages
had great faith not long ago, in the time of The Men above named, when the Spey changed its course at a particular spot, The Men believed that Providence had made it do
of Duthil
The Men
Kuockando, in Moray, and Urquhart, in Inverness-shire, depended upon it. (Shaw's Moray.) The church, erected in 1809, stands on the south bank of the Spey; and S. Peter's Well,
which was once considered an effectual cure for most diseases, is about 400 yards south-east of
the church.
so in obedience to their prayers,
and had the same
recorded upon a stone, which they placed at the

point where the river had diverged
!
At no
distant date, votive offerings

;
were found in the well and Peter Fair, now held at Dalnashaugh, stood near the consecrated
fountain.
The
time
district of
Duthil appears to have been the
property of the Earls of Strathearn, prior to the

it fell
sculptured stone, with a raven, and other

lies
into the hands of the Cumins, the old

It
carvings,
within
the
site
of
the
old
lords of Badenoch.
was afterwards owned by Sir John (grandson of Gregory Grant of Grant), who is said to have married the heiress of Cumin, and thus acquired the lauds. Duthil is still held by a descendant of Sir John, the Earl of Seafield, who is accounted chief of the Clan Grant. He married the youngest daughter of the late Lord Blantyre, and has issue, Viscount Reidhaven, born 1851. On the west side of the burial-ground, unmarked, as yet, by any monument, lie the remains of Jan
church.
loch,
Grant of Ballandala recent building, stands apart from the
The
burial aisle of
church.
It contains three
tablets.
:
The
first,
which
is
of Peterhead granite, bears

filial
tribute of
affection
and grateful esteem
to the
memory
;
of Sir
George Macpherson-Grant
Born
of Ballaudalloch
and Invereshie, Baronet.
25 Feb. 1781
died 24 Nov. 1846.
Sir G., who was long M.P. for Sutherlandshire,

was created a baronet in 1838, He married Mary, eldest daughter of Carnegy of Craigo, in
lU
Angus.
&c.,
EPITAPHS,
AND INSCRIPTIONS
The mausoleum
granite, with a
is
Their third son Thomas, W.S., Edin-
a square building of native
burgh, succeeded to the valuable estate of Craigo,
of the
on the death of his cousin Thomas, the last male line of that branch of the Carnegys.
Sir
(v. p. 90.)
G.'s eldest son John, to
whom
column rising from the centre, overtopt by a vase. A marble tablet irpon the base of the column is thus inscribed Memoriaj sacrum Jacobi Grant de Ballandal:
the next inscription refers, only survived his father

four years
:
loch, in exereitu Britannico Ducis,
undecimaj pedi-
tum
is
legionis,
Prtefecti,
atqiie Castelli
de Stirling
posuit
This tablet
Sir
placed here
by Dame Marion-
Custodis,
sit
nati die Novembris 1720, qui deces-
Helen Campbell,
in memory of her beloved husljand, John Macpherson-Grant of Ballandallocli and
13 die Aprilis 1806.
Hoc monumeutum
Georgius Macpherson-Grant de Ballandalloch.
Invereshie, Bart.
Born 3 Augt. 1804; died 2d
The body of
low.
the General rests in the vault becasing consists of a coffin-shaped
Dec. 1850.
The outer
of
light
The
following, from a marble slab, records the
tomb
grey marble, set upon a large
death of Sir John's wife, who was a daughter of
granite slab.
Upon
the top of the coffin are the
Campbell
of Ballimore, Argyllshire
This tablet is placed here by Sir George Macpherson-Grant of Ballandallocli and Invereshie, Baronet, in memory of his beloved mother, Dame
Marion-Helen Campbell.
died 5 June 1855.
Born 12
Oct.
1810
Grant arms and motto, surrounded by nicely sculptured banners and other troi^hies of war. The following inscription (of the same import as that in Latin), is upon the top of the tomb below the family arms
:
The Invereshie branch of the Macphersons claim

descent from Gillies, od son of
Ewan Baan
(the
James Grant of Ballandalloch, General in Hia Majesty's Army, Colonel of the 11th regiment of foot, and Governor of Stirling Castle, born
fair Ewan),
who
lived in the time of Alex. II.

;
Nov. 1720, died 13 April 1806.
was of the clan Chattan and the succession of the clan having devolved uiDon the sons of Muriach, a parson or priest, the family is said to have assumed the name of Macparson, or son of George Macpherson of Invereshie the parson. and Dalraddie married Grace, daughter of Colonel Wm. Grant of Ballaudalloch. On the death of
his descendant.
He
Gen. G., who succeeded to Ballandalloch on the

death of his nephew, Col.
W.
Grant, about 1770
greatly.distinguished himself during the
American War, and was some years Governor of Florida. The following inscriptions are selected from
:
tombstones in the kirkyard of Inveravon
General James Grant, the Ballau-
dalloch
came to George Macpherson, nephew, and subsequently heir of William of Invereshie, when he assumed the surname of
estates
Heir lyes ane honest man caled Willam McWiLLiE, who livid in the Cories, who departed the 10 of Ivne 1685 ; and Ketren Gordons his spovse.
Here
lyes
the
James Stuart,
of Balindalloch,
.
late
fai'mer in
Cottertown
. .
who
departed
Macpherson-Grant, and, as above noticed, was This family claim to be decreated a baronet.
scended on the
this life the 3 of
1749, aged
Grant
side
from John (son of
Patrick of Grant),
who
lived during the first half
on the south side of the kirk, contains a number of tombstones to Grants who have tenanted farms in Inveravon. From these
enclosure,
An
of the 16th century.
the next two inscriptions are copied
Besides the burial aisle in the churchyard, a
mausoleum, now surrounded by wood, erected in

1807, occupies an elevated position in the west
corner of the
Bowmoon
park, overlooking Ballau-
dalloch Castle and a great part of
Strathspey.
From motives of filial esteem and respect for the memories of John Grant, formerly in Glenarder, who died 12 Nov. 1797, aged 84 years and William Grant, who was some time farmer at Dalnapot, who died 16 Jan. 1815, aged 39, this stone was
;
Here, by special request,
were deposited the
placed over
them by Peter Grant
in Craigroy,
latter.
ashes of the above-named General Jas.
Grant.
grandson
of the former,
and brother of the
INVERAVON.
Here lies the body of Charles Grant, farmer at Boat of Aveu, who died Feb. 4, 1758, aged 76, and
of his spouse,
145
Anna Cummixg, who died

In
Aprile 20,
He was a fair trader, an 1793, aged 73 years. honest man, and peaceable neighbour. Death is certain, sin is the cause of it, but Christ is the cure.
Upon
a granite headstone
:
1736,
aged
63.
memory
of
them, John and
Alex. Grants, their sons, erected this stone.
Those
recorded in the last-quoted inscription
were the direct ancestors of Jas. Grant, writer,

Elgin, who was fifteen years provost of that city, and projector of the railways from Elgin to Craigellachie, and to Lossiemouth, &c.
Captain GRANrr, tacksman of Advie and MolHe derie interred here May 1828, aged 90 years. was the 7th in descent from Duncan the 9th laird
of Grant,
and 6th from Patrick Grant

of
of Ballan-
dalloch,
who held the lands

in tack.
and afterwards
wadset His youngest son Capt.

Advie,
first in
William Grant,
Esq.,
many
years tacksman of
Tombreckachie, terminated his earthly course with high and well merited esteem, on Saturday 3 June
1815, at the advanced age of 85 years.
Two
separate and adjoining stones bear James Grant, farmer, Pitgavenie, near Elgin, He was a iDious and honest man, a died 1771
: :
Lewis Grant of the 71st Eegt., died May 1812, of wounds received at the assault of Fort Napoleon and in the Tagus, when cheering and leading the HighErected by Coll. W. Grant of landers to victory. Cloghill in memory of an honourable father, and a also to his grandson, Charles gallant brother
;
Grant Campbell, Esq., Assistant Surgeon, R.N., who died at Rio de Janeirt), S. America, 6 Feb.
1851, in the prime of
his duty.
life,
tender husband, a most dutiful parent, and a good
and
faithful discharge of
His remains ly interred under this stone, which was placed over them by his son,
neighbour.
Mr James Grant,
of his ministry.
minister of Inuerauen,
who
died
This stone
is
placed here in
memory
of
William
3 Feb. 1795, in the 77th year of his age, and 43d
Falcener, late farmer in Pitchaish, who died at Mains of Kinermouy, 4 May 1793, in the 74th year and of seven of his children, who died of his age
;
Mrs Maroaret Macgregor,

daughter
of Jas.
died 7 Dec. 1841,
infants.
The Eev. Wm. Grant, minister

of his ministry.
Macgregor, Esq. of Pittyvaich.* of Invei-avon, died
An
Anna Rose,
chants in
adjoining stone records the death of his wife in 1821, aged 78, also that of a num-
12 April 1833, in the 75th year of his age, and 41st
ber of their descendants.
New
Three sons were merYork, and another died farmer
Within an enclosure
Sacred to the
late of
of
memory of Thomas Stewart, Esq. Pittyvaich,* who departed this life, 5 Feb.
:
Kinermony, 1849, aged 81. Alex. McDonald, farmer, Paikhead of Pitchash,

84
d. 1809, a.
:
;
1815, aged 74.
In area of old kirk
of the Gospel at
The Rev. Wm. Spence, minister

his age,
Inveravon, died 30 July 1807, in the 46th year of
and 12th
of his ministry.
This stone was erected here by John Hendeie who died the 24th Dec. 1815 in the 63d year of his age with the concurrence of Penual Cameron his spouse who died 7 May 1818 in the 57th year of
her age.
&c.
Heav'nward directed all his days. His life one act of prayer and praise With every modest grace inspired. To make him lov'd, esteem'd, admired. Crown'd with a cheerfulness that show'd How pure the source from whence it flow'd. Such was the man whose thread, when run, Finding the appointed time was come,
To rest he sunk, without one sigh. The saint may sleep, but cannot die.
Peter Hay, merchant and farmer in Dalchwrich, placed this stone here on his burying place, and his
remains are interred under
Upon
a headstone:
it.
He
died Dec. 30,
The expression "
of
must, in the above, as in
many
similar
instances,
be taken advisedly. often merely tenant-farmers.
The
parties so designed are
Erected to the memory of James McDonald, Esq. died at Charle.<5late of Morant Bay, Jamaeca, who ton of Aberlour, 6 April 1836, aged 42 Francis McDonald, Esq. of ISIorant Bay, died 19 June 1833,
aged
38, natives of this parish.
146
EPITAPHS,
composed
AND
INSCRIPTIONS.
There was long a Roman Catholic seminary at
Scalan
;
costly tomb,
of blue granite, with
three marble slabs inserted, bears that
but on the institution of the College at
Charles Stewart, Esq., Deskie, who died 30 Sep. 1826, aged 74, was upriglit in principle, disinterested in character,
Blairs, in
Mary
Culter, the students were trans(r. p. 115.)
ferred to that place,
and the poor man's
friend.
Handsome Roman
Catholic chapels stand at
His widow, Mary, daughter of the late Jas. Gordon, Esq., Croughly, died 27 March 18.38, aged 66.
Tombae, and at the Braes of Glenlivet. (S. Mary.) Over the principal entrance to the first (" The Church of the Incarnation"), are the words
Ann-Margaret, daughter
of the above,
spouse
christo et pur.*; virgini.
of Harry Lumsden, died 18 Nov. 1835, aged 27. Chas.-Geo. Lumsden, Asst. Surg. K. R. Hussars, [Two other died at Meerut, Bengal, 1862, aged 30.
monument,
built of granite, contains three
separate tablets, thus inscribed;

4* Sacred to the
sons and a daughter are recorded.]
Esq., Minmore,
years.
memory of William Gordon, who died 5 Nov. 1829, aged 74
Upon a table-shaped stone within same enclosure

:
R.
I.
P.
is
This stone
erected here
by Robert Stewart,
of his spouse,
Death, I will be thy death. Osee, ch. 13. <^ Expecting a blessed resurrection, the mortal re-
tenant in Wester Deskie, in memory Elspat Gordon, who died Jan. 31, 1781, aged 50
years,
mains
Esq.
,
of
Anne, the beloved wife
of
James
Petrie,
here repose,
who
bore to
him eleven
children.
In the/ea?' of the Lord, which, &c.
The
parish being very large, burial-places were
numerous.
Apart from that at Inveravon, there

Kilraaichlie,
were others at Chapelton, Haugh of Lagmore, Bhuternich, Downan, &c.
In fait/!, without which, &c., please God. In hope, the anchor, &c., sure and iirm. In char'dij, which never faileth.
She
' '
placidlj' resigned
her
spirit to its Creator,
That
of
7th Sepr. 1858, aged 47 years

'
'
DOWNAN,
which
for
is
picturesquely situated near the junc-
: Her children rose up, &o. Her husband, and he praised

Favour
is deceitful,
her.
is
'
tion of the Livet
and the Avon, is still used interments, and contains a number of tomb-
' ' '
and beauty
vain.
The woman that
f eareth
the Lord, she shall
stones.
From
copied
:
one of these the following inscrip-
be praised.
Prov. ch. xxxi.
Requiescat in pace.
tion
is
also
HIS SPOUSE
McLac Achbreack t>. 1818 ag 90 '^ Grace Grant d 1814 ag 81.
IHS. Sacred to the memory of Mary Stewart, spouse of Capt. William Gordon, Minmore, who died 1 Octr. 1842, aged 63 years of
;
From
a better- cut version of the above, upon
their son,
Capt.
John Gordon,
H.E.I.S.,
who
;
the reverse of the same stone (where the last age is given as 80), it appears that the first named
died at Singapore, 4th July 1833, aged 27 years

of
their
daughter, Elizabeth-Stewart Forbes,

of their 3 sons
who
died at the Convent of Mercy, Glasgow, 10

;
was Georgp: McLaciilan, farmer, Auchbreck.
The foundations
of the old place of worship,
April 1834, aged 32 who died in infancy.
and daughter,
which appears to have been a small building, may be traced near the middle of the enclosure at Downan. A stone slab bears a cross incised on both sides. It appears to be an object of some
antiquity
lie
;
Of Lewis Gordon, Esq., for many years Secretary to the Highland Agricultural
Society of Scotland,
who
72.
died at Aberdeen, 23
January
aged
52.
1839,
aged
And
of
Sir
Charles
Gordon, who died
at Edinburgh, 25th Sepr. 1845,
and, according to tradition, near
it
Requiescant in pace.
some of those who fell at the battle of Glenlivet, which was fought not far from it, between the armies of James VI., and those of the Popish Earls of Errol and Huntly, in 1594.
Gordons have
and
line.
it
is
been long resident at Minmore, from one of them that the present
108.)
(Gordons of Abergeldie are descended in the male

(v. p.
The above
Sir Charles,
who
INVERAVOy.
sister of Angus Fletcher of Dunaus, was trained by his uncle, and ultimately succeeded him in the office of Secretary to the High-
147
married a
Esq.,
date with the castle of Blairfindy, for the use of

the lords
erected.
of
which, the bridge was jjrobably
land Agricultural Society.
But the
of
its
old house of Kilmaichlie, which occu-
pies a height on the left
bank of the Avon, with
Interesting,
and pretty complete specimens
rows of old
trees,
is
possibly the most beauti-
so-called Druidical circles
are at Ballandalloch,
fully situated of all the residences in the district.

It
Iâgmore, Belleville, and Balnellan, at the last-
mentioned of which places fragments of a sculptured stone are built into the walls of the farmsteading.
ing,
in
was long a summer retreat of the Man of Feelby whom its beauties have been described
No. 87 of the Lounger.
The
first,
ruins of the castles of
Drumin and
Blair-
findy are striking objects in the landscape.

of
The
Extracts from the KirJc-session Eecords
which three sides of the old keep remain,
of Inveravon.
appears to have been a building of the 15th

century, and the latter of the 17th.
is
The
session
following extracts, selected from the Kirk-
The former
which
is
Records of the parish of Inveravon,
may
situated so as to
command
;
the passes of the

latter,
interest the general, as well as the local reader,
Avon and
the Livet
and the
is
since they bear
upon some curious obsolete cusevents.
near Miumore, in Glenlivet,
locally said to
have
toms and
historical
Among
these the
been a hunting seat of the Earls of Huntly.

T'he castle of Ballandalloch, near the confluence
of the rivers of
applications of
men
to,
" currachers," or ferryboat and the restrictions put upon them by

the
Avon and
the Spey, has been

It
is
the Kirk-session, together with the destruction of
recently enlarged and improved.
a fine
the boats of Spey, and the burning of the house

of Pitchaish in the time of the JNIarquis of
trose, are possibly
castellated chateau, situated in a tastefully laid-
Monit
out lawn, surrounded by old trees.

tains capital examples of the
It
commands
not the least curious.
a good view of the suri-oundiug country, and con-
In the
is
first
extract, dated 20th Mai'ch 1636,

:
works of some of the

1 he family
stated that
more eminent
of the old
painters.
arms are carved upon a panel over the front door, below which, flanked by the words
AUister MoAUim, " corrachar at Awin," applied to the Kii'k-session for "2 marks of ye comone good for atteitdiug ye Watter on ye Sabboth day, and for ferreing ye people to yo kirk."
Erected 1546
is tliis
Restored 1S50
:
text,
which was upon the old building
Subsequently (18 Nov. 1638)
VE LORD SHALL PRESERVE THY GOING OUT
^fhe
AND THY COMING
IN.
date of 1602, and the initials P.G., are
upon the back or oldest portion of the house. The bridge over the Avon, near the entrance to Ballandalloch Castle, was first built by General Grant in 1792 the present bridge, and that across the Livet at Downan, were built in 1803 and 1835,
;
" Johue More, the curracher, gaif iu a siipplicatione to ye Sessioue desyring support to buy a currach, wherevpou the Sessione condescendit to give him his request pi'oviding alwayes he should be readie on the Sabboth day to attend the currach and ferrie the people over the water, comeing and going from the sermone." He received "two merkis to that effect."
Those over the burns of Pitchaish and Tommore in 1816, and 1826. The two arches of the old bridge which crossed the Livet, from one group of rocks to another, have a singularly picrespectively.
extract (1
The term " scourger," as applied in the next May, 1636), appears to have been
and
of a
equivalent to that of " rung the beggars" of a

later date,
policeman of the present time:

to
of
"Jobne Dow admitted scourger

strong Beggars and
ith'"
hold out
turesque character, and are admirably suited for

a picture.
vagabonds
o*^
ye parish,
These are possibly
of
contemporary
and
for his
fie
a peek of victuall in ye weeck.'
148
EPITAPHS,
is
AND INSCRIPTIONS:
parish agayne,
The
following
dated 12 June 1636
except they brought w' them a
William Lesley in Dalraachie, was prohibited, under a penalty of 10 "not to resett ane stragler woman called Marie Dow." Subsequently (23 Apr. 1637), Donald Dow, potter (?) to the baron of Kinnachlon, was also prohibited from reseting the same woman (whose character is less delicately given at this date), " aither by nycht or by day."
Testimonial! from the minister where they wrought

in haruest, sail
pay 10
libs."
The next entry (12 Mar. 1643), bears upon a not uncommon feature in the art of witchcraft, and the alleged way by wliicli the charm was
effected
:
McCraw
" The said daye comperat M.irgaret Walker and

gaif in a bill of complaint against Allaster
The next two

articles
extracts, dated respectively 20lh
Oct. 1639, and 6th April 1640, show the sort of
his wyff, for slandering her, alleadging yat ye said
which were given as pledges

illiterate of those
for the ful-
Margaret
Walker hade
his wyffs milk,
filment of contracts of marriage, also the penalty
McCraw
imposed upon the
days
the fyre."
taken awaye Allaster by going betuixt her and Mrs M. was ordered to acknowledge
her guilt before the pulpit.
David Ross
instant,
ratified a
promise of marriage with
Margt. Gordon, to be performed within 20 days " A targe for y^ woman, and a doller for
ye man, layed in pand in ye day appointed forsaid."

Thos.
k. offrs
hand
vntil the
two extracts (dated respectively 21> and 16 Feb. 1645), relate to the doings of the Great Montrose, or his army, when on their march from the north to Balveny castle.
Tlie next
Sept.
1644,
McJames
in
contracted with Jonet
Bayne
;
It
is
said that a portion of the present building of

is
pand for the man, and a sword for the woman, and yat for thair performance and to get the Lords prayer, the Belief, and lOcomandements w'in 20 days inst."
" a targe layed
the house of Pitchaish
that which was erected
after the destruction of the one referred to in the
second extract
"About
this
tyme James Grahame, sometyme
There are few Session records of the period that do not contain entries similar to the following, which is dated 10th July 1642 :
Earle of Montrose, joyned with the Irishes and

troubled the whole cuntrey, and thus hindered botli
convention and discipline of the kirk."
The "
practice of Pennie bry dells"
was ordered
to
be discontinued; and it was also "ordained that there sail be no trouble nor pley, nor pyper, nor violer
at anie brydell
under the paine
of
ane doller."
No preaching nor collection, the minister himhaving left his awin hous, the Enemy's armie of Irishes being in the cuntrey ; at the q'k tyme the boats of Spey were broken and the lious of Pitchaish wes burnt immediatelie after the light of
self
;
"
Many
raichael,
of the people of &c.,
Inveravon and Kirkthe

introduction
of
Inuerlochy."
were,
until
The
following (4
May, 1645), shows the unon the Civil
reaping machines, in the habit of going to the

south of Scotland and hiring themselves as reapers,
settled state of the times consequent
Wars, and the weakness of the executive of the

kirk
:
which they were considered expert hands. This practice appears to be of an older date than is generally known, for nearly 230 years ago it was looked upon as an evil to the district and the
at
;
Kirk-session
(4th Sept. 1642),

:
touching the case as follows
made
a minute
wes regrated yat monie servants went out of ye cuntrie the tjone of haruest, and liued vpon the cuntrie the whole winter tyme. Therefore it wes ordained that whosoeuer went out of y cuntrie Wôut the minister's testimonial! should be comptd vagabounds ; and ye Pvesetters of these wUn the
It
"
" The minister regraited the pitiefull case of y*-' parish where, that no delinquents could be broght to make yair repentance or paye anye penaltyes, Notwithstanding yat he hade taken caution of sundrie who hade gotten anie benefit of ye kirk fra him, and yat there could be als litle order gotten of ye cautioners as of ye delinquents themselfs,
the fovr honest
men
[i.e.
the elders]
who
were put ansured, they coidd not help the busines Likewayes in respect tlie heads of bot regrate it. ye cuntrey were not at home, the one-half being

STRATHDOK
against the other, some with the
in
INVERNOCHTY.
or
149
Enemye, and some
garrisone houses."
Under 3d August 1C45

tion
It
:
is
this salutary resolu-
(S.
was resolved that "no ayl nor aquavitse sould
ANDREW.)
be sold in tjone of divine seruice, in respect through the troubles of ye tymes the people taks occasion to
RpHE
M,
abyde from the Kirk, to

scolding."
fall
out in pleyea and
church of Inuyrnochy was given to the Priory of Monymusk by Gilchrist, Earl of
Mar, 1199-1207.
reference
into
The next extract (10 Aug. 1645), has to a common sort of transgression
:
It was afterwards (July ] 256), with consent of Thomas, Earl of Mar, erected
a prebend of the cathedral of Aberdeen.

previously, his Lordship, on presenting
of
In
of di-
"
A tumult being in
May
ye kirk yeard in
it
tyme
Sir
John
Marr, rector
of Invernochty, to the
wes found yat Grisall Roy and Mariorie Audersone were scolding and flyting in ye kirkzeard, and y^fore being both apprehended were pntly put in the Jouggs, and
vine service, after try all
rectory of the kirk of Dauachyndore (Auchindoir),
vacant by the death of Sir Thos. of Meldrum, requested the Bishop of Aberdeen to join the latter church to the former but that does not appear
;
ordained to acknoledge their fault publickly the

nixt Sabboth befor the congregation."
ever to have beeia done.
Considering the nature of the offence, the above
may have
quents
tract
;
been a
fair
punishment for the delinfar as it relates to
but that shadowed forth in the next ex-
present church stands upon the south bank Don, oj^posite to where the water of Nochty joins the Don. An old church, built in 1757, was erased in 1851, and the present edifice erected at
of the
The
(16
August 1704), so
a cost of about 2500.

contains a
It has
a spire,
is
"children not capable of church censure,'' must

be viewed in a very different light
:
spacious and neatly finished place of worship, and
"Ane Act against Clavies. That whereas it hath been the custome and practise of many in this parish of Inveravine, to goe about yi" folds and corues with kindled Torches of firr, Superstitiouslie and Idolotrouslie asscribing yt power to the fire of sanctifieing yr comes and cattell q^^^ is only proper and peculiar to the true and living God, a
practise proper rather to the heathens
number
of
monuments.
Forbes of
Newe :
Newe, the
chief
The
burial place of Forbes of

is
heritor of the parish,
at the east end, separated
from the nave of the church by a low railing. It contains four monuments, one of freestone and
three of white marble.
The
first,
which bears a
initials
who
;
are
y'
carving of the Forbes arms, flanked by the
ignorant of God, than to be practisd

live
for,
by them
W.
F.
H.
F., is thus inscribed

of
under the light of the glorious Gospell Therethe Session did, and hereby doeth enact that, whosoever shall be found guiltie of the fors<i superstitious and heathenish practises, shall be proceeded agst as scandalous persons, and censured according to the demerit of y'" crime ; and if it shall be found that they be children not capable of church censure,
that in y' case, their names be keept in record,
Here lyes William Forbes
New who depart

:
the 10 of lanvary 1698, the 76 yeir of age
Remember man, as thou goes by, As thou art now, so once was I As I am now, so must thou be Remember man that thou must die.
;
According to
any church priviledge when arrived att the years of discretion, or any testimoniall from the session, till they remove the
of
and they declar'd incapable
scandaU."
the Poll Book, the above Forbes had a wife, a daughter, and two sons living with him in 1696. He is said to have been the first Forbes of Newe; and possibly his wife was a kinswoman of his own. "William Forbes, younger of New, a gentleman," his wife, and three children are charged under the same list. The exact con-
150
EPITAPHS,
AND INSCRIPTIONS
nection between the above-named Forbes and the present family

is
Mr F., who died

the estates of
unmarried, was succeeded in

&c.,
not established.
In 1494,
Dun-
Newe,
by
his
can Forbes pursued certain persons for withholding from him the tack and mailing of Inuernochty
who
also spent part of his life in
nephew Charles, Bombay, where
he was so
much esteemed
that the inhabitants
and Bellabeg, with
their pertinents, at
which time
erected a statue of him, executed by the late Sir
these estates were Mar property. Bellabeg afterwards belonged to Gordon of lluntly, subsequently to the Lords Elphiustone. (v. p. 65). Forbes of Newe claims descent from Wm., of
F.
Chan trey.
He
It
was long an M.P., created a was he who erected a tablet
baronet in 1823, and died at London, 2Uth Sept.

1849, aged 76.
to
two of
:
his grandchildren,
which
is
thus in-
Daach, 2d son of Sir Alex, of Pitsligo.

lowing inscription
of
the
is from a marble to undoubted progenitors of the present
The folthe memory
scribed
In
memory
child of
of Harriet-Boycott Forbes, eldest John and Mary Jane Forbes, born in Lon-
family of Forbes of
Newe
George Forbes,
and minister
Sacred to the memory of the Rev.

eldest son of
of the
John Forbes
of Bellabeg
don the 24th May 1830, died at Edinglassie the 27th June 1835, and buried in a vault in that part of the burial ground of Newe, which lies without the church. This monument was erected by her
grandfather Sir Charles Forbes, Baronet of
Gospel at Lochell, lie died at New, August 30, 1799, in the 62nd year of his age, and 37th of his ministry, and was interred in the burial ground of the family within this church, where three of his cMldren are also buried Christian, born
:
Newe
of her
and Edinglassie, anticipating the intention
fond parents to record the early promise of mind and heart of one of the most interesting of children.
But, before this was carried into
children of the same parents,
effect, it
pleased
their
June 12, 1782 and two other daughters, Christian and Katharine, who died Likewise Katherine Stewart, in eai'ly infancy. only daughter of Gordon Stewart of Drummin,* and spouse of the said George Forbes, who died at New on the 3d November ISOS, in the GSth year
August
4,
1770, died
the Almighty to take to himself another of the
John Forbes,
Born Aberdeen the 1st August 1835, died at Edinglassie the 18th January 1836, and buried in same
in
second son and fourth childâ lovely infant.
grave with his
sister.
of
her age.
[c.
note* p. 45.]
Sir Charles was

sion devolved
life-
succeeded by a grandson,
who
The next mentioned John
Forbes,
who
realised
died at the age of 19, in 1852,
when
the succes-
a large fortune as a merchant in Bombay, bought

the property of Newe, &c., in his father's
time.
upon an uncle
baronet.
of the last,
and third
son of the
first
It ought to be
men-
In addition to the improvement of his

left
tioned that, on the elevation of Sir Charles to a

baronetcy, his tenantry in Strathdon raised a cairn,
or pile of native granite,
in
property, he
in
large donations to public charities

:
Aberdeen and elsewhere
To the memory
of
John Forbes, Esquire of Newe
upon the hill of Lonach, which there are two stone tablets with inscrip-
(formerly of Bombay), second son of John Forbes,
tions.
One
is
in Gaelic, the other (an interpreta:
Esquire of Bellabeg.
1743, died in 1821,
Born there 19th September Fitzroy Square, London, 20th June

in this church.
tion in English), runs thus
of the lands of
Baronet's Caii-n
The Tenantry
and buried
dutiful son,
;
his amiable mannei's
an affectionate brother, a warm and steady friend and goodness of heart endeared
to aU who knew him his active benevolence was extended to all who stood in need of assistance. But, tke "widow and fatherless" in India and in Britain, were the special objects of his protection. This monument was erected by his nephew, Sir Charles Forbes, Baronet of Newe and Edinglassie. Altius ibunt qui ad summa nituntur. 1837.
him
Newe, Edinglassie, Bellabeg, and Skellater, m testimony of their aiTection and gratitude, have erected this pile to their highly distinguished and beloved landlord. Sir Charles Forbes, Bart., M.P., on his elevation to the dignity of a Baronet of the United Kingdom, by His Majesty George IV., in 1823.
The Forbeses of Acchernach

have three tablets on the south wall of Strathdon church, two of marble and one of granite
:
STRATHDON,
Sacred to the
of Aucliernach,
for
or
INVERNOCHTY.
wrote the celebrated
of 1715.
151
memory of Charles Forbes, Esq. who lies here with his forefathers
200 years.
letter regarding the rising
upwards
of
Died 5th
May
1794, in
Likewise to the memory of his wife Janet, daughter of Francis Fraser, Esq. of Fiudrack, who died 4th Deer. 1770, aged 30. Also their sous Francis, who died in infancy George, Lieut, in the 3rd Regt. Madras Cavalry,
the 64tli year of his age.
Black Jock was the eldest son of Skeland being out in the later by a second marriage rebellion, was taken prisoner, and died at Carlisle
;
the night before the day on which he was to
have been executed.
His son, by the widow of
M'Gillivray of Drumnaglass, succeeded to Inverernan, and married Jean, daughter of Alexander
died at sea, in India, 10th April 1796, aged 26

.James, a Lieut, in the
Alexander of Auchmull, a
entail of Inverernan,
bailie
in
Aberdeen.
his
is
72nd Highland Regt.
died
9th June 1804, in the 24th year of his age. This monument is erected by his son Nathaniel, Lieut. -
Their eldest son, who died unmarried, made the
and was succeeded by
Gen. in the Honble. E.I.C.S., 1845.
next brother, Alex. Forbes, to
whom
church
:
there
ISIr
Charles Forbes was governor or keeper of
marble
tablet,
on north wall
of
the Castle of Corgarff, which was bought by the
and was long used as a barracks for soldiers, at first with a view to overawe the Highlanders, and finally as a check upon smuggling, which was extensively carrried on in
Government
after 174G,
of Inverernan,
of Captain Alexander Forbes born the 25th of July 1744, and died at Forbes Lodge the 5th of June 1819. Erected by his friends of the Clan, and others, in honor of a
To the memory
man whose
young and
kindness of heart, and hospitality to
old,
was never exceeded
in the Strath.
the district.
Major General David Forbes, C. B. H. M. 78th Regt. or Ross-shire Highlanders. Born 13th January 1772 died 29th March 1849, whose remains are deposited beneath this stone in the same grave with his father, Charles Forbes of Auchernach also to his sons James, born 13th September 1820, died 19th April 1821 and David, born 10th March 1824, died 26th April 1825.
Sacred to the
,
memory
of
It was this
gentleman, on the threatened inva-
sion of Scotland
the Sti-athdon men,

their country.
of
by the French, that commanded who had formed themselves

married Elizabeth, a daughter
into a Volunteer Association for the defence of
He
The following
laird of
refers to the father of the present

:
Grant of Clury, Strathspey. She was the mother of Major Alex. Forbes, also of MaryAnne, the wife of the Rev. Dr Forbes of Blelack. A tablet bears this record of Major F.'s death
:
Auchernach and Dunottar, &c. In memory of Nathaniel Forbes of Auchernach and Dunottar, Lieutenant-General H.E.I. C.S. and Col. of the 24 Reg. Madras Native Infantry, eldest son of Charles Forbes of Auchernach, by his wife
Janet,
To the memory
of
Major Alexander Forbes
of
Inverernan, whose remains are inteiTed underneath.
He
died on the 20th July 1830, in the 55th year of

for his highly upright
his age, esteemed
him
daughter of Francis Fraser of Fiudrack.

;
ciples.
and respected by all who knew and honourable prinErected by his affectionate widow, Mar-
Born at Corgarff Castle, February 2, 1766 died in London, August 16, 1851, in the 86 year of his age. Erected by his son William-Nathaniel Forbes of Auchernach and Dunottar.
garet-Sarah Forbes.
This
lady was a daughter of Thainston,
Duncan Forbes-
Mitchell of
Lieut.-Gen. F. (who was

tive of the
heir and representaForbeses of Skellater), saw much service in India in the war against Hyder Ali
2d son of Sir Arthur Forbes of Craigievar. She had a son and daughter, the former died in London in 1827, aged 15 and the latter, who married Wm. M'Combie, Esq.
;
and Tippoo Saib, and held high commands. bought Dunottar about 1832.
:
He
of Easter Skene and Lynturk, died in 1835, aged 26. (v. Skene.) On the south-west of the church-yard:
The first whom, as
Forbes of Inverernan these Forbes' was Black Jock; to bailie of Kildrummy, the Earl of Mar
of
The burial place of George Forbes, D.D., of Blelack and Inverernan, 25 years minister of the
parish of Strathdon.
Possessing the respect and
152
EPITAPHS,
AND INSCRIPTIONS.
Upon a marble tablet in north-east wall In memory of Hugh-Robert Meiklejohn, eldest
:
confidence of his Parishioners as a faithful pastor and

friendly counsellor, his death
throughout this
1778;
died
at
district.
was deeply lamented Born at Lochel, 8th April
son of the Revd.
Robt. Meiklejohn, minister of
Aberdeen, 16th February 1834. Erected, in affectionate remembrance, by his disHis widow, Mary-Anne consolate widow 1835. Forbes, daughter of Captain Alexander Forbes of 19th April 1848, aged C8 years. Inverernan, died
Strathdon, and Lieut. H.E.I.C. Engineers. Killed at Jhansi in Central India, 3rd April 1858, aged
xxii years.
Gallantly leading one attack of the
Stormers he was the first to scale the wall and there fell dead, deeply lamented by all who knew
him.
The above were the parents

of Inverernan,
of the present laird
Erected by the inhabitants of his native
who
distinguished himself in the
late Persian war.
He
is
a C.B., and a General

cross, within
Strath to testify their high admiration of his bravery and moral worth, their sincere sorrow for his pre-
in the H.E.I.C.S.
marble
the
mature death, and their heartfelt sympathy

his bereaved family.
witli
kirk, records the death of an infant son of Gen.
and an adjoiuiug slab that of his second brother, who died at Bombay, 1849, aged 30.
Forbes
;
monument
in
the churchyard records the
death of the Rev.

verernan, the
Mr
Mkikle.joiin, and his wiof
dow, Eliza-Gkant, daughter

first
Forbes of In-
Anderson of Candacraig
died in 1859, the latter in 1863.
Within, and upon north wall of the church This stone was erected in the year 1757, by Charles Anderson of Kandocraig, in memory of his Predecessors, the Andersons of Kandocraig, in:
The next two
inscriptions are
:
from tablets in
north-west wall of the church
ter'd here for seven generations past.
the Eight, died 10th
March
of
1770, aged 05.
Charles Mors
janua
vitse.
Sacred to the memory of Mrs Christian Stuart, daughter of James Gordon, Esq., Croughly, who was born 21st November 1760, died 28th February 1821, aged 54, and was interred in the burial ground of her husband's family within this churchyard,
Sacred to the
of Candacraig,
memory
Alexander Anderson
where two
who, in succession to eight generaThis monument of

is
tions of his ancestors interred here, died 13th of
March
filial
love and regard for an afi'ectionate parent
of her daughtei's both named MaryForbes, who died in early infancy, are likewise buried. Sacred also to the memory of her eldest son John, who died in the East Indies, 13th April \v. p. 70.] 1813, aged 22.
erected by Captain
John Anderson
of the 28th
Re-
Sacred to the
pany's
memory
of
giment, his eldest surviving son, 1st of August 1820.
Esq., Captain in the Honourable East India
Jonathan Michie, Com-
Sacred to the
of Candacraig,
memory of Major John Anderson who departed this life Deer. 24th
This tablet
is
Bombay
Marine,
who
died at Aberdeen on
1835,
aged 45 years.
erected as a
his dis-
the 25th August 1811, aged 42 years, and is interred in this churchyard. Inscribed at the desire
of his son, Lieutenant
tribute of sincere affection
and regard by
Jonathan Michie of the Bom1815.

left of the churchwith the following
consolate widow, Catherine Anderson.
bay Military Establishment.

of
This lady was

Strathdon part
Poll
is
a dr. of Alex.,
Duke
Gordon,
massive mausoleum on the

tablets,
by Jean Christie, his second wife. {v. Bellie.) The value of Duncan Anderson's lands in the
of
yard gate bears two

inscriptions
:
Migvie-Tarland,
at
is
stated in the
his lady
Book (1696)
200
Scots,
where
This mausoleum was erected to perpetuate the memory of Mary Forbes, who was the wife of
charged, also two sons and three daughters,
Major Daniel Mitchell.

for her
Her uncommon
affection
then living in familia. The Andersons held Candacraig until within these few years, when it
husband, parents, brothers, and sisters, and her kindness to all her friends, joined to a delightful benevolence,
was bought by
sister's
Sir C. Forbes of
Newe, from a
which never overlooked the humble nor forgot the distressed, are here recorded for
example's sake.
1829, aged 53,
son of one of the Andersons,
now
or lately
resident in Canada.
She died in London, 27th August and her remains rest within.
STRATH DON,
or
INVERNOOHTY.
The
153
This lady,
daughter of the minister of Leochel,
following inscriptions are selected from

:
was aunt to the present Sir Charles Forbes of Newe. Her husband was a descendant of Thomas Mitchell, a burgess and provost of Aberdeen, who bought Thainston, near Kin tore, about the end
of the 17th century.
tombstones in different parts of the kirkyard
John Lumsden was minister here forty four years. Mary Duff his first, and Barbara Lumsden his
second wife, with their two children, jNIary and Hary Lumsdens, were all buried here before he
died himself.
The second
tablet bears
He who
raised this
tomb now reposes within.
Mr
men
II
D. McS.
Daniel Mitchell, Major in the Hon. East India Company's Service, who departed this life on the
17th Feb. 1841, aged 64.
in the
is
once to
die,
:
Heb. ix. 27 It is appointed unto but after this the judgment.

:
He
fell
asleep in Jesus
hope of a glorious resurrection.
This tablet
Remember ye not that when I was Thess. 11. 5 Mr D. yet with you I told you these things. McS., M.A. Here ly the ashes of the Revd. and
worthy
minr.
sert. of
erected
by
desire of his surviving wife
Mary,
Jesus Christ,
Mr Donald M'Sween,
who
died June
daughter
of the late
General
Hay
of
Rannes, in
of
the Gospel at
Strdou,
remembrance
of a
most beloved, respected, and
the
8,
1730, aged 38
deeply lamented husband.
A
this in-
watchman
faithful, honest, just,
A monument
scription
:
in the
churchyard bears
Who
ner betrayed his sacred trust.

love to Christ and to his flock
in all that er
)
Whose
of
Breathed
he spoke.
Here ly the remains
Robert Farquharson
of
Hug.
Eliz.
AUerg, who died Jany. 31st 1771, in the 77th year of his age. And of Isabel Anderson his spouse, who died Febry. 18th 1749, in the 70th of her age And of their grand-child" John, James, Margt,
;
>
\
McS.
children.
Memento
mori.
Hel.
Mr
Gordon, the writer of the Old Stat. Acct.

xiii., p.
of the parish (vol.
184^, says that, accord-
& Jean
ing to tradition,
?
the inhabitants of
Strathdou
Friend would'st thou triump o'er the grave Would'st thou with joy thy dust redeem ?
Belive in
him w ho came to save. His cross the way to bless supream. EoBT. Farquharson, their son, died 16th April 1793, aged 73. Jean Grant, his spouse, died 3rd July 1800, aged 80. Isobel, their daughter, died 2nd April 1791, aged 40 years. Memento mori.
were "rough and uncivilized in their manners" that hostile lairds would have rushed upon one another in the churchyard on Sundays with their durks and shabbies, and that, on one occasion, a
laird cut off the
head of
Mr
Baxter, a minister, at
;
the manse-door, with a Lochaber axe
also,
that
Mr M'Sween
;
A marble
tablet within,
:
and on south wall
of
church, bears
be smothered with a wet canvas, when at family prayers one evenbut being a man of considerable bodily ing Luckily streugth, he was able to save himself
was attempted
to
Erected by his widow in afifectionate remembrance of PtOBERT Farquharson, Esq. of AUargue
the people have changed with the times, for even on the occasion of the Lonacli annual gatherings,
it is
and Breda.
Born the 13th

;
the 14th of February 1863
Farquharson, younger of July 1828 died 9th of November

;
of January 17S3 died and of their son Robert AUargue Born 22nd of
;
:
but rare that impropriety of conduct

;
is
to be
seen
while their courtesy and
hospitality
to
strangers are worthy of imitation in

of the Lowlands.
many
parts
1858.
Near the above
John
Farquharson of Olderg, "
fyve children, to wit, Andrew,

derick, Georg,
wyfe and Gustavus, Rohis
the Poll
Book
and Jean Fergursous," appear in for 1696. Breda is a small pro-
This monument is erected by Alex. Stuart of Edinglassie to the memory of Margaret (JranSTOWN, his wife, a person honbly. descended, politely educated, judicious, prudent, and agreeable, es-
perty in Alford.
The last-named
in,
thread manufacturer
Paisley, (r. p. 122.)
laird was a and sometime provost of
teemed and regarded she died June 22, aged 45, A.D. 1752. The said Alex. Stuart, Esq., writer to
:
the signet, a
man eminent
in his profession,
much
154
EPITAPHS,
AND INSCRIPTIONS:
esteemed, and universally regretted, died the 19tla
Culquhanny
inn.
is
now
the seat of a well-known

still
day
of Septr.
aged 87 years, A.D. 1787.
Part of the old castle

it is said,
remains, under
Pict's house.
John Simpson, farmer, Shanuach, d. 1780, a. 79: With temper meek his bread he wan,
which,
there
is
weem, or
He
lived and died an honest man.

''
The
oldest antiquities in
the parish are the
Erected to the memory of John McHardy, late farmer in Easter Corryhoul, who died 26 Nov. 1813,
eirdhouses" or
weems
at Glenkiudie,
of
Buchaam,
which
will
and Newe, plans and descriptions

quaries of Scotland, vol.
iv.
aged
and whose ancestors has been theie for upwards of 600 years. Done by the care of his sons Jos., Jas., N., Cha^., and Alex''. McHardys.
60,
be found in the Proceedings of the So. of Anti-
The Doime of
stood,
is
InvernodiUj,
upon which a
castle
Under this stone lies interred the dust of Archibald Forbes of Deskrie, who died at Mill of Keith,
the 3d of Dec. 1793, in the 80th year of his age.
of the old lords of the district appears to have
the next
Strathdon.
vir
The Douue
most interesting object iu is about 30 feet in height,
Hocce
in sepulchro iacet
Donald Downys,
pauperum
[eximia] pietate, incorrupta fide,
fautor,
, .
pater non contempta prole, beatus obiit A.D. 17
natus
....
tomb lies Donald Downys, a man of genuine piety, untainted honour, a benefactor to the poor, and the father of no contemptible off[In this
spring.
He died happy A.
lies
D, 17
aged
.]
Here
bars,
and the top, which is oval shaped, contains about half an acre of ground. Remains of ancient buildings are to be seen upon the west and south, from which it would appear that the walls had been constructed of stones and strongly fused lime, and built in much the same style as those of the castle of Kinedar, or King Edward, which was inhabited in the 13th century.
the dust of seuen generations of Dun-
New.
and Nathaniel Dunbar who liued at Mill of This stone is erected for Helen Yewen
The Doune appears
to have been originally
formed, as was the Bass of Inverurie, by deposits
spous to Corneleies Dunbar at Mil of Bellabeg.

died Feby. 16, 1762, aged 49.
She
Erected by hir son
Nathaniel Dunbar.
from a number of streams, and from a variety of points, which had met at a particular spot. Thus formed by nature, and from the Doune commanding the chief passes fi'om the north Highlands to
the
of
Both under this stone doth ly the bons and ashes James and John Ross, lafull sons to George Ross in Bednagaugh. James died lulie 8, 1758,
;
Lowlands, the top of
it
was subsequently had made

it
levelled;
and ditches and

which
trenches, constructed
aged 28 John died Dec>-. 6, 1763, aged 24 .- Be mindful of your Redemer while you have
breath,
round
its base,
in early times
a pretty secure dwelling-place.
For young years cannot shun death.
The mound
Here
in
lyes the bons
CouU
of Earnonside,
and dust of Georg Grassich who dyed Febry. 19, 1742,
Also Isobel Ogg, his spouse, dyed Octr. 28, 1747, aged 60 years.
aged 63 years.
who
in
the Doune, or were supplied by water from the burn of Bardoch, which rises in the hill of Braigheach, and joined a large swamp or morass upon the north. The ditches contained water
of Invernochty,
ditches which surround
until about
1823,
when
of
the
new turnpike road
Gr55icZ; has been

Strathdon
1823.
Interred here
;
was made, and the burn

long a
common surname
in
a marble tablet within the church
with the view of bouring marshes.
Bardoch was deepened, draining the foss and the neighof the west
records the death of
Patrick,
Foggymill
iu
Along the top
embankment, and
died luly
his spous,
13, 1760,
Iohn Michie in Culquhanny, who aged 81 and Jannet Grassich,

;
other parts of the Doune, traces of a number of huts are visible, in which, possibly, the retainers of the
ancient lords of the fort, and their spare aeimals,
who
died Octr.
6,
1755, aged 70.
This
stone was put on by
Hary Miche
their sou, &c.
were housed. As was the case at Dunottar, probably the original church of Invernochty stood
RESCOBIE.
upoa the Doune,
not unlike graves,
side of
it.
if,
155
indeed,
;
precursor of the castle
it had not been the and a number of mounds,
stantial iron bridge.
may be
seen towards the east

is is
But, until the top of the Doune

of ascertaining
Two bridges have also been thrown across the Don, near Newe Castle, upon each of which is an iron plate, embellished with the Forbes arms, and this inscription
:
thoroughly excavated and trenched over, there
no means
whether these surmises
are well founded.
Excavations were made some
Erected by Sir Charles Forbes, Bart., of Newe and Edinglassie, 1858, from a bequest by his grand uncle, John Forbes, Esq. of Newe.
years ago on the south side of the surrounding
when a log of oak was found, supposed to have been part of the drawbridge of the castle. At the same time the square chamber on the left of
foss,
the entrance to the
fort,
and some other parts
of
(S.
the ruins, were brought to light.
TRIDUANA, VIRGIN.)
of Roscolbi, with its chapel, beto the Priory of St
Charter evidence shows that the Earls of
Mar
and
were the old proprietors

that
of
the district
Adam
of
Strachan,
who had
THE church longed

marches
Andrews.
The
charters of
Glenkindie in 1357, was among the earliest and most important of the landowners under Mar. In 1512, John Mackkalloun had half of the lands of Invery, Thirueis, and Edinglas and in the year 1550, Lord Elphinston had charters of
;
present church, built in 1820, stands upon the
north side of the " lake of Roskolby," a fine

sheet of water, which
of
is
mentioned
in
in a note of tho
Dunnichen
:
the
13th
century.
Upon
the kirk bell
Corgarff and Skellater, &c.,

of
all
within the lordship
A.N.D.R.E.A.S
E.H.E.M
A.N.N.O
1.6.2.0.
Mar. Culquhanny Castle, of which only part of the keep remains, is said to have been built by Forbes Corgarff Castle, of Towie in the 17th century. reputed to have been originally a hunting seat of the Earls of IMar, was burned down in 1571, during the feuds between the Forbeses and the Gordons and some are of opinion that Corgarff was the scene of the burning of Lady Forbes,
;
In consequence of recent improvements, the

church, although a plain building, and the burial
ground, once neglected and

a
peculiarly
ill
cared for, present
neat
appearance.
monument
is
within,
and
in the south wall of the church

:
thus inscribed
To the memory
of
James Gordon, sometime
teacher in this parish,
who
expired in the pulpit of
Forfar on the 15 day of June 1808, in the 25th year

of his age, while delivering part of his probationary
&c., celebrated in the ballad of
Edom
o'
Gor-
Towie). The castle, afterwards rebuilt, was bought by Government in 1746 from Forbes of Skellater, and used as a military station. There has been a royal bounty mission station at Corgarff for nearly 150 years, where also are a school and a burial ground. " Andekmas fair" was held at Strathdon in Nov., and S. John's fair in Aug. annually. The bridges in the parish are numerous. That of Pooldhulie, which is the oldest and most romantic, bears to have been erected by Alexander Forbes of Inverernan, in 1715. The bridge of Luib was built by Sir C. Forbes in 1832 and the Nochty, near the church, is spanned by a subdon,
(v.
;
with a view to accept of the presentation him of this church and parish. He was the only son of Peter Gordon, lately teacher in this parish. This stone was erected by his widowed mother as an expression of her irreparable loss.
trials
made
to
marble slab upon the east wall bears

In
memory of John Farquhar, Esquire of Pitscandly, who died 30 June 1808, aged 67 years. And of Roby-James Farquhar, his son, who died
16 Feb. 1819, in his 22d year.
Upon
to the
a stone in the churchyard, which relates

:
same family
of
To the memory
John Farquhar of Pitscandly,

Also
of
of
who
died 14 June 1844, aged 49 years.
Susannah-Floyd Farquhar, daughter
John
15G
EPITAPHS,
of Pitscandly,
AND INSCRIPTIONS
mitive virtue,
Farquhar
and
sister to the above,
who
died 31 Dec.
1759, aged 66.
who
died 10 Feb. 1822, aged 23 years.

of of Pitscandly,
Also of
This
monument was
erected in 1769
by Elizabeth
Emily-Lake Farquhar, daughter

quhar
John Far-
Farquhar, widow, in
memory of
her dearly beloved
who
died 21 Jan. 1839, aged
Colonel
7 years.
husband and brother, and by Walter Gray, heir of the former, in gi'ateful remembrance of his respected grand-uncle. ]
Farquhar of Mounie (descended from
Robert Farquhar of Mounie and Tonley, once provost of Aberdeen), had three nieces who became
his co-heiresses.
The
above Charles, son of Gray of Balbunno,
in Perthshire, a cadet of the
Lords Gray, bought
Oueof them, Elizabeth, bought,
the estate of Carse about 1741.
He was
On
suc-
about 1731, the estate of Pitscandly. She married James, eldest son of Stormonth of Kinclune, in
ceeded by his grandnephew, Walter Lowson, the son of a farmer in Auchterhouse.

to Carse,
succeeding
Angus, who assumed the surname of Farquhar, Being " out in the '45," he was taken prisoner and condemned to death but on the day before his intended execution, he was reprieved through
;
Walter Lowson (as shown by the above He inscription), assumed the surname of Graij.
was father
in 1850. of
Charles Gray
of Carse,
The grand-daughter
of the latter
who died is now
the interest of
his
Mrs M'Niell, a
sister-in-law of
proprietrix of Carse.
of Burnside.
own.
flat
tombstone in the churchyard,

E. F., and the date of 1764,
He died
She married a son of Hunter in 1861, and was buried in

hill
with the
initials,
a private cemetery on the
of Carse.
{v. p.
32.)
covers the grave of the above-named
Elizabeth
The
erector of the above
monument
gifted
two
;
Farquhar.
cumbent
is
Mr Taylor- Farquhar,
sometime inhis
silver
communion cups
to the church of Rescobie

:
of St John's Episcopal Church, Forfar,
both are thus inscribed

Rescobie Kirk,
Carse, Armigeri.
proprietor of Pitscandly,
through
of
wife,
1779
et
Donum Dominse
Eliz.
Mary Anne Farquhar, a daughter who died in 1844. IVIrs Farquhar

Pitscandly was
Lindsays, the
the laird
Farquhar, conjugis
viduae Caroli Gray
de
succeeded to
Vivit post funera virtus.

built into the
her sister Sarah some years before her marriage. long

in
the posse.'^sion of
the
handsome freestone monument,
last
designed of which, John Lind-
outer and south wall of the church, has been recently renewed.
say, granted a disposition of the lands to
George
The canopy, which
is
supported
Lauder, 7 Nov. 1726, from
whom
the property
by two
was bought by Miss E. Farquhar. Her son, Thomas, got a crown charter of, and was infeft in Pitscandly, 23 June 1766. A marble, inscribed as follows, which was taken
out of the wall of the last church,
loft stair of the
lies
ornamented with a carving of the Lindsay arms, &c. and the tablet presents
pillars, is
;
this inscription
Monumentum hoc in memoriam suorum parentum
below the
present one
Mr David Lindsay, pastor de Mary-Toune, extruendum curavit. Juxta hunc lapidem depositaa sunt reliquiaj Dom Henrici Lindsay, quondam de setat. 72 et Blairifedden, qui obiit anno Dom
:
:
M.
86
:
S.
Caroli Gray de Carse, Armigeri, homiJacobi Farquhar de Balmoor, Armigeri,

viri,
uxoris ejus Alison Scrimseur, familise Scrimseur
nis probissimi, qui obiit 28vo Aprilis 1768, a^tat.

et
amici ejus devinctissimi, priscae virtutis

obiit
qui
31mo Decembris,
1759, a;tat. 66.
Hoc marmor
Elizabetha Farquhar, vidua, marito fratrique carissimis, et Gualterus Gray, prioris haeres, grato
animo propatruo bene mereuti, posuere 1769.

[Sacred to the
Carse, Esq.
1768,
,
memory
of
Charles Gray
of
de Glasswal, quai obiit anno Dom. 1651, a-tat. ; necnon filii eorum Dom. Davidis Lindsay" pastoris de Rescobie, qui obiit anno Dom. 1677, fetat. 62 ; & ejusdem duarum conjugum Marjor.e Lindsay, filiiB Lindsay de Kinnettles, & Beatricis Ogilvv, filiaj Ogilvy de Carsbank, quas obiit anno Dom. 1716, ffitat. su;e 89. Ibidem loci quoque sepulti suntuonuulli ejusdem Davidis liberi, quorum nomina
. .
.
a very worthy man,

;
who
died 28 April
aged 86
moor, Esq., his
and of James Farquhar of Balmost devoted friend, a man of pri-
& prioris cippi Hoc monumentum positum

cceli injuria
vetustate perierunt.
fuit
anno
&
instau-
ratum anno
1752.
RESGOBIE.
[Mr David Lindsay, minister of Marytown, caused
this
157
and trev man
in his
tym
Agnes
monument
of
to be erected in
memory
of his
re-
Rynd
parents.
Beside this stone are deposited the
mains
Mr Henry Lindsay,
Rynd or Rhyud, although now a somewhat rare

surname
in Angus,
is
late of Blairiefedden,
;
of considerable antiquity in
who
died in the year .... aged 72
and
of his wife
that county.
Murdoch
Finhaven
of
Rhynd had
a gift from
Alison Scrimseur,
Glasswal,
their son,
of the family of Scrimseur of

.
.
who
died in 1651, aged
and
also of
David
II. of a part of the royal

;
hunting forest of
Mr David Lindsay,
;
minister of Rescobie,
Plater, near
and about the same time

of Forfar.
who died 1677, aged 62 and of his two wives Marjory Lindsay, daughter of Lindsay of Kinnettles,
a Patrick
Rhynd was alderman

;
Rhynds
of Carsebank,
and Beatrice Ogil\-y, daughter of Ogilvy who died in 1716, aged 89. In the
same place also are buried some of the said David's children, whose names have perished through the age of the former (grave) stone, and the action of the weather. This monument was erected in the and restored in 1752.] year
. .
.
were subsequently designed of Casse, or Carse (now Carse-Gray) and it is interesting to notice that William Rynd of Carse was one of the four Angus lairds who were sureties to the Privy
Council for the printing of the
land.
first
Bible in Scot-
Besides Carse, the Rhynds also

is
owned
Clocksbriggs, where a stone
A.R
I.S.
1659
and dated but the property passed by marinitialed
John, the
den,
first
recorded Lindsay of Blairifed-
riage during the last half of the 17th century to
who
flourished 1535-9,
had a son slaughtered
by Ogilvy of Inverquharity, before the year 1588. The Kinnettles Lindsays were of the Evelick
branch,
of the
{v. p.
in Forfar, a descendant of
Alexander Dickson, a pdlio, or dresser of skins whom, also Alexander

title to
Dickson, made up a
the property in 1751,
70.)
Scrimgeour of Glasswell was
as heir of his great-grandmother's brother,
Thomas
Dudhope
race,
burgess family of
and directly sprung from a Dundee. Ogilvys were long in

it
Carsebank, Thomas Ogilvie having been served

heir to his father in
Rinde of Clocksbriggs, or Clach-hrecks (a place abounding with freckled stones.) The following inscription upon a table-shaped stone at Rescobie
refers to a brother of the last-named,
and
in the lauds of Kirk-
who
suc-
ton of Aberlerauo, in 1657.

is
This monument,
ceeded to the estate in 1776
:
died 12 Sep.
his wife, died
upheld by a payment from the town of Arbroath, which was specially left for its maintenance. A marble on the south wall of the church records the death of the following persons, whose graves are also marked by a table-shaped stone in the area of the burial ground
:
David Dickson
1803,
of Clocksbriggs,
aged
60.
Mary Cuthbert,
a son James, an 8 July 1816, aged 72 officer on board the "Generous Friends," an East India ship, which was lost in the China Seas in 1802, is supposed to have perished in the 2'2d year
of
his
age.
daughter,
Isobella,
died 1821,
The Rev. William Rogers, minister of

34th of his ministry.
eldest daughter of
Rescobie,
aged
37.
died 10 Sep. 1842, in the 60th year of his age, and
On
estate
the death of
Mr
D.
iu 1803, he
was suc;
His wife Agnes Lyon, the Rev. Dr Lyon of Glamis,

of
ceeded by his eldest son, Major Diokson but by a family arrangement with a brother-in-law, the
died 30 July 1816, in the 30th year of her age.
Ann, youngest daughter
Mr John
Oldham,
Millthorpe, Nottinghamshire, his second wife, died
19 June 1841, in the 56th year of her age.
churchyard
There are a number of gravestones in the from some of these the following in; :
Bcriptioos are selected
was held by the latter until about 1853, was acquired by a son of Major DickThe lastson's younger brother, Alexander. named died in the year 1865, aged 82, and it was his eldest son, David Dickson, who acquired and Rescobie, and built the Clocksbriggs
when
it
present
briggs.
chateau
or
mansion-house at
Clocks-
Heir lyes Alexander Simpson, qvha deperted the 3 Mali 1616, he being of age 58, ane verteovs
He was
long a merchant at Dunkirk, in

his personal
France; and "in consideration of
158
EPITAPHS,
AND
INSCRIPTIONS:
who died 12 Feb. 1672, aged 63 and Agnas Bellie, his wife, who departed 2 March This monument was erected by 1682, aged 70.
in Balgaies,
;
and comand the northern parts of the Empire at large," he was created by the Emperor Napoleon III., a Knight, and OfBcer of the Imperial Order of the Legion d'llonneur. But, by a sad accident, on 10th Nov. 1869, while
exertions for improviog the industry
merce of that
district,
John
Dall, in Milldens,
wife, as a
mark
of
dutiful
and Margaret Finlo, his love and respect for
parents.]
driving near Dunkirk,
Mr
Dickson's horses took
John Espline
(1717)
fright, and, leaping into
an adjoining canal, both

lost their lives.
Mr
Dickson and
his
coachman
Miss Dickson, who was iu the brougham with her father, narrowly escaped from sharing the same fate. Mr Dickson's remains were buried at Rescobie, beside those of his wife,
Like to the seed in earthy womb, Or like dead Lazarus in the tomb, Or like Tabitha in a sleep,
who
predeceased
Or Jonas like within the deep, Or like the moon or stars in day, Ly hid and languish quite away Even as the grave the dead receives,
;
him by about ten years. Another tombstone bears
Man
this
being dead he death deceives.

springs,
record
of
the
Rhynd
. . . .
family:
The seed
and Lazarus stands,

;
Tabitha wakes, and Jonas lands
Under this stone of Catharine Burns, hn Burns of Clocksbriclges, and Margaret Eeind his spous, who departed this life Sept. 1718,
of age
. .
The moon
So
appears, and stars remain,
man
being dead shall live again.

(1721)
:
Archd. Peter's children
life,
years.
man
:
line
thou ane upright

;
Upon
flat
tombstone
Heir lyis a faithfwU sister Ianet Dal, spovs David Dog of Resvale, vho lived vith hir hvsband 15 yeir, and died the 8 of ApriU 1658, being
to
{^
Whateuer to the befalls Then dubbel hapy shalt thou be When God by death the calls.
John Coulie
(1731)
the 37 yeir of hir age.
Doigs
1816 by
appear to have owned Reswallie for a
considerable period,
Mr
{v. p. 89.) It was bought in William Powrie, a Dundee merchant,
whose son, the present laird, has greatly improved the property. Mr Powrie is a well-known and
successful student of geology.
Unconstant earth, why do not mortals cease To build their hopes upon so short a lease ? Uncertain lease, whose term's but once begun. Tells never when it ends till it be done. We dote upon thy smiles, not knowing why. And while we but prepare to live, we die
;
We
spring like flowers for a day's delight,

flourish,
Upon
At noon we
and we fade at
night.
a stone, with a shield bearing the black-
smiths' crown, pincers, and a
hammer
Alex. Hay's
:
father, &c., died in 17
S Heir lyis a faithfvll brother Iames Pyot,
who
Know
depairtit in Tvring the 15 of lanvar 1643, ye 72 yeir of his age. Ianot Fitchit his spovs bvir to him 13 bairns. Alexander, lames, lohn, Patrik,
Were by Deaths sythe

With
mortal as these once blossoming too early cutted
Hays down
So thou must too as fading flowers decays,

blessed soon.
....
b. x.,
1.
Wiliam, laine Pyots
Daigite.
A
2<io
stone,
with a much obliterated quotation

33-4), bears:
Tvmvlo hoc conditvs
est
Thomas Dall, qvondam

Martii,
from Ovid (Met.
in Balgaies, qvi obiit 12 Feb., 1675, a-tatis 63, tan-
dem Agnas
Bellie, ejvs vxor, decessit
1682, setatis 70.
Cvra loannis
Dall, in Milldens, et
Iohn Walace, who lived in Finnestoun. He died in the moneth of May 1688, bis age 87 years and his wife Catharine Piter died
Here
lyes
;
Margaretse Finlo, vxoris ejvs,
monvmentvm hoc
iu
May
1687, of age 60.
extrvxtvm
tise
est vt signvm debiti amoris et reverenerga parentes.
Margt. Stroak,
a.
wi. of Thos. Wallace, d. 1759,
[In this grave are laid
Thomas Dall, sometime
51
RESCOBIE.
T
his stone in
159
memory
of this old race.

:
The
Untie of the doorway in the surrounding
H ow man comes here with a peal face

O man may
see in ages
all,
;
wall bears: ANO
Balmadies,
as
M an that
born he must fall A s soon's our Saviour on earth he came, S oon made interest for mortal man.
is
mdclxix. The Piersons of The Guynd, bury here and noted below, a number of tombstones within
now
of
the enclosure bear inscriptions relating to that

family.
W hen he saw them

A
ssumed
their
Fourteen separate headstone, in one

:
line,
in misery,
;
present the inscriptions undernoted
ransom for to pay mind this dear price o our Redeemer was not nice. A s soon as he saw man in sin stood C ome I'll redeem you with my blood
L L
Elizabeth Piersone, spovs

died 1669.
to
lames Piersone,
et us ever
Iames Piersone cember 1673.

:
of
Balmadies died the 7 of De-
vermore be favoured into
bless.
It was
who had
v.,
possibly the
above-named James Pierson
Alex. Smith, and wife, Janet White (1772) :When this man liv'd upon this earth. The Lord endu'd him with some wealth And in his days, when he did live,
;
a ratification charter in 1641 (Acta Pari.,
621), of the lands and barony of " Auchtermeggities. vtherwayes callit Belmades, with the
milne," &c., of which his parents, Alex. Pierson
He
studied the poor for to relieve

councel,
and
;
;
Isobella Beaton,
had a feu-farm charter, in
With money,
This
is
&
help of hand
the truth you'l understand
But now these two lies in the grave, Till the last trump do them relieve.
"Johne lait pretendit archibischop The lands were held under payof St Androis." ment of a money rent of 20 pounds Scots, and owed suit to the archbishop's courts at Rescobie.
1624, from
Ann
Smith's husband, &c. (1811)
My
Dam Margret Mvrray,
spovs to
Mr Alexander
husband's here, and daughter dear.

:
Also a son
I
In dust doth
of mine lie but yet on high hope their souls doth shine.
;
Piersone of Balmadies, vas born the 9 of Ivne 1625, died the 12 of Septer 1694, and vas hier interred
the 26 of said moneth.
I've other five this date survives.
Memento mori
Mr Alexander Piersone
of
Two May
Till
daughters, and three sons
they with grace, pursue their race

once their glass
is
Balmadies vas born the 3 of Febri 1626, died the 13 of March 1700, and vas heir interred the 26 of the
said moneth.
run.
Mrs Margaret Lindsay, daughter

ander Lindsay of Evliek,
first
to Sir Alex-
married to the laird
CHAPELYARD.
(?S.
of Findourie,
Balmadies, to
whom
and thereafter to James Piersone of she bore seven sons. She died
MADOC.)
From a well near the burial-place being called S, Madoc, it is probable that the old church or
chapel had been dedicated to
that saint.
to
about the 56 year of her age, on the 11 or 12 of May 1714, and here interred on the 18, a virtueus and
religious lady.
Memento
mori.
sister
His
Airs
Elizabeth Arbuthnot,
German
to
name
ia
variously written
of the
and according
Dr
most learned of Irish archseonames of S. Moedoc, Moque, and AiDAN, are of the same origin.
Reeves (one
logists), the
the present laird of Findourie, died of a deceiy about the 18 year of her age, a beautiful, virtuous,
and religious young lady, and was here interred some years before her mother's death. Memento
mori.
The burial-ground
This was possibly the
century.
of
Chapelyard occupies a
the chapel which
knoll south-east of the Aldbar railway station.

site of
was
dependent upon the kirk of Rescobie in the 13th
The Arbuthnotts of Findowrie were descended from Robert Arbuthnott of that ilk, who died The last male representative of about 1450. Arbuthnott of Findowrie died April 22, 1745,
160
EPITAPHS,
to
AND
INSCRIPTIONS.
the fourth day of April 1763, aged sixty two years
when the property passed

moon.
1746
Carnegy
of
Balna-
ExuviaB mortales Iacobi Piersone de Balrnadies, animi in Deum pij, in familiam vers pa:
one month and seventeen days. mundi. Memento mori.
Sic transit gloria
The
late
is
said to have been
terni, in paciscentes justi,
in
omnes
benevoli, hie
composed by the
Here
Esq.
Rev.
Mr
Aitken of St Vi:
unionem
1666
:
et prremia expectant.
Nati 3 Nov. a:D:
geans, the betrothed of Miss Pierson

lies
Denati SOMartij, 1745.

:
Memento
mori.
the corps of
Mary
Pierson, youngest
[1746
of Balmadies, a
sition pious
The mortal remains of James Piersone man who was gifted with a dispojust towards those with
his family,
towards God, truly fatherly towards whom he had
dealings,
and benevolent to all, here await reunion and reward. (Born and died as above).]
daughter of the late llobert Pierson of Balmadies, She was born the 26th of Augt. 1746, and died the 10th of Nov. 1771 : Mildness of temper, innocence of mind, And softest manners were in her combin'd ;
Sincere and open, undisguis'd by art. She form'd no wish but what she might impart. Easie and social, chearful and resign'd Harmless thro' life, the sister and the friend. In early age, call'd to resign her breath, Patient in sickness, undismayed at death,
James Piersone, son
to the laird of Balmadies,
died of the smallpox on the 6 of August 1714, about the 18 or 19 year of his age, and uas here interred promising young gentleman. on tlie 9 ditto.
Memento mori. William Piersone. Alexander Piersone. Susanna Small. Archibald Piersone, son
sone of Balmadies.
A
Mr
Alexander Pier-
sister's grief ('tis friendship's
sacred claim),
Pays
to
this small tribute to a sister's

:
name.
Two headstones bear respectively Mr Archibald Pearsone of Westhall.

Elizabeth Gairden,
his spovse.
is
John Piersone, son

of Balmadies.
:
to
Mr
Alexander Piersone
The surname of
standing in
the
Pierson, or Pearson,
of old
1763 Here lies Iohn Piersone, lawful son Balmadies,
interred the mortal part of

to
Mr
of
A ugus.
of
It occurs in the records of

in
James Piersone
Abbey
Arbroath
1506,
when Abbot
who
died on the 16th of February 1763,
aged 64 years.
and sincere lover
of all
devout worshipper mankind.
of his creator,
Three headstones, standing apart from those above noticed, bear respectively the inscriptions quoted below John Piersone Taylor.
:
George granted Thomas Pierson a charter of " ly Rude" with pertinents, in the Almory of that town. A tombstone at Arbroath, with a much effaced inscription, bears the Pierson arms and the
date of 1589.
Archibald Pierson, designed of

;
Chapleton, was sheriff-depute of Forfar in 1642
To
of
this grave are
Anne Fraser,
committed the mortal remains daughter to Iohn Fraser of Kirk-
and the family were proprietors of Lochlands and Barugreen before 1653, in which year Thomas Pierson was served heir to his grand-father. These,
doubtless, were ancestors of the Piersons of Bal-
ton,
who was born on the 9 of May 1723, O.S. Married to Ptobert Pierson, advocate, in October
she bore five children, lames, Iohn, Mary, Margaret, and David, all alive, and she died lady greatly esteemed for on the 9 of luly 1761. Meher benevolence, and other amiable qualities.
1740, to
madies,
now represented by
following
:
the
laird
of
The
whom
Guyud.
The
is
railed enclosure
upon a monument within a
mento mori Mind death. Here are interred the mortal remains of Robert Pierson of Balmadies, advocate, an affectionate Husband, a loving Parent, an easy Landlord, the
poor man's Friend, never intended nor delighted to harm or injure any person, who departed this life
Sacred to the memory of Margaret Ouchterlony, second daughter of John Ouchterlony, Esq.
of
The Guynd, and widow of James Pierson, Esq. She died at The Guynd, 21st March 1849, in her
78th year
:
Dear
as thou wert,
will not
We
and justly weep for thee

;
dear,
RESCOBIE.
One thought
It is
161
shall
check the starting

I
tear,
that thou art free

tears of
with two other virgins, that S.
Trtduana was
And
thus shall Faith's consoling power
The
Love restrain
person of great beauty, and to evade the wiles of an amorous chief, she removed to Dunfallandy in
Athol.
chief's retainers
it
Oh
who
that saw thy parting hour
She was followed there by certain of the and on being told by them that
;
Could wish thee here again
The Ochterlonys
and
the Piersons,
several
lairds.
it
was the
lustre of her eyes that their chief so
of
The Guyud
are represented
;
much
through the female line by J. A. Pierson, Esq.

since the property of Balmadies
upon a
admired, she plucked them out, fixed them She stick, and sent them to her lover
!
was sold by
Sir
has been in the possession of

It
died at Restalrig, near Edinburgh, and was buried In allusion to the story of S. Triduana there.
Ochterluny, Bart.,
now belongs who calls the

Sir C.
is
to
C.
M.
property by bis
having plucked out her eyes, Sir David Lindsay, in satirizing upon images in churches, says
:
own
family
name
probably descended
from the old stock of Qc\\iev\c^ of that ilk, since Maj.-Gen. Sir D. Ochterlony, who was of that race, and created a baronet in 1816, obtained a second
patent in 1823, re-creating himself a baronet with
" Saint Tiodwel eke there may be seen, Who on a stick halh both her een."
" St Trodlin's
of Rescobie,
fair," held of old at thekirkstyle
Forfar
was long ago removed to the town of but the stone at which the baron courts
collected,
still
remainder to the present Sir C. and

issue.
his legitimate
were held, and market custom
David (who was born at Boston, New England), was the grandson of Alex. Ochterlony, laird of Pitforthy, near Brechin, whose eldest son, Gilbert, succeeded to that property, and was
Sir
also designed of
stands within a small triangular-shaped piece of ground (at the east door of the church of Rescobie), the property of the Earl of
Strathmore,
Besides the
Newton Mill. monuments to the
who is patron of the parish. Some good examples of Picts'

;
houses, or under-
Piersons, a few
others are within the enclosure of Chapelyard.
Four record deaths
nf a family called Scott, who have long tenanted the farm of Millden, one of
ground chambers, were found upon the farm of ^V'eems some years ago but, unfortunately, these were closed up soon afterwards.
Two
scandly
whom RoBKRT,
in
died in 1836, aged 92
An
ad-
large boulders at the Blackgate of Pitmark the site of ancient graves, in which
joining stone shows that
George Shakp, mason
locality, it is said,
a battle was fought between
Edinburgh, died whilst superintending the building of the mansion house of Balmadies, 14
Feb. 1821, aged 42.
tion
Another headstone
(of
the
when Feredeth, the King of One of these stones was ornamented by circular markings. At Balhagthe Picts and Scots,
the Picts, was slain.
17th or 18th century), bears this simple inscrip:
gardy and Wellton there are other stones of the

old sculptured type. All historians agree that it was in the castle of Rescobie that King Donald Bain was so long imprisoned, and had his eyes put out with red hot It is supirons, and where he eventually died. the hilposed that the castle stood upon some of So far as known, the locks adjoining the loch. strongonly remaining traces of an ancient
Iames Ogilvie.
Iohn Ogilvie.
Upon
is
another, of apparently the same period,
merely the name of
William Grime.
In
1635, a charter of alienation of the lands of Balmadies, &c., was granted by a William Grime,
burgess and merchant in Montrose,

Pierson.
to
James
hold or fort in Rescobie, are those of
Kemp
Castle,
upon the top

It is told in
of
Turin
Hill, of
monkish chronicles that
S.
Tkidu-
scription
is
given in the
New
which a good deStat. Account
ANA,
to
whom
the church of Rescobie was dedi-
Scotland.
cated, lived an " eremitical life at Rescoby," along
162
EPITAPHS,
AND INSCRIPTIONS
As I am nov so most ye be, Remember man, for al most
[Traveller
!
die.
tomb bestow a tear, a sigh, Learn, mortals dust are we our lives like shadows
upon
!
this
(S.
MEDDAN.)
in
tlie
fly-]
Erolyn, THE kirk was dedicated by Bishop David St Andrews,

of
Robert Smith's spouse

Sure death
(1748)
diocese of
in
1242.
The present building, which

was erected in 1783.
is
in the barn
Btyle of architecture so long

in Scotland,
common
to churches
but cannot give surprise To those whose views are fix'd beyond the skies He with his spear the vital spring untied,
kill,
may
And
sore
my
spouse did sicken

flight
till
she died.
With winged
with a
her soul did speed away,

;
cofBn-slab, of soft
red sandstone,
E'en to the regions of immortal day
sword and hunting horn, &c., carved upon the sides, and an ornamental cross upon the top, lies
in the churchyard.
Her husband, children, left to weep & moan, The best of wives, the kindest mother gone.
The
shaft of the cross bears
the following brief record (in
Roman
:
John Archer on
his parents (1764)
capitals) of
persons whose history and connection with the

parish are
This worthy pair both free of fraud,
unknown
.
to the writer
.
Made Truth their constant aim You might depended on their word,
For
still it
LYIS
QVA
HEIR DIED IN
.
ROGEE
.
AND
1640.
YOFAN
ROLOK
RIDIE
They
lov'd to live with
was the same. aU around

peace
;
The
oldest visible tombstone in the churchyard
In unity
&
name of Androv Bright, and the date of 1606. The next in point of antieûity is within an enclosure. The coping stones of the
bears the
walls are embellished with carvings of the five
And
with a spotless character,

finished their race.
of Thos.
They
Patrick, son
Davie,
a.
11 (1760)
We
of this child
had great content,
passion
wounds
of
Our
Saviour, the scourge, the
pillar to
which Christ was bound, the spear and the pincers, and three fleur-de-lis. The inscription
is
as follows
For to get learning of his God & Christ was his [intent, Tho' soon cut of the stage of time, We dar not to refleck that we so soon did part, For it was his Letter will. That he God's counsel should fulfill.
This bvrial bvildet by Mr Villiam Malcolm 1609. Discs mori vt bene moriaris Pvlvis et vmbra svmvs.
Robert, son
of R.
Lounan,
a.
13 (1746)
Heir
lyis
M. V. G G. M. Girsel Mathov, spovs

:
to
Maister
While nature shrinks to be dissolved, Relentless Death strikes hard Xor blooming youth, nor parents' tears,
;
Villiam Malcolm, minister at Airlie,

this lyf the 23
zeu-, 1609.
qwha departed
of hir age 38
Procure the least regard.
day
of Febrvair,
and
The lovely child fond parents boast, Sunk in a sea of grief Hard fate fret we 'gainst Heaven ? No,
;
Upon
flat
stone in area of kirkyard
Submission gives
relief.
thrid of
Heir lyes David Cardean, who departed the May 1662, and his aig was 74 and Elspat Stil his spovs who departed the Fovrt of Ivnij
:
The
chapel of S.
John stood near Baikie, where

Apart from Baikie, the
underground cave
of Airlie, S.
1662,
and hir aig was
68.
there was a loch and castle in old times, but the

viator.
Hvic tvmvlo lachrimas gemitvscive impende,

Discite, mortales
!
chapel site
is
unknown.
pvlvis et
vmbra svmvs.
:
parish of Airlie contains several interesting objects of antiquity, such as the
Remember al as ye go by, As ye are nov so ons vas I
at Barns, the castle
and den
Med-
KINQOLDRUM.
den's Knowe, &c.,
all of
163
which are described in
old laird of Balfour.
handsome mausoleum,
lairds of Baldovie
the Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of
erected in 1863, marks the burial-place of the
Scotland (vol. iv.), and in Memorials of Angus and the Mearns. A coffin slab of an early type, with cross and sword, &c., incised, found near the manse, was wantonly broken by masons, and used in repairs which were being made upon the adjoining ofl&ces some years ago.
Farquharsons, sometime
Balfour,
scribed
I*
:
and
upon which a marble
slab
is
thus in-
of of
The sepulchre Elizabeth Eamsay

Children.
John Farquharson and

Baldovie
;
and
of
their
;
Elizabeth, born 4th January 1768 died ISth June 1855. Agnes, born 26th March
1769
;
died in infancy.
Thomas, a magistrate and

1860.
deputy-lieutenant of Forfarshire, born 3d October
1770
died 21st
November
of the
He was
the last
male representative
(S.
in the diocese of
Farquharsons of Brochdearg, in lineal descent from the Chieftain Fiudla More, the Royal Standard-Bearer, who fell in defence of his country, on the field of Pinkey, 10th
THE church was Kinc/oudrum, Brechin, given, along

of
with a toft in
September 1547, and was interred in the neighbouring cemetery of Inveresk. R. I. P.
" the shyra" (shire, a division) of the same, to the
John
Farquharson, son of Alex. Farquharson,
Abbey
But,
of Arbroath,
by King William the Lion.

bell,
farmer, Inzion, Lintrathen, came to the estate of
in
consequence of the fragments of ancient

sup-
Baldovie by marrying Miss Ramsay, the eldest

niece of
sculptured stones, and the old skellach, or
Dr
Ogilvy.
Their son
his cousin,
Thomas
added
which have been found at Kingoldrum, posed to have been the site of a church
earlier date
it is
the adjoining lands of Balfour to the property,
of a
much
and was succeeded by
Capt. Mitchell,
than the one given to Arbroath by King William.
a native of Lintrathen, whose father was long

factor to the Earls of Airlie.
Capt.
Mitchell
is
The old bell, which had been coated with bronze, made of sheet iron and when discovered in
;
who
erected the mausolem, died unmarried in
1843, a bronze chalice and glass bowl were got

beside
lost
;
1865, aged 84. Besides numerous private legacies, heleft50,000toerectand endow an institution for
the support of poor and aged priests of the
it.
These
latter are supposed to
have been
Roman
but the
Museum by
ledge
of,
was presented to the National Mr Haldane, whose knowand favour for, local history and antibell
Catholic Church.
Balfour and Baldovie, which

Lindertis, Bart.
in
the Rev.
were sold after Captain M.'s death, were bought
quities are well
known
in the district.
by
curious
bronze cross and chain, found in a stone

the church, are also in the National
gift of the
Sir Thomas Munro, of The churchyard is kept
good order
and the
cist
near
following inscriptions are selected from some of
Museum, the
the tombstones
same gentleman.
Heir lyes
ane
honest
present church was built in 1840, upon or near the site of the previous building, which is
Baid to have been erected before the Reformation.
The
woman
called
Isobel
Wricht, spovs to Olifer Smal in Kiugovthervm, vha departed lanvar, ano 164r-, and of hir age -9.
Janet Buchan,
creavie, d. 1748,
a.
A coffin
sword
slab (of soft red sandstone, about 6 feet
long, embellished with a cross in relief,

incised), lies in the burial-ground.
and a
wf. of
John Dick, farmer, Aa-
Luckily
62
this slab is
more valued by the minister than that which was so wantonly destroyed at Airlie. Like the latter, it had doubtless marked the grave
of
Below this stone are here reposed The ruins of a Tent,
Where
But,
divine virtue deigned to dwell,

all
!
some person
of local note
possibly that of
an
how
soon were spent
; ;
164
EPITAPHS,
jêars
;
AND INSCRIPTIONS:
A
spring, called NeiVs Well,
is
Her mortal
the tyrant, Death,
in the vicinity
Resistless gives the thrust
of the church.
tablet over the
manse door
Account
of
The virtuous wife, and virtuous Tent, Stricks down into the dust.
James Duncan
d.
bears the initials of

ter,
Mr James
Badenoch, minis-
and writer of the Old

:
Statistical
1742
the parish
What havock makes impartial On all the human kind

;
death
M.
I.
B.
VERITAS VICTRIX.
1792.
Ganst him a virtuous
life's
no gard.
destian'd
Nor yet the purest mind.
And most
all
clay
yes,
it is
For every sack [sex] and age. The old and bowed, and young robust, And infantes quit the stage.
(S.
MAELHUBHA.)
first
Upon
of
lyes Iames Watson, who lived att the Mill Kingoldrum, who departed this life the first day of January 1719, and of his age 95
Here
THE name Keith King Willam's grant

of
of Kiiiloss.
occurs about 1195, in
of Grange to the Abbey
The church
of A't/, or Keyth,
which
Eeader, repent ere tyme be spent.
Think on
a future state
was a mensal church of the Bishops of Moray, was granted to the cathedral of Elgin about 1203.
In 1214-24,
it
is
Do
not delay another day,

it
called
Keth-Malruf, being a
In case
prove too
late.
combination of the names of the place and of the

saint,
is
to
whom
the kirk was dedicated.
There
a valuable and interesting history of S.

his churches,
Maelin
The monks
hunt
of
in the forest of
Arbroath bad the sole right to Kingoldrum, from which, by

III., all
rubha and
land, vol.
by Dr Beeves,
Pro-
ceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotiii.
special order of
Alexander
were excluded
who had
mains,
not permission from the Abbots.
The
by
It
The
present church of Keith, which was built
Castle of Balfour, of which a mere fragment reis
in 1816-19, cost nearly
6000.
It is conveniently
said
by some
to have been built
situated at
some distance from the churchyard.
Cardinal Beaton, while Abbot of Arbroath.

is
Painted boards (certainly not in keeping with

the neatness of the internal architecture of the
more probable, however, since Balfour was held of the Abbots by Ogilvys from at legist the year 1478, that the castle had been erected by one of
that family.
building) are placed over the entrance door.
bears the names of those
One who have contributed to

by Miss Innes,
late of
a fund which was begun
Stone
cists, flint
weapons, and other traces of
Maisley, for the benefit of Poor Householders in

Keith, the total
the early inhabitants, have been found in various
sum
of
which amounts to about
There are also some peculiar-looking entrenchments, and stone circles, upon the Skurroch Hill, to the west of the manse where, in later times, the body of John Cattanach, the victim of a dreadful and preconcerted murder, was buried in a marl pit. The particulars of this murder, which occurred in the barnyard at Meikle Kenny, 11th June 1746, as
parts of the parish.
;
819
another fund for the same purpose was
founded by Major Peter Duncan, to which he The bequest of 150 by John alone gave 850.
Thurburn
is also
of Murtle, for the purchase of coals,

;
recorded
as well as that of a like

solicitor,
sum by
Robert Green,
for the support of the
well as the account of the cost of the execution of
two of the persons implicated, are printed in Montrose Standard of 27th March 1863.
Sabbath School, and the purchase of Bibles. A pewter basin is inscribed round the margin " This Baptising Bason belongs to the kirk of Keith, 1777.'* The beU now in use is modern
and the previous instrument, though tongue-
KEITH.
less,
165
but otherwise sound,
is
possibly the
is
more
both inscriptions
ing notices of
is
worthy of note.
The
follow-
harmonious of the two.

steeple,
It
preserved in the
and has
this inscription
upon
it
from the
late
Mr Jas. Strachan and his son are Mr Griffin's MS. notes upon a copy of
Biography of the Jesuits
:
lOHX MOWAT SIE FECIT, OLD ABD. 1755 \T SOXAT CAMPANA, SIC SONAT VITA CIVIVM PAR(EOCHI^ DE KEITH. SABBATA PANGO, FVNERA PLANGO. [John Mowat, Old Aberdeen, made me, 1755. As
;
Dr
" James
the
Oliver's Collec. for a
Ramsay
of Thornton, alias Sir
James
at-
Strachan, Episcopal minister at Keith, ejected
Revolution," had a son
Hugh Ramsay
or
in
sounds a
of Keith.
bell, so
sounds the
life of
the parishioners
]
Strachan, born in 1672,
who was converted
Sabbaths
I proclaim, at funerals 1 toll.
The old kirk, which stood in the churchyard, was a long narrow building (99 by 28 feet), with an aisle, also outside stairs to the lofts. It is said that there were thirteen lairis in Keith at one time, and that each of them had a door in the old kirk, which led to their respective pews. The only part of the old building which remains (traces of the foundations excepted), is that which contains a monument to the wife and family of Strachan of Thornton. It is of freestone, embellished with the armorial bearings of Strachan and Rose, also a monogram, and this inscription
:
Dr Jamieson, then a He was sent to Rome but,

1693 by
;
priest at Aberdeen.
in passing through
Douay became a
Jesuit.
He
returned a mis-
sionary to his native country in 1701, and died at
Douay in 1745. A monument, which
also
marks the
site of
:
family burial-place within the old kirk, bears
Sacred to the memory of the Gordons and Stuarts of Birkenburn,
1845.
The
Stuart,
first
Gordon
of
Birkenburn, a son of Les-
more, in Rhynie, acquired the estate about 1550.
The family
failed in three coheiresses

last
about the
middle of the
century.
One married Mr
;
Sub scamuo D^. Kiunmiunitie cineres lectissim<e Kath. Ross.e D. de Thorntone, cuius fctiamsi fragrautissimje memorise monumentis omni aere perenniorib' abunde satis litatum sit hoc tamen mauseoleo parentandum duxit coniunx ijjsius pulfeminai D.
latus D. lac.
site
minister of
Drumblade
a second,
Mr
Strachanus de Thorut
Obiit
huius eccle-
pastor.
puerpera 6 Apr. anno 1G89

Kob., et Joshue
and the third, known as " Lady Catherine Gordon," died in Old Keith. John Stuart, son of the minister of Drumblade, sold Birkenburn to the Earl of Seafield, and erected the stone from which the above
Milne, minister at Inverkeithny
;
....
quiescunt et hie GuL.,

filii
inscription
is
is
copied.
carved panel of the old
Strachanus
eorum.
family seat
in possession of a lady at Keith,

:
and
[Under the Kinminnitie family seat lie the ashes of a most exemplary woman, Dame Kath. Rose, Lady of Thorntone, to whose most fragrant memory, although amply perpetuated by monuments more durable than any brass, her mourning husband Mr James Strachan of Thorntone, pastor of this
church, deemed the erection of this mausoleum a
thus inscribed
. . . .
SOLI
BY DEO
DESK ERECTED. THIS A G OF BIRKENBURN 1604 GLORIA INVIDIAM SVPERAT

. .
lESVS.
[To God alone be the glory ; Jesus overcometh envy. ]
Upon
a table-shaped stone, near the north-east

:
becoming tribute
April
6,
of respect.
She died
in childbed,
corner of churchyard
aboard the Antilope man-
Here also rest William, Robert, and Joshua Strachan, their sons.]
1689
....
Hugh Macky,
Macky, died A
sailor
of-war, erected this stone to the

his dear father,
It
is
said that the above
jNIr
Strachan succeeded
memory of John who was born A 1690,

of
to the baronetcy of
is also
Thornton
is
in
theMearns: there
1732, aged 42
and
a place called Thornton near Keith.
The
striking coincidence
recorded
{v. p.
134), of a
Near the above, a modern head-stone records the death of a long-lived race, four of whom, it
will be seen, died at the age of
lady of Thornton having died in 1661, under the
88
same painful circumstances as the above
and the
Geo. Smith, feuer, Newmill, in

father
memory
of his
;
similarity of the diction of the prefatory part of
Geokge Smith, who
died 1812, aged 88
166
EPITAPHS,
Jean Miln, died
1826, aged 88
;
AND INSCRIPTIONS
.
his mother,
...
she had several children.
The
survivor of these,
his sister, Jean,
died 1851, aged 88
his
wife,
fore-
Elizabeth Geddes, died 1853, aged 88. said George Smith died 1854, aged 83.
IvN,
The
Hear lyes the corppes of thre child riu Alexar. and Isbeal Hendrys, lawfol childring to Robert Hendry, parishoner in Keith, 1G82.
are the initials
of 1688.
Edinburgh, is the well-known Secretary of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, and of the Spalding Club, a great many of the valuable publications of which Club,
of Newmill, near
John, LL.D.,
including the
(2 vols,
fol.),
Sculptured
Stones of
Scotland,
Rudely cut upon the face of an adjoining stone I. L: E. T I. L., and the date
Upon
is
This stone
erected in
late residenter in
memory of James Glash^vn, Keith, who was born the 11 day

and died the 9 day
of
of Dec. 1686 years,
January
Also of
and The Book of Deer, have been edited and prefaced by him. Mr Anderson, who was minister first at CuUen, from whence he was translated to Keith, iu 1762, died in 1770 but no stone marks his grave, [y. Forgue.] 'J"he following inscription is from the oldest of three monuments within an enclosure:
;
1771 years, in the 85th year of his age.
Anne
Baird, his wife, who was born the day of 17, and died the 14 day of Sept. 1762 years,
M.
S.
Adami Longmore, ad collem de Mountgreu

S.
olim coloni, e vita A.
H. 1770 evocati
;
necnon
conju-
in the
year of her age.

said"
the
Margaretê Ogilvie, anno 1781 demortute,
It was of the above Mr Glashan that Ferguson,

the astronomer,
spect for
I shall
gum
fidorum, parentum charissimorum

ierai-io
Adamus
C. P. F.
always have a re-
Longmore, ab anno 1809.
in Scotia Regio
H.
man." Ferguson was employed as a servant upon Mr G.'s farm of

of this
memory
[Sacred to the
memory
of
Adam Longmore,
Ardneadlie,
now
part of Braeheads, or the croft
lands of Keith.
While there
facilities to
Mr
G. afforded
Ferguson many
studies.
pursue his favourite
" My master
out of
Ferguson
gave
in his
autobiography says
time than I could
me more
sometime farmer at Hill (or Brae) of Mountgreu, who was summoned from life in the year of human salvation, 1770 ; and also of Margaret Ogilvie, who died in the year 1781 faithful partners, most affectionate parents. Adam Longmore, of the Royal Exchequer in Scotland, caused this tomb to be
reasonably expect, and often took the thrashing

flail
erected in 1809.]
my
hands and worked himself, whilst

in the barn,
Round
lief, is
the margin of a coffin slab of yellow
I sat by
him
busy with
102.)
of
my
Mr
comG.'s
sandstone, embellished with a floral cross in rethe following, which relates to a

:
passes, ruler,
and pen."
(y. p.
much
re-
An
adjoining stone, in
memory
spected Scotch Episcopal clergyman
daughter-in-law, shows the somewhat remarkable

occurrence of her having given birth to
children
all
her
upon Sundays
is
memory
of
I- Resteth John Murdoch, who for many years ministered at Rathven, Keith, and Fochabers. Ob.
29 April A. D. 1850,
ast.
83.
This stone
erected in
of
Elizabeth
some-
Anderson, daughter
Mr James Anderson,
The Rev. Dr James F. S. Gordon, of St Andrew's

Episcopal Church, Glasgow, author of a Scotichronicon and Mouasticon, &c.,
is
time minister of the Gospel at Keith, wife of James She was born 28 Feb. Glashan, writer, there. 1751, and died 10 July 1773, in the 22 year of her age, leaving issue .James, her only son, born Sunday,
Jean, her first daughter, born 1 April 1770 Sunday, 31 March 1771 and Elizabeth, the youngest child, born Sunday 2 May 1773, after whose birth,
; ;
a native of Keith,
to his
and married a daughter

first wife.
of
Mr Murdoch
lowing
A table-shaped stoue presents
the fol-
John
Giles, spiiming- wheel maker in Keith, died
26 Oct. 1787, aged 75
:
hope again to
rise,
;
the mother, upon the day above mentioned, of a
Beneath
this stone, iu
consumptive
illness, died.
The eldest daughter,

Robert Stuart
The
relics of
ane honest
man
are laid
of Aucharnie, in Forgue,
Jean, became the wife of by whom
So, Reader, learn superior woi-th to prize,
That what
is
said of him, of thee be said.
KEITH.
Such peaceful neighbour, and a friend so sure, Such tender parent, and such husband kind Such modest pattern of Religion pure, In Keith's wide precincts we too seldom find. His hands industrious, and his heai-t sincere. Of worldly wise men, he disdained the wiles Go, Passenger make haste thy God to know, And in thy actions imitate John Giles.
;
167
This stone was erected by Captain lames

,
McKon-
dachy, in the 93d Regt. son to lohn McKondachy,
mother Margaret Forsyth, who died the 22d day of lune 1791, aged 64 years.
in Arduch, in
of his
memory
In the north-west corner of the burial ground

a marble tablet, within an enclosure,
scribed
:
is
thus in-
Within a railed enclosure The Revd. James M'Leajj, minister of this parish from 1795 to 1825, and afterwards at Urquhart, Morayshire, where he died 14 Nor. 1840, aged 82. His wife Elizabeth Tod, died at Keith, 3d April
:
1816.
of
To the memory
James Thurburn
of Smail-
Another slab records the death of

and two
sons.
five
daughters
holm, Berwickshire, only son of the Rev. John
George, born
1801, died at
Cape
Thurburn, minister
Kirknewton. This stone is placed here by his three sous in testimony of their affectionate remembrance of his excellent qualities, his sound understanding, his honour and integrity, which remained unshaken through much adverse
of
Coast Castle, Africa, in 1847, of which he had been sometime governor. He married in June
1838, the celebrated authoress, L. E. L. (Letitia
fortune.
He
died at Drum, near Keith, 9
May
Elizabeth Landon), who died in October of the following year. Dr Hugh M'Lean of West Park,
Elgin,
is
another son of the minister of Keith.

side of
1798, aged 59.
His remains are deposited in the
burial ground of Milne of Kinstair, in this church-
Upon one
of
an obelisk of freestone
of
yard.
Sacred to the
is
memory
Mary
Smith, daughter
of Alex.
It
told that
Mr
T. was brought from the
Edward Smith, Fochabers, and widow
south of Scotland by the Earl of Findlater for the purpose of introducing the growth and manufacture of flax into this part of the country, both of
of Excise, burgess of Forres. She died 4 Jan. 1802, aged 62. This tomb is erected by desire of her son, the late Edward Mortimer, Esq. of Pictou,
Mortimer
who was an eminent merchant, and

;
long
which were long and successfully carried on by him. But, towards the close of Mr T.'s life, the trade having become depressed, he, like others who were extensively engaged in the business,
lived to feel a reverse of fortune, as expressed in
chief magistrate of that town.
He was also a judge
in the Court of Common Pleas and for 20 years represented the county of Halifax in the General
Assembly
Oct.
of
Nova
Scotia.
He
died at Pictou, 10
sisters
1819, aged 51.

relatives of
[The names of some
the above inscription.
(who gave,
One of Mr T.'s sons, John "in memory of his father, James,"

is
and other
Mr M.
are recorded
upon
another side of the monument.]
150, the interest of which

of Murtle, on Deeside
disbursed in the
A monument
ground
This
is
near the west dyke of the burial:
purchase of coals for the poor of Keith), died laird

;
inscribed
memory
of
a second sou, Robert, be;
monument
erected to the
James
came an opulent merchant abroad and a third continued farmer of Drum. Another son became a solicitor in Keith. Of the female descendants, one
gigcht.
is
Milne
of Kinstair,
who
died 9
May
1771, aged S3.
the lady of Sir J. Innes of Edin-
Sophia Grant, his wife, who died 25 Aug. 1754, aged 63. James Milne, at Mill of Towie, his grandfather, died 1712, aged 83. John Milne,
portioner of Urquhart, his father, died 1709, aged
50.
The
erector of the stone which bears the next
quoted inscription was a ploughman to his father on the farm of Arduach. Owing to a family quarrel, he left home, enlisted as a private soldier, and raised himself to the position of a major in
the
John Milne, younger of Kinstair, his son, died 29 July 1743, aged 29. Jean Milne, his daughter, died 14 Feb. 1755, aged 26. Six other children
died young, &o
this,
all buried 49 feet due east under a separate gravestone, except the
from
said
army
at Urquhart,
John Milne, portioner of Urquhart, who died and was buried there.
168
EPITAPHS,
area of old kirk, bears
:
AND INSCRIPTIONS:
dated 1609, upon which are the Murray and
flat stone, iu
1690.
In hopes of ane blised resurrection, heir lyeth Ianet Geddes, spows to George Macky in Newmilhi,
Lindsay arms impaled, and these names
THOMAS MVRRAY.
IANET LINDSAY,
who
depr. this life the 12 of

:
March
Upon
this life
On
the east side
ERECTED 1609
REPAIRED
1822.
body of Alexander Jamieson, a tender husband, a good father, and a
Under
this stone lies the
faithful friend,
who departed
late
May
3,
1773,
aged
81.
Master in Eoyal Navy, died 18 July 1817, aged 82 years. His remains are interred under this stone, on which his widow,
James Jamieson,
which adjoins what may be called the ruins of the village of Old Keith, was begun by Lord Findlater in 1750 and Fife-Keith was founded by the Earl of Fife in 1817. Both are
New
Keith
thriving places, with a considerable population.
The
village of Newmill,
Janet Jamieson, has caused this simple record to

be engraved.
the same time as Fife-Keith,
which was founded about is about a mile from
the latter place.
This
was the Jamie Jamieson mentioned in Lord Nelson's Despatches and with whom Nelson sailed when Jamieson was master of H.M. frigate the Boreas. This tombstone was originally erected by Jamieson to the memory of his father. The following is upon a granite head stone
;
:
Some
of
the churches, houses, and shops in
New
man
is
Keith are neat and spacious.

Catholic Chapel, dedicated to S.
;
The RoThomas,
Michael
in the Corinthian style
and
colossal figures
of SS.
Petlr and Paul

:
(after those of
Angelo), are upon each end of the pediment.

frieze is thus inscribed
The
Erected to the memory of Major Peter Duncan, sometime of the 66th Regt. of Foot, who died 16 July 1854, aged 77 years, and was interred here where also lie the remains of his sister Margaret, who died 13 July 1836, aged 63 years.
;
COLXJMNA ET FIRMAMENT\nM VERITATIS.
The
C.C.,
Chapel was erected

of the
chiefly
enterprise
Rev
Mr
through the Walter Lovi, R.

as
who
travelled on the Continent,
well
Duncan had the merit of having risen from the

and while Captain, he was appointed one Napoleon the First at St Helena. It is told that Napoleon having noticed a medal on Duncan's breast, began to examine it one day but on seeing that the decoration was for the battle of Vittoria, he allowed it to drop from his fingers. Besides (as before seen) having himself founded a fund for the benefit of poor householders, natives of the parish of Keith, Capt. D. also contributed 134 to the lunes fund, for the like purpose.
ranks
;
as through Great Britain, soliciting subscriptions

for its erection.
In the course of his wanderings

a
he met with, and applied to Charles X. of France,
of the guards of
who not only gave
handsome donation
in
money
but that unfortunate Prince also commissioned
M.
Francois Dubois to paint an altar-piece for
the chapel.
The
subject, which represents the

is
Incredulity of S. Thomas,
a large picture, in
It
the
artist's
;
1830
it, is
was finished in and the royal gift, with the original date of upon a plate in the corner
best manner.
:
Carolus X., Rex Gallorum Christianisslmus, dono

dedif,
A.D.
1829.
After
The towns
is
the dethronement of
King
Charles,
Mr
of
New
Keith and Fife-Keith are
Lovi, fearing that the picture might be lost to

his chapel,
separated from each other by the river

crossed on the
Isla, which highway by a substantial stone bridge. The bridge, built in 1770, was widened in 1816. The old bridge, which is a fine specimen of the strong, narrow, and high pitched arch
went
It
to Paris
and had an audience

it
with Louis-Philippe,
to
who
at once delivered
over
Mr
Lovi.
reached Keith in 1831,

;
was
for
placed in the chapel in 1832

of
and, on 15 Aug.
same year, Bishop Kyle opened the chapel
of the period, has a stone built into the west side,
Divine service.
KEITH KIN NEFF.

The
parish of Keith, out of which
p. 100), contains
169
Grange was
formed (v. quarian or
historical
few objects of antiinterest. When James V.
appear to have consisted of Auchynanie, Little Cantlie, and the Croft and Alehouse of Keith,
which
latter,
when John Ogilvy succeeded
his
made a pilgrimage
to the shrine of S.
Duthoc
at
Tain, in Oct. 1497, he appears to have slept a night here, when 18s were paid " at the Kirk of Keth to the gudwif of the houss,'' and Is 4d " to
the prest that sed mes to the King thair."
grandfather in 1655, was called Craigduffscroft, or "the croft of the black rock." The tower of
Milton
is
picturesquely situated upon the craig

It
or rock referred to, near the Linn of Keith.

is
said to have been erected

is
by Lord Oliphant,
It is quite
Here also the Great Montrose, when on his way Edinburgh in 1650, after his betrayal for 400 bolls of meal (!) by his O'.vn companion in arms, M'Leod of Assynt, was taken upon a Sunday by his guard, seated upon a pony, meanly clad, but securely tied by ropes, to hear in the churchyard the declamations of Mr Kiniumonth, the parish minister, who chose for his text (1 Sam. xv. 33), " As thy sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless among women." It
to
is
and
sometimes called by his name.
ruinous, and had never been a building either of
much size or elegance. George Gordon, who was sometime
a medical
practitioner at Keith, his native place, perished
while bathing near the Linn in 1819. He was accomplished in almost every department of the
fine arts; and, in 1820, prefaced his brief career, torical
by a memoir of appeared " Elgiva," a long his-
poem
of
more than ordinary merit.
told that
heartless
feelingly
who soon saw that the representative of Him who ever spoke to sufferers, was to make him the object
Montrose,
of his lecture, smiled,

sir,
and nobly said" Rail on, / am hound to listen to you !" The bridge at Haughs was erected soon after
1770. According to tradition, the bridge at Bridgend was built soon after 1678, in which year the 4th Marquis of Hnntly, afterwards Duke of Gordon, along with his young Marchioness, were
arrested there while on their marriage trip from
%\ WW tit.
(?S.
ARNOLD.)
THE
church of JSTine/ belonged to the Priory of St Andrews, and was dedicated by Bishop
the south to Gordon Castle, owing to the largeness of the stream.
David in 1242:
possibly that of S.
To
prevent the recurrence of
A chapel was attached to it, John, which stood at Barras,

Ar-
danger and delay at this place, it is said that the bridge, of which the picturesque arch still remains, was erected soon after.
or that of S. IMartin, at the Bridgend. The present church, near which stood S.
nold's
1760.
cell, is
a sorry fabric, bearing the date of
Two
stones (triangular shaped)
lie
near the
Round
the rim of the bell
middle of the churchyard.
Both are charged in chief with the Gordon arms, and a fess in the centre, with those of Innes and Melville, respectively, in base. One stone is initialed and dated, I. G E. I. 1677 the other, A. G K. M. 1G93.
: ; :
PIETER OSTENS HEEFT MY GEGOTEN TE ROTTERDAH AO 1679.

:
The
initials,
M.
I.
H. are
last
also
side of the bell.
These
may
A carving of the Oliphant arms, quartered with

those of Ogilvy,
is
built into the north side of
Charles, 7th Lord Oliphant, married Mary, heiress of Ogilvy of Milton, a cadet
of the Findlater family, in this quarter.
the Strachan tomb.
one of the Honymans, four of seen below, were ministers of the parish. As is well known, it was within the old kirk of Kinneff that the Regalia of Scotland were concealed during the time of the
upon the west refer to some whom, as will be
Commonwealth.
and thus came
to estates
In addition to Milton, these
which were carried by the minister's wife from Dunottar Castle, through
Those precious
articles,
170
EPITAPHS,
AND INSCRIPTIONS:
MDCCC.
sepulti.
the very ranks of the besiegers, aud
by her own
annos nata LIII.
Ambo
in
hao tede
well-managed plans, and those of the lady of Governor Ogilvie, were deposited in a hole purposely
[Sacred to the
memory of
Sir
made for them by the minister below the pulpit. They remained there until the Restoration when they were delivered, by the King's orders, to the Earl Marischal. But the rewards
;
Barras, knight baronet, who, being in
George Ogilvie command

it
of
of
the Castle of Dunottar, vigorously defended
for
some time against the forces of the English parricides, but was at length compelled to surrender it.
Not, however, until, with the assistance of his wife,
for the important service of preserving the royal

insignia, were dealt out in
an inverse
ratio.
John
Dame Elizabeth Douglas, he had

ed from
Sceptre,
it
secretly remov-
Keith, brother to Earl Marischal,
who knew no-
having been himself abroad during the whole transaction, but whose name
thing of the
affair,
had been used in a letter for the sole purpose of misleading the usurpers, " got" (as Sir W. Scott
has well expressed
pension, &c.
;
it)
the Earldom [of Kintore],

;
Ogilvie only inferior honours
and
the poor clergyman nothing whatever, say, " the hare's foot to lick !"
or, as
we
A monument,
built into the south wall of the
church, on the left of the pulpit, adorned with
the Ogilvie of Barras arms, contains the following
renewed inscription
erroneously set
in
which
"mdclx"
:
down
for
mdclxi
has been
the Crown, and Sword, and had them deposited and placed in safety in this church of Kinneff. For these distinguished services to his country, and for his firm and untainted fidelity to the Royal Family, he obtained the rank and title of Knight Baronet, by letters patent, granted by the King, 5th March 1660 the family arms, which his descendants still use, being added to those of his forefathers. Moreover, by a Royal diploma, under the Great Seal of Scotland, he was allowed to change the tenure by which he held his lands from that of Ward to Blench. In both of these Royal documents, his unwavering fidelity to his Sovereign, and his eminent services were mentioned with the highest praise.
the Scottish Regalia,
viz.,
;
iEternce memorise sacrum D. Geoegii Ogilvie de Barras, Equitis Baroneti, qui Arci Dunotriensi
David Ogilvie, knight

years.
baronet, great-grandson of
the above-mentioned, died 5 Dec. 1799, aged 70

1800,
tempus adversus parricidarum Anglorum copias tutatus, earn tandem dedere est ooactus. Non ante tamen quam ipsius
prjefectus streuue earn per aliquod
Lady Ogilvie, his wife, died 20 Deo. aged 53 years. Both are buried in this
church. ]
conjugisque suae D. Elizabeths Douglassis opera
Imperii Scotici Insignia, Corona, sciz

Gladius, ibi reposita,
Sceptrum at clam inde avecta atque in hac

:
Kinneffi rede sacra in tiito essent coUocata.

egregia
Ob
Patriam merita constantemque et illibatam in Eegiam Familiam jfidem Equitis

viri in
hac
Governor Ogilvie's lady was a daughter of Douglas of Barras, 4th son of the 9th Earl of Angus, She was married to Ogilvie in 1634, by whom she had an only son. In consequence of the harsh treatment which she received from the
usurpers, she did not long survive the surren-
Baroneti honorem per literas patentes III.

Mai-t
:
Non
:
der of Dunottar Castle
but with a nobleness of
anno
MDCLX.
a Hege datas, est consecutus

utitur.
heart charactex'istic of her race, she enjoined her
auctis ejus Pateruis in liunc usque
Insignibus gentilibus quibus

Piegio porro
diem famiiia sua
diplomate
suni est
Magno
Seotite Sigillo
terrarum
munito ei concessuarum possidendarum jus a
husband when on her death-bed rather to suffer death than betray his country, a request which, under much suffering, he firmly maintained.
gair (r. p. 48),
tenura
in
quam vulgo Wardam Simplicem appellant, Albam quse dicitur tenuram commutaretur. In
Governor Ogilvy was the son of the laird of Lumand bought the property of Barras
his
utroque hoc instrumento Piegio

cipes sues fidelitas
summa
ejus in prin-
from
brother-in-law.
Sir
John
Douglas.
atque egregia merita
maximo
:
cum eulogio commemorabantur. David OGIL^Ê, Eques Barouetus, supra dicti pronepos obiit Non
Decern
:
Barras was bought by the Trustees of Donaldson's Hospital, Edinburgh; and the male line of
Ogilvie of
Barras failed in the person of Sir

baronet,
MDCCXCIX.
annos natus
obiit
LXX.
:
Domina
:
Ogilvie hujus conjux
XIV. Kal
Ian
anno
George, the 4th Stracathko.)
who died
in 1837.
(v.
KINNEFF.
171
A
and
mutilated tombstone, in the north wall of
port,
Rhode
Island,
and
left
a family, one of his
the church, upon which are the initials
C. F., thus eulogises the share

his wife,
M. I. G which Mr Granger
;
sons being lately Attorney-General there).
And of
Mr James Honyman,
in this charge,
years,
his eldest son,
and successor
Christian Fletcher, had

:
in sav-
who
died 16th Jan. 1780, aged 77
ing the honours of the kingdom

Scotia
&
is
interred here, with his wife Katiierine
Allardyce,
Aberdeen.
son,
daughter of
Provost
AUai-dyce in
his eldest
Grangeei
cui Insignia Eegia debet

relliquia3q' jacent.
And
of
Mr James Honyman,
Servata hie cineres
who
succeeded him in this charge, and died
Abstulit obsesso psene hiBC captiva Dunotro, Condidit et sacra qva tvmvlator hvmo. Prcemia daut superi patrii scrvator honoris
;
5th Aug. 1781, aged 36 years, and is here interred. This monument is erected by Mv John, a dissenting clergyman in England, Dr Robei't, a physician in
Virginia,
Sceptra rotat superos inter athleta chor
and Helen, the wife
of
Robert Edward in
[Here Scotland
lie
is
the remains of Granger, to whom indebted for the preservation of her

These,
Harvieston, brothers
&
sister of the last deceased.
The
first
Mr Honyman, who
left
died in 1693,
;
Royal
siege,
Insignia.
when on the very eve
of
he removed from Duuotter during the and concealed in the sacred ground in which he is interred. He enjoys his reward above the heroic preserver of his country's honour now wields a sceptre amid the celestial choirs. ]
capture,
;
and his son, Andrew, was not licensed until 16th Aug. 1700; on which day Mr James Fleming, presentee to
appears to have a young family
the church of Kinneff, complained to the Presbytery " that
y'' is
not a manse at Kinneff, and that

ruinous."
It
Mrs
Granger survived her husband, and was

laird,
the kirk y'of
is
was on 20th July
afterwards married to a neighbouring
named
1699, that the above
Mr Andrew Honyman offered
Abercrombie. The Presbytery Records of Brechin
forcible resistance to having the kirk preached
show that Mr Granger was licensed before 19th September 1639, and that on 10th October thereafter he was a " preacher in IMontrose," where he " is ordained with his own consent, to
keep the presbyterial meetings once in three weeks at least, vnder paine of censure." On 3d
Sep. 1640, he was
still
vacant, to which he himself "pretended" to have

a call from the parishioners
;
but having expressed
sorrow for his conduct before the Presbytery, they agreed, in consideration of his " young brethren
and sisters, of q he hath the charge," him the stipend and crop of the parish
year 1699.
to give
for the
a " preacher in Montrose,"
He
appears to have ultimately suc;
and of that date he desired the Presbytery's " testimonial of his lyff and qualificatione for the
ministerie
ceeded to the church

son,
and
it is
believed that his
who
died in 1780, wrote the popular song of

lassie,
directed to the Meirns, q"^ was granted."
presbyterie of the
It
" Hie, bonnie
blink over the burn."

to St
was about
Honymans belonged
of
Andrews.
The The Bishop
this
Mr Granger became minister of Kinneff, where he died in 1663. He was succeeded by

time that
Orkney was minister

of St
first
of Ferry-Port-on-
Craig, from which he was translated to, and be-
Mr
James Honyman,
to
whom and
is
his family a
:
came Archdeacon
Andrews.
He
succeeded
;
tablet on the right of the pulpit
thus inscribed
In
memory
of
Mr James Honyman,
Bishop Sydserf in the See of Orkney and in 1668, while entering the coach of Archbishop
Sharpe, at the head of Blackfriar's
brother of
Wynd, Edin-
Andrew, Bishop of Orkney, and Robert, Archdean of St Andrews, who was settled minister of this parish of Kinneff, 30th Sept. 1663, and died 2d May 1693, and is here interred. And of Mr
burgh, he received a shot in his arm from a poi-
soned bullet, which was intended for Sharpe, from

the effects of which he never quite recovered. shot
The
Andrew Honyman,
his eldest son,
who
succeeded
;
was
in the charge, and died 30th Dec. 1732 and, together with his wife, Helen Rait, of the family of Finlawston, is here interred. (His youngest
Mitchell,
by a religious fanatic named who had taken part in the risings in the
fired
Hills.
Pentlaud
Near the middle
of a gravestone, built into tlio
brother,
Mr
James, was settled minister in New-
north wall, a death's head and the words
memento
172
EPITAPHS,
AND imCRIPTlONS
Mr
Torry Anderson.
at
It
MORI are rudely carved. Also " de Large," and the Graham arms, with a mullet or star of three
points ujDon the chevron, -which, as the inscription
indicates,
now
belongs to
Dr
Wm
He
Nicol,
H.E.I.C.S., late M.P. for Dover.
Graham
stone
of Morphie.
shows that the deceased was third son of Round the margin of the
is this
.
motto
.
PIVS ET CONDITVS EST VIR HOC TVMVLO GEROSVS ROBERT' GRAHAM' DE LARGIE DOMINI A MORFE FL' TERTi' QVI PIE ET SANCTE IN ANNO ANNO CHRISTI 1597 DOIO OBDORIIT ^TATIS SV^ 37. [Below the Graham arms]
.
. .
Fawsyde, where he has erected a neat mansion-house and offices. In early times (1361), it was acquired by Simon and was afterwards owned by of Shaklock Barclay of Mathers. In the year of the Revolu-
was born
tion
Mr Robert Napier was succeeded in Fawsyde and other lands by his son William. The property of Fawsyde, near Tranent, gave both name and title to a knightly race during the time of David 11.
Inventum est hoc monumentum reparanda hac sede A.D. MDCccxxx.

[In this tomb is laid a pious and honourable man, Robert Graiiaji of Largie, third son to the laird of Morphie, who piously fell asleep in the Lord in
table-shaped
tombstone on south side of
church, (which adjoins another almost illegible,

relating to the
same family), bears
Andreas Lindsay, tenens de Whisleberry, Joannis & nepos alij Joannis Lindsays, diet,
dij
filius
prse-
the year of Christ 1597, in the 37th year of his age. This monument was discovered when the church
tenen.,
pronepos
Jacobi Lindsay,
tenen.
de
Brigand,
&
abnepos
was repaired
in 1830.]
Barras, ab illustri
Rogeri Lindsay, tenen. de et autiqua familia Liudseorum,
Morphie (as shewn at p. 36) are now represented by Barron Graham, Esq., laird of Morphie, and Stone o' Morphie, &c. Upon a monument, with the Young arms, &c.
of
(v. p. 75), in the east
The Grahams
wall of the church
MemorifB Joannis Yottng de Stank, vicecomitis de Kincardine, qui obijt quai-to die Martij, anno 1750, aetatis 52, Gulielmus Young, M.D., filius,
hoe marmor posuit.
[To the memory of John Young of Stank, sheriff of Kincardine, who died 4th March 1750, aged 52,
his son
primo de Glenesque, et postea de Edzel designat. orti, diversarum nobilium familiarum ancesterum, tribus ult. ment. apud Caterline sepultis, hoc posuit memorie diet, sui Patris, qui obijt 20 De. 1724, fetatis 57 ; Joanna Napier, ejus Matris, quse fatis concessit 30 No. 1743, ajtatis 56 (sepultse apud Bervy) Catilirinê Christy, ejus uxoris, quas decessit 25 Ap. 1743, ajtatis 38 ; et Catharine. Lindsay, sue filias, quaj obijt in pueritia. Obijt
; ;
ille
Andreas Lindsay
hic(]j
2^ Julii 1761, tetatis vero

liberi superstites fuere,
57,
sepultus.
Ejus
William Young, M.D., erected this monu-
Joannis (patris successor in Whisleberry), Hugo, (scriba in Aberdeen), Joanna (uxor Gulielmi Cruick
shank, civis Aberdonensis), Helena et
ment.]
Anna (adhuc
The Duke of
Stonehaven.
Cumberland, when on
Culloden in 1746, was the " Stank," is
way to guest of Mr Young at now named BcUfield.

his
inuupta')
Jacobo,
filio
primegenito (apud Cork
in Hibernia, in Classe
ruarii
1759,
atatis 30.
Regi mortuo), mense Feb' Joannes Lindsay, qui
Dr Young's
at the east
grave, which is within an enclosure end of the church, is marked by a monument erected by his sister Mary, which
patri successit in Whistleberry, obijt 14 Jul. 1809,

et hujus uxor, Christian Walker Aug. 1830, an. ret. 94. Ambo hie se. pulti. Alexander Lindsay, horum filius tenens de Whistleberry, obiit 6 Nov. 1831, an. set. 68 cujus filia natu maxima, Margaret, innupta decessit 7 Nov. 1831, an. ret. 22. In hoc sepulchro una contumulati.
an.
set.
74,
decessit 14
William Young, M. D. of Fawand of his wife, syde, who died 9 March 1850 Mary Logie, who died 18 Nov. 1838. Also of their only child Jane Young, who died 2 March
In memory
of
,
[Andrew Lindsay, tenant

John, and grandson
of
1834
Fawsyde passed by inheritance to the late Rev.
of Whistleberry (son of another John Lindsay, both
tenants of the said farm), great-grandson of
James
KINNEFFCA TERLINE.
Lindsay, tenant in Brigencl, and great-great-grandRoger Lindsay, tenant of Barras, descended of the illustrious and ancient family of the Lindsays, originally of Glenesque, afterwards of Edzell, from
son of
173
[On back
of
same stone]
here.
; ;
A Brother lies interred

Two
Fathers, and a Mother dear
In love they lived, in peace they died Their lives were craved, but
whom
were descended many who, with the two last-mentioned, are buried at
noble families,
and
God
denied.
memory of his said who died 20 Dec. 1724, aged 57 and to his mother, Joanna Napier, (buried at Bervy), who
Caterline, erected this to the
father,
;
In
memory
of
the Buriall place of
William
Catherine November 1743, aged 56. Christy, his wife, died 25 April 1743, aged 3S ; and his daughter, Catherine Lindsay, died in childhood. The said Andrew Lindsay died 2 July
died 30
1761, aged 57,
Strachan, son to William Strachan and Isobel Moer, who lived a workman in this parish, unmarried, useful, and respected in the neighbourhood, and died lamented at KinnefF, 20 March 1774, aged 62.
children were
(wife of
and is here buried. His surviving John (who succeeded his father in Whisleberry), Hugh (a writer in Aberdeen), Joanna
Wm.
Cruickshank, citizen of Aberdeen),

(still
Helen and
in the
Ann
unmarried).
James, his eldest

(?S.
son (died in the Royal Navy, at Cork in Ireland),
CATHERINE.)
Abbey
of
it
John Lindsay, who succeeded his father in Whisleberry, died 14 July 1809, aged 74 and his wife. Christian Walker,
month
of Feb. 1759,
aged
30.
I^HE
M>
kirk of Katerin, given to the
Arbroath, was confirmed to
by Turpiu,
died 14 Aug. 1830, aged 94
both are here buried.
bishop of Brechin, 1178-98.

Previously disjoined from Kinneff, Caterline was afterwards united to that parish. The church was declared vacant in 1099, at the same time as
that of Kinneff, so that the parishes
AleXjVNDEr Lindsay, their son, tenant of Whistleberry, died 6 Nov. 1831, aged 68 and his eldest
;
daughter,
Margaret, died unmarried,
7 Nov. 1831,
aged 22
they are buried together in this tomb. ]

still
may
then
Descendants of the same family

farm
of Whistleberry,
tenant the
have been conjoined.
In the following year the
which belongs,
in property,
laird of Caterline applied for,
and received from
to the Trustees of Viscount Keith
who became,
the Presbytery, a grant of the vacant stijênd of

Caterline, for the purpose of " repairing the ruin-
by
purchase, about 1805 and 1810 respectively, a
large heritor in the parish.
ous church of that parish."

1779,
The
old kirk stood
John Davidson, weaver, Crossgates, d. a. 33 : Come see the home for all ordained, The quiet rest I have obtained
;
upon the highest point of the graveyard, where a slightly ornamented slab bears this incised inscription
:
TVMVLVS
METELLANE
.
LIVINGSTONE
.
.
SPONS^
.
No sorrows can bedim your eye, When in the silent grave you lie.
Charles Stewart, a
bred a gardener.
at KinnefF,
QVONDAM
ROBERTI
.
QVM
was
1647
of 40 years
OBIIT
13
.
DOVGLASII A BRIGfOORD MENSIS IVLII ANNO DIE

.
native of Galloway,
^TATis
sv^
30.
He
lived
upwards
in this county, died with a respectable character,
25 Augt. 1766, aged 67 years, and is This inscription by order of his second wife, Margaret Clark.
buried here.
[The grave of Madeline Livingstone, spouse of Pv-obert Douglas of Brigford, who died 13 July 1647, aged 30.]
Douglasses
Douglas.
(of
;
the Glenbervy branch), were
lairds of Barras
and Ogilvy, the gallant de-
IsoBELLA Duncan,
d. 1820, a.
dr. to
Ann Jamie, Johnshaven,
17yrs.:
fender of Dunottar Castle, as before seen, bought Barras from his brother-in-law, who was a
Possibly this inscription refers to the
Ly still, sweet maid, and take your rest, God takes them first whom he loves best.
wife of a scion of Douglas of Barras.
Mary,
174
EPITAPHS,
AND INSCRIPTIONS
most
all
daughter and co-heiress of Robert DougLas of

Eridgeford, was married in 1740 to John, Viscount
classes of society.
Upon one
occasion,
when a county gentleman, who had been previously employed in the Excise, took occasion, at
Arbuthnott.
An
adjoining slab bears

.
. .
a meeting in Stonehaven, to denounce the
Com-
HIC
lACET
rCElIINA
HONORABILIS ELIZABETA
missioners of Supply for having sanctioned the
FORBES
making
upright stone
:
of a road in
some part
of Kincardineshire,
Upon an
Here
aged
he concluded his remarks by saying, that no

of
man
it is
lies
an honest gentleman, Roger Lindsay,
common
sense would either have proposed or
once in Barras,
61,
who
died in the year of
God
1619,
sanctioned the making of the road

told, Peter replied
and his spouse Elizabeth Simpson. James Lindsay, his son, in Brigend, died anno and his spouse Margaret Innes, 1601, aged 52 and his eldest son James Lindsay, and John Lind;
to which,
I believe I
"
Aye,
o'
man
;
had
a hand in the proposin'

o'
;
the road you're speakin'

it
an' I ken 1 sanction'd

this,
an' let
me
just tell
who caused this stone to be laid on his two wives, Margaret Molison, and Agnes Mill, or Milne,
say, his brother,
winua ha'e my common sense guwfd by you, or ony ane o' your coat !" you
that I
Jas.
Watt, boatmaster, Covelin,

hopefuU youth
life
d. 1705, a.
23
An awmbry,
also the
fragment of a
coffin-slab,
lies
here enshrined.
with incised cross and sword, are built into the

wall on the left of the gateway.
Whose
threed's cut
by death, confiude
The gateway
(S.
is
In Golgotha his corps does rest, Of heavenly joys his soul's possest.
dated 1817.
There was a kirk

:
at
Kingokny
),
an enclosure near the south-west corner of the burial ground
Over the entrance

of
to
ruins of which were visible
some GO years ago.
To the memory
William Grant
of Hillton,
He died 15 February Esquire, formerly of TuUoch. Vixit ut vivat. 1781, aged 65 years.
The
property of Hilton
of the late Rev.
now belongs to the heirs Patrick Steavakt, who was
minister of Kinneff from 1782 to his death in 1830. His mother was a Grant, and he was buried within the Hilton aisle
lie
;
where, with other relatives,

in the
his sons,
Allan, who succeeded him
church of Kinneff, and William,

sheriff-clerk of Kincardineshire.
who was
long
The
first of
these Stewarts
is
said to
have been
that it was to his paternal estate of Kingorny that the father of the celebrated Dr Arbuthnott retired, when he was expelled from the church of Arbuthnott at the Revolution, others say he went to Hallgreeu. There were several castles in Kinneff in old "Whistleberry, of which very little retimes. mains, stood upon a cliff overlooking the sea and that of f iddes is still roofed, and used as a storeThe Knights' Templars house by the farmer. had an interest in Kinneff, as is still shewn by a farm called The Temple. An Episcopal church, dedicated to S. Philip,
;
Some say
one Duncan Allanach, who came from Strathdon, and changed his name to Stewart. He was farmer
of
was erected
in 1848, at a short distance to the
eastward of Caterline burial ground, also a school
Norham, in Corse, and acquired the
estate of
Carnaveron, in Alford, about the middle of the His son and heir became farmer of last century. Mondynes, in Fordoun and was father of the
;
and schoolhouse. These were raised chiefly through the exertions of the late incumbent, the Rev. Mr James Stevenson. He was a native of Brechin, died in 1868, and is buried in the cemetery which
adjoins the Episcopal Church.
above-named minister of Kinneff. Peter (as the minister was familiarly called), appears to have had more than an ordinary share of the force of character, mixed with the severity and harshness of manner, which were common in his time, to al-
MONaUHITTER.
175
(with a buckle between the garbs) and this inscription

:
P0nijtt!uttî\
(S.
).
Memorice
viri
optimi,
Gulielmi Coming ab
Achry
et
Pittuly,
Elgini
quondam
consulis, qui
ibi-
ptochodochium quatuor inopum mereatorum

\{&'s,
J^fJHE
parish of Monwheeter
iovmed out
dem
of
its
mortificavit, ac jjostea
templum hoc impensis

A.D. 1707,
a?tat. an.
that of Turriff la 1649, and received
suis hie condidit, ac 29 Octob.

74, pie obiit,
monumentum hoc
;
posuit uxor ejus
name from the farm whereon built. (New Stat. Acct.)
the church was
Mr Adam Hay, a cadet of the Errol family, succeeded Mr Barclay, who was possibly the first Mr Hay was inducted to minister of the parish.
the church of Mouquhitter in 1678
tials,
;
Christiana Gutliry. Observa integrum, et aspice rectum finem illius viri esse pacem. Ps. 37, V. 37. Vive memor lethi ; fugit hora.
dilectissima,
[To the
memory
of
an exceUeut man, William

Pittuly, late chief magistrate
Coming
of Elgin,
of
Achry and
and
his ini-
M. A. H., and
the date of 1684, are upon a

]\Ir
triangular-shaped stone at the manse.

the church, which are thus inscribed
Hay
who there founded an almshouse for four decayed merchants, and afterwards built this church here at his own expense, and died piouslj^
29 Oct. 1707, at the age of 74.
Christian
presented two communion cups of pure silver to

:
late minr. of
His beloved wife
The
gift of
the E^.
Mr Adam Hay,
Guthry erected this monument. Mark the perfect man, &c. Live mindful of death
;
the church of Moutwhitter.
Obiit 15 April 1727.
time
flies. ]
Two
old pewter cups, marked, "
Mqr. 1779,"
In 1868,
This William was the

at least in
first
Cuming
of
Auchry,
belong to the time of

additional
Mr
modern
times.
He
claimed descent
Johnston.
from the Altyre family
communion
vessels
were gifted to the
church of Mouquhitter, by Messrs George and
(i\ p. 10); and, on selling the property of Lochtervandich in Gleuriunes, he
James Hepburn, of Bogside and Swanford. A new and spacious parish church was erected a few years ago (outside the grave-yard), and the previous place of worship, built about 1764, was
erased.
The
.
bought that of Auchry, about 1670. He was three times married (according to Douglas) and his eldest son by Christian Guthry (daughter of Sir Henry Guthry of King Edward), succeeded to Pittully, and the patronage of the hospital at
;
bell bears
.
Elgin.
.
I.E.
EROL PATRON OF MOUQUHITTER F KILGOCR ABERDN 1689.

. . .
The PoU Book does not agree with Douglas, so far as relates to the names of Cumand the number
of his family.
first
ing's sons
Douglas
stone
;"
PATRON
Another
upon the old belfry bore " i. e. e. and two stones, with carvings of the
built over the vestry door of the
mentions only a John by a

George by the third
;
marriage, and a
but the Poll Book (1696)
Errol arms, are built into the manse garden walls.

slab,
is
new
church,
thus inscribed
shows that, besides two sons, named AVilliam and Robert, there were five daughters infamilia, also a sister of " his ladyes," at Auchry. The
property of Auchry was divided and sold about
heauen wil prosper ws, therfor we his servants wil arise and bwUd. Neh. 2, 20. And we wil not forsake the hovse of our God. 10, 39.
of
The God
The
above, which was
preserved within the
lately erased church,
had probably been originally upon the one which, as shown by the annexed inscription, was erected by William Cuming of Auchry. His tomb, which formed part of the wall of the old church, is in good preservation, and in its original site. It bears the Cumin arms.
and the was bought by James Lumsden, Esq. Before Auchry was bought by Provost Cuming, it belonged to the Urquharts. It was anciently a part of the earldom of Buchan, and came to the Hays of Errol after the forfeiture of
;
1830 by the late Archibald Cuming

it
principal part of
the Cumins.
Upon
a table- shaped stone
Sub hoc cippo requiescunt
cineres sobrii justique
76
EPITAPHS,
AND INSCRIPTIONS:
The following is dateless, but about 1780 To keep in memory the burying place
family of James Faith, part of
:
viri,
Patricii Wilson, quondam apud Moliudiuum de Auchry, qui deum pietate, vitam innoceutia, amicos officiis, proximos benefactis coluit ; moriens domum laclirymis, amicos luctu, proximos dolore
;
of the
cumulavit
liberisque
novem una ex uxore

obiit tertio die
relictis,
plurimum desideratus
Maii 1723,
lustri,
atatis sure quarto tertii supra
decimum
ac
monumentum hoc posuit uxor

Hodie mihi,
eras tibi.
ejus, Isabella
Mackie.
I am yow will soon be. Are you So was I but ? Death seized me, and I am gone to my place. If I have lived in the fear of God, and goodwill to man, think of my happyness but if I have done evil
and on each side Reader, where
of this stone
whom
lies
under,
young, healthy, and prosperous
[Under this stone rest the ashes of a sober and upright man, Patrick Wilson, sometime in Milltown of Auchry, who shewed piety towards God, innocence in his life, prudence in his family, courtesy to his friends, and kindness to his neighbours, and whose death overwhelmed his family with affliction, his friends with grief, and his neighbours with sorrow. He died deeply regretted, leaving behind him nine children by one wife, on the 3d day of May and his wife, 1723, in the 64:tli year of his age Isabella Mackie, erected this monument. It is my
;
Beware.
Upon
a table-shaped tombstone
Erected by Francis Garden-Campbell, Esq. of Troup and Glenlyon, to the memory of Alexander
turn to-day,
it
will be thine to-morrow. ]
Garden, natural son of Col. Garden of Johnston and Robert Gordon, son of James Gordon in Newbytli. Alexander Garden was drowned in the Canals of Auchry, 2 July 1806, by adventuring out of his depth Robert Gordon gallantly strove to save his life, and shared the same fate. Reader, take warning from the awful fate of these two youths Shun unavailing danger Be ever prepared for
:
1C96, the above Patrick Wilson was " a merchant in Montwhiter," and gave up " his free stock to be 500 merks," at which period he had a
lu
Death.
Near
to the
above
bewails the death of her
As
a Wife,
Ann Towie
daughter named Elspet, also a male and female

servant.
loving and beloved husband,

in the prime of life
John Garvock,
cut off
A grave-stone, got in the foundations of
the last
:
church, bears this inscription round the margin
Heir lyes George Panton, son to James Panton in Midlethird, vho departed this lyfe December
the 11, 1675.
Patrick Panton and his wife Margaret Fordyce,

with their two daughters, occupied Middlethird
in
1G9G
and
of the
same
date,
James Panton,
in
from his infant family ; as a Mother, she bewails the death of all her pleasant children, cut off in the bloom of youth, when becoming the comfort of her declining years. But amidst the ruin of her temporal prospects, she has been enabled to resign herself to the will of heaven, and to rejoice in hope of tdat happy rest where friends united in God shall part no more. John Garvock died in 1771, Jean in 1789 ; Ann and John Garvock, junior, were buried in the same
grave, April 25, 1790.
Hairmoss, was clerk and collector to the Poll-tax

Commissioners.
Reader,
corps of
. . .
llet
a ston the
tell
That heir lyes the
a.
Wm. Mann, dyer, Walkmill, Auchry, 92 Mary Chasser, his sp. d. 1803, a.
;
d.
1802,
:
82
Thomas Tennant, svmtym in Tepercouan who departed this life in Ivne 22, anno 1G92.
to
. .
Death
is
the
Land
of forgetfulness
;
persons and
properties are soon forgot
Here lyes the body of Isobel, lawfull daughter James Tennant in Middlegullie. She died the
.
but the righteous shall be had in everlasting remembrance.
Tepercouan, which
Tober- Cowan,
Wm. Beaton's
This
little
7 chil. (MiddlehiU),
aUd. 1849 :
is
probably a corruption of
band
in beauty bloom'd.
;
may
indicate the site of a well
and
or
old place of worship, dedicated to S.
Cowan,
One earthly home to cheer Death snatch'd the gems to deck
his crown,
Congan.
Tepercouan
is
situated within a mile
And
hid the casket here.
New Byth, and Middlegullie was a place near the Garmond.

of the village of
Alex. Johnston and Barbara Ogston lived in

conjugal union 63 years, and both died in 1767
;
MONQUHITTBR.
same year
ston,
died,
177
aged
58, their son
William Johnrests
(doubtless so
named from
the colour of the stone)

of hia neigh-
who was
distinguished by industry, integrity,
to defend himself
from the incursions
and benevolence.
,
His
wife,
Mary Brown,
bour,
Mowat of
Balquholly.
But
it is
added that
in the churchyard of Longside.
Their son Alex.

this parish
one day, while looking at
Mowat
fishing in the
Johnston, A. M. who was minister of for 54 years, died 1 Feb. 1829, aged 8-1.
burn of Idoch, the
latter,
unperceived, raised his
gun and
his
shot
Con
while standing in the door of
Mr
Sir
vi.
J. wrote valuable notices of the parish for

Sinclair's Stat. Acct. of Scotland, vols.
;
own
is
castle
John
p. 121
xxi. p. 138.
Near the above
Eev. Hugh Gordon was minister of this parish from 1829 to 1843, and minister of the Free Church of JNIonquhitter from 1843 until his death in June
1866.
Cons were designed of Auchry In the year 1564 the Gordons of Sheves and Gycht, along with others, were charged with " the hurting and wounding" of " Maister
It
certain that
before 1539.
William Con of Auchry in diuerse
pairtis of his
Mr
Gordon was a son of the minister of Anwotb, and a fellow-student at Edinburgh with
the celebrated
body, to the greit effusioune of his blude," also with " striking and dinging with brydill" three of
"his cotteries," &c.
William Con, who possibly
Edward
Irving.
He was
tutor to
died about 1580, was succeeded in that year by a

son, Patrick, in the third part of the
the present Earl of Fife and his brother,
by which
town and
means
(the living being in the gift of the Fife
lands of Rothibirsbane, in Fyvie.
family), he acquired the parish church of
quhitter, which he left at the Disruption.
MonUpon
In an action which was raised by Forbes of Ludquharn, in

1596, against certain persons for forcibly entering
a marble slab
Rev. James Smith, A.M., died 20 Feb. 1853, in

the 53d year of his age and 10th of his ministry.
Erected by his congregation and friends in the

parish.
and taking away his " haill iusycht writtis," and fearing, in consequence of the superior status and influence of his opponents, that he might get but scrimp justice, Forbes informed the King that the laird of Balhis house
plenessing and
Mr
Smith, whose father was gardener at Cair;
quhain, lieutenant-depute of the north, "is sister
Lonmay, began life as a teacher at Tyrie and, prior to becoming minister of Mouquhitter, he was rector of Banff Academy.
ness, in
and brethir bairn"
to Patrick Con of Auchry, " ane of the cheif committeris of the crymis.''
The
had
It
its
Village
name from Joseph Cuming

;
of Cianinestoivn, founded in 1763, of Auchry.
Three years afterwards the same laird of Auchry was chancellor of a jury at Edinburgh which convicted a poor Aberdeen woman for being connected
with a petty theft, for which she was sentenced " to be tane to the North Loch of Edinburghe,
has a considerable population

it
the Established Church,
and apart from contains an Episcopal
and thair drownit quhill scho be deid"

This laird of Auchry,
Church (S. Lukk's), also a Free Church. There is little to interest lovers of antiquity in Monquhitter, apart from the points mentioned in the Statistical Accounts. But some notice of the Cons, or Cones of Auchry (anciently Fintray),
who
served under Lord
Errol at the battle of Glenlivet, appears to have
been the father of the learned
George Con,
or
and the first of them, according to tradition, was an operative mason, who built the Castles of Dalgety and
were a
Catholic family
;
may be Roman
acceptable to the reader.
They
CoNAEUs, the Pope's agent at the Court of the Queen of Charles I. It is said that but for his unexpected death Con would have been made a
Cardinal.
He
died 10 Jan. 1640, and was buried
in the church of
where an
services
Craigstone.
It
is
further averred that he got the

of
San Lorenzo in Damaso, at Rome, upon his tomb sets forth his to the Church, and his lineage. His
inscription
lands of Little
Auchry from Hay

fort,
Ualgety,
Castle
mother's
name
is
there given as Isabella
Cheyne
upon which he erected a
called
Red
but upontheunder-meutionedfragment at Auchry,
178
EPITAPHS,
is
AND INSCRIPTIONS,
The
old kirk stood in the burial-ground, south-
the initial
M. Alexander Cox,
another
mem-
ber of this family, was a celebrated Jesuit.
He
east of the town,
near to where the Urie joins
wrote (1668) against the Rev. Mr Meuzies of Aberdeen the famous pamphlet of "Scolding no
Scholarship," &c.
the Don.
The
walls of the church
were demo-
lished about the beginning of the present centuryi
The Cons appeir to have been among those who suffered after the fall of King Charles I.,
about which time they disappear from the district.
of them went to Paris, where (from which he sent to the Earl of Errol in 1690, begging " the litle anuel rent" to be remitted to him which was yearly due from his lordship's estate) he appears to have been in destiletter
One
tute circumstances.
of
It is said that descendants
and the kirk-yard dykes built with the stones. It was in 1775 that the old kirk by the riverside became disused as a place of worship. The one which was then built at a more suitable spot, was taken down, and the present edifice erected on same site, about 1841-2. The bell, re-cast in 1845, bears merely the word, Invekukie. There are a number of tombstones in the burialground. One, " from inside wall of old church," exhibits the Innes and Elphinstone arms upon a
shield,
Con now
hold high positions in Spain.

is
with seated angels for supporters.
It lias
No
record of the Cons
to be seen
in the
also a
monogram, and
lyis
this inscription
church-yard.
Some time-worn
carvings at " the
Heir
Valter Innes
Castle" are the only existing traces of them.

of these
their
One
the 27 day of Ivuii 1016 zeiris
may
have been a portion of the altar of
Elphinstovne, his
of
vha depairtit and Meriokie spovs, vha depairtit the 15 day

in Artones,
;
family chapel.
Upon
it
is
a rude, but
November 1622
zeiris.
:
spirited representation of the sacred
monogram,
I.H.S., with some ornamental
work
ajjparently
Upon
and a cock on the right, toemblem of the (?) thistle. A second stone presents the initials "P. C. 16-1." A third, buUt into the gable of the farm-house, initialed P. C: M. C. (Patrick Con, and M.
a dove on the
left,
gether with the national
Hie mortalitatis posuit exuvias vir pius et probus, benignus, modestus, Kevdus. Dom. Guls. Watt, qui in ecclesia de Inverurie rerum sacrarum sategit ab auuo 1716, ad annum 1755. Theologus insigiiis, pastor tidelis et prima^vorum a;mulus, maritus amautissimus, patei-que decern liberorum indulgentissi-
Cheyue),
pale,
adorned with armorial bearings (party an engrailed fess between two crescents in
is
;
chief
first
and a buckle in base, for Con quarterly, and fourth, three crosses patee fitched, second and third, three leaves (?), for Cheyne and Marshall of Esslemont), and this legend
CONSTANT AND KYND.
mus, quorum octo hie quoque sepeliuntur, quod dictis recte docuit, factis exhibuit et exemplo suo confirmavit; aunis tandem maturus animam placide Beati sunt mortui qui in Domino Deo reddidit.
moriuntur.
[Here
lie
the mortal remains of a pious, virtuous,
kind, and
humble man, the Rev.
Mr William Watt,
who was
minister of the church of Inverurie from
pastor, a Christian of the primitive type, a
eminent theologian, a faithful most affectionate husband, and a most ioidulgent father
1716 to 1755.
of ten children, eight of
An
whom
are also buried here,
the sound doctrine which he taught in words he
exhibited in deeds, and confirmed by example

(S.
at
AP0LLIXAEI8, BISHOP.)
Iniieruryii,
length, at a ripe age, he calmly resigned his soul

to
l^HE
t
church of
a vicarage in the
God.
Blessed are the dead, &c.]
diocese of Aberdeen,
was given by David,
Upon
a headstone of Peterhead granite, within

:
Earl of Huntingdon, Lord of the Garioch, along with other churches in the same district, to his monastery of Lindores.
an enclosure
Sacred to the memory of the Revd. Robert Forbes, during 45 years one of the masters of the
INVERURIE.
Grammar
School of Aberdeen,
179
who
died 13
March
1842, aged 80.
Mary Langlands,
his wife, died
knew him. Also Margaret Anderson, his sister, who died at Edinburgh, 2 June 1850, aged 80.
15 March, same year, aged 70. [The deaths of two youug sons and a daughter recorded.] The
Mr A
aged 8-
.'s
father was a merchant in,
and chamber1801,
in
lain of, the

;
burgh
of Inverurie.
He died in
only surviving
member
of
the family rears this

of
monument
worth.
in affectionate
remembrance
departed
and his wife, Elspet Shand, died 180-, aged 71.
The
in the
erector of
of
the above, the Rev.
Robert
Helen Bruce,
d.
a.
28 years
;
Forbes
nistry.
48th year of
Woodside Church, died 21 Oct. 1859, his age, and 23d of his mihis wife, died
O, painted piece of living clay
Man
Jane Harvey,
25 Dec.
be not proud of thy short day For like a lily fresh and green. She was cut down, and no more seen.
;
1855.
Their names and those of some of their

fiat
family are inscribed upon a
Erected in
for
memory
of the
Rev.
stone.
many
years schoolmaster of Fintray,
William Forbes, who was
Here
lies
of
Anna
Shiels, lawful
born in London in 1793, and died at Aberdeen, 28

Feb. 1838, aged 45.
daughter to the deceast William Shiels, chirurgeon,
who
In
died
May
the 29, 1733,

of
memory
Joseph McGregor, teacher

;
of
Rev. William Davidson, admitted minister of Inverury, 6 Sep. 1769, died 17 January 1799, aged
69.
Port Elphinstone School
born 1817, died 1861.
By
pupils and friends in testimony of respect.

first p<ist-
Baillie
His wife Jean Bruce, eldest daughter of Robert Bruce of Kintore, died 5 May 1821,
72.
William Lundie, watchmaker, and
aged
master of Inverury, died Dec. 29, ISIG, aged 73. Elizabeth Robertson, his wife, died 12 April
1856, aged 78.
Rev. Robert Lessel, minister of this parish, died 29 July 1853, aged 96, and in the 53d year of
his ministry.
Mary Morrison,
Morrison,
his
widow, daughLittle
C'olp,
In
memory
baillie of
of
John Stephen, sometime
portioner
ter
of
WiUiam
farmer,
and
Inverury, and officer of customs at
Turriff
Peterhead, where he died 1785.

spouse, died 1797.
Ann
Leith, his
The
that of
death of two daughters are recorded, also
William Morrison, who

;
died in 1842,
monument, highly honourable to the erectors of it, thus commemorates the sudden death, and marks the burial place of a stranger
granite
:
aged 81
sister of
and Janet, widow
of Francis
Wilson,
Mr
Lessel,
who
died in 1833, aged 90,
Before being minister of Inverurie,

schoolmaster at Chapel of Garioch.
Mr Lessel wuh
To the memory
of
cial traveller, Leith,
William Buchan, commerwho was suddenly taken ill

Oct.
whilst attending divine service in St Mary's Chapel,

Inverurie, on
Sunday 2
18G4,
and died the

This
same evening
stone
is
of apoplexy,
aged 33 years.
In the foundations of the kirk, four interesting fragments of sculptured stones were found, which
are carefully preserved within the burial-place.
fellow travellers, in
number of his friends and remembrance of his personal worth, and the respect in which he was held by
erected
by
them.
According to old Annalists, the bones of a Pictish king, called Aodh, or Eth, of the Swift Foot, were buried " in civitate Inrurin," A.D. 881, where he
died from wounds received two months previously
at the battle of Strathallan.
Within a
railed enclosure
de-
But whether any

is
of
Sacred to the
memory
of
James Anderson,
pute-clerk of Justiciary,
Jan. 1833, aged 66.
who
his
died at Edinburgh, 2
these
monuments had marked
his grave, or those
By
own unaided merit he

and
re-
of other chieftains of the period,
uncertain, al-
raised himself to a situation of great trust
sponsibility, which, for the long period of 45 years
he
life
filled
with the greatest credit, and concluded a

all
spent in the public service, regretted by
who
though by no means improbable. Contrary to statement, however, the Pictish the above Chronicle says that Aodh was slain at Nurim in Strathallan, instead of " wounded" by Grig or
180
EPITAPHS,
who was one
rulers.
AND
INSCBIPTlOiVS
south-east along the water of Urie
Grigory,
the
of the
is
Pictish
Grig
most celebrated of supposed to have

the
Picts in
[and] no publick buildings save a church and
toll-
dwelt for some time
among
the
booth."
Matters are very different now-a-days.
Mearns, and to have founded the church of St

Cyrus, which stood by the sea-shore,
(v. p.
35.)
The carved
objects of
and other antiquity which have now and again

stones,
stone circles,
been
found in the
locality,
(described
in
the
Sculptured Stone volumes, in the Pi-oceedings of

the Society of Antiquaries, and in the Statistical
handsome town-hall, &c., were erected some and since the opening of the Great North of Scotland Railway several new streets have been made out, and a number of neat dwelling Besides houses, shops, and bank-offices erected. the Established, there are Free, Episcojjal, and Methodist Churches in the town the last named
years ago
; :
Accounts, &c.), show Inverurie to be a place of

high antiquity.
is
a chaste granite structure, with belfry, &c.

It
was
to Aquhorties, in this parish, that, in
The well-known mound,

the junction of
The Bass, near the Urie and the Don, and the
called
1799, the
Roman
it
Catholic seminary was trans;
ferred from Scalan in Glenlivet
but in thirty
Blairs.
Coning Hillock near the manse, are apparently alluvial deposits, of which there are other, though
less
years afterwards
(v. p.
was
finally
removed to
of the
115.)
The Roman
Catholic place of wor-
remarkable examples, in the

is
district.
ship at Inverurie (the
Church
is
Immaculate
of
and tradition are alike silent upon the point, that The Bass had been at first chosen as a place of abode by some devotee, or disciple of S. Apollinaris and there
It
just possible, although record
Conception), opened 1852,
a neat building.
The Don
2000.
is
crossed
by a strong stone bridge
three arches, built in 1791, at a cost of about
Bridges cross the Urie in several parts
subsequently, in
all
probability, stood the fort,
of the parish, all of
which are
of later erection
surrounded by the original town of Inverurie, in
than that over the Don.
which King Eth

Bass
is
is
recorded to have died.
The
believed to have been also the site of the
k^r^VWX^^^
(^
(S.
k^%Â^^W%.VN.XWX^^'V>'
royal castle of Inverurie, of which
Norman, son
of
Malcolm, was constable in 1180. This mound has been always looked upon as a place of great
strength
;
\ ix
nu
5"
and, according to local rhyme,
it
will
only cease to exist
when something
:
like a
second
FERGUS, BISHOP
AND
CONFESSOR.)
Deluge takes place

"
one,
;
When Dee and Don shall run in And Tweed shall run in Tay
o'
The water
Inverurie
church of Glampnes was granted by William the Lion to the Abbey of Arbroath. It was a vicarage of St Andrews, and dedicated by Bishop David in 1242. It is said
Jt>
I^HE
Will bear the Bass away."
that S.
Fergus, who
lived in the 6th century,
The town
burgh
S.
;
of Inverurie has
been long a royal

cross, built
died at Glamis, and was buried there.
and a portion
of the
market
is
The
burial aisle of the Earls of Stratliniore,

in old times, the south transept of in
into the garden wall of the hotel,
dated 1671.
which formed,
the church,
architecture,
is
Pollinar's Fair, held in July, and that of Latter Lady Day in Sept., were named, the first from the tutelar Saint (whose chapel is said to have stood near Manar, of old Badifurrow), and the second possibly from an altarage to Our Lady which may have been within the old church. A writer of 1724 says, that " the town of Inverurie has ane long street, lying from nortii-west to
the Second Pointed style of

stone roof,
groins,
with
and an
The bosses bear the Lyon and Ogilvy arms, &c. The floor is covered with stone flags, two of which are old tombstones. One of these,
awmbry.
upon which a
chalice
and
:
cross
it
.
may
. . .
,
be traced,
:
possibly relates to a priest

l)tr
.
bears the words

cl
tarrt
tins
bilflms
GLAMIS.
Upon
another slab,
is
181
the name, &c., of the lady
of the third
Lord
of Glamis,
:
of the house of
eltjab
Dudhope
.
who was
a daughter
Another date (1603), upon the east gable, is said to be part of an old tombstone. The bell bears
:
scvimgcDur
.
aprilis
. . .
an
THE REV. JAMES LYON, MINISTER. CHURCH OF GLAMIS, 1804.
mP
ccfc
nonages
A marble
altar-shaped
his wife
.
.
tablet within the church records the
Round
tomb
qfai
:
the margin of a plain,
death of 4 sons and 6 daughters of
Dr Lyou,
together with the following notices of himself and

.
patrfriis
.
Igon
.
qljotia
tiirs
He
.
glami3_. tnilrs
.
obtjt
.
iij
li
mrsis
Ijic
.
marrij
.
a~x
.
tiui
m"
ccf c
To the memory
of the
Eev. James Lyon, D.D.,
crcc
ft
.
lii^
.
cij
isoMU
.
ogilbg. sposa
tint
.
who
.
died 3 April 1838, in the 80th year of his age,
obijt
.
xti
.
"a
lantoarij
ano
.
Ixiiiiij
orate
pio
aniab'
cccl
and 58th of his miuistrj^ in the parish of Glammis. Also of Agnes L'Amy, his spouse, who departed
this life 14 Sep. 1840, aged 78 years.
who
[Here rest Sir Patrick Lyon, lord of Glamis, died 21 March 1459 ; and Isobella Ogilvy,
Dr
Lyon was come

his
of a race of clergymen, his
his wife,
who died 12 January 1484. Pray for their souls now in heaven. ] The last named were the first Lord Glamis
great-grandfather having been minister at Tannadice,
grandfather at Airlie, and his ov/n
father at Longforgan.
They were remotely con;
and
his wife, a
daughter of Ogilvy of Auchter-
nected with the Strathmore family
and one of
It
was created a peer before 1450, and his two eldest sons became resjDectively the 2d and 3d Lords Glamis. The latter (who marhouse.
Sir P. ried Elizabeth Scrimgeour) succeeded his brother
the miuisters, whose standard book for texts was

tlie
is
Psalms, wivs laird of the estate of Ogle.
told that, while remonstrating on
one occasion
with a son for want of economy in his habits, the
about 1487, and founded a chapel at Glamis. He also obtained a charter (1491) making the town
youth silenced the old
" There's
man by
o's,
quaintly retorting
nae fear
father, as lang as the

o'
burgh of barony. He died in 1497. His eldest son succeeded to Glamis, and three other sons fell at Flodden. The first Lyon of Glamis
of Glamis a
hills o'
Ogle an' the Psalms
Lyon's wife was a

of
sister of the late
Dauvid last !" Dr James L'Amy

\
Forgandenny and Forteviot), who married Princess Jane (2d daughter of Robert II. by Elizabeth Muir), by whom he acquired Glamis and other estates. Since then
was Sir
(son of
of
John
Lyon
Duukenny, long sheriff-depute of Forfarshire and both she and Dr Lyon were buried in the churchyard. Near same place, upon a plain headis
stone,
this inscription
the Rev. Principal Play-
Sacred to the
fair's
memory of
the family have been represented in the direct
daughter ^Margaret,
who
departed this
life
male
line,
and the present Earl
is
the 13th Lord
Aug. 1810, aged 35 years.
Glamis. The Lyons, who are of French descent, came to England with William the Conqueror, and to Scotland, about the year 1100. An enclosure, on the east side of the Strathmore vault, was erected by the late Mr Laing-Meason, of Lindertis, where one of his children is buried but there is no monument. A triangular-shaped stone, built into the west dyke of church. yard,
;
Principal
married a
P. died.
Playfair, a native of Bendochy,
was
minister, first of Newtyle, next of Meigle.

sister of
He
Dr Lyon,
in
whose house Miss
The
:
Principal was the author of several
chronological and geographical works.

large family
He
had a
one of them was Lieut. -Colonel Sir

of
;
Hew-Lyon
to the
Playfair, long j^rovost of St
improvement
dated 1672, presents nicely carved armorial bearings, &c.,
contributed so
much
Andrews, which venerable city he another was George, In-
and the names

is
of
Alexr. Nisbet
spector-General of Hospitals, Bengal, father of
Hellen Wood.
The
which
date of 1792
refers
Lyon
upon the present church,
its
Playfair, C.B., &c.,
M.P.
for the
Univer-
sities of
to
the time of
being
built.
Edinburgh and St Andrews. Upon a flat tombstone

:
182
EPITAPHS,
lyis
. .
AND INSCRIPTIONS
&
household goods, together with her tennants & household goods. These are therefore to require all officers & souldiers vuder my comand, not to trouble the s^ Lady, her Childeren,
Catle sheepe
seruants, horses, Catle, sheepe,
Heir
iu
62.
Patrik Philp, qvha

clay,
depairtit this lyf
May
the
z.
of
God
1637,
aud
of his aige
advantag.
Vright.
Chryst boith in lyf and death is my greatest Patrik Philp, hvsband to Isobel
& household
goods,
together with her tennants their wiues, Childeren,
Possibly the true age, in the following inscription,

is
81
and the 4 figure
at the
end of 81
may
seruants,
horses,
Catle,
sheepe,
and household
Lawfull
goods, but permitt
them
to follou their
be meant
as a substitute for the reversed figure

:
in the date
Alexander Cathrov, vha

anno 16^3, and
depairtit
of his aig 814.
occasions without moUestation, Prouided, that the

benetitt of this protextion, extend not to
any which
Heir
this lyf
lyis
ill
are in Armes,
&
the
that the sayd Ladie Carrniggie,
Ivli 24, in
her childeren, seruants,

judicial!,
The
Hier
following, beautifully carved in raised

letters, is
and
to
& tenant act Common Wealth
nothing preof
England.
ornamental
lyis
upon a
flat
stone
his
\'if
Thomas Tailyour, and
Aoxis
Given vnder my hand at the Seag*^ of Dundee, the 20th of Aug: 1651. " George Monck.
Philp, soratym in Haystovn, with ther children.
He
died the 18 of Feb. 1649, his age 60.
She died
"To all officers & Souldiers whome thse may concerne."

Near last-quoted
inscription
:
the 26 of Febr, 1663, and of age 57.
Heir
lyis
Agnes Volvm, spovs to Williame Lyon,

vha depairted
1
in Clippithils,
of
May
Erected by Patrick MoUison, late miliar in Glen

of Ogilvie, in
1650, her
memory
is set
of
Mergaret Fleming,
:
his
age vas 62 yeirs.
" Clippithils"
Heir
lyis
spouse,
is
who
died anno 1758, aged 50

to celebrate
now
called
Mossend
of Glamis.
This stone
Helen and Cathrin Lvke, who

in the
this
lif
de-
This worthy woman's praise

equal you will harcUy find For candour now-a-days. She sober, grave, and virtuous was, Belov'd by all around She lived in the fear of God,
;
pairted the yeir of God, 1650.
Whose
Her
Glean,
of
lyes
Wiliam Adam,
who departed from
Meltown of the wpon the 28 day

is
"The Glean" above

Ogilvy.
Glen.
Apryl 1684, and
his age 57.
referred to,
the Glen of
Now
The
stone to the
is
with glory crowu'd.

is
According to Monipennie's Summarie of
the Scots Chronicle, there was a castle there called
following acrostic, dated 1680,
upon a
:
During the
Civil
Wars
memory
of
James Bruce, who had
the property of
negie, to
Glen appears to have belonged to a Lady Carwhom General Monck, while employed
been a retainer of the noble family of Glamis

I
am nou
interd beneath this ston.

;
at the seige of the
town
of
tection in favour of herself,

I
Dundee, granted a proand her tenants, &c.
Ah
Death's propitious to non
My name was James, my surname Brvce,

Exasperat against each abuse Sure sanctity my life decord.
;
am
not aware to what branch of the Carnegies
this
lady belonged.
Neither her
is
name nor her

in
Bent to obey
Rest,
my
Noble Lord.
connection with the Glen,

textion" ("preserved in the
mentioned
Lord
" pro-
Southesk's History of the Carnegies.
'I'he
W
C
O my
.
.
soul, in sacred peace,
as from sin I find releace.
Museum
first
of Montrose,
is
read and prais,

act thou seas.
and here printed for the

lows
:
time),
as fol-
Each providential
in
Heir lyes Ianet Langlands, spous to John Blair
" ^Miereas the Lady Carniggee of the Glenn, in the parish of Glames, desires my protextion for her person, Childeren, seruants, horses, Catle, sheepe,
their wifes Childeren,
...
who ....
the
...
of
Ivlie '91,
and
her age 77.

hill,
who
&
seruants, with their horses
age 75.
1 was alyve, bvt now am dead, &c.
Heir lyes Iohn Blair, weaver in Blakdeparted the 9 of October '93, and his
GLAMIS.
Heir lyis Alexander Thornton and Helen Balbirny, his spovs. They depairted 1652, he in lanvar 22, his age vas 60 she in Decemb. and vas
;
183
With other
gifts
both rare and fyne,

pott, thus sadly rent
Tho' lodged but in a crazy shrine,
Death smot the
70 yeirs.
Heir lyes Iohn Blear in the Thorntoun, and his Agnes Mvrr He departed this lyfe wpon the 22 day of Nouember 1687, and of his age 63 and she departed this lyfe vpon the 12 day of Nouember 1689, and her age 52,
spous
. .
And here to ly, the shells has sent. Upon a head stone, embellished with hammer and the 7-oyal crown" &c. 0, dear John Dalgety who can Thy praises all express ?
:
" the
Heir lyes Margarit Wilkie, spouse to Andreu

Fairueather at the Barnss of Glamiss,
who
died
.
vpon the 2 of May 1688, and her age 23 years Return to thy rest, my Soul, &c.
The
Park.
Barns of Glamis stood within the Castle The next epitaph is upon a flat stone
:
Dear pilgrims, read
this elegy,
;
most expert artificer In iron and in brass. Discreet was't thou to ev'ry one. Obliging, just, and kind ; And still [thy] tongue ingenuous spoke The language of thy mind. Such was thy life, that now we hop Thy soul above doth shine ; For thy skill, we dedicate,
This Crown as justly thine.
28,
And
Vice
spritualiz mortality
I decliu'd,
my
lyfe
was
just,
January
1728
In tillage
betrayed not trust.

;
memory
of her
Erected by Agnes Hood in husband, John Dalgety, hammer:
David by name, surnamed Kid Kind to the poor, now dignified

In blissed state, triumphant hy.
Death's sting pluckt out,
man, Glamis,
who
died 1727, aged 41.

is
A
&c.,
sing,
table-shaped stone (of 17th century),
simi-
sin's sourse is dry.
larly embellished as the
above
in
but as the datts,

it,
Eternal praise to Christ
my king.
have never been cut upon
the stone had

of
Lord
of all lords,
who makes me
possibly
parties
been
:
erected
the lifetime
the
Delytfull songs with angels bright.
Enjoying day that's voyd
of night
named Hier lyes William Lov, sometymes hamer man

in Glamis, his
Read
gravely, pilgrim,
mind thy doome
and indveller
the
vho depairted
years
;
this life
from ill to come. D. K. [David Kid] E. G. [Elder, Glamis].

raps
God
me up
of
age
also heir
lays
Wm. Cruickshank,
tailor, d. 1731, a.
61
Cristian Bvrn, his spovs, frvitfvl vif, vho died the
of of age years.
;
a good and vertvos,
Rare William, who
will not
;
thy name
Andrew
And memory
stiU love
Steven's wife (1741) : Lo, here lies one who never did
Since you the Trade did
all
around.
So wond'rously improve. Our Tradesmen justly did to thee

Pre-eminence allow,
Of
An injury to man whom we cannot
say enough,
:
Let us say what we can Her actions all were genuine.
Being taught the rudiments
of Art,
Or That
else refin'd
skill of
by you.
Her words without disguise Kind was her heart, her generous hands
;
yours did on them all ornament reflect And as you liv'd so did you die, In honour and respect.
An
Could not the poor despise. She liv'd at home, and walk'd abroad,
Still like
a harmless dove,
TiU death
Jas.
John Budworth, d. 1718, a. 39 Here lyes John Budworth, English born, Whose life these virtues did adorn He was both curteous, kynd and just,
:
Rhynd,
a. 1 y.
5 mo., d. 1734
Here lies a sweet and loving child, Ah, cover'd o'er with mud
;
friend
whom
on might firmly trust
Resembling well the lillie Crept in the very bud.
fair,
184
EPITAPHS,
AND INSCRIPTIONS:
James Horn, Bridge End, Glamis, d. 1773, a. 57; and his wife Katherine Shepherd, d. 1793, a. 86;
both "were distinguished in their time for being very liberal to the poor."
But blessed is that happy babe, That doth thus early die Not pleas'd to dwell with sinners here, But with the saints on high. This charming child but just did peep Into this world, and then, Not liking it, he fell asleep,
;
Upon
a slab of "white marble, inserted into the

:
outer and west side of the Glamis family aisle
And
Agnes Lo\v,
Sacred to the
58:
memory of Esther Hamilton,
wife
hasten'd out again.

a.
of Patrick Proctor, factor for the Earl of Strath-
wf. of Jas. Badenach, d. 1755,
more,
who
died 28 June 1802, aged 54 years.
Good, sober, pious, frugal, chaste. She wade through trouble, till at last.
An
adjoining slab of granite, tastefully set in

:
sandstone, bears
The ghastly tyrant struck
the blow.
And
Glamis,
d.
laid her bones this stoue below.
Helen Gwthrie,
April
3,
Erected by Esther Proctor Alexander, in memoi'y of her father Patrick Proctor, who died here in
spouse to And. Fyfe, brewer,
17
a.
55
Below this monument, a jewel Of womankind doth ly Who night and day was exercis'd
;
July 1819, aged 75 years, during 50 of which he was Factor on the Glamis Estate. And of her brothers, John, farmer. Mains of Glamis Egbert, W.S. Edinburgh ; George, Bengal Medical Staff
;
In acts of piety.
No
neighbour, mother, nor a spouse.

:
More worthy was
Was
to speak truth,
Her aim and that her word
Thomas, Bombay Army ; William-David, who died here, 3d December 1860, aged 74 years, during 40 of which he also was Factor on the Glamis Estate. David, H.E.I.C. Home Service Patrick, Royal Navy and of her sister, Jane, who died at
;
Should always be the same. She long'd to leave this sinful earth. And this poor frail abode Her home was heaven, where now she sings The praises of her God.
;
St Andi-ews, 18th April 1805.
The erector of the above tombstone was wife of

Dr Andrew Alexander, professor of Greek Andrews. It will be seen that her father (who came from Morayshire, and was a son of the sheriff-substitute of that county), and her brother
the late
at St
Upon
a lying stone
Erected to perpetuate the memory of James Chalmers, musician to the noble family of Strathmore, who dyed March 3, 1770 When minstrels from each place around, To meetings did repair ;
:
held the factorship of the Glamis estates for the
long period of 90 years.

the names of
wife
Another tablet bears
Christopher Proctor, and his Annabella Newall, who died respectively

and 1847.
adjoining granite headstone
:
This
man
wâs stUl distinguished

air.
in 1850,
By
a refined
Upon an
His powerful and his charming notes So sweetly did constrain. That to resist, and not to dance
Sacred to the
memory
of
Wîlliam Henderson,
died 2 Sept.
18G0,
Esq., late of Rochelhill,
who
aged
44.
This stone has been erected as a tribute
Was labour all in vain. He played with such dexterity, By all it is confest.
That in this grave interred Of Violists the best.
is
of respect
by
his relict
Helen Chrystal Henderson.
The
property of Rochelhill (which was long a
separate estate), was bought
by the
late Earl of
Strathmore, and
perty of Glamis.
now forms
part of the fine pro-
Here lyes aue vertuous woman called Ianet Smith, spouse to lohne Watt in Dunkennie, who
depairted this
life
upon the 18 day
of
May
1777,
The
oldest existing remains of
" our ancient
and
of hir age 73.
forefathers" at Glamis are, probably, the sculp:
box -shaped stone bears
tured stoue
monument
of St Orlaud, at Cossius,
OLAMIS.
the so-called
185
King Malcolm's gravestone
at the
ment
of Episcopacy.
It is a peculiarly quaint
and the still more remarkable example of the same interesting class of antiquities which stands in the wood on the Hunters' Hill, near the Plans of Thornton. These have all been engraved and their peculiarities described in the work referred to at p. 43. The Nine Maiden Well was near the old dovecot within the castle park of Glamis, where, probably, stood a chapel which was inscribed to these holy sisters, who are said to have had their residence in the Gleu of Ogilvy. According to Boece, the Glen of Ogilvy was also the place where King William the Lion's life was saved by his brotherin-law Gilchrist, after he had been stript of his dignity as Eatl of Angus, in consequence of having murdered his wife for conjugal infidehty It is further said that the Glen of Ogilvy belonged to the Celtic Earls of Angus, also that the sur-
Manse
door,
and interesting place, adorned with curious paintLong disused, it was restored ings by De Witt. and re-opened for occasional service by the present Earl of Strathmore and on 21st Sept. 1869, the first confirmation was held in it by the Right Rev. the Bishop of Brechin which has taken place for
;
at least 150 years. It was the founder of this chapel who improved Glamis Castle so much also Castle Huntly, in the Carse of Gowrie, to which he gave the name of Castle Lyon. He took an active part in the
;
Civil Wars and, in 1677, was created Earl of Strathmore. A few years after the latter event
;
for some mouths, during which he had a particular account of his expenditure kept, a few items of which (here printed from the originals in the archives at Glamis) may be read with interest, as showing the cost of cer-
he went to France
name
of
Ogilvy
(? Ogail-buicie,
yellow (haired)
tain articles in Paris nearly
200 years ago, as well
youth), was assumed from that district.
The
history of the Castle of Glamis, which
is
economy exercised by the nobility of those days, with whom, it would appear, the " translatas the
one of the best examples of the Scotch baronial style of architecture in the kingdom, is so well
ing" of their " cloaths" from one fashion to an-
known
its
that
it
need not be dwelt upon

It
(y.
Glamis:
was not considered so much infra might be by some now-a-days

other,
:
cliff,
as
it
History and Antiquities).
may, however,
Aug.
2,
1683
Given to
my
Lord goeing
to see
be briefly stated that Glamis Castle was a seat of Alex. III. that in 1304, Edward I. gave " les
;
the fireworks, on Lue-dore and a croun, whei'eof there was a great jiart given for a window to see
hil) to
Chasteux de Glames et de Morthelagh" (MurtCumin, Earl of Buchau that the thane;
them,
ffor
14
a flamboe to light a pond of candle,

:
him home
... ...
to the
1
...
doin of Glamis was at one time given to Sir John
Academic, halfe a croune,

ffor
10
and that subsequently it was granted by Robt. II. to Sir John Lyon and his lady. Princess Jane. James V. resided at Glamis for sometime
of Logic,
07
3 10
Aug. 15
, ,
ffor
a par of shoes to
my
Lord,
18
Payed
for four dyets in a Scotts-
during the forfeiture of the estates

of bis
but the castle

,
time was mostly erased by 9th Lord Glamis, who built the older part of the present house, which may be said to have been completed by his grandSince then,
man's house, where my Lord useth ... to din sovmtims on fish days,
,
4 4
19
ffor
two
f raish
eggs to
my
Lord's
breakfast,
son. Earl John, about 1G21.

ever,
howit,
many
alterations have been

last
made upon
flower
Nov. 27 Translating my Lord's cloaths as near to the fashione as he could, and a suit of Liverie to the Freushman,
:
the latest
by the
and present Earls

has
of Strath-
204
Cossins,
livers,
more, the latter of
whom
made out
and
from which place a family took
theii;
kitchen gardens of great extent and beauty.
The
family chapel within the castle was fitted

of the last conse-
up about 1688, and was one
surname, and was designed ' of that ilk," is about a mile north-east from the Castle of Glamis.
It belonged in property to a branch of the Lyons,
crated for divine service before the disestablish-
A A
186
EPITAPHS,
whom
was 2d son of the
is
AND INSCRIPTIONS
A
taph
plain slab, broken in two, bears this epi-
the
first of
fifth
Lord
Glamis.
stone panel, over the front door of
:
lyes
the present farm-house at Cossius

It also bears the
dated 1627.
Here
Peter Milner, a sober man,

;
names
of
Mr John Lyon
:
and
Who
He
neither used to curse nor ban
Mrs Jean Young, with

Protegendam
prffisidio
the armorial bearings of
both families, and the following inscription
Elizabeth Smith, she was his He had no other all his life.
died in July 1784,
77, or little
wife,
Dei tradas salvtem, rem, sobolem, domvm, nee aides vis propius tvas avt
Agod
more.
lifetime.
damna tangent Devs

;
angelos cvstvdiaj
And
she in July 1779,

55,
prreficit.
Years
was her
[Commit
to the protection of
God thy
safety,
thy
With Robert and Jean,
their children dear,
substance, thy family, and thy house, and neither

violence nor mischief shall
for
Elizabeth Milner, and Jannet Eraser.

Their grandchildren. In Rumlie they lived just neir by
come near thy dwelling,

it.]
God
sets angels to
guard
And in this place their dust doth ly. Upon a head-stone In memory of Joseph Robertson, late merchant m Aberdeen, who departed this life 18th Feb. 1817,
:
aged 42 years; and of Christian Leslie, his spouse, who died 11th March 1859, aged 83 years.
(S.
MARNAN,
of of
BISHOP.)
to
THE kirk Loghel, or LocMld, was given Monymusk, by the Culdees

of Mar, 1165-70, along with the tithes
Gilchrist, Earl
and halfdavach of land upon which the church stood. Colin Durward granted additional privileges out of this district to the same convent about 1210, which were confirmed ten years later by Philip of Mon-Fitchet, or Muschet, and his wife Anna, daughter and heiress of Colin Durward.
Mr and Mrs Robertson were married in London, and had a son and a daughter. The latter is the wife of Mr M'Combie of the Aberdeen Free P/-<;v,andthe former was thelate Joseph Robertson, who was curator from 1853, of the Historical Department of H.]\L Register House, Edinburgh. He died 13th December 18G6, aged 56, Before this leaving a widow and four children. melancholy event, Sir Wm. Gibson-Craig, Lord
Clerk- Register, having occasion to refer to
Mr
The
parishes of
Leochel and Cushnie were

ruins of both churches are
Robertson in
his official capacity to the
Committee
united in 1796.
The
within their respective church-yards.
Those
of
on the AVrits Registration Bill, described him "as the most learned antiquarian in Scotland,
Leochel consist of
little
more than the west gable,
with the belfry.
man in the highest reputation at the British Museum and the Record Office, well known to all
as a
The Forbeses
at Leochel.
of Craigievar have a burial aisle

is
the scholars of England, and highly esteemed

scholars
Although there
no inscription,
it
on the Continent."
Professor
by Cosmo
appears that
(New
Stat. Acct., p. 1116-18),
John
Innes spoke in equally high terms of

in April 1864,
Mr
Robertson
iqjon him.
Forbes, commissary, and son of the Bishop of Caithness, was buried here in 1668, " at night,
with torches, in the Laird of Craigievar his yle and burial-place ;" where also, in 1671, Mr John
when
the University of Edinburgh
conferred the honorary degree of
LL.D.
Dr
Robertson,
first
who was born

Udny, then
at Aberdeen,
and
educated
at
at Marischal College,
Young,
minister of Birse and Keig, was buried.
Previously, in 1618,
Dr John Forbes,
professor
of divinity in King's College, Aberdeen,
who died
at Corse in 1618, second son of Bishop Patrick
Forbes, was interred at Leochel.
was an early contributor to the local press, and became editor of several newspapers, among which were the Aberdeen, and the Glasgow Constitutional, and finally, the Edinburgh Courant. He and Dr John Stuart were the founders, as well as " the
LEOCHELCUSHNIE.
spirits" of
187
the Spalding Club, which, after an
existence of thirty years,
most valuable collection tory and Topography of land, was brought to a close in Dec. 1869.
and the publication of a of works upon the Histhe North-East of Scot-
missionary at Portsoy before he went to LeochelCushuie. His successor (to whom the next inscription refers), belonged to Logie-Coldstone
[2.]
late minister of the united Parishes of Leochel
:
Dr Robertson
edited
many
of these works, in
particular the Antiquities of the Shires of Aber-
deen and Banff. This work (which is the mine from which all future writers on these districts
must
dig, and to which the compiler of these notes has been very largely indebted), along with In-
Reverend George Andersox, and Cushnie, who died the 22d December 1820, in the 54th year of his age and 15th of his ministry. Also of Margaret Cattanach, his spouse, who died at Aberdeen, 23d April 1847, in the 79 year of her age, and of two of their children who died in inof the
In memory
ventories of the Jewels and Personal Property of
fancy.
This tablet, in grateful affection,
is
erected
Mary Queen
Scoticanse,
of Scots,
and the Statuta
Ecclesise
by the surviving membefs
of their family.
are probably
Dr
Robertson's
chief
Mr Anderson was at
productions.
But, as the exclusive circumstances
under which these books were printed prevent

their being easily got at,
it is
one time schoolmaster at Tarland, and while there in 1799 (Scott's Fasti), he expressed his sorrow to, and was rebuked by
the Presbytery of Kincardine O'Neil, for drinking and fighting in a public-house.
[3.]
through the Pre-
faces of the
works of others that
Dr
Robertson's
name
will
be best known to the general public,

last
since but few antiquarian or historical works were
brought out in this country during the

years of
of his
twenty
Dr
Robertson's
life,
without
or less
tlie
treasures
drawn upon by the authors. His liberality in communicating information to others was equalled only by the
extent of his
of heart,
mind having been more
Underneath this stone doth ly The bones and dust of Margaret Jaffrie, Lawfull spouse to Andrew Law, And daughter to Alexander Jaffrie, Gardener at Corse,
And
to his spouse Elizabeth Smith,
own
erudition
while his goodness
Who
died Oct. 2-, 1760, aged 35 years.

[4.]
and fund of humour and anecdote, were best known to his more intimate friends, all of whom felt, when death closed his busy and useful life, that they would "never see his like again." His remains lie in the Dean Cemetery, Edinburgh, where a memorial cross, designed by Mr
In memory of Jean Wallace, and of her husband George Bain, " who died 13th June 1838, aged 65, and was buried by her left hand."
Drummond, R.S.A.,
Erected hy Members of the Spalding Club. Joseph Robertson-, LL.D., F.S.A.,
Curator of National Historical Documents, Register House, Edinburgh. Died 1866, aged 56.
(S.
BRIDGET, VIRGIN.)
The next
ments
four inscriptions are from
monu:
also in the old
churchyard of Leochel
[1.]
THE had possibly been bestowed upon deen,

until about 1792,
ruin,
kirk of Cussemj, in the diocese of Aber-
the
Cathedral of Old Machar, by the Earls of Mar,

Cushnie,
In memory
Deer.
1804.
of the Rev.
James Kellie, sometime
minister of Leochel and
who
died 12 the
who were the ancient lords of the district. The church, which was covered with heather
is
This stone
is
placed by his brother
a roofless and picturesque

of the burn, of
Alexr. Kellie.
"Remember them who had

a native of Morayshire,
upon the north bank

;
rule over you," &c.
the Glen, of Cushnie.
The date
bell,
I\Ir
Kelly,
who was
was
a skewput stone
and the
1637 which is
and within is upon

still
in
188
EPITAPHS,
Mr
AND
INSCRIPTIONS:
Forbes, daughter to George Forbes of SkeUitur,
the belfry, belongs to the time of
Patrick
Copland or Kopland, who became minister of Cushnie in 1672, and died there in 1710. It is initialed and dated P. K. 1686. There are three niches in the east wall of the church, and it is said that in these were placed
the
armorial bearings of
He dyed
lames.
April the 20,
1710.
erected opposite to his grave
by
This stone was his eldist soa
Solum
salus per Christum.
James Lumsden
of
Corrachree (sou of
the
the
three
principal
heritors of the parish.
One
of the slabs only
remains.
It lies within the church, and exhibits a rude carving of the Lumsden arms, with the date of 1637, as upon the skewput of the kirk. The church is about 14 by 63 feet within walls, and has two arched doorways on the south. The
first'three inscriptions are
above-named Robert) was minister of Towie {sup.^ p. 229), and was succeeded in Corrachree by his son. The latter wrote some clever satires, the best known of which is entitled " The Humours of the Forest, a comedy," in which an old Deeside
minister
is
burlesqued under the name of Grumble.
Grumble courted the daughter of a poor clergyman while he was schoolmaster of

It appears that
from tablets built into
her father's parish

of
the outer and front wall
Here lyes within this wall the precious dust of the Rev. and excellent Mr William Bidie, minr.
Gospel at Cushney, Feb. 2d, 1730, aged 38 years
of the
but after he got the Hving " the See in the Forest," as it is called, Grumble gi\e his "poor love "the go-bye, and
;
married the daughter of another minister,
who
who :
depar. this life
was
is
in affluent circumstances.
Corrachree, which
Redemption Scheme, Immanuel was his darling theme ; Meek, wise, & harmless, full of zeal. His life the Truths he preached did seal. Mors jauua vita;. May M'Kean.
skilled iu y^
Wei
prettily situated in Cromar, near Tarland, was bought by the late Lieut.-Col. Farquharson, of the TuUochcoy race {infra, p. 215), who changed the name to Locjiemar. The remains of a sculptured stone, lately discovered by the Rev. Mr
The
scribed
initials of
Mr and Mrs Bidie are thus inupon a stone over the door of the old
M. W. B
:
Michie and
Dr Arthur
Mitchell, stand iu a field
near the house of Corrachree.
manse
The next
kirk
:
inscription is
upon the west splay of
the east, and only remaining,
window
of the old
M.
MK.
1727.
of Kirkton, appears,
is occupied by the farmer from a date upon the skewput stone, to have been repaired in 1763.
The
old manse, which
of Cushnie,
Befor this ston lyes Alexander Lumsden, laird who departed this life May the 1, 1714, and of age 70 years & also his spous Eilizabath
;
Within behind
of Lyn,
this ston lyes

life
Thomas Lumsden
June the
19, 1726,
who
departed this
;
Leith, & David Lumsden of Cushnie, who departed this hfe Desr. the 23, 1718, and of age each
39 years
;
and
of age 82 years
&
also his spouse

life
Forbes, who departed this

age 63 years
parted this
years
;
May
1,
1716,
Margory & of
who
de-
&
also
Ludovick Lumsden.
tres
Hoc,
lector,
tumulo
contumulantur in uno
vitte.
& Wm. Lumsden their
4 son,
Cognati, Mater, Filius, atque Pater.
life
April 28, 1716, and of his age 28
Mors jauua
&
3 of their grand children Alexr. Helien,

L.
1724.
[Here, reader, three relations in one tomb,
and Helien Lumsdens.

A.
The
vitaj.
Father, Mother, Son, await their doom.
L. I. L. R. L. T. L. C.
Mors jauua
Death
is
the gate of
life.]
" Lyn,"
was part
Within
The arms of the above-named laird and lady of

Cushnie, dated 1707, are carved over the front door of the old house of Cushnie, also over the
of the
mentioned in the above inscription, Cairndye property, in the now
suppressed parish of Kinerny.

this wall
of
Lumsden
were buried the ashes of Robert Corrachrie, who was married to Agnes
door of the adjoining meal-mill. The same laird gifted two communion cups to the kirk, which are
thus inscribed
:
CUSHNIE.
THIS CXIPS
.
189
WAS DEDICATED BY ALEXANDER

.
. . . .
In
memory
of the
Revd.
William Malcolm,
LUMSDEN OF CUSHNEY . FOR OF CUSHNEY USE l'7'0-9.

.
.
THE
CHURCH
minister of Leochel-Cushnie, who died 24th August 1838, in the 47th year of his age, and 17th year of
While speaking
of
communion
silver,
cups,
it
may be
were given to Leochel by John Robertson, laird of Wester Fowlis, upon which are the words
added that other two, of
:
This monument was erected by his his ministry. parishioners in token of their high esteem for his zealous and unwearied labours among them.
Mr
Malcolm was previously schoolmaster at

His successor,
DEDICAT FOR THE CHVRCH

. . .
OF . LEOCHEL
Cushnie.
.
Dv
Taylor,
to whose
1659.
Thomas Lumsden, who came
from Fifeshire in
the time of David 11., and had charters of Madler,in
the parishioners have erected a marble tablet within the church, was a native of Banchory-Ternan. He was sometime Librarian and
memory
Kincardine O'Neil, from the Earl of Buchan, was

the
first of his
Murray Lecturer
and had a great
logical studies.
at King's College, Aberdeen,
race in Aberdeenshire.
Lumsdens
but
taste for antiquarian
and philo-
afterwards acquired (1472) the lands of Balnakelly, in Cushnie,
He
wrote the iSTew Statistical
from the Earl of Rothes
Account
of Leochel-Cushnie,
which contains an
they were not designed "de Cusclmy " until about 1579-80. Since that time the property of
exhaustive notice of the history of the district, The following is from a ancient and modern.
granite slab in the church-yard
:
Cushnie has continued in the family.
The
old
mansion-house, which stands in a hollow on the
north side of the burn of Cushnie, was lately reedified,
and about the same time, a new mansionlittle
la memory of Jessie M'Combie, wife of the Revd. Alexander Taylor, minister of LeochelCushnie, who died 10th September 1852, in the
24th year of her age. And of the said Revd. Alexander Taylor, D.D., who died 25th March 1872, in the 66th year of his age, and the 34th of his
ministry.
house was built upon a rising ground, a

the north-west.
to
The next
inscription,
from the east splay of the
same window,
relates to another
member
of the
:
Cushnie family, who died tenant of Titaboutie
W.
L.
J.
G. Here
lyes befor this ston
Will.
Lumsden
in Titaboutie,
who
J. S.
depr. this life
Novm.
26, 1722, and of age 63 years,
and
his laufvl son
The
bited),
Castle of Craigievar (which
is still
inha-
John Lumsden. A. L
1724.
Memento mori.
From
a table-shaped stone within the area of

:
the old kirk
was begun by the Mortimers of Fowlis, and finished by an ancestor of the present proprietor, Sir William Forbes, Bart. It is the most
interesting object of antiquity in the district. Besides its architectural features, which are ad-
In memory of the Kev. Francis Adam, who in a very exemplary manner, for nearly 50 years, discharged the duties of the pastoral office in this He parish, much esteemed by all who knew him. departed this life 15th March 1795, aged 90. On his right side lies his spouse Mrs Jean Thain, and on his
left side, his eldest son,
mirably represented in Billings' Eccl. and Baronial Antiquities, it presents these inscriptions
:
LVX
MEA
CHRISTVS
Mr John Adam.
[Christ
window
is
my
light] is over the principal
The New Church

situated
Leocoel-Cushnie is upon an eminence, about midway beof
The date of 1626, and of the great hall. the next two inscriptions, are upon different^ parts
of the castle
:
tween the old churches of Leochel and Cushnie. It was erected about 1797-8, soon after the union of the parishes, and is surrounded by a burialground, in which there are several monuments. Two of the monuments are inscribed as below
:
MEA DEVS TENEBRAS POST

. .
[God
is
my
pillar.
COLVMNA. LVCEM. SPERO After darkness I hope for

.
. .
light.]
shield
upon the
staircase,
charged with the
190
EPITAPHS,
initialed,
AND INSCRIPTIONS.
Forbes arms,
is
and dated,
I.
:
encircled
by
NOT
this quaint
.
admonition
.
F., 1G88,
DOE
VAIKEN
SLEIPING
DOGS.
The
ruins of the Castle of Corse,
upon which
of
(S.
MARY, VIRGIN.)
are the initials, AV. F., E. S,,
and the date
1581, are situated,

parish of Coull, as
is
quoad
built
clviUa, within
the
also the
mansion-house of
rjfJUE church of Li/ was gifted to the Abbey of c3L Scone, by Alexander I., who is said to have had a residence at Plurley Hawkin, to the west of
the burial ground.
of an octagonial-shaped font, of a and the upper stone of a quern, lie in the church-yard. The Mary Well is about a
late type,
Corse.
The
latter
was
by James O. Forbes,
Esq., younger brother of Sir William Forbes of
The remains
Craigievar,
The
old mansion-house of the Gordons of Hall-
head, and that of tbe Lumsdens of Cushnie,

respectively dated 16C8
quarter of a mile to the north of the church.
and 1707, are
still
objects
The
1838,
present church at Liff, which was built ia

the church of the united parishes of Liff,
some interest. The castle of the Strachans of Lynturk is now represented by a plain building, and the property belongs to Wm. M'Combie, Esq.
of
of Easter Skene.
is
Invergowrie, Logie- Dundee, and
Benvie.
The
two first- named churches are each Old Taxation, at 8, the third at
fourth at 10 marks.
rated, in the
12,
and the
Bride's Well, the Bowbutts, and the Caterau's
Grave, are also places of local note.

preserves the
The
first
The church
IAN
.
bell is inscribed
.
. .
name
of S.
is
Bridget, patroness
of
the parish, the next

third
said to indicate the spot
BVRGERHVIS
HEEFT
MY GEGOTEN
:
'96.
where archery was practised in old times, and the

is
Upon
a hand-bell at the parish school
known
as the last resting place of a riever
who
lost his life while
attempting to carry away
LIFFE,
cattle
from the Glen of Cushnie. Cushnie is one of the most elevated parts in Aberdeenshire. It has been long proverbial for the severity of its climate and the badness of its
roads.
FOR THE PARISHES OF ENUERGOWRIE, AND LOGIE PAID FOR BY THE POORE 1718
:
ALEX. SCOTT, MINR.
marble tablet, in the lobby of the church,

:
The former
of these characteristics, along

districts,
with certain features of other two
have
been preserved
in these
words
" Cushnie
for cauld,
memory of Major Alexander Watt, K.H., late of the 27th Regt. Bengal Native lufanti-y, who died at Edinburgh, IStii April 1851, in the 46th year of his age. By his
This tablet
is
erected to the
Culblene for heat,
Clashaureach for heather."
Brother Officers as a humble token of their respect for bis worth, and the many amiable qualities by which he was distinguished during a lengthened
still
The
following lines were; and probably
career in India.
are, descriptive of the agricultural capabilities of
The deaths of Major and Mrs

and a daughter, are
the places named.

third in
two lie in Corse, the Coull, and the fourth in Tar land
first
:
The
also recorded
Watt, two sons, upon a marble
monument in
August 1842.
the church-yard of Liff.
Mrs Watt
" Tillyorn grows the corn, And Wester Corse the straw
died at Landaue, in the Himalaya Mountains, ia

;
And Tillylodge the blawarts blue, And Caldhame naething ava."
An
adjoining tablet, bears an inscription, here

:
abridged
Katherine Webster, spouse to Isaac Watt, Esq. of Logie, died 2d March 1809, aged 31. Isaac Watt, Esq. of Logie, died 11th July 1823, aged 51.
LIFF.
Margaret Webster, daughter
late of Cransley, died 18
191
of Robert Webster Nov. 1832, aged 58. The following family of Isaac Watt, Esq. Katherine, died 1821, aged 15 years ; Robert, died at Dundee,
:
flat
stone,
is
apparently the oldest in the

embellished in the centre with
church-yard,
the motto, in
carvings in relief of a skull and cross bones, and
14 Dec. 1840
Esq.,
Margaret, wife
of Alfred Begbie,
1842
wife
Bengal Civil Service, died in India, Dec. James, died in India, 18 July 1848, and bis
lost
and two children were " Gentoo," in 1846, off the Cape
in
the
ship
morte vita. Below are the DunDurham arms impaled, flanked by the initials, M. I. D., A. D., G. D. It bears these words prettily cut in Roman capitals round the
can and
of
Good Hope.
margin
. .
Isaac Watt, who was a thread maker, and dyer

Major Fyfe of Smithfield. The property was afterwards bought by the late Jas. Watt of Denmill in Fife, by whose heirs it was sold in 1870.
or
litster,
in Dundee, sold Logie to
LYIS AGNES DVNCAN DAVGHTER TO MAISTER lOHNE DVNC TER AT LIFF VHA DEPAIR DAY OF MAI 1615 OF HIR AGE 1 ZEIR.
.
An
ridged
A table-shaped stone, ornamented with the " royal crown" of the blacksmiths, with pincers
and hammer,
Heir
lyis
adjoining enclosure contains five tablets,
&c., bears
from which the following inscriptions are ab:
ane honest
man Iohn Mitchel,
porde-
tioner of Life, spovs to IsobeU Gairdine.
He
Robert Webster,
late
tacksman at Cransley,
of Balruddery,
pairted the 16 of
November
:
1665, of aig 50.
died 23 Dec. 1811, aged 76.
Upon
died 17
his relict,
flat
stone
James Webster, Esq.
May
aged
1827, aged 62.
Agnes Hunter,
died at Corriedale, Strathblane, 20 January 1863,

77.
Heir layes ane godly yong man Alexander son to Androw Leithel, indvellar in Gowrdy, who deperted May the 22, ano 1664, and Leithel,
of his age 26.
Patrick, their 5th son, died 29 Aug. 1827, aged 12 years ; Thomas, the 4th son, died at Arthur, Canada West, 2d Oct. 1857, aged 44.
A tombstone,
knife,
with bold carvings of a pruning

:
hedge shears, and spade, &c., bears

lys
Here
Hill,
David Cob,
lavf vl
hvsband to Elizabeth
:
Agnes, their youngest daughter, died 13 Oct.

1830, aged 20.
this life 1674,
sometime indvellar in Govi'die, who departed and of his age 45 years

Death's sneading knife cvtes dovne,
Charles, their 3d son, government agent, died near Trincomalee, 4 April 1845, aged 34.
The
above James Webster, who was a son of
Honest man entombed here
lyes.
the tacksman of Cransley, bought the estate of
Upon
Here
a stone, on wliich a weaver's shuttle, &c.,
Balruddery in 1806, from Mr Baillie of Dochfour. His wife was a daughter of Hunter of Seaside
are carved:
and Glencarse, in Gowrie, and their son Robert Webster sold Balruddery in 1849, to the late David Edward, a flax merchant in Dundee.
who
two godly persons, Keathren Mancur, life on the 2 of Agust in the year and her housband Alex1696, and of her age 55 ander Rob, on the 9 of September 1712, and of his
lies
departed this
monument
of light sandstone,
side of the kirkyard,
on the west was inaugurated with ma-
age 69.
James Wighton, shoemaker,
LifF, d.
1725,
a.
53
sonic honours.
An
inserted marble slab bears
To the memory of James Jack, surveyor of taxes Dundee, who died there 15 Dec. 1861, aged 77, whose remains are here interred. This monument is erected by his Masonic Brethren, as a respectful record of his worth ; and of his services as a Brother
of the Craft, for the long period of 53 years.
On when Upon
stones
its
needless for to praise our friends

rise it shall appear to all they lived before their death.
dead, for
when they
life
:
the earth what

a
flat
slab
Here lyes Agnes Gray, spous to John Couper BacksiDe of Liff, who dieD in Agust 1707, and
hir age 62
:
in of
192
EPITAPHS,
With husBauds tuo
I CliUdren eLeven, odds I Lived Sixty-even ;
AND
INSCRIPTIONS:
HAD
With two
of
My Body sLeeps in hoPe, My souL I GAve,

To Him
(S.
Who
I^HE
. .
kirk of Banevijn or Banevill belonged to
suffered
death, the same to Save.
CAPut in CceLis [The members shall
Mem ....
:
Sequent follow their heavenly head.]
<^ St Andrews, and was dedicated by Bishop David in 1243. The parish was joined to Liff in 1758. A bell which belonged to the church, now at Liff manse, bears these names and date
:
A plain
time
head-stone bears
MICHAEL
BVRGERH\TS
.
1G31
This stone was erected by James "Waddel, somebrewer in Liffe, in memory of his uncle
died the 24th May, anno
:
IIENDRIE
FITHIE.
William Waddel, who

Here
Domini, 1765, aged 58 years
lys beneath these sordid stones,

;
A father to the poor

To
Remains of the old church and of a baptismal font are iu the burial-ground. The enclosure has been improved by the erection of a new wall, in the outer part of which two carved stones are
built.
orphants, and distressed ones
One
of these
is
dated 1633
the other
He
keept an open door.
bears the arms of Scrimgeour, the second Viscount

of
Fair honesty and virtus peure.
Dundee, impaled
with those of his
lady,
Did strive in him for place Of chai-ity a publick store
Isobel Car, or Ker, a daughter of the first Earl of

;
Was
lost at his decess.

ly,
Now
though his body here doth

into dust
To moulder
His generous soul, the noble part, In Christ alone doth rest.
The
session records
for
brewers at Liff
nearly 200
show that Waddels were years, where
they also carried on the trade of bakers.
Upon
of Liff a
the site of the pulpit of the old church
monument
of
:
by
subscription, bears
Aberdeen granite, erected
Tribute of respect to the memory of the Piev. George Addison, D.D., for thirty -four years minister of this parish,
74.
[1
who
died January
4,
1852, aged
Thess.
iv. 14.]
Dr Addison was the son of a miller near Huntly,

Aberdeenshire.
He came
to
Angus
as assistant
Roxburghe, also the initials, V. I. D. L. I. C. and the date of 1643. The latter stone, till lately, formed the top of a sun-dial, which stood in the burial-ground. In all probability, it had been gifted to the parish by Viscount Dundee and his lady, the former of whom died of wounds received at Marstou Moor in July 1644. According to Fordun, Alexander of Carron, who did good service to Alexander I. when attacked by rebels at Hurley Hawkin, was progenitor of the Scrimgeours. He was made hereditary standai'd bearer of Scotland by that King and, for his bravery and courage, had his name changed to Skirmisclmr. A descendant was created constable of Dundee by Sir William Wallace, 1298. Another They were of the family fell at Harlaw, 1411. created Viscounts of Dundee in 1641, and Earls The title became extinct in the Scrimin 1661.
:
schoolmaster at Glamis, and was afterwards tutor

iu the Airlie family,
geours in 1668.
Twenty
yearslater the Viscountsy
by whose
interest he
was
appointed
first to
the church of Gleuisla, next to

Liff.
Auchterhouse, and finally to

lie
His remains
was revived in the Grahams of Claverhouse. Wedderburn of Birkhill, in Fife, is representative of the Scrimgeours, through a female, and hereditary standard bearer of Scotland.
near the north wall of the burial ground.
His
wife was a daughter of the Rev.

positions in the army, &c.
Mr
Scott of
A tomb
stone, partially effaced, with the

initials
S
i.^
Auchterhouse, some of whose sons attained high
and Blair arms, and the

thus inscribed
:
T. S.
C. B.,
BEN VIEINVERGO WRIE.

Keir lyes ane honest and godly man Thomas axter and bvrges of Dvndie, qvha departit the ober 1607, of his age 47 zeirs.
Professor
193
brother
Playfair of Edinburgh, also his William (who wrote several works oU

The
future professor succeeded
Scoteh history and antiquities), were born at the
A stone with the Hill and Gray arms, bears this epitaph D. H A. G
:
(initialed
manse
his
of Benvie.
:),
father as minister of the united parishes,

left
Heir lyes Iohn Hill, son to David Hill, maltman, To Agnes Gray son also, vas the same Of age tvelve years when he from them did go, It vas on March the eleventh six hvndred fifty tvo.
;
which he
about 1783-4, and became tutor to

It
is
Mr
Fergus.son of Raith.
told that, while
Mr
P. was at Raith, an elder of Liff had occasion to

write him upon some business, and thus addressed
his
letter:
Adjoining above
H
:
1G52.
"For Mr
Mr
John
Playfair,
formerly
Liff,
servant to the Lord Jesus Christ af
now
Heir lyes ane honest

Balridrie,
man
E. S
:
caled Thojias
Hill
in
servant to
Fergusson at Raith"
who
departit the 8 of lanevar 1643, and

T.
of his age 69.
A. H.
Heir lyis ane godly and honest man Iames Spanzie in Balrvdrie. He departit the 5 of Febrvar 1620, and of his age 67, with his wyfe MarGRET Thein, who dej)artit the 3 of March 1612
:
^
(S.
nV
f V
1}
wV
r.
hir age
is 52.
Janet Gikie, spouse

died 18 Oct.
children
;
to Alexr. Hill, in Fowlis,
PETER, APOSTLE.)
Boniface, who came
to
1711,
aged 32, she having born 5

:
'^'T
JS>
is
said that S.
Ann, the youngest died 1710

life
!
How
To know man's
alas, while we live we die keep death still in your eye. Alex. Hill, died 16 Nov, 1756, aged 80.
short man's
Scotland from Rome, during the 7th century, planted his first church upon the site of the pre-
sent burial place at Invergowrie, which occupies a knoll, near to wdiere the burn of Gowrie
life;
the
" flumen Gohriat in Pictavia"

Five of the old tombstones are initialed and
joins the Tay.

was given by Alex-
The church
ander
I.
of Invergoueryn
1623; I. W. 1G30. A. W: E. M. 1641; A. S. 1G46, meP. G. mento MORI P. G. 1-38.

dated respectively:!.
;
S.,
to the
Abbey
of Scone.
Fragments
of
are built into the south-east

of the church.
two curiously sculptured stones window of the ruins
At
the head of the last of these slabs stands a
The remains
of a piscina, of
a
;
peculiar
example of the sculptured stones, the

Territorially
it is
primitive type, are on the right of the west door
existence of which shows Benvie to have been an

early ecclesiastical settlement.
and the rude arch or top

takes
lintel of the
door par-
much
of the character of that in the lower
also a place of considerable antiquity.
gave the barony to Walter of

followed in
it
by Sir Philip of mure, then by the Maules, the
David I. Luudin, who was Vallognes of Panlast
part of the tower of Rostinoth, which was also a
foundation of S. Boniface,
(v. p. 27.)
is
The
area of the church of Invergowrie
used
named
of
whom
held the superiority of
Benvie and the
patronage of the kirk down to 1716. The Scrim geours of Dudhope (Viscounts Dundec), held the lands of Benvie as vassals of the
lords of
by the Clayhills family, and others. It contains several mural and other monuments. The tablets from which the first three inscriptions are copied are upon the north wall
as a cemetery
:
to
John
Panmure, until 1654, when Benvie passed Fitliie was Fithie, merchant in Dundee.
possibly a relative of the minister whose
name
is
upon the old
bell.
Underneath are interred the remains of .James Menzies-Clavhills, lateCaptain in the RoyalScots, eldest son of James Clayhills, Esq. of Invergowrie, and Henrietta Henderson-Kinloch of Hallyards. He died 5 Nov. 1817, aged 31 years, ten of which
B B
194
EPITAPHS,
service of
his
AND INSCRIPTIONS
Other inscribed monuments
the church.
lie
were
devoted to the
King aud
of Qualities
in the area of
Country.
offensive
As
a tribute to the
memory
The
first
quoted below had been,
the most endearing, of a Disposition the most in-
when
entire, a fine
example
:
and mild, of Affections the most cordial and warm, and of Filial Love and Duty never surthis monumental tablet is erected by Them passed
letters boldly cut in relief

I
.
of its kind,
with the
I
.
HEIR
.
SLEIPIS
S
AN]
.
GODLY
.
who mourn
as Parents, but resign as Christians, a
HONORED
SPOVS
.
prop and comfort of their declining years.

In front of this monumental stone repose the of Jaiies Clayhills, Esq. of Invergowrie,
deiâi'ted this life 16
FA AIGED
76
AHNES ZEIRIS .... 1574.
FIF
HIS
Possibly the next quoted
(much defaced by
remains
having been walked upon), had belonged to persons
who
May
1825, aged 72.
Plain
named Black and

.
Fife
and unassuming in his manners, in his habits quiet and retired, with a spirit of the truest charity and disinterestedness rarely excelled, he pursued the noiseless tenor of his
.... HON BLA .... ELDER AND DEPARTED 1603 A F.

.
.
KIRKMAN
There
shield
is
another fine stone, dated 1633, with a

left
way
in the faithful discharge of
on the
bearing the Lovel arms, flanked L.

;
the duties of a private, rather than in the bustle
with the
initials I.
on the right a shield with
and parade of a public station. As a Landlord he was humane, just, and bountiful sincere, steady, and beneficent as a Friend kind and indulgent as a Father. This tribute to the memory of his many, but unobtrusive virtues, is offered by his Widow and surviving Children, as a small but unfeigned testimony of their duty and affection.
;
;
the initials A. L. only, and between the shields

are the letters
M.
S.
Another
slab, in excellent
preservation, bears shields with the arms of
Drum-
mond aud
tion
is
liowison, respectively.
This inscrip:
round the border of the stone

.
. . . . .
To the revered memory

hills,
of
Esq.
of
Invei-gowrie.
ALEXiVNOER ClayBorn 14 January
1796; died IS June 1865.
Three separate
bears
GODLY HONEST MAN NAMED lAMES DROWMAND LAWFVL HVSBAND HOVSON HE DEPAIRTIT IN FEBTO lANET RVARI 14 DAY 1665 AND OF HIS AGE 27. I D I II.
HEIR
.
LAYIS
.
ANE
.
slabs, initialed
and dated, cover
the graves of the above-named.
Built into the west wall, aud railed off from
fourth slab
the area
In memory
field,
of
Daniel Mackenzie, Esq.
of
Ann-
H. H. C, died 6 April 1829, aged 65 years.

the name of a burgess family in Dundee during the 16th century, of whom, in all probability, was Andrew, minister of Mouifietb, who died in 1617 as well as Robert, the latter of whom, in 1633, succeeded his father in the lauds and mill of Baldovie, near Dundee. In 1669, James Clayhills of Nether Liff became laird of Invergowrie, &c., by the death of a brother's son. About the male line of Clayhills failed,
;
Clayhills was
son of Kenueth Mackenzie, Esq. of Kilcoy,

;
Ptoss-shire
born 1765, died 1829.

another of
of such
If this inscription is authentic, it is
many
instances which
show the value
me-
morials,
and the necessity
of our existing heraldic
books being thoroughly revised. Neither Mr M. nor his father are mentioned in the published
pedigrees of the Mackenzies of Kilcoy.
Another
marble slab bears.

In memory of Mrs Ann Mylne of Mylnefiekl, daughter of Alexander Hunter of Blackness Boru
;
and the property came, through a female, to Menzies of Menzieshill, who assumed the sur-
1749, died 1852.
name
&c.,
of Clayhills.
The
present laird
(Mr Clay-
hills-Henderson) of Invergowrie aud Hallyards,
an
officer
in the
Navy,
is
a nephew of the
:
late laird.
vault of the Mylnes of Mylneon the north side of the ruins of the church, where there are three marble monuments
The family burial

is
fiekl
fifth slab is briefly inscribed
belonging to the family.

the
One
of the slabs
is
to
M. M., AGED
76, 1846.
memory
of
INVERGOWRIE.
Agnes, wife of James Mylne, Esq. Aug. 1765, died 15 Feb. 1S45.
:
195
Born 27
Heir lyes an honest woman namdd Margrat Gairdn, spovs to Androv Blak, maltman bvrges
in
This lady was

in the Mearns.
Dvndie,
who
decesed the 24 of lanevare 1651,

:
a daughter of Scott of Criggie,
and
of hir age 60
She was mother

the last
of the next
men:
tioned,
who was
Mylne
of Myluefield
I rest in
hop
intil
the tj^m apier.
That
I shal
ryse and mit
my
Savior.
Sacred to the memory of Thomas Mylne of Mylnefield, born 28 Nov. 1785, died 22 Dec. 1836. And his wife Elizabeth- Jane Guthrie, born 8 May
1799,
table-shaped tombstone near the churchj'-ard
gate presents a variety of elaborate carvings, consisting of shuttles
died
14 Nov.
died aged 16, 2

jêars.
]
[A daughter Agnes, and a son Charles-Kinloch, aged

1S39.
trade,
and other insignia of the weaver combined with mortuary objects. The
verse, beginning,
common
&c.,
is
"Stop mortal man,"
near the centre, and the following round
Sacred to the
memory
of
John Mylne, aged 38
the margin, of the stone:
Ann-Dotjglas, aged 37 ; Thomas-John, aged 35 and Elizabeth-Guthkie, aged 27, children of
and his wife Elizabeth-Jane Guthrie. They were drowned at sea, near Sydney, Xew South Wales, on the occasion of the wreck of the shijj "Dunbar" on 20 Augt. 1857. Sacred also to the memory of James Mylne,
of ilylnefield,
Thomas Mylne, Esq.
This stone wee David, lames, Robert, Henry, lohn, and Thomas Cocks erected in memory of Iames Cock, weaver in Locheye, our father, uho dyed Oct. 15, 1741, aged 65 and of Isobel DoiG, their mother, dyed March 31, 1733, aged 48, and Wîlliajm, their brother, dyed 1731.
;
aged 40, their eldest brother, who died at sea, near Malta, 28 Nov. 1857. Erected in memory of their beloved Brothers and Sisters, by William, Charles,
The
ants,
above Cockes introduced
linen
is still
manuexten-
factures at Lochee
sively carried
a trade which
on at that place by their descend-
and Graham Mylne.
[i.
John,
iv. 12.]
The
under the firm of Cox Brothers, and Co.

is
above William and Charles were in the
A plain headstone, adjoining the tomb from which

the above inscription
copied, bears the follow:
E.I.C.S., and
Graham was an
officer in
the 82d
regiment of
foot.
Their mother was the eldest

(q. v.)
ing to another of the same race

:
daughter of John Guthrie of Guthrie,
The property of Mylnefield was

death, to
sold soon after her
1754 This stone was erected by Robert Cock and Margaret Kid, in memory of their lawfuU son
Mr Henderson,
also laird of
a farmer near Carnoustie,
Robert Cock,
20, 1751,
induellers in Lochee
he died Dec.
Grange of Barry. Mylnefield was inherited from him by Mr Low, a dockgate keeper at Dundee harbour, and Grange of Barry, by Mr Wighton, a shipowner. The ]Mylnes,
who was
aged 9 years:
mortal
man why
dost
thow
;
in
This world delight to stay
And
Even
as a
drudge by her ay hurled
who were
designed of Myluefield from about the
at her fortouns
sway
;
close of the 17th century,
were descended from a
She's painted our with pleasures rare
burgess family of Dundee.
All drest in gaudy hue
A
name
tombstone in the burial-ground bears the

of
Matthew, and the date of

I. S.
1C22. Others,
;
She flatter can, without compare, Yet none of them is true.
simply initialed and dated (A.
M, 1638
W.
V.
Upon
a flat stone
1644; G. B. 1646;
1682, &c.),
lie
on the
fol-
south side of the ruins of the old kirk.
The
Here lyes David Mullo, taylor, who lined in Ninewalls, who dyed the 2 of May 17-4, and hia
age 62 years.
lowing inscriptions are from adjoining stones
:
de-
As also his spouse Margrat Watson,
....
nost
man nemed Robert
Jack,
who
who dyed
ported this lyf 2 of laneuari 1661, and of his age 6-, RoBRT Iack, son of Eobrt lack, at the Law Brig Mil, who decest in auo 1656, and of his age 1.
the 6 of Aprill 1743, and of her age 74 years, &c. 1849, revised by Peter Watson, Lochee.
Elizabeth Nickol,
a.
wf. of Jas. Whitton, d. 1756,
36
196
EPITAPHS,
and mother,
dutiful.
AND INSCRIPTIONS
First Lieutenant on board the " Africa" at Trafalgar,
Child, wife^
In
all
a pattern wonderful
and Commander
of the
" Beagle" at the
Her grace in life makes now her glory sure, Her corps may rott, her good name shall endure.
After death
reduction of St Sebastian.
;
His paternal name
life.
The next two

luvergowrie
aisle
:
inscriptions
are from marble
tablets, within tin enclosure, at east
end of the
was Smith but, upon inheriting some property, he assumed that of Skene. His son, John, lately in the Coast Guard, was a Commander iu the Navy, and long employed in active service iu various parts of the globe. (O' Byrne's Navai
Biography.)
Underneath
this tablet are interred the mortal
remains of the Aêry Rev. Heneage Horslev, A. M. Dean of Brechin, Prebendary of St Asaph, and for
The
from
estate of Invergowrie belonged at one time
40
j'ears minister of
St Paul's Chapel, Dundee.
He
to the Grays.
Three carved stones, possibly taken
was the only son of Samuel Horsley, Bishop of St Asaph. He was born 23 Feb, 177G, died 6 Oct. This 1S47, universally regretted and beloved. tablet is erected to his memory by his children, sorrowing, but not as others, who have no hope.
In the enclosure below this tablet are interred
the mortal remains of
their old residence at Invergowrie, are built
over a private entrance from the Perth road to the

present house.
One
bears the date of 1601, with
the
A. N., also the Gray and Napier C?) arms, and the motto, SS" SOLI DEO GRATIAS.
initials,
P.
Anne Bourke, widow
of
John Boui-ke, Esq., of the county of Limerick. She died at Dundee, 29 Dec. 1836, in the TSth year of her age, beloved and lamented.
tials,
same arms and inigevis. Upon the and the words, god third stone are also the Gray arms, the initials, P. G., and the legend,
slab presents the
.
A second
This lady was

sons died young.
a daughter of Edward Ryan of
TRVST
IN
GOD.
Boscobel, Tipperary, Ireland.

she had three sons
By
her husband
and one daughter.
Two
of the
dis-
The
eldest,
Richard,
who
tinguished himself as a soldier, and as Governor

of
New
South Wales, &c., received the honour
of
knighthood. In conjunction with Earl Fitzwilliam,
he edited the correspondence of the celebrated
(S.
Edmund
Emma,
Burke, to whose will he was a witness.
(Burke's Lauded Gentry.)
His
sister,
Frances;
married the Rev. Dean Horsley
and a
plain slab within the old kirk at luvergowrie
Logiin-Dundho was given to the Abbey of Scone by Alex. I. It was also in the diocese of St Andrews, and dedicated by Bishop David in the
year 1243. a burial
X IKE SJi
the kirks of Liff and luvergowrie, that of
marks her grave, and bears

her death
:
this brief record of
F. E.
Horsley, 18 Dec. 1821.
Upon
a marble tablet, built into the east, and

.
outer wall of the Myluefield aisle
and Major Fyfe of Logic and Smithfield (in which no interments have been as yet made), occupies the same site.
The church
aisle,
stood upon a rising ground
erected
by the
late
Sacred to
John Smith-Skene,
Esq., Captain of
According to an inscribed stoue near the gate,

the surrounding walls were
the Royal Navy, and Companion of the Bath,

died 10 Dec. 1833, aged 63 years.
who
BUILT BY PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTION, A.D. MDCCCXXXVII.
Captain
was made a C.B. iu 1813, and died at Bin Rock, a villa near Dundee. He saw much
S.
The fragment
of a cofBn-slab, possibly of the

is
14th or loth century,

of those fine examples
the only relic of antiIt

is
service in his time, having been master of the
quity within the ground.
similar to
some
'Êgmont"
at the battle of
Cape St Vincent,
which
lie at
the church of
LOQIE-DUNDEE LOQIE-BUCHAN.
St Mary, Dundee, with a floral cross upon the face of it, and an old fashioned sword upon one of
the sides.
197
As
the more interesting antiquarian and histo-
rical peculiarities of the
united parishes of Liff^
The
shaft of a pillar-mouumeut, with

Hn'.^rcalled
Benvie, Invergowrie, and Logic, are given in the
square hole in top,
" the holywater
staue," stood long in an upright posture, though
now thrown aside, and treated as useless. The oldest lettered tombstone (so far as
seen), is dated
if
Sculptured Stone Monuments (vol. i.), and in the Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries (vols, ii., v., vi.), as well as in both Statistical Accounts
of Scotland, &c., notices of these matters are pur-
1786
I have and though numerous, few,
posely omitted here.

It
any, of the inscriptions are of general interest.

headstone, near the south-west corner,
:
may
only be mentioned that the districts of
A plain
bears this tribute
Invergowrie and Logic were both famous at one time for the abundance and purity of their water
springs
;
To the memory of John Bexxet, cabinet-maker This in Dundee, who died 26 April 1822, aged 47. stone is erected by a select number of Journeymen Cabinet-Makers as a mark of respect and esteem
kind master, and a sincere friend ; and their high sense of the genuine integi'ity of conduct, and warmth of feeling which distinguished through life
for a
and
that, before the
Monikie supply was
brought into Dundee, the water from these springs was used in that town for all important culinary
purposes.
The water was
driven through
Dun-
dee in barrels, and the qualities of the respective

springs
vendors.
were loudly extolled by the different Of the former, it was declared that,
!"
him who
lies
below.
of Alex.
JoHX, son
Rattray,
d.
1839,
a.
6 y.
" lavergowrie's crystal spring, For Tea, surpasses everything
Sm. :
while of Invergowrie's rival, the people were as-
And must
And must
this
body
die
? ?
sured that
This mortal frame decay
" Of
?
a'
the wells that's here about,

!"
these active limbs of mine,
Lie mouldering in the clay
There's nane compar'd to Logie Spout
There are some private burial-places near the

west side of the enclosure
:
one belongs to Edward
Baxter, merchant, Dundee, laird of Kincauldrum,
and father
of
W.
E. Baxter, M.P. for the
Mon-
^
KING
je
gu^
It it
n.
trose District of Burghs, presently Secretary to
the Admiralty.
It contains a
monument, with a marble

recorded the death of
tablet,
handsome freestone upon which are

first wife,
(?S.
ANDREW.)
II., in
DAVID
1361, gave the patronin
Mr
E. Baxter's
age of the kirk of Logie

Cathedral of Old Machar.
teinds, to the
Buchan
itself,
to the
EuPHEMiA Wilson, who

22 Aug. 1833
;
died at Balgay House,

his
In the following year

with
its
also
that of
second wife,
;
the Bishop conveyed the church
Elizabeth Jobson, who died 2 July 1842 together with two daughters who died young.
same house,
of
which Logie-Buchan
the parish, and the
was a mensal church.
The Ythan runs through
Owing
to the overcrowded state of Logic buit
kirk stands upon a rising ground on the south side

of that river.
bell inscribed
:
rial-ground,
was
closed,
with certain exceptions,

It
The
belfry
is
dated 1737
and the
against further interments, by order of the Privy

Council, 19 Feb. 1870.
LOGIE BUCHAN, 1728.

of
was used
chiefly for
the district of Lochee,
now a populous and thriving

accommodation
is
The Buchans
two marble
under:
Auchmacoy, patrons
it,
of
the
suburb of Dundee
of which, a
for the better
church, had their burial-place within
where
new cemetery
about to be formed
tablets are respectively inscribed as
upon the adjoining property of Balgay.
198
EPITAPHS,
AND
INSCRIPTIONS:
with the rising of 1715, " dyed at Ardlogie in Fyvie, and was buried in Logy-Buchan, a.d.
." M.DCCXX. The following is upon a table-shaped stone
.
.
As
of
a mark of affection and regard for the memory Robert Buchan, third son of Thomas Buchan, 4 Sep. 1825, in the '24th year
Esq. of Auchmacoy, assistant-surgeon, H.E.I.C.S.,
who died at Cawnpore,

of his age.
in
His brother, John, died in London, 4 Feb. 1829, aged 22 years, and is interred in the burjang-ground belonging to the Church of St John, Waterloo Road, London. Also in memory of
the churchyard, besides which a marble tablet,
within the kirk, records also the death of
Mr
Paterson
minister of
EuPHEMiA TuKNER, widow
of the
late
Thomas
The Rev. Wm. Paterson, 42 years

this parish, died
age.
Buchan, Esq. of Auchmacoy, who died at Edinburgh, 22 Dec. 1S32, and whose remains are interred here.
July
4, 1816, in
the 65 year of his

Ogilvie,
Anna
Ogilvie, daughter of Jas.
Esq. of Culquhins and Baldavie, died 17

eldest daughter of
March
This lady was

of
Robert Turner
1792, aged 36.
Mr
Paterson remarried Mrs Jane
Menie, in Belhelvie.
The
other marble records

:
the death of her husband and eldest son
memory of Thomas Buchax, Esq. Auchmacoy, who died on the 12 Aug. 1819, and was interred in the family burying-ground within this church. Also, in remembrance of his eldest son Thomas, who died at Marseilles, in France, 3 Dec. 1818, aged 21 years, and was interred in the
Sacred to the
of
Mair, daughter of the Rev. John Mair, minister of Rayne, and widow of the Rev. Alex. Fullerton, minister of Footdee, who died April 4, 1833, aged John- James Paterson, M.D., surgeon in the 75.
Bengal medical establishment of the H.E.I.C.S., Mardied in England, March 21, 1837, aged 49. jory, a daughter, died at Aberdeen 23 Aug. 1841,
aged
57.
:
Protestant burying-ground of that city.
The present
his father,
laird of
Auchmacoy, who succeeded
Within an enclosure Rev. George Cruden, minister of Logic Buchan, after an incumbency of 33 years, died 11 Sep. 1850,
married a daughter of Garden Duff
His wife Suphia,
of
Hatton, Esq., by
whom
which
he had a son and

died at London
his father erected a
daughter of the Rev.

18 Dec. 1839, aged 58.
Wm.
Eraser of Tyrio, died
daughter.
The
former,
Thomas,
in 1866, aged 29, after
]\Ir
C. wrote the Statistical Accounts of Logiein
mausoleum near the mansion-house, where the

remains of his son
of this family
rei)Ose.
It is said that the first
in 1842, and of Old Deer where he was then schoolmaster.
Buchan
1794,
was a son
of
Cumin, Earl
of
Buchan
and that the

wish of
taking
that of
laird of the period, contrary to the
his chief,
adheriug to The Bruce, was
The
greater part of Logie-Buchan, on the for-
allowed to retain his lands, on the condition of
feiture of the
new name, whereupon he assumed Buclian. The property of Auchmacoy, as

a
of Errol
It
is
Cumins, was granted to the Hays by Robert the Bruce. said that there were two family chapels
originally held
by
this family,
had been of small

it
here in old times, one at the

is still
Dovecot (which
Peterhead), the
extent, for in 1309 two-thirds of
belonged to
a picturesque object on the right of the
William of Strathbogie. But in 1505, from an inquest which was held regarding the lands of
turnpike road from Ellon to

other at the
Alexander Buchan of Auchmacoy (whose son Andrew had married Marjory Craufurd), the estates
appear to have been considerable.
was
also
There an Hospital, on the banks of the Ythan,

of
it,
Old Yard
Auchmacoy.
with a house and some land attached to

the support of two old people.
It
for
Gen.
Thomas
and
the
in
was upheld
It possibly
Buchan, who saw much command

Setou.
service abroad,
by the
house
is
lairds of
Auchmacoy
and, in 1725, the
afterwards succeeded Viscount

the laird of
Dundee
said to be " in
good repair."
of the forces of Scotland,
The
Auchmacoy and his General, who was also connected
was a son of wife Margaret
stood near to the present boat-house
a ferry boat
being
still
the
means
of direct
tween the north and south
sides of the
communication beYthan.
BOYNDIE.
The well-known Scotch
is
199
air of
" Boat
o'
Logie,"
said to have originated
from
this place.
once tlie burial vault of the Ogilvies of Boyne, has long been used for the interment of
ruins,
Apart from Auchmacoy, the properties of Tarty, Fechil, and Tippertie, &c., are in LogieBuchan, the last-named of which supplies bursaries to the Aberdeen College, in the gift of Turner of Turnerhall (r p. 60^. It was Innes of Tippertie and some other non- subscribing lairds who, in 1644, at the head of about 80 horsemen, defeated the Covenanters while they were plundering the lands of Tarty, from which (says Spalding)
Birnis,
some of the
Within
it
less
potent resident
is
parishioners.
a stone
thus inscribed
of
Here
years,
lyes the
body
James Bvres,
farm
principal
servant in the Family of Findlater for above 20
and tacksman
of the
of Dallochy.
man who performed
the duties of his station with
the strictest fidelity, prudence, and diligence,
much
beloved by the ^ôble Fmnili/ in which he served,
by
whom
this stone is erected.
By
his early death
the Covenanters returned " in

fouris,
tuais," in threis,
in
the world lost a worthy

latives a
member
of society, his re-
and not
in
ane bodie, schamefully bak
agane to Abirdene."
kind and an affectionate f jiend, and the poor a generous benefactor. Died 6 Oct. 1784, aged An honest man's the noblest work of God. 46.
Within area
of old kirk
of
To the memory
for
(S.
the Stuarts, foi-merly of
Ordens, this being the burial place of that family
BRANDAN, ABBOT.)
Inuirbondin and Bane/, with
James
fTfHE
cSj
kirks of
This stone is placed by the Rev. one of their descendants, late Rector of Geoi'ge Town Pai-ish, South Carolina, and Chaplin to the King's Rangers in North America,
ages.
Stuai-t,
many
certain lands in the neighbourhood, were
1785.
gifted
by King William the Lion to the monks of Arbroath. Both churches (which are separately rated in the Old Taxatio, the latter being much the more valuable), aj)pear to have been subsequently
united, possibly about the time of the Reformation,
The erector of amount of money

purposes
to
.
this
tomb
left
a considerable
for educational
the parish.
and charitable Ordens belonged to

before or after I
of the Earls of
Stuarts in 1724, for
how long
it
am
not aware, but
was held
The
but were again disjoined in 1G34. ruins of the old kirk of Boyndie, with the
Findlater.
An
bears
:
enclosure, in the south-west corner of the
belfry uj)on the west gable, stand
upon a knoll
falls
kirk contains four separate tablets.
The
oldest
near to where the burn of Boyndie

sea.
into the
I.
The
bell is
belfry bears
the initials of
L. F.
This
lair
belongs to James Milne, sometime at
(James, Lord Findlater), and the date of 1740.
Mills of Boyndie, Alexr. Milne at Mill of Aluah,
The
dated 1770.
of
Over the door
an
aisle,
:
upon the south
side of
the ruins, in raised capitals
hoiise
and John Milne at Mill of Boyndie, his sons. This stone is erected by James Milne at Nether Mill of Boyndie, eldest son to the s'l John Milne.
Lord I have loved the habitation of thy and the place where thine honour dwelleth.
Anno
1739.
This
Upon next
oldest
monument
entry door to the church was put up by me James Ogilvie of Culphin, who was an elder at this place fourty six years bypast, at the present year of God
Erected by James Mill in Mill of Boyndie, in memory of his eldest son James, who was born
April 1770, and died Septr. 1788; and of his brother JoHX, late in Boghead of Ord, who was born June
1718,
This
An
1723.
Ogilvie, who gave two silver communion cups to the parish, which are still in use, was afterwards designed of Culvie, in Marnoch.
and died Deer.
1792.
And
himself,
also in
memory
of the said
James Milne
who
died 14th
arched building on the north side of the
His widow, Isabel June 1807, aged 85 years. Milne, who died 25th June 1823, aged 81 years.
200
EPITAPHS,
interred here.
of the
AND INSCRIPTIONS.
The
district of
is also
His youngest sou, Alexr.

19th Regt. of Foot, died at
Boyne was a thanedom,
in whicli
Milne, Lt.-Col.
there was a large hunting forest, of which Sir
Denierara, 5th Novr. 1827, aged 48 years.
The above
are freestone
is
monuments
and the
slab, en-
upon a marble
:
cased in yellow freestone
John Edmonstone had a charter in 1368. About 1485 the lands and thanedom of Boyne came by marriage to Sir Walter OgUvy, a son of the knight of Lintratheu, in Angus. The Castle of Craig of
Boyne, on the west side of the burn of Boyne, of
Near this place are interred the remains of John Milne, Esq. surgeon in Banff, who died in consequence of a fall from his horse, May 29th 1833, in the 26th year of his age. Distinguished by active yet unostentatious benevolence. Air Mdne, both in a professional and private capacity, uniformly shewed himself a warm friend to the poor, by
,
which very
little
;
remains,
is
the reputed seat of
and during the Civil Wars the laird found it a safe retreat from Montrose and his soldiers. While searching lately among the slender traces which remain of this stronghold,
the old thanes
particularly in the kitchen midden,
Mr
Garland,
whom
to
his untimely fate is deeply deplored.
Nor
farmer of Cowhyth, found bones of animals of the
them only was he an object of regard. By the openness of his manners, the warmth of his friendand the integrity of his conduct, he had endeared himself in no ordinary degree to the comTo perpetuate the memory of munity at large. one who, in the morning of life, and in the active discharge of duty, was so suddenly and unexpectship,
and pins made of bone. Some of the latter are prettily formed and polished one (in the National Museum) has the letters IJ,
chace, &c., also needles
or b.
0. E.
m. cut upon
it.
The more modern

1745,
is
castle,
once a residence of
the Earls of Findlater, and inhabited until about
edly lost to the world, a number of friends, to whom that memory is dear, have caused this
among
the most imposing and pictur-
esquely situated ruins in the north-east of Scotland.
monument
to be erected.
:
September
12, 1833.
Vandals, however, have been allowed to

these ruins, for scarcely a
Upon
a freestone tablet
make sad havock upon

of
Sacred to the
memory
farmer at Mill of May 1849, aged 78 years. And of his spouse Jean Milne, who died there 11th June 1835, in
the 63rd year of her age.
John Milne, late Boyndie, who died there 25th
dressed stone of any interest has been left about
the place; although, from the excellent view of
it
given by Cordiner in his Remarkable Ruins (1791)

the lintels, &c., were then wonderfully entire; also the walls painted with figures and legends.
Here
also are interred
the remains of their children, Hobert Milne, who died 8th February 1833, aged 23 years. John
The
present church, which
is
nearly two miles
distant from the old one, was built in 1773.
Milne, who died 20th
May
1833, in the 26th year
Methodist Chapel was erected in 1838, and a
on the adjoining tablet), and Abercromby Milne, who died 9th June 1848, aged 30 years. Their son, Archibald Milne, died
of his age, (as recorded
Free Church in 1843, at the fishing village of

Whitehills.
The Earl
of Seafield is patron,
and
sole heritor of the parish.
in New Zealand, 1842, in the 35th year of his age. And their son, "William Milne, Collector of Cus-
royal warrant to hold
In 1681, Sir Patrick Ogilvie of Boyne had a two yearly markets in
toms at Old Harbour, Jamaica, died there 7th

May
From two
Here
of
separate stones in church -yard
lyes
George Gill,
in Warielip, under hope
a blessed resurrection,
3,
who
departed this lyf
April
1689.
lies
Blessed are the dead, &c.
Here
the corps of honest Iohn
Watt,
life
late
farmer in Blairmaid,
who
departed this
upon
Boyndie, one in the Muir of Whitehills on the 2d Tuesday of May, the other on the Muir of Culfin on 2d Tuesday of October, as well as for a weekly market to be held at Portsoy. S. Brandan's circle, upon the farm of Bankhead, now represented by three rough boulders, one of which exhibits cup-shaped markings, and almost all other antiquities in the parish worthy
of remark, are noticed in the Stat. Accounts, &c.
the 9th day of March 1758, aged 73 years.
MAINS.
Thomas Ruddiman,
Jioarian,
201
the
celebrated
gram-
was the son of a farmer at Raggel, where he was bora iu 1674. Mrs Buchan or Simpson, the daughter of the keeper of a small iun, and the
founder of a sect of religious fanatics, also belonged
to this parish.
A carved stone (18 by 24 inches) embelby a peculiar representation of the Annunciation (now built over the window in the south
wall.
lished
When
on her deathbed
in 1791,
was found, iu 1868, while digging a The pot and lily rest upon a shield charged with the Graham arms. The lily is held by a
transept),
grave.
she assured her few remaining apostles,

able Virgin Mary, and
among
other cant and blasphemy, that she was the verit-
stands the Virgin,
winged angel kneeling on the left on the right with nimbus and uplifted
hands, in the attitude of prayer.
Mother
of Jesus
The
ribbons
remain, but the legends are effaced, and the whole
In all probaformed a portion of the altar of the old kirk, which, along with the south aisle, if not
is
work
considerably mutilated.
bility,
this
the contemporary church

(S.
itself,
had possibly been

his wife
NlNfAN, A DISCIPLE OF
old
S.
MARTIN.)
erected by Sir David
Graham and
garet Ogilvy, whose

SfilffllE
initials, &c., as
Marshewn below,
name
of
Mains
wasi Strathdichty-Co-
are upon certain parts of the adjoining castle.
M>
miii.%
or the Earl's- Strathdichty.
with the kirk of Strathmartin, that of

given to the
of
Along Mains was
A
is
curious lancet
window
of
one
light,
hewn out
of a single stone (possibly taken from the kirk),

built into the wall of the old manse.
Abbey of Arbroath, by Gilchrist, Earl The parishes were united iu 1794. Both churches were in the diocese of St Andrews; and under the name of StrathccJttyn, that
Angus.
of
first Graham of Fintry was Robert, eldest by a second marriage, of Sir William (ancestor of the Dukes of JNIoutrose), by a daughter
The
son,
Mains was dedicated by Bishop David
in 1242.
of king Robert III.
Plains of Fintrij was a later name for the parish. Jt is said that the name of " Fiutry" was imported, and given to the district
daughter of Lovel of Balumby, by
Robert Graham married a whom he had
by the Grahams,
from their older property of that name in StirThe abbreviated form of Mains lingshire.
had arisen from the old name of the locality, which, in 1485 (when " Robert Grahame de Fyutree," and his eldest sou had a tack of the teiud sheaves from Abbot David of Arbroath), is described as " le manys Slradichyne-Comitis." The burial-ground of Mains (lately surrounded
two sons and two daughters. The daughters were married respectively to Erskine of Dun and Haliburton of Pitcur. The youngest son, along with his father, had a lease of the teinds of Balargus and Finlarg, in Tealing, 1485, from the Abbot From young Graham, who is of Arbroath.
called "of Balargus," were descended the family
of Claverhouse
and Duntrune, now represented by
Miss Stirling-Graham, the accomplished authoress

of Mystifications, &c.
by a dyke, and put in decent order), is near the castle, and upon the north side of the Gelly
burn.
try,
The
burial aisle of the
Ghaiiams
of Fin-
which was reserved by the family when the lands were sold, formed the south transept of the It kirk, of whicli it is the only remaining part.
Of the marriage between Graham and Balumby 's daughter, an interesting proof exists, in the form of a coffin -slab, which had been taken from the burial place, and now lies upon the top of the
court-yard wall.
It
is
embellislied with a
Calvary
was
the
lately re- edified
and adorned with a carving
of
Cross upon steps; also, two shields, one bears the Graham arms, the other those of Graham and
Graham arms.
lancet windows.
The gable is pierced by three Upon the west side of these,

a stoup for holy water, in a
Lovel impaled.
of the cross
These words are upon the arms

__
.
.
and within the
aisle,
late style of the Perpendicular, projects
from the
mara. cijns mara in Robert Graham's eldest son married a daughter

.
c c
202
EPITAPHS,
AND INSCRIPTIONS
barley mills upon the Dichty.
of Douglas,
successor,
Earl of Angus, and had a sou and

knighted.
Sir
A
:
gravestone,
who was
David (grand-
son of the last-mentioned), married Margaret, daughter of Ogilvy of Airlie and probably the
;
ornamented as last mentioned, initialed I.B: I.M., and dated 1655, bears this epitaph
Wnder
this ston interd lyes he,
older part of the Castle of Mains was built in his

time,
since
traces
of
Who
At
40 two zeers livd wt ws,
the
of
initials
D. M. O., and the date

the house.
stone
D. G. and 1556, appear upon
mil
&
kil right honestlie,

;
And
the arch of the court-yard, or outer entrance to
To
his time, also, possibly belongs the
wt his nighb'' dealt he thvs But death in Apryl 55, Fro of the stage did him reove.
earth, earth, earth,
altar-piece
above referred
to.
Upon
:
slab, built into a late portion of the castle
Upon
a
Hear the word

flat stone,
of the Lord.
ler 22. 29.

:
PATRIAE
ET
POSTERIS
GRATIS
ET
AMICIS. 1582.
with armorial bearings
Sir David's eldest son
and
heir, to
whose time
the above inscription belongs, having taken part in the " Popish plot" of the Earls of Huntly and
Errol, was beheaded at Edinburgh in 1592. His son, who became a staunch Royalist, married
Heir lyes ane godly honest voman, named Kathrine Fvf, spovs to Thomas Nicoall in Balraovre, vho depairted this lyfe the 2 of lanvar, the year of God 1648, and of agge 32.
Adjoining the above, with the carvings of a

mill-rind and millstone pick
:
a daughter of Ilaliburton of Pitcur. The square tower of the castle, which gives so much character to the building, belongs to his period.
WiL ... ME PaWLL
lONET lOBSON. 1645.

I.
A
bears
table-shaped stone, initialed

:
G. Y.,
Upon
a skew-put stone are the

of 1650.
Graham
arms,
and the date
This Graham became 9th laird of Fintry, and
from him the present representative of the family is descended. This branch of the Grahams has
now no landed
of
Angus, the greater part their estates having become, by purchase, the
interest in
(v. p. 112.)
Heir one beneath this ston consvming lyes, on Iohn Dvff by nam, who, al, and did deses the 11 of Nov. 1654, and of his age 60 I rest in hop intil the tym apier, That I shal rest, and mit my Sawior.
wirtves honest
.
while he lived he vas beloved of
property of Erskine of Linlathen.
The
following, embellished with the shoemakers'
The
stones.
burial
ground contains a number

is
of
tomb-
One (with
a bold carving of a mascle,

inscribed
:
crown and cutting knife, preserves an old spelling of the surname of Batchelor
:
with a cross at each point),

.
.
Hie sitv nestvs vir, Alexander Mathov, bvrgen de Dvndee, qvi obiit die 23 mensis OctoDiscito ab exemplo, bris, anno 1585, a^tatis sva3 53. Svm qvod eris. Onuiia mortales, discite nostro.
.
:
Hir lyes a godlay and onest man called Iames Besler, bvrges of Dvndie, vha departet this lif November 29, 1665, and of his age 84. Iames Beseler, shovmakr.
Heir lyes ane godly honest man, deceast the 25 Awgwst 1664, and
Walter
of his
Gib,
.
svbjecta mvtabilitati.
who
a.
age
an honest man, Alexander Matiiov, burgess of Dundee, who died 23 Oct. 1585, aged 53. Learn, mortals, learn from my example. I am what thou shalt be. All things are subject to
[Here
lies
Tiios.
Thomson, hbd.
with
to Margt. Clerk, d. 1736,
65
He who
With
....
did
me
bless,
;
change. ]
Some tombstones
exhibit curious carvings

it,
one
and breath Me from these three did take away, By sickness and by death.
riches, life,
has the beaters of a waulk mill upon

weavers' looms, shuttles, &c.
objects are mill-rinds,
;
others
but the
common
1738,
and mill-stone
picks, there
having been, at one time, a number of meal and
Helen Donaldson, wife of Jas. Kinnaird, a. 63 : To honour the dead we may be bold, Our father Abraham hath us told. Gen. 23.
d.
MAINS.
William Buick, Gutherston
(1751)
:
203
Among
That
the rest of Adam's race,

in this
workl
liv'd
There's one confin'd within this
Tomb
Who
upright was and pious.
He while in life was very just, Gave every man his due But now he is exalted high, In Heaven we hope he's now.
;
Baldovan House, and Baldovan is of the estate of Bank. The first Ogilvys of luverquharity and Airlie were but the brothers of Sir Walter of Lintratheu seniority of the two first named brothers is, as In 1625, a baronetcy yet, a matter of doubt.
is
now
called
the present
name
was created
in the luverquharity branch.
The
:
Castle of Mains
is
one of the most pictur-
An
fell
oval-shaped slab of white marble, which
out of a mural monument, bears

is
esque ruins in Angus, and has been sketched and
painted by David Uoberts, and other modern

artists.
it is
by his widow, to the memory of James Marshall, surgeon in Peterhead, who died at the Mains of Fintry, on the 8th of August 1813, aged 28 years.
This stone
erected
The
oldest portion
it
is
quite a ruin
but
at-
to be hoped that
will
be preserved from
further decay.
The
latest building,
which
is
Dr M. "
owner
tached to the south
side, is inhabited.
According
late of the
Wiuchelsea Indiaman," was
the son of a retired naval
quently sailed a vessel

at that port.
who subsefrom Peterhead. Dr M.'s

officer,
wife was a daughter of James Skelton, a ship-
Angus had a castle by Boece, that Mains was the scene of the reputed murder of a sister of William the Lion, by her husband. Earl Gilchrist, Be this as it may, it is certain that (r. p. 185.)
to tradition, the old Earls of
It is further said
here.
Robert Airth,
d. 1763, aged 12 mo This charming child most comely was. And pleasant once a day ; But now, alas, he lowly lies
:
the district belonged in property, after the days

of the Earls of
sibly of
Angus, to Malcolm Ramsay, pos;
Auchterhouse afterwards to Adam Irvine
Here
July 1801,
following,
a.
in this
bed
of clay.
&c.
of Mains, d. 20
d. 7
next to the Grahams. The Gelly burn, which runs through the roDec.
Charles Peebles, schoolmaster

66,
his
wd.
Ann
Crabb,
a.
64
How useful they in training youth. When thoughtless of the paths of truth
They need the guiding
reins
;
mantic dell between the castle and the burialground had, at one time, the name of Syvan ; and Synnivie, or Sinivee, is the name of a copious
spring which issues from the crevice of a rock in
the den
name which may be a
corruption of
The East and West, the South and North, Doth testify from proved worth
Of youth spent at the Mains.
that of S. NiNiAN, the patron saint of Mains. Near a dovecot, built in imitation of a ruined
castle,
and upon the north
side of the Dichty,
There
of
is
a burial ground, containing a number

at
stood the reputed birth place of the celebrated
modern tombstones,
and a
the
present
parish
John Graham
dee.
of Claverhouse,
Viscount
Dun-
church of Mains.
The church was

it is
erected in
:
He was
mortally
wounded
at Killiecrankie,
1800
tablet within
thus inscribed
27th July 1C89, and buried

at Blair Athol, from which,
in the family vault
it is said, his
bones
(?)
Sacred to the memory of Charlotte, Lady Ogilvy, sole proprietor of the estate of Bank, in the parish of Strathmartin, eldest daughter of
were secretly removed, at no distant date, and reinterred within the precincts of an Episcopal
Walter Tullideph, Esq. of the Island and relict of Sir John Ogilvy, Bart,
harity, late of the Scots Grays,
&c.,
of Antigua, of luverqu-
Church
who
died at
in Aberdeenshire. following oddly expressed entry, Oct. 5, 1726, occurs in the Session records
The
dated
the age of 72.
[No year
given].
Lady Ogilvy's father was a descendant of Principal Tullideph of St
baptised
" David Duncan at Mill of Mains had a daughter Ann brought forth by Isobel Johnston his
Andrews.
Tullideph Hall
spouse before the congregation."
204
EPITAPHS,
AND INSCRIPTIONS
hvsband
year of
to Isobel
Wat.
He
God
first
1664, of age 58.
decest November 6, Her childi-en Patrick
and Ianet.
The
(S.
part of next inscription
is
carved iu
MARTIN.)
raised characters,
round the edge of a table-shaped
RflllE kirk of *S'<ra</<ec/i/m-ilfrt/-/nMvas dedicated by David, Bishop of St Andrews, iu 1249. The church was suppressed as a phice of worship when the new one was erected at Mains and part of the materials of the former kirk were employed
tomb, the
Heii'
rest is incised
upon the face
of
it
lyes ane godly honest

at Baldiven Mill,
sometyme
his loving
man loHN Havl, with Cathrn Ramsey,
in building the latter.
Sir
is
John Ogilvy (whose

upon the site
ancestral burial-place
within the parish church of Kirriemuir), has a

of the old kirk of Strath-
burial vault
martin.
The
last interred there
was Lady Jane,
second wife of Sir John Ogilvy, and daughter of
yovng wife, Both in on grave vntU the tym acord That they shall heir the earch angel of the Lord Ovr sovl doth bend ovr bodes straicht and even. As with it selfe it wold theme raise to Heaven Bvt al in value it vudergoes svch toyle. The body will not leave its native soyle. Age pvls it downe, and makes it stoope f vU low, Till Death doth give his fatall overt lirow
;
Thomas, Earl
of Suffolk.
Lady Jane, who died
Then throvgh the
bodies breach the sovl doth
rise.
28th July 1861, was remarkable for her friendly manner to, and substantial sympathy with, the
poor.
And
As
the founder of the
Children at Baldovan, and of
Asylum for Imbecile The Home at

in the hearts of
movut the skies, To its eternal rest from whence it came, As is ther bodies in tombe heir lyes,
like a conqverovr
to wit,
lâce
Dundee, her name will long live the sorrowful and the penitent.
John Havll at Baldiven Mill, who died in March 1648, and of his age 55 yeirs, with his beloved spoves Catrin Rajisay, who did
the 22 of
On
the west of the graveyard (also within an

lie
deeese the 4 of lanvari 1666 zeirs, and of her aige

77 zeirs, both in on grave heir lyes.
enclosure),
the remains, unmarked, of Admiral
Laird. He was the sou of a corn -merchant in Dundee, and distinguished himself during the American war. He bought the estate of Strathmartin about 1785 for 15,500, upon the improvement of which he expended nearly as much again. The rental is now over 4000 a-year. Admiral Laird died in 1811, and was succeeded by his grandson, Colonel Laird, of the F. and K.
Militia.
Adjoining the above
Here lyes an godly honest man called Iohn Thane, husband to Elspit Edentoune, who duelt in Kirktoun of Strickmartin, who departed the 1 day of Agust 1677, and of his age 51 and besides him lyes Elspit Edentoune, his spous, who departed the 29 day of Agust 1679, and of hir age 56.
;
Another stone bears
At
the time the kirk of Strathmartin was deits
Heir lyes David Thain, who deceased the 26 day of February 1(570. Blessed are the dead, &c.
molished the burial ground was about double

present
size,
Upon
Here
a stone lately removed from
its place,
and
the public road and certain cottages
laid against south
dyke
honest
on the north side of it being within the old boundary. The burial place (were it properly cared for) would be one of the loveliest iu the district. It is upon a rising ground on the north bank of the Dichty, surrounded by old trees, and
enclosed
lyes aue
last
vertous
woman
Isobel
Mathew,
and
spous to Iohn Boyack, maltman
burges in Dundie,
of her age 60
I
who :
till
died 22 of October 1690,
From dust
cam, and thither do returne.

tribes of earth shall
by a stone
:
wall.
It contains a
number
Who
Till
here abids
mourn
be,
se,
of tombstones,
from which the inscriptions quoted
below are selected
heaven and earth wrapt in a scrol shall And Christ with saints coming in clouds ile WTien soul and bodie united shall again.
Heir lyes ane godly honest
man Iames Hvntee,
Be
lifted
up
to Christ for to remaine.
STRATHMARTIN.
A
table-shaped stone, with a weaver's loom and
I shall his praises
205
ever sing.
shuttle carved
upon
it,
bears
To
all eternity.
:
Here lyes ane godly honest man Iames AnderSONE, husband to lean Baxter, induellers in Balkelou,
1090,
Upon
1800
in
the face of a table -shaped tombstone

:
Erected by Geo. Brown, shipmaster, Dundee,

of his father, brothers,
who
and
departed this
:
life
lanury 26, the year
memory
and
sister.
His
of his age 70
father
Among
Doth
the earth, beneath this stone.

his forefathers lie
;
And
this has
been their burial plac,
Since man's remembrie.
James Brown, late farmer of Balmedown, died 26 March 1785, aged 62 jêars His brothers, James, died 9 March 1788, aged 25 years John died 28 March 1795, aged 32 years While here on earth John did remain.
;
:
Carvings of a loom and shuttle accompany next
Heir lyes an honest man Andrew DA\^DSON, husband to Margrat Alavar, induellers in Auelienherrie,
He liv'd And yet

But
all
at peace with every man ; a Murderer took his life comes from his Maker's hand.
who
departed this
life
the 30 of
May
:
1695,
and
of his age 56,
and 2
of their children
While on this earth they lived hear. They serv'd the Lord with all their mind
A godly man lyis here

Who
was good
to the poor.
Now
On
in the heav'ns
we hope they
sing.
Where man and

north edge of same
:
angels are combin'd.
He keeped ay good companie And ordor in his familie.

He's gone to Heaven to his
rest,
of
Farewell, vain world, Iv' had enough of thee.
Now
Thy
d.
carles
what thou sayest
me
Among
1752,
a.
the angels that are blest.
love I court not, nor thy frown I fear.
Jas., son of Thos.
Low%
flour mill,
Dundee,
My
18 y.
: Thy name
If fault in
ay, thy
fame ay,
aye,
days are past, my head lies cover'd here ; me, be sure take care to shun. Look to yo'rself, for to death you soon must come.
Shall never be cutt off
Thy grave ay, shall have Thy honest epitaph.

John Robertson, Cotterton 1753, a. 74 :
All
When
enclosed,
the burial-ground of Strathmartin was
of Strathmartin, d.
and subsequently
in the course of digging
graves, the different fragments of sculptured stones
Heir lyes a godly honest man.
men
that
knew him
said
He was an elder And a weaver
of the church,
to his trade.
were discovered which are now to be seen at the Kirktown. The largest of these, which bears the representation of two serpents, was found in the bottom of a grave in 1813, and through the good
offices of
These words gave comfort unto him AVhen God's word he did read If that the Son did make him free. He should be free indeed.
the present venerable schoolmaster,
it
Alexr. Bell, tenant, Kirkton,

I lived
d. 1759, a.
78
almost eighty years.

this vale of tears
;
Within
At
last cold
death on
me
laid hands,
Whome
And
Within
T shall
every mortal
fears.
hath
my
body here enclosed

;
this grave of earth
When Christ's last trumpet gives the

come forth
to his in mirth.
call
was placed in its present position. In connection with this and the sculptured stones, which stand near Strathmartin Castle, and upon the farm of Balkello, in Tealing, and not at Ballutheron, as is commonly said, there is an interesting legend. Though well known, it may be briefly repeated. Long, long ago, the farmer of Pitempan had One day their father nine pretty daughters. thirsted for a drink from his favourite well, which was in a marsh at a short distance from the house.
The
fairest of the nine eagerly
obeyed her father's
When
heaven he shall With songs of melody,
mc
bring,
wish,
by running to the spring.
Not returning
within a reasonable time, a second went in quest
206
EPITAPHS,
AND imCRIPTIONS
the saints,
latter
of her sister.
She, too, tarried so long, that an-
known
of
as the
other volunteered,
to her,
when the same
result
happened
place
devotion
Nine Maidens, The may have stood at
and
to five other sisters in succession.
At
Pitempan, since the Irish words Pit-teamp-an

signify a small church, or temple situated in a hol-
last the
ninth sister went to the spring, and there,
to her horror, beheld
among
the bulrushes, the
low.
To
indulge further in etymological specu-
dead bodies of her sisters guarded by a dragon ! Before she was able to escape, she too fell into the grasp of the monster but not until her cries had
;
one might trace the origin of the name of Baldragon to the Irish Bal-dreighan, a town or place abounding in black thorn, or sloe bushes.
lation,
brought people to the spot. Amongst these was her lover, named Martin, who, after a long struggle with the dragon, which was carried on
The
jjan,
fatal well,
which
is
about 100 yards from

of the burn,
the reputed site of the old farm-house of Pitem-
and on the south
side
was
from
Pitempan
to
Balkello,
he succeeded in
recently covered by a flagstone.
The
well at Bal-
conquering the monster.
It is told that jNIartiu's

;
dragon, situated in a hollow below the farm-house,
sweetheart died from injuries or fright

the spring at Pitempan was
and the
remains open
serpent
is
legend adds, that in consequence of this tragedy,
said to have been killed, stands
and Martin's Stane, where the upon
named the Nine Maiden

were erected
event.
Balkello farm, embellished with a transfixed serpent.
Well; and the sculptured stone at Strathmartin,

also St. Martin's Stane, at Balkello,
Another stone, with "the elephant," and other

carvings
common
to such relics of antiquity,

;
is
in
by the inhabitants
It
is
to
commemorate the
a dyke near Strathmartin Castle

of fragments of
further asserted that the incentive cry of
and a number the same interesting class have
when he first encountered the monster, gave name to the district; while the following rhyme is popuStrike,
Martin
by the maiden
to her lover,
been found from time to time in the kirkyard. The Dichty, which runs through the united
parishes,
is
bridged in various places.
Two
of the
larly believed to indicate the cause of the dragon's
bridges were erected through the influence of
rapaciousuess,
tween
it
and the progress and the victor

:
of the conflict be-
Admiral Laird, and one by the Corporation of

Bakers, Dundee,
all
before 1794.
It
was tempit
at Pitempan,
Draiglet at Ba'dragon,
The Rev. David Maxwell, " minister and chief heritor of Strathmartin," who died 6 June
1774, left the interest of 100 sterling for the
!
Stricken at Strickmartin,
An'
People
martin,
kill'd at
Martin's Stane
education of four poor scholars

similar bequests, through
wise, this has
but, like
many
still
alive in the parish recollect of nine
mismanagement or otherlost to the jmrish,
graves, near the east end of the old kirk of Strath-
been long
Mr
which were pointed out as those of and it is uniformly added that the nine sisters the stone with two serpents carved upon it stood I am also told tliat at the head of these mounds.
;
Maxwkll, who was one
of the last descendants
of the old lairds of Tealiug,
was translated to
Strathmartin from Essie and Nevayin 1751.

left
He
two daughters, who were long annuitants upon
no interments have been made
in these graves dur-
the estate of Strathuuirtin.
ing the recollection of the oldest inhabitants.
So much for tradition. Probably this interromance was an after thought, and may have been founded upon the fact of serpents and
esting
certain
nondescript animals
being represented
(S.
upon the stones at the Kirktown and Balkello. In addition to this, we know that the church was and that there was a dedicated to S. Martin chapel in Strathdichtie, which was inscribed to
;
DONAN, ABBOT.)
its
iTJfJHE kirk of Ochtirles and
pertinents were
<&
confirmed to Edward, Bishop of Aberdeen,

It
by Pope Adrian IV., in 1157.
was a parsonage
AUCHTERLESS.
belonging to Old Maclicir, of which cathedral the
parson was chanter.
207
Dying unmarried,
According to Dempster, S. Donan's staff, which was long preserved at Auchterless, cured
fever
John Duff was succeeded in Hatton by the father of the gentleman named in the next inscription, which is carved upon a neat cross of white marble
:
and jaundice
S.
but was destroyed at the
Garden-William Duff
1866, aged 52.
of
Hatton, died 17 Sep.
Reformation,
Kirktown
of
,
Donan's fair stood at the Auchterless. The bell bears

:
From tombstones
less
:
in
churchyard of Auchter-
PETER
lANSEK
ANNO
DM
1G44.
The
church, built in 1780, was repaired in 1832.

it
In the east end of
are
two wood carvings.
One
Hear lyes ane very honest man called Georg Uamsay, who de]parted lyfe to blessed
eternity Ag. 10, 1685.
bears a fess between three boars' heads erased,

possibly for Gordon, the other quarterly, a lion
rampant, and
three papingoes, for
Ogilvy of
:
tei-red
Dunlugas, dated 1644, and initialed P. G I. O. The Duffs of Hatton have a mausoleum, or aisle,
In hope of a blessed resurrection, here lyes inthe body of louN Downie, sometime merchant in Kirktown of Auchterless, who departed
this life the first
on the south-west of the church, adorned with their arms and motto, &c. Three marble monuments, built into the north wall of the church,
refer to this family.
year of his age.
day of lanuaiy 1754, in the 52 His spouse Elspet Murdoch,
died Jan. 19, 1770, aged 77.
The
first
first
inscription quoted
(i'.
below relates to the
Duff of llattou
Here lyes ane honest man Alex. Co sometyme in Kirktoun of Auchterless, who dyed Aprill and Elspet Broun, his spouse who 1719 2,
. . ;
p.
died
76):Geo.
To the memory of Alexander Duff, Esq. of Hatton, born 1 Jan. 1688, died 27 Dec. 1753 ; and of
Eeedford,
Sandison, Petts, Fyvie, hd. of Barbara d. 1782, a. 34 :
Silent grave, to thee I trust,
Katherin Duff,
aged
75.
his spouse, who died 23 Dec. 1758, Also in memory of their son, John Duff, Esq. of Hatton, born 14 Jan. 1727, died 2 Aug. 1787 and of his spouse Helen Duff, born 21 June
;
This precious pile of worthy dust
Keep
it safe,
sacred tomb,
Until a wife, or child, shall ask for room.
1744, died 2 Oct. 1802. their
There are also interred
of
Upon
a headstone
Alexander Duff, Esq. of Hatton, their eldest son two sons named John two daughters named Bathia two daughters named Ann, and a daughter named Katharine.
family here,
;
Adam Maitland,
late servant in Cushnie.
He
was deaf and dumb from his birth, yet the ready and intelligible manner in which he communicated by signs his ideas on a great variety of subjects
clearly proved that
On
Mind may
exist
when
neither
left of
the above
To the memory of Alexander Duff, Esq. of Hatton, born 26 March 1718, died 3 Nov. 1764, who, to a native goodness of heart, sweetness of
disposition,
social virtues of the
Speech nor Hearing are bestowed by the Author of our Being. He died 9 Jan. 1822, aged 68. Erected by Andrew Jamieson in Cushnie, in memory of a man who had faithfully served his father and him
for
This marble
and universal benevolence, joined the husband, father, and friend. is inscribed by the Lady Anne Duff his
upwards
of forty years.
:
Near the above Rebecca Paterson, died 23 March

88.
1819, aged
widow, 1765.
On
To
the
right of last quoted
eldest son of
As
a small tribute of respect for the fidelity
memory
of
John Duff,
in his family for three generations,
with which she discharged her duty as a servant and during the
Garden
Duff, Esq. of Hatton, born 14 June 1807, died 27 April 1829, whose goodness of heart, and
long period of 80 years, this stone is erected to her memory by Andrew Jamieson, Cushnie.
amiable disposition, endeared him to his family, and all who knew him.
Hector Jamieson
is
described as " grassman,'
or cottager, on the farm of Cushnie in 1696
and
208
EPITAPHS,
AND
INSCRIPTIONS.
Upon
a marble within the church
:
John Patorson was the name

vant on the farm.
in
of the principal ser-
was
the
There were several Maitlands parish at the same time, as tenantIn south wall of church
:
The Rev. George Dingwall, the
faithful minister
farmers, weavers, &c.
of this parish for the long period of 50 years,
Near
this
stone are deposited the remains of
born at Smallburn, Auchterless, 3d March 1786, died 15 January 1862.
George Barclay, M.D., ijhysician to the Aberdeen Infirmary, who died 20 Dec. 1S19, aged 27. Endowed with a cheerful, mild, and affectionate
disposition
;
Mr D. left two bursaries of 4

school of Auchterless, also one of
versity of Aberdeen.
10s each to the
He
to the Uniwas the son of a farmer
15
respected for his talents and acquire-
at Smallburn, where his ancestors

sided.
had long
re-
ments, and for zeal and benevolence in his profession

;
his early death
was the occasion not only

but of regret to the com-
conspicuous
monument
is
bears an inscription,
of sorrow to his friends,
munity
in
which he
of which the following
an abridgement:
Auch-
lived.
William Chalmers,
Built into the church wall, upon the right,
outside of east door
J- Sacred to the
late in
Kirktown
of
and
terless,
born 22 June 1720, died 14 April 1804.

his spouse, died Sep. 15, 1806,
: memory
Marjory Thomson,
of
Mrs Elizabeth
Roberts, late of Darra, in the parish of Turriff. Died 18 April 1834, aged 68. Erected by her affectionate brother, George Patei'son, of the Island of Grenada, West Indies, 1838.
aged 80, &c. A son, John, born 28 Aug. 1760, died 4 Feb. 1805. A daughter Margaret, born 26 Other three sons, Sep. 1767, died 10 Feb. 1827. James, A.M., born 25 April 1763, died 22 July 1846 Alexander, born 2 May 1765, died 13 Sep.
;
George and Robert Middleton

Once lovely youths.
(1816)
1848
and George, died
at Turriff, 9 April 1852,
aged
96.
Called from this lowly state away, Ere they the prime of life had seen ; Who met their end without dismay. Because their lives had blameless been.
The three
last-named in the above inscription
erected "Chalmers' Infant School" at Turriff,
table-shaped stone bears
a bursary at King's
and endowed it with 20 annually. They also left about 300 a-year to various public charities The first brother was a merin Aberdeen, &c.
chant in Auchterless, the second a farmer there,
James CRUiCKSHAi^K,
1814, aged 71. 1709, aged 64.
in Toukshill, died 13 Jan.
His mother, Margaret Topp, died
and the third a stocking merchant,

deen.
&c., in
Aber-
He endowed
20 and astricted to the names of Cruickshank and Tapp or Topp, or otherwise to accumulate and left handsome charities and legacies to his friends. Inscribed in testimony of respect to the said James Cruickshank in Toukshill, New Deer, by Alex. Cruickshank, in Middlehill, his nephew, 1818.
a-jêar,
;
College, another at Marischal College, each of
An
old religious house, dedicated to S.
Mary,
stood near the farm house of Seggat, beside the
Holy Well, which was much frequented by the and where votive offerings were frecûently deposited. There was also a burial ground
superstitious,
but no tombstones remain.

Built into outside wall of church
:
Stone
circles,
three of which (concentric) are
Here ly Christin Haures, spouse to Mr Alex. Ross, min''. at Achterles, vho departed this life Oct. 5th 1710, and of her age 22. Also James, Isobell, and Kaih Rosses, his children by Eliz: Ogilvie, his 2d spouse. She dy'd May 17, 1720.
:
at Kirkhill, were at one time pretty
common
in
the parish.
In the reign of Alex. III. the barony of Seggat
Upon
Rev.
.
. .
a lying stone
Alexander Rose, died 7 Dec year of his age, and 17th of his ministry.
in
was valued at 15 merks and that of Auchterless was held on the reddendo of paying a sparrow hawk annually. Of the last property, Alex, (son and heir apparent of Irvine of Drum), and his
;
wife,
Janet AUardice, had a charter in 1499.
A UCHTERLESSLOGIE-MONTROSE.
Before that date Auchterless belonged to
sters,
209
Demp-
The churches
of
Logic and Pert were

it
first
pro-
a family that long held the property of
Careston in Angus, as hereditary doomsters to

the Scotch kings, also the office of justiciary to the
Abbots of Arbroath. Of this family was Thomas Dempster

riff),
(v.
TuR-
was not until 1661 that the union was ratified by Act of Parliament. Down to 1775, both church fabrics were maintained and served (probably alternately) by one minister. The present church of the united
posed to be united in 1645, but
parish,
who
records in his Ecclesiastical History of
rebuilt in 1840,
stands nearly half
way
Scotland,
friar,
that
Malcolm Ardes,
a Carmelite
who
flourished early in the 14th century,

of the battle of Falkirk, &c.,
and wrote an account
between the old places of worship. The patronage of Logic belonged to the Archbishop of St. Andrews, and that of the united jârish is alternately exercised by the
College, St Andrews.
belonged to Auchterless.
Also
James Laing,
Crown and St Mary's
whom
(in
speaking of the Popish writers against
Knox), Dr McCrie characterises as the " most impudent of all liars !'' Of a different type was
Henry Scougal, who
resigned the chair of Phi-
losophy at Aberdeen, and retired to Auchterless,
from which, after recruited health, he became

Professor of Divinity in the same University.
His
The old kirk and burial-ground have a secluded and romantic site upon the west side of the North Esk, and there the principal scene of George Beattie's poeiu of " John o' Arnha" is laid. S. Martin's Den (near which stands a Free Church, called "the Den Kirk"), preserves, along
with a spring well, the name of the titular saint
of the parish.
tombstone
It
is
in the College-Kirk at
Aberdeen.
was
at Auchterless, on 12th
January 1775,
died at the age of 131. The remarks that he retained his memory and senses to the last, and lived under
that
Scots
Peter Garden
Macjazlne
Until the old church was restored as a burialplace for the Carnegys of Craigo,
little
more
re-
mained
tury
of it
than parts of the south, north, and
saw
It is also said that he London, who died in 1670, aged 169, who, when young, carried arrows to be used by the English at Flodden. A now rare portrait of Garden was painted by James Walls, and engraved by H. Gavin.
ten sovereigns.
.... (?) Henry Jenkins in
east walls.
It appears to
have been a sixteenth cen-
building, with
three
lights in the east end,
lancet windows, or and an arched doorway on

is
the south.
The
old
preserved in the north wall.

the building, which
is
awmbry, much defaced, The restoration

in the
of
Decorated
style,
has
been done with much
taste.
;
Lights have been
inserted in the south wall
and, in the west, or
entrance end, round the arch of the door, in raised antique

I
Roman
capitals,
is
this text
:
:
am
the resurrection and the
life
he that be-
lieveth in me,
(S.
though dead, yet
shall he live.
MARTIN.)
of St
Over the doorway are two shields, one charged with the Carnegy arms, the other with those of
in the year
BISHOP DAVID
the
Andrews,
Grant and Macpherson, quarterly
the Carnegy
1213, dedicated the church of Logij^ under
eagle (in allusion to the founder of the family
name
of
" Logic Cuthil,"

it
is
IMinisters (1574),
called
In the Register of " Logymontrois,"
having been a churchman), bears an open book,

instead
shields
is
of
a cup, upon the breast.
Over the
at which time, along with the kirks of Pert,

inure,
Men-
the date of the restoration of the building,
was served by one clergyman. whom the celebrated James Melville speaks so highly in his Diary, was then
it
and Fearn,
Mr
William Gray, of
of the gable.
1857, also a triangular window near the middle Neat stone crosses are upon each
;
of the gable points
incumbent.
roof of
open timber.
and the interior displays a Near the middle of the
D D
210
EPITAPHS,
AND INSCRIPTIONS:
number, and of modern date. Possibly the which is much effaced, lies at the east end of the kirk, and bears to have covered the grave " religious man." The three following inof a scriptions are from other gravestones
iu
:
north wall, a marble tablet, set iu light coloured

freestone, is thus inscribed
:
oldest,
Here
lie
the remains of
;
Thomas Carnegy
of
and of Mary Carnegy, his spouse. He died 9th June 1793, aged G4, and was survived by his Widow for many years, which she devoted to the exemplary j)erformance of all the duties of an aCfcctionate mother. She died 20th Novr. 1815, aged 65, leaving in the minds of her children the greatest love and admiration of her many virtues, and an earnest wish to profit by her
Craigo, Esq.
Robert Findlay, Tolmants,

d. 1742, a.
hd. to Margt. Read,
All
60 : who pass
by, behould survie.

;
Think on this afull shrine Hers moistie bons and broken
skuls,
And
graves
all
over green.
example.
Their second daughter, Elizabeth, wife of the Hon. Lord Gillies, has erected this monuas a testimony of her affection
But whers the souls, those deathless things That left these bodies hear ?
Ise not give ansuer, but reffer
Till Christ our lord appeir.
ment
and gratitude
to her Parents.
Mrs
C. was the secoud daughter of James

of Middleton.
Gardyue
flat slab in
north-east
James Croll, Law of Craigo, d. 1728, a. 21 Faith makes vs sones and hcres to the most
Faith leads to gloriovs immortallity
;
high.
of the aisle covers the graves of her son
and
his
wife, a sister of Sir Geo.
dalloch
M. Grant
of Ballin-
By
If
faith the
povr of Satan wee
defie,
David Carnegy
died 10th Nov.
of Craigo,
1845.
born
Sep.
March 1776, Mrs Carnegy of Craigo,

9
bom
on Christ's merits wee by faith relic if trv faith wnto the end endvre Yovr evidence for Heauen is good and
And
sur.
;
1779, died 24th Sept. 1856.

:
Alexander Valentine,
Janet Cairo,
d. 1823, a.
d. 1794,
a 60
his wf.
On south of last mentioned Mary Carnegy, second daughter of David Carnegy of Craigo, born 4th May 1811, died 23d
Feb. 1847.
92
My
friends in Christ that are above,
Them will I go and see And thou my friends in Christ

^Yill soon
below,
come
after me.
third slab, in front of the marble
monument,
bears this record of the last male descendant of
Mr Wm. Cruden, sometime minister of

of
Logic-
the Carnegys of Craigo
Pert, was the author of at least two volumes, one
Thomas Carnegy
1804, died 12th
of
Craigo, born 9th
March
Hymns
(Aberd. 1761), the other, Nature Spi-
June 1856.
ritualised, in a variety of
poems (Lond. 1766).
As before
He
shown (v. p. 90), the founder of the Craigo Carnegys was David, miuLster at Farnell.
had a sou, Robert " expectant," who preached
occasionally, but the Presbytery found such fault
with him iu not " exerciseing when his turn is," and as he gave no satisfactory excuse, except that he had occasion to go "about weigh tie affaires," he appears to have lost the kirk of Farnell, to which, on 1st May 1673, Mr John Lamy was translated from Maryton. The last-
(S.
.)
ruin by THE old kirk thePert a picturesque Brechin the turnpike road from
of
is
side of
named Thomas Carnegy left the property to his cousin Thomas Grant, W.S., Edinburgh, son of
Sir George
Possibly the church and parish were erected by Superintendent Erskiue of Dun,
to Laurencekirk.
to
whom
the greater part of the district belonged
Macpherson-Grant
of Ballindalloch.
in property,
and
iu
whose time the kirk
is
first
The tombstones
iu the burial
ground arc few
mentioned.
PERT.
The
bell,
211
which
is
preserved in the belfry,
is
inscribed,
Pert
it
;
1704.
stone of the kirk has

incised
The south-west skew-put the odd figure of a hammer

tlie
church, and a marble tablet, within the ruins, inscribed to
is
Mary
Allardice, daughter
of
James
Allardice,
upon
and, from the style of
build-
ing, the ruins appear to be those of the kirk of
Erskine's time.
Esq. of that Ilk, in the Mearns, second wife of James Macdonald, Esq., long sheriff-substitute of that county, and only son of Thomas Macdonald,
advocate, Aberdeen. She died at Inglismaldie, 4 January ISOl, in the 75th year of her age. The said James Macdonald died 23 August 1809, aged
Though undistinguished, the ashes of John Falcon EU, who was Bishop of Brechin from
1709. repose here.
He was
a cadet of the noble
family of Halkerton, died at Inglismaldie July 6, 1723, and is described as " a good and grave man
and very modest,
tall,
black,
and
stooiîng."
Seven separate stones, which appear to have been pillars or supports of a table -shaped tomb,
lie
in the burial-ground.
The
tlie
upwards of forty-two years together and in the practice of every Christian virtue, beloved and revered by their family, and by all who knew them. This stone is erected by their only daughter Mary, only surviving child of six children, and wife of Charles
83.
They
lived
in greatest happiness,
carvings are date-
Ogilvy, Esq. of Tannadice.
Also, here lyes the
less,
but clearly the work of the 18th century.

respectively
body
of
They bear
words quoted below,

:
and the emblems,

.
&c., described
.
.
Charles
Margaret Ogilvy, daughter of the above Ogilvy, and Mary Macdonald, who died
25 Oct. 1805, aged 3 weeks.
UNDER THIS STONE BOOTH LY TUO

.
WHO KEEPT ANE HONEST

. .
.
FAMILE
PERSONS BUT NOU

.
THEY
ARE
PAST
INTO
ETERNITY.
mother was a daughter Milne of Balwyllo, provost of Montrose), was aunt of Saraii-Ann Allardice, who married
of
Mary Allardice (whose
The figure of a
. .
thistle follows the
above words.
Below the following quotation from Horace the

sower of the parable
is
represented
.
Robert Barclay of Urie (v. p. 83). In 1785, Mrs Barclay was served eldest nearest lawful heir portioner of AVm. the last Earl of Airth and Mouteith,
PALLIDA MORS ^,QUO PULSAT. PEDE PAUPERUM TABERNAS REGUMQUE TURRES.

.
. .
brother of her great-great-grandmother.
Mi-s Barclay, divorced in 1793, afterwards

ried
The
coffin,
.
figures of death, a dart, a scythe,
and a
are carved after the next

.
:
. .
KOMMANDING DOUNE THRO
THAT CROUL DEART DEATH AND VOUND OUR HEART.

.
.
marand dying in 1833, aged 78, was buried at Sprcwston in Norfolk. (Sir II. Nicolas' Earldom of Strathern, &c., p. 119.) Mr Ogilvy of Tannadice was the son of a physician in
John Nudd
Alongside
den tree
:
of
Adam and Eve

HOMO
.
at the forbid-
Forfar (v. pp. 11, 33). So far as I have seen the following
is tlie
oldest
dated inscription at Pert
DAMNAVIT.
MOSES
is
represented striking the rock.

figure,
A harp
of
and
lily
Heir lyes Iannet Gorme, somtym spovs lames Strahavchn, vho depairtcd in the year of God the 28 of Decembr.
16G2
to
accompany the
and name
.
An
Here
life in
adjoining tombstone possibly belongs to

It bears
:
KING
DAUID.
is
the same race.

lyes
upon
The
the seventh stone
the word,
Robert Willack, who departed

of his
this
ARON.
chief priest wears a mitre, breastplate,
;
the year 1705,
and
.... Margret Smith

spouses.
age 67, Agust 10 and Isabel Stkachan his
a long robe
and
carries a censer
suspended from
represented as
the end of Aaruii's Rod:
The rod is
is
Upon a
table-shaped stone, dated 1G64
a round-headed, short, knotty
stick.
burial vault or aisle
on the north of the
Beneath this stone coverd is the body of Ihone Robertson, bvt that pairt vhich better is, avay to
212
EPITAPHS,
AND INSCRIPTIONS
No No
beauty, strength
virtue,
Haven is gone. The patlie of Death is to be trodn by al and every one, vho in the earth doe dvol bvt
faith it overcomes.
....
;
worth
can stay the fatal doom. prevent the op'ning tomb

east
Then
trust in
Alex. Rennv's wife (1696) : Mors certa est, incerta dies, hora agnita nuUi
Who
gives thee hope
him whose arm is strong to save beyond the closing grave.

end
of ruins
:
Within an enclosure at
Extremam quare quamlibet
esse puta.
Eccl.
xii. 7,
here follows cut in
Hebrew cha:
racters, then this translation of the preceding
Sacred to the memory of James Lvall, Esq. of Gallery, who died 20 March 1851, aged 87.
Mr Lyall, whose paternal name was Gibson, inherited the estate of Gallery through an uncle
(v.
FraU man, uncertain is thy death, Uncertain is thy day Non knovs the hor of his last breath, Then look for it alvay.
;
p. 90).
Sometime before 1576, the barony

but in
less
of
this
Galraw, in Angus, belonged to the Lords

;
Oliphant
than a century afterwards
Here and
of
lyes
Iames Hodgston, who departed

his
lyfe in the year 1720, of his age SO, Octob. 12 day,
WiLiAM Hodgston,
his spovse.
son,
and Ianet
FvLERTON
headstone, within an enclosure, belongs to a
The house, Lord Halkerton was proprietor. which is pleasantly situated near the North Esk, is said to have been erected by Fullerton, a cadet of the Kinaber family. Near the west wall of the burial ground at Pert
:
named Buchanan, farmers, North Water Bridge. The first recorded died in 1751, aged 70 the last in 1845, aged 80. Upon one side is a
family
;
Erected by the United Presbyterian Congi-egation of Muirton, to the memory of the Rev. James
Renwick, who was 23 years and

of that congregation.
circle,
with four grotesquely shaped male figures
7 mouths pastor Died 22 Oct. 1845, in the
their feet are turned towards the circle,
their respective heads are the

I I
words
and over
60th year of his age.
"A workman that
needeth not be ashamed."
DO RING ONCE RANG
I I
DID RING. SHALL KING.

;
At Muirton (now
Mary kirk),
an early period.
Luthermuir, in the parish of
Angels blowing trumpets are also represented

and
this couplet
there has been a Seceder church from
carved upon a ribbon
Near the last-meutioued tombstone another

inscribed
:
is
The trumpet shall sound, the dead To meet Christ Jesus in the skies.
John, son
of
shall rise,
Robert Grey,
d. 1755, a.
20
Ingenious youth, he's gone.
This monument was erected by Ann Lunau, in memory of her Brother, the Revd. Master Alexander LuNAN, here interred, who was Presbyter
of the Episcopal
daff,
life
Oh, thou
resistless fate:
Church
of Scotland,
fii-st
at Blair-
Hei-e virtues in
him shone
Not
feigned, but innate.
and last at RosehiU, where he departed this [Job on the 29tli Sept. 1769, aged 66 years.
Great happiness
we
trust
xix. 26.]
Rewards
his pietie
And
raisd will be his
Dust
be.
Mr Lunan was ordained at Aberdeen by Bishop

:
Gdderar, 28th October 1729, preached his first sermon from John xii. 35, in the meeting house at Wartle, on the Sabbath thereafter and, on 9th Nov. following, he entered upon his duties in a
;
Years endless bhst to
John Durward on
Here
his "relations." (1804)
rests together
on the lap
of earth
The Sire, the Father, and the Infant Child, To teach survivmg friends in this their day To shun the things of time, and look to Heav'n.
Alex. Kirkland,
st.
heath -covered place of worship at Blairdaff, in the

parish of Chapel of Garioch.
On
28th October
;
1730, he received orders as a Presbyter
and
his
of divinity, d. 1822,
?
a.
19
congregation appears to have been not only highly

respectable as regards the status of
its
Whose
turn
is
!
next
this
rroclaims, oh
Reader,
'tis
monitory stone, perhaps thine own
members,
but also in point of numbers,
for,
according to IMr
PERT.
Lunan's MS. Diary (now before us), he was in
the habit of dispensing the Sacrament to from
213
Upon the
below which,
north-west are the Erskine
arms,
270 to 300 persons annually. But though his labours were thus successful, since his successor
(even
after
KINE
OF
DVNE.
a remonstrance
of
on
his
own
part
says that this bridge was used as a sort of prison for the Covenanters, when on their
Wodrow
and on that
getting forty
the Bishop), only succeeded in

of the congregation at
way from
the
west of Scotland to
Dunottar
members
Castle in 1685, and that soldiers were posted at
Blairdaff to bind themselves to give
ing house and a
money stipend of
it is
him a dwell234 merks yearly,
or about 13 sterling,
not hkely that
Mr
both ends of the bridge to prevent escape. Some writers aver that there were no parapets upon the bridge at that time but this appears to be a
;
Lunan's salary had been much better.
mistake, since, in 1669, David Erskine, then laird

of
was in April 1744, that Mr Lunan received from the congregation at North Water Bridge. It was subscribed by Lord Halkerton, the lairds of Balmakewan, Gallery, and Stracathro and Mr Lunan made his " first appearIt
Dun, appHed
to Parharaent to be allowed to
call
levy custom or
toll for
the bridge, with the view
of placing " ston rails
and ledges" upon
it,
and
putting
it
into a generally good state of repair.
ance amongst them" on the 23d of that month, having read prayers, and preached at Gallery,
from Job
time of
xxii. 21.
There being no church at the
For this he was permitted to exact certain payments for the space of twenty years, from " each foot persone carying burden," and for all "bestiall, loads, and others, that shall happen to
.
Lunan's induction, the congregation of North Water Bridge assembled " in Dalidies, a house belonging to Stricathrow," where they continued to meet until the 26th of August thereafter,
Mr
croce the said North water Bridge."

vii.
(Acta Pari,
Ochterlony
654.)
The
necessary repairs and improve-
ments had been

wrote
(c.
made
before
Mr
1682), for he says that the bridge,
when
their
own
place
of
opened, upon which occasion
Mr
worship was Lunan " spoke
to the people" in brief, but suitable terms.
There
Mr Lunan
down
continued to discharge the duties of
his sacred office
with faithfulness and acceptance
to the time of his death.
Of
the 2G3 males
" built by one of the Lairds of Dun, but not altogether finished, [had] raills put upon the same of very good hevven stone, amounting to a great expence, by the present Laird of Dun." Before the Marykirk Bi-idge was built (v. p. 138), there was a ferry boat at Craigo.
and 244 females whom

his
Mr Lunan
baptised in his
A great
fair or
market was held at the North
time, he performed the last of these ceremonies in
own
house at Rosehill on the 3d of August
Water Bridge in old times upon Sundays as well as week days. The Brechin Presbytery Records (Oct.
12, 1643), state that " the Sabbath was profaned by ane market holden at the North Water Brig ;" at which the Presbytery were so
preceding his demise.
Mr
Lunan's father was
Episcopal minister at Daviot in Aberdeenshire,
and wrote a 4to volume on the Mystery of Man's Redemption (Edin. 1712), which he dedicated to Sir James Elphinstone of Logie, bart.
they ordained Mr Montgomerie, then minister of Pert, " to take notice off those that frequents that market, and acquaint ther
alarmed that
Next
to the old kirk, the chief object of general

is
ministers therewith, that they

as
may
be punished
interest in Pert,
the bridge which crosses the
North Esk.
It consists of three arches,
and
is
Sabbath breakers." It was in this locality,
in a clay-built cottage,
supposed to have been originally built by Superintendent Erskine of Dun, who died in 1591.
Near the south-west end, a tablet bears the Royal arms of Scotland, with the motto,
removed not many years ago, that James Mill, father of John Stuart Mill, the celebrated political economist, was born. Mr Mill, who died at London, was buried in the vault underneath the
parish church of St
NEMO
ME
IMl'VNE
LACESSIT.
Mary Abbots, Kensington,
214
EPITAPHS,
AND INSCRIPTIONS
Francis, and James, the children of Robert and For their memory this stone is Helen Baird. erected with the warmest filial and fraternal affec1808. tion by WiUiam Farquarson of Monaltrie.
Middlesex.
the church,
A
is
marble
tablet, iu the south aisle of

:
thus inscribed
of
of James Mill, Esquire, author "History of British India," "Analysis of the Human Mind," aud other works. Born April G, 1773, died June 23, 1836, and buried near this place.
To the memory
The
first
nald, Cson
of
Farquharson of Monaltrie was DoDonald Farchar, eldest son of Fiiila
Mo}-), forest ranger to Jas. VI.,
and
bailie of
(IU
t It
1,
(S.
NINIAE, OR
S.
MANIR.)
ISpilE kirk of Creythyn, or Crclhi/, belonged to M> the Abbey of Cambuskenueth. In 1606, the kirk and kirk lands were given to the Earl of Mar, as part of the temporal lordship of that
monastery.
Donald exchanged his patrimony of Castleton of Braemar, for that of Monaltrie, with the Earl of Mar about 1600. His son, also Donald, having been appointed bailie of Strathdee in his father's lifetime, was surnamed Donald Oig, or Donald, junior. Donald Oig was the most famous of his
Strathdee to the 4th Earl of Huntly.
race in the traditions of Deeside, not only from
the part he took in the Civil

clan, but as bailie to the
Wars
as chief of his
;
Marquis of Huntly
and
The time of
the union of the parishes of Crathie
Spalding relates, in speaking of his slaughter at Aberdeen (15 March 1G45), that he was " a brave
gentilman, and aue of the noblest capitans amongis
all
and Kindrochet (now Braemar), is not quite clear. In 1574 both churches were vacant and the readers were respectively named John Wilson and James Play.
;
the hielanderis of Scotland."
His eldest son

;
entered the French service and died abroad

old
the
second succeeded to the property, and, when an
The ruins of the old kirk stand v/ithin the burial-ground of Crathie, on the north bank of
the Dee.
man, about the year 1700, pecuniary

sell
straits
compelled him to
this
Monaltrie
to Alexander,
It
is
A
rising
new
place of worship was erected

side of the
younger son of Farquharson of Invercauld.
upon a
ground on the north
Alexander
in the
(the first of the second race of
turnpike road.
It is a plain square building, with pavilion roof; and, when resident at Balmoral, IIkr Majesty and suite attend Divine
it.
the Farqubarsous of Monaltrie),
who
is
the
first
named
above inscription.
lairds,
This branch, of
which there were four

three generations.
held Monaltrie for
service in
There
set
is
a neat Free Church, near

east wall of the
Lochnagar, on the south side of the Dee.
Francis (2d son
The most famous of these was of Alexander), who commanded
monument
up against the
aisle,
Farquharson burial
in old kirkyard, bears

initials
the date of 1702, and the
The Farquliarson
noted
:
aisle (at the east
R. H E. 2E. end of the old

:
where he was taken prisoner. conveyed to London, tried, and condemned to death but, on the evening preceding the day appoiuted for his execution, he received a
his clan at Culloden,
He was
kirk), contains three tablets, inscribed as under-
reprieve,
aud ultimately a pardon, without knowfrom the
ing to whose kind intercession he was indebted.
His
1699
:
Within these walls
lie
the remains of
;
Alexander Farquharson
of Monaltrie
John and
known
Francis, both of Monaltrie, his sons ; Robert, his youngest son, and several other children, who died
in their infancy.
Here
;
also are interred
Anne Far-
light colour of which he was Baron Ban, hung over his shoulders iu long flaxen curls and by the grace thus added to his handsome person, it is said that a lady of influence at Court was captivated, and procured the
hair,
as
quharson, the wife of Alexander ; Anne Ogilvie, the wife of John and Isobel Keith and Helen
Baird, the wives of Robert.
timely respite which saved his
life.
He
was suc-
ceeded in Monaltrie by his nephew William,
who
As
also,
Amelia,
purchased Ballatcr and Tullich from the
last of
CRATHIE.
the Inverey Farqulaarsons.
215
lu 1827
he
sold
descendants
still
occupy.
The
first
mentioned
:
in
Monaltrie to Invercauld, to which family, as next

of kin, William Farquharson's whole estate de-
the following tablet was Peter's eldest son
volved, on the death of his widow, (v. p. 107).
Erected A. D. 1824 by James Farquharson Esq. Balnabodach, Sacred to the memory of James Farquharson of Tullochcoy, who died in 1760
In memory of James Farquharson of Balnawho died at BaUater, 10th October 1843, aged 85 years ; and Isabella McHardy, his wife, who died at Balnabodach, 9th September 1827,
bodach,
aged 64 years.
filial
This tablet
is
erected as a
mark
of
and his spouse May Farquharson, who died Peter Farquharson of Tullochcoy, born
died 1801
;
1729,
1733,
Isabella Forbes, his spouse, Ijorn 1733, died 1780. George, Francis, and Donald, their sons, the former died 1787, the two latter in their infancy. James and Katherine, son and daughter
and afi'ection by their three sons, and Alexander Farquharson, 1844, Also of their younger brother, George Farquharson, who died at Balnabodach, 26th December,
respect
Peter, John,
1841, aged 38 years,
Peter and John

missions in the
(above-named) obtained com-
James Farquharson, Balnabodach and Tullochcoy, The son died in 1805, the daughter in 1807, Ann, daughter of James Farquharson of Balnabodach, and wife of Dr Robertson, who died at Indego, 31 August 1842, aged 34.
of
H.E.I.C.S.
The
first
died at
where a marble tablet and the is erected to his memory in the church latter is Lieut.-Col, Farquharson of Corrachree,
Ballater in 1849, aged
,
;
Logie-Coldstone.
He
is
the
oldest
surviving
James
Donald,
F. of Inverey, a younger brother of

first of
grandson of the last laird of Tullochcoy, also representative of the Inverey family, the direct line,
Monaltrie, was ancestor of the
Tullochcoy branch of the clan.

of his
He took an active
with
its
branches of Balmoral and Auchendryne,
part in Montrose's Wars, and after the slaughter
having become extinct.

I have to thank the Rev,
nephew, Donald Oi(j, at Aberdeen, he comthe Deeside Highlanders, and was at the battle of Alford, to the success of which he maHis wife was Agnes Ferterially contributed. guson, daughter of the minister of Crathie, by whom he had a large family. To his son Lewis he gave the property of Auchendryne, and to James
Mr
Michie, schoolinteresting
facts
manded
house,
Logie-Coldstone,
for
these
notices of the Farquharsons,
by whom the
have been kindly culled from family papers. Upon a flat stone near N.AV. corner of churchyard of Crathie
:
that of Tullochcoy,
in
Aberarder.
The
latter
married Agnes Ochterlony, daughter of the minister of Fordoun, in the Mearns, and built a new mansion house at Tullochcoy, upon a lintel of
Here is interred the body of the Revd. Mr Murdoch Maclenan, late minister of the Gospel at Crathie, who, after a life of piety and benevolence, died 22 July 1783, in the 82d year of his age, and
50th of his ministry,
which,
still
extant, are carved in relief

I,
According to the poet Burns, Mr M. was author

of the celebrated Jacobite ballad of Shirra' Muir.
F.
A. O.
1693,
Mr M., when
a preacher within the bounds of the
Their son, James (who died in 1760), married

a daughter of Monaltrie and it is a tradition that Tullochcoy having joined the Farquharsons at CuUoden with seven sons, he and they all fell in
;
battle,
and the succession devolved upon the above Peter, when a boy, in 1746. Peter's wife was a daughter of John Forbes of Newe and
;
Kincardine O'Neil, was ordained " itinerant missionary" in the united parishes of Crathie and Kindrochet, 19 Oct. 1748 and ou 11 May thereafter he was inducted minister in room of Mr Mclnnes, who was translated to Logiepresbytery of
;
Coldstone.
The
heritors described
Mr McLenan
prudence,
to the Presbytery as
literatur
a " person of
about 1770 Peter sold Tullochcoy to Farquharson of Invercauld. Late in life he removed to Belnabodach, in Strathdon, a farm which some of his
He married Margaret and piety." Forbes, by whom, who survived him, he left no
children.
granite tablet bears
21(
EPITAPHS,
the
AND INSCRIPTIONS
died
Sacred to
memory
of
Rev.
Archibald
Several memorial cairns are upon the summits

of adjoining mountains, the
Anderson, M. A., minister
of this parish,
who
most considerable and

is
8 Nov., 1866, aged 77 years, having faithfully discharged the office of the ministry in the Mission of
important of which
Craiglourachan.
in form,
is
the " Albert Cairn" upon
It has four sides,
pyramidical
Braemar
for 9 years,
and
in the parish of C'ratbie
and constructed
of native granite.
Upon
for 26 years.
[Rev. 14-13.]
Erected by the
resi-
the east side are the initials of the
Queen and
dent parishoners of Crathie and Braemar.
Royal children, and the date of "21st August

1862."
Upon
the north side
Although Braemar and Crathie were thinly peopled at one time, there were four chapels iu the latter, and seven iu the former district, apart from an hospital at the Cairnwell, and the two parish churches. Manor houses were also abundant,
all
TO THE BELOVED
MEMORY OF
ALBERT,
THE GREAT AND GOOD PRINCE CONSORT. ERECTED BY HIS BROKEN HEARTED WIDOW,
VICTORIA
R.
of which,
with three exceptions, were
21ST AUGUST 1862.
by Farquharsons. Invercauld has all along been the more important residence of that clan and at the present time, but for the
occupied, in 1732,
;
Upon another
the above,
is this
dressed slab, a few inches below
quotation
absence of
" old ancestral trees,"

finest
it
is
possibly
He
being
made
perfect in a short time,

:
one of the
Highland
seats in the country.

is
FulHlled a long time
Balmoral,
or, as the
name
anciently written,
For his soul pleased the Lord,

Therefore hasted
"Balmoran" (? Bal-mohr-a'en'), was also Farquharson property, until purchased from that
family by the Earl of Fife.
Him away
Wisdom
of
Trustees the
From Lord Fife's estate was bought by the late Prince

for the better
He to take from among the wicked. Solomon, chap, iv., verses 16 and
14.
In
connection with the death of the
Prince
Consort, when,
royalty, the old house was taken
accommodation of down, and the
present spacious building of granite erected, in
Consort, it may be added that a magnificent mausoleum was erected at Frogmore, where his remains were deposited and that, over the door,
;
and around which the various accessories correspond in elegant simplicity and good taste. The plateau, upon the left of the principal entrance to the grounds, is ornamented by a bronze statue of the late Prince Consort, by Theed, which was erected by the Queen. It presents this inscription
:
within a portico, bronze

: .
is
the following inscription in
ALBERTI PRINCIPIS QVOD MORTALE ERAT HOC IN SEPVLCHRO DEPONI VOLVIT VIDVA M(ERENS VICTORIA REGINA,
. .
A.D. M.D.CCC.LXII.
VALE
DESIDERATISSIME
.
HIC
DEMVM
ALBERT,
Near the above,
of the plinth
:
15
October
1867.
a handsome granite obelisk,
about 30 feet in height, bears upon the west side
WAS ERECTED TO THE MEMORY OF H. R. H. PRINCE ALBERT, OF SAXE COBURG AND GOTHA, CONSORT OF HER MAJESTY QUEEN VICTORIA, BY THE SERVANTS AND TENANTS UPON THE ESTATES OF BALMORAL, ABERGELDIE, AND BIRKHALL, AS AN HUMBLE TRIBUTE OF AFFECTION FOR THEIR BELOVED
THIS OBELISK
CONQVIESCAM TECVM ; TECVM IN CHRISTO CONSVRGAM. [The mortal remains of Prince Albert were deposited in this tomb by his sorrowing widow, Queen Victoria, a.d. 1862. Farewell, most deeply regretted Here at last shall I rest with thee with
.
thee in Christ shall I
rise.
MASTER, 1862.
The " Leaves from a Journal," lately published by Her Majesty, contains, as all readers know, many interesting notices of the happy time which the Queen and the late Prince spent on Deeside and it is gratifying to know that Her Majesty has shown a tangible interest in these parts of the
;
DRAEMAR.
country by granting 2500 of the profits of that
work, for the general education of young
belonging
gift,
to,
is
217
John Farquharson, the

gaged
the
first
named
in above in-
men
This
scription, entertained the Earl of
Mar, when en-
or resident in, the district.
in organising the rising of '15.
He received
;
which
to form bursaries in connection with
the parish school of Crathie, the school of Girnock,
and, along with " Old Borlam," conducted the division of

of
command
Mar's own regiment
and the University

the patronage
is
of
Aberdeen respectively,
is
to
the
army which invaded England.
bear the name of The Balmoral Bursaries ; and

vested in
in charge of the bridge of the Ribble
He was left by Forster

:
Her Majesty, and her
being defeated, he was taken prisoner, but soon

afterwards set at liberty, from which time he
successors in the Balmoral estate.
betook himself to the more useful and peaceful

occupation
of
improving
to, first
his
estate,
which he
of
gradually added
by the purchase
Glen-
muick, next by that of Castletown of Braemar, &c.
Convinced
(S.
of the hopelessness of tlie cause of the
ANDEEW, APOSTLE.)
of
its
Stuarts, he not only declined to join in the rebellion of 1745, but sent his son with a
of
company
But
his
Braemar, anciently Kpidrochet, THE kirk from having stood near named
so
Braemar men, which were joined

to
to the brave
the
43d,
aid the reigning
Sovereign.
old bridge of Cluny,
was given by Duncan, Earl of Mar, to the priory and canons of S. Maky of Llonymusk, about 12.30, together with an acre of laud, &c., in Aucatendregen, or Auchendryne. There is a mission church at Castletown of Braemar, which is, or was, supported by Royal Bounty also a Free Church, together with a Roman Catholic Chapel and a resident priest. The parochial burial place, which is well kept, is a short way below the village, on the south side of the Dee, surrounded by trees. An aisle, &c.,
;
daughter (facetiously styled Colonel Anne), wife

of the chief of the
Clan Chattan, joined the cause
of the Stuarts with so
much ardour
!
that she went to
the field in person, on which occasion she took her
own husband
captured.
prisoner
At a subsequent
stage of
the proceedings, she saved the Prince from being
James Farquharson, who died
in
1805, added
greatly to the extent of his estates, and planted
belonging to the
Farquharsons
of Invercauld,
occupies the site of the old church, being the

highest point in the
place
is
churchyard.
The
burial
behind, and three marble tablets within

are respectively inscribed as follows
:
the
aisle,
Sacred to the
Invercauld,
memory of John Farquhahson, who died in 1750. Sacred also

;
of
to
the
memory of James Farquharson, of Invercauld, his son, who died 24 June 1805, aged 83 and Amelia, Lady Sinclair, his spouse (daughter of Lord George Murray), who died in 1779. They had eleven children, all of whom, with the exception of the youngest, Catherine, died before them.
most of the timber, for which the property of Invercauld has been so long famous. His wife. Lady Amelia Sinclair, was the widow of the 8th Lord Sinclair, and daughter of Lord George Murray, Lieut. -Gen. of Prince Charles' army in 1745. Her good deeds deserve to be recorded and imitated When married to Mr Farquharson, she found great idleness and misery throughout Deeside and the primitive plan was in use of spinning lint on the distaff, and winding wool on the big wheel. The little spinning wheel, though common in most parts, was then unknown in the district and about 1755 she applied to the Board
;
of Trustees to aid her in procuring small wheels,
Mary, Matilda, Jane, John, and George,

Charlotte, at Aruhall Fanny Amelia, Margaret, and A>,n, ground, North Leith.
;
and a mistress
to teach spinning.
After
lie in;
terred with their parents in the ground adjoining

at Lisbon in
;
labour and opposition to her scheme, by those
much who
and
were to be benefited by
the burying
premiums
to the
it, and the awarding of more expert scholars, she ulti-
mately succeeded so well that there were no fewer
E E
218
EPITAPHS,
women and
1st
little girls
;
AND INSCRIPTIONS:
who
than 129 unmarried

received
Mr F. married
Sanson, by
a daughter of Gen.
Dundas
of
premiums on
January 1763
and the
whom
he had a large family.
She
quantity of linen yarn then brought to Tnvercauld

for inspection
died in Aug. 1869.
Their eldest son (erector of

to),
by Lady Sinclair was supposed to be worth at least 300 sterling. Lady S. also gave a great impetus to cattle rearing, and to the cultivation of dairy produce, which are
the tablet above referred

estates.
succeeded to the
cruive, Ayrshire,
now
of such
such importance
Acct. xiv., 342.^
to
the
district.
(Old Stat.
:
Upon
the second tablet
To
and
the
memory of Catherine, youngest daughter

James Farquharson
died 27 Feb.
of Invercaiikl,
heiress of
born 4
May
of
1774,
1845.
To the
of Aachenby whom, who died 8th August The 1870, he has two sons and one daughter. late Mr F. was much esteemed by all who knew him and a granite obelisk, upon a knoll on the north bank of the Dee, opposite to the Castle of Braemar, bears the following inscription, which shows how much he was respected by those who had the
He
married Miss
Oswald
memory
band, Capt.
James PtOSS-FAKQUiiAESON, her husPv,.N., (2d son of Sir John Lockhart-
best opportunity of judging of his true character:
In
memory
of
James Farquharson, Esq.
of In-
Ross, of Balnagowan, baronet),
who
died at Edin-
burgh, 5 Feb.
This tablet
affec-
was
ei-ected after his
mother's death by her
tionate son, Aug. 1845.
vercauli], by his Tenantry and Servants, to whom he was greatly 'attached. Born 25th April 1808; died 20th Nov. 18G2. The righteous shall be in evcrlasthig remembrance. Psalm cxii. C.
According to Nisbet, the

duff,
clan Farquharson de-
James CtRuar, Tominrau,
d. 1807, a.
72
rive their descent from the
Shaws
of
Rothie-
murchus, who were descended from a son of Mac-
Four hundred years have now wheeled round, With half a century more
;
Thane
of Fife.
Faequhar, who
lived in
Since
the times of Roberts IT. and III., was a son of
tliis has been the burying ground, Belonging to the Gruers.
Shaw, and having settled in the Braes of Mar, his sons were called Far quliar- sons : The greatgreat-grandson of Farquhar,
flat
stone upon a timber frame bears
known
DAVIDSONS SEPULCHRE.
as Finlaij-
More,
fell
at the battle of Pinkie, while carrying
Quotations
above
;
from Job
xix.
23-7,
follow
the
the royal standard.
The Farquharsons
the above-named
of luver-
but no names of deceased persons or dates
cauld continued to be represented in the male line

until
are given.
J
Upon
of the
1805,
when
James was
Sacred to
memory
Roman
Catholic
succeeded by his only surviving daughter, who married, as recorded in the last-quoted inscription, the
Clergymen who are interred here. The Rev. Forsyth, who died Nov. 8, 1708. The Rev. John
second son of Sir John Lockhart-Ross.
Farquharson
spent the evening of his days as
Mrs
Ross -Farquharson
continued
the
same
Chaplain to his nephew Alexander Farquharson,

Esq. of Inveray, and died at Balmoral, Aug. 22,
1782.
course of improvement which had been so suc-
by her father. She purchased the lands of Rhiueaton and Micras from Captain Macdonald (ancestor of Col. Macdonald of Rossie and St Martins), and those of Monaltrie from her
cessfully followed
The Rev. Charles Farquharson, served
the Catholic Mission in Braemar for
many
years,
cousin, William Farquharson.
To
her son, the

:
third tablet bears the following inscription
Sacred to the
20, 1SG2.
memory
is
Esq. of Invercauld.
of James Farquharson, Born April 25, 1808 died Nov.

;
and died at Oirdesrg, Nov. 30, 1799, the two former were sous of Lewis Farquharson, Esq. of AuchenThe Revd. William M'Leod, died June dryne. 3, 1809, much and justly regretted They died to live, that living worth regard, And with like virtue, seek the same reward.
:
Possibly
terised as
Mr
who
Forsyth was in some way

died in 1690, and
is
This tablet
erected in affectionate re-
related to Hendric Forsyth (the son of a lawyer

in Edinburgh),
membrance by
his eldest son, Lieut. -Col. Farquharson, of the Scots Fusilier Guards.
charac-
"a man
of great merit."
Of the two
BRAEMAR.
Farquharsons (whose mother was a daughter of Farquharson of Allanquiech),
above-mentioned
not, in Forfar Shire,
219
Dr
Ohver, in his valuable Collections illustrating
65 years, and Lethnot.
lies
on the 4th Feby. 1811, aged interred in the churchyard of

called), join-
the Biography of the Jesuits gives some interest-
Dubrach (as Grant was commonly

most of the
ing particulars, of which
abridgement
abroad,
in
He
tells
1729,
Mr
an us that, on returning from John Farquharson was

the following
is
ed the rebel army under the Mackintoshes, and became a sergeant-major. It is told that, like
rebels, he felt much annoyed at not being allowed to come at once into close quarters with the enemy, and that, in the heat of his ar-
placed at Seaforth, afterwards at Strathglass, in
where he acquired a competent knowledge of the Gaelic, and, by degrees, formed an immense collection of Gaelic poetry. The
Inverness-shire,
origiualfolio IMSS., in his
lat's 'er
dour, he cried out to his superior officer" O, throw awa' thae f ushionless things o' guns,
own
handwriting, which, he deposited, in
unfortunately, have been
lost,
we get doon upo' the smatchets wi' oor swords !" Grant was taken prisoner, and carried to Carlisle,
1772, in the Scotch College at Douay, which were Ossian's poems and many other He was taken prisoner about 1745 whilst mass, and conveyed to Edinburgh in his
dotal vestments.
among
works. saying
sacer-
fled to his native hills.
but contrived to escape by scaling the walls, and In course of time he and
After many sufferings he was went abroad, and afterwards returned to Scotland, where he lived with his nephew of Inverey, and left 200 towards the Mission. His brother, Mr Charles, who was buried in the same grave, was first settled at Glengairn but
liberated,
;
went to Lethnot, in Angus, where they While there. Grant's adventures were made known to George IV., who settled a pension upon him, which, after his death, was continued to his daughter, Annie. The late Lord Panmure (then the Hon. Wm. R. Maule), had a portrait of Dubrach, painted by Colviu Smith, which is now at Brechin Castle (Laud
his family
rented a small farm.
having been taken prisoner along with his brother,

he went to Douay after his release, then to Dasant,
where he was Prefect

his native district in
of Studies.
;
He
returned to
and, by request of 1782 Bishop Geddes, wrote an account of the religious
changes which had taken place on Deeside.

Oliver has
preserved
the
Dr
The Scots Magazine says that more than 300 people attended Dubrach's funeral, that upwards of an anker of whisky was consumed by the company before lifting the body, and that three pipers were stationed at the head of the coffin, who played, " Wha widna fecht for
of the Lindsays).
Macleod," possibly the

inscription
O.'s
;
name of " William priest named in the above

Griffin
Charlie's richt
!"
Upon
a loose slab in churchyard

soldier,
and
Mr
(whose copy of
Dr
Upon
work
is
now
before us, covered with valuable

;
Alexr. McDonald, Leys Regt. 1751.
....
" Born 7 April 1720 came to In 1732, the Farquharsons of Inverey and Balmoral were brothers. In 1715, Inverey was forfeited when his estate was reckoned worth 281 sterling a year. Auchendryne is that part of the Castletown of Braemar which lies on the north side of the Cluny. In front of the Invercauld aisle, a fiat stone is
MS.
notes), adds,
Mission 28 Feb. 1752."
Inmemoryof Charles Watson, innkeeper, Castletown Braemar, who died Aug. 2, 1828, aged 46.
He bequeathed the bulk of his fortune for the Education of Youth of a certain class, in the parish of Braemar. He was son of John Watson and
Catherine Craig, who formerly kept the same inn. Here is the burial place belonging to Finlay and Lauchlan M'Intosh, May 24, 1770.
thus inscribed
f< Erected to the
time farmer in Dubrach,
memory of Peter Grant, some who died at Aucheudryne

His wife
To
the
memory
of
Peter
PiOy, for 51 years a
faithful
the 11th of Feb. 1824, aged 110 years.
and attached servant in the Invercauld Family, by whom this stone is erected. Died Aug,
4,
Mary Cumming,
died at Westsidc, parish of Leth-
1851, aged 68.
220
EPITAPHS,
AND INSCRIPTIONS
bleen and Morven, that of Lochnagar early inspired the
In remote times the lordships of Braemar and

Strathdee belonged to the Earls of Mar, whose
muse
of
male
line
fell
became extinct in 1377

into the female line,
{v.
Kildrummy.)
of his early days
Lord Byron, who spent some upon the banks of the Dee,
Mar
lapse of years,
and after a long and much litigation, the estates and titles were awarded to the fifth Lord Erskine. It was his lineal descendant, the 11th Earl of Mar, who proclaimed James VII. King of Great Britain, and planted his standard at Braemar, on 6th September 1715, upon the spot now occupied by
the buildings of the Invercauld
where,' as in every part of the country
notwithmade
standing the late attacks which have been
upon
most
his character,
by, apparently, one of the
name
Byron's unwomanly-hearted of women is held dear, and his memory venerated.
Where, in this age of monument-raising, or to whom more worthily, could a more fitting spot be
found in Scotland to erect a cairn to that truly great genius, than upon some part of " dark Lochnagar," where the natural grandeur of the
tain, or its outline,
Arms
Hotel.
There was a castle or royal residence at Kindochet, from which Robert II. dated several
charters
time,
;
moun?
but tradition avers that, long before his
would remain unskaithed
Malcolm III. had a hunting seat there, which stood upon a rock overhanging the water
of Cluny.
Two
long,
stones,
ancient
cists,
or graves, about 33 inches
The
present Castle of Braemar, which has been
frequently used as a garrison for soldiers, built
by about 20 wide, constructed of rude flagand covered with a quantity of land stones, were found in 18G3, near the top of an eminence called the Tom of the Boltchach, upon the farm
of
soon after the '15, occupies an eminence upon the
Lochnagar
Distillery.
The bones appeared
to
south bank of the Dee, below the village of Castle-
have been calcined.
town.
The previous Castle of Braemar, inhabited by the English under Cromwell, was burnt by
the Revolutionary army.
Corrimulzie,
The
principal bridges in the united parishes are
over the Cluny at Castletown, and the Dee at Invercauld and Balmoral.
now
a favourite and charming

of
Highland residence
in old charters,
the Earl of Fife, about
three miles above Castletown, though mentioned
does not appear to have been
occupied as a dwelling place until a comparatively

late period.
A magnificent view of hill and valley

;
scenery
is
obtained from this locality
but these,
as well as
Balmoral and other interesting por-
tions of the Dee, will be found illustrated
and
Dan belonged THE Brechin, and became attachedthe cathedral David

church of
to
of to Sir
described in Black's " Tourist."
An
account of
Lindsay of Gleuesk's foundation of the Nunnery

of Elcho, Perthshire.
the tenure of Balmoral from 1451
is printed as an appendix to the illustrated edition of the Queen's "Leaves," from notes of the Early History of
the "vicarage of
In 1583, on the representation of John Erskine, Dwu, and personage of Eglis-
Strathdee and Braemar, M.S, in the possession of
johne," with the teinds of both, were united into
Her
by John Stuart, LL.D. It ought to be added that the peaks and snowcovered corries of Lochnagar ("3789 feet above sea level), form the extreme background to Balmoral
]\Iajesty,
one parish. The parsonage of Eglisjohn, which was " of auld ane chappell erectit for pilgramage,"
consisted only of about one plough of land
;
and
it
at the time of the annexation
it is
stated that
Palace.
This
hill is also
a fine object in the landvarious points of Dee-
had been " wanting ane kirk" for "

bygane."
still
mony
zeiris
is
scape
when viewed from
The
site of
the chapel of Eglisjohn
side, particularly as
seen from near the old kirk

of Cul-
pointed out near Langley Park house.
of Tullich.
Along with the mountains
lu 1834, a new place of worship was erected in
DUN.
a
field to the
221
west of the old churchyard.
Upon
obtained the lands of
Dun
the bell
:
R.
about 1360-1
of Sir
and
that John, grandson of Sir Robert of Erskine,
BARCLAY, MONTROSE, 1815.
and second son by a second marriage

Erskine of that
ilk,
Thomas
It
is
said that
Kuox preached
;
at
Dun when on
visit to his friend
tendent of Angus and Mearns
John Erskine, the Superinand the pulpit

This appears to be a misis
the family of Dun, as separated from that of Erskyne."

is
"
reckoned the
first of
now
in use
is
popularly believed to be that from

forth.
He had a charter of Dun from his father, dated 25 Oct. 1393, and was alive in 1419.
so
is
which Knox held

back
E.
take, since the date of 1615

of the pulpit.
upon a
shield
on the
John Erskine, much to promote
the friend of Knox,
who
did
the cause of the Reformation,
The
shield bears the Erskine

also the initials I.
the chief historical personage of his house
and
and Wishart arms, quarterly,

;
above
is
the injunction
is
preach the vord.

floral
The
pulpit
ornamented with
is
carvings,
born about 1508, and both his father and grandfather (Sir John), having fallen at Floddeu, young Erskine had a long minority.
family.
He was
but of a later style than the time of Knox.
None
of the biographers of the heroes of the
Re-
The
old kirk
used as the burial
aisle of the
formation
have noticed these points regarding
A pavement slab within it is M.G., and dated 1703. It also presents the well-known quotation from Horace, " Mors aequo pede pulsat regumque," &c., and a reference to 1 Cor. ch. 15, 17. There are several
Erskines of Dun.
initialed
I.E
Erskine's early history, nor the fact of his having been in some way concerned in the murder of a
young
priest in the bell-tower at Montrose. These particulars are proved by the family writs at Dun, to the use of which (as the writer of
coffins here.
Two are
covered with crimson velvet,

plates.
these notes
was informed by a
late
eminent local
ornamented with coronets, and inscribed
antiquary), the Earl of Cassilis acceeded at
Dr
One
of the plates bears
M'Crie's request, upon the express condition that

F.R.S.
ARCHIBALD, MARQUIS OF AILSA, K.T., Died Sept. 8, 1846, aged 76.
whatever was
tion,
found
for
or against the per-
sons concerned in, or the cause of, the Reforma-
Upon
the plate of an adjoining coffin
should be published without abridgment.

charter chest, however,
;
MARGARET ERSKINE OF DUN, MARCHIONESS DOWAGER OF AILSA.

Died 1848, aged
76.
The
was never examined by Dr M'Crie and it was not until the late Patrick Chalmers of Aldbar procured the use of
Kennedy, who succeeded his father was created Marquis of Ailsa. His wife was the youngest daughter of John, the last male descendant of the Erskines of Dun. John Erskine died in 1812, and was succeeded in Dun by his eldest daughter Alice. At her death in 1824, Dun came to Marchioness Margaret's second son, the Hon. John KennedyErskine. He married Lady Augusta Fitzclareuce (afterwards Lady Hallyburton), by whom he had W. H. Kennedy-Erskiue, now laird of Dun, and two surviving daughters. One daughter became the wife of the late James Hay Erskine Wemyss,
as 12th Earl of Cassilis,
Archibald
the "
Dun
Papers" for the Spalding Club, that
these interesting points in the history of Erskine
were known
age, the laws of the country
According to the custom of the demanded heavy
sums as assythment, or blood-money, to be paid on the to the parent of the murdered priest other hand, the Church inflicted a severe penance. It was while on a pilgrimage in the performance of this penance that Erskine happened to make the acquaintance of some of the leading Continental Reformers and, feeling the restraint under which the church had i^laced him, he joined the Reformers, and thus became one of the chief in; ;
M.P.
well
for Fifeshire, the other that of the Earl of
struments in bringing about a salutary change

in the religious
Munster.
The
lineage of
Kennedy
of Cassilis
is
government
1589."
of his country.
He
known.
it
In regard to that of Erskine of

only be said that Robert of Erskine
" depairtit fra

the yeir of
this lyff [at
Dun]
the 22 of Mcrche,
Dun,
may
God
222
EPITAPHS,
Thomas, designed
AND
INSCRIPTIONS:
piam
A.
. .
Erskine's uncle, Sir

chin, secretary to
of Bre-
et
.
family of person of
James IV., and founder of the Pitoddrie, in Aberdeenshire, was also a note as was a later descendant, David,
;
obiit
honestam, et seterna nvnc in ccelis anno Dom. 1613, Aprilis 12.

;
fi
.
vvntvr.
.
Meivdicis
mento peccati vt doleas
moi'tis vt insignias
vt timeas]; misericordia^ vt spei'es.
43 years a senator of the College of Justice. He was the first Erskine of Balhall, wrote a volume of Moral and Political Advices, and died in 1755. In
his
James,
time the present mansion-house of
Dun
was
built, after i^lans
by the
Besides the cotfius

chioness of
Ailsa
in
Adams. of the Marquis and Marthe burial vault at Dun,

elder
Alexander and who led a pious and honourable life on earth, and now enjoy eternal life in heaven. A. [F. or E.] died 12 April 1613. ... Pvemember sin that you may sorrow over it death that your end may be a noble one the judge that you may fear mercy that you may have hope.
[This stone covers the dust of
full brothers,
;
; ;
another, covered with black cloth, contains the
Upon
remains of their grandson.
Upon
the top of
it,
a plate bears
Infra sepultaj jacent exuvias Joannis Erskini,
quondam
late
in Dunsmill, viri pij, probi, et honesti,

orti,
Adolphus Kennedy (son of the nedy), who died at Montrose.
Lord Ken-
ex honestis et generosis
exemplo,
signi, in
omnibus
grati, vitai
morum
in
integritate,
pietate in
Deum
in-
Lord Kennedy, by his wife, Eleanor, daughter and heiress of John Allardyce of Duuottar. Lord Kennedy having
died in his father's lifetime, his eldest son became, on the death of his grandfather in 18i6, second
This was the youngest child of
amicos observantia et constantia, in con-
jugem amore,
omnes humanitate,
in
pauperes
misericordia memorabilis.
Who
ever
him bethought
and
oft,
flit
Seriouslie
Marquis
of
Ailsa.
Owing
to the effects of
an
What
it
uare to
accident in the hunting field, the second Marquis
Fi-om his death bed to the pit
died at Culzean Castle, 20
March
1870, aged 54.
The garden
of
Dun
adjoins the churchyard on
the north, and there, in a retired corner, separated from the burial ground by a railing, and within
Ther to suffer iâin. Never to cease again ; Wold not commit on sin.
The vhol vorld

[Beneath
lie
to vin.
tioned
a vaulted grave, lie the ashes of Lady Hallyburton. A coffin-slab of Aber-
the before men-
interred
the
remains
of
John
deen granite (polished), with cross in alto-relievo on top, bears this inscription round the sides
:
Erected to the blessed
memory of Lady Augusta

;
Erskine, sometime in DunsmiU, a man of i)iety, worth, and honour, of high and honourable extraction, of universal poijularity, and distinguished for his exemplary life, his moral rectitude, his eminent piety towards God, the warmth and con.stancy of
his friendship, his conjugal affection, his courtesy
Gordon-Hallyburton. Born 3 Nov. 1S03 died 8 Dec. 1865. Her faith and hope were in the Lord
Jesus Christ.
to
all,
and
his kindness to the poor.]
The old churchyard of
Dun
A perpendicular
has a secluded and
this stone
romantic site at the top of a den,
upon a kind of peninsula, which is washed on the south and east by burns which flow from 30 to 40 feet below
the level of the cemetery.
are of a
tion
is
fine is drawn upon the face of from top to bottom the above inscripupon the left side of the line, the following
:
upon the right:

Conjvgis
The
is
older tombstones
etiam
charissimai,
AgneTjE
Burn,
conet
more
costly class than

;
commonly found
fteminas vere proba3, infra hoc
monvmentvm
dvntvr cineres
28,
hc-ec
tvrtvribvs
similes vixervnt,
;etatis 25,
ille
in rural churchyards
and, as will be seen from
simvl mortem ol;iervnt, hrec

qvid.
ille aitatis
what
follows,
some
of the inscriptions exhibit con:
Maij [Cal.]
:
17 Cal. Maij an.
siderable literary talent
a^raj Christi.
.
1696
Hoc
is,
tegitvr lapide
Alex.\ndr
.
fratres germani, qvi in
terris
COBVS .... vitam dvxervnt

.
Conjvgivm Christi ac animffl mors solvere Sed caruale potest conjvgis atq' viri.
uescit,
DUN.
[Beneatli this
223
of his beloved wife,
monument ai-e also laid the ashes Agnes Burn. They lived like
The next
three inscriptions are from plain bead-
turtles
and died together, she 1st May, aged 25, and he 15th April 1696, aged 28. Death can dissolve the carnal union of husband and wife but not the spiritual union of Christ and the soul.]
;
Here lyes Katren Stevenson, spous to Alexr Decembr anno 1672, of Here lyes Susanna Coulie, spous to John age 42. Jap, vho died ye 24 of December anno 1692, of
Coulie, vlio died ye 18 of
Also upon a table-shaped
monument
age 35
Wnder this ston doe sueetly rest A woman piovs, wertous, and chast
W^hose corps interd below, Lyes hid from eyes ;
Who in hir lyfe performed tuo dueties great,
Whos
Here
souls advancd,
skies.
A carefull
Infra
Mother, and a Loving Mate.
Uith Chryst above ye

lyes ane honest virgin
y**
{i\
p. 135.)
tvmvlvm hunc sepulchralem sepultre sunt reliquia3 sanctte in Domino defunct;^ Katharin.i:
FuLLARTONi, Davidis Erskin in Ballachie spouste dilectissimte, que, dum in terris degeret, vitam erga Deum pia, erga maritum casta, quoad amicos et propinquos humana, pauperesq, liberalis se illustrem fecit, circiter annos 44 vitam banc caducam degens ; 28 die Januarii, anno 1697, anima in patriam celestem placide migravit. Cumqea, tanquam matre tenerrima, conduntur cineres puerorum et puellarum quinq, in aetate iufantili morientium, beatam resurrectionem die judicij expectantium.
Disce mori, quicunqlegis
Margret Simson,
j'êars.
who
died
16 of
March anno
1699, of age 21
Here
CouUie,
of age
Agnas Bertie, spous to William miller, who died y^ 10 of March anno 1697,
lyis
55 yearS.
Upon
to
Belou lieth the ashes of
Margaret Gray,
spouse
John Erskine
pattern of
uho in her day uas a Christian verteus, and having groun up

in Cottrau,
fatal blou,
to a full ear, being 70 years of age, uas on the 5th

of
is
March, cut doun by Death's

resting from her labours,
and nou
follouing
mea
scripta, viator:
:
and her works
Omnes
requa
:
manent funera
Disce mori
her, 1702.
:
Disce mori
Frater discat
cum
prsesule, clerus
Cum
Juniore senex,
cum
sapiente rudis,
Alex. Couley, and Margt, Lyall, Leys on six children (1720) When silver bands of nature burst,
:
of
Dun,
[Beneath this sepulchral mound are interred the remains of the pious and dearly beloved wife of David Erskine in Ballachie, Katherine FullarTON, who died in the Lord. During her life on earth she was distinguished for piety towards God,
fidelity to her husband, kindness to her friends
And
The
let
the building
fall,
blest goes
doun
to
mix with
dust.
Its first original.
The tyrant death he triumphs

His trophies spread around
;
here,
and
And
heaps of dust
all
&
bones appear,
ground.
a.
neighbours, and liberality to the poor.
After she
Thro
the
hoUow
had passed nearly 44 years
in this transitory state
of existence, her soul calmly
winged
its flight to its
John Paterson, who

his gravestone :"
d. 1724,
81,
"left the
heavenly home, on 28 Jan. 1697.
And
with her,
substance of the following lines to be engraven on
as a most tender mother, are laid the ashes of five
boys and girls, who died in infancy, and here await a happy resurrection on the day of judgment.
Within this grave I do both ly and rest. Because the Lord perfumed ye grave at first
May when
I rise
unto
me
Christ grant this,
Whoe'er thou art that read'st these W'hich, Traveller, I have pen'd 0, learn to die and know that all
;
!
lines,
To be with him
Jean Edeson,
This
in his eternal bliss.
his wife, died 1704,
aged 59
^re equal in the end. The monk may from the
woman
here in hope doth rest,
abbot learn,
;
The young clerk from the old The unletter'd from the learn'd know, Our days must soon be told.]
Again to rise and be for ever blest After this lif, ue purpos here to ly,
And
Erected
ris
and reing with her
eternally.
bj'
]\Iargaret Paterson, in
memory
of
224
EPITAPHS,
AND INSCRIPTIONS:
born in the parish of Newbattle, 29 March 1716,
died 3 Jan. 1798.
her brother James Paterson of Redfield,

"15 Oct. 1791, in the 69th year of his age.
who died
A
who
wife
Latin inscription, scarcely legible, commelife
27 Feb. 1802.
son
Jean Cormack, his spouse, died William Crooks, M.D., died
morates the good
and actions
of
James Burn,
:
died in 1706.
is
The
portion relating to his
on his passage from Tobago to America, in 1802, Thos. Cross, of the Island of Tobago, aged 38.
planter, erected this
in better preservation,
and runs thus
monument
12 Dec. 1803.
Heir lyes Janet Edison, his spouse, who, after living with her husband for the space of 37 years, in a godly and wertuous married state, departed this life the 18 day of March 1707, of her age 00.
James Mwrey erected

his wife
this stone in
memory
life,
of
Agnes Lyel, who departed

and
of age
this
Feb.
the
8,
1732,
48 years.
Here lyes James
Murray, sometyme tenant in Litelmil of Boroufield, who departed this life the 20 of June 1733,
and
of age
. .
Here
lyes
Isobel
Lindsay,
spous to Robert
lif
Strauchen in Beuillo, uho departed this Nouember 1703, and her age 74 years
:
the 29
Believers, comfort lies in this, &c.
This
woman
left
A
;
tombstone (table-shaped), ornamented with
caled in evening of her ago,
Who
carvings of the Erskine and Stuart arms, and a

rudely incised figure of death, with a dart in one
her children to suplie her gtage

short, as
lif
Some long, some

For she
is
in earth, uber al
and death doeth cast, must com at last.
hand, and a Lochaber axe in the other, bears
Here lyes David Cob,

Jamson, who died y^ 2
age 75 year.
of
husband to Margret March, anno 1698, of
The
following
is
upon a table-shaped stone
and, as will be seen, the inscription contains a

curious allusion to the vocation of the person com-
Heir lyes ane faithfvU, good, and honest man, Georg Stuart, who died in the Lord the 8 day of Heir lyes ane Febrvar, anno 1687, of age 95. honest, vertovs and godly woman Mary Erskin, his spovs, and who died in the Lord 13 of lanvar, anno 1690, and of her age 81 Wnder this ston thir mortals doth remain,
:
memorated, as one versed in the " declension" and " inflexion" of nouns
:
Whil
Christ shal come and reas
them up again
Altho' by death they be in Prison cast,
S.
fuit
Hoc cippo tegitur quicquid mortale D. G. Alexandrt Cromar, Dunuensis per octennium
qui,
ludimagistri, in juventute erudienda seduli, fausti,

et
felicis,
And And
The Prince of Lyfe will reas them up at last, give them lyfe, which no more will decay,
habitation,
which wasteth not away.
grammaticaj doctus, mortem nee
declinare voluit, nee fatum flectere potuit.

suae
^tatis anno vigesimo octavo, ecvce Christianse 1733, Metam properamus ad unam. obiit.
Two
stone cists were got to the west of the
manse, and one to the north, each of which contained urns with ashes and pieces of bones.
Flint
[By
this stone is covered all that
was mortal
of
Alexander Cromar,
years, a diligent
schoolmaster of
Bun
for eight
arrow-heads have also been found in the parish.

Balneillie,
and successful instructor of youth, who, although a learned grammarian, neither wished He to decline death, nor was able to inflect fate.
died in 1733, in the 28th year of his age.
According to tradition, there was a chapel at on the west side of the parish, where
graves have been found.
We
human bones and
Dun
appears to have been a place of early imits
hasten to one goal. ]

1757.
portance, owing, possibly, to
proximity to the
Tegitur hoc cippo quicquid mortale fuit
King's residence at Montrose,

advantages.
and to natural
Georgii Walker.
[This stone covers
Metam properamus ad unam.

all
Its earliest recorded lay proprietor
that was mortal of

to one goal. ]
:
George
Walker.
We hasten
Upon
Thomas Crooks, sometime gardener
at Eccles-
John, afterwards farmer at Roadside of Tayock,
was John of Hastings, who had a grant of the He was manor of Dun from King William. and when the sheriff and forester of the Mearns monastery of Arbroath was founded, he endowed it with a salt-work at Dun, and an acre of land.
;
DUN.
The Hastings appear to have held lands in Angus down to about the beginning of the 14:th century. At one time the lordship of Dun stretched, on
the north and west of the Southesk, from the very
225
that they " wer the first movearis of him to that wicked deide, that therby he might atteane to the
right of the leviug of
fession, the sisters
Dynne."
Upon
this
con-
Montrose to the commonty and included a great part of the parishes of Dun, Logie-Pert, and Stracathro also a good portion of Craig on the south side of the river. This extent of territory was broken in upon by the Superintendent, whose circumstances, owing chiefly, it is said, to the demands which
ports of the
town
of
of the city of Brechin,
were apprehended, and tried in June 1614, when they were found to have been " airt and pairt" in the poisoning and were
;
sentenced to have " thair heiadis strukin frome thair bodeyis" at the IMarket Cross of Edinburgh.
all
were made upon him by the less opulent of the Eeforming leaders, became considerably embarrassed.
Isabell and Annas, sulfered accordbut Helen, who was confined in prison until 22d March 1615, had her sentence commuted to banishment " out of this kingdome, during hir
sisters,
;
The
ingly
lyftyme."
But another, and very different affair, had a much more damaging effect upon the Erskines. It appears that the laird of Dun, who married the
eldest sister of the first Earl of
The old house, or castle of Dun, where possibly these infatuated criminals as well as their victims
were born, and
the
in
which
it is
believed
Knox visited
the
Superintendent,
stood within
present
Panmure, died
young, leaving two sons, whose existence naturally precluded the succession of their uncle Robert to
the estates.
obstacles,
garden of Dun, near the kirkyard, where an old arched gateway, constructed of stone, and with
thick
Avails, prettily
covered with ivy,
still
marks
With the view
of
removing these
the site of the old baronial residence.
together at Logie,
Robert and his three sisters, who lived determined to poison the
In 1669, David Erskine of

cessors (Acta Pari., vol.
vii.
Dun and
his suc-
655), were
empowered
the sisters crossed the Cairn
two of Mount, and met with " ane notorious Witche and abuser of the
For
this purpose,
o'
" two zoung boyis."
people," called Janet Irwing, from
whom they rehow
ceived a quantity of herbs, with injunctions

to use them.
It appears that
they " steipit thame

;"
vpon the mure of Dun the second Whitsouday yeerly, for buying and selling of horse, nolt, sheip, meill, malt, and all sort of grane, cloath, lining, and woollen, and all sort of merchant commodities," with power to levy and upUft the tolls and customs, &c., in all
to hold a fair "
Wednesday
after
amangis
aill
ane lang space
and, after
much
time coming.
deliberation, as to whether the dose should be
administered, they resolved in the affirmative
and, accordingly, " about mydsomer" in 1610, the murderers " past al togidder furth of Logy,"
along with the eldest of their intended victims,

to the house of his mother in Montrose, where she and the other son were living for a time, and there the " poysoneable drink wes miuistrat," and given to their " brother soues." The eldest son died
;
Dun, which consists of three South Esk near the railway station. It was erected by the grandfather of the Marchioness of Ailsa, and was completed only a few months before his death. It bears this inof
The Bridge
arches, crosses the
scription
7 th June 1785, and finished on the 27th January 1787, by Alex-
This Bridge was founded on the
but the younger recovered.

until towards the
By some means
ander Stevens.
or
other, the Erskines contrived to evade the
law
The Rev. Wm. Burns, who
originated the
end
of the year 1613,
when the
brother was tried and found guilty.
cuted at Edinburgh 1st December 1613.
He was exeBy his

sisters,
Revivals at Kilsyth in 1838, and became the first missionary of the English Presbyterian Church in
China, was born at Dun, where his father was

parish minister.
own
admission, the brother appears to have been
a mere tool in the hands of his three
and
Mr Burns translated,
During his residence in Chiiia, and published, in the native

F F
226
EPITAPHS, AlfD INSCRIPTIONS.

descended from a long line of that name, who wag born on the IX. day of May MDCCXLIX., and died on the XXIX. day of April MDCCCXXV.
language, an edition of Bunyan's Pilgrim's Pro-
tomb in the foreign churchyard of Kiau-Chwang marks his grave {v. Life by Islay
gress, &c.
Burns), with this inscription
The
years.
above-named
William C. Burns, A. M. missionary to the Chinese, from the PresbyBorn in Dun, Scotland, terian Church in England. April 1, 1812 arrived in China, November 1847 died at Port of Nian-Chwaug, April 4, 1868, 2d
To the memory
,
of the
Eev.
a deaf and
Skene was succeeded by who only survived two The property then came to trustees for
Mr
dumb
brother,
behoof of the Earl of Fife, the heir of entail,
by whom the family
of Skene, through a female,
Cor.
c. V.
now represented. from The Bruce of

is
Robert Skene had a charter

the lands and loch of Skene,
period,
Dr
J. P.
NiCHOL, author
of the Architecture
dated at Scone,
June 1317, from which

in
Astronomy
Heavens, &c., afterwards Professor of in the University of Glasgow, began He was born at life as parochial teacher at Dun. Brechin, where his father was a merchant.
of the
until 1827-8, the family held the property in the
male
line.
It
was
consequence of the marriage

1775, with Mary,
of the third Earl of Fife, in

eldest
daughter of George Skene of Skene, that
the Duff family succeeded to the estates of Skene
and Careston, &c. it is of this lady's father and his servant, Harry Walker, that so many curious anecdotes are told by Dean Ramsay and
:
other writers.
(S.
As given
in heraldic books, the

is
BPJDGET, VIRGIN.)
is
origin of the family of
Skene
fanciful,
and said
to have arisen from their ancestor having saved
y^ OTHING certain
J^
a chaplainry
;
known
of the early hisit
the king's
life
by
killing a wild boar with a dirk,
tory of the kirk of Skene, except that
was
or skeen^ for which deed he received the lands,

it is
and
its
patronage vested in the Prin-
added, from INIalcolm

is
II.,
also his
surname.
cipal of St Leouai-d's College, St
Andrews.
is
Alan
" Skene"
also the
name
of a place in the parish
Hurward,
justiciary of Scotland,
the earliest re;
of Arbuthnott.
corded lay proprietor of
the district
and
it
A flat
scription
stone in the churchyard bears this in-
appears that in 1247-67, he granted Peter, Bisliop

of Aberdeen, an annual of 22s, from his lands of Scliene, in exchange for the second tithes of
O'Neil.
Hie humantur sub spe beatie resurrectionis ossa M'i LuD DuNLOP, hiijus ecclesite Skeenensis, et
:
The
burial enclosures of the lairds of

site
Skene and
kirk
alterius,
sciz.
Tarlanensis, annis 43
quondam
laudes
pas-
Concraig are upon the
of
the old
toris
fidelissimi.
Multa
in
ejus
;
dicere
Mr but Hcither contain monumental stones. Smith of Concraig was of a farmer family in
Kintore.
The property now

The
belongs
to
the
inanem gloriam forsan redoleret attamen celandum non est campanile hujus templi, inter alia laude digna, ejus sumptu magna ex parte extructum fuisse. Potiorem ejus partem tenet ccelum ubi vivit cum
Xto.
Obiit Feb.
6,
University of Aberdeen, having been bought by
1691, aitatis 71.
King's College.
present kirk, built in 1801,
has the belfry upon the south side. TO

JOnir
.
The
bell
[Here are interred, in the hope of a happy resurrection, the bones of Mr LuD. Dunlop, for 43 years
a most faithful minister of this church of Skeen, and of another, viz. that of Tarland. To say much in his praise would perhaps savour of vain glory but, amongst other laudable actions, it is deserving
;
THE
.
KIRK OF
.
MOWAT ME
FE
SKENE. OLD ABD

. .
1735.
A marble tablet,
within the church, bears:

of this
Near the southern wall

the mortal remaias of
church are interred

of Skene,
of record that the bell-tower of this
George Skene
erected in great measure at his expense.
church was His better
SKENE.
part
227
now
dwells in heaven with Christ.
He
died
turk has
fallen to
Mr M'Combie by
heirship.
6 Feb. 1691, aged 71.]
A table-shaped
Mr
.
tombstone erected over that of
Dunlop bears In memory of the Rev. James Hogg, D.D.,
mansion house of Easter Skene, the lands of which property, as well as those of Lynturk, he has vastly improved
built the present
Mr McCombie
minister of Skene,
who
died
much
of
respected and
by draining, reclaiming of waste laud, planting, and building, &c. Like his cousin, Mr McCombie,
Tillyfour, the laird of Easter
regretted 28 Nov. 1823, in the 72d year of his age,
Skene has acquired
and 47th
of
his ministry, 37
minister of the parish of Skene.
which he was His sister, Jean

in
fame
as a rearer of polled cattle, &c.

:
AVithin an enclosure on east of churchyard
Hogg, died 30 June 1835, aged 82. Mr H. was of the old family of Blairydryne
Sacred to the
memory
of
Elizabeth Forbes,
Durris.
daughter
of Geo.
Forbes of Boyndlie,
who
died 20
granite slab, within an enclosure in north:
Feb. 1853, aged 80.
east corner of kirkyard, bears
Miss Forbes was aunt to Mrs Shepherd

ville.
of
Kirk-
Within
this enclosure are interred the remains of
A daughter of the latter became the wife of
Katherine-Ann-Buchan Forbes, the wife of William McCombie of Easter Skene and Lynturk,
Major Alexander Forbes of Inverernan, who died on the IGth day of April 1835, in the 2Gth year of her age. And of their son, Thomas, who died on the 15th day of September 18-11, in the
of
and daughter
Mr Ireland, sometime F. C. minister of Skene and the following, upon a granite monument, near the above, relates to Mrs Ireland's mother
:
In
memory
of
Catherine Henderson,
relict of
10th year of his age.
the late Walter F, Ireland, D. D., minister of NorthLeith, who departed this life on the 22d of January
1853, aged G3.
Mrs
[Rev.
i.
17, 18
John
xiv. 19.]
:
McCombie's mother was a daughter

Forbes-INIitchell
of
of
Duncan
Thainston,
second
Near the above, a granite monument bears
of
son of Sir Arthur Forbes of Craigievar,

in Glenshee, also those of
(. p. 157.)
Mr McC.'s ancestors held the estate of Finnygauud

Forter and Crandart
in Glenisla, of the
first, mentioned of
Erected by the parishioners of Skene to the memory of the Rev. George Mackenzie, A.M.,
for 35 years the faithful
and beloved minister
which "John
the parish.
He
died 20 Dec. 1859, aged 72.

:
McComy-Moir"
[i.e.,
the big or great
McComie]
Upon
of
had a charter in 1571. The Clan M'Thomas, of which this individual was the chief, appears in the roll of the clans and broken men, and John's descendants, from a dispute about marches, seem to have borne a deadly grudge to their neighbours,
the FarquharsoDs of Brochdarg, so
in 1673,
William Chalmers, late of the SPt Regt. of Foot, who departed this life 17 Dec. 1809, aged 76. Margaret Millar, his first
wife, died in Florida Elizabeth Giffert, his second wife, died 1 Feb. 1801. Margaret Chalmers, his daughter by Margaret Millar, spouse of Alex.
;
To the memory
much
so that
when members
of the
two
families hap-
Norie, Carlogie, died 26 Dec. 1796, aged 42
pened to meet at Forfar, a fight took place, in which Brochdarg and a brotlier were killed, also two McComies. After this the Farquharsous and McComies were outlawed. One McComie fled to
the south,another, Donald, took refugeiu the Highlands of Aberdeenshire, and became ancestor of the
Of manners mild, to
all
who knew her
dear
;
The tender mother, best of friends, lies here Whose darling wit was comfort to impart,
Candour and meekness shone in all she said, Peace bless'd her life, and sooth'd her dying bed.
Dearest of mothers, best of friends, farewell
;
McCombies
It
of Easter
Skene and Lynturk, also of

laird of Easter
those of Tillyfour.
(Mem. of Angus and Mearns.)

who bought
the
May
this plain stone, children's affection tell

life
Through
was the father of the present
thy virtue was their joy and pride, In death their best example and their guide.
social cares
Skene, a merchant in Aberdeen,
Our
property of Easter Skene, since which time Lyn-
Thy
and fears, alas are o'er. love maternal cheers the heart no more.
!
228
EPITAPHS,
AND INSCRIPTIONS
James Carny,
Alex. Norie died at Aberdeen, 1822, aged 67. Jean Falconer, third wife of Win. Chalmers, died
at
who
Aberdeen 1830, aged 76, a woman very much beloved and respected by all who knew her and whose trustees have caused this stone to be erected
;
Kirktoun of Skene, His son James, 1810, aged 21. His spouse, Jean Brounie, departed this life June 6, 1832, aged 74.
late farmer in
died 13 Jan. 179S, aged 49.
died 25 Nov.
These were the parents and brother

Provost Carny of Macduff
{v. p.
of the late
to perpetuate her
memory
89.)
When the trumpet sound shall call, And we must leave this earthly vale
Then the cold tomb in brightest To joy immortal they shall rise.
The next
;
inscription,
east wall of burial ground, bears the
from a granite slab in name of one

:
skies
who made money
in India as a coach builder

of
The
the
following inscription, from one of three

of one of the last descendants of the
The burial place mundy, Skene.
William Gibson
(the first
of
Kin-
stones which relate to the same Wilsons, presents
name
The next two
inscriptions,
from a
Tyries of Dunnideer, a
the Garioch
{v.
Roman
:
Catholic family in
Insch)
marble head stone, the other abridged from a table-shaped stone,) relate to farmer families who
acquired
In memory of Alexander Wilson, fanner of Auchenclech, who died 1 June 1799, aged 82. Also of Elizabeth Tyrie, his spouse, who died 10 March 1814, aged 84. Also of John Wilson of Auchenclech, who died 8 April 1820, aged 66. Also his
spouse,
1836,
Sacred to the
of
money and property memory of James Davidson, Esq. Kinmundy, who died 3 Nov. 1 827, aged 72 years.
:
Erected by David Low of Fiddie, in memory of Elizabeth Smith, his spouse, who died 1833, aged
57
77
Mrs Jean Malcolm, who died
17 April
the said
aged 84. J- Died at AUathan, parish of Monquhitter, 8 Sep. 1845, in the 49th year of her
age,
David Low died 1841, aged Helen Reith, spouse of Robert Low
aged 58
the said
of this parish,
of Fiddie, died 1862,
Elizabeth Wilson,
eldest daughter of
John
Robert Low,
Also abridged
for 25 years
an elder
Wilson, Esq. of Auchenclech, and spouse of Alex. Mitchell, Esq. of AUathan. R. I. P. Requiescat in pace. May she rest in peace.
died 1869, aged 68.

:
Joseph, son of Joseph Allan, schoolmr. at Skene,
Here
life
lyes
Alexander Glen, who departed
this
in the year 1725, aged 64
Robson,
life
their relick,
who
departed this
in the
year
Elizabeth Allan, died 1779, aged ISj'ears spouse to And. Fowler at Broadiach, died 1799, aged 34. The said Joseph Allan, schoolmaster at
Skene
wife
for 62 years, died
1755
1819, aged 87.
His
first
James Burnet, died 2d March 1807, aged 98 Margaret Raeeurn, his spouse, died 10th Feb.
1803, aged 88.
&c.
:
Agnes Collie, died 1784. The above Andrew Elizabeth Fowler, died 1827, aged 72 Malcolm, his spouse, died 1854, aged 87 George
. .
Upon
their son, died 1864, aged 73.
a granite obelisk
1865.
George Mellis,
leader of the church
choir of Skene, died 13 Feb., aged 32.

of regard to his
This tribute
Cinerary urns, stone

of antiquity,
circles,
and other
traces
memory
b.
is
erected
by the
choir,
and a few
friends.
Skene.
1777, d. 1856,
have been found in various parts of The hill of Keir, the summit of which
Marjory Milne,
of 50 years
"was upwards
presents trenches, ditches, &c., resembling those
an attached and valued servant in the family of Mr Thomas Burnett of Kepplestone, by
whose widow
regard."
this tablet is erected as a token of
A plain headstone bears
upon the Barmakin of Echt {v. p. 66), is well worthy of being visited by the antiquary. A rude boulder upon a rising ground on Easter Skene, near the boundary between the parishes of Skene and Kinellar, bears
:
Erected by Alex. Carny, in
memory
of his father,
Drum
Stone.
1411.
Harlaw.
TOWIE.
229
According
Drum
rested
to
tradition,
Sir
Alex.
Irvine of
his
previous kirk, in which was found a coffin-slab,
upon
this stone
when on
way
to
the battle of Harlaw, and beheld for the last time
with a cross upon it, terminating in a good example of the fleur-de-lis. The church bell bears
the
the ancient tower of his ancestors, he having, like

the greater part of the flower of those barons and
their retainers
in the
name
it is
of
Mr Lumsden
upon the
:
of CoRRACHRiiB.
kirk
:
His burial
within
aisle is
site of the old
who fought
at llarlaw (as related
this inscription
well-known ballad which celebrates that

" Left to the world their
last gude-nicht."
Here
1777,
lies
Mr James Lumsden
73.
of Corrachree, late
sad event), there
minister of the Gospel at Towie,
who
died Feb. 15,

his spouse,
lies
aged
And Mary Grant,

13,
As shown
above,
the family of Skene
first
acquired a grant of the lands and barony of Skene
who died Jan. Lumsden
1778, aged 77.
Here
John
son to
John Lumsden and
from Robert the Bruce.
According to Douglas Skene was looked upon as " the first built stone houso in Marr." It is described as having consisted of three storeys, built with lime quite run together, or vitrified, with walls above ten feet thick, and to have been entered by a ladder on the second storey, while the third storey was " covered with a mount of
(Bar., p. 555), the house of
Katharine Kearin, Aberdeen, 1741, aged 5 years.
who
died April 13,
[Upon a
slab in outside of wall]

J.
CONDITORIUM
LUMSDEN DE CORRACHREE.
admitted minister of Towie 9
least four daughters
Mr L., who was

June
son.
17-40,
had at
of
and one
married,
Three
the
daughters
were
;
earth upon the top."

this state until 1680,
out,
Skene House remained in the arches were taken and the house roofed and floored. The old
Mary to
to
when
part
still
forms a portion of the present house of

to,
Dingwall of Aberdeen Margaret, Gordon, Belly and Elizabeth, to Capt. John Grant of Duthil. The son Robert (born IG INIarch 1745), wrote some clever satires,
Bailie
Mr James
Skene, which has been added

different periods.
and
altered, at
such as the See in the Forest, and Jean of Bog-
The Loch
of
Skene
is
a singularly beautiful
north,
object, particularly
when seen from the
with the picturesque mountains of Clochnabane, Mount Battock, &c., in the background.
Mr L. was succeeded Ib (v. p. 188.) Towie by Mr Mearns, v?ho was translated to Cluny (q.v.) in 1795. Near Lumsden 's aisle, a granite obelisk, within
more,
a railed enclosjure, Sacred to the
is
thus inscribed
of Gen.
memory
Sir
Alexander
Leith, K.C.B., of Freefield and Glenkindie, who died 19 Feb. 1859, aged 84. Also of Maria Thorp, Erected by his first wife, who died 2 Aug. 1834.
his surviving
widow, Mary Mackenzie Leith.
Sir Alex. Leith, who was a brave soldier, served

(?S.
.)
in
the French and Peninsular wars,
and was
KILBATTOCH,
Kynbethot, and Kinbat-
knighted in 1815.
Colonel
;
He rose to
the rank of Lieut.
TOcn,are old forms of thename of this parish. Another authority calls it " Kilbartha, or Bartha's Cell or church." It was also known as Tovvie-Brux, from having belonged at one time The church was anciently a to Forbes of Brux. vicarage of Old Machar. The present kirk, which has a prominent position
to his soldiers
and from an expression which he used when they were coming to close quarters with the enemy on one occasion, he was known in the army by the soubroquet of Cauld By his first wife he had his successor in Steel. the estate, and another son, Col. Disney Leith,
C.B., who distinguished himself at Moultan. Since then he has married the only child of Sir H. Gordon of Knockespock. Sir A.'s "surviv-
upon the south
side of the
Don,
is
dated
1808.
It is a plain building, near the site of the
230
ing widow"
EPITAPHS,
is
AND INSCRIPTIONS
The
in 1571, Captain Ker, deputed by Sir Adam Gordon of Auchendown, demanded " to be raudrit to him in the Queynis name ;" and the request being refused by the lady (her lord being from home), " fyre was put to the hous, wharin she, and the nomber of 27 persons, war cruelie brynt to the death." This barbarous proceeding, which was done to revenge certain insults which the
a Mackenzie
of
Glack.
Leiths of Freefield and Gleukindie, like those of

Leith-hall, &c., are descended
from
Wm.
Leith
of
Barns in Premnay,
provost of
Aberdeen,
last
1352-55.
of the
One
of the Leiths married a daughter

;
of Strachan of Glenkindie
and Patrick, the
male
line of the Strachans, sold the estate
in 1738 to his cousin, Alex. Leith (grandfather of
Sir Alex.),
who
died about 1754.

first
Forbeses had given to the Gordons,

in the touching ballad of
is
celebrated
Mary Duncan,
a.
wf. of Js. Strachan, d. 1771,
Edom
o'
Gordon.
to
The
some
27
:
Here
lyes interred
unfortunate
Lady Forbes, who, according
The body
of a saint of
Who liv'd
in
below this clod. God, hope and expectation
accounts, was pregnant at the time of her sad
death, was a daughter of Sir
Calder
John Campbell of and her charred remains are said to have
Of Jesus Christ for her salvation. She liv'd a good and pious life, A loving, chaste, and faithful wife She died in peace with God above.
been buried in the now obliterated kirkyard of
Nether Towie.
;
The
Forbeses, designed of Tollies, or Towie, in

to
And
1494, are said
have sprung from Alexan-
rests in his Eternal love.
der of Brux, 4th son of Sir John of Forbes,

died in 1305.
who
Erected by public subscription, in memory of John Procter, Esq., surgeon. Born 26 July 1810: died 14 April 1854.
The
estate of
Towie was Forbes
property
century.
down
to about
the middle of the 17th
Alexander Lyon, A.M., graduate

College, Aberdeen, afterwards of
of
King's
Sydney Sussex CoUege, Cambridge, " at both of which Universities he obtained many honourable testimonials of un-
to
In 1357, Thomas Earl of Mar gave a charter Adam of Strathauen and his wife Margaret, the Earl's cousin, of part of the lands of Glenkindie, and Glenboul, called
common
abilities
and attainments, withdrawn by
Rummor. FromaseW,
untimely death on 5th day of June 1850, in the 2.3d year of his age." Erected by his parents, Alexanander Lyon and Helen Tough.
1488, of the lands of Murthlich (now Morlich),
which belonged to the Abbey of Cupar, it appears that Margaret Charteris was the name of the lady
To the memory of the Rev. Robert Lindsay, LL.D., born 19 March 1799; ordained minister of this parish 20 Aug. 1840 ; died 31 Oct. 1851.
It
is
said that there
were three chapels in
dif-
ferent parts of the parish in old times.
In the neighbourhood of Kinbattoch, is the site of a rath, or fort but this, as well as the Peel of Fechley (upon which are the slender remains of an ancient
;
and that she had " tua sonnis callit Jhonne and Alexander of Strahaquhyn." There Avas a knighthood in the Glenkindie family at one time and it is probable that they were a branch of the Strachans of the ]\Iearns (v. p. 134.) The well-known tragical ballad of Glenkindy is intended to illustrate a tradition in the courtship of Strachan and the Earl of Mar's daughter, in which " Gib his man," or page, is represented as having played
of Glenkindie at the latter date
; ;
and the other antiquities in the parish, are noticed in the Statistical Accounts, &c.
fort),
Of Towie
Castle,
which adjoins the
kirk,
some
" the loon," for which he forfeited his life. The house of Glenkindie (locally situated in the parish of Strathdon), is a snug chateau, amidst
ancestral trees,
older castle, surrounded
of the vaulted cellars,
and a portion of the square tower, only remain, round the latter of which a protecting wall has been recently built. It is generally believed that this was the place which.
up the
glen.
and partly clad with ivy. An by a foss, stood farther But it appears that a house had been
built near the site of the present one, in 1595.
ABERCHIRDER,
Two
V.
carved stones are
bears
. . .
or
MARNOCH.
231
still
there
one,
below a
initials
shield with the Strachan arms,

S.,
:
and the
wants elegance in design, and beauty of situationto the latter of which, the old site, on the banks of the Deveron, forms quite a contrast.
Little of the old kirk of Marnoch remains and a vault, or place where bodies were deposited,
;
ins
op
.
straf)iil)iri
ic
.
gUnkenliic
.
Ijoc
fecit
is
annfl
tiui
15
The
other slab
inscribed
prior to interment, during the resurrection mania,
MD=LXXX.XV.
" built by subscription in the year 1832,"
is
now
VELAM
STRAQVHEN BEGET T
. .
OF
GLENKENDE.
an object of little interest. however, are of a superior

to local story, executed
Some
class.
of the tombs,
One, in the
Two
END
;
door
lintels, in
the present house, bear the
north-east corner of the enclosure, was, according
Leith cross-crosslet, the motto,

also these dates
A.
trusty to the
:
by a common mason at
and
initials
1787.
Crombie.
It
is
of Elgin freestone, dated 1694,
c. D.,
1741.
A.
c. s.,
James Wilkie, a divinity student, and native The Holy Sabbath and other poems (Abd. 1841.) The poems are of a pensive
of Towie, wrote
and presents, impaled, the arms of Meldrum of Laithers and Duff of Braco, surrounded by an elegant scroll ornament. Within an oval, the
half-length life-sized eifigy of a bearded ecclesiastic,
with cap,
:
frill,
and gown,
in
is
carved in bold
melancholy turn, to which, unfortunately, the

author
fell
a victim.
hand, and a book in the left. Below Cupon an oblong oval, and convex piece of polished Portsoy marble), is
relief
is
a scroll
the right
Hie jacet reverendus

Gius
(S.
et pius defunctus D.
GeorGlass,
Meldrum
de Crombie,
quondam de
prseco fidelissimus, qui officio pastorali,
dum ferebant
MARNAN,
BISHOP.)
tXiriE kirk
of Ahirkerdour,
now Marnocii, a
Dives enim fuit nou avarus, lucri gratia conscieutiam violare noluit,
tempera, diligenter functus erat.
pacifice et sobrie vixit, et hinc migravit
vicarage of the cathedral of Moray, was given
anno Dom.
by King William the Lion to the Abbey of Arbroath. Between 1 203-14, Gilchrist, Earl of Mar, gave the same convent the patronage of the church
of Aberchirder, the right to
fully contested with the
1692, aitatis sua3 76.
[Here
lies
the late reverend and pious
Mr George
a faithful
Meldrum of
Crombie, sometime of
(ilass,
which he had successof
preacher, who, while the times permitted, diligently
King and the Bishop

S.
discharged the duties of his pastoral
office.
Not
;
Moray. According
" dyed very
being avaricious, he was rich, and would not do

to
tradition,
Marnan, who
violence to his conscience for the sake of gain

lived peaceably
he
flourished about the middle of the 7th century,

old,
and
soberly,
and departed hence
and was buried at Aberchirdir."
A.D. 1692,
in the 76th year of his age.]
ford on
the Deveron, and a well near the
church, still bear his name. Possibly there was an altar to Our Lady in the church in old times, as an adjoining spring is named Lady Well.
M., who previously " exercised" at Aberdeen, was admitted minister of Glass in 1644 and there, in 1650, one of his elders, in the pre;
Mr
sence of the session (alluding to some reported

favia), declared he had heai'd a parishioner say that " he sould cause that lowne the minister
The
present church, which was removed from
the kirkyard about the beginning of the present
century, occupies the site of a stone

rising
circle,
upon a
haue a fowll face

Laithers,
!"
Mr
M.'s father was laird of

sister of
ground to the north-east.

little
Like
many
and
his
mother was a
Adam
parish churches of the period, that of
Marnoch
presents
worthy
of notice, save
two material
George Meldrum is said to have had three daughters (Doug. Bar., 138.)
Duff of Clunybeg.
Mr
232
EPITAPHS,
Mr Meldrum
AND INSCRIPTIONS
3 Oct.
1780.
Besides Crombie, in Marnoch,
held
This vault and monument were
large possessions in the parishes of Turriff
and
erected at the request of his disconsolate widow,
all which he was succeeded by John Ramsay of Melross, in Gamrie, as heir Crombie (the old house of which still of entail. stands), was previously possessed by Walter Urquhart, who, along with a number of accomplices, was charged with the murder of a brother of Lord
Inverkeithny, &c., iu
Helen,
Esq.
daughter of Peter Gordon of Ardmealie,
Mr Innes,
descended
Frendraught in 1642. A flagstone, which forms the entrance to a

vault, within the
tioned
same enclosure monument, bears

:
as the last-men-
who was a W.S. in Edinburgh, was from the Edingight family, and inherited Muiryfold from his father {v. p. Leaving no issue, he was succeeded by the 101). daughter of his younger brother, Thomas Innp:s of Monellie. The latter, also a W.S., died at Edinburgh, 6th Sept. 1779, and was buried in Mr T. Innes' daughthe Greyfriars' churchyard.
ter married
Turriff,
This is now the burial place of the family of Ardmealie, being a gift from William Dufl of Crombie to James Gordon of Ardmealie, his nephew,
James, a eon of Rose of Gask, near

Ballivat,
who was descended from John of
2d son of the
in 1517.
Hugh Rose
is
:
of Kilravock,
who
died
who
died 31 July 1791.
Mr
Rose assumed the name of Rose'

thus recorded at
The Ardmealie Gordons were a branch of those

From Gordons of Craig (i'. Auciiendoik). the property of Ardmealie was bought by Morrison of Auchentoul, father of the present laird of Bognie. It afterwards belonged to Edward EUice,
Esq.,
Innes. His death upon a marble slab
Maruoch
to
To the memory
1814,
of
James Rose- Innes, spouse

:
Elizabeth-Mary Innes of Netherdale

aged
40.
[Their
eldes't
died 4 Aug. and second sons
M.P., from
of
whom
bought by the trustees of
and Mayen were the undermentioned Mr

it
Thomas and William

in 1799
died in infancy respectively
and 1800.]
for about
Gordon
Avochie,
who
:
sold
Drumlithie,
in
The following, from another tablet, shows that

Mrs Rose-lnnes survived her husband
37 years
:
the Mearns, to
Mr
Miller
of
memory
of
John Gordon, Esq. and Mayen, who died the 27 of Nov.

In memory
of
Avochie 1857, aged

his
To
the
Mrs Elizabeth-Maky Rose-
60 years.
Innes
of Netherdale,
who
died at Netherdale, 17
The
above-named
Mr
Gordon succeeded
Jan. 1851, aged 73.
W.S. in Edinburgh, in the lands of Upon his death in 1857, Avochie and Avochie. Mayen came, by entail, to the present laird,
father, a
The property and mansion-house of Netherdale

are beautifully situated
the
upon the north bank

originally
of
Deveron.
Netherdale,
called
Adam Hay.
son of a
father.
Mr Hay
is
also a
W.S., and the
Pittendriech, and Mains of Fyvie,
was acquired
sister of
the last-named
Mr
Gordon's
by
Mr
Innes from the Earl of Fife in excambiou
Mr Hay
(v.
assumes the name of Hay-
for Muiryfold.
The present name was given the
Gordon
Kinoke).
:
property, and the house built, bylMiss Innes about
An
adjoining enclosure contains marble tablets,
1795,
when
she married
of
Mr
Hose.
of
respectively inscribed as follow
To the memory
Georgina Gilzean, spouse

:
Within this vault are deposited the remains of John Innes of Muiryfold, Esq. Distinguished for judgment, candour, and integrity, he employedthose qualities with cheerful and unremitting application in the service of his friends and his neighbours. In domestick life, an affectionate husband and generous master in society a most agreeable companion. Born 11 March 1729, he died lamented
;
James Rose-lnnes, third son of Jas. Rose-lnnes, and Elizabeth-Mary, his spouse died 10 Oct, 1836, aged 28. Elizabeth-Mary, only daughter of Jas. Rose-lnnes and Georgina Gilzean, died aged 14 years and 9 months. James Rose-Innes, spouse of Georgina Gilzean, died 10 June 1845, aged 44.
James Rose-lnnes, W.S., who died in 1845, was 3d son of the heiress of Netherdale. His
ABERCHIRDER,
wife
or
MARNOCH.
of
233
(who
predeceased
him
ia
1836),
was a
Here lyes the body

of
daughter of
shire.
Mr
Gilzean of Bunachtou, luverness-
son to Patrick Thain in Euchrie,
William Thain, who died
lauful
the 22
Their son, T. Gilzean Rose-Innes,
now
March 1755
a
laird of Netherdale, married Grace,
daughter of
Though now
Thain and it
is
is
somewhat uncommon surname,

district
W.S., Edinburgh. Besides the family already named, the heiress of Xetherdale had a daughter (who lives at Netherdale Cottage), and three sons John, a merchant in London, who died in 1867 Capt. Patrick, of Blachrie House, Fyvie (to whose kindness I am obliged for notes regarding his family) and George, of Ardfour, a solicitor in Loudon. A monument, with the Chalmers and Innes coats impaled, initialed M. H. C E. I., and dated
Fraser,
:
Mr
one of some antiquity in the
interesting to notice that in connection
with the very place named in this inscription, " Patryk Thane the aid wycar of Inuerkethuy,"
was, in 1493, one of several persons who perambulated the lands of " Yocbry et Achbrady,"
as part of the kirk lands of Aberchirder.
Yochry,
Eochry, or Echry,
is
a sort of peninsula or head-
land of the Deveron, and may have its name from having abounded at one time in yew trees.
1709, contains this inscription
Upon
a table-shaped stone:
officio fidelis-
Sub hoc monumento reconduntur exuviae Mr' HuGONis Chalmers, qui ecclesice hujus Marnochensis
A.D. 36
circiter
est.
anuos pastoris
sime functus
Doctus absque vanitate, pius
citra ostentationem, gravis sed
non morosus,
veri-
tatem pacemque constantissime coluit, et tandem, exacto 59 amiorum curriculo, ex hac aerumnosa lachrymarum valle iu patriam ccelestem commigravit quiuto die Junii 1707.
of James Simpson, who January 30, 1777, aged 62 years j and IsoBEL Mackie, his wife, who died 26 May This stone is erected by their 1787, aged 68 years. son, John Simpson, merchant iu Quebec.
Sacred to the
memory
departed this
life
When we devote our youth to God, &c. John Simpson died Oct 30, 1858, aged S3. William Simpson died 3 Nov. 1867, aged
55.
[Under
this
monument
are laid the remains of
Mr Hugh Chalmers,
A stone slab
Marnoch
:
in a pillar of the kirkyard gate
who, for about 36 years,

fidelity,
preserves this record of
John Simpson's
birth,
and
discharged with the greatest
the office of
Learned without vanity, pious without ostentation, grave but not morose, he constantly studied truth and peace, and at length, after a career of 59 years, departed from this sorrowful valley of tears to the heavenly land, 5th June 1707.]
pastor of this church of Marnoch.
of his liberality to the heritors of the parish of
in Quebec,
John Simpson, mercht.
was born
in
the parish of Marnoch, A.D. 1747, and at his sole expense erected these churchyard walls, A.D. 1793.
Jas.
Watson, gardener, Ardmeallie,
d. 1780, a.
Upon
flat
stone in area of burial ground
79:-
A humourous sympathising friend,

Whose bones
Kegarding
lies in this
John Taylor, Mill of Crombie, d. 1721, a. 44 Margt. Johnston, his vd. d. 1748, a. 61 Here lyes the man aud wife, whose actions just. Still blooms afresh, tho' now they're turn'd to dust;
, :
dark abode
Companion was
man
mean, and fearing God.

for high or
Unlearned were both, yet from God's laws ne'er

swerv'd,
Believ'd in Christ, and
The next two

Memento
inscriptions are chiefly remark:
able for their orthographical peculiarities
him they daily
serv'd.
Be thankful then, since ye're like labourers sent The more's requir'd of them where much is lent In memory of their honest lives and deaths
William,
their son, this stone Bequeaths.
:
AReCTed By RObeRT GRaY shoemaker in CrANNA to the memory of his son Robert and daughter Jean who departed this
moeriy.
life
Octr.
30 Nov. 12 1817.
In
memory
of his
Mother
Isabel lay en
who
departed this
life
1822
Near the above
aged
73.
G G
234
Memento
Api-iL 1782
EPITAPHS,
mori.
AND imCRIPTIONS
IN
FOggLON Who DEParted

Egged
30.
:
His Fader R. G. MaSSaN This Life The 22
OF
The district of Aberchirder was a thanedora, from which, as was the fashion of the period, the thane, or king's steward, assumed his surname.
The family
Upon
To
a headstone
the
De Aberchirder
;
appears to have
memory
of the late
George Christie,
been of considerable note

Junes genealogy,
and, according to the
tinsmith and engraver, Fergustown,

Feb. 18G0, aged 58.
who
died 10
"Dame Jauettee of Aberchirder,

whom
he acquired
Erected by his friends and
daughter to Sir David the Thayne of these lands,"

married Sir llobt. Junes, by
acquaintances as a token of their admiration of his honest industry, moral worth, intelligence, and Here rests a pri self -acquired mechanical genius.
soner
" a considerable estate," and bore her arms (three boars' heads erased), along with his own.
the best record exists.
now
released.
.
Upon
who
a marble slab
Sacred to the
memory of the Rev. John Edwards,
Symon, thane of Aberchirder, that About 128G-9, he founded a chapel on the banks of the " Duff hern," dediit is of
But
died on the 1st day of October 1S4S, in the
cated to S.
57th year of his age, and the 9th of his ministry.
Menimis or Monanus, which he endowed with four silver merks out of the mill of
" Carnoussexth" (Carnousie),and other privileges,
to which charter his brother William de Aber-
Post nubila ccelum.
Mr Edwards was
of
the son of a small farmer in
the parish of Grange.
He was
schoolmaster
first
kerdouer
is
a witness.
Boharm, next
of his native parish.
of Fife presented
1837.
him to the living of Being vetoed by the people, application

of Stratbbogie
The Earl Marnoch in
was
also thane of
It appears that Symon Cunwath (Inverkeithny), six
davachs of which he granted to the Earl of Buchau
with the view of being reponed in the thanage of

Aberchirder, of which, for some cause or other
(possibly
to
was then made by the Presbytery

to act in the matter.
to the superior ecclesiastical courts for advice
how
by King Edward
in 1296), he appears
The church
courts advised
have been dispossessed.
Symon was dead
the rejection of the presentee
on the other hand,
before 12
Sibilla
the Court of Session ordered his admission to the charge " if found competent." Four members of
the Presbytery voted for the former, and seven
March 1328, as of that date his daughter was recognised as his heiress in part of the
of
lands of Westircaringusy, which she conveyed to
William
trace
is
upon which the General Assembly deposed the majority, and also deprived the presentee of his license. After Mr Edwards was
for the latter course,
found.
Melgdrum. Of Sometime
this lady
no further
after
the death of
Symon
to
of Aberchirder, the
thanedom was given
vetoed, the patron issued a
favour of the Kev. the previous
new presentation David Henry, assistant
in
to
Walter Lesly, by whose descendant, Alexander, Lord of the Isles, it was granted in 1439, under the name of " the l>aro)iy of Aberchirder," to Sir
minister.
Mr Henry was
by
set aside,
" the
Walter Junes, son
of the
before-named Sir Robert

S.
choice of the people," and inducted

of the Presbytery.
a minority
Junes and Janet Aberchirder.

place
Being
under the
above
circumstances,
Mr Henry
continued to
labour at Aberchirder to a large congregation in

the Free Church, and died there in 1870. joined (McCosh's
He was
by
tioo
Wheat and
the Chaff),
of the original protesting ministers of Strathbogie
stood at a two miles below S. John's "Wêll and S. the bridge of Marnoch. John's Ford are near the Chapelton and " Sanct Huchomy's Well" is in another part of the parish. AU these names possibly indicate sites of old
Probably the chapel of

still
Menimis
called Chapelton, about
It
need scarcely be added that "the Marnoch case"

it
places of worship.
caused the passing of Lord Aberdeen's Church

Act, also that
The bridge
of
Marnoch bears the date
of 1806.
hastened the Disruption of 1843,
short distance below the bridge, situated (as
and that
the seven^ as well as

office of
Mr
Edwards, were
the
name
implies)
upon a promontory, stands the

It is said to
reponed to the
the ministry.
house of liiuairdy.
have belonged at
MARYTON.
one time to the Crightons of Frendraught, more it formed a part of the barony of AberPrior to 1650, Kinairdy belonged to
minister of
ros, in liferent, to
235
Hugh of Roxburgh,
wax
chancellor,
anciently
chirder.
to be held of the
Abbots of Arbroath, on the payyearly. (Reg.
ment
S.
of three stones of
Vetus
Mr John Gregory,
name.
Drumoak, an-
de Aberbrothoc.)
the present church.
cestor of the celebrated mathematicians of that
The
jDroperty of Kinairdy, also the pa-
tronage of the kirk of Marnoch, were acquired
Mary's Well is in the immediate vicinity of The church was built in 1791. hand bell at the manse bears " Makytoun,
;"
:
by Lord Fife from a family named Donaldson, the first of whom was a merchant in Elgin (q. v.) A stone slab upon the front of the house of Kinairdy gives this account of the erection of the
oldest existing part of
it
:
1730
and the
bell
upon the kirk
is
thus in-
scribed
MICHAEL
BVRGERHVYS
.
F
.
1G42
SOLI
DEO
GLORIA
REBUILT
&
ROOF'd BY THO. DONALDSON
&
ELIZ.
DUFF, A.D. 1725.
NULLI CERTA DOMUS.

of Auchintoul Built partly by,
is
Within, and upon the north wall of the kirk, a handsome marble monument (adorned with the Lindsay arms, and motto, firm us maneo), bears
this inscription
:
The mansion house

middle of the parish.
the residence of Gen.
near the
it
was long
Alex. Gordon, who oban account in

died at
:
tained distinction under Peter the Great of Russia,

of whose history the General wrote
Sub hoc marmore reconditus jacet Reverendus vir, David Lyndesius, (ex prisca Lyndesiorum farailia de DowhiU oriundus), ecclesife de Marytown per 33 annos pastor vigilantissimus, vir singular! literarum cognitioue, et
vols.
(Aberd. 1765).
Gen,
Gordon
summa rerum
peritia
Auchintoul, aged 82, and was buried at Marnoch
no stone marks his grave. Within a mile of Auchintoul stands the Vilkuje of Aherchirder, or New Marnoch, sometimes called " Foggieloan." It occupies a rising ground, from
which a good view of the surrounding
streets.
Regem, reverentia in Episcopos, et humanitate erga omnes insignia, obiit 16 8eptembris 1706, ajtatis suas 62. Hie etiam siti sunt duo filii impuberes Gulielmus et Alexander, et Katharina filia, cixjus eximiam formpe venustatem omues virgine dignaj virtutcs facile
ornatus ; pietate in
tide in
Deum,
district is
a^quabaut.
obtained, and consists of a square, with diverging
[Beneath this
There are some good shops and dwelling houses in Aberchirder, a branch bank, also Free, Episcopal, U.P., aud Baptist Churches, together with a Roman Catholic Chapel. In 1861, it had
David Lyndsay
Lyndsay
(a
marble lies interred the Rev. descendant of the old family of
of Dowhill), for 33 years the
most vigilant
a
pastor of the church of Marytown.

of profound erudition,
He was
man
and
of the greatest aptitude
a population of about 1263 persons, the females being 221 in excess of the males
I
for business, distinguished for piety

fidelity to the
towards God,
King, respect for the Bishops, and
all. (He died as above. ) Here also two of his sons who died in childhood, William and Alexander and his daughter Katharine, in whom rare personal beauty, and
kindness to
are laid
every maidenly virtue shone with equal
lustre. ]
(THE VIRGIN MARY.)

fX^'HE kirk
sit
Mr Lyndsay was the

Maryton.
son of
Records, 3IS.
last
Episcopal minister of
of Marintoyi was' a vicarage of the
According to the Brechin Presbytery (May 1, 1673), he was " younger

of Rescobie
The patronage and Old Munros, with its lands, called in the Scotch speech AhtJien, were given to the Abbey of Arbroath by William the Lion The same king granted the Abbey lands of Muncathedral of Brechin.
tithes of S.
Mr
David Lindsay, minister
Mary
of
(and) was presented to the kirk of Marieton by

the Archbishop of St Andrews."
of Dowhill claim descent
The Lindsays from Sir William Liudsay

by
of Rossy, in Fife, sou cf Sir Alex, of Gleuesk,
236
EPITAPHS,
AND INSCRIPTIONS.
Mr
James Orr, husband to Ann Hampton, who lived sometime in the Bearmeans of Old Montrose, departed this life 11 Nov. 1745, aged 57.
his second wife, a niece of Robt. TI.

is
This branch
represented by David Baird Lindsay, Esq.
Mr Lamy, on his translation from Maryton to Faruell. Mr Lamy (who was maternal grandfather of the celebrated Dr John
Lindsay succeeded
Arbuthnott), was possibly a cadet of the old
Upon
at the
James Forrest,
which
collector of toll duties leviable
Lamies
of Duukenny {v. p. G8-.) The churchyard, which is kept in good order, contains a number of tombstones, from which the
Montrose Bridge for the space of 10 years, ofiice he fuLfilled to the satisfaction of all
concerned
following inscriptions are selected
marble slab inserted into the top of the above stone bears that Capt. Jamks Dukie of
the Libra of Montrose, and his brother John,
carpenter of said vessel, were both drowned at
sea,
........
Mrs
Wm.
son of
Wm.
Lawrance, vintner, Usan, was

:
drowned
in a draw-well, Oct. 1787, a. 3 years
Doth Infant's pain and death proclaim, That A.dam did Rebel ?
His destiny declares the same. Being drowned in a Well. Let all who mourn his early death,
18 Oct. 1843.
Mary Forukst
82-,
(wife
of J. F.), died in 1848,
aged
&c.
Alex. Greig, farmer (1755)
Primo Deus Hinc anni
ferro mortales vertere terram instituit.

;
Hate
sin the fatal cause,
Agricola iucuruo terram dimouit aratro

labor,
And
flee to
Jesus Christ by faith

Satan's jaws.
hinc patriam paruosq' nepotes
Who saves from

Charles Mtlne,
Creator around
d. 1786,
sustiuet.
first divinely taught to turn up with a ploughshare. The husbandman breaks up the ground with the plough hence the labour of the year hence he supports his country,
a 56
[Mortals were at
soil
the
what an awful scene is here. The adorable me and the Bones of my fellow creatures under my Feet, The fatal shafts fly so
promiscuously, that none can guess the next victim.
Passing over the couch of decrepit age, Death has
and
his little gi-and-chiklren.]
nipped Infancy in its Bud, & blasted Youth in its Bloom, therefore be ye always ready, for in such an hour as yo thinlc not, the final summons will come.
By He
honest industry and guiltless toil, liv'd on earth manuring still the soil Yet not to earth were all his thouglits confiu'd, For bread of life his labours were design'd. adjoining stone bears
lyes
:
An
James Petrie,
I,
d. 1739, a.
So
:
joy.
Here
when the Trumpet Sounds with

Shall quit
Goukhill,
David Dennies, sometime wiver who departed this life the 5th day
of his age
in
of
my
earthly bed
May
anno Dommino 1742, and

a brass plate
(v.
G2
j'ears.
The
voice that calls
Arise,
me wont annoy come forth ye Dead.
Upon
p. 91^,
:
sunk into the
top of a table-shaped stone
Heir lyis Alexander Litch, svmtym indvelar Old Montrois, hvsband to Beatsy Ramsy, vho The Lord gives and depairtid 11 March 1639. Memento mori takes, blesed be his holy name.
in
noli parco.
The Piev. Andrew Fergusson, born March 1769 ordained assistant to his father, the Rev. David Fergusson, minister of Faruell, Oct. 16, 1793 ; admitted minister of this parish March 1795 ; demitted May 18, 1843 died minister of the Free Church in
;
The
is
following, in beautifully interlaced letters,

:
this parish, Oct. 24, 1843.
round the margin of a table-shaped stone
An inscription
Feb. 1827
;
upon the same stone shows that

of
Heir lieth Alexander Leatch, somtyme

Bonitoun,
1779.
in
Elizabeth Bkuce, wife

Fergusson, M.D., born
April 1853, &c.
Mr
A. F., died 4
who
depairted this
his
Janet Glen,
December 15, spovs, died January 8,

lif
[v.
also that their son
Andrew-Forbes
24
2 Feb. 1811, died
17-2, aged 61.
Lethnot.J
Mr
F.'s surviving son (ordained
MAE YTOND YSART.

minister of
237
Strachan in 1836), seceded at the
There are some interesting

measure, to
its
historical points con-
Disruption, and has ever since been Free Church

minister of that parish.
nected with the parish of Maryton, owing, in some
granite obelisk at
proximity to Montrose.
heritable
The lands
and went
Maryton marks the grave of " Helen Driver, widow of A. F. Fergusson, M.D., Montrose, who
died in 1868."
of Inyanie, or Ananias, belonged to,
with, the office of
Upon a headstone James Petrie, who was for many years

:
gatekeeper of the
king's house or palace at the
servant
to the late Robert Scott, Esq. of Duniuald, per-
formed the duties of his station with unremitting diligence and fidelity, and gave, by his conduct to all around him of his own rank, an example worthy of imitation, and died in the year 1789, aged So. This stone, as a mark of respect and approbation, was erected by the Family of Duninald.
town of Montrose, while the estate of Foulerton went with the office of king's fowler. The Fullertons were in Maryton from the time of Bruce and it appears that there was a marriage between one of them and a
;
daughter of Ogilvy of Lintrathen, prior to 1460, which is not recorded in the genealogy of the
Earls of Airlie. (Reg. Ep. Brechin, p. 108.)
The
estate of
Bonnyton, which belonged at one

is
time to the knightly family of Wood, more anciently to the Tullochs,
popularly said to have

fish to
:
DY
"If
ART
name
Irish
been held on the tenure of supplying fresh

the royal table,
Disert, or
(S.
N an
ecclesiastical sense the
fMa
Dysarfi signifies a hermitage, or the residence
of a recluse or priest.
CJoyce's
;
Names
of
when the king came to Forfar an old road or track, from Usan to Forfar, is still known as " the King's Cadgers' Road." The only remains of the Castle of Bonnyton are two One slabs, which are built into the farm offices.
of
Places.)
In this view the name

for,
may
be appli-
cable in the present case

site of
although the very

is
the old place of worship at Dysart
now
unknown, the church of Dijserth is mentioned in an early charter of Malcolm the Maiden. Along with its teinds, and the lands of Little Dysart, the
kirk belonged to the Priory of Rostiuoth.
Down
tury,
to about the last half of the 17th cen-
when Over and Nether Dysart were " anof
nexed to the kirk
Mariton," the inhabitants of
them exhibits a carving of the arms of ScotWood. Both are dated 1C66, being the year in which John Wood of Bonnyton was created a baronet. It was a near relation, if not the father of this laird, who, on 27 July 1643, was charged by the Presbytery of Brechin, on the complaint of Mr John Lammie, minister, of having " cum secretlie in ane morning, accompanied vith one or two at most, to his church, and baptized ane chyld qlk is susland, the other that of the family of
Dysart, although about eight miles distant, were bound to communicate at " the kirk of Brechin,
quhilk,"
it
is
pected to be his ovne."
At an
after date (Oct. 5),
two
nity,
of the persons present at the
baptism declared
added, " was thair paroche kirk."
that "
Mr
Johne" not only acknowledged pater-
This arrangement had probably arisen from the

fact that the lands of
but allowed " tuo peck of meill weiklie for
Dysart were held under the

to,
superiority of,
and belonged
the Cathedral of
the mentenance off the mother and the chyld," though " the meill was not given in his naime."
Brechin.
of
On
the abolition of Papacy, the teinds
The
in
Over and Nether Dysart were given by the

assist in
king to
educating poor deserving youths,
who
chose the church as a profession.
Mr John, died Bonnyton, and their cadets of Craig and Balbegno, were of local note and importance in their day. One of the Craig branch was comptroller to King James V.
laird of
Bonnyton, father of
January 1642.
The Woods
of
The Law
mands one
of
Maryton, which
is
a remarkable
It
eminence, appears to have been
vitrified.
com-
of the finest views in Strathniore.
and to Queen Mary. Grahame, Dukes of Montrose, take their title from Old Montrose, which was their property and
238
EPITAPHS,
and where,
it is
AND INSCRIPTIONS.
ture for heritors of the parish and their successors.
family residence
passed from the
ton. It
believed, the
celebrated Marquis was born.
Old Montrose
Along the north

Westerton
side,
beginning at the
(3) Lear;
Grahams
to the Earl of Middle-
west door, are the respective burial places of the

lairds of (1)
;
now
belongs to the Earl of Southesk,
(2) Midbeltie
;
kinsman of the Marquis of Montrose. A modern mansion occupies the site of the old house. A neat Free Church with a spire, the manse, also a schoolhouse, occupy a commanding position near Old Montrose, which add greatly to the
beauty of the
locality.
nie
(6)
(4)
Kincardine Lodge
(5)
:
Desswood and Dalhaikie (also from west) are those

(8)
Craigmyle and upon the south side

Beltie
.
of (7) East
;
Campfield;
;
(9)
parochial ministers
;
(10) Strau-
duff
(11) Tornaveen
marble
(8),
slabs, in the south wall, in
and (12) Findrack. Two compartment

:
>/vwvwx%^vwx^x%%wxxwwwv^^v
To the memory of John Straciian of Campfield, who died in 1777, aged 81, and Janet Still, of Morcar, his spouse. John Strachan of Campfield, their
son,
wdio died in 1817, aged 94, and

of Shells hia spouse.
Catherine Middleton
(S.
Hen-
ERCHARD, BISHOP.)
Erchard, who
I.,
rietta, daughter of J. Strachan, and Janet Still, and spouse to Mr James Davidson, merchant in
IfT
fe
is
said that S.
lived in the
time of King INIalcolm

this,
was born atTolmads,
and buried within

parish.
the church of his native
and Sarah, daughter of J. Strachan whose remains lie here interred. This stone is placed in affectionate remembrance by John Strachan of Campfield, 1819.
Aberdeen,
and
C. Middleton,
The
kirk of Kyncard'm Onele was given to the
The
last
named Strachan,
factor to
Gordon
of
Cathedral of Aberdeen by Duncan, Earl of Fife,
about 1338, having been previously erected by him into a prebend of Old Machar. This church was accounted the best living in the diocese.
Cluny, went to America, prior to which he sold Camjjfield to the next named laird, who was
some time a tenant,

Craigievar
:
also factor
upon the
estate of
The
TuUich
architectiu-al features of the
north door of
To the memory
of
William Scott
of Campfield,
the kirk (long since built up), resemble those at

{v. p. 107.)
who
died 2d Dec. 1822, aged 41
yoai-s.
Two of his
Infant Children are also interred here.
In 1725, the kirk of Kincardine O'Neil is described as " a good edifice, higher and wider than
The
Erasers of Findrack were buried within
the kirk, in what was formerly the chancel.
The
any other upon Dee, thatch'd with heather .... yet it's shorter by a half, as appears by the remaining walls, than it has been within these hundred years." According to tradition, the roof was accidentally burned about 1730, after which it was slated. About 1830, four buttresses were raised upon the south and north sides to support
the walls
;
chancel was removed
many
years ago.
flat
stone of rough granite, initialed F. F.,

lished,
embelthe
with a death's head, cross bones, mattocks,

glass,
is
and sand margin

: .
. .
thus
inscribed
round
but the church fabric being deemed
HERE LYES FRANCIS CHIE VHO D RTED 29 1718 IN THE 69th

.
FRAZER
THIS
.
.
OF
.
LIFE
.
PITMVRRIL
.
. . .
year
of
his
age.
unsafe some years ago, a the east of the village.

off
new edifice was built on The roof was then taken
At the head
trophies, &c.,
of this stands a
monument, with
;
carvings of the Eraser arms and crest
also naval
the kirk
but the belfry and bell were allowed

it
with the
words" Formidable,
to occupy their old places.
In Sept. 18G9,
was agreed
to divide the area
12th April 1782." This refers to Mr F. having been on board the " Formidable," and present at
of the old kirk into twelve separate places of sepul-
(among other engagements) Lord Rodney's
vie-
KINCARDINE
tory over
O'NEIL.
239
Comte de
Grasse.
The mouument
bears
Near
this stone,
with the remains
of
many
of his
is intei-red the body of Francis Fraser, Esquire of Findrack, a Commander in the British, and Post Captain in the Portugese Navy, eklest
ancestors,
"valour and self-devotion were eminently called for during these campaigns, and in the decisive " conflict of Waterloo, are on record, and ever will " be so, in the military annals of those days," to
'
'
whom
this
memorial
is
erected
by
his
nephew,
WiUiam N.
Fraser, Esquire, 1865.
sou of Francis Fraser of Findrack, and Henrietta, daughter of William Baird of Auchmedden. He served his country with distinction for a long series
In consequence of their descent from Henrietta

Baird (there being no other descendants of tho
ancient family of
Auchmedden alive),
the Frasera
and was present at many memorable engagements. Born 22d August 1702, died 24th
of years,
of Findrack are the representatives of the line of
the Bairds, also the male representatives of tho

Frasers of Durris.
April 1824.
The Durris
family, one of
Francis Fraser,
about lCGO-70.
of the family of Durris,
bought
whom had
a charter of Beltie from Jas. IH. in
Findrack from Sir Robert Forbes of Learnie,
1469, were long patrons of the church of Kincar-
He
also possessed Pitmurchie.
dine O'Neil. (v. pp. 56, 84, 189.)
The
father of the present laird sold the last of
Upon
of kirk
:
a marble slab, in outer, and south wall
these estates to
Laraond about 1812. Alex. Fraser had a charter from Queen Mary, in 1549, of the lands and barony of Midbeltie in and Thomas Fraser and his Kincardine O'Neil
;
Mr Harry
D. Joannes Forbestus, presbyter, ex nobili Dominorura de Pitsligo oriundus familia, doctrinaj,

faciindiaj, prudentiie, integritatis, amicitias, pietatis
wife Agnes Wishart had charters of the lands of

Stranduff, from
ac pacis laudibus
illustris,
Andrew Burnet
lauds of
of Leys, 1561,
lem
et
attj
alibi et hie
per 28 annos
quum curam maximo cum
pastoraecclesiaj
and
of those of
Craigton from Forbes of Corsin-
gregis sibi commissi
emolumcnto
sustinuisset,
dae, in 1581.
The
Tolmads and Eunets,

still
Deum
in terris fcelici studio praidicasset,

65.
acquired from Lord Forbes in 1705, are

sessed
pos-
by the
laird of Findrack,
whose brother,
A. JE. C. 1708, cetatis quo meliorem nulla norunt tempera.

supei'os migravit
ad Vir
Wm.
N. Fraser, Esq., is proprietor of Tornaveen in Kincardine O'Neil, which last, and other proAn perties, were previously held by the Frasers.
obelisk at
[Mr John Forbes, presbyter, descended from

the noble family of the Lords of Pitsligo, distin-
guished for his learning, eloquence, prudence, integrity, sincere in friendship, piety,
ness,
and peaceable-
Tornaveen bears
this inscription
Colonel
Robert Winchester, K.H., born A.D.
During 37 years of active which shunned no danger, he accompanied in sieges and in many marches and battles the 92nd Regt. Gordon Highlanders. Lieut. General the Honourable Sir William Stewart, " Many memorG.C.B., thus records his merits " able services were rendered to the division of "the Army under my command during the ardu" ous campaigns of the years 1813-14, in the Pen" insula and South of France by him, and the " gallant Light Infantry under his orders. I should
1783
:
died A.D. 1846.
service with a spirit
having held the office of j)astor here and elsewhere, for 28 years with the greatest advantage to the church and to the Hock entrusted to his care, and preached God on earth with zeal, he departed to the realms above in the year 1708, in the 65th year of his age. A better man than whom no age
has known.]
-According to Lumsden, " the parson of Kincardine" (who was a sou of Robert Forbes of Newton), " married Agues Dugat, daughter to
the Laird of Auchinhuife, who did bear to him fyve daughters" the eldest married Wm. Forbes
"be
truly ungrateful
if
" valuable aid that I " 25th of July, when we so nearly lost the Ilock "and pass of Maya. But his and his noble corps " conduct on that and on every occasion where
were ever to forget the received from him on that

I
of
Camphill,
in
Lumphauan,
the second her
brother in-law, John Forbes, professor of divinity

iu
Aberdeen.
is
The
oldest visible slab
in
the
kirkyard
dated 1G27.
table-shaped stone
(enclosed) bears
240
EPITAPHS,
memory
of
AND INSCRIPTIONS
thoroughfare from the south to the north, by
Sacred to the
John Grant,
ietat.
Esq. of
O.S. 63.
Kincardine O'Neil.
Ob. 9
May 1799,
Mr Grant
India,
built the
(a native of
Moray), made money in
bought the property of Kincai'diiie O'Neil, mansion house, and planted the wood,
grandfather of
Cairn-o'-Mounth. It is believed that there were contemporary stone-bridges over the Dee, near the mouth of Gleumuick, also at Durris, and at
Aberdeen, in connection respectively with the

passes of Glenesk,
&c.
He was
Mr
Grant-Duff, of
Gleubervie, and the Causay
Eden, M.P.
(v.
King-Edward.)
sp. to
Mounth.
Although prettily situated, and once much freis now a sort of "deserted village," owing chiefly to its distance from
quented, Kincardine O'Neil
the Deeside line of railway.
d.
Jean Fraser, 17 a. 63 :
She
Eobt. Mackay, Midbeltie,
to a former husband, was a and loving mother. She had an open hand to the poor, always pitied the cries of the fatherless and widows and her own children were
-was married
dutiful wife,
The
population
is
is
mostly in the locality of Torphins, where there

a railway station
and a number
is
of houses.
One
clothed with her industry, although
now
scattered
of the three parochial schools
there, also a Free
abrod in the world, &c.
Church,
The Parish and Episcopal Churches

tiie
table-shaped stone, within enclosure, bears

this effect
:
are at Kincardine O'Neil, also one of the three

parish schools,
third
an inscription to
here, died 22
being at Toruaveen.
at the village, a
:
The Rev. William Morrice, 37 years minister

January 1809, in the S2d year of his Helen Paterson, age, and 48th of his ministry. his spouse, died in April 1817, aged 73. Margaret Morrice, spouse of the Eev. William Shand,
died 10 Oct. 1793, aged 28.
died 14
There
tablet
is
also a
Female School
upon the front of which bears
In grateful acknowdedgement of connexion with
Alexander Morrice
aged 15 years. Isabel, daughter of the said Rev. Wm. Morrice, and spouse of Wm. Roger, died at Aberdeen, 17 Nov. 1862, in her 80th year, &c.
1795,
Nov.
and as a tribute to the memory of the Revd. William Morrice, sometime minister, this building has been erected for a Female School, in pursuance of the will of George Morrice, his youngest, and last surviving son. The land was granted by Francis Gordon, Esq. of Kincardine
this parish,
Lodge.
Upon an
adjoining marble slab
The
1850.
above named
George Morkice
brother John
died in
The Rev. John Roger, died
8 July 1843, in the
He and
his
accumulated
81st year of his age, and 50th of his ministry here.
wealth as timber merchants in London, where

they were long contractors for the supply of oak
to the
Jane Morrice,
75.
his wife, died Dec. 20, 1846, aged
Government Dockyards.
Their paternal
in
A
of
granite headstone shews that
grandfather tenanted Waulkmill of Drum.
The Rev. Matthew Brown, appointed minister

Kincardine O'Neil, 19th Oct. 1843, died IS Nov. 1853, aged 57.
Among
district
the prettiest natural objects

Falls, or
the
were the
Slug of Dess, lately

utili-
spoiled to
make
the cascade available for
tarian purposes. joining,

is
The House
of Desswood, ad-
one of the best situated residences on
No
the
trace remains of the hospital which

here,
Alan
Deeside.
The
place,
now
a sort of paradise, was
and endowed with considerable property, about 1233. Tradition

says that
Durward founded
almost a wilderness when bought by the grandfather of the present laird (v. pp. 21, 121.)
the hospital stood in a field called Bladernach, between the village of Kincardine O'Neil and the present ferryboat station on the
Alex. Ross, author

Torphins in 1699
{v.
of Helenore, or the For-
tunate Shepherdess, and other poems, was born at
Lochlee.)
Dee.
Alan's father erected a stone bridge near the latter place, in connection with the great
LUNAN.
death of
as follows
241
Mr
:
Pedey), are respectively inscribed

Cliarch of Lunan
bij
" Gifted
(S.
to the
Mr A lexander
1709."
Pedey, minister
there, these tuo cups.
" Gifted
to the
Church of Lounan by
1714."
Mr Alexander
I^HE kirk of Inuerluthnene belonged to the dioand was gifted by King William to the Abbey of Arbroath. It was dedicated by Bishop David in 1242, and is rated at 15 merks in the Old Taxation.
Pedey, minister there.
Jt
cese of St Andrews,
Mr Pedey was
wife,
his
twice married, and his second
The present church,

of the
built in 1844, is situated
who survived him, left an annuity to uphold monument. The following inscription at Lunan, to the memory of ^Valter Mill, contains an error as to the
length of his incumbency there.
left bank Lunan, near Lunan Bay. A slab, built into the front wall of the kirk, and initialed D. j\I E. M., probably refers to David Mudie of Arbikie and his wife. An elegant marble monument, similar in design to that at Maryton, is within the kirk, and bears
within the burial-ground, and upon the
Besides the
(ii.
proof afforded by the Register of Arbroath

445), Mill's reply to his accuser at St
" I served the cure of Lunen, twentie yeires "

must be considered conclusive
of his services at
Andrews
as to the true period
Lunan
(Pitscottie's Hist.,
of
519
Sacred to the
memory
Martyr
Walter Mill,
for
this inscription
upwards
the last
in the
of forty years pastor of this church,
and
Reverend! viri, ALEXANDRr Pedey, qui per XLIV, annos in ecclesia de Lunan, summa cum laude, munere pastoral! functus, ob egregiam pietatem, animi modestiam, sine fuco ainicitiam, sine fastu munificentiam, mirum denique caudorem & urbanitatem Deo earns, ca?lo maturus, bonis omnibus desideratus, septuagenarius decessit, XVII. Februarii, MDCCXIII. Amoris debit! hoc monuP.
M.
Scottish
for
adherence to the
Protestant Faith.
He
entered on his ministrations
days when Popish error prevailed in Scotland ; but by Divine grace was brought to the knowledge of the truth ; and, having faithfully preached the Gospel for many years, in the midst of persecution, suffered martyrdom, at St Andrews,
on the 28th day

year of his age.
of April, a.d.
1558, in the S3d
meutum marmoreum
Marjora Lindsay.
[Erected to the
posuit mcestissima
conjux,
Pedey,
for
of the church of
memory of the Rev. Alexander 44 years the highly esteemed minister Lunan, who died 17th Feb. 1713, in
all
This memorial was erected A.D. 1848, during the ministry of the Revd. Robert Barclay, by the Heritors and Parishioners of Lunan, in grateful acknowledgment of the blessings " The righteous resulting from the Reformation.
shall be in everlasting
remembrance."
the 70th year of his age, beloved of God, ripe for
good men on account of his eminent piety, his humble-mindedness, the

heaven, and regretted by
sincerity of
liberality,
The monument with the above inscription took

the place of one (said to have been of timber), which was erected by the llev. Mr Gowaus. The inscription (from Bowick's Life of John Erskine of Dun), is given in Supplement {q.v.)
his friendships,
finally,
his
unostentatious
urbanity.
his rare candour and marble monument of deserved affection was erected by his disconsolate widow, Marjory Lindsay.]
and
This
From
In
of
a monument, also within the kirk
j\lr Pedey gave two silver Communion cups and a bread-plate to the parish, and stipulated that any Episcopal congregation, within seven miles of Lunan, was entitled, upon application, to have the use of the same. The cups and plate
memory of William Taylor-Imrie, Esqr. Lunan, who died 11th March 1849, in the 70th
year of his age.
Mr
and
Taylor-Imrie was a grand-nephew of Mr William Imrie, laird of Lunan, who died in 1790,
left
the property to his niece's husband,
(the latter of which bears a date subsequent to the
Alex. Taylor at Cushnie, in liferent, and to their
242
EPITAPHS,
AND INSCRIPTIONS.
fee.
second son (the above-named William) in
Jamieson, the date
of 1697,
and some common:
Mr
Imrie bought Lunan in 1759, from Mr David Wise, a merchant in Dundee. In 1767 he acquired the superiority of the lands from the Earl
The from monuments in

place verses.
inscriptions given below are
the same place
Panmure, to whom the feu-duty belonged as owner of the Abbacy lands of Arbroath, which he
of
John Torn, " mason St Virgins," d. 1749, a. 37 This man uas uorking at Red Castl and taking
:
bought along with other portions of the forfeited

estates of his uncle.
doun a
liuet
uall, uas brussed by the fall of it, that he but ane hour thereafter, and died As ue each night lay doun our head,
:
Mr
Lunan
Taylor- hurie,
who
died
unmarried,
left
Each morning open our eyes
to his nephew, eldest sou of
his sister
Elizabeth,
who married Captain James
Blair of
the old Forfar Militia.
He was
at
formerly a mid-
shipman
in the
Royal Navy, but held a commission
Robert Soutter's wife d. (c. 1815) : "To know Death, and not to fear summit of human happiness."
In memory of
master, Lunan,
years.
it,
is
the
in the 70th Foot,
and died
Tyuemouth, when
in Ji'.ngland with his regiment.
James
Blair,
His son, Brigadier was so much esteemed by his brother
Robert Huddleston, schoolwho died 27th Feb. 1821, aged 53 Also of William, his son, who died in
editing editions of Hollinshed's Scots
officers,
that shortly after his death they erected
infancy.
an obelisk to his memory at Lunan. It stands upon rising ground to the north of Lunan House,
Besides
Mr
quities to
and bears
this inscription
James
Chronicle, Tolaud's History of the Druids, &c.,
H. also contributed papers on Scotch anti-
To the memory
Blair,
of
of
Lieuteuant-Colotiel
contemporary periodicals (Land of the
Born on the 7th November 1792, he died at sea on board the ship Madagascar, during a voyage to the Cape of Good Hope, iindertaken for the recovery of his health, on the 12th of August 1S47. High in the estimation of the Supreme Government of India, he had, for
the last twelve years of his
life,
the Bengal Army.
Lindsays, p. 86.)
Near this spot are interred the remains of the Revd. John Gowans, the faithful minister of this parish for nearly 31 years, who died 14th Novr.
1820, greatly lamented, in the 70th year of his age. This stone is erected to his memory by his afflictetl widow, Isabella Webster, who also departed this life 2nd March 1823, in the 77th year of her age,
Commanded
the
Cavalry Division of His Highness the Nizam's Array, and this Monument was erected by his Brother Officers, European and Native, to comme-
and
is
here laid by the side of her husband.
morate their admiration of his character as an Officer, and their affectionate recollection of him as
a Friend.
Lieut.-Col.
and
their son,
Gowans, who began life as schoolmaster of St Vigeans, was sometime minister of Glenisla. He was the penultimate successor in Lunau of Mr Henry Ogilvy, who died there, 23d May
]\lr
Blair,
who
predeceased his uncle,
1781, in the 85th year of his age.
Mr
Ogilvy
married Charlotte, a daughter of Gen. Vanrenan,

Artillery, succeeded to
married Peggy, daughter of
Mr
AVise of Lunan,
of Professor
now Major of the F. and K. IMilitia Lunan on the death of his
and
his daughter, Isobell,
was mother
Hercules
Scott
of
Aberdeen.
The Wises
of
grand-uncle in 1849.
much
to
Major Blair-Imrie has done improve and beautify Lunan, which is
Lunan
are
now
represented by
author of a Review of
Asiatics, a
Dr T. A. Wise, History of Medicine among

of
one of the most desirable residences in Angus. The Gaelic words, Len-an, which have some such meaning as the " water meadows," are quite
descriptive of the locality of the kirk.
Commentary on the Hindoo System
Medicine, and of several papers on Scotch antiquities, &c.
The
is
oldest stone in the burial-ground at
Lunan
at
possibly that
which bears the name of
Andrew
Although there is no monument to Mr Ogilvie Lunan, the name of few Id ministers is better known. This is owing chiefly to the many stories
LUNAN.
aud quaiot anecdotes which are preserved regarding him. The more remarkable of these have
been often printed.
of his
243
great-grand-daughter with the

is
Duke
of
Buckingham, who
a lineal descendant of the
King
Henry
relates
II.,
that the blood of
humble kirk
one of Mr Ogilvy's successors at Lunan, whose ancestors,
The next
inscription
to
beadle of
Lunan may,
like that of
poor Paterson,
the celebrated prototype of " Old Mortality," be

said to flow in the veins of Royalty.
long farmers at the Upper North Water Bridge, are said to have sprung from the Barclays of
Mathers
memory of the Keverend Robert Barclay, minister of the parish of Lunan, who died on the 11th day of July 1S49, in the 62d year of his age, aud 29th of his ministry.
Sacred to the
The barony
when
tealt,
it
of
the hands of the
Lunan appears Crown about
to have been in
the year 1377,
was given by Robert II. to Richard of Mon-
A baptismal font aud sand

epectively fixed to the pulpit
at
glass,
which are
re-
of
and precentor's desk
&
soon afterwards resigned it in favour Alexander Stuart, the king's son (Mem. Angus Mearns). It is supposed that it was vassals of
who
Lunan,
also a hand-bell, present each the fol-
those ancient lords that first assumed
Lunan
as a
lowing inscription
Given
1733.
to the
surname.
The property
merchant
there,
of
Church ofLimanhy Alexander Gavin, and Elizabeth Jamieson, his spouse,
Lunan appears
to
have be-
longed to a female branch of the Stuarts in 1476, for on the 3d Sept. of that year Egidia Stewart, who is designed " of Lounane," granted a confirmation charter "to her soue "Walter Tyrie of the lands of
The donor of
these articles had a shop
first
at
Lunan. He was also sexton aud kirk officer, both of which offices were hereditary in the Gavins from at least
Peatloch and next at
Denhead
of
teviot in Perth,
Lunane in Forfar, and lands of Forand of her lands of Pitfour in Aberdeen," all of which were "held in warde (MS.
if
1679 (Session Records.) Alexander Gavin had a large family by his wife
Elizabeth Jamieson.
Notes of Scotch Charters at Panmure.) This grant clearly refers to some portion,
to the entire barony of
not
The second
son,
David,
Lunan.
Taken
as a whole,
have joined an aunt in Holland, who married a Dutch seaman, whose life she had saved from shipwreck in Lunan Bay.
born
at Peatloch in 1720, is said to
Lunan was a
lordship of considerable extent
and
it
value, for besides Easter Lunan, with its mill,
comprehended, among other lands, those of Arbikie,

castle,
Courthill,
Cothill,
Drumbertnot,
False-
Having acquired a fortune as a merchant at Middleburgh, Mr Gavin bought the property of Easter Braikie, in Forfarshire, in 1752, and that He marof Langton, in Berwickshire, in 1757. ried, in 1770, Lady Elizabeth Maitland, daughter of the Earl of Lauderdale, and had four daughters, two of whom died unmarried. The second daughter, who became the wife of
Hawkhill, Hillhead, and Newton.
It is interesting to notice that, long after the
old race of Tyries ceased to hold

siderable part of the barony
Lunan
(for a con-
was held by Ogilvy
of
Inverquharity before 1589), the lands again be-
came,
in
part
at
least,
before 1610, the proif
perty of their namesakes,
not descendants, of
Sir
Drumkilbo (Retours.)
Mr Baird of Newby th, succeeded to Easter Braikie,

and the
eldest,
portion of
Lunan was acquired by
John
who
inherited Langton, married
Carnegie, afterwards Earl of Northesk, in 1643 (Douglas' Peer.)
the Earl, afterwards the Marquis, of Breadalbane.
In course of time the whole
The last-named was
the mother of the second
barony, the lands of Arbikie excepted, appears to
Marquis of Breadalbane, of Lady Pringle of Stitchel, and of the Duchess of Buckingham.

It will thus be seen that, through the marriage
have come to that family,

held by
and to have been

the fourth Earl
them
until 1723,
when
was forced to dispone the " Lands and Baronys
244
EPITAPHS,
AND INSCRIPTIONS:
But Lunan
it
;
of
Lunnan, Reidcastle, Ethie, and Northtarrie,
is
evident that Guthries
re-acquired
with the pertinents," to Messrs John Forbes of Newhall, John Ogilvie of Balbegno, and Alex.
for,
on 4th Nov. 1653, John Guthrie of
Bayne
of
of Kiress, advocates, as trustees for
behoof
creditors,
" excepting the
South and North
Mains
of Ethie,
with the house, yeards, parks,

.exposed to sale within
Over Dysart was served heir to his uncle John " in the toune and lands of Inverlounan," &c. (Retours, 326.) The writs of Lunan shew that, in 1G67, the last-named John Guthrie sold the
estate to Francis (afterwards Sir Francis) Ogilvy,
and ofBce-houses thereof."

These estates were
the house of
all
son of the laird of
New
Grange, and that, on a
John
Steill, vintner, in
Edinburgh,
on 13th Feb., 1728, at twenty years' purchase, when " the lands and barony of Luuan" were bought by Wm. Lyon, advocate, for John Carnegy of Boysack. John Fullerton of that Ilk became security for the money, which appears to have been furnished by Lord Dun, who was previously a creditor on the estate.
30th July 1702, Lunan was bought by his son-in-law, George Ogilvy, who held an heritable bond over it. George Ogilvy was the 4th son of the baronet of Inverquharity, and left a son, John Ogilvy of
judicial sale of the property of Sir Francis,
Balbegno (above-mentioned), who, on 30th Oct. 1723, sold Lunan to Alexander Wyse (infra, pp.
361, 366.) Mr Wyse is described in the titledeeds as the only son of David Wyse, " tennant
The whole
trans-
action was probably accomplished
by Boysack and
Fullerton for the purpose of keeping
Lunan
in
the Northesk family, to

It
whom
it still
belongs.
appears from the conditions of sale that
Lunan was
held blench of the Crown one half " for payment of ane penny money, and the other half likewise blench for payment of ane penny
silver
money
at the term of
Whitsunday,
if
asked,
Mains of Lauriestoun ;" and Ogilvy sold Lunan him on this condition, viz., " Reserving only freedom to me to erect a monument upon my father's grave in the said church [of Lunan] if at any time hereafter I shall think proper so to do." If a monument was ever erected to George Ogilvy, no trace of it now remains.
in to
allenarly."
The
lands and barony of Redcastle
{infra, p. 32G) were also held of the
Crown, but
of the
those of Ethie and Northtarrie were held of the

lordship of Arbroath,
and formed a portion
forfeited estates of the Earl of
Pan mure.
The
lands of Easter Lunan, or Inverlunan,
now
Lunan that
portion which
belongs to
jjart
Major
which
^t^xxii.
(S.
Blair-Imrie appear to have been the

the kirk
was given by King William the Lion, along with and its teinds, to the monastery of Arbroath. It was this portion which Abbot Walter leased, 14th Dec, 1428, to William of Guthrie, and in which he was long followed by namesakes, probably kinsmen (Nig. de Aberb.)
It appears
"^T was
tMs
this portion of the parish of
Gamrie that
name of Doiaie, and of which, as a thanedom, John of Bothuille had charters in 1365
bore the
(supra, p. 89.)
The name
of
Doune may have been given
to the
from notes of
writs, kindly
commuLord
nicated
by Major Blair-Imrie,
that, in 1544,
Innermeath of Redcastle had a feu-charter of Lunan from Cardinal Beaton as Commendator

of
from the green or grassy nature of the hill which bounds the town of Macduff on the south-west, or from the word Dun, " a fort ;" for
district either
there are
still
traces of old earth-works, as well

hill.
Arbroath,
and that
also as
his
successor
had
of
as of a castle, ujion the
confirmation charter of the same lands from Esme,
In 1413 the lands and barony of Doune were

given by Sir Alexander Keith to Patrick, son and
heir of Alexander Ogilvy, sheriff of
Duke
of
Lennox,
Commendator
Ar-
broath, in 1582.
Angus.
At
MACDUFF.
a later period (1467), Sir James Stewart, afterwards Earl of Buchan (who assumed the surname of Douglas), and his wife Margaret, daughter of
245
ancient " Cross Macduff," or rather
to be seen
The
base,
its
is still
among
the Ochil Hills, near
Newburgh-on-Tay.
Stones of Scotd., vol.
valuable and interesting

is
Ogilvy of Deskford, had charters of the lauds and baronies of Strathalva and Doune, also of Banff
Castle,
account of Cross Macduff

ii.,
given in the Sculpd.
pp. Ixvi-lxxiii.
and
fishings
upoa the Deveron, &c.
(Coll.
Abd.
& Banff.) When Maria,
Although by the Reform Act the burgh of Macduff is united with that of Banff, it has an
independent municipal government, and contains
about 4000 inhabitants.
Countess of Buchan, was served
heiress to her grand-mother, in 1615, in certain
lands in Banffshire,
the
among
these are enumerated
When
the Earl of Fife built the harbour, he
barony of
(Retours.)
" Glendawachye alias Doune." It was through the marriage of this
also erected a
Chapel of Ease at
INIacduff
and, in
1866, the town, and some adjoining parts of the

parish of Gamrie, were
parish.
lady with James Erskine, sou of the 7th Earl of Mar, that the title of Earl of Buchan came to the Cardross branch of the Erskines. George, Lord Banff, held part of the lands of Doune in 1664. It was possibly through the interest of the Ogilvys that the village was erected into a burgh of barony, for, when Lord Strath more succeeded his father, " burgo baronias de
made
into a quoad sacra
The
church, which was almost entirely rebuilt
a few years ago, occupies a prominent position
upon the
hill
behind the town, and a
little
to the
eastward stands a commodious Free Church.
Doune"
service,
is
specially
mentioned in
liis
retour of
The burial ground adjoins the parish church. The tombstones are numerous, and as many of them are painted black a not uncommon fashion
in the district they
29th October 1695.
have a strange appearance,

distance.
The district became Fife property in 17 Doune was then a poor fishing hamlet but, being
;
particularly
when seen from a
The
following inscription (from a table-shaped
situated
upon a
finely sheltered shore, the second
stone), relates to the first person

in the cemetery at
Earl of Fife saw the advantages that would flow

facilities for
Macduff
[1.]
who was
buried
from erecting a harbour there, and by giving His Lordship house-building, &c.
spared neither trouble nor expense to attain his
object
;
and
it
was he who changed the name
of
the place to
Macduff.
Long
before he died, he
Here lie interred the remains of Margaset TuRNBUL, who departed this life on the 27th day of October 1808, in the 85th year of her age. She was a servant in the Family of Fife for 65 years ;
aud, as a testimony of her faithful services during
had the satisfaction of seeing it occupied by over 1000 inhabitants, and the harbour become a place It is now one of the most of considerable trade. thriving sea-ports on the east coast of Scotland. It wag also through the second Lord Fife's influence that ^Macduff was created a Royal burgh. In commemoration of that event, he had a cross erected upon a rising ground, which bears his
family arms, also this inscription
:
that long period, this stone the present Earl of Fife.
is
erected
by James,
The
is
rest of the inscriptions (the third of
which
abridged), are copied from
monuments
:
in vari-
ous parts of the burial-ground

[2.]
Alexander Carnv,
INIacduff,
late rope-manufacturer in
MACDUFF'S CROSS.
Rebuilt at
the place
died 27th
March
1829, aged 73, who,
by
Hid.
life
Macduff by the Earl of Fife 1783, ivhen was constituted a Royal Burgh by George May it flourish, increase in number arid in
its
the upright discharge of his public duties as Provost of Macduff, and Justice of the Peace, as well as by
his private
conduct,
deserved and possessed the
opulence, while
Inhabitants gain the blessings of
esteem of numerous friends aud acquaintances. Erected by his widow Catherine Lyal, and his
by Industry, Diligence, and Temperance.
nephew Alexander Carny.
246
EPITAPHS,
[3.]
AND INSCRIPTIONS
[8.]
Erected by public subscription to the
Alexander Carny,
wlio
was
for
memory of many years
Margaret Wilson,
d.
1S2-,
a.
22 :
Provost of Macdufif and a magistrate of the county of Banff. Born 7th May 1785 ; died 24th Nov.
1856.
Youth fades life is a vapour The sun is but a spark of fire
A transient meteor in the sky

The
Shall never die.
He was
dutiful parent,
a just judge, a kind husband, a and an honest man.
Soul, immortal as its Sire,
Mr
Carny's wife (who was a daughter of Llr

IMrs Simpson of Cobairdy
Ales. Tocher, mentioned in the next inscription),
died in 1870, aged 70.
and Mrs Grant
of Beldornie are
two
of
Mr Carny's
surviving daughters {supra, p. 228.)

[4.]
Erected by the Family in memory of their mother
fJffHE
oA)
district of
Kermyle, or Carmyllie, was not
Jane Tocher, wife
sometime schoolmaster in Macduff, who died 28th February 1838, aged 5 years. [2 drs. died young. Also a son Alexander, who died at Toronto, Canada, 18th Sep. 1855, aged 32.] Also Alexander TocnER, who was 67 years schoolmaster in Macduff, and died 10th February 1844, aged 89 years. And of his wife, Ann Haslopp, who died 3d January 1850, aged 83 years. [The above] James Smith, late tutor, Knox College, Toronto, Canada, and died there 3d January 1867, aged 66 years.
of
James Smith,
erected into a separate parish until 1609,
although David Strachan, the principal heritor,
had founded a chapel there, by deed dated 5th March 1500, which was ratified 20th January
1512-13 (infra,
p. 841.)
is
The
older portion of the church of Carmyllie
probably the same as was built by Strachan.

Before the recent additions and alterations were
made, some interesting examples of masons'-marks were to be seen upon the old part of the building.
The
[5.]
ashler
work was a
fine
specimen of masonry,
As
a tribute of respect to the
memory
resembling, in some points, the style of the more

of
James
Wilson, Esq.,
aged 84 years.
the Rev.
late of the Island of Jamaica,
who
ornate church of Fowlis-Easter,
died at Macduff, on the 5th day of October 1829,
This tablet
is
erected by his nephew,
Thomas Wilson,
minister of Gamrie.
[6.]
Sacred to the
memory
of
Margaret Wilson,
spouse to William Wilson, shipowner, Macduff, who died the 19th of January 1837, aged 87 years. The
said
The initials, M. J. S., and the date of 1757, which were upon a lintel on the south side of the kirk, had reference to alterations which were made upon it during the time of the Eev, James Small, who was minister from 1720 to 1771. His son, Dr Robert Small, who became one of the ministers of Dundee, wrote a brief, but excellent
account of that town, also a work on Kepler's
William Wilson
died the 7th of June 1838,
in the 90th year of his age, during
which period,
of his of
Astronomical Discoveries.
his upright character gained

relatives,
him the respect

circle
and a numerous
[7.]
friends
and
acquaintances.
There was neither a "school nor school- house and the kirk, kirk-yard dykes, and bell, were all in a ruinous state. Acat Carmyllie" in 1729
;
Erected by George R. Huie, Trilawney, Jamaica,
cording to tradition,
rejoicings
the bell was rent at the
and Ann
S.
Huie in Macduff,
in
memory of
their
affectionate mother, Margaret Riddoch, relict of John Huie, merchant, Jamaica, who died 12th July 1831, in the 91st year of her age. The abovenamed Ann S. Huie, died 9tli March 1863, in the
which were held in 1715, when the Chevalier de St George came to Panmure House.
bell
The
now
in use
is
thus inscribed
made at edinr, 1748, for the kirk session of carmyllie,

WILLIAM ORMINSTON.
86th year of her age.
CARMYLLIE.
The following initials and date are upon Guynd pew, in the kirk of Carmyllie
:
247
the
Mr
Mr J.
perty.
Ochterlony was succeeded by his nephew, A. Pierson, who greatly improved the pro-
I.
1657
K. M.
of
He
died 9th Aug. 1873, aged 73, and was

(q.v.)
These refer to
his wife
buried at Chapel-yard in Rescobie
Mr
John Ochterlony
Guynd and
the parents
heir to his
Pierson married a daughter of the laird of Glenmoristou, but leaves no issue.
of
Maule probably John Ochterlony who was served

Katherine
From
a marble tablet within the church

of
Guynd, &c., April 12, 1676, and who wrote a valuable Account of the Shire of Forfar,
father in
c.
In memory
the Revd.
devout,
Patrick Bryce, 45
and upright.
1682, printed in the Spottiswoode Miscellany.
years minister of this parish, a sincere Christian, a

faithful pastor,
The surname
charitable,
of Ochterlony
is
said to have been
He recommended
that religion which he taught,
by
assumed from the lands of Lownie, near Forfar, which were exchanged, 1226-39, for those of Kenny, in Kiugoldrum. Ochterlonys possessed
Kelly, in Arbirlot, before 1442, and about 1614,
Sir
a peculiar mildness and simplicity of manner.
Con-
scientious in the discharge of every relative duty,
beloved, honoured, and universally respected, he
William Ochterlony sold Kelly to Sir Alex.
Irvine of
Drum.
It
was about the
latter date
that the Ochterlonys acquired Guynd, which was
died in the humble hope of a far nobler inheritance beyond the grave 21st June 1816, in his 84th year. Also Mary Aitken, his wife, who closed a wellspent life in the same hopes of a blessed immortality,
previously the property of the Strachans of Carmyllie.
19th Sep. 1801, aged 72.
A tribute
of filial
" Gwythen" (? Geith-an, an exposed marshy place), is an old spelling of " Guynd."
love and respect from their only child and aflfectionate
daughter.
The following lines, from The Temple in the Den of Guynd, have reference to the last direct
male descendant of the Ochterlonys of that Ilk. He built the present mansion house, and planted most of the trees at Guynd but notwithstanding
;
Mr
Bryce's only child married the Rev.

of Inverarity, the sou of a
Mr
Webster
magistrate of Forfar.
Six of
merchant and her sons were bred

one
lawyers, and one a physician.
The last-mentioned
;
wrote Statistics of Grave- yards in Scotland

of his brothers,
what is stated in
the
first
couplet, he
:
was buried
in
who
died of fever at Cairo, in 1826,

is sheriff-
the old kirk-yard of Montrose
wrote Travels in Egypt, and another

clerk of Forfarshire.
Lines written by the late John Ouchterlony, Esquire,
who died
at
The Guynd, 20th Novembr. 1843:
Heritors
and ministers were buried within the
In this lone spot, by mortal seldom trod,
The dust is laid, the spirit fled to God, Of him who reared these woods, these cultured plains With verdure cloth'd, or stored with golden grains
O'er these paternal scenes, by time defaced Bade yonder mansion rise in simple taste And deemingnaught his own which heav'u bestow'd,
;
church down to a pretty late period. Among the latter was Mr Scott, who appears to have had but
little
sympathy
for the wives
and families
of
the exiled nobles.
" The Presbyterian ministers
(writes the Countess of
Panmure
in 1716), are of Carmyllie,
bad neighbours, particularly Scott
who
gives all the information he can against me,
Diffused
its
blessings as a debt he ow'd.

!
empty record
Thy
what avails thee now ? anxious days, thy labour-warm'd brow

little
and he is but too well heard." Scott died in 1720, and was succeeded by Mr Small, traditionary notices of whose kindness of heart and hand still
survive in the parish.
See where man's
works himself survive,

these forests
live.
How
short his
life,
who bade
While they shall rear their ample bows on high Through distant ages, and while o'er them sigh Eve's murmuring breezes, to the thoughtful sayLike
his, so
The kirk-yard was lately extended upon the north side, and the inscriptions given below are
from tombstones in the older portions of
6S Heir lyes Iames Rind, yovnger,
it
:
pass thy fleeting span away.
vho de-
Erected in 1853.
parted this lyfe the 10 of lanr. 1664, of age 31.
248
EPITAPHS,
AND INSCRIPTIONS
to
f Heir lyes auebouest mau IamesKind, LvsliancT Helen Philp, vho departeel this lyfe 8 of lauvari
1660, of age SO.
His memorie on earth is blest, His soull with glorie crown'd ; His bodie here shal rest in peace
Till the last
A stone,
of scissors
I. P.,
embellished with the carvings of a pair
trumpet sound.
and a
:
tailor's goose,
and
initialed I.
John
also
'tis
Gibson, in Greystoue of Carnegie,

of the
who
is
bears
man
caled
farmed part
thought he
Kirkton of Panbride,
....
sober
Iohx Curistie who

spovs
of
said to be (1729) " a very honest

detiples,
man
only
partit the 2
day of Ivle Peter, who departit j e 24 day

age 30.
...
162-4,
el
of
and thereby negligent of James Christie, a pendicler on Greystoue, at the same date, had the character of being " a very good countrey like mau."
his
own
affairs."
On
28th Feb. 1G61, David Caird in Monchur,
in Carmyllie, ajjpealed against a decision of the
Wm. Allan, and Jean Turnbcll,

Guynd (now New
in
Bents of
:
Presbytery of Arbroath, which he looked upon, as quaintly stated in his protest, " as coutrair to the
of God and man, and practice of this kingdome [because] they iuteudit to excommunicate him out of the Societie of God's people over into
Mains), on 3 children, 1769
Now
cruel death hath us all three

;
law
Right soon his captives made
And by his niightie arm you see, Down in the grave bath's laid.
Jas.
the hands of the Devill."

tioned
below),
Kathrine Mill (menof

this
Balbirnie andwife, Mossholes, onchdn., 1769
was possibly the wife
When
And
death's darts did approach so near.
" worthy":
We parted
for
with our children dear

this respect
erect.
them we had
Kathrine Mill spoils to David Kaierd who dicessed March anno 1668, liir age being
.
. .
This monument we did
50 yeirs
In
1729, David Balbirnie, in Mossholes, was so
Earth, take thy earth
My frinds I take my leave. My sovle to God, My body to the grave.

Hier
rests the corpes of
" very poor" as to be unable to pay much of his arrears of rent, " the reason whereof is not the man's own fault, but owing to his wife and
children's tenderness."
de-
Dauid Katekd, who

of
cissed the 5 of
December, and
age 50 yeirs, anno
d. 1767, a.
Isobel Liech, wf. 64 :
of
Wm.
Scott,
Drumnygar,
1632. Here lyes Elleon Keard, spovs to David Eamsay, who lived sometime in Peterly, who died the 22 of May 172-, and of her age 33 years.
Lean not on
earth, 'twill pierce
thee to the heart,
David Ramsay,
" an old
Pitairly,
is
described (1729) as
and can pay but a very little part, if any [of his arrears of rent] however," it is added, " his children are coming up." (York Buildings' Go's Mem. Book, MS.)
poor,
;
man and
A broken reed at best ; oft a spear On its sharp point peace bleeds, and hope expires.
;
his wife,
David Kydd, farmer, Newton, d. 1782, a. 63 Barbara Morgan, d. 1804, a. 88 :

Let marble monuments record Their fame, who distant lands explore, This humble stone points out the place
Janet Christie
stone, d. 1720,
a.
.... John
:
Gibson, in Grey-
41
Where
name
of
sleeps a virtuous, ancient race.
The memory
of the just is blest, but the
Their
sire possess'd
ye neighbouring
;
plain.
the wicked shall rot.
Before Columbus cross'd tbe main
He who was sober, just, And fam'd for peity. No panigerick now doth
His prais to amphlefy.
and good,
need.
And
tho'
ye world
may deem
it
strange,
Convinc'd, wherever
His son, contented, seeks no change, man may roam,
He
travels only to the
Tomb.
CARMYLLIE.
John Walls,
Greystone,
d. 1826, a.
249
61
Here, gentle reader, o'er this dust
We crave a tear, for here doth rest A Father, Husband, and a Friend,
In him those three did finely blend.
Worn by
Till
disease,
Ph3'sicians' aid
God; in
and rack'd with pain, was all in vain. his great love, saw meet
his sorrows great.
and that 2 18s 2d Scots were collected on Doits and Turners were copper coins the value of the first was a penny Scots, the latter two pennies, or one bodle. On 28 April 1743, " John Corser in Backboth, and Margt. Weir in Muirheads [were] summoned to compear before the Session for consulting such
April,
that day.
To
free
him from
as pretend to foretell future events." It

is
How
W^ho
wonderful,
left
how
vast his love,

;
worthy
of
note that
James Strachan,
the shining realms above
How much for lost mankind he bore, Their peace and safety to restore.
Bishop of Toronto, who was a native of Aberdeen, taught a side school at Cononsyth, in this parish, about 1793-4.
Also that the Rev.
Patrick
Sepulchral traces, of a very old type, have been
found near Moncur and Monquhirr
also at the
Bkll, LL.D., the inventor of the reaping machine, became minister of Carmyllie at the Disruption, and died there 22 April 1869, aged 69. His father was a farmer in the parish of Auchterhouse.
Fairy Knowe, where a rude boulder of about two

tons weight bore the representation of a
foot
human
A freestone slab (built

Carmyllie) presents a
into the
manse
offices
at
upon the lower side. The origin of these marks are popularly attributed to the fairies. (v. Jour. Kilkenny Archseolg. So., new series, vol.
v., p.
much defaced carving
of the
initials
451.)
lands of Carnegie, -^'hich
Ochterlony arms, with the date of 1670, and the M. A. O H. M. These refer to Mr Alexander Ochterlony, " lawfuU sone to umq"
:
The
John
of Balin-
John Ouchterlony,
succeeded
his wife
late provest" of
Brechin (who
dard acquired from Sir Walter Maule of Pan mure,
Mr
Patrick Strachan in 1666), and to
about 1350,
in
exchange for those

lie
of Balindard,
Helen Mudie, of the Bryanton family.

:
or Bonliard, in Arbirlot,
to the west of the
The
stone also bears this injunction
kirk of Carmyllie (r. p. 93.) Onacquiring thelands

of Carnegie, Balindaid, as was the custom of the
QU^RAMUS SUPERNA.
[Let us seek the things above.]
surname from his new possession, and from him sprung the Carnegies, Earls Carnegie was a of Southesk and Northesk, &c. barony, which comprised the possessions of Carnegie, Mossholes, Drum, and Greystone, also the adjoining slate quarries. In 1729, " the biggings'' on Carnegie proper, which appear to have been in a sadly dilapidated state, as were the buildings upon most of the properties in Scotland at the same period, were valued at 134
period, assumed his
3s 4d.
A
who
slab,
over the front of the manse, having
reference to the time of the Rev.
Wm. Robertson,
is
died 27 Nov. 1836, aged 50,
inscribed
W.
E., 1820.
DOMUM EXPECTAMUS CUJ0S CONDITOR EST DEU3. [We expect a house, whose builder is God.]
Upon a door
lintel at the
manse garden
U.d.v.
KeXiT-q rb
[Practice
is
everything.]
The
lands of Carnegie
now belong
to the
The Chapel SnAOF:
at
Backboath
;
is
said to be
re-
Earl of Dalhousie.
the site of an old place of worship
and the
The
Kirk-session records of Carmyllie show-
that in 1707 the poor " had a considerable loss by the Doits and Lettered Tumors" which were
gathered at church collections

the Earl of
also that, in 1709,
mains of a stone circle, called The TempleSTANES, were visible down to a late date. A Free Church and manse were erected at Carmyllie in 1850, and a school and schoolhouse
in 1860.
Panmure
gifted to the poor " the cus-
tome
of the mcrcatt of Carmyllie," held
on 25th
250
EPITAPHS,
AND INSCRIPTIONS
Abdns.)
1687,
aware), the lands were held by
From 1539 (how long before I am not Woods until about when they were sold to Andrew, second
sister of
brother of the Earl of Middleton (Doug. Peerage),

(S.
MARK, EVANGELIST.)
whose son, Robert, married a

issue,
IÎIE
JL
kirk of Fethi/rkern, a rectory iu the dio-
advocate, son of Ogilvy of Lunan.
John Ogilvy, Having no
Andrews, is rated at 25 merks in In 1567, Patrick Bouucle was minister of Fettercairn, and of the three adjoining parishes of Fordoun, Newdosk, and Conveth (Laurencekirk), at a salary of 24 lb., " with the
cese of St
the old Taxation.
support of the Priour of St Androis." John Thorn
was reader, or schoolmaster, with 24 merks a year. David Strachan, afterwards Bishop of Brechin, was sometime minister at Fettercairn; ;dso William Chalmers,
address to
who presented
a congratulatory
Queen Anne from
his brethren of the
Robert Middleton left his estate to his and Mr Ogilvy's daughter (Mrs Brisbane), sold Balbegno about 1778, to the Hon. Walter Ogilvy (New Stat. Acct.) It is now the property of Sir T. Gladstone, bart., whose father bought it from the Hon. Donald Ogilvy of Clova. As thanes of Fettercairn, the Woods of Balbegno bore, in addition to their paternal coat of an oak tree, two keys fastened to a branch (Nisbet.) The castle of Balbegno, which is in good preservation, contains an interesting hall with groined
brother-in-law
;
Episcopal Church.
freestone roof.
Some
The
of the bosses present grofloral,
The
upon a
present place of
rising
worship, which stands
ground in the kirkyard, and close to the village, was built in 1803. A handsome spire, or belfry, was added, in 1838, to the west end
of the church.
In old times, the bell was sustree,
pended from a
Hillock.
which stood upon the Bell

having become
:
and one bears the two shields, chargi?d respectively with the Scotch lion, and the Wood The vaulted compartments, of which (?) arms. there are sixteen, are occupied by mural paintings of the coats and mantlings, &c., of as many Scotch
tesque ornaments, others
Irvine arms.
ceiling has
The
old bell
got,
useless,
peers.
Upon
the bartizan are three medallion
new one was

J.
which bears
heads, one male, with hat, &c., and two females.
FETTERCAIRN KIRK, DICKSON & CO., MONTROSE, 1821.

of the
A male head
garden door.
stone,
with beard and helmet
is
over the
These are
all
boldly carved in free-
At the time
the earth and
removal of the Bell Hillock,

of
and
in the
same
style as the
famous " Stir-
human bones
which
it
was com-
ling Heads."
Several shields, with arms, possibly
posed having been thrown into the burial vault

of the
those of the founder of the castle and his lady,

are upon different parts of the house.
of 1569
is
Woods
of Balbegno, which
the old kirk,

the
it is
now
difficult
was within to say whether

at Fet-
The date
side,
upon a carved panel on the south

the house.
Woods had any

is
funeral
monuments
near the top of

east,
Upon
the south-
near the bartizan, below a shield with the

Irvine arms, are these names, probably
:
tercairn.
It
well
known
that they were a branch of

;
Wood and
and the the Bonnington family, (v. p. 237) first AVood I have seen designed of Balbegno, appears in the year 1539, when " Johne Wood
hand at the pen led of be me maister Johne Bell notar publict," gave King's College, Aberdeen, a charter of certain annual reuts in Belhelvie and Ellon. In 1622, John Wood of Balbegno graduated at King's College as did bis relative and namesake, a brother of the laird of Balbegno, in 1666 (Fasti
those of the erectors
L
suffering from
WOD
E.
IRVEIK
in the ball are
shields in
Bawbeguo, witht
my
Unfortunately the paintings
damp, and some of the

;
the outer walls are plastered over

points, it
is
but in these
to be hoped, there will soon be

It
an
improvement.
ought to be added
that,
about
the end of the last century, the Ogilvys
made
by
an addition to the east side of the
castle,
FETTERCAIRN.
original entrance and front were and it is said that a tenant removed the stones from B ilbegno, now at Caldharae, which bear the Wood and Barclay arms (i\ p. 138.) Three burial enclosures within the churchyard
251
which
the
spoiled
spous Agnes Lowe, who departed June 1682, and hire age 68 years
:
this lyf the 12th
My parents
Again
here in hope doth
rest,
to rise,
of Fettercairn belong respectively to the lairds of
.... live in And rise and reing
and be for ever blest hope here to lye,

with them eternaly.
is
Fasque, Balmain, and Arnhall.

enclosures contain tombstones.
lately of Fasque,
None of these The Ramsays,
The
stone from which the above
copied
is
elaborately ornamented with mortuary and other

carvings, the
and
still
proprietors of Balmain,
more interesting and
(so far
as I
Essly, &c., are descended
from Sir John Ramsay,
have seen) unique of which are (upon a

well carved
shield) a
afterwards Lord
Bothwell,
who
as
in
1510, had
human hand,
holding a
coil of
rope,
charters of Balmain and Fasky, &c.

line of
The male
original
the Ramsays,
as well
the
baronetcy, became extinct (1830) in the person

of the 7th baronet,
on the left of which is a short pole, or stake. These objects possibly refer to the occupation of " mosgrive" the rope for measuring the moss,
who
heired the title only in
1806.
The
estate of
Fasque,
&c.,
passed by
son,
and the pole for marking the boundaries. The surname of Valentine, which is still common, is
of considerable antiquity in the district.
bequest of the Gth baronet, to his
sister's
am
Alex. Burnett (second son of the baronet of Leys^,
inclined to think that
who was
in
the same year (180G), created a
own right. He assumed the surname and arms of Ramsay, and was grandbaronet in his
father of the present baronet of Balmain.
had been assumed from one of the Thorntons of that ilk, whose Christian name was Valentine, (v. Mem. of Angus and the Mearns.) Robert (one of the last recorded of the Valentines), was farmer of Bogmuir, where he
it
The
is
died in
stone
:
1868,
aged 82.
Upon an
adjoining
in different parts of the churchyard.
The
first
round the margin of a
flat slab
BROTHER ALEXANDER .... ROS MERCHANT AND BVRE GES OF DVNDTE VASE QVHA DEPAIRT LYF 2 MAI ANNO 1615 OF HIS AGE 88.
HEIR
. .
^r
.
LAYS
ITHFVL
Under this stone David Mores, aged
are reposited the bodys of

80, departed this life
May
5,
1696, with his wife Isobel
March
7 1694,
aged
:
7-i
Mitchell, who died as also their daughter
Elizabeth Mores
The above
cised,
is
cut in relief, the following
is
in-
Under
this stone the
upon
tlie
same stone
What was
one
flesh,
man and wife do ly, we but one dust now spy
This monument was repaired by David Watt in memory of his daughter Mary Watt, who departed this
life
3d November 1779, aged 17 years.

:
Near the
last
quoted
Their daughter also lodgeth in this grave, So for three bodys, we one ashes have. The great Eternal Three and One with ease, Will from one dust all the three bodys rise,
Which winged
to the celestial joys above
Hear rests in the Lord William Avstin, hvsband

to Isobel Gentleman, who depe the 30 of Ivne anno 1685, and of age 68.
Shall never cease to sing their praise and love.
Mr Cameron, parochial schoolmaster of Fettercairn (to
whom I am
obliged for
some particulars
in
Anonymous
this notice, also for his
having kindly unearthed
My
Upon
lete
glas is rvn,
and thine rvnneth
some
of the old stones), informs
me
that in 1674,
Remember
a
flat
dath, for Ivgment cometh.

:
stone
Alex. Morrice, a student of Marischal College, Aberdeen, was appointed schoolmaster of Fetter-
{S- Here rests in the Lord
Iohn Wallentine,
this lyf
Mosgrive in Arnhale, who departed 23d Febryr 1679, and bis age 65 years.
And
his
and that the stone, with the above inscription, has lain upon its face since 1843, when a schoolmaster was buried under it. David Moree,
cairn,
252
EPITAPHS,
AND INSCRIPTIONS:
spouse,
lyf
or Morrice, had likely been related to the school-
Margaret Davidson, who

and 79 her
age.
departed this
master of 1674.
Under this stone is interred ander Croll, who sometime

Fettercairn,
the corpse of Alexlived in Kirkhill of
Margaret Low
(1761)
and departed
this life Dec. 25th
day
Death's equal hand reacheth a fatal blow To all, even Kings unto his Sceptre bow ;
As
also the corpse of
Mar-
garet Smith,
his spouse,
who
:
died the 21st of
April 1756 years, aged 50 years
The The
tyrant, Death, spares neither age nor sex,
Be wise, frail man, live dying so thou'lt give, To death his wounds, and after dying live. John Sim (1748) : Mount up, mount up, my soul,
gayist
mark he haughtily
affects
Parents from children, Husbands from theirwives,
He
often tears,
when most they wish

he'll
their lives
On contemplation's wings ; Leave earth's unearthly minds, Do thou mind heavenly things.
Leai'n then to fix on nothing here belou,
A stone,
1753, bears
initialed
:
But on thy God,
Heaven on the
bestou.
M. A. S
E. A., and dated
In consequence of the locality of their residence,

the above Alex. Croll, and his son, were called
M.S. Sub hoc tumulo conduntur reliquiaj Alexandri Scott, A.M., humaniorum & aliarum artium
Kirky Croll. Both were wrights, or carpenters, and it is said that they made the gallows tree upon which Randell Courteney was hanged, (v. p. 138,) after which they received the soubriquet of Pin the Widdie ! The following, upon an adjoining stone, in memory of an Alexander
Croi-l,
is
&
scientiarum,
mathesion,
imprimis,
professoris
Natus est apud Molam Balmanice Inferiorem decimo quarto die Decembris, anno 1708. Mortuus est apud Bankhead de Birse decimo octavo Februarii, anno 1751, annum astatis
clarissimi
&
eruditissimi.
agens 43
dated 1751
Par mens doquio, mens spem super aethera
librans.
He
amongst vast Billows stood ; Scorning loud winds and raging of the flood
as a rock
Mens
;
pia sideris [et] purior orbe nitens.
[In this
tomb
And
Rx'd remaining
all
the force defies,
[skies,
Scott, A.M.,
are laid the i-emains of Alexander a most distinguished and learned
Muster'd from threat'ning seas, & thundering To keep amean his end still to observe. And from the Laws of Nature neer to swerve.
professor of the
sciences, especially mathematics.
Upon
flat
stone:
and other arts and He was born at Nethermill of Balmain, 14 Dec. 1708, and died at Bankhead of Birse, 18 Feb. 1751, in the 43d year
more
liberal
of his age
Hie conduntur reliquite Eliz.e Peat, quae 2do. die Augti. A.C. 1779, se. s. 19 & Alexri. Peat, qui 25to. die Janri. A.C. 1781, ce. s. 81, mortuus Ad memoriam Jacobi Peat, qui A.C. 1750, est. fe. s. 20, mortuus est, Alexri. Peat, antog in Bogmill, nepotis qui etiam sub hoc tumulo requiescit, hoc monumentum extructum est. Mors omnibus
appropinquat.
The mind which learning can inspire The mind that soars beyond the sky The mind that's pure in lustre far Excels yon starry orb on high. ]
Erected 1792 by James Gibb in Mill of Arnhall and Robert Gibb in Drumhendry, in memory of their parents John Gibb and Hellen Law, in
[Here lie the remains of Eliza Peat, who died 2 Aug, 1779, in her 19th year ; and of Alex. Peat, who died 25 Jan. 1781, in his 81st year. This monument was erected in memory of James Peat, who died in 1750, in his 20th year, grandson of
Alex. Peat, late in Bogmill,
Chapelton of Arnhall. John Gibb, died 19 March Helen Law died 17 June 1769, 1755, aged 55. aged 62, and George, son of James Gibb, died
June 1789, at the age
of 14.
In
1750,
John Gibb, and
his wife
Helen Law,
who
also rests in this
tomb.
Death draweth near to

in the
all. ]
tenants of Chapelton, kept the brewhouse or inn near Sandyford, where there was a ferryboat, at
Here resteth
Lord William Christy, who

1677
his
departed this lyf ninth
ton of
which time the " rent and mess meall" of ChapelArnhall were collected in name of Sir
FETTERCAIRN.
James Carnegie of Pittarrow. The chapel was Martin, and an adjoining pool in the North Esk is still called Lin-Martin. Two
bear the arms (the eagle being erroneously carved
Fettercairn (Sept. 16, 1773), very
in the parish.
253
much
against
dedicated to S.
the wishes of the people, soon became a favourite
The
induction day was very tem-
carved stones, dated respectively 1668 and 1704,
pestuous, and stories of the ravages occasioned

Footers
by
Wind have been handed down

!
to the pre-
with two heads), and the

Earls of Southesk.
relates to
initials of
two
of the
sent time
Possibly the next inscription

:
was
Mr Foote's opponent at Fettercairn Mr Bakclay, founder of the Bereans, who

among "Scots Worthies."
city,
:
Helen Law's parents
holds a prominent place
Here lys Margaret Dickie sometime spouse to James Law in Chapelton of Arnhall, who dyed May the 28, 1737, aged 76 years and those her children, Robert, Janet, Isobel Laws, who dyed
;
He
died at Edinburgh, and was buried in the Old
Calton graveyard of that

his grave, thus inscribed
where a stone marks
in their nonage.
Upon
bidden
the reverse of same stone (surrounding a
In memory of John Barclay, M. A. pastor of Edinburgh, who died 29th July 1798, in the 65th year of his age, and 39th of
,
the Berean Church,
representation of
Our
First Parents at the for:
his ministry.
tree^, is this couplet
Upon
a headstone at Fettercairn
Adam & Eve

Brought
all
by eating the forbidden tree, mankind to sin & misery.

an enclosure
:
Upon an
obelisk, within
Erected by the Parish of Fettercairn, in memory of the Pievd. Robert Foote, their late pastor, as mark of their esteem for an honest man, and an a
able and zealous minister of the Gospel.
Davidi Whyte, filio Alexandri Whyte, olim in Aucharno Clovse, coloni, Monterosarum quondam chirurgo, qui, 14 Jauuarii anno 1839, annos 39 natus, obiit, hoc monumentum positum est. Etiam
Ann^ Whyte,
15.55.]
sorori ejus patern^, qua; 8 Aprilis

[1
1842, annos 25 nata, hac ex vita discessit.
Cor.
He
died
on July
1,
1809, in the 67th year of his age,
and
the 41st of his ministry.
[This monument was erected to the memory of David Whyte (son of Alex. Whyte, farmer, late
in
The above
On
Here
is
is
upon the west

:
side of the obelisk.
who
the
Aucharn, Clova), formerly surgeon in Montrose, died January 14, 1839, aged 39. And also to
the north side

interred
Jane Smith, widow
of the
Rev.
sister,
memory of Ann Whyte, his paternal half who departed this life April 8, 1842,
Piobert Foote,
who
died in 1842, aged 83 years.
aged 25.]
This
lady (daughter of a minister at Garvock),

:
Dr Whyte had a brother, sometime minister of

'ihe latter, who died in 1858, wrote a book on Prayer, another on the Lords Supper
had a large family by her husband the deaths of four of them are recorded upon the east panel of the obelisk, and upon the west is that of her son Archibald, merchant in Montrose, who died in Two other sons, James, and 1867, aged 71.
Alex. Leith-Ross, followed the profession of their
father.
Fettercairn.
also the excellent notice of Fettercairn in the

Statistical
New
Account of Scotland.
flaxdresser, d. 1816, a. 86
'
:
James Smith,
While
all his
was sometime minister at LogiePert, afterwards at Aberdeen, and the latter is at Both seceded at the Disruption and Brechin. having written works on theological subjects, tliey both had the honorary degree of D.D. conferred
first
;
The
in life he acted as
a Father to the Poor
;'
and, with the consent of his spouse, devoted nearly
property for their benefits, by appointing

at the
aid.
it
to
become
Survivor's death a permanent
fund for their

aged
71.
Taylor, who died
Erected by his widow Isobel at Montrose, 18 May 1824,
upon them. Their grandfather, the Rev. Charles Put (a St Andrews M.A.), married Barbara Stkwakt, and died minister of Kinnoul in 1758, Their father, who was previously aged 56.
minister at Eskdalemuir, though
inducted
to
tombstone (table-shaped) baars Here rests in the Lord, John Kinloch, and his spouse Jein Kinloch, he died in the year 1690, aged 60, and also Elizabeth Blacklaws, hia
:
254
EPITAPHS,
AND INSCRIPTIONS.
open to the wants
of others.
second spouse, who died in the same year, aged 66. This stone was repaired by William, David, and James Kinlochs, sons of John Kinloch, late tenant
in Mickle Strath, in 1803.
Born
Nov.
at Fortrose,
he
died near Fettercairn,
27
1863,
aged 60,
deeply regretted by
all classes.
Sandy
same stone]
:
Junor's Well, which travellers crossing
[Upon a
brass plate, sunk into
of
the Cairn-o'-Mounth hail with gratitude, was the
Sacred to
memory
of
James Kinloch
of Wester
handiwork
of this
Balmanno, foi-merly for 17 years of the Island Jamaica, died 19th June 1831, aged 78 years.
constructing the fountain
humble man, whose object in is thus told upon an
adjoining slab
memory
of
Upon an
adjoining headstone
J.
This fountain was erected in
Captain
his
Sacred to the
memory of George Kinloch,

in
Esq.,
Deputy Judge Advocate and Master

in the Island of Jamaica,
Gladstone, R.N., who died in 1863, by grateful friend Sandy Junor.
Chancery,
who
died at Stonehaven
of
22 April 1802, aged 60, and
Mrs Susannah
S.
died at Edinaged 81. Their surviving children, Alexander, George Ritchie, Lydia, and Maria Kinloch, have erected this stone as a mark
his spouse,
WiGGLESWORTH,
7
who
burgh,
May
ANDREW'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH,
1841,
which stands a little to the eastward of the house of Fasque, was built by Sir John Gladstone, and
consecrated and opened, 28th August 1847, by
of their
filial
affection.
The above-named George Ritchie Kinloch,
late
Samuel, Bishop of Oxford,
now
of Winchester-
Principal Keeper of the General Register of Deeds
The
original building has been greatly improved,
and Probative Writs, Edinburgh, published a volume of Ancient Scottish Ballads (1827.)
by the
1869.
erection of a
new
chancel, which
was conse-
crated by Alexander, Bishop of Brechin, 15 April

It
is
George Sheriffs,
for a long period factor on the
in the early English style of archi-
Fasque and Balmain estates, died 27 April 1845, aged 83. Mary Mony, or Sheriffs, his wife, died 17 Oct. 1847, aged 67 and their son, EdwardBannerman Sheriffs, M.D., F.R.C.S., died 14
;
tecture, with deep splayed lancet windows.

east
The
Jan. 1846, aged 39.
Dr
talent.
Sheriffs
was a persom
of
acknowledged
window, which contains representations of S. Andrew and the Four Evangelists, &c., is As shown by the followa fine specimen of art. ing inscription (copied from a brass plate upon the north wall), the additions were made by
the present
brother, the
He began
Brechin.
practice at Fettercairn, which
Baronet,
in
While at Brechin, he published (1832) Remarks on Cholera Morbus, also began a work upon the Osteology of the Human Ear, illustrated by casts. Being unsuccessful at Brechin, he removed first to Edinburgh (where he issued the last-named work), next to London, and latterly to Aberdeen, at the two last-mentioned of which places he lectured upon anatomy and physiology, &c. Dr Sheriffs (who was named after Dean Ramsay), kept a carriage in London, also a piper, dressed in the garb of Quid Gaul.'
he
left for
'
late Capt.
memory of his third Gladstone, who was
sometime M.P. for Walsall:

En glortam
tissimam
l^csalt
fjonorcrnqbE 'Bii ft in tnctncrtam HilfC-
Soljannis-yrilson
qui
obiit
Glatistouc,
in
lassc
can-
I^'abarrbt,
tcclrsioc
^.S. 1863,
aistrbi
\)'a\\t
ccUbm
tnixrtns,
<Stt.
^ntirca;
rbrabit fratcr
C ^., a.
13.
1867.
of of God, and in the John-Neilson Gladwho died A.D.
[To the glory and honour

deeiily cherished
memory
stone, Captain in the Royal Navy,

1863,
his
sorrowing brother, T. G., caused this

St.
head stone, near the north-east corner of the

:
chancel of
Andrew's Church
of
to be erected.]
kirkyard, erected by Sir T. Gladstone, bears
A
two
monument
white marble, in the north
Sacred to the
friend.
memory
of
Sandy Junor,
a kind-
wall of the nave of the church, presents a group of

figures, in high relief, nearly life size,
hearted, simple-minded, upright man, and a faithful
Poor himself, his heart and hand were ever
the attitude of
prayer.
and in These represent the
FETTERCAIRN.
founder of the church and his lady.
base of the
255
Along the
:
monument
is
this inscription of Sir

:
of
;
church
memorial window on the south side of the is embellished with two subjects. The
Sacred to the
memory
John Gladstone
upper one
Fasque and Balfour, Baronet
born 11 Dec. 1764
died 7 Dec. 1851. And of his wife, Ann Robertson, born 4 Aug. 1772 died 23 Sept. 1835.
;
'
is S. John the Evangelist leading the Blessed Virgin home from the Crucifixion, the lower represents S. John leaning upon his
Master's breast.
Along the base
is
the follow-
Sir John,
who was
a grandson of John Gladat Liver-
ing:
f" In memory of Sir John Hepburn-StuartFoRBES, Bart. Born Sept. 25, 1804, died May 28,
1866.
stone of Toftcombs, Lanarkshire, was a native of

Leith.
He was an eminent merchant

in his
pool, and created a baronet above-named lady (who was
1846.
By
the
second wife),
Sir John, who was the eldest son of Sir William

Forbes of Pitsligo, baronet {v. p. 244), died in Loudon, and was interred in the family tomb in Sir the Greyfriars' Churchyard, Edinburgh. John married Lady Harriet, 3d daughter of the Marquis of Lothian, by whom he left an only child and heiress. She married her cousin, Lord
daughter of Provost Robertson of Dingwall, he
had two daughters and four sons

his successor
;
Sir Thomas,
; ;
Robertson, of Courthey, Lancaster
the late Capt. John, of
Bowdeu Park
and the
Right Hon.
England.
in 1829.
W.
E. Gladstone,
Sir
John bought the

late
and Balfour from the
Prime Minister of estates of Fasque Sir Alex. Ramsay, bart.,
He
subsequently acquired from other

;
and Balbegno Thomas, in 1856, added the fine Highland estate of Glendye to his paternal Two memorial windows (also on inheritance.
proprietors the lands of Phesdo
his successor, Sir
and
by whom, having died in 1869, she left The property of Fettercaii-n was bought in 1777 by Sir John Belshes-VVishart, bart., afterwards the Hon. Baron Sir John Stuart, maternal grandfather of the late baronet. The late proClinton,
a family.
prietor,
who, shortly before
his death,
the north side of the church, inscribed as below),

refer respectively to a sister,
to
the property of Invermay
"the
succeeded birks" of
and two children
of
the present baronet
:
Gladstone, born
In
memory
of
Ann McKenzie
life.
which are celebrated in Scottish song was wellknown throughout Scotland for the interest he took in promoting the advancement of agriculture,
as well as the
1802, died 1829.
Lord, I believe, thou hast the
improvement
of the social condition
words
of eternal
of the
labouring classes.
In testimony of the
The next window

Christ blessing
little
contains a representation of
children
.
esteem in which he was held in the neighbour-
hood of
his
In memory of Evelyn-Marcella Gladstone, born 1847, died 1852. Frances-Margabet Gl^vdSTONE, born 1850, died 1853.
tion tliat a
own residence, it is sufficient to menhandsome memorial fountain, designed
by
Mr
the village of Fettcrcairn.
Bryce of Edinburgh, has been erected at A panel of Peterhead

:
window (over the entrance to the church) is commemorative of Robekt Gladstone (a brother
of Sir
granite bears this simple inscription
Erected to the
memory of
Sir
John H. -S. -Forbes,

by
his neigh-
John), who died at Fasque in 1835.
A flat
baronet, of Pitsligo and Fettercairn,
bours and other friends, 1869.
stone, in the area of the church, over the family

vault, bears this record of the death of a daughter of the
Premier
The ramparts
:
or walls of the vitrified fort or
In the vault beneath sleep the mortal remains of Catherine-Jessy Gladstone, second daughter of W. E. and Catherine Gladstone. Born July 27,
site of
Greencairn Castle, about a mile to the west
of Fettercairn village, are still traceable.
Some
" And in their mouth 1845, died April 9, 1850. was found no guile for they are without fault bôre the throne of God." Rev. 14, 5.
:
suppose that this was the residence of a Maormor or Earl, and that it was the scene of the murder
of
Kenneth III. by Lady Finella. The proprietary history of Balbegno and Fasque,
256
EPITAPHS,
AND INSCRIPTIONS:
of the Mernes."
These were pro&c., h.as been already noticed. bably parts of the old thanedom of Fettercairn, for Ftttercairn appears to have been at one time
the general
He was
;
also present at the

in that
As-
sembly in July 1567

at
of
and
Aberdeen
in
March
which was held 1592, " Walter Ogstone
name
of the district
but as portions
Fettercarne subscrived the
by the Crown to vassals and others, distinctive names were given to each and these, as a rule, were descriptive of the physiof the lands were gifted
;
Religion" (Booke of the Univ. Kirk.)
Band aneut the The Oganciently de-
stons of Fettercairn were possibly cadets of an
cal aspects of the different places.
Aberdeenshire family, signed " of that Ilk."
who were
By
trict
far the earliest lay proprietors in the dis-
The
old market cross of Fettercairn was possi-
were the Middletons, of the existence of whom there is authentic evidence from at least
the year 1221.
Fettercairn
bly erected by the Earl of ISIiddleton at the time
he obtained an Act of Parliament to hold a weekly
They long had their residence at House, and there a stone panel (inI.
market
there.
He
received this privilege in 1670
the date upon

S. ^NIakk's fair
the cross but long before that^

in
scribed 1GG6, E.
C. G. M.), relates to the
(named doubtless
time of the celebrated John, Earl of Middleton, and his first Countess, Grizel Durham, a daughter
of the laird of Pitkerro,
saint to
whom
the kirk was dedicated),

S.
honour of the was a mar-
ket of considerable importance.

fair (originally
Cathkkine's
Earl of Middleton.
cross at
and mother of the second This slab, and the market

is
held at the old town of Kincar-
dine),
Fettercairn, the latter of which
dated
when
had probably been transferred to Fettercairn the county courts, &c., were removed to
Esk, which separates the parish of
that
of
1670, and ornamented with the Middleton arms and those of Scotland, are, so far as I know, the
Stonehaven (Mem. of Angus and Mearns.)
The North
west,
is
only visible traces of the Earl

It
is
now
at Fettercairn.
Fettercairn from
crossed
Edzell (q. v.) on the
Law's Memorials that one of the lairds of Balbegno was a companion in arms with Middleton long ere he had acquried much fame and that before entering the field of battle on one
told in
by the Gannochy Bridge.

east, is
The
Craigmoston burn, which separates Fettercairn
from Fordoun on the

places
:
bridged in several
is
The
upper, or Craigmoston bridge,
in
occasion they agreed, in the event of either of
connection with the ancient thoroughfare of Cairn-
them being killed, that the other should return and give the survivor some account of the other and one It is added that Balbegno fell world day, while Middleton was a prisoner in the Tower of London, and just as he liad finished reading a
!
o'-Mounth, which Sir James Balfour calls sext of the cheiffe mountain passages" to the Dee. " It passes (he contiuues) from Fittircairne in The
" the
portion of Scripture, Balbegno's ghost appeared,
and taking him by the hand, said " Oh, Middleyou not mind the promise I made to you when at such a place, such a night on the Border ?" But, without giving him any account of " the other world," it is added that Balbegno prophesied Middleton's future greatness, and vanished
ton, do
Mernis to Kincardyne of Neill one Dee, in Mar, and conteins aucht miles in mounthe." The Village of Fettercavii, where stand the
Established and Free Churches,
brious place, with a
is
a clean, salu-
number
of neat houses.
Ac-
companied by the late Prince Consort, Princess Alice and Prince Louis of Hesse, the Queen (v. Her Majesty's " Leaves") spent the night of 20
Sept. 1861, in the inn of this village, in honour
of
from
his view,
exclaiming
" Plnmashps above, and gramashes below, It's no wonder to see how the world doth go."
Mr
which event, a triumphal arch (planned by Milne, St. Andrews), was erected by public
It
is
subscription.
briefly inscribed:
About the time

of
of the Reformation, a portion
VISIT OF VICTORIA
AND ALBERT,
Fettercairn
belonged
of
to
family
named
Sept. 1861.
Ogstoun, one
whom was
a Commissioner to
the first General Assembly (1560), " for the Kirks
DRUMBLADE.
Sacred
to
257
the
memory
of
Bisset, Esq. of Lessendrum,
Maurice-Geoegb who died at Lessen-
drum, on the 16
his age.
(S.
of Dec. 1821, in the 64th year of This tablet is jointly inscribed by Harriot,
HILARY.)
I^HE
Old Machar. Tillery's Well (a corrupHilary), is in the neighbourhood of the kirk. There were two saints of this name, a Bishop and Archbishop, whose feasts were held respectively on 14 January and 5 May. The present church was buQt in 1773, and improved in 1829. In the Old Stat. Account it is said that the former church was erected in 1110 this is clearly a misprint for 1641, the same stone from which the writer quoted being still in existence, and built into the belfry. A hand bell lately removed to Lessendrum House is inscribed,
of
church of Drumhlat belonged to the See
affectionate and mournful widow, and his and immediate successor, William, Lord Bishop of Pvaphoe, in honor of his name, and in
his
brother,
grateful
recoUection of
the
many
virtues
that
tion of S.
adorned his endearing character.
Opposite to the last mentioned another

tablet (with a bishop's cap, &c., resting
cusheon),
is
thus inscribed
marble upon a
Sacred to the memory of William Bisset, D.D., late Lord Bishop of Raphoe, and proprietor of
Lessendrum, who died on the 4th Sept. A.D. 1834, aged 75 years.
On the death of Bishop Bisset,
Lessendrum de-
George
Bisset, 1604.
scended to his nephew William Bisset (son of Alex. Bisset), who married Lady Alicia Howard,
daughter of the Earl of Wicklow. William Bisset died Jan. 8, 1858, upon which, on failure of male heirs, the estate devolved upon JaneHarriet, daughter of Maurice- George Bisset, who
died in 1821. She married her cousin. Archdeacon aiaurice-Geo. Fenwick, who assumed the
Prior to the rebuilding of the church in 1773, there was an aisle on the south side, which be-
longed to the Bissets of Lessendrum.

wall, in
This has
given place to a railed enclosure, with a low stone
which a
:
free stone slab
is
inserted
and thus
inscribed
This is the burial place of the Family of Lessendrum. Done by Anne Bisset, 1775.
name
of his
of Bii^set
and
their son
Mordaunt Fenwick-
Bisset,
succeeded to Lessendrum on the death
Another free stone slab (the oldest now

:
visible)
mother Jane-Harriet Fenwick-Bisset,
Hie iacet honorabilis vir, GEORon^s Bisset de Lesseudrvm, qvi obiit 25 lanvarii 1623, et cetatis svaj anno 73.
Her grave at Drumblade is covered by a coffin-slab of polished Peterhead granite, with a cross in high relief upon the top.
in 1866.
It
is
^tatem ornavit primam mihi

Et
vivida virtvs,
acquired Lessendrum.
that they held
it
not quite clear at what time the Bissets Charter evidence shows
prisca at lapsv sors rediviva

terra sol
;
domvs
Famam
perennem Indigetvm reqviem posthvma vita dedit.
century
and
it
is
about the middle of the 14th probable that Walter Bisset,
who swore
fealty to
King Edward
in
1296 for
Scotland
[Here lies an honourable man, George Bisset of Lessendrum, who died 25 January 1623, aged 73. Active virtue adorned my youth, and the restoration of the decayed fortunes of my ancient house won for me an enduring reputation among my countrymen on earth in the Hfe beyond the grave I enjoy repose.]
:
lands in Aberdeenshire, had been in possession of
Lessendrum.
The Bissets
first settled in
under AVllliam the Lion. One of them founded an hospital in the Merse, and another founded the
A
the
monastery of Beauly, in Ross-shire. The clan was numerous and powerful until about 1242, when the Border Bissets, out of revenge, treacherously assassinated the
flat
stone covers the grave of the gentleman,

is
:
to whose
memory a marble slab church. Upon the marble
erected, within
Haddington.
For
this,
young Earl of Athol at the chief actors were outthe family continued
lawed and disgraced;
still
258
EPITAPHS,
;
AND INSCRIPTIONS:
set in
to have considerable influence
and the elder
branches having died out, that of Lessendrum has been looked upon for a long period of years as
the chief of their race.
Upon
:
the fragment of a
granite, bear respectively the names of Elizabeth (wife of Capt. Chas. Gordon, R.N._), who died in 1843, aged 31 and of Major-General John Gordon, R.A., born 1789, who died in
;
slab in the burial-ground
1861
ornatissimai
{v.
p. 51.)
Upon
Hie iacent
cinerea mulieris
....
Here
lie
the remains of the Rev.
Robert Gor-
Another small headstone bears the name of a grand-daughter of Sir Robert Gordon of Straloch {y. Cairnie), the celebrated geographer
:
don, minister of Drumblade, who died 27 Nov. 1820, aged 70 ; also the remains of Jean FarquharsoN, his widow, who died 25 June 1829, aged 79.
Elizabetile Gordon quae uupserat Georgio Chalmer, p. de Drumblade, qui obiere, hrec 6 Linquenda tellus et lanr" 1G92, ille
daughter, Eliza,
mural tablet bears the name of Mr G.'s first wife of Captain Henry of
dom'
et placens uxor.
lie
Corse, who died in 1802, aged 21 {v. Forgue.) Another tablet shows that a second daughter, Margaret, died in 18G7, aged 82 also that her
;
[Here
the ashes of a highly accomplished
husband,
in 1836,
woman, Elizabeth Gordon, spouse of George Chalmer, pastor of Drumblade, who died she
and he and pleasing wife must be
6 Jan.
1692,
Andrew McPherson, predeceased her aged 67. Mr M. was local factor on the
Earth,
left. ]
home,
Huntly estates, in which office he was succeeded by whose memory there is a marble monument, within an adjoining enclosure
his son, to
:
According
which
to
the interesting
notice of
Stat.
the
Erected to the
memory
of
the
late
George
parish of Drumblade, in the
New
Account,
McPherson,
Esq. , Gibston, factor on the Huntly
Mr Geo. Ramsay Davidson Lady Glenorchy's Free Church, Edinburgh), two silver communion cups were gifted to the parish by Mr Chalmer, and two by Mr
was written by
estates for 27 years,
who
died at Gibston, 8 Sep.
(now
of

of the
Duke
of
by the Tenantry Richmond, and other Friends of
the deceased, as a
mark
of their respect for his
Abel.
Upon the reverse of Mr Chalmer's stone

Alexander Barclay,
late
memory.
This stone belongs to the "Gordons," and the

family of
feuar
in
p.
The
Huntly, who was born in 1752, and died in 1835, aged 83 years.
writer of the Old Stat. Account (vol. iv. 55) says that there were " large stones with
Upon
the tombstone of
Mr
Abel,
:
the Old Stat. Account of the parish
who wrote
carried away,"
Sub hoc saxo Magistri Georgii Abel, pastoris Evangelii apud Drumblade, reliquiae inhumantur.
14 Septemberis 1794, retatis 66,
officii
28 anno
diem
obiit.
upon them, now all broken down and upon a small hill called Robin's Height. These were possibly sculptured stones. Near to this is the Sliach, where there had been a camp or place of strlnth, for it was to it that Bruce was carried when taken ill at Inverurie in According to Barbour 1308.
inscriptions
:
[Under this stone are interred the remains of Mr George Abel, minister of the Gospel, Drumblade, who died 14 September 1794, in the 56th year of his age, and 2Sth of his ministry.]
"Tharfor
tha him lay And till the Slcfach held tliar way, And thocht thar in that strinth to ly Quhill passit war his malady."
in littav
There had possibly been a chapel

deen's
(? Christ
The Rev. William Rainy died

Nov. 1842, aged
77.
at Monelly, 2
Jesus) at Sliach in early times, since, in " Aber-
His wife,
Mary
Taylor,
New
Prognosticator" for 1720, a market
died 16 Feb. 1861, aged 53.
held on second Tuesday of
June
is
set
down
as
An
enclosure on south-east of the church con-
" Jesus Fair at the Park of Slioch in Drumblate

Parish."
tains several
monuments.
Two
of white marble,
CARESTON.
There are tumuli at Meethillock at the foot
have been found in
tlie
259
a plain headstone, at west dyke
of
Upon
Robin's Height, and spear heads of various sizes
same
locality.
The
sessors
Bissets are
of
by
far the earliest recorded pos-
In naemory of Mr John Gilxies, who was ordained minister of Carraldston, Sept. 1716, and departed this life the 1st March 1753, aged 72 years.
Six of his children are likewise buried here, of
land in Drumblade.
Early in the
15th century, the Angus famiUes of Fenton, Lindsay, and Ogilvy appear to have held considerable property in
it
;
which
in
five died in infancy,
March
and one, viz. Thomas, His spouse, Mary
also Alex. Seton, lord of
Gordon, Barclay of Gartly, and others.
Watson, survives him, as also five of his children, John, minister in Glasgow ; Robert, merchant in Brechin ; and Mary, Isobel, and Janet Gillies.
viz.
[Ps.
37; Phil.
i.
31; Col.
GilUes
3, 4.]
xxxt^\ts\\,
(S.
Careston (one THE parish Caraldstone, or was formed from Scotland), the smallest
of in
of
came to Angus as schoolmaster at Fearn, and was the first minister at Careston after the abohtion of Episcopacy. His son John wrote the Life of Whitfield and other works and Robert was the father of Dr John Gillies, historian of Greece, and of Lord Adam
Rev.
;
The
Mr
Gillies, &c. (v.
Brechin.)
:
From
a headstone ad-
by Act of Parliament, upon petition of Sir Alex. Carnegy of Balnamoon, a brother of the first Earls of SouthIt was in 1720 that (Jareston esk and Northesk. came, by purchase, to Major Skene, cadet of the family of that ilk, now represented by the Earl of
those of Brechin and Fearn,
in 1641,
Fife,
joining the above
Hie
tet.
iacet
Alexander Burnet, V.D.
minister de
Careston, olim de Footdee in vicinio Aberdonia?,

62, qui
maximam
vite
partem Londini in
dis-
ciplinis literariis, in present! tevo
through a female
(v. p.
226 supra
Land
parce ac duriter egerat,
parum fructuosis, etsi Uteris haud mediocriter
of
the Lindsays.)
hand-bell, initialed A. F., C. F., and dated 1756, was given to the parish " by Alex. Fairweather in Balglassie.'' Two communion cups
are inscribed
imbutus ; tandem amicitia Patroui, Georgii Skene de Skene, ministerio hujus parffichite donatus, et quod supererat vit^ in muniis debitis exsequendis morfeliciter ducere sperans, intra biennium, heu tuus est, dum vixit hilaris, comis, facetus, et nemini
!
Careston, and dated 1779.
inimicus, Janii. 25, anno
eevss
Christ,
M.D.CCC.
In consequence of a whim of Mr George Skene, the gravestones were turned out of the churchAfter yard, when the present dykes were built.
Skene's death, a few
monuments were recovered
[Here lies in his 62d year Alexander Burnet, minister of Careston, formerly of Footdee, in the vicinity of Aberdeen, who spent the greatest part pursuits of of his life in London engaged in the
age, literature, so unprofitable in the present
and replaced
in the kirkyard.
1755, bears to have been erected by
One of these, dated James Clark

of
by
and Agnes Bean.

lines
:
As
if
in anticipation
it
Mr
Skene's sacrilegious proceedings,
presents these
This stone doth hold these corps of mine, While I ly buried here ;
None
shal molest uor
wrong
this stone,
Except
my
which, although possessed of no ordinary literary attainments, he earned only a scanty and precarious to the livelihood having at length been presented the friendministerial charge of this parish through of Skene, and ship of the Patron, George Skene life happily in hoping to pass the remainder of his his ofiice, he died, the discharge of the duties of In life within two years, 25 January 1800. alas
;
!
friends that's near.
My flesh and bones lyes in Earth's

And
Wntill Judgment do appear ; then I shall be raised again, To meet my Saviour dear.
womb,
cheerfulness, courtesy, he was distinguished for humour, and goodwill towards all.] an enthe last quoted inscription, within
Near
closure
2 GO
EPITAPHS,
of
AND INSCRIPTIONS
The
The
castle of Careston,
In memory
David Lyell, who was ordained

His
which has been

is still
fre-
minister of Careston, A.D. 1800, and died there on
quently added to and altered,

oldest part of the building,
inhabited.
the loth July 1854, in the 8Gth year of his age.

spouse, the Hon.
16 Dec. 1853,
Catharine Arbuthnott, died aged 65. Their son Stuart-Thomas
by the loth Earl
of Crawford, presents
which was erected some in-
teresting architectural features.
Among
these
is
Lyell, surgeon, H.E.I.C.S., died at Ballary, in India, 17 July 1853, aged 45.
a bold carving of the royal arms of Scotland, over the chimney of the great hall, flanked
ners, &c.
Mr Lyell's
Mearns.
first of
by ban:
father was laird of Fernyflatt
and
Below, in interlaced capitals

this
.
Hallhill, or Easter Kinneff, also of Largie, iu the
honoris
.
singe
.
He was a cadet of Lyell of Dysart, the whom was town -clerk of Montrose. The
of the
Hon. Mrs Lyell was a daughter

Viscount Arbuthnott.
seventh
Lyell,
:
son,
Mr Hew
is
minister of Auchterhouse.
Against east wall
BOR ASPYRING SPRE MARTIAL MYND " TO THRVST YAIR FORTVNE FWRTH & IN HIR SCORNE
.
and
FIGVKIT
TROPHE
.
SVLD
ITIS
.
PVSE
AND
.
This stone was erected by George Mitchell iu
BELEIVE
IN
memory of
his father,
George
1736, aged 80
:
Elspet
OVR
FAIT
GOD
FAITHE HES ASSINGD

.
Fair WEATHER, who died
The
proprietary history of Careston can be
Agnes Gall, who died As our shorter day
1731, aged 35
of light,
;
traced from a remote date. It is said that the lands went along with the ofiice of " hereditary
Our day of life posts on Both show a long course to the night, But both are quickly run. Both have their night, And when that spreads Its black wing ore the day, There's no more work, AU take theii- beds. Of feathers or of clay. Chuse then before it be too late, For choice with life will end Remember on thy choice thy fate, Thy good or ill depends.
;
dempster" of Scotland
also that,
from
this cir-
cumstance, the surname of

restou (v. p. 209
Dempster was
as-
sumed, and originated with the old lairds of Car-
But other places in Scotland ) have the same name, amongst others are Careston
iu Banffshire, of old the property of the lords of
Deskford,
now
that of their representative, the
Earl of Seafield; also Careston in Fife, long owned
by a branch
represented
net's,
of the noble family of
Seton,
now
Ben-
by George
Seton, Esq. of St
advocate, author of the
Law
of
Scottish
slab,
set
up against the front wall

8th to 25th
of the
Heraldry, &c.
kirk, records five deaths which occurred in the
family of
John Ritchie, from

;
March
1767:
Mary, aged 9 years David, aged 7 months Margaret, near 5 years ; Jean, aged 7 years Elizabeth, aged 2 years, 7 months. They lie in;
(S.
terred within 12 foot of the fore wall of the kirk by west the door, and a foot without the straught
of the geavel.
BRIDGET, VIRGIN.)
parish,
as
EILDRUMMY
now
constituted,
[Matt. xix. 14
Psal. Iv. 14.]

is
consists of the old ecclesiastical districts of
But the
is
oldest visible
tombstone
a much-
effaced fragment, of the 17th century, upon which
Kindrumyn and Cloucih. The first church is rated at 7 merks in the Taxation of 1275, and the latter
at 4 merks.
the
name
of
Iohne
Wood
as
is
also the
rhyme
&c., in
"Remember man, Roman capitals. Wood

of
you go by," one of the oldest family
CLOUETH,
was a foundation
or
CLOVA,
and
of considerable antiquity
names
in Careston.
importance, having been a sort of sub-monastery
KILDRUMMY.
to that of Mortlach.
in 1063,
261
By
charter dated at Forfar
was not
lasting.
In the previous year, Thomas,

to the dean
King MalcolQi granted and confirmed to
Earl of Mar, gave over the right of the patronage

of the kirk of
the church of S.
of
Mary
of Mortlach,
"
my
lands
Kildrummy
and chap
Murthue, the church of Cloveth, with its lands, and the church of Dalmeth (now Glass), with its
lands."
ter of Aberdeen, possibly with the view of having
the
two churches united.

church of
It is said that the
In 1157, Pope Adrian IV. confirmed the monastery of Cloueth to Edward, bishop of Aberdeen,
KILDRUMMY
was once " called the Chappel of the Lochs, being situated upon an eminence surrounded on all sides with a marsh." Now, however, the marsh has almost disappeared, and a great part of the
space
it
and his successors. More than a century afterwards (126G), the Dean and Chapter of Aberdeen confirmed the grant made by Bishop Richard of the churches of Dunmeth and Cloueth, for the lights of the great altar, and the ornaments of the
cathedral of Aberdeen.
occupied
is
under cultivation.
At a much
later date
The
old kirk, which stood
on the north side of
(1511), the Bishop's lands at Clova are stated to

consist of
the burial-ground, was removed outside the kirk-
two ploughs, and to have been
let to
four tenants.
In 1549, the lands of Clowetht, and
yard about 1805. The only remains of the old church are parts of the north and east walls, and
the Elphinstone burial place.
the mill of the same, were leased for 19 years
by
Upon the
:
latter
the Bishop, to Master Robert Lumisdane, probably
portion, which formed the south aisle of the kirk,
an ancestor of the future lairds of the property. It was in 1520, that the kirk of Cawbraucht or Cloueth was constituted one of the common churches of the chapter of Aberdeen, a fact which possibly shows that Clova and Cabrach were then one district. The monastery, or church of Clova, stood upon a rising ground, which slopes rapidly towards a burn on the south, where there is a copious spring
called Similuak
S.
a slab presents this inscription

YIS
.
YLLE
160.
VAS
ZEIRS
BVILT
.
BE
.
A
.
E
VS.
IN
LORD
BLIS
A
arms
aisle presents
tombstone built into the west wall of the a bold carving of the Elphinstone
in the upper half
;
in the lower are three
figures,
with their hands in devotional attitudes.

in the next inscription,
These are possibly intended to represent the persons
possibly a corruption of the name
named
Moloch,
to
whom the kirk was dedicated. The
(with the
initials,
V.
:
P.
D.
E.),
which is cut round the
site is planted,
and inclosed by a rude stone dyke and although the foundations of the kirk can be traced, which show it to have been about 31 feet long and about 15 feet broad, only one dressed lintel remains. There are no tombstones and
;
margin
of the
tomb
VILLIAM
ELPHINSTOVNES STOVN
PATRIK AND DAVID ALEXANDER LORD ELPHIN. . . .
TIT
YIS
LYF.
of the 4th
The above appear to have been sons

Lord Elphinstone
;
the site
is
about four miles to the eastward of
but their names are not given
the kirk of Kildrummy, at no great distance from

the mansion house of Clova.
in Douglas' genealogy of the family.
A
.
slab in
the floor of the aisle bears

J- HEIR
. . . .
of
The date of the permanent union of the kirks Kildrummy and Clova has not been ascertained.
is
It
true that as far back as 13G3, owing to the
smallness of the revenues of the parishes of Kil-
drummy and
Clova, which are said to have been
MAN MASTER ANE ALEXANDER LORD ELERA YIS LYF DEPARTIT PHYNSTOVN QVILV BEING OF MAII 1616 YE LAST OF YE AGE OF XXX ZEIRIS.
LYIS
.
LO
ELPH:YNSTO\TSr
. .
wasted by freqaent wars, the Bishop ordained one vicar to serve both cures, and to have a stipend
of 100s., with the kirk lands
;
The following
aisle), refers
(also
from a slab
in the floor of
to
James
of Barnes, second son of the

:
but this agreement
4th,
and father of the Cth Lords Elphinstone
262
EPITAPHS,
. .
.
AND INSCRIPTIONS:
LORD HAIVE BIERCIE VPON HIS BEFOR YIS LYIS THOMES ESPLIN QVHA ENTERIT IN SERVICE VITH ALEXANDER LORD ELPHINSTOVNE INTO YE ZEIR OF GOD 1580 ZEIRIS HE BEING OF YE AIG OF ^0^^^TEINE ZEIRS AND REMENIT IN HIS LORDSCHIPS SERVICE GRIEF IN KEILDREME TO YE
. .
.
MEiMBRlT
.
OD
R THIS COVE OF DEATH EVER ON ATH MOST GLORISLY MAY KINGE AND WITH HIS SAVLS REDIMER HINS BARNS. NE OF
. . . . . .
.
The surname of
1250.
Alex.,
Elphiustoue (supposed to have
beeu assumed from the property of Elphiustone, near Edinburgh), first appears iu charters about
ZEIR
OF .GOD
1636
ZEIRS.
who was ennobled
iu 1509,
was the
A slab
within a recess-tomb, in the north wall

is
first of his
race that held lauds on Donside. These
of the old kirk,
embellished with
consisted of the barony of Invernochty, the king's
in bas relief, representing a knight in
two efligies, armour and
Kildrummy, with the keepership of the acquired iu 1507-8. He fell at Floddeu and it was his great-grandson who built the burial aisle. It was also iu the time of the latter, about 1626, that Kildrummy was lost to the Elphinstones, owing to the Earl of Mar having been restored to his old family estates, of which Killauds of
castle, all
;
a lady, habited in the costume of the period.
Upon
of
Ijtc
the outer edge of the stone are these traces

;
an inscription
,.
tacct
.
alfir
tc
forbcs
qlionlram
tins
ie
iifarcljis
tnarjova
drummy formed
for
;
a part.
Uutil
recently,
the
Elphiustoue tomb at Kildrummy was ill-cared
but the preseut Peer, with a feeling which
cannot be over-rated, made a pilgrimage to the

spot,
to Lumsden's Genealogie of the Houss of Forbes, Alister Cam had two sons, " John Forbes with the sleick hair, called the Whit Laird, and Duncan Forbes of Drumalachie." The first died without male issue. The latter succeeded to the estate of Brux, in which he was
According
and gave orders

is
for its repair,
which latter
followed
by
his
second
son,
John, "
alias
the
fact
thus recorded
:
upon a panel over the
gleyed Laird."
entrance
John was succeeded by his son Alexander (misnamed Gilbert in Douglas' Peerwhose wife was Mak.joey', 3d daughter of the Lord Forbes, by a second marriage.
RESTORED BY WILLIAM, 15tH LORD ELPHINSTONE,

1862.
age), recorded in the above quoted inscription,
Besides the tombstones above-mentioned, there

are other three within the aisle.
sixth
Upon one with

The
The
last of the direct lineal
descendants of the
the Elphiustoue arms
much
effaced, the words,
SOLI
DEO
GLORIA, are only traceable.
second stone appears to have commemorated the
Jonathan, who was out in the '45, and who contrived, by appearing in a variety of menial capacities, after his escape from
Forbeses of Brux was
death of a daughter of Gordon of Lesmore. There

is
nothing to show that the Elphinstones and

of
Gordons
to
the Forbes genealogy,
Lesmore were related but according " Duncan Forbes iu

;
Findlest married a daughter of
James Gordon
of
Leshmoir."
Possibly the slab had been removed
CuUoden, to evade the Royalists. He died about 1802, and was buried, within a walled enclosure, in the Howff Park at Brux, which was constructed by his own hands. The site overlooks the Don, and commands an extensive view of the lands of Brux, &c. It is told that when his mother was
dying, she remonstrated with her son against
from the Forbes burial ground. remain upon it :
These words only
being buried in the spot he had selected by assuring him that she would not " lie in that cauld
out-o'-the-warld place !" To which to have repUed, " We'll try ye there
an' gin' ye
.... ORDVNE DE
.
LESMOIR
is
ET
SPONSA
MA
Brux
first,
is
said
The next, which

within the
seer.
the most perfect inscription

to a grieve, or farm over-
mither,
aisle, relates
wiuna
he,
we'U then
of the
shift
ye to the auld
The
initials,
T. E., and the Elphinstone
kirkyard!"
He
entailed the lands of Brux, &c.,
arms are cut before the words, " he being" :
upon the second sons
Lords Forbes.
Old
KILDRUMMY.
Brux
It
is
263
said to
have belonged to the Society of

properties of
following relates to one whose father
is
said to
Friends.
is
have been out with the Earl of

said that the
Mar
Brux and
Peter Reid, farmer
in Nether
Kildrummy, who
an
Drumallochie came to the Forbeses by one of
for 40 years, faithfully discharged the duties of
them marrying the daughter and heiress of Cameron, the previous laird. The Brux tomb at Kildrummy kirk is still known as The Cameron It is certain that, about 1365, Thomas, Aisle. Earl of Mar, gave the lands of " Burchis and Wester Drummalochy" to John Cameron, who is described as his shield-bearer, also that Cameron married Ellen Monte Alto, or Mowat, a daughter
of
elder in this parish, aud died 11 April 1803, in the
83d year
of his age.
It
is told that this worthy was in the custom of remarking in the church, in a half audible and
sarcastic tone,
when
well-dressed females failed to
contribute to the offering "Aye, aye! a

lass,
bonny
!"
an'
a braw plaid
but nae a bawbee
signed
Fowhs in Cushnie. "de Burchis"
Alexander Forbes was debefore 1409, in which year
Speaking in a half audible tone in Scotch churches about the period referred to was not uncommon.
Many
these
ludicrous instances are preserved
One
of
he had charters of Glencarwe,
Glenconre, and
may be
mentioned.
The farmer
of Jelly-
Le Ord, from the Earl of Mar, The top stone and right lintel
(originally within the old kirk),
brands, iu the Mearns, was an elder of the Sodof a

is
monument
Kirk
(v. p. 80.)
Money was
then of so great
thus inscribed
in raised antique capitals

.
value that a halfpenny was often put into, and a farthing taken out of, " the ladle," by donors.
BEFOR YIS LYIS IHON REID OF YE NEV YE ... ZEIR OF MIL QVHA DESEIST M Z
. .
.
On
one occasion, a neighbour of Jeally
(as the
GOD,
The face of the stone

(flanked by the initials,
(flanked
exhibits
I.
two
shields
one
farmer was commonly styled), put in the larger coin into the ladle, and the elder, not giving him time to take out the lesser, his " friend" repeatedly
called out, in a low tone, " Jeally
!
R.),
is
blank, the other
by the
initials, I.
S. H.), has the

shield,
Reid
my
fardin' !"
upon which Jeally
ciurtly
come back wi' and sacri-
arms below the first-mentioned

carving (in
relief) of
and the
legiously rephed, in the hearing of most of the
the upper jmrt of a cherub.
people in church
" Go to h
!"
Round
HEIR
.
the margin of this slab,

inscription
.
.
and upon part of

. .
The New
at the west
Mill inscriptions are from an enclosure
its face, is this

.
end
of the area of the old kirk.
The
bury
five
ANE HONORABIL MAN ALEXANDER REID IN. THE CVLTS"^ AND. IHONE REID OF THE NEV MIL QVHA DECEST THE ZEIR NEV OF GOD 1563 AND lAMES REID OF
LYIS
. . .
Lumsdens
of Auchiudoir
and Clova,
&c.,
at the east end,
and to that family the next

:
inscriptions relate
MIL.
The
Newmill now forms part of the Clova property, and Cults or Culshis in the same locality. Although the Reids of Newmill were of old standing in the parish, it would appear, if
estate of
the following unengraved epitaph
is
to be relied
least
Robert Lumsden of CushJohn Lumsden of Auchndor, his second Agnes Gordon, his spous ; and also son, and Charles and Marjorie Lumsdens, lauf vU son and daughter to John Lumsden and Agnes Gordon. John Lumsden dyed Janure 8, 1716, and of age
Before this ston lyes
nay, and
71 years, 1724
upon, that the sayings and doings of at
Hoc,
lector,
H. L K, G. tumulo tres contumulantur

:
:
in uno,
one of them were unworthy of imitation

Here
lies
Cognati, Mater, Filius, et octft
[?
atcxue] Pater,
[i'.
the Great Newmill,
Mors janua
vita\
p. 187.]
Wha liket
Ayo ready
aye Ihe ither
ffill
wi' his aith an' curse.

his purse!"
But never caved to draw
Rcid, which
parish, occurs
is
one of the oldest surnames
in the
upon many
of the tombstones.
The
D.O.M. H. L :K. G. Befor this ston lyes KathRiN Gordon, daughter to the laird of Buckie, and spouse to Hary Lumsden of Cushnie, and 5 of her and she depr. this life August the 22, children
;
264
EPITAPHS,
Also the said
AND INSCRIPTIONS
an adjoining tombstone), married T. H. Bastard, younger of Charlton Marshall, Dorsetshire and a third married Dr Kilgour, Aberdeen. H. LeithLumsden, being the last descendant of the original
;
.1733,
aged 31 years.
Hary Lumsden
in the 69th
of Cuslinie died the 8
day
of
June 1754,
year of his age.

Befor this stone lyes James Lumsden, eldest lawson to William Lumsden in Titaboutie, who
full
depr. this life in Nov. 1730, aged 40 years.
passed,
The Titaboutie Lumsdens (v. p. 188), were the progenitors of those of Auchiudoir and Clova, &c.
Lumsden
CS
of
;
In this ground are deposited the remains of John of Cushnie, who died 12 June 1795, aged
Auchindoir and Clova, the estates by vii-tue of the entail, to Kenry, son of Lumsden of Belhelvie and Pitcaple. It is said that this arose from the fact that Mr Lumsden of Belhelvie, advocate in Aberdeen, who made the
entailer of
entail,
after having exhausted the line of suc-
and Mrs Anne Forbes, his spouse, daughter John Forbes of New, who died 11 Nov. 1811,
76.
aged
In testimony of
warm
affection for their
memory, this tablet is erected by Lumsden, now of Cushnie, 1814.
their son,
John
by the entailer, asked of him " who next ?" when the laird is said to have " AVeel, answered, " The devil if you like !" weel," quo' Belhelvie, " instead o' puttin' in Auld
cession proposed
Harry, what wad ye think

Yoinnj
to
o'
puttin' in
my
son
It was from
the above-named John (who died
Harry
in 1795), that his cousin Harry, of Kingston, in
and acted
The suggestion being assented upon, " Young Harry" of Belhelvie,

?"
Jamaica, bought (1782), the estates of Auchindoir and Clova. Harry's name appears in the next
inscription, copied
in default of other heirs, succeeded to the estates
from a table-shaped stone
died at
of
The grave of William Lumsden of Harlaw, who Mid Clova, Feb. 1758. Rachel Lumsden,
John Lumsden
of
Auchindoir and Clova. He died in 1856, aged 72, as the seventh Lumsden tombstone at Kildruramy shows and his grandson is now the
of
;
proprietor of the estates.

Sir Harry Niven-Lumsden (above referred to), was buried within a mausoleum, near Lumsden Village, at a place called Chapel House, so named from an Episcopal Church having stood near it. The mausoleum is enclosed by a wall. A slab of
his spouse, daughter of Chas.
Auchindoir
Lumsden, second son She died at East

:
Clova, Feb. 11, 1788, aged 77. Katharine, his daughter, spouse of John Leith, died at West Hills,
Feb.
2, 1792; also Harry Lumsden of Auchinwho died in April 1796. Margaret Rannie, widow of Dr. Jas. Young, R. N. died at Mid Clova,
doir,
white marble, inserted into a massive
granite
6 June 1841, aged76years. Also Harry Leith-Lums-
tomb,
is
thus inscribed
youngest son of John Leith and who died at Aberdeen, on the 27 March 1844, in the 68th year of his age, aud was interred here, 4 April following. (The Lord gave, &c. ) Also Janet Young, or Duncan, wife of Harry
DEN
of Auchindoir,
Kathrine Lumsden,
Lumsden
Sacred to the memory of Sir Harry Nivenof Auchindoir, Baronet, who died 15
spouse,
of Auchindoir, who died at Edinburgh, 7 Jan. 1861, aged 73 years, and was interred here on the 16th of same month.
Leith-Lumsden
Harry
sister's
Leith-Lumsden, who was sometime a
carpenter in Aberdeen, and died in 1844,
was a
and succeeded to the estates on the death of his cousin. Sir H. NivenLumsden (y. below). H. L.-L.'s wife, by whom he left no family, was previously married to Thomas Duncan, an Aberdeen advocate, by whom she had several children One daughter is the wife
sou of the
first laird,
:
Also of his Harriet-Christian, eldest daughter of General Hay of Raunes, who died 26 Aug. 1820. Also their three children interred here, viz. Mary-Christian Niven, who died in Aberdeen, 22 March 1817, aged 3 years 6 months ; Rachel- Ann Niven who died at Clova, 3d May John-Habry Niven-Lums1817, aged 4 months BEN who died at Clova, 2d May 1820, aged ten
Dec. 1821, aged 36 years 8 months.
affectionate
;
months.
Sir
Harry Niveu-Lumsdeu was the only sur(</.t'.),aud of his wife Rachel LumsHarry Lumsden, who bought Clova
viving son of John Niven, sometime of Peebles,
near Arbroath
den, sister to
of Prof. Piazzi
Smith
another (as recorded upon
and Auchiudoir.
He was
knighted, 5 July 1816,
KILD RUMMY.
upon presenting a congratulatory address from the county of Aberdeen, when Princess Charlotte and Prince Leopold, were married. In 1821, shortly
before Sir H.'s death, through the influence of the
265
care of John, James, and
Done by the
his nephews.
Wm.
Horns,
Duke
of
Gordon, he was created a baronet. Leavtitle
To Mr. McWilliam succeeded Mr Robert LuMSDEN, who died in Jan. 1795. To him there is no monument upon that of his successor
: :
ing no issue, the
was succeeded
(as
became extinct. Sir Harry above) by his cousin Harry
To the memory
of the Rev.
John Harper, who

minister for
discharged with fidelity the

the space of 25 years,
in the
first
office of a
Leith, another sister's son of the original entailer.
in the parish of Leslie,
Besides the monuments previously noticed at Kildrummy, possibly the oldest inscribed is one initialed M.C., and dated 1679. A table-sliaped stone, on east side of burial ground, with a book carved upon the top, covers the grave of Mr John Alexander, who was minister at Kildrummy before and during Mar's rebellion. He offered up the prayer at the raising of the Rebel Standard in 1715, for which he was deposed. The initials J. A. may yet be traced upon the stone.
afterwards in Kildrummy, and died 23d April 1807,
63d year of his age. Also of his sisters. Christian Harper, who died 1796, aged 47 and
;
also of
Margaret Harper,
another
sister,
who
died in Nov. 1837, aged 86.
Mr Benjamin Mercer, previously at Forbes, Mr Harper. He died in 1815, and was buried at Towie. Three years before Mr M.'s death, Mr Alex. Reid was appointed assistant
followed
and successor and

;
to the latter,
who
died in 1849,
tablet, built into the

aisle,
west wall of the Elphin-
in
his
67th year, succeeded his son-in-law, the
stone
bears
Rev. John Christie, D.D., Inspector of Schools
under
Before this
wife lyes.
10,
Dr
Milne's Bequest.
Dr
Christie's father
tomb the Rnd. William Miln, minr.

and Helen
their son,
of the Gospell at Kildrumie,
David Miln,
Kerr his who dyed May

in 1720,
was 52 years schoolmaster at Kildrummy, in which four office he was succeeded by his youngest son
1736, aged 8 years and 7 months.
elder sons having been educated for the church.
Mr M., who was settled at Kildrummy

and died
alive,
flat
stone,
embellished with
carvings of a
this inscrip-
death's head
and cross-bones, bears
in
17G2,
had
in
1760 seven children

front
of the
tion, recently revised.-
"
all
above the age of 21 years complete."

(in
table-shaped stone
above)
It
9,
gives a detailed account of
Mr
Here
1722,
lyes
M.'s family.
Mors jamia vitce. D.D. Michael Dumbae, who died Deer, the and of age 100 years, and Arthur, his son.
1724. R. D.
was erected by
his
youngest son, David,
who was
JRM.
A. D.
AS. D.
translated from the church of Dallas to that of

Edinkillie in 1793.
this epitaph to
table-shaped stone bears

:
Mr
M.'s successor
Here
lies
the Rev.
James McWilliam,
late
6,
minister of the Gospel here,
who
died April
:
1771, aged 71 years, 11 months,
and 6 days
Rev<i. and grave, he Preached heaven's King, Because he knew it was a weighty thing ; And at his hearers, as he aim'd the dart, You'd well perceive it from his heart.
Dunbar was a by murder and plunder but inquiry shows that this was not the fact. Being a man of great bodily strength and daring, he was made Captain of the parish of Kildrummy, or the leader of those who, as was essential in these times, combined to protect their lives and
tradition, Michael
sort of brigand,
According to
who
lived
property against the incursions of the Cateran, or Highland robbers, in the course of which, Michael
Now
called
Home, a Faithful
serv'., lov'd
Of his Great Master, and by him approv'd, Poses'^, of joys eternal, and above, He Sings, he Shines, he Reigns, where all is No pain is y''. no tears flow from his eyes, His Master purchas'd, he Enjoys the prize.
,
had doubtless led a rough enough life. Michael, who was a Roman Catholic, and a keen supporter
of the Stuarts, dwelt in the
Den
of
Kildrummy
love.
and
it is
told that,
when upon
his death-bed,
Mr
he
Miln, the parish minister, paid him a visit; and,

while exhorting Michael upon the rough L L
life
266
EPITAPHS,
AND INSCRIPTIONS:
It will
had
led,
his sins,
and that he had much need to repent of Michael replied " Repent o' my sins
be seen that the united ages of the three
persons next recorded
amount
to the
uncommon
What
the deevil cou'd I dee
whan thae Heelan'
period of 255 years
doun to take awa' our nowt ?" " Ah, but Michael," said the parson, " that '11 a' stand " Weel, against them at the day o' Judgment."
thieves cam'
weel," quo' Michael,
" ilka
chiel'
'11
get's
ain
then
!"
And, grasping a dirk which lay beside

it is said,
him
in the bed, he exclaimed, to the terror of the
Here lies Jerom Ritchie, sometime farmer in Hardhuncher, who died 15 March 1798, aged 99 and also his spouse Mary Jeals, who died 2 Aug. And also John Ritchie, who 1796, aged 84 yrs. died 20 May 1817, aged 72. Done by the care of their son, Alexander Ritchie, Esq. in the Island
,
minister, who,
made a quick
a' in
retreat
of Jamaica.
" That's the hand, an'

cot fifteen sauls
o'
:
that's
the dirk that loot

ae nicht
!"
them
an adjoining
slab
Upon
Alexander Dunbar, who lived in Miltoun of Neii Mill, who dayed 1729, aged 43 and his spoiis Helen Gibon, lawful daughter to
lyes
Hear
To the memory of William Sheriff, farmer in Upper Whidlment, parish of Auchindore, who died in the year 1762, and was buried in this place. And of his wife Barbara Clark, who died in the year And of 1773, and was also buried in this place.
their son
Alexander Sheriff,
Esquire,
who
died
John Gibon, sometime farmer in Newbeggin, and her age is 74. iShe dayed 17G1. Don by the care of James, John, and George Duubars.
in the year 1801,

fulfil
in the Island of
Jamaica.
To
whose intention this stone was erected by the Rev. Dr James SherrifFs, Aberdeen.
last-named in the above inscription was
;
Upon
flat
stone
The
having
George Cattenach in Bridgend of Mossat, and Helen Gordon, his spouse, has placed this stone
here in memory of their deceased children, vizt., Ann, aged 22 years ; Mary, aged IS years ; Jean, aged 13 mouths. And also George Gibb, their grandchild, aged 13 months. The above-named
minister of St Nicholas from 1778 to 1814
and
been made residuary legatee to his kinsman " of Jamaica," Dr Sberriffs was, in
George Cattenach died 28 May 1S21, aged 88 years and also Helen Gordon died 25 Dec. 1814,
;
Negro slaves at was Moderator of the General Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland. The Dr"s brother Andrew, a bookseller in Aberdeen, was author of a volume of meritorious Scottisli Poems.
consequence,
the time
proprietor of 163
he
aged
74.
Alexandro Lejth, V.D.P.,

Gordon's father,
Alex.
f.
viro docto,
Helen
'45.
who was a
;
son of Dalin the

last
benevolo, probo, qui in Schola
Grammat. Abredon.,
persie, or Terpersie, in TuUyuessle,
was out
ubi annos amplius

tentus,
subito,
XXI
A.C.
juventutem Uteris humani-
He was
long a fugitive
house.
but was at
oribus felicissime instituerat, labori ut semper in-
captured by the Royalists while hiding in an aperture in his
XV
eheu
Jan.
!
MDCCXCIX,
ajt.
LIII,
own
Being
identified, or, in
his neighbour,
couticuit concidit, haeredes
merito
other words, betrayed by,
it is said,
H.M.P.
[To the
of the
the minister of Kinnethmont, he was taken to
memory
of
Alexander Leith, preacher
where he was executed along with other ten rebels, 15 Nov. 174G. Helen Gordon was the grandmother of the Rev. Harry Stuart, minister of Oathlaw, who has done so much to improve
Carlisle,
Gospel (son
of Alexander), a learned, bene-
the condition of agricultural labourers, &c.
In memory of David Hunter, sometime farmer

at Barns, Deskry, thereafter brewer in Aberdeen,
who
and worthy man, who, while engaged in work with his habitual energy in the Grammar School of Aberdeen, where for upwards of 21 years he had been a most successful instructor of youth, suddenly, alas dropped down, 15 Jan. 1799, in his 53d year. His heirs erected this well-deserved monument. ]
volent,
!
died
Jan. 1816, aged 59 years.
This stone
of
is
erected by
Mrs Helen Hunter, wife
Mr
Charles
Macdonald, banker in Huntly, Mary, his daughter, and John Hunter, Writer to the Signet, his son, 1828.
The
ruins of the Castle of
Kildrummy
are the
chief objects of interest in the parish, engravings
KILDRUMMY.
of
267
which
will
be found in Pennant, Cordiner,
Grose, and Billings, &c.
According to Gordon's
Genealogy of the Earls of Sutherland, Gilbert,

Bishop of Caithness (1222-45), " built the castle and fortresse of Kildrume in Marr, with seaven
tours within the precinct of the said castle."
assertion
it
Lynturk, who, besides hereschip, was charged with committing slaughter at the siege. As already seen, Kildrummy Castle belonged to, and was occupied by the Lords Elphinstone
of
from about 1507-8 until 1626, when

Isobel.
it
was restored
This
;
to the Erskines as nearest lawful heirs to Countess

It was from Kildrummy that John, Earl Mar, dated some of his manifestoes regarding
is
not supported by any authority
and
of
is
generally supposed that Kildruramy
is
of
an earlier date, also that it was the residence of David Earl of Huntingdon, lord of the Garioch, Earl David's second brother of William the Lion. daughter was grandmother of Robert the Bruce,
the rising of the '15, the year after which saw him
deprived of his
restored,
titles
and
his estates.
But,
if
not
the castle must have been in a sadly

;
dilapidated condition in 1715
for,
about twenty
by which marriage, it is believed, Kildrummy came to the Bruces and it was through this relationship that Bruce claimed the Crown. Bruce himself married a daughter of Donald Earl of Mar to his first wife and Gartney, Earl of Mar, marIt was probably in ried a sister of the Bruce. this way that the old Earls of Mar became possessed of Kildrummy Castle, which was long their chief seat, as well as the capital of Mar and the
; ;
years previously,
rection of
it is
stated that, "
by the insur-
then " surrounded with great walls wherin their was much building, [was] totallie burnt and destroyand, in estimating the extent of the damage, added that " the repairation of it cannot be under nyne hundred pound sterling."
;"
it is
the heighlanders,"
the castle,
ed
Besides the castle, where
it
is
said there
was
once a burial place, Kildrummy contains a number

of interesting points for the antiquarian.
Garioch.
Of the
Like the architectural features of this grand

ruin, its historical associations
castle cemetery, possibly the coffin slab, with orna-
have been often

these, it
mental
cross,
which
kind
described.
Without dwelling upon

I.
may
ruins, is the only
lies on the north side of the remaining trace. It is a good

;
be briefly remarked that Edward
rested at Kil;
example of
its
but a short slab in the parish

is probably the more Numerous specimens of
drummy and
and that it was an asylum for Bruce's Queen and other ladies after the battle of Methven, soon after which it was captured (by betrayal some say), and the
brave defender, Sir Nigel Bruce, taken to Ber-
received homages in 1296
churchyard, upon which a wheel cross, and a pair

of scissors are represented,
interesting of the two.

flint
arrow heads and stone axes have been found
in the parish, also stone coftins, &c.
was besieged by the Earl of Athol in 1335 and in 1361, owing to some quarrel between the Earl of Mar and the In king, the castle was captured by David II. the early part of the following century, it was stormed by the son of the Wolf of Badenoch, who not only took the place, but obtained the hand of the widowed Countess by "violence or persuasion" together witli a charter of all her possessions in favour of himself and his own heirs, to
wick, where he was beheaded.
;
It
houses in the muirs of

scribed at length
The Picts' Kildrummy have been de-
by the late Professor Stuart of still worthy of being visited. Although no trace now remains, there was a burgh of barony at Kildrummy, which contained
Aberdeen, and are
persons designed " burgesses," so early as 1403,
and which had probably
arisen, as did
most of
castle,
our towns, under the care of the lords of the and been situated almost under its shadow.
consecrated wells
ligious
Two
indicate
of S.
the sites of old re-
the exclusion of those of the Countess. After

in 1412, it
this,
houses that
is is
was stormed and taken by
Sir
Robert
of the parish,
in Macker's
Macakius, on the east Haugh and another

;
Erskine,
who
considered himself the legal heir to
on the west
Glenkindie.
at Chapel
Ronald
(? S.
Ronan)\Q.
the Earldom of Mar.

in the
time of
was also besieged Lord Elphinstone by young Stx'achan

castle
The
The Terapleton, near
the church,
was held under the Kniglits' Templars.
268
EPITAPHS,
AND INSCRIPTIONS
But peace of conscience makes the soul rejoyce, More than the world, and al her fading toyes.
For vhoe belive earth shal not stil enfold Us in her arms, that wer too base a hold, For any in whose soul the sprit of grace
(S.
NINIAN, BISHOP.)
Fearne, in the diocese of
Hath made
his mansion, or a duelling place

shall,
I^HE church of
31>
Duu-
keld,
was a prebend
of that cathedral,
is
For he who was dead is alive, and To us be Alpha, and Omega still.
piece of ground near the kirk
Riggs.
passes
mains which
Dunkeld When improving the public road which the church, some years ago, human reand an urn were discovered in a coffin, was hewn out of the solid rock (Proceedcalled
iii.
Kemember mau
as
thow goes
by,
Behold yowth here intombd doth I}', Could youth or years a purchase make. Or strength from death a release take, Then they as thow had lived to say, So youth as age may soon decay.
Trust not to yowth, though thou be strong, Thy years therby for to prolong ;
ings of the So. Antiq. of Scotland, vol.
p. 80.)
The
IC
bell,
which was
lately cracked,
:
and
re-
placed by one uuinscribed, bears

.
BEN
GHEGOTEN
INT
lAEU
M. D. VI.
The church and burial-ground

the middle of a romantic
closure,
dell.
are situated in
Within an en-
But know, O man, thy frailtie, For therof they examples be, W^ho in their prime al pulled away, So youth as age may soon decay.
on the west side of the graveyard, a mobears

:
nument
memory
5,
John Kexd,
blacksmith,
d.
1702,
a.
70
Full seventy years he liv'd upon this earth,

of
Sacred to the
Thomas Binny,
Esq.,
who
diei3
March
1845.
Mr Binny, who died at his residence of Maulesden, near Brechin, bought the barony of Fearn
He liv'd to dye the end of life is death Here he was smith six lustres and three more, The third three wanted, it had two before.
;
:
Isabella Black,
d. 1723, a.
15 years
:
?
about 1836, which, by marriage with

Elizabeth, came to the late Hon. third son of the late
his
daughter
death, o grave,
why
so severe
William Maule,
Lord Pan mure.
Even youth may se thy look austere This young maid did by living die,
Fearn are One, upon which a human figure is represented climbing a ladder, guarded by angels blowing trumpets, bears
not quite legible.
:
The
oldest tombstone inscriptions at
By
died 1810,
death she lives eterniUy.

wife of
Ann Thomson,
a.
John Black,
tenant, Vain,
51
:
wife, the steady friend,
By power Upon
of
of Christ,
Our bodies
shall be raised
:
and trumpet sound, from ground.
The loving
Beneath
is lowly laid ; Some ponderings at Affection's
call,
May
Does
not be
ill
repaid.
Here lyes Jannet Lyon, who dyed in the year God, 1687. Jean, and Margaret Craig, children to George Craig, and Beatrix Black
:
Blest
is
the man, who, since he naked came

shelter of his quick
Into the world, and must return the same.
Doth by the
fire.
Make
food and raiment crub his vast desyre.

courts,
For worlds, empires, and

kyngs.
thy purpose rein ? thy heart ? Or hope divine such transports raise, As heavenly joys impart? Such graces should thy mind adorn. Such hope inspire thy breast Like her's thy life shall yield content, Thy death like her's be blest.
self control
Benevolence
warm
and crowns, and
The above
Upon
lines are
is
Are
rich in cares,
when
rest
hath better things.
the front
upou the back of the stone. few short years the verse, "
FEARN.
of evil past," &c.
269
Blacks have farmed in various
A rude
stands.
boulder, with a hole in
it,
very
much
it
parts of Fearn for
many generations one

;
of them,
resembling a field-gate post, was taken out of a
David, servant
to the Rev.
Mr Wemyss,
Dubb
of
became
in 1731.
grave some years ago, near the spot where
now
tenant of a portion of the farm of
Upon
in
a head-stone
It is said to mark the grave of John Macintosh, sometime farmer of Leadendrie, who
1S26. Erected by James Deuchar
Demarara,
of
did good service to the district in the fight which
memory of Deuchar, who

years
;
his father,
George Deuchar
occurred at Sauchs, in Lethnot, between the

of Fearn
men
died 20th January 1802, aged 55
and
of his
mother, Elizabeth Peter,
who
and a gang of Cateran, when the latter were defeated, and deprived of their plunder. An
account of this affray, as well as of the historical
died 27th February 1823, aged 65 years.
Tradition
says that the Deuchars received the
and antiquarian
peculiarities of Fearn,
wiU be
lands from which they assumed their surname, and
found in the Land of the Lindsays.
the designation " of that ilk," for services per-
Record formed at the battle of Barry in 1010 shows that Deuchars held the lands of Deuchar as vassals of Lindsay of Glenesk, lord of Feme, Deuchars continued in possession of in 1379. Deuchar until about the year 1815, when their male representative sold the property, and went
!
The ancient
or Mowats,
lords of
Fearn were the Montealts,

followed the
who had
a grant of the barony from
William the Lion.
The Lindsays
Montealts, and to the Lindsays succeeded Carnegie of Southesk, the last-named of
whom
held
to
New
at
Zealand.
yrs. tenant of Balquhadlie,
a.
the barony until the attainder in 1716.
The
James Watson, 40
d.
castle of
Vayne (now
It
in ruins), overlooked
Ledmore, in 1835,
81
Mary Webster,
the river Noran.
hiswf.,
d. 1818, a. 49: When mortals to the eve of life draw near. And death's dark shades upon their eyelids close.
was built or improved by the Earls of Southesk. Three door or window lintels, preserved in the farm offices, bear respectively the following legends and dates
:
The wise through
faith in Christ are void of fear
DISCE
MEO
EXEMPLO
FORMOSIS
POSSE
calmly sink the righteous to repose. While here envelop'd in the grave's dark night.
How
carere. [Learn by
beautiful.
]
my
example to be able to want the

.
The body mixes with its kindred clay, The soul unfetter'd soars to realms of light, To live in sunshine of eternal day.
PLACITIS
ABSTINVISSE
BONIS
ANNO
[
DOM
1678.
will.]
.
Mr John Watson, lately farmer at Ledmore, in Menmuir, the only survivor of a family of twelve,
six of
to
have abstained with a good
HON
[If it is
SI
whom
is
died in the flower of their days,

lines.
MALE NVNC ANNO DOM

.
ET
SIC
ERAT
1678.
erected this
monument, and wrote the above

author of
is
iU with
me now
it
was not
so formerly.]
is
Mr W.
among
several pieces of
poetry:
in
The
first
of the above inscriptions
carved
these
Whistlin'
Tam, published
the 6th series of " Whistle Binkie."
upon a stone on which are an earl's coronet, and the monogram, E. R. S., i.e., Robert Earl of
Southesk, whose lady, as one of the historical characters of the time of Charles II., occupies a con-
Geo. Rickard,
d. 1840, a.
90
his
nephew, James
E.ICKARD, farmer, Windsor, d. 1842, a. 48, "whose generous heart ever rejoiced to relieve the wants of
the needy"
:
spicuous place in the Memoirs of Count Grambeautiful monogram of the same Peer mont.
Death daily walks
his active round,

;
is
built into the
manse at Fearn,
also
some other
On
time's uncertain stage
carved stones relating to the Carnegies.
He
brakes up every fallow ground,
Spares neither sex nor age.
Dr H. W. Tytler.
In the manse of Fearn were born James, and Both have acquired places
270
EPITAPHS,
the
AND INSCRIPTIONS.
first,
in the literary anuals of their country
Aisle,
contains
two
slabs
:
one bears the Innes
known by
and
the soubriquet of Balloon, was a ready
arms, and this inscription

. . .
. . . .
effective writer in prose
and
verse,
and the
latter translated the
poems
of
Callimachus from
the Greek, &c.
HEIR LYES ANE HONORABLE MAN ALEXANDER INNES MATHI MILNE WHO DEPARTIT NOVEMBER THE FIRST 1636.
.
Fearn are those which cross the Noran at Courthill and at Wellford. A bridge appears to have been erected at the first of these places about 1620, and at the latter about
The
principal bridges in
This
who
Mill,
is
probably the tombstone of Alex. Innes,
witnesses a grant to his brother-german,
John
Innes of Leuchars, of the lands of Corskie, Mathie
and
rises in Fearn parish, North Esk near the kirk of Stracathro, is crossed by a number of stone bridges. All are of comparatively modern erection.
1807.
The Cruick, which
joins the
and three parts of Garmocht, in 1587 (Ane Account of the Familie of Innes, Spalding Club edit., p. 148.) It is from the Leuchars branch
that Professor
p.
Cosmo Innes
edited.
is
descended (supra,
78),
by
whom
was
the interesting family history,
just quoted,
The second
gram, and
stone in the Leuchars aisle also

:
presents the family arms, with A.I

this inscription
:
I.K. in mono-
ALEXR. INNES, lEAN KINNAIRD

(S.
1688.
of
ANDREW, APOSTLE.)
called
These
were Ak'xauder Innes, son
George
Kil-ma-Lemnoc, St JQW Andrews was a mensal church of the cathedral of Elgin, as was also that of Ogston, on the opposite side of Loch Spyuie. Both kirks were served by one vicar. There was a chapel and at Inch, on the north side of the parish
J^
NCIENTLY
Innes of Calcots, and his wife Jean Kynaird, a
daughter of Cowbin.
They were married about
1655, when Innes received from his wife's mother a " present portion of 4000 merks, with that part
of the stell fishing callit the
Eath
stell."
Upon
a marble slab, set in freestone, within

:
the kirk of
Kilma-Lemnoc stood
originally at
the area of the old kirk
Mr John Paterson, and 47 years minir. of

1778, in the 81st
Forrester's Seat (Shaw's
Moray.) In 1567, Alexander Leslie was " exhorter" at St Andrews kirk, with 40 merks a year. Subsequently, in 1574, " Elgin and St Androis kirk"
In this church
once minr.
this parish,
of
lie
interred
Dipple,
who
died April 20,
year of his age, and 51st of his ministry.
And
aged
were served by
one minister.
There was
also
one
Helen Grant
76 years.
his spouse, died Jan. 5, 1769,
reader for both places.

with the kirk lands,
The
minister had, along
Love
to
God and
charity to men, were
115 lis IJd Scots, the 40 Scots. The parishes of St Andrews and Lhanbryde were united in 1782, about which time the two old kirks were demolished, and a centrical one erected about midway between the
reader
original sites.
their prevailing dispositions.
He was fervent in the and she was a pious, but humble This mont. is erected to their meChristian. mory by their son Mr Robert Paterson, minr. of
work
of the Gospel,
New
Spynie.
flat slabs in burial
. .
Upon two
which
is
ground:
.
. .
The
burial-jjlace,
surrounded by a
in
Here
.
lyes
.
stone wall, occupies a rising ground upon the wet bank of the Lossie. The old font is broken
in three pieces.
Spynie
,
Iespar Winchester, who died 27 of October 1688 also Iames

. . . . . .
Two
enclosures, one at the east
end
of the kirk, the other near the south-west

all sides,
corner of the cemetery, built up on
be-
longed to Inneses.
The
first,
called the
Leuchars
who died at Pitgavnie May 1658 Worship his son William Winchester Him that made the Heaven the Earth & the Sea & the fountain of water Margaret Sim his spouse l.W M.S.
Sim
.
ST.
ANDREWS LHANBRYDE.
.
. . .
271
Heir lyes Agnes Geddes, spous to lohn Grant who departed the 20 day of May 1-81. I.G A.G.
in Kirkhill,
:
From
a table shaped stone

lies interr'd
HIC REQVIESCIT IN DNO ALEX INNES COKSTOVNS EX ILLVSTRI FAMILIA INNERMARKIE ORIVNDVS QVI FATIS CONCESSIT 6 OCTOB -612 SVE VERO JETATIS 80.
. .
.
Here
this
life,
the body of
Andrew
Gill,
late schoolmaster at St Andrew's,
who departed
Sep.
5,
He was
much
an
re-
[Here rests in the Lord, Alex. Innes of Cokston, descended from the illustrious Invermarkie family, who died 5 Oct. -612 in the SOth year of his age.]
aifectionate husband, a tender parent, supported the
This old
of
his
man was
the father of
John Innes
of
uoble character of an honest man, lived

spected, and died
friends.
Haltoun-, whose son James, against the " advyis"
much lamented by
his family
and
father
and grandfather, " undeutifuUy

marriage with Mariory Innes,
coupled him
selff in
docbter to Alexr. Innes of Cotts," an act which

so
much
offended his "guidsir and father" that
they mutually bound themselves to "seclud the

said
James during
all
the dayes of
the said
Mariorey's lyftyme, and the airs quhatsuraever
Wi
(S.
\i it tt
bVy
i\
t.
gotten, or to be gotten betwix them, for ever fra

all benefit of
inheritance that
may
appertein to
BRIDGET, VIRGIN.)
^N Bishop Bricius' great charter of the foundaJt

tion of the canonries at Spynie (1208-15),
is
them ather be birth richt, tailzie, succession, or ony other provysion quhatsumever." John
Innes of Coxton appears to have died between August 1634, and July 1635. He was probably succeeded by Alexander, who married a daughter A slab (with the Innes and Gordon of Gight.
arms),
is
.
mention
made of the assignation
of the Chantors'
church of Lamnahride, with a davoch of land.

of
In 1225, when Bishop Andrew granted the manor Lamanbride, with its pertinents, and the davoch
thus inscribed
.
Hood, and Matilda his spouse, the manse and kirk davoch were reserved. The next mention of Lhanbryde is in 1280, when Malcolm of Moravia, knight, granted a charter of his whole lands of Lamabride to his son William. In 1529 (Douglas Peer.), James Stewart, Earl of Moray, had charters of Cookstoun, Longbride,
of Petnassare, to Robert
&c.,
MARIA GORDON FILIA EQVITIS DE GIGHT QVE FATIS CONAVGVSTI ANO CESIT 20 1647 .... IN MEMORIAM HOC MONVMENTVM PIAM CONSTRVEDVM ALEXANDR INNES DE COXTON MARITVS CVRAVIT.
HIC
REQVIESCIT
.
[Here rests
Mary Gordon,
who
daughter of
of
Sir
from
his father
James IV.
....
pious
of Gight,
died 20 Aug. 1647, to whose
In 1574, the churches of Langbride and Urquhart were served by one minister, and each locality had its own reader. The burial place, which occupies a rising ground, is near the middle of the village of Lhanbryde, one of the loveliest
hamlets in the north.
caused this
memory her husband, Alex. Innes monument to be erected.]

in the' time of the
(c.
Coxton,
It was
above-named Alexhis brother,
ander of Coxton
of Leuchars,
The
luneses of Coxton buried within the choir
Innes " the clan," were ordered to restore the property of the " umquhil Mr John Innes of Coxtoun," to his execu1635) that
and other members
of
of the old kirk,
and a
recess tomb,
which contains
tors, also the charter kists of
Coxton and Bal-
the recumbent and well-proportioned effigy of a
venie, as well as to
knight in armour,
is still
preserved at Lhanbryde.
(adorned with the Innes arms, also a skull and cross bones^, upon
the left
is
On
a freestone slab
which
is this
inscription
pay 1000 merks for the "wrong and insolence committed in the taking of the place of Coxtoun." There were Inneses of that Ilk (a property in the adjoining parish of Urquhart), from the time
272
EPITAPHS, AiVD INSCRIPTIONS

and from Walter
of of Innes,
II.,
of William the Lion,
who
died in the time
Alexander
have
Near the south-west corner of burial-ground Sacred to the memory of John Sadler, who died
:
descended the various branches of Invermarkie,

Balvenie, Leuchars, &c.
riage of Sir
It
on the 24th
of
Dec.
1858, in his 65th year.
He
was through the marInnes, in 1666, with
was
fifth
for
many
years the faithful servant of James,
James Innes
of
Earl of Fife, by
xi. 25,
whom
this stone
was
placed.
Margaret, third daughter of Harry, Lord Ker,

that their great-grandson. Sir James Innes-Northcliffe,
St John
26 verses.
bart.,
became, by decision of the House of
Lords
in 1812, fifth
flat stone,
Duke of Roxburghe. with carvings of the blacksmith's

:
The most remarkable

the
district
object of antiquity in
is
crown and hammer, bears

Heir lyes the
man
called
of
St Audrews-Lhanbryde
the
honest
David
RussEL
in Longbry.
who
died in yeir 16G5.
Although a niche over the doorway presents the family arms and the date of 1644, &c., possibly the tower was erected by the
of Coxton.
laird,
Tower
The following inscription contains the somewhat odd, but not unique notice, of a man
erecting a
Alexander,
who
died in -612.
It
is
cer-
tainly older than 1644.
As a
building,
monument
to his
own memory
. .
who
partakes
much
of the characteristics of
Coxton the BorIt
der towers, and consists of four storeys, with a high-pitched roof, and turrets at the angles.
is
This
is
the burial place of Patrick Paul,
lived in Darklin,
his spouse
and died 16 Jan. 17th, and Grizel Maver, and their children James
of his father
entirely fire-proof, no timber having been used
Paul who placed this stone in memory
in its construction,
and of himself, who dyed Nouer. ii. 1756, and Elizabeth Miln, his spouse, who dyed the 29 of
Septr. aged 66, the year 1771.
doors.
One
door
is
with the exception of the two upon the ground floor, and
the other, which

the second iron yetts.
flat.
is
reached by a ladder, is upon Both are guarded by massive
Here
lys the
body
of
Elizabeth Walton,
first
beloved spouse to William TuUoch, merchant in Elgin, who dyed Nov. 23, 1763, justlly lamented by
"Not
a crack (says Billings,

is
of this interesting tower)
visible
who gives two views and we pre;
aU
hir acquaintances
dict that until the stone disintegrates, the Castle

:
In God I liv'd, in him I died, I live with him, tho' dead I ly.
will stand.
Within the rooms
is
a singular pro-
vision for communication, perfectly independent

floor is a These stones when Ufted up, show an opening from the summit to the base of the tower, and by the aid of a
of the staircase.
In the centre of each
In area of old kirk

This stone
lane to the
is
square stone, fitted into a groove.
placed here by
of,
Mrs Ann Macfar-
and over the remains of her husband, the Rev. Thomas Macfarlane, late minister of Lhanbryde, who died November 1781 and of their son, the Rev. Thoiias Macfarlane, late minister of Edinkillie, who died on the 7th August 1827.
;
memory
rope and pulley, the requirements of
its
inmates
might be attended to, and all the inconveniences of carriage up the narrow staircase avoided." It need scarcely be added that, although "lifts"
are of comparatively late introduction into large
Within an enclosure
mansion-houses and hotels in this country, the

contrivance at Coxton shews that the value of
Sacred to the memory of Elizabeth Tod, relict of the late Rev. James McLean, minister of Urquhart,
who
died in Elgin, on the 25th day of
them was long ago discovered and appreciated by our ancestors.
This
first
wife,
was the second wife of Mr M'Lean his whose name was also Elizabeth Tod,
;
died at Keith
(v. p.
167 J
RATHVEN.
CONIVGIS
.
.
273
EORV
POSTERORV
jEDIOLA
.
GRATIAM
DNI
.
FIT
H^C AVSTRALIOR
AN
1612.
lUtltven.
(S.
PETER, APOSTLE.)
Aberdeen, were annexed by
?J'flHE churches of Rotht-uen and Freschcme, both

e4)
[To the honour of God, for the use of the church, and in grateful remembrance of James Hay of Rannes, Katherine Dunbar, his spouse, and their descendants, this more southern chapel was erected
in 1612.]
in the diocese of
Bishop William in 1483.
The
kirk of Freschane, Forscan, Farskin, or
marble monument (with the family arms

all,
Faskin, was dedicated to the
Virgin Mary.
It
quartered, and a crescent, over
indicating the
stood in a field about a mile to the west of the
descent of the
Hays from
a second son, also the
town
of Cullen,
where
the site is still
pointed out.
motto, SPARE NOUGHT), coutaius this notice of

the
Dundurcas (now part of Rothes), and Bellie, were served by one minister in 1574. It is stated at the same period that " Forsken neidis na reidare."
The
three churches of Rathven,
Hays
the
To
plum.
memory
Sir
of the
Hays
of
1421,
William Hay
Rannes and Lenof Locharat was

:
ancestor of the noble family of Tweeddale
1474,
A freestone slab,
initialed E. H.,
built into a wall at Farskane,
and dated 1677, presents a carving Hamilton of lluglen a family, so far as 1 know, that never had any connection with the locality, unless it may have been that a Gorlaird of Farskane married a Hamilton.
of the arras of
dons were designed of Farskane in 1049, how long before, or afterwards, I am not aware but one of
;
them, who joined

still
INIar's rebellion,
is
said to have
found a safe retreat for some time in a cave, which

bears his name,
among
the
cliffs
by the
sea-
shore.
In early times, a family was named Farskin, and designed of that Ilk. Farskin, or Faskin, The property, is still a surname in Banffshire. once owned by Hay of Rannes, now belongs to
the Earl of Seafield.
The
is
present church of Rathven, built in 1794,
a plain house, near the old burial-ground, about a mile from the populous village of Buckie.
About the year IGGO there was '.'a good church, steejjle, and an aisle for the Hays The nave of the old church is used as of Ranis." The the burial-place of heritors and others. aisle for the Hays of Rannes, or the south aisle of
with a square
the kirk, which
is still
he married a second wife Alicia, daughter of Sir William Hay of Errol, by whom he had Sir Edmund Ha\' of Lenplum and Morum, who married MargaretKerr, and hadDuGALD HAYof Lenplum, who married Helen Cockburn, daughter of Cockburn of Newhall. Their children were, 1520 (i. ), Edmund Hay' of Lenplum; (ii.),GeorgeHay of Rannes; (m.), William Hay of Edderston ; (iv.), Andrew Hay of Ranfield. 1562, The above George Hay was Superintendent of Glasgow and Aberdeen, Secretai-y to the Privy Couiacil in the year 1567, and Rector of Rathven. He added the lauds of Faskin and Findachy to his patrimonial inheritance. He also acquired the lands of Edderston, which he bestowed on his brother William, and the lands of Ranfield, which he gave to his brother Andrew. 1567, The above George Hay married Harriot, daughter of Henderson of Fordel, of whom there were (i.), George, who died unmarried in the year 1586. 1603 (ii.), James Hay of Rannes and Lenplum, who married Katherine, daughter of Dnnbar of Grange. Their children were (i.), George Hay of Rannes; (il), James Hay of Muldavit; (in.), John Hay of Langshed; (iv.), Andrew; (v.),
William;
(vi.),
Katharine;
(vii.),
Anne.
Tlie
succeeded to the estate of Lenplum in consequence of the failure of heii's-
above James
of
Hay of Rannes
Hay
of
account of
its
:
erection
in good repair, bears this upon a slab on the right of
male
William
;
Lenplum, as
is
instructed
by
Sir
a deed recorded in the Books of Session, 28th of
the entrance
IN
lA
.
HONOREM
DE
. .
DEI
.
ECCLESI^
.
HAYI
RANNES
Kal
VSVM DVNBAR
.
ET
El'
1599 but afterward sold this property to William Hay, a younger son of the family of Tweeddale. 1630, In the estate of Rannes he was succeeded by his eldest son GiiORGE, who married
May
M M
274
EPITAPHS,
AND INSCRIPTIONS:
the above inscription and Douglas which some
Agnes, daughter of Guthrie of Guthrie, Bishop of Murray, and had, 1645, James Hay of Ranues, who married Margaret, daughter of Gordon of Park. Their children were (i. ), James Hay of Kannes ;
(ii. ),
one acquainted with the matter

rectify.
may be
able to
Possibly the male line of the

failed in
Hays
;
of
Rannes
wife of
Charles,
who
died in 1736
at
Andrew Hay
of
Mountblairy, of
whom
least be left a daughter,
the Hays of Cocklaw and Faichfield are descended.

1684, The above James Hay of Eannes married Margaret, daughter of Gordon of Glengerrack. Their children were (i. ), Charles Hay of Eannes, born 16SS, and died in London in 1751 (ii.)> James Hay, who married Helen Lauder, dowager Lady Banff, of whom were James, Charles, and William Hays. 1710, The above Charles Hay of Rannes married Helen, only child of Dr Andrew Fraser,
;
Mary, who became the John Leith of Leith Hall, in Kinnethuiont. Rannes has long been a portion of the Seafield
;
estate
but the patronage of the church of Rath-
ven belongs to Leith- Hay.
The area, or nave of the kirk is partly enclosed, and contains a number of monuments. In the
western part
is
the following
James Gordon
of Glasteerum,
dyed Febry. the
Inverness.
of
Their children were

;
(i. ),
Andrew Hay
1771, aged
20th, 1783, aged 64.
Eannes
;
47
(III.
),
Alexander Hay, died Mary, married to Leith of

(ii.),
Leithhall
The Gordons, who were designed of Glasteerum,

or Clystirim, before 1662, were descended from a
Katherine, married to Gordon of Sheilagreen; (v.), Clementina, married to Duff of Whitehill (VI. ), Margaret, married to EusseU of Mont(iv.),
;
second son of the Huntly family.
(who was the

Bishop of the
laird of the period),

district
;
One of them became R. C.

Within an
:
coflfer
(vii.
),
Jane, unmarried.
another has a tomb at

{v. p.
1789,
The above Andrew Hay died unmarried,
St Niuian's, or
The Enzie
278.)
the 29th of August 1789, aged 76, and his remains are deposited in this aisle. Mr Hay was distin-
adjoining, but separate enclosure at Rathven
guished for those qualities which add grace and

dignity to
human
nature.
Possessed of true piety,
This stone was erected by Katherine Duncan to the memory of Alexander Innes, Capt. of the Enzie Volunteers, her husband, who died at Loan-
he was an affectionate kinsman, a steady friend, a pleasant companion, and an honest man. The urbanity of his manners, and the kindness of his disposition, were universally felt and acknowledged. He made use of his fortune with that happy prudence which enabled him, while alive, to share enjoyment with his friends, and to leave to his successor an ample and independent inheritance.
Eev. xiv.
13.
head the 15 aged 45.
Sept.
1799,
and
is
interred here,
His widow died

more
inscriptions
:
in 1851,
aged 85.
Within the
easterly part of the nave are the next
two
departed this
Here lyes William Gordon of Farskan, who life the XVI. day of June MDCXCII,
mori.
Memento
sheriff of Peeblesshire, 1420,
Sir
William Hay,
founded the collegiate church of Tester, for a

provost, six prebendaries,
and two singing boys.
The burial grounds of the Families of Farskin and Findochty were enclosed by William GordonDuff of Eden, and William Dunbar of Nether
Buckie, descendants of these families, a.d. 1799.
His
as
first
wife was a daughter and coheiress of
Giffard of Tester, and their grandson, ennobled
Gordon
(v.
273),
who was designed

first
of
Lord Hay of Tester, was ancestor of the present Marquis of Tweeddale. Douglas, in his Peerage, says that Sir William died soon after 1420 and that by his 2d wife Alicia, daughter of Sir Thomas Hay of Errol, he bad a son, Edmund, who married a daughter of Maxwell of Tealing, in Angus also a daughter who became the wife of Macdowel of Makerston discrepancies between
; ;
Farsken in 1649, married Helen, daughter of

Duff of Braco, and niece to the
Earl of Fife.
The remains
Findochty (which property belonged at one time to the Hays of Rannes) now form part of the buildings at the farm of
of the castle of
Mains
of Findochty.
is
A well off
Findochty, called
Sainel Figget (?)

tides, at
covered by the sea at high

it is
low water
a fresh water spring.
RATHVEN.
An
enclosure, on S.E. of the ilannes aisle, con-
275
cathro on his return to Scotland.
He was
twice
tains tablets, from which the next three inscriptions are copied.
married, and
the
first
Mrs Gordon was

{v.
the only child
by
The
first is
upon a freestone
Elizabethje
marriage
Stracathro.)
from the same from a marble slab:
of
slab
The next two

suae conjugis
inscriptions are
Memorise charissimse
enclosure
the
of
first is
Gordon, quae
calendas,
decessit die decimo quinto Januarij

aetatis
Sacred to the
memory
the late family of
1725,
suae
31,
monumentum
Steuart
Tanochy,
hoc extrui curavit maritus superstes Alexander Gordon de Cairnfield, Signeto Regio Scriba. [To the
interred here.
whom, but two, lie Patrick Steuart of Tanochy,

all of
memory
of his
dearly beloved wife,

18, 1725, in
died 31 Dec. 1779, aged 50 ; Elizabeth, his wife, died 4 April 1804, aged 60. Their three sons,
Elizabeth Gordon, who died Dec.

31st year of her age.
the
George Steuart
1814,
Her
surviving husband,
of Tanochy, W.S., died Oct. aged 45; Alexander, Major 75th regt.,
;
Alexander Gordon
of Cairnfield,
W. S.
caused this
killed in Callabria, April 1813, aged 40
Andrew
monument
to be erected.]
The above lady was heiress of Cairnfield. Her husband (by whom she had three daughters), was of the Gordons of Dykeside, in Morayshire. He married a second time, and had (says Burke) two sons, John his successor, and James, late of Roseburn (y. Banff), to the last of whom the next
quoted inscription appears to refer
Sacred to the
son of
at
:
Their two daughters, Harriet-Mary, died 19 July 1864, in the 93d year of her age Elizabeth-Margaret, died 24 July 1858, aged 82. [Titus ii. 10 ; Rev.
.
died in the Island of Jamaica,
xiv. 13.]
This
flat
family
is
now
is
represented
by Steuart
of
Auchlunkart,
who
proprietor of Tanochy.
:
freestone slab bears
memory of James Gordon, second Alexander Gordon of Cairnfield, who died

1
Banff on the
January 1815, aged 77
and
Here lies James Gordon, son of the late George Gordon, Esq. of Buckie, who departed this life at Cullen, 27 May 1800, in the 58th year of his age.
Janet Mercer,
the 24
his spouse,
who
died at Nairn, on
is
May
1842, aged 84.
This tablet
placed by
Adam-Garden Gordon,
their youngest son,
and
Francis Gordon of Kincardine, 1844.
There
Adam
scribed
:
is
referred to
(of
no monument to John Gordon before but one (white marble) to his son
;
Mrs Helen Ord, his spouse, and daughter of Mr Wm. Ord of the family of Findochty, late merchant at Desk ford, died at Cullen, 1 Dec. 1803, aged 78. This stone is placed over their remains by Mrs Anne Rannie, eldest daughter of the late Col.
Browne, &c.
Arradoul and Cairnfield)
is
thus in-
The oldest visible stone at Rathven bears the name of Isobel Mackie, and the date of 1698.
Tlie following inscriptions are from tombstones
in different parts of the burial
" Bydand"
of Cairnfield,
To
who
the
died 17th
memory of Adam Gordon March 1847, aged 74.
ground
Elizabeth Cruickshank, his wife, eldest daughter of the late Patrick Cruickshank of Stracathro, Forfarshire, died 29th January 1847, aged 67, and their two sons and two daughters, who predeceased them. Erected as a tribute of respect and afTection by their surviving sons John Gordon of Cairnfield
This ston belongs to lames Forbes, dueller in Nyr. Buckie .... Ianet Reid somtime his spous
who departed
April
....
Patrick, Major, H.E.I.S.
George, merchant, U.S.,
Heir lyes the body of Kathrin Sim .... somtime spous to lohn Lobban, who desest the 2 days of September 1713. Here also lyes I. H. S. Christen Scot, who desest the 11 of lune 1708.
America
James
C. Duff,
and William, Lieutenant,
H.E.I.C.S.
Patrick
Here lies the body of Jean Garden, spowse to lohn Smith, skipper in Rottenslogh, who died
Cruickshank, who went from Rossshire to the West Indies as a mechanic, made a
fortune abroad, and bought the estate of Stra-
March
31, 1779,
aged 68 years
here
lies also
three
of their children.
to their
As
a small testimoney of regaird

is
memory
this stone
erected here
by the
27G
EPITAPHS,
husband whos desire
is
AND
INSCPilPTIONS
a Dane, a Scot, and a Norwegian,
battle.
affectionate
that his
body
may
be interred near theirs, and
now
Tho' AEleos blasts
& Neptunes waves,

decree,
Hase driven him to and fro, Yet nov at last, by Heavens
He harbours here And at an anchor

With many
Till the last
below.
who fell in More probably, owing to the similarity of the name of Cullen to that of Cologne in Prussia, these rocks had been named after the Three Kings, or Wise Men of the East, to whom the Cathedral of Cologne was dedicated. The
rocks are near the town of Cullen.
he does ride
raise
of our fleet.
trumpet
him up.
About 1224-G, John Byseth (one
of a race of
Our Saviour Christ

Here
lies
to meet.
potent barons of William the Lion's time, and
the body of
skipper in shore of Buckie,

Oct. 1786, aged 65 years
his spowse,
;
John Reid, sometime who died the 26th and Margrat Wood,
who were
anciently lords of Lovat), gifted to God,

of S.
and to the Church
Peter
of
Rothfan, for
the maintenance of seven leprous persons, and

other pious uses, the patronage of the kirk of
who
died 2d Oct. 1785, aged 62 years.
Kiltalargy (Kiltaralty), in Inverness-shire.
The
four preceding inscriptions are from flat

:
The bedehouse, now

lage of Rathven.
storey.
It
in ruins, stood at the vilof
stones the next two from headstones
was a thatched house
one
Erected by the Rev. David Garment, minister of

Rosskeen, in memory of his father James Garment, late schoolmaster at Enzie Chapel, who departed
this life on the 28th of here.
The
walls ajipear to have been built of a
mixture of rough boulders and sandstones, differing in no respect from the surrounding cottages
except that the door and
dressed.
July 1812, and
is
interred
The
pensioners,
window lintels were now lodged in different

and
Wm.
Smith, hd. to
life,
Ann
Flett, d. 1844,
a.
50
parts of the district, are maintained from the rent

of
Thy
Has
dear man, through every scene.

liberal things
some acres
of land in the neighbourhood,
active, useful, lovely been.

? ?
by
gifts of meal,
which are doled out by Lord Sea-
Whoe'er design'd more
field,
the patron and administrator of the bequest.
Who
higher stretch'd devotion's wings
Could friendship, trade, at home, abroad. Be sacred more to Christ than God How far from fear, to heaven how nigh Thus William liv'd, and learn'd to die.
;
In the rental of the parsonage of Rathven (1563), appears the item of " the kirk of Kintallartie sett
for 241bs.," as well as those of the kirk of
Dun-
durcas,
The antiquarian
peculiarities of
Rathveu are
but few. The circle which stood at Corriedoun was long ago destroyed and the King's Cairn, the
;
and the lands of Mulben. The parish of Rathven (locally called Raff an) was probably named from a rath or fort, which may have stood upon one of the promontories which overhang the burn of Rathven, near the kirk. The parish, which extends about ten miles
from
east to
reputed grave of King Indulphus, who tradition says was slaughtered there by the Danes but
west,
contains the fishing villages
of Portnockie, Findochty, Portessie,
Peterbyth,
according to the Pictish Chronicle, he died at St Andrews is still pointed out. Cairns and
Buckie, Gollachy, and Portgordon, &c., also the

inland village of the Kirktown of Rathven.
largest of these villages
is
The
tumuli are to be seen upon the Muir of Bauds,
Buckie, which promises
Some of the traditionary scene of the conflict. the cairns have been opened, and found to contain stone coffins, of the
size,
to
become the most important town in Banffshire. Apart from the parish church, there are quoad
Portnockie,
or Seafield,
at
common
construction and
sacra churches at
with urns of the ordinary type.

isolated rocks
Three
upon the sea beach below
Farskin are called the Three Kings of Cullen. These are popularly said to have been named from
There are also Free Churches at those places, besides an Episcopal and a U. P. church at Buckie, and a
Buckie, and at the Enzie (of old yiivne).
Methodist chapel at Rottenslogh,
now
Portessie.
S.
NINIAN'S,
OR
THE ENZtE.
are
217
There are three

district.
Roman
Catholic chapels in the

(S.
One
at
Preshome
Mary), a second
and the
at Tynet, or Auchenhalrig (S. Ninian),
third at Buckie (SS.

first,
Peter and Paul).
The
two freestone slabs, with traces of inscripAlthough much defaced, enough remains of the one over the door to show that it is a quotation from Prov. iii. 10. The initial, G., is upon
tions.
built in 1788,
was the scene
of the labours
each side of the door.

It was near Buckie that the celebrated Dr Alex. Geddes was born, who appears to have
of
Bishop Kyle, who died there in 1869, in the

all
80th year of his age, and 41st of his Episcopate,

respected by
heart,
who knew him for his generosity of uncommon scholarship and antiquarian knowledge. S. Mary's Chapel contains a magnificent altar piece, representing S. Gregory, painted by the Carracci considered one
and
his
been the Colenso of his time, both as regards his

notions of the Pentateuch, and his treatment
by
the Bishops.
in
He
died at London, and was buried
Faddington Church-yard, where a monument
with the following inscription (kindly communicated by the Rev.
of the
most valuable pictures in Scotland.

at Buckie, consecrated in 1857,
is
Mr
Bucklings),
marks
his
The chapel
grave
large cathedral- looking structure, with nave

side aisles, flanked in front
and by two well-proporis
" Rev. Alexander Geddes, LL.D., translator February

'
of
the historical books of the Old Testament, died

26, 1802, aged
tioned towers.
The
interior
neatly fitted, up,
63
and some of the windows present figures in stained glass and diaphany. Two marble tablets are built
into the south wall
:
the one nearest the altar
is
thus inscribed
J-
William Gordon,
Born
1861,
Pray
for the Soul of Sir
Baronet, of Gordoustone and Letterfourie.
deceased 5th Deer. 26th December 1804 whose remains are interred in this church.
;
Christian is my name, and Catholic my surname. I grant that you are a Christian as well as I, and embrace you as my fellow disciple in Jesus. And, if you were not a disciple of Jesus, still I Extracted would embrace you as my fellow man. Requiescat in pace. This stone from his works. is erected by his friend, Lord Petre, in 1804."
'
May
Besides
and
his
being remarkable for his scholarship

biblical
he
rest in peace.
works on
criticism,
;
Dr Geddes
and when
The second
tablet bears
was
:
also a writer of Scottish verse
elected a corresponding
member
poem
of the Society of
J- Pray for the Souls of Sir James Gordon, Baronet of Gordonstown and Letterfourie, born in the year 1779 ; deceased on the 24th December
184.3.
Antiquaries of Scotland, he conveyed his thanks

to the Society in a long
i.
(Archael.
Scotica,
And
of his spouse,
Mary Glendonwin
of
p. 445), in
the 18th
Glendonwin, born in the year 1783 ; deceased on May 1845 ; whose remains are interred May they rest in peace. within this church.
servation of
which he strongly advocates the prethe Scotch language

:
" 'Tis yours,
my
gcn'rous, gentle brithers
Amen.
T' assert the honor of your mithers, An" shaw they gaif as pure and gude
The
of
A language,
first
as they gaif a blude."
Gordon
of Letterfourie
was James,
of
Admiral
of the Fleet in 1513,
and fourth son
the second Earl of Huntly, by his wife, a daughter
James
I.
baronetcy was created in the
family in
1625.
The present
proprietor,
Sir
Robert Glendonwin-Gordon of
direct descendant of the admiral,
Letterfourie,
is
a
(S.
Premier Ba-
NINIAN, BISHOP CONFESSOR.)

burial-ground, which
is
ronet of Scotland.
There is little worthy of note regarding the House of Letterfourie. Near the village of Buckie, upon the side of a romantic burn, stands a dovecot, in the south side of which
rpHIS
sometimes called
St. Ninian's, at other times
Chapelford,
is
octagonal in form, and occupies a slight eminence
2?8
EPITAPHS,
AND INSCRIPTIONS
annos
circiter 76, obiit
a field upon the farm of Braes of Enzie, about half-way between the parish kirks of Rathven
in
quarto Idus Octobris anno
reparatse salutis 1718.
and Be) lie.
by a substantial wall, shaded by a few trees but no ruins remain of the chapel, which a writer of 1726 says was " rebuilt about
It
is
enclosed
;
[Here lies the Very ReV^. Thomas Nicolsok, Bishop of Peristachium, Vicar Apostolic in Scotland. He was a man of primitive piety, distinguished for candour and Christian simplicity, justly admired and esteemed for his integrity and the
spotless purity of his character, acute of intellect,
thirty years
ago by
.....
Dutchess of
Gordon." Although the

little
site of
the grave-yard partakes
of the picturesque or the romantic, a fine

is
view
obtained from
it of
the
hills of
and Caithness.
within
it lie
To
is
the lovers of
Sutherland worth and
eminent for learning and erudition, gifted with rare prudence and wisdom, deeply endeared to the faithful by his zeal and charity, respected even by those
who
are without for his beneficence, courtesy,
and
genius the enclosure
peculiarly interesting, for
liberality.
Go
hence, traveller, and bless him.
He
the ashes of some of the most scholarly

their time.
lived about 70 years,
and died 12th Oct. 1718.]

the
first
and holy men of is from the oldest

Here lyes
The
first
:
epitaph
Mr Nicolson, who was

of Scotland,
Vicar Apostolic
visible grave-stone
Adam Gordon,
of Glestirim,
youngest
son
of
was originally a Protestant. About 1682, he embraced the Catholic Faith, and after
Thomas Gordon
eldest daughter of
and Anna Gordon, He dyed the Laird of Bucky.
a residence abroad, returned a missionary to his

native country.
At
the time of the Revolution,
the 44th year of his age, the 30 of
March 1695 :
Here one doth ly of honorable birthe, Sauoring of Heauen, while he liud on earth
he was cast into prison, and subsequently banished. He went to France, and while there, in 1695, he
was raised
to the Eijiscopate
by the
title of
Bishop
Who
And
by deuotion made
his king
his frequent tiights,
of Peristachium.
On
his
way
;
to Scotland,
which
sheus desire to be with heauenly lights.
he did not reach until July 1697, he again suffered
To God
&
contry
imprisonment for a time
but once in Scotland,
& True &
dutiful in all relations,
he spent an active and unmolested career, and

died at his residence of Preshome.
Too, fors children, seruants, neighbours, & his [wife, Found him exemplar by an lioly life,
Bishop Nicol-
son was a younger son of
He's mised by those
Then
let
& by the endigent him haue what to the Lord he

Pvequiescat in pace.
Kemnay, by
lent.
his wife, a
Thomas Nicolson of daughter of Abercromby
^
is
of Birkenbog, at
born about 1645.
The
copied
chapel.
stone from which the above inscription

lies
near the
site of the altar of the old
which mansion the Bishop was His epitaph is said to have been written by his coadjutor. Bishop Gordon. Besides Bishop Nicolson, who was born
in
table-shaped
first is
The next three monuments in

and
inscriptions
are from
Banffshire, the
number
of
Roman
its
Catholic
the same locality.
The
Prelates, natives of the Enzie
and
vicinity, is
embellished with carvings of a sand glass,

bells,
skull, cross bones,
&c.
D.O.M.
Reue'^"^ D.
Peristach. Wic. Ap. in
Thomas Nicolson, Epis. Scotia, hie iacet. Wir fuit

integritate, et
primaava pietate, insignis candore et simplicitate

Christiana,
worthy of being noticed. Of these Bishop Gordon was born at, and was laird of Glastyrum Bishop Smith was born at Fochabers Bishop Grant at Wester Boggs Bishop John Geddks Bishop Paterson at Path-head at Corriedoun
;
;
;
admirandus
morum
Bishop Scott at Chapelford

at Wellheads
;
Bishop
Murdoch
;
in-
nocentia eximius, ingenio acutus, doctrina et eruditione clarus, prudentia et sapientia

singularis,
zelo et charitate fidelibus charissimus, beneficentia,
comitate, et liberalitate, etiam

wenerabilis.
iis
qui foris sunt,
Abi, wiator, et bene precare.
Wixit
and Bishop Smith at Cuttlebrae. Glasgow was born at Buckie and the late Bishop Gillis of Edinburgh, though a native of Montreal, in Canada, was connected with the locality, in so far as his parents had amiBishop
Gray
of
LINTRATHEN,
grated from near Fochabers.
Nicolson's
279
Adjoining Bishop
and Charlotte,
here.
all of
whose remains are interred
tomb
'i' Sub hoc lapide sepultus est R. D. Georgius Mathison, natus die 12 Januarii, 1756, qui e Seminario Scotorum Vallisoletano iu Scotiam rediit presbyter anno 1778, ac, cum per 50 fere annos Missionem S. Niniani apud Bellay fideliter administrasset, ad meliorem vitam transiit die 14 Januarii
Erected at the desire of Barbara, the last surviving daughter of the family, who departed this life on the 20 of August 1823, in the 86th year
poor,
and whose benevolence, charity to the and amiable manners, gained her the general and just respect and esteem of all ranks of society where she was known.
of her age,
1828.
[Beneath this stone
is
interred the Rev.
Geokge
Ma'I'HISON, born 12 Jan. 1756,
who
returned a priest
from the Scotch College of Valladolid to Scotland in 1778, and after he had faithfully conducted the Mission of S. Ninian at Bellay for nearly 50 years, departed to a better life, 14 Jan. 1828.1
Mr M. was
cated
first
Though not solely devoted to the burial of members of the Roman Catholic Church, the graveyard of S. Ninian may be said to have been hitherto pretty generally used by them and it is much to be wondered that, in this large and populous district where there are Established and Free Churches so many Protestants should pre;
a native of Bellie.
He was
edu-
fer carrying
their
dead to Rathven, &c., when,

S.
at Scalan, in Glenlivet, afterwards at
with but Httle trouble and expense,

could be enlarged and
Ninian's
Valladolid, iu Spain,
S.
and continued missionary
of
made
available for interdistrict.
Ninian, or Auchinhalrig, down
to the time of
:
ment by
all
denominations in the
his death.
Upon
To the memory of the Rev. William Reid, who, having received Holy Orders at Douay, served in
the Mission of Scotland 45 years, and departed
this life at in the 71st year of his aê.
Kempcairn, on the 25th of April 1S25, This stone was erected by his niece Sophia-Helena-Maria Reid.
a native of Fochabers, was
There is a copious spring at a short distance from S. Ninian's but whether it was " ane Well in the bounds of the Enzie, on the south syde of Spey," which was considered one of the "causes of the growth of Papistrie" in that locality, and as such ordered, by Act of Assembly in 1608, to
;
be destroyed,
is
is less
certain, than that the

{v.
water
Mr Reid, who was

take in repartee.
of the best
and purest kind
Bellie.)
a favourite with all sects of Christians. He was one of those right-minded men who could give or
Being at a dinner party on one
occasion, soon after the death of a favourite pony,
the loss of which he was lamenting, an Anti-
g;
Burgher, or Seceder,
fanely inquired of
who
Reid
it
t r it t
lu
w.
was
if
;
present,
pro(S.
Mr
he gave his horse

to
MEDDAN.)
extreme unction before
died
which
Mr
sir
;
Reid
the
goodnaturedly
answered,
/"
" Deed no,
I^HE
church of LantretJiyne, or Luntrethen,
beastie deeit a Burgher
(Gordon's Scotichron.)
:
A flat stone within an

:
enclosure bears
of
of
Here lie the remains of John Stuart, Esq. Bogs born the 29th of lune 1702, died the 7th
luly 1780.
Jt valued at 20 merks in the Old Taxation, was a vicarage in the diocese of St Andrews. During a vacancy in 1386, the rents of the vicarage were uplifted by order of the Bishop, and
applied to assist in the repair of the cathedral
May
his soul rest in peace.

:
Upon a head
stone adjoining the above
church of St Andrews, which, in 1378, had been much destroyed by fire (Reg. Prior. S. And.)
To the memory of John Stuart late of Bogs, and of Jean Lindsay, his spouse and of their daughters, Henrietta, Barbara, Jean, Katharine, Mary,
;
The patronage and

in
teinds of the chapel of Glen-
trathen were given to the Priory of
Inchmahome,
Lake Monteith.
280
EPITAPHS,
built in 1803,
It
is
AND INSCRIPTIONS.
Hear layes Elisabeth Smart, spouse to lohn She departed this in Nether Sheithens. life the 27 day of December 1713 years, her age years. was 36
Eduart
Heir lyes
lif
The present church,

upon, or near the
was repaired
said to stand
and enlarged some years ago.

site of a
chapel which was erected

It had,
by Alan the Durward,
more probably,
succeeded a later building, since the Durwards

ceased to have connection with the parish towards
the beginning of the 15th century,
ane
to
of
honest
woman
caled
Isabel
Macher, spows
M'ponthe 21
when
(says
lohn Dens, who departed this lanewar, and of her age 38, 1713.
Douglas), Sir Walter Ogilvy acquired Lintrathen
Heir lyes ane honest
man
called
Iames Ogilvy.
departed
by marrying
Isabel, the heiress of
Durward.
He
lived in Little Kilrie,
husband
....
flat
In old times the bell of S. Mkddan of Lintrathen was an object of considerable importance.
It
this life the 16 of
August 26
years, 1719
The above
inscriptions are
from
:
stones
was hereditary in certain noble personages and charter evidence shows that " its resignation
;
the next two are from headstones
included a house or
trathen,
as
toft,
near the church of Lin;
and the right of the Countess of Moray, wife of Sir John Ogilvy, was completed by shutting her ladyship into the said bouse by herself, and the delivery of the feudal symbols of earth and stone" (Spalding Club Misa pertinent
cell., iv.)
John Craick, farmer, Breas of Old Margt. Davidson, his spouse, d. All Time relations here below,
Allan, d. 1740,
:
Tho' knit with strongst bands,
Death soon disolves when time is No bond his power withstands.

;
spent,
He
snatched of the virtuous wife.

;
Of
the fate of the bell of S. INItDDAN, I have

:
heard nothing reliable

ago an old
ously,
Airlie,
More than twenty
years
The husband fond doth mourn But death his days it soon did cut Here his beseide her urn.
me that some years previwhen an aged woman died at Burnside of

man
told
Andrew Hay's
daughter (1759)
deep and rapid stream divides

;
and her
effects
were disposed
of,
" an auld
rusty thing like a flaggon, that fouk ca'd Maidics
Whether
Bell" was sold along with a lot of rubbish this article had been the old bell or not,
the description of
skellaclis,
it
Death is the name it bears But o'er it Christ has laid a bridge. For heavenly passengers.
Upon
.55
:
corresponds with that of the

of
or
bells
the Middle Ages.

:
The
James Fenton, farmer, Purgavie, d. 17-42, a. Chikston Johnston, his spouse, d. 1746, a. 52
Below
this
present church
bell is inscribed
.
tomb
are laid the bones

;
MICHAEL
BVRGERHVYS
ME
FECIT
1632.
Of a good virtuous pair
The church and burial-ground

Melgam, near a romantic
churchyard
is
of Lintrathen
are prettily situated upon the north

linn, or
bank
of the
water
fall.
The
good order, and the inscriptions quoted below are selected from some of the Possibly the oldest is that which tombstones.
kept
is
Both scholars, pious and discreet, Accomplishments most rare. Whose knowledge serv'd not to puff up. But for a nobler end That lowlyness might them prepare,
;
glorious
life
to spend.
bears the date of 1695,
Dickson, Little the same spot

:
and the words "John Upon another near Kenny."
According to tradition, the Durwards

the greater part of Lintrathen in old times, and
Here
wiues
of
lys interred
:
Alexr Ogiluy
wt.
his tuo wt. nine

:
Mg Lawson
Jo
:
and Iannet Dauie,
his children
He
Js
Jho
And
Wm
Alex .&....
Ogilvies.
Alan, the most celebrated of his race, is said to have had a residence upon the south-west side of As bethe hill of Formal, overlooking the loch. fore stated, Sir Walter Ogilvy is said to have
LOGiE,
OR
LOGIE-MAR.
281
acquired the property by marrying the heiress of
Durward
but
it
also appears that the
same knight
had charters of Purgavie and other parts of the district from Archibald Earl of Douglas, which were confirmed in 1406 by the Duke of Albany. Not far from the reputed site of Durward's Castle, and about the year 1831, a quantity of Roman coins were found in a hillock, some of which are preserved in the locality. Monoliths,
possibly remains of so-called Druidical circles, are
in various parts of the parish
;
Until 1473, the chaplainry of Glenbucket, in Strathdon, was attached to the kirk of Logic but at that period (Reg. Ep. Aberd., i. 307), in con;
sequence of the dangers and
difficulties
which
were encountered in travelling through an uninhabited country, and desert mountains, in which five or six people perished in one day whilst going
to hold Easter at Logic, the Bishop of
bad the chapei
of
Aberdeen Glenbucket erected into a
separate parish kirk, with baptismal font, &c.
and
these, as well
The
half
parishes of
Logie and Coklstone were
as the supposed abodes of the early inhabitants,
united in 1618.
new church was

;
erected about
which are pointed out upon certain

sides, &c., particularly
of the hill
way between
the old sites
about the Torrocks, were
kirk was built in 1780.
and the present The Pooldow well, a little

once
dis-
noticed at length in the Montrose Standard, 13th
to the south of the kirk, is a strong mineral,
March, 1868.
famous for the cure of scorbutic and other
The
owing
chief object of natural beauty
and
interest
;
orders.
is the Loch of Lintrathen but, an agreement between the Earl of Airlie (chief heritor of the parish) and the inhabitants of Dundee, the space which the loch now occupies is to be very much extended, and
in the parish to
The burial ground of Logie lies in the Vale of Cromar, near Loch Kinord. It is kept in good
by a stone wall, and contains a Within a walled enclosure, called the Blelack Boivff]ie (unmarked by any monument), the Gordons, who were lairds of Blelack from an early part of the 16th century. The last laird was out in the '45, and many anecdotes are told of his hairbreadth escapes from the Royalists, which appear to have been chiefly effected by the personal strength and daring of his henchman, M'Connach, whom he rewarded by a long and cheap lease of an adjoining farm.
order, protected
number
of gravestones.
the natural aspect of the locality altered, for the
purpose of constructing a reservoir to supply water

for that large
and increasing community.

hoiise in the parish
is
The only mansion

Balintore
that of
an elegant
building
recently erected
by David Lyon, Esq.
Mr Thomson,
grandson of Ross, author of
Helenore, of which
poem Mr Thomson published

in 1812,
an edition at Dundee,
notice of the author,
with a biographical
The
last direct survivor
of
M'Connach
is
the
was long minister at Lin-
reverend, the ex-schoolmaster of Alford, one of

the finest living examples of "the old school," whether as to kindness of heart, individuality of character, or honesty of purpose.
trathen, and died in 1813.
In speaking of the rebel laird of Blelack, be added that

tlie fairies
it
may
;
abode in the Seely Howe,
a hollow in the Carue Hillock, upon that property
and, befoi'e leaving for the wars of the '45, the
WOLOK, BISHOP.) ^\UNCAN, EARL of MAR, 1239-44,

(S.
laird,
determined to dislodge them from
his lands,
gave the
employed
fairies,
for that purpose a reputed magician,
MJ
to
church of Loc/i/mar, or LogyrotJiuan in Mar,
named John Farquharson, tacksman

however, refused to obey his
in Parks.
The
he
Old Machar, and provided that his body should
spell until
bo buried within that cathedral. The church of Logic was previously granted by Gilchrist, Earl of Mar, to the Culdces of Monymusk.
should assign them some other place of abode,
which he did by sending them to the Hill of Fare,

near Banchory
!
But, disliking their
new quarters N N
2S2
EPITAPHS,
AND INSCRIPTIONS:
Altho' this
very much, the superstitious aver that the
fairies
:
tomb no boasted
tittles
keep
;
pronounced
this imprecation
upon Gordon
Yet
silent here the private virtues sleep
" Dool, dool to Blelack,
Truth,
candour, justice, altogether
ran
And
For
dool to Blelack's heir,

drivin' us frae the Seely
o'
Howe,
And forni'd a plain, upright, honest man. No courts he saw, nor mixt in publick rage,
Stranger to
all
To
the vices of the age
the eauld Hill
Fare
!"
No
lie,
nor slander did his tongue defile
The malediction of
son was
*'
the fairies against Farcxuhar:
A plain old Britton free from pride and guile.

Near
five-score years
still
more
eldritch
And every
While corn and girs grows to the air, John Farquharson and his seed shall thrive nae mair !"
is
he numbered ere he died, year he number'd he enjoy'd.
This modest stone, which few proud Marbles

can,
added that Farquharson, whose circumstances went to the bad from the day he dislodged
It
May truly say. Here lies an honest man Ye great whose heads are laid as low,
Rise higher
if
you
can.
the fairies, left his native country
again heard
the
of.
Matters
also
and was never went ill with
The
"
first
appearance of the " vintner" laird of

is
Blelack in the Parish Church

3, 1794), in
thus noticed
(May
The rebel laird died withont lawful issue, when the estate passed to Charles Rose, a sister's son, who prefixed Gordon to his own surname. Having light hair (that of the Gordons being dark), he was known as " the Red Keith Laird." He left a half-witted son Gordon, who died almost a pauper, in 1869, aged
Gordons.
73, at Fairnrae in Towie.
the books of the kirk treasurer-
Mr
Gordon, the new proprietor of the lands of
Blelack, being in the church, gave a guinea to
the poor, which
made
that day's collection to be
1 3s 7d."
Blelack was sold soon after this laird's death to John Forbes of Newe, who bequeathed it to his
relative, the
Rev.
151),
Dr
Keith was the
last legitimate
descendant of the
behoof of his son,
now General Forbes

by whom
in
it
Forbes of Strathdon, for of Inver-
old Gordons of Blelack, for although the property was bought in 179i from " the Red Laird" by a
ernan
(v. p.
to Sir Alex. Anderson (y. p. 119), from

trustees
it
Gordon, the latter had no connection, so far as known, with the original stock. It is true that he was a native of the district, having belonged to Balneyan, which he left in early life for Dundee, where he carried on the trade of a vintner, or innkeeper, so successfully that he bought the
estate of Blelack with the profits of his business.
was bought
was sold in 1862 whoso 1869, by Mr Coltman,
a neighbouring proprietor.
It
may
Blelack was accidentally destroyed by
be added that the mansion house of fire in the

Also, that the
autumn
had a
of 1868.
Dundee vintner
Clark, farmer,
sister,
who married James
Carue, by
whom
she had at least one son
and
" Gordon's Inn" was long a well-known hostelry It stood opposite to the Town House, in Dundee. and was only removed when Reform Street was made out in 1834. Before buying Blelack, the " vintner" showed his goodness of heart by erecting a
three daughters.
The
son,
who was a
preacher,
became schoolmaster of Daviot, in Aberdeenshire, where he died in 1849, aged 49. He was father
of the present vicar of
and other children.

stone at Logic:
The
Taunton, in Somersetshire, following is from another
monument (table shaped) at Logic, to the memory of an uncle, upon which is this inscription
:
Here
grodie,
lies
John M'Laggan, who

his
died in
New;
and Margaret Ley,
spouse
also
January 1776, aged 98, in gratitude to whose memory, his nephew, William Gordon, vintner, Dundee, caused
11
this stone to be erected
:
Donald Gordon from BaUneyan, died
William M'Laggan, their lawful son, who parted this life March 20, 1794, aged 28. Unmark'd by trophies of the great and vain.
Here
sleeps in silent
de-
tombs an honest
train
COLDSTONE.
No No
folly
guilt,
283
wasted their paternal store, no sordid avrice, made it more
the chancel or aisle

;
lies
a stone, in the centre of
With They
honest fame, and sober plenty crown'd

liv'd
which are the Forbes arms, with initials, R. F., and M. C. This inscription is round the margin
:
and spread
their cheering influence
round.
Heir lyes Mr Robert Forbes, minister of Coldstane, who departed ovt of this lyfe xii of lauvarie
16-3.
It
was
in
the time of
Mr
parishes of
Logie and Coldstone
Forbes that the were united.
According
to
Lumsden
of Tilliekorne, he
was a
member
(S.
of the Balrluig family.
After the death
of
.)
two successors
(Scott's
Fasti), the livinj:
was
held in succession by the ministers whose deaths
K^HE
<X
Colco
name
of this district appears in a variety
are recorded in the next five inscriptions
of form<,
among which
are those of CoUesen, &c.
In
memory
of the
n, Cor/i/fitnn, Culqnhol'/atane,
The
first
ter of Logie-Colditone,
in love to
Kev. John Shepherd, miniswho, after he spent his life

1,
of these spellinjrs appears in the

of 1275, in which the kirk
is
Old Taxation
Ministers, &c.,
God and mankind, dyed March
1748,
rated at 12 merks,
aged
74.
and
the last
is
in the
liegister of
when the kirks of Coldstoue, Couli, Kincardine O'Xeil, and Banchory-Ternan, -were
for 1574,
under the superintendence of one minister. In 1402, when Isabella, Countess of Mar and the (larioch gave the patronage and advocation
all
Midtwo sons and two daughters. One of the daughters married Forbes of Bellabeg, and became the mother of the Rev. Ceo. Forbes of Leochel, and of John
Shepherd,
translated from
Mr
who was
mar
to Logie-Coldstone, had at least
Forbes, afterwards of
Newo
(sup., p. 150).
The
of the kirk of Coldstone to the monastery of Lindores,

it
is
second daughter, who married Gordon of Crathie-
described as
Mar
;"
and,
when
it
was added
Old Machar
in 1424, it is
" Codilstane in Cra to the canonry of called " Coldstane."

be said to form re-
Coldstone and
CouU miy
was the mother of the late Rev. Mr Gordon Aboyne. The sons were both clergymen. One was settled first at Tarland and next at Newbattle, while the other went to Bourtie.
naird,
of
spectively the west and east corners of Cromar,
son of the last-mentioned became minister of

wife,
and as water is much more abundant

district than in the latter,
in the
is
former
proba-
Daviot, and by his
a daughter
of
Dr
" Collesen"
bly the closest to the true etymology of the name,

since the Gaelic
Garioch of Gariochsford, he had a pretty large One son. Captain John, was sometime family.
compound, Cul-esmn, means a

of Coldstone
is
corner or district which abounds in streams.
The church-yard
the south side of a
situated
upon
Chairman of the Board of Directors of the E I.C., and another, Thomas, laird of Kirkvilie, in Skene, was also an officer in the Co.'s Marine Service.
Here lye the remains of the Revd. McInnes, late minister of the Gospel
Coldstone,
from which there is a good view of Cromar and the surrounding country. A granite stone, about 24 by 12 inches in size
hill,
Mr John
at
Logie-
roughly dressed on one

fully incised cross within
side, presents
a beauti-
an oval.
It
is
an object
probably
be traced,
died the lOth Oetr. 1777, in the 62d year of his ministry, and the 88th of his age. Helen Forbes, spouse of the Revd. Mr John
who
of
consiileral)le
antiquity,
and
had
still
marked the grave The site of the

is
of an old ecclesiastic.
McInnes, minister of Logie Coldstone, the 26 of Deer. 1774, aged 71 years.
who
died oa
kirk, which can
Mr MTnnes, who was
previously at Crathie,
about 58 feet in length by about 30 in width, and has a chancel or burial aisle, on the east, of
feet in size.
supported the Royalists, and having prayed one Sunday during the rebellion, '* that the Rebels
about 2G by 30
At the east end of
might be scattered like mist upon the mountains,"
284
EPITAPHS,
that the lady of Blelack,
AND INSCRIPTIONS:
preI
it is told
who was
born in CouU, and died at Boltingstone

side tavern
seut, rose
up
in her
and clenched fist, As ye say that an' my Cbaarlie amo' them ?" Mr Mclnnes was not translated to Logic -Coldstone until 1748, this circumstance (if ever it had
happened) must have occurred before that time.
Beneath this stone are interred the remains of the Rev. Egbert Farquharson of AUargue, minister of Logie-Coldstone, who died 5 Jan. 182o, in the
78th year of his age and 56th of his ministry. And also tlioseof his spouse, Elizabeth, daughter of the Rev. James limes, minister of Marnoch, who died
the 31 Aug. 1836, aged 76.
pew, and with uplifted arm exclaimed, with an oath " Will
between Tarland and Strathdon on 20th April 1838, aged about sixty. He was the illegitimate son of an Aberdeen advocate, and a
a road
Michie.)
staunch
Roman
Catholic (Inf. Kev.
Mr
Although pretty well educated, and a person of good natural abilities, Laing was of an erratic temperament, and never succeeded in the world. At the time of his death, he was employed as a book canvasser, in allusion to which he was known as Stochie (i.e. Stationer) Laing, and being blind of an eye he sometimes went under the soubriquet of Gleyt Laing. In addition to the work above mentioned, Laing published the Caledonian Itinerary,
son of the above-named succeeded to the

(^stipra, p.
The
Thistle of Scotland, a
collection
of
property of Breda, in Alford

In memory of the Rev.
120).
Ballads,
Repertory of Ballads, the Eccentric
Andrew Tawse, for 7 years

and
Magazine, &c.
His books, which are now rare,
minister at Grey Friars' Churcli of Aberdeen, who,

in the 8th year of his ministry in this parish,
47th
of his age,
while conducting the solemn ser-
vice of God's House, on
Sunday 15 Dec.
1833,
was
called from the faithful discharge of his pastoral

duties,
and expired
in presence of his sorrowing
people.
Mr
and much sought after in the North, are all curious. A few pages of " the copy " of the Donean Tourist (now before us) exhibit an inInstead credible amount of patience and labour. of being writttu^ as in ordinary cases, it is composed of single letters and words, cut out of a variety of publications, and pasted upon sheets of
foolscap
!
Tawse, who was sometime tutor in the Whitehouse family, had a taste for painting and music, and it was through the influence of the Farquharsous that he got the kirk of Logie-ColdHe was a native of Aberdeen, where his f :one. lather was a well-to-do flaxdresser.
In
From
this
" eccentric " copy the printer
appears to have set the book in type.
Some
traces of early occupancy
still
remain in
;
memory
of
the Rev.
John McHardy,
for 32
Logie-Coldstone, such as
artificial cairns
a paved
;
years minister of this parish.
Born 13th Jan. 1785
road on the farm of Cairnmore of Blelack
an old
died 17th Jan. 1866.
sculptured stone formerly at Mill of Newton, but

bears
:
A table-shaped stone
To
the
Master in
now removed to the grounds

Picts'
at Tillypronie
House
memory
of
Mr George Forbes,
a peculiar hollow near the church, called the
the Royal Navy, whoserved many yearsin thatrauk, and gained high praise for his courage and conduct in many engagements, particularly in the memorable battle at Trafalgar,
Howe
and the only remaining boulder of

stands at Logic {siq)ra,
district
p.
a stone
circle,
188.)
The whole
belonged at one time to the
On
when Lord Nelson fell. from the Service, he became tacksman he died on the 11th of June 1821, of Kinord, where aged 62. And his wife Margaret Forbes, who died on the 7th Oct, 1847, aged 74.
retiring
Earls of Mar.
In 1364, Ego, the son of Fergus,
had a charter from Mar of the lands of Huchtirerne (Waterearn) in Cromar, and from that place,
1505-7, a family, as vassals of the over lord, as-
In the church-yard of Coldstone, unmarked by any monument,' lie the remains of Alexander Laing, author of the Donean Tourist. He was
sumed the surname of Ouchtikarne. The House of Groddie, at the foot of 3Iorven,
though now a plain building, presented at one time some of the characteristics of a mansion-
NE WHILES,
It then belonged to Gordons and the mantle or chimney-piece, besides being adorned with the Gordon and Forbes arms, bore the
285
house.
calamity which had befallen the country during one of the later rebellions, in both of which the
people of
initials of
A. G.
M.
F.,
and an
:
inscription, of
which these traces only remain
GORDOVNE PEACE VE
:
BES
GRACE
.
YST
lESVS
'i'
Cromar were concerned. market or fair was long held at the Kirk of Logie, and a well-known rhyme preserves both its name and celebration -day " Wallock fair in Logie- Mar,
The
lands of Old and
New
Groddie, along with
The
thirtieth
day
o'
Januar."
is
those of Whitehouse, belong to the Marquis of
The
hill
of
Morven, which
celebrated
by
Huutly; and the mansion of Whitehouse, although now represented only by a thatched cottage, was long the property and residence of a branch f the Farquharsons. When Miss Elizabeth Farquharson of Jamaica,
Lord Byron
bounds Logie- Coldstone on the west. According to " weather prophets," and an old rhyme, when the 6umn\it of the mountain is enveloped in mist, a
rainfall over the district
in one of his earliest songs,
who was known as Black Bess, bequeathed the interest of 400 for the support of a school at Glengairn, and to aid the most necessitous poor
may be
expected
"
When Morven
Cromar
'ill
has a tap,
get a drap."
of the united parishes

all
of
Tulloch,
The next rhyme
(not
now
:
true,
doubtless
1)
Glenmuick, and Glengairn, in
time coming,
contains the lost names of some places about the
she included in her bequest the poor upon Old and New Groddie, in consequence of these lands
Burnside of Logie-Coldstone
*'
having been part of the Whitehouse estates. As Miss F.'s legacy was not realized for many years, the capital sum increased to about 600. This lady, was sister to Harry Farquharson of
Whitehouse, who fell at Culloden, and greatgrandaunt to Andrew Farquharson, Esq., now representative of the Whitehouse branch.
But, although the Farquliarsous have ceased to hold their ancient paternal estate in Cromar, it ouglit to be stated that, as is not unfrequently
the case, the
Frae Faandhu to Tamgleddie, Frae Paddoc^pool to Allalogie, There never dwalt an honest bodie
!"
jLUXKlxilU.
(?THE BLESSED VIRGIN.)
^Twas
el>
"in 1663 (Old
Stat. Acct.), that the
name
of
their old
inheritance of
lands of Capelhills were mortified for the
Whitehouse has been transferred to another proI'his was done by the father of the present perty. laird, who, on acquiring the lands of Abercattie, in the parish of Tough, changed the name to that of Whitehouse. He was an advocate in Aberdeen, and his father was long an eminent medical practitioner and consulting physician in Dundee.
of
maintenance
of a minister, and a church was built upon them, by George Davidson of Fettens, burin consequence of which the gess of Aberdeen
;
south-west corner of the extensive parish of St
Machar was erected
into a separate parish in 1666.
During the Wars of the Covenant, the district Cromar was sadly plundered and ravaged by
iii.)
;
These lands of Capelhills (probably derived from Capella, a chapel"), now assumed the name of Newhills, and from them the whole parish was
denominated."
Besides erecting and endowing the church and parish of Newhills, Davidson, wiio is said to have acquired a fortune as a pedlar, built the first stone
Argyle's soldiers (Spald. CI. Misc., vol.

it is
but
uncertain whether the couplet
" Culbleen was burnt, au' Cromar herriet, An' dowie's the day John Tam was marriet,"
has reference to that period.
More probably,
it
bridge over tiie Buxburu, repaired that of luscb, and " bigit" the kirk -yard " dyk" at Footdee.
from the
sti/le
of the
rhyme,
refers to
some
The
oldest ecclesiastical site in Newhills is pro-
286
EPITAPHS,
AND INSCRIPTIONS:
brother the Reverend Mr Alexr. Howe, the worthy minister of the Gospel of the parish of Methleck and of Tarues for 36 years, who died September 3rd A.D. 1765, aged 60 years. And also of their aunt, Mrs Ann Howe, who died December 8th, A.D. 1748, aged 89 years, all interred in this church. Also Mrs Uettey Howe, their sister, who died July 15th, 1769, aged 78.
bably
tliat which lies nearly two miles to the north of the parish church, and upon the south
side of the Aberdeen

was dedicated to the
and Inverurie turnpike. It Virgin, and is called the
CHAPEL OF STONEYVVOOD.
The Holy Well, which is still a copious spring, near the south-west corner of the kirk-yard, is " reckned niedicinall," and said " to be good for
the stomach, and for cleansing and curing any
ulcerous tumours on any part of the body,
Mr
and
in
predecessor),
Robert Burnett (Mr Howe's immediate was admitted to Newhills in 1704,
when
June 1715, when about 60 years

It is locally said
of age,
bathed with it." " The mines of ane old popish chappell " were
to be seen here in 1725.
'J
he destroyed himself within the church with the

bell rope.
that the kirk bible
hese were probably
the same of which traces

place, which
still
remain.
The
burial-
was enclosed by a substantial stone wall, 1834, is chiefly used by Roman Catholics. It contains a few tombstones, but none of old
date.
was found lying open beside the body of Mr Burnett, and that the 13th, 14th, and 15th verses of Job, ch. vii., were marked by his own hand " Thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me
through
visions
tablet in the west wall bears this iu-
strangling,
So that my soul chooseth and death rather than my life."

; :
cription,
which
this
is
partially defaced
lies
From
a marble tablet in E. wall of kirk-yard
Within
tomb
the body of
M'QCJEEN', lute farmer ia Bogfaiilie,
Dokald who departed

died
Vir Eeverendus Joannes Brown, SS. T. D., primum apud Ehynie fere xx. annos, deinde apud
hilaris, facetus,
this life the 31st July 1S13, in the 66th year of his
age
also of-bis wife
Margaret Forbes, who

filial
Newhills fere xxxii. V. D. M., probus, beuuvolus, amicisque semper carissimus, obiit
lxxix.
the 10th Oct. 1813, in the 65th year of her age
a. d. mdccciii., setat.
Uxor
ejus
Barbara
From
tude, this
a sense of
duty, not more the
Gordon, pia,
ajtat
plaoida, benioua, obiit a. d. mdccxcviii.
dictate of nature than the tribute of willing grati-
LXV.
tomb
is
erected by their surviving son,
apud Newhills
Vir Revereudus Georgius Allan, xl. amplius annos V.D.M., obiit Ka-
Donald
M 'Queen.
of S.
lendis Juliis, a. d. mdcccxxiil, aetat. Lxvi.
Anna
Brown, Joannis Brown, supramemorati, Hlia, eadem-
The kirk
Mary
at
bably disused when the

separate parish in 1663.
district
Stoneywood was prowas made into a

ivy-clad ruins of
que Georgii Allan, item memorati, uxor, obiit xxiv. Decembr., A. d. mucccxxxv. annos LXXii. nata.
[The Rev. John Brown, D.D., minister of the of God, first at Rbynie for nearly 20 years, and afterwards at Newhills for nearly 32 years, a man virtuous, benevolent, cheerful, pleasant, and ever deeply endeared to his friends, died 1S03, aged
The
the
first
erected place of
worship at Newhills
Word
stand within the burial-ground.
About 1830, a
to
new church was built a little to the eastward. The first incumbent of Newhills is supposed
have been
Mr
George
IMelvill (Scott's Fasti)
but
79.
the following inscription from a stone built into

the splay of one of the windows of the old kirk
so far as
I
is,
know, the oldest monumental trace of

:
His wife, Barbara Gordon, pious, gentle, and kind, died 1798, aged 65. The Rev. George Allan, minister of the Word of God at Newhills for upwards of 14 years, died 1st July 182S, aged
any
of the ministers of Newhills
Ann Brown, daughter of the above-mentioned John Brown, and wife of George Allan, likewise
66.
To the memory of the Eeverend Mr James Howe, for 52 years the worthy minister of the Gospel of this parish of Neubills, who died 3rd
October, A.D. 1768, aged 80th years.
mentioned, died 24th Doe. 1835, aged 72.]
Mrs Brown, who was a daughter of the
laird of
Also of his
Craig, in Auchiudoir, had three sous and five
NEWHILLS.
daughters.
2S7
One
of the latter, as
(a
shown above,
received a royal grant of the same forest, together
married
Skene,
Mr
Allan
son of a schoolmaster at
her father's assistant,
Elizabeth became the
of
with that of the Castlehill of Aberdeen, his claim
i'.
p. 228),
who was
afterwards his successor.

wife of
was challenged by the Provost and community, who, in the following year, had judgment given
in their favour.
Mr
Brown, minister
another slab
:
Glenmuick
108.)
Upon
of
(y. p.
B.tRBARA Allan, eldest daughter

years.
James
Nicol,
In 1373, Donald Banerman, king's physician, had certain portions of Clyntreys, Achrinys,
AVaterton, and Welton from the king, also the
lands of Slatie from Bishop
advocate in Aberdeen, died 21 March 1838, aged 5
His wife, B.4jibara Allan, died 30 Dec. 1852, aged 52 years. The said James Nicol died 18 March 1855, aged 55 years, and was buried at Old Aberdeen, owing to a snow storm preventing
access to Newhills.
Kyninmond. Donald had a son, or near relative, Alexander, provost of Aberdeen in 1382, of whom were the knightly
family of Elsick
(ii.
p.
79).
also probably the
granite
monument
(thus inscribed) marks the
Banermans who, until a comparatively late period, were extensive merchants in, and otherwise connected with, Aberdeen.
grave of
Mr G.
A.'s successor,
who was
:
previously
schoolmaster at Chapel of Garioch
NewJane
;
On
the south-east of the parish
is
the interest-
Erected in
hills,
memory
of the
Rev. James Allan, for
ing old house of Kingswells, long ruinous, but

lately restored with
33 years the worthy minister of the parish of
much
taste,
by the present
It belonged
who
proprietor,
Mr F. Edmond,
advocate.
Ronald,
his wife,
who

18-49,
at one
time to Alexander Jaffray, provost of

not only valu-
Their children, Jessie Allan, died
aged 29
Aberdeen, whose Diary of the transactions of the

times of Charles and Cromwell
able on account of the history
it is
WiLLiAM-K.-E. Allan, surgeon, who died in 1843, aged 23 years; Fife Allan, Ensign, 39th Regt. Madras N.I., died at sea in 1858, aged 22 years.
gives of the lead;
ing political events of the period
but Jaffray
John Philip, tian Walker,

Here
d. 1845, d.
aged 78 ; his wife, Chris1836, aged 85 ; a dr. d. 1841,
having been one of the

In this country, his
is
first to
join the Quakers
aged 36; and a son, John, in 1856, aged 32:

in this bleak
and elevated
spot,
Parents and sister, ye are not forgot This lettered headstone at your grave appears A faint memorial which affection rears.
But doom'd
to perish in a
few short years.
They do not reck
released from this world's strife,
Whose names
They
are written in the
shall be satisfied
In Jesus' likeness,
who live when Death's
to
Book of wake
Life
sleep shall break.
The
proprietary history of some parts of the
book embraces very much that and not elsewhere to be found, regarding the rise and progress of that sect in the North of Scotland. Owing to the extensive trade which has been carried on for some years io the manufacturing of paper, and the quarrying and dressing of granite in Newhills, the villages of Auchmull, Buxburn, Bankhead, and Stoneywood, have become places importance. Near Stoneyof considerable wood are the handsome school buildings, erected by the Messrs Pirie, for the education of the children whose parents are employed about their paper works at Waterton, &c.
interesting,
district of
Newhills
is
interesting.
It
is
said that
Besides the Parish, there are Free Churches both

at
is
the lands of
Slatie
were granted to Edward,
Auchmull and
Ivingswells.
That at Kingswells
Bishop of Aberdeen, by King Malcolm, about 1150-65. Charter evidence shows tliat Robert
the Bruce gave the custody of the royal forest of
a neat building, erected chiefly at the expense
of
Mr Edmond.
Stocket to the burgh of Aberdeen
and
that, sub-
sequently (1493),
Wood
of Overblairtone having
288
EPITAPHS,
AND iMCRIPTIOm:
was ordained by the General AsBouncle, as one of " the auld chaptoure" of St Andrews, and as one of the " ministeris professouris of the trew religioun," should continue, during his life, to be one of the chapter, and to have a voice in the " electioun of the Archbishop,'' &c. In the Assembly of 1582, Mr Bouncle reported, "anent the constitutione of Presbyteries," that in the Mearns, " They had erected there a Presbytrie of Ministers, but not as yet of any Gentlemen or Elders.'' (Booke of the Univ. Kirke.}
In 1571,
it
sembly, that
Mr
(S.
LAURENCE, PEIMATE OF ENGLAND.)
l^flHIS parish has been long known by the name <^ of the patron saint of the church, who, the late
laborious
Dr Joseph Robertson
discovered, con-
trary to popular belief, to be not S. Laurence of
Roman Calendar, but the ancient Rriuiate of England, who bore the same name.
the
It appears that S. Laukence visited Pictland about A.D. G05-19, and that in honour of this visit the church of Conveth was dedicated to him. It also appears tiiat, long afterwards, in 1073-93,
It
is
said that the present parish kirk, erected
in 1804, took the place of

;
one which was built in
our
own
;
''good Queen Margaret" made a
pil-
grimage to the church of S. Laukence of this and in her anxiety to do honour to place
the Prelate's memory, she went disguised as a
162G and that, when the old house was being taken down, a stone was found (New Stat. Acct.) upon which " the figure of a man lying on a gridiron
was carved, representing,
it
the
martyrdom
is
of
St Laurence."
lost,
was supposed, This stone,
canon
but having thus violated the traditions of
which
Pictish
unfortunately
had probably been a
her country, she was repulsed from entering the
monument.
is
church (Concilia Scotiae.)
The church
the
a plain building, surrounded
by
Conveth, however, was

trict,
name
of the dis-
the burial-ground.
handsome marble
is
tablet (the
:
ages.
during and for long subsequent to the middle The old church of Cunvveth, of which no
is
only one within the church)

In
thus inscribed
memory
of
William Duirs, M.A., M.D.,

of Hospitals
fell
trace remains,
said to have stood about a mile
Deputy Inspector-General
a native of this parish,
fever,
and
FleetSj,
to the east
of the
present village.
It
was a
who
a victim to yellow
rectory belonging to St Andrews, and was dedi-
contracted iu the execution of his duty at
cated by Bishop David in 1244.

tion of the Scotch
In the old taxa-
the Eoyal Naval Hospital, Jamaica, 8 June 1867,
Churches, which was made
aged 47 years.
This tablet
is
erected
by sixty-two
about 1275, the kirk of Cumucth is rated at 30 marks. It does not appear that there were any chapels attached to the church at that period.
of his brother medical officers as a testimony of
their high appreciation of his sterling worth, kind-
ness of heart, and professional abilities.
Among
Patrick,
the more eminent of the early ministers
Dr
Duirs,
who began
life
as a teacher,
but
of a
of Conveth,
was
of
Mr
William Lamb, nephew of
afterwards studied medicine,

builder
was the son
Abbot
Cambuskenneth, who, in 1540,
and contractor at Laurencekirk.
few
having been previously admitted "to heir and understande the practik," was appointed an Ordinary Lord of the Court of Session. After the Reformation, and in 1507-74, the
kirks of Conveth, Fordoun, Fettercairn, and Newdosk, were all served by one minister, Mr Patrick
years before his death

of
Dr Duirs married
a daughter
Dr
Fettes,
who
has been long the principal
physician of the district, and sometime chief

gistrate of Laurencekirk.
ma-
not long survive

children.
him,
By his wife, who did Dr Duirs left several
Bouncle,
who had
a stipend of
kirk lands.
Patrick
160 Scots, and Ramsay was then reader or
The churchyard of Laurencekirk contains a number of tombstones and, so far as I

;
schoolmaster at Conveth, with 30, and a share

of the kirk lands.
have seen, the hrst quoted inscription bears the

oldest date.
It is carved in
prettily
interlaced
LAURENCEKIRK.
upon a stone with sloped ends and sides. and south wall of the church upon one end are the initials W. L. and a shield charged with two crescents in chief, and a mullet in base, upon the other end is a death's head.
capitals,
289
died in 1757.
Although not Ruddiman's imme-
It lies near the outer
diate successor at Laurencekirk, the poet Ross
was schoolmaster there before going to Lochlee. The following is upon a table-shaped stone, near the middle of the burial ground
:
The south
bevel or slope of the stone bears
Viro
admodum Eeverendo Jonathan Watson,
T HE HEIR LTE LYES HEIR NOV WAS ONC AS TE WILIAM AS HE IS NOV SO YE MVST BE LAWSONE SON TO REMEMBER AL THAT YE MVST DIE DAVID LAWSONE IN POVBVRNE DEPARTED THE 13 YEAR OF HIS AGE 1656.
EEADER3 CON
in Ecclesia
WHO
Scotiaj Episcopo, pietatis aliarumque virtutumvere evangelicarum a^mulo ; in bonis Uteris, inque theologia exercitato ; animo firmo ; filio, patri,
conjngi amantissimo. Sui omnibus officii sacri muueribus per 1? annos apiul Laurencekirk fideliter
functus,
[Upon the north
bevel of the
same stone]
HER LYES ONE WHILE HE LIVED DID SEEME TO VERTVES PATH ADDICTED. THE HOVKIS RVN. SHORT TTME WEIL SPENT HEIR WILL CONDEMNE THE LONG LYf OF THE WICKED. MEMENTO MORI
multum deHetus obiit 2S die Janu., 1808, annum 46 ageus. Vidua et mater moereutes H. M. P. [To the memory of the Very Eev. Jonathan
Watson, Bishop of the Church in Scotland, distinguished for his piety, and other truly evangelical
conversant with good literature and theoand a most affectionate son, father, and husband. Having faithfully discharged
virtues,
Upon another
Heer
lyes
stone, similarly
:
formed as the
above, with inscription incised
logy, firm of purpose,
David Lawson
in
who
In death
all
the duties of his sacred
departed this lyfe the ctober 1670, of age 52 years.
for 17 years, he died
....
is
in his 46th year.
office at Laurencekirk much regretted, 28 Jan. 1808, His sorrowing widow and mother
The
kirk.
slab,
from which the next inscription

sand
erected this monument.]
taken, ha been batted to the east end of the

It bears rude carvings of a
glass, skull,
Mr Watson,
who was
the
first
resident Epis-
copal clergyman at Laurencekirk after the troubles,
and crossed mattocks, the
initials
M. P.
:
B., the
date of 1G95, also these words incised

.
HER LYES MASTER PATRICK BELLIE SCHOOLLE. MASTER WHO DEPARTED THIS LYFE FEBRUARY THE 10 1695 OF AGE 20 YEIRS 5 MONETHS
.
.
AND
16
DAYES.
The
Life of
above, as given in Chalmers' admirable
day
of
Ruddiman (p. 16), is slightly incorrect, the the mouth being misprinted " 20th," inIt was, while tutor at Aldbar, to
was brought from Banff by Lord Gardenstone in 1791. In the following year he was consecrated Bishop of Dunkeld and continued to labour at Laurencekirk, where he " lived universally esteemed, and died universally regretted." His widow was a daughter of Edgar of Keithock, near Brechin (ry. .) Their daughter, Miss Watson of Pitt Street, Edinburgh, who is possessed of a number of Jacobite relics, furnished some interesting particulars for Chambers's History of the
;
stead of 10.
Rebellion.
the great-grandson of Sir Peter

of the death of
Young
of Seton,
that Ruddiman, afterwards the grammarian, heard
Mr
BelUe, and, applying for the
situation of schoolmaster at Laurencekirk, he suc-
Bishop Watson was succeeded in the charge at Laurencekirk by Mr Milne, who was first stationed at Muchals, after which he became assistant to Bishop Strachan at Dundee
:
ceeded in procuring
it.
Ruddiman was then 21

him into personal contact
years of age, and he continued at Laurencekirk

until accident brought
M.S. Revereudi Gulielmi Milne, A.M.,

byteri Ecclesiaj Episcopalis in Scotia,
pres-
qui apud
Laurencekirk munere pastorali octo

fideliter
circiter
annos
with
Dr
Pitcairn, the celebrated Latin poet in
functus est
pietate in
Deum, verecundia
;
1699, through whose influence he went to Edin-
et
morum
comitate, insignis erat

sacri
obiit
iimuptus
burgh, where he became librarian to the Faculty

of Advocates,
anno Dom. 1817,
muneris 20, et
a^tatis suai42,
and
after a long
and
useful life he
Fratres sui reverendi Diocesis Brechinensis.
00
290
EPITAPHS,
memory
for
of the Rev.
AND INSCRIPTIONS
lord in his absence.
[Sacred to the
in Scotland,
William
But, as " his reverence" de-
Milne, A.M., presbyter
of the
Episcopal Church
clined to recognise ministers proscribed

his
about eight years discharged the duties' of pastor at Laurencekirk. He was distinguished for his piety, modesty, and courtesy of manners, and died unmarried in 1817, in the
who
Lordship
himself
"
"a
lawgiver,"
by law, and an
Established churchman, and

inaptly designated
felt so
the friend of
who has not been human kind"
indignant at
Mr
F.'s conduct, that he not
42d year of his age, and 20th of his ministry. His reverend brethren in the Diocese of Brechin erected this monument. ]
only entertained the unlaivful clergy himself, but set about the erection of the present church, &c.,
at Laurencekirk.*
An
to
adjoining headstone bears this inscription

Milne's successor
:
The Episcopal church was founded on the

15th of September 1791, and built after plans by Captain Rudyerd, commanding engineer of Scotland.
It contains
Mr
Sacred to the memory of the Rev. Robert Spark, sometime Episcopal clergyman at Laurencekirk,
an altar
Rev.
piece,
which was pre-
who
died 3
May
1837, in ths 81st year of his age,
sented by a
Mr
Mitchell of Bath in the time of
And of his wife, Mrs of his ministry. Jean Beattie, who died 30 March 1838, aged 76. Also of their family, John and Christina, who
and 57th
died
his fellow-student, the
Mr Milne. The sub-
ject
is
said
by some
to be the Presentation of the
Virgin in the Temple, by others S. Laurence.
infancy; and John, surgeon H.E.I.C.S.,
Whatever the picture may

doubt as to
its
rej)resent, there is
no
who
died at Bombay, 5
May 1829,
aged 3G.
being a fine work of

to
art, pos-
Before coming to Laurencekirk,

ciated first at Redrayre,
Mr
Spark
offi-
sibly
by Nicholas Poussin,
is
whoso broad and
where he succeeded Mr (afterwards Bishop) Strachan, and next at Urumlithie. The Redmyre mission was abolished in Mr Spark's time, and the congregation divided between the churches of Laurencekirk and Drumlithie.
telling style it bears a striking resemblance.
The church
a plain, but neat structure, with
baptismal font of freestone, gifted by

a late incumbent.
Mr
Goalen,
The
east end of the church is
crescent shaped, and a plain belfry and clock are
Like the Episcopal church of Drumlitkie, that of Laurencekirk was burnt by the Duke of Cumberland in 1745 after that, the Episcopalians met for a time at Mill of Halkerton, from whence they removed to Redmyre. Subsequently, owing to the centrical situation of Laurencekirk, it was fixed upon as the seat of the Convention of the Bishops and Clergy of the Episcopal Church in
;
upon the west end. Over the door (which is reached by a few steps), a slab contains this
account of the erection of the edifice
;
yEdis hujus Divino in Scoticana sub Episcopis

Ecclesia cultui, per illustrem Franciscum,
Domiej usque
num
de Gardenston, devotissime dicatoB,

extructce,
et aliorum
tandem
complurium muuificentia elegantissime anno die Martii XXIV.,
MDCCXCIIL
[This edifice, most devoutly dedicated for Divine worship in connection with the Scottish Episcopal Church, by the ilhistrious Francis, Lord Gardenston ; and by his munificent liberality and that of several others, at length completed in a style of the greatest elegance, 24 iMarch 1793,]
* Since tliis notice appeared on Otli June 1871, it has been resolved to erect, upon the site of the old Episcopal church of Laurencekirk a now edifice in the Early English Gothic stylo of architecture, after plans by Mr Koss, Inverness. The foundation stone solemnly blessed and dedicated to God and Saint Laurence, the Archbishop .and Confessor by the Lord Bishop of the diocese was laid by the Hon. the Lord Forbes, 4th July 1871, in presence of the llev. Dr Flemying, tlie incumbent, and a large assemblage of spectators. (. Montrose Standard, July 7, 1871.)
Scotland,
when they met (11th November 1789), and resolved to apply to Government for a repeal
were then suffering
It
is
of the obnoxious penal laws under
an
application which
it
which they was

of
attended with the success

told that
so well deserved.
when Lord Gardenstone heard
Laurencekirk being selected as the place of the
meeting of Convention, he was so much gratified

that he intimated his intention
to
the parish
minister of being at the expense of entertain-
ing the Bishops and Clergy, and begged of
Mr
Forbes to show them attention, and act as laud-
LAURENCEKIRK,
According to the Aberdeen Magazine for Aug. is an account of the laying of the foundation stone of the church of S. Lau1791, in which there
Shall venal flattery prostitute the Muse,
291
To
senseless titles spurious honours pay,
And
yet to rural worth such lays refuse,
was at first intended that the inscription over the doorway should present a fuller
rence,
it
\^Tiich
Forbid
Truthmayburnishwithher brightest ray? The task be mine it Equity

!
account of the history of the building.
Tliis idea
having been abandoned

to be added
and as the
it is
bit proposed
may
To yield his memory all the praise I can The whole's compris'd in this conclusive line God's noblest work (here lyes) an Honest man.
;
be said to perfect the account of

here quoted
:
the rearing of the edifice,
Alex.
Beattie.
Forbes was a blacksmith to trade, and
the above lines were composed by his relative,
Ur
a
"Johanne Phair et Johanne Gibson, architectonibu3. Ad ichnographiam Henrici Rudyerd, artificuni militarium in Scotia
prcefecti.
A brass
plate, inserted into the top of

is
Lapidein
primum
solenniter posuit Collegii Architec-
table-shaped stone (beside the above),

scribed
:
thus in-
tonici
bria
symmystes, Johannes Ewen, Aberdonensis, die Septemdecimo quinto, anno salutis hnmanas MD.CC.XCI. Qui tantaB in terris pietatis signa dedere, His dabit in coelis prasmia dlgua Dens."
The Revd. Daat:d Foebes, who was 34 years minister of the parish of Laurencekirk, died March
24th, 1795, aged 70 years.
This stone
is
placed
plan by
[John Phair and John Gibson, architects. After a Henry Rudyerd, chief of the military artificers in Scotland. John Ewen of Aberdeen, a
of the College of Architects (Freemasons),
first
over his remains by his widow, Kathûiine Morison,
who
died 22d Oct. 1820, aged 70 years.

in the grave of her husband.
She
was buried
member
solemnly laid the
stone, 15th
September 1791.
To those who have given pi'oofs of such piety on earth, vnM God give due rewards in heaven. ]
In addition to being the chief subscriber towards

erecting the Episcopal Church, Lord Gardenstone
also
of the church being in the gift Mary's College, St Andrews, it was given after jNlr Forbes' death to the Rev. George Cook, second son of Professor Cook. He remained at Laurencekirk until 1829, when he became Proof St
fessor of
The patronage
burdened the estate of Johnston with a per-
petual annuity of 40 sterling, and as
many
bolls
of oatmeal, also three acres, &c., of the best land in the village, for the maintenance of the clergy-
Moral Philosophy at St Andrews and was succeeded at Laurencekirk by his nephew, Mr John Cook. He was also translated to St Andrews, and gave place to the present incumbent, Mr
;
man. When James Farquhar, Esq. of Hallgreen, M.P., bought the lands from Loi'd Gardenstone's heirs, he was bound by them to try to set aside these payments but, luckily for the church, the supreme courts decreed in its favour. As previously shown (v. p. 87), Lord Gardenstone, who died 22d July 1793, was the second son of the laird of Troup, and his remains lie within the
;
M'Gowan.
Dr George Cook
the Rev.
married Diana, a daughter of
IMr Shank, sometime minister at St Cyrus, whose monument (within an enclosure near
the N.E. corner of the kirkyard of Laurencekirk>
Sacred to the
Castlerig,
memory
of
Alexander Shank
of
family burial place at the old kirk of Gamrie.
The
estate of
Johnston
is
now
it
the property of
sometime minister of the Gospel at St Cyrus, who died at Laurencekirk on the 5th Jan?. 1814, aged 75 years : Also, Diana, his wife, daughter of the late Robert Scott of Dunninald,
parish of Craig,
their youngest daughter, who died at her house in Laurencekirk, 1840 : Also, in memory of on the 23d of Nov. Henry Shank of Castlerig and Gleuiston, Esq. last surviving son of the above Alexander and Diana Shank, who died January 4th 1860, aged 81.
Alex. Gibbon, Esq., to
whom
was
left
by
his
maternal uncle, the above-mentioned
Mr
I'ar-
1825, aged 84 years
who died here on :And, Jane,
the 24th Feby.
quhar {v. Nigg). Upon a headstone in churchyard of Laurencekirk

:
The Rev. David Forbes minister of St Laurencekirk, erects this stone to the memory of his father,
Alex. Forbes, who payed to nature Augt. 7, 1768, aged about 80 years
:
its last debt,
Mr
Shank, who was a son of the minister of
292
EPITAPHS,
AND INSCRIPTIONS;
Alex. Shanks, of the lands and barony of King-
Drumoak
1732.
(q.v.), was appointed to St Cyrus in About 1784, he resigned that church on
horn to the Crown.

tail
It also appears that,
by en-
succeeding to the estate of Castlerig in Fife, which
of 1769, Alex.
Shanks
of Castlerig, having
his estates to the
came to him by the death of his cousin, Alex. Schank. By his wife, Diana Scott, Mr Shank of St Cyrus had several children, the last-named of whom in the above inscription became a Director of the E.I.C., and left a family of sons and
daughters
It
(v.
no legitimate male
Castlerig
issue, left
son of his cousin -german, by whose descendants
and Gleniston are now

d. 17SS, a.
! !
possessed.
Alexander Beattie,
26
Burke's Baronage.)
Ah
trace his
it is said,
ought to be added that the present repre-
sentatives of the minister of
Drumoak
ah life thou empty name, A noontide shadow, and a midnight dream Death might have satisfy'd his craving rage,
!
early lost
descent from one
Murdoch Shank, who,

For
And
found the body of King Alexander III. among

the
cliffs
down all the vices of the age. But Heav'n who saw, offended with our crimes,'
movv'd
Begriag'd thy virtues to the abandon'd times
;
at Kiughorn.
this service, it is also
stated that
of
Murdoch
received a gift of the lauds
By
To
his cold
live
hand transplanted thee on bigh.

flourish thro' eternity.
lines are locally attributed to
is
Castlerig,
near Einghorn, which

of the Villa),
" Estate
and
(writes
Mr Shank
has descended
The
above
Dr
well
from Father to Son in the family of Shanks of Castlerig up to the present day, a period of nearly
600 years."
Beattie, author of the Minstrel, who, as
known, was born

a headstone
;
at Laurencekirk in 1735.
Upon
late
So
far as I have seen,
there
is
no trace
in
Sacred to the
of
memory
of
James TnoMSoy,
Coll. of
printed records of the

late date,
name
of Castlerig until a
teacher in Laurencekirk,
who
received the degree
nor of a family of Shank, or Schanks,
Master
of
Arts from the Mar.
Aberdeen
1812, in
as landowners from
1360 when,
according to
in the year 1800,
He
died the I7th
May
Heraldry (1st edit., ii. 229), Robert Shank held lands at Kiughorn, which bounded
Nisbet's
the 34th year of his age.
those of a chapel and hospital upon the north
and
Upon
a headstone
west until 1695,

appears
when
the
name of Henry Shanks
among
the heritors of that parish (Sib-
bald's Hist, of Fife, 452.)
But, apart from these printed particulars, the
Erected by Charles Stiven, boxmaker, Laurencekirk, to the memory of Margaret Burnett, his The said spouse, who died the 20th Oct. 1S13. Charles Stiven died the 6th Aug. 1821, aged CS
years,
Haddington kindly informs me that a Martin Shank witnesses several baptisms also that Henry Shanks, at Kinghorn in 1575 bailie, and Agnes Balfour, his wife, had a sou named Martin born 28th June 1670, who became minister of Banchory-Ternan a point which disproves a tradition that Mr Shanks of Banchory (q.v.) belonged to the Garioch, in which district the Poll Book and other authorities show the surname of Shank to have been pretty common
Rev.
Dr Cook
and
is
here interred.
of
The last-named was

parish of Glenbervie
;
the
first
of the Laurence-
kirk snuff-box makers.
He was
born in the
and
his father,
"a
gryte
named his son after the young Pretender. The first of the Laurencekirk snuff-boxes was made about 1783, for Lord Gardenstone's factor, in imitation of a box which Stiven mended
Jacobite,"
for him.
Stiven improved upon the original
and,
on
during the 17th century.

I
am
also indebted to
Dr Cook
for a reference
being shown to Lord Gardeustone, his Lordship advised Stiven to settle in Laurencekirk, where he afterwards carried on, with success and
its
to the charter in favour of Alex. Shanks, dated
reputation,
the
business of
a fishing-rod and
12th February 1735 (Reg. Mag. Sigil., Lib. xcv., No. 46), which proceeds on the resignation of
snuff-box maker.
Some years ago his son was appointed box-maker to Queen Victoria.
LAURENCEtCtRM.
Elspet Mores (1720) :
m^
and
dressed a Letter of Advice to the inhabitants, ioi
Wain
tears give ore, for I

of
am
far
aboue
;
their commercial
The highest reach
any human loue My soul's in Glory, Death's wnseemly shade, A pleasant groue is to my body made. Where heauenly rest I'le take until the day That (come my Father's Blessed) Christ shall say,
been much admired for
His Lordship also
which haa sound common sense. had portraits drawn, in crayons^

social guidance,
its
about 1790, of the original feuars and others (21 in number), including Brich, the artist. These
curious productions are preserved in the
Then With
Garden-
shal our joys begune, perfected be

lasting peace blest in the
stone
die.
Arms
is
Lord that
Hotel, at Laurencekirk.
It
superfluous to say that, since Lord Gar-
deustone's time, Laurencekirk, like other places,
abeady shown, Couveth, now Laurencekirk, was a place of note in the 7 th cenAltliough,
as
has been very

appearance.
much
it,
altered
and improved
little
in its
ia
And
while but
waste land
tury, the existing remains of
antiquity in the
to be seen around
the village (apart from the
and uninteresting. Records show John (brother of Humphry of Berkeley), Jiaving dispossessed the monks of Arbroath of the lands of Balfieth, Monboddo, and Glenfarquhar, &c., was bound, in the time of Alex. II., to allow them a part of the lands of Conveth, of which Berkeley was then proprietor.
parish are few that
Parish and Episcopal Churches) contains a neat
Free Church, branch banks, and many good shopa and houses, together with a liublic hall.
Very few
in existence,
of the old or original houses are
now
and but few of them present (as was fashionable at one time) either the date of erection
or the initials of the proprietor.
One
exception,
At Halkerton,
the lords of that
the remains of an old seat of

are still visible and it seems was there that " William the
;
however,
quaint,
is
worth noting, the inscription being

significant as to the state of the pro-
title
and
probable that
it
prietors at the time they built the house,

brief period thereafter
:
and at a
Hawker"
sibly
resided.
He
is
the reputed ancestor
of tlic noble family of Falconer,
and was poscontemporary with William the Lion. Tanton Fair (S. Anthony^, probably shows that there had been either a chapel in the district, or an altar in the church of Conveth, dedicated
to that saint.
lished in
1814
WE THOUGHT
OF BETTER TIMES
1816 BUT WORSE CAME.
Katie's Market, which was estabLord Gardeustone's time, and named
There is a library and reading-room at the north end of the Gardenstone Arms Hotel, which was erected and furnished with books by Lord Gardenstone. Although neither the number nor the
selection of
after
an old
;
woman
also
is
in the village,
(S.
is
still
held
the books met the approval of
Dr
there
as
is
Lowran Fair
its
Laurance).
The
last
named
one of the oldest of the local
Johnson, who visited the place in 1773, there was possibly then not another library of the kind be-
markets, and has

of the kirk.
name from
the titular saint
tween Edinburgh and Aberdeen
and
his
Lord-
ship had at least the merit of establishing in these

parts a place of intellectual resort to which the
It was soon after 1764 that Lord Gardenstone bought the property of Johnston then a poorly
inhabitants could repair, at a time
when good
attainment.
cultivated and almost barren district
and began
books were comparatively

It
difficult of
those improvements upon

his talents as a
it, which, great as were lawyer and writer, &c., have done
was at Laurencekirk,
in 1782, while a student
at Aberdeen, that
Colman
the younger, the future
more to hand down his name to posterity than any other of his many good deeds. The village
had advanced so mucli from 1764 to 1779, that he obtained a royal charter, by which it was erected into a burgh of barony, on which occasion he ad-
dramatist (whose love for Scotland and the Scotch
was much
like that of
Dr Johnson), "
deposited (as
he humorously says) upon a profane altar his virgin

offering to the muse.
tinues), a
ballad,
This maiden effort (he conwas a contemptible piece of
294
EPITAPHS.
AND INSCRIPTIONS
died upon the 8 day of Septr 1746, and beside him.
doggerel," and was written in the album of the
was interred
Boars'
Head
Inn.
On
retarning soon after, Col-
mau was
"
pleased to find the following couplet

:
JNIrs
Row
bequeathed a sum of 10 towards the
written below his effusion

I like
support, or repair, of the bridge of Lethnot, which

I
thy wit ; but, could

it
see thy face,
I'd
claw
well, for Scotia's vile disgrace."
Which Colman
"Is, then, a
I thouclit
curtly answered
by writing :
parishes,
was erected about the time of the union of the and when her husband was transferred from Navar to Lethnot. The next inscription is
also within the church:
Scotchman such a clawing elf? ho scratch'd no creature but himself 1"
Here
lies
yc
Body
of
George Davidson, Son

of the
to
Mr
Will. Davidson,
Minr
Gospel in Navar
&
& Janet Farrier, his Spouse, who died Aug. 1700, in the 16th year of his age, having His good finished his first Session at College.
Lethnot,
IGtli
Dispositions, Sweetness of temper,

cation,
uncommon
appli-
progress in Latin and Greek,
and other
(THE VIRGIN MARY.)
amiable Qualities, afforded pleasing Prospects, made
LETIINOT
in the
and
NAVAR (the
which parishes
early history,
will be
&c., of both of
found
in
Land of the Lindsays), were united
the year 1723.
A curious
lies in
font, of possibly the 16th century,
and his early Death much regretted by all who knew him. But His blessed are ye Dead which die in the Lord. Brother Alexander Davidson, was born 2d Nov. 174G, and coming from Riga, a Sailor, died 23 July 1763, and Burried in Woulosound Burial place in
his short life endearing to his Parents,
Lethnot kirkyard.
in
The
;
present church of
the 17th year of his age,
much
lamented.
and two slabs in the 1672 N., belfry (respectively initialed and dated and J. R. 17-42), relate to the incumbency of Mr Robert Nokie and Mr John Row. To the
Lethnot was built
1827
Mr
this
Davidson,
who was
ordained minister of
parish in 174G, died in 1775-6.
He
was
buried within the church of Lethnot, as was also

the Rev.
memory
church
1747.
is
of
the last-named & tablet within the

:
David Rose, long

and
his
Episcopal clergyman
(u.
of the district,
second wife
Land
of the
thus inscribed
lies
Here
Lindsays).
The
last
named were
the parents of
what was mortal
of the late
Reverend
Mr John Row,
of3&ce
minister of the Gospel in
the united parishes of Navar and Lethnot,
who
of
dis-
charged the sacred
with unwearied diligence

'22
and and whose labours, through the blessing of God, produced such effects as convinced all who observed them that he had neither run unsent, nor spent his He died upon the 24 day of strength in vain. Deal" 174.5, while the Nation was distracted with Civil Wars, but had the pleasure to see his People adhering to their religion and liberties, while many others had joined those who wanted to overturn both and soon after Affairs had taken such a turn as he had foretold, both in public and private, the disturbers of our peace being dispersed by ye glorious Duke of Cumberland. His spouse, Elizabeth Young, who had lived 43 years married with him.
in the first of these parishes alone for 5 years,
afterwards in both together for
years,
and the great-grand parents While turning over some Lord Strathnairn. papers of the late Rev. Mr Symers, a scrap was found by the Rev. Mr Cruickshank, containing the following copy of an inscription for a monument which was intended to be raised to the memory of Mr and Mrs Rose by a daughter
the Hon. Geo. Rose,
:
Episcopal clergyman, served the cures of Lethnot and Lochlee. Died in the year 1758, aged 63, and lies buried in the Kirk of Lethnot. His spouse, Margaret Rose, died in the year 1785, aged 80, and was buried beside her husband. The aboTC Rev. David Rose was twice married, and by his first wife had four children, all of whom died at an early
age.
"David Rose,
survive
By the second he had five children, of whom two only the Honourable George Rose, and a daughter, Mak-
GAKET, by
whom this marble
is
erected."
The daughter, who proposed
to erect the
mo-
nument, died unmarried in Montrose about 1820, and was buried in St Peter's cemetery there.
LETHNOT.
The next
Bridge, &c.
inscription,
295
from a
chest- shaped tomb,
covers the grave of the founder of the

(v.
Gannochy
:
Land
of the Lindsays)
This stone was erected by James Black, tenant in Wood, in the parish of Edzell, in memory of his spouse Jannet Wallis, who died the 6 of June 1745, aged 65 years ; and sd James Black was of
age 68 years
:
Pare from the stains of a polluted age. In early bloom of life, they left this stage ; Not doom'd in ling'ring woe to waste their breath, One moment snatch'd Them from the power of
Death
They
liv'd united,
Happy
the Friends,
and united dy'd whom Death cannot divide

;
This
life,
epitaph, composed
by Dr
Beattie, author
Ah
Sin
hence momentary
hence breath.
:
of
Sighs for ye silent grave and pants for death
the
What means
ye warning of ye passing bell ?

tends ye broad, but slippry way,
;
A
O
soul just gone to Paradise or Hell.

frightful gloom,
" The Minstrel," appears (slightly altered) in The first edition of his poems (Lond. 17G0.) sad accident to which it alludes arose from the two brothers being upon one horse, while attempting to cross the river during a flood.
To darkness
deny'd each cheering ray While such as walk in paths divinely bright Shall shine within ye Courts of endless light.
James Black,
Born at Mill
of Lethnot, dy'd Oct. 24, 1750, at
Wood
Chiefly built the Bridge of of Dalbog. Gannochie, and doted for the support of it 50 Besides 1000 merks for other merks Scots
:
Here lyes Agnes Gibb, spous to James Laing, Drumcairn, in the parish of Lethnot, who departed day of January 1737, aged 48, who this life the left behind her thes children laufully procreat betuixt her and her said husband, lohn, lames, David, and William Laings, and tuo daughters,
Ann and
Margaret Laings
all
500 merks for a Schoolmr. at Tillibardin and 300 merks toward building a Bridge at Balrownie, with 200 merks to
Bridges and pious uses
:
viz.
Kemember
who
pass by, &c.
slab
of
Peterhead
granite
(encased in a
this in-
handsome freestone monument), presents

scription
:
the poor of Fettercairn.
No
To
Bridge on Earth can be a Pass for Heav'u, generous deeds Let yet due Praise be given. Memento 1746 mori.
Upon another chest-shaped stone To this grave is committed all that the
:
In memory of the Eev. Alexander Symers, late minister of the united parishes of Lethnot and Navar, who, after an incumbency of 33 years, died
on the 9th day

grave can
of
of
May
And
claim of two Brothers, David and John Leitch, who on the 7th of Oct. 1757, both unfortunately
perished in the
of
Clementina Carnegy, his spouse, and daughter the late James Carnegy of Balmachie, Panbricle,
died on the 14th February 1851, in the 84th
West Water, the one
who
in his 23d,
year of her age.
And
of their children,
DavidHaklee,
Their disconsolate the other in his 21st year. father John Leitch, tenant, Bennington, erects this
Lyell, who died on the 6th

;
May
1821, aged 19
years Alexander, Commander
of the ship
all
monument
to the
memory
of these amiable youths,
whose early virtues promised uncommon comfort his declining years, and suigular emolument
Society.
who
perished in the Indian Ocean with
on board,
to to
in the year 1838, in the 34th year of his age;
John-
O Thou whose reverential footsteps tread These lone dominions of the silent Dead ;
!
On
this sad stone a pious look bestow.

this tale of
Peter, who died on the 2d June 1821, aged 17 years ; Clementina-Lyell, who died on the 24th August 1824, aged 18 years ; Margaret, who died in June 1820, aged 11 years; Patricia- AlisonCarnegy, who died in January 1817, aged 2 years.
Nor uninstructed read
woe
And
while the sigh of sorrow heaves thy breast,
Mr
Let each rebellious murmur be suppress'd ; Heaven's hidden ways to trace, for Thee, how
vain
!
Symers was previously schoolmaster at The monument was erected by two of his sons George, surgeon, R.N., and Stewart-Lyell, merchant, Tranent, the latter of whom changed
Barry.
the spelling of his
Heaven's just decrees,
how
impious, to arraign
name
to Seymour.
*j96
EPITAPHS,
AND INSCRIPTIONS:
where
it
long remained.
It
is
now
:
in the
Ar-
broath Museum, and thus inscribed

SOLI
.
(S.
M
.)
10
FIFVS
PASTOR
.
DEO GLORIA NAVARENSIS

. . .
OVDEROGGE
Fife,
FECIT
BON DEBIT. ROTTERDAM 1655.

. .
I^ll E kirk
<3L
of Netheuer, a parsonage of the cathe-
Mr
who was admitted
to
Navar
in 1G50,
and died
in
dral of Brechin,
had possibly been granted

from
1658, left 1000 merks in charge of
to
that church by one of the ancient lords of Brechin,
the ministers of the Presbytery of Brechin "for
who took one From Navar,

Baron
is
of their titles
this district.
at the present time, the title of

of Dalhousie, a de-
assumed by the Earl
scendant and representative of the old lords

Brechin,
De
helping to entertaine and maiutaine ane pious young man ane student at the new college of St Audrowes yearlie" {v. Land of the Lindsays.) There are a few tombstones in the burial ground.
From one
of these the following

relicts of a
is
copied
The burial-ground, which

dry stone dyke and a few
the sunny side of a
is
surrounded by a
trees, is situated
upon
hill near Blairuo. Although the kirk was " down" before June 1729, its size can yet be traced. Near the middle of the en-
very honest woman Margaret Fyfe, sometime spouse to James Molison in Craigendowie, who chearfuUy left this life in hope of a better, the 25 of November year of
Here lyes the
God
1712, and 70th year of her age.
closure,- a
belfry, to
which a stone slab
is fixed,
A pearl precious here doth ly,

As
signifies
her
name
bears this record of the subscribers to the build-
ing:
Still shining to posterity,
Ann Wylie
By
in Westside omitted.
her deserved fame.

of clay,
let
Death battered down those walls
This bell-house was built in the year 1773, at the expense of the following persons and their interest
To
her soul goe free

Deitie.
Mr
And
soar aloft to praise for ay,
Alex. Gold Tenant in Argeith

in Ledbreakie
The Triune
Sleep then,
Till the
James Cobb
frail dust,
within thy closest urn,
Frances Stewart in Nathrow James Molisou in Craigendowy
morning
of the resurrection
dawn,
Drumcairn John Molison in Okltowu Alexr Jolly in Wittou

Ja. Lighten in
When thou shalt wake, the heaven & earth shall [burn, And be rejoined to thy immortal pawn.
My glass
interest
Memento mori. is run, & thine runneth.
Will Speid in Blarno Thos. Gordon in Lightney

Da. Wyllie in Tillyarblet
Jon & Audr Cobbs in Tilliebirnie George Cobb in Achfearey John Cobb in Room.
on the part of the was made too small for the instrument and it continued to be suspended from a tree in the churchyard until stealthily removed. The bell was long concealed and on being brought to light (a new bell having meantime been got for the kirk of Lethnot), the Navar bell was sent by the late Lord Panmure to the parish kirk of Arbirlot,
to a miscalculation
Owing
builder, the receptacle in the " bell-house"

;
Although unmarked by any memorial, it may some to know that the ashes of Jock GuDEFELL(JW lie at Navar. Jock, who was a well-known and much-feared vagrant, died, while upon a begging tour, at Tillyarblet, in Nov. 1810, where (Session records) " he was taken care of and got every thing he desired while in life, and after his decease was decently dressed by David
Wyllie and his mother, at their own expences." A note of " the expences of his foundrel" is also
preserved, the
total cost
of
which,
it
appears,
amounted
burial."
to
Os lid, of which
sum 13s were
expended on "
spirits
used betwixt his death and

is
Gudcfellow
thus spoken of by the
NAVARELCHIES,
late
or
MACALEN.
by
297
James Bowick of Montrose, in his meritorious volume of Characters and Sketches (1824)
:
Built in 17S7
carried
stones
mason work
cost
75
ster.
"There's he -vho slid from Perth to Aberdeen Upon his hands and buttocks, as they say 5
contributed by the Public. Centre valued at 15 Persons most guineas, given by Earl Dalhousie.
active
in
Jock Gddefellow was the
creature's name, I ween,

;
forwarding
,
the
undertaking:
John
;
Who
Jock
ofttimes scared the children from their play
Spence, Esq.
minister of
But now the

is
fearful wight hath passed into the clay."
Commissary, Brechin ; John Taylor, y^ Gospel, Lethnot Thomas Molison,

;
said to have been a
told that,
gourmand ; and it is upon entering a farm house one day,
tenant, Craigendowie ; Charles Will, Tiliiebardiues

;
and finding a female the only inmate, he demanded a dish of " fried collops !" It seemed at
first
John Will, Mill of Glascory John Smart, AuchFoundationJohn Wyllie, Ballindairg. ourie Keystone stone laid by John Smart, Huiithill
;
:
impossible to comply with Jock's
demand
driven
dowie.
by George
Molison,
shoemaker, Craigen-
but on recollecting that the remains of a pair of

old
buckskin breeches were in the garret, the

acceded to his
request.
An
excellent account of the history of the
West
wylie damsel frankly
Water Bridge, and
of the other bridges in the
These she soon procured, and, like Paddy Haggerty of Irish song, having cut them into suitable bits, and fried them with onions and butter, set " the dainty dish" before Jock, who, upon clearing
the platter,
gruffly remarked "Aye,
lass,
united parishes, was read before the Presbytery of Brechin, by the Rev. Mr Cruickshank, minister
of
Lethnot and Navar
{v.
Montrose Standard of
7th October 1870.)
your
collops are teuch (tough), but tastie
!"
Withal, Jock had humour

o'
upon asking " ane
the gudeman's sarks" (shirts) from a farmer's
him she had no old replied by answering, "Ye ken, gudewife, an auld sark's nae compliment to ony body gi'e me a gude ane !" Upon handing Jock a shirt, aware of his traducing propensities, the gudewife (who was more famed for worth than personal beauty) remarked,
wife one
day,
told
shirt
who
to give
away, Jock
(S.
MACALEN, BISHOP AND CONFESSOE.)

classed as one of theeight canonriesof the
ELECHYN
thedral of
Bricius,
and Butthary (Botarie) were CaMoray, which were erected by Bishop

died in 1222 (Reg. Morav.)
" although that's ane

ye'il
o'
the gudeman's best sarks,
who
In the
just gae to the next toon an' misca'
me."
old taxation of 1275 (Theiner), the prebendary
"Me
misca'
you,
if
gudewife!" quo' Jock;

I
"I
if
churches of Duthary (Botarie) and of Elcliyn are

jointly rated at 5
cou'dna do that
ca'd ye that, ye
didua ca' ye bonnie

yoursel', I
!"
an'
merks
6s. Scots.
ken
wad be
speakin'
The churches
Glass,
of Pettarie (Botarie) Elchies,
and
against
my
conscience
were served by one minister, Mr Alex. He had Zm 13s 4d of stipend Leslie, in 1574, and William Hay, reader at Elchies, had 16,
;
Jonathan Duncan, sometime Governor

of Blairno in 1756, a part of
of the
Presidency of Bombay, was born upon the farm
which
in
his father oc-
with the kirklands. I am kindly informed by the present minister (Mr Pirie) that there is no proof, either in the
records of the church or the Teind Court, of the parish of Elchies having been legally annexed to
cupied.
His parents were buried at Edzell

principal
(^.w.)
The
stone bridges
the
united
parishes are those of Lethnot, or Pikehardie, and
Knockando
but from about the beginning of the
Stonyford, both over the Dye, or
West Water.
The
first
bears the date of 1723, and the latter

:
18th century, until about 1760, when the kirk of Elchies appears to have become ruinous, the
minister of
this inscription
Knockando
officiated at
both places.
PP
298
EPITAPHS,
AND INSCRIPTIONS:
mark
of true
nobility,
At
an
the present time the people of Elchies have
being
summoned by the
weekly service, either

assistant.
by the parish minister or
Author
The church-yard
situated
still
of Elchies, or
Macalen,
and
is
he departed this life 4tli March 1715, in his 56th year, leaving this unique structure to be erected by his only sou, Patrick, in token of
of virtue,
upon the north bank

It
of the Spey,
is
is
due
filial
respect
and just
regret.]
used for interments.
near the house of
The erector of the mausoleum, and

bility the
in all proba-
Easter Elchies, surrounded by a substantial stone

dyke, and shaded by some good old trees.
of the north
composer of the Latin inscription, was
Parts
admitted an advocate in 1712.

to the bench in 1732,
Having attained
title
and west walls
of the kirk, covered

;
considerable eminence as a barrister, he was raised
with ivy, stand near the middle of the enclosure
and assumed the
of
and the Easter Elchies

east corner.
burial aisle
is
;
in the south-
Lord
Elchies.
He was
subsequently a Lord of
The
aisle is still
roofed
but the door,
Justiciary,
and died at Inch House, near Edin-
and the entrance to the vault being both open, and the place otherwise ill-cared for, it will soon go to ruin unless speedily repaired. In the east wall is a handsome monument of Elgin stone, with a tablet (flanked by two Corinthian pillars),
thus inscribed
:
burgh, in 1754.
cineres
Sub hoc marmore in Christi adsêntum conduntur Joannis Grant de Elchies, viri sternum
His collected Decisions of the Court of Session were published in 1813, and his Annotations on Lord Stair's Institutes in 1824. His Session papers and notes of his decisions are preserved in the Advocate's Library, all of which " exhibit a wonderful degree of application and Lord industry" (Senators of College of Justice.)
lugendi, qui,
dum
inter vivos,
uunquam adeo
;
sibi
amisuisq, quam aliis officia pra^stare solicitus fuit cum certissimum amicis, egenis levamen promptum,
singulis hospitem liberalissimum ubic^ se
prtestitit
Elchies' son, John Grant, sheriff-depute of Moray and Nairn, afterwards a Baron of Exchequer, sold Easter Elchies to the Earl of Findlater, to whose
descendant, the Earl of Seafield, the property

belongs.
now
de patria vero, propter operam

civili
ei
in bello posteriore
felioiter
non minus optima meritus,

negotiis
lideliter
quam
navatam,
" Esterelloquhy" belonged in property to John Grant of Grant in 1565, and was then held of the Cathedral of Moray for an annual
et
postquam tarn
in sacris
quam
payment
third son
this
of
11 5s 4d. (Reg. de Morav.)
This
secularibus
omnium
cujuscun(j
generis
laird appears to
have given Easter Elchies to his
virtutum constanti exercitio verte nobilitatis characteristicon adeptus esset, a virtutis Auctore vocatus, fatis cessit Martii IVto, anno salutis humanse MDCCXV, ajtatis LVIto, hoc unicum, rediticium in
debitaj filialis observantiie justiq, doloris tesseram,
Duncan, who became the founder of Lord Elchies' father was a captain in the royal army, and fought at
branch of the Grants.
the skirmish in Cromdale,

Livingstone, in 1690.
under Sir Thomas
Patricio,
filio
unico,
extruendum reliuquens.
advent of Christ,
ever-
The
[Under
lie
burial
ground contains a few tombstones,

it
this marble, until the
one of which (uuinscribed) appears to have been

used originally as a millstone, since
socket for the rind, &c.
of the inscriptions
:
an among the living, was never so anxious to promote the interests of himself and his family, as those of others to his friends he ever showed himself a very sure friend, to the
the ashes of
of Elchies,
John Grant
presents the
are a few
to-be lamented man, who, while
The following
needy a ready benefactor, to all a very liberal host by the not less loyal than successful services which he rendered to his native land during the late Civil War, he earned a just title to the deepest gratitude of his couutrymen ; and, after he had by the constant practice of every kind of excellence in sacred
;
Here lyes ane honest woman called Makiorie Chalmers, spous to William M'Conachie in HiUhall, who depai'ted this lyfe the day of Deer. 1687.
ane honest woman called Isabel Warden, spous to John Sharp in Hillhall, who departed the 29 day of December 1704.
Here
lyes
Here lyes the body

lawful son of Kobert
as well as in secular affairs, acquired the distinctive
of Alexander Gumming, Gumming indweller in Colar-
KNOCKANDO.
green,
299
who
depc" this
life
the 3 day of October
The church has
lately
been much improved by

;
1707 years.
the enlargement of the windows, &c.

til
and an
is
in-
Under
this stone is laid
the coming of Christ,
scribed slab of white marble, set in black,
in
the dust of an honest
man
caled
Iohn Proctor,
the Wester Elchies
loft
of
He
spouse,
sometime indweller in Clayfurs at Easter Elchies. died the ... and Elspet Grant, his first who died the 29 of July 1709, and
.
Sacred to the
memory
Margaret, wife
of
Upon
a stone bearing representations of a rake,

initials,
hedge shears, and a pruning knife, are the
James-William Grant, Esq. of Elchies, who died in Loudon, Jan. 28, 1855, born April 10, 1791. Her mortal remains were laid in Kensal Green Cemetery, in the sure and certain hope of the resurrection to eternal
life.
G.M:C.C.
Adjoining
::
Isa. 26. 3.
Jean Gray, wf. of John Skakell, mercht. Elgin, died in " the flower of her age," 1737, a. 22 In one cofl&n, below this stone,
Lys both the mother and the
son.
Templar's tomb (formed of composite) within
an enclosure in the church-yard, covers the ashes of the husband of the above-named lady. It bears the words " craig-o'-croachan" (the
slogan, or
scription
:
war cry
of
the Grants), also this in-
^^.^^VWWW^/VW^^^/VWWXXXWXXX'W^
The vault of Elchies. In remembrance of Jas. William Grant of Elchies, in this county, who
-
died the 17th day of Dec. 1865, aged 77 years. His mortal remains are laid in this vault. Jesu mercy.
(S.
)
Mr
Grant,
who long
held a high position in
Knockandoch, which is within diocese of Moray, is said to have been a vicarage dependent upon the kirk of Inveravon before the Reformation (Shaw's Moray.) The
of
THE church the

is
the Civil Service in India, was a gentleman of

superior learning and refined tastes,
and
culti-
vated the interesting science of astronomy with
fact
not mentioned in any record that I have

until 1574-6.
no ordinary success. It was bought the " Trophy Telescope

hibition" {v.
Mr
of the First
Grant who Exp.

it
seen,
Alexander Sandeson was
Good Words
up at
late
for
1863,
126).
then reader, and, along with the kirk lands, he
He
had
it fitted
Elchies,
where
was an
had 20 merks of stipend. In 1574, Alexander Gordon was minister of Knockando, and of the two neighbouring parishes of Kirkmichael and Inveravon, with 160 Scots of stipend. It is just possible, since the kirk of Knockando was dependent upon that of Inveravon, that the former district, like the latter {v. p. 143), had
belonged in property to the old Earls of Fife
of this there
;
object of attraction until
was bought by the
Mr G.'s death, when it Mr Aytoun of Glenfarg.
Mr
Grant's father
made a fortune abroad, and

added
acquired by purchase, about 1783-4, the estate of
Wester
those of
Elchies, to which were afterwards
Knockando and Ballintomb.

least
Grants appear to have occupied Wester Elchies
but
from at
of
1565
In the rental of the bishopric

it is
no record. The kirk of Knockando, which

is
Moray
of that date (Reg. Morav.),
stated
is
a long narrow
that AVester Elchies, with the mill and fishings

of the same, the "ferrie cobbill," also Kincardie
building with outside stairs to the galleries, has a
commanding
which there
position
is
upon a
rising ground,
from
a fine view of mountain scenery.

the date refers to the building of
:
with fishings on the Spey, were held by James Grant, for the annual payment of 16 9d Scots.
This old branch of the Grants (who were cadets
of
slab over the kirk door bears the following

:
text and date
Grant
of Grant), held
Wester Elchies,
&c., for
the present place of worship
several generations.
ROM
14
15
MDCCLVII,
Apart from the slab bearing the Runic
inscrip-
300
EPITAPHS,
AND INSCRIPTIONS:
viz., Messrs Francis Grant, who Lauchlan M'Pjjerson, who died George Gordon, who died in 1839. Lean, an honest and laborious man that died 17th June 1746, and of Margaret Wallace, his wife, a woman of unaffected simplicity
tiou,
and the curious old

(referred
to
incised stones in the
tombstones
churchyard
below),
possibly
the
died in 1805
in
oldest inscribed stone at
ment which
words
:
Knockando is a fragDunbar and Grant arms impaled, the initials I. D., and these
bears a shield with the
1826
and
.... ODEY
LAVFVL
.
OF
MARY
DAVGHTER .TO
In consequence of so
Knockando having died
many
of the ministers of
and chearfulness in manners, with unspotted integrity, and by her industry reared a young family. She died 16th May 1769. This monument is erected by Alex. M'Lean, their dutiful son, garduer at
London.
W.M. Watson, Excise
dr.
in early life, a tradition
Las long existed in the parish to the effect that
Officer, d. 1834, a.
34
his
when a manse was being

upon which they are
of their sincerity,
built long ago, the
mi-
Hannah
d.
1840,
a.
9 yrs.
all
nister refused to give the woi'kmen a foiaulinc/ pint,
To Death's
despotic sceptre
must bend,
;
said to have
;
pronounced a
and, in token
He
spares not parent, child, nor weeping friend
malison against future incumbents

it is
added that they built a
gravestone into some part of the manse.

the old
offices of
fa,tal
Whether
the fragment above-noticed (which was found in

the manse a few years ago), had
Kot manhood's bloom, nor youth's fair tender [flow'r, Can move his pity, or resist his pow'r. Meagre consumption here a Father laid, And BURNING fever slew his lovely maid.
'Twas sin that gave tyrannic pow'r to Death, And, at his summons, these resigned their breath, Until their Saviour calls them from the grave, Destroys grim Death, and shews his pow'r to save.
Erected by Isabella McQuine in Memory of hir Son James Robertson upar Tamdo, who died the
5th
been the
stone, or that
is
any malediction was
say than that had so many changes of ministers, through death, as that of Knockando,
ever pronounced,
difficult to
more
no parish
in the district has
The Separate
lour
Register of the Presbytery of Aber-
shows that from April 1788, until Decemall of
My
1840 aged 21 years
:
you pas bay was I.
Sprott,
ber 1866, there have been no fewer than seven

ministers at Knockando,
Remember
what you
In
friends as
whom
died there
trans-
ar
now
so once
with the exception of
Dr
Asher,
who was
memory
of the
Rev.
Andrew
at
who
lated to Tnveravon after
being seven years at
Knockando. The next three inscriptions are from the tombstones of some of these ministers
:
was born at Stranraer, in July West Kilbride in 1837, inducted

April 1845, and died 4
1800, ordained at
Archiestown in
May
1864.
A laborious
&
faithful minister greatly beloved.
In memory of the Bev. John Wink, minister of Knockando, who, after 11 years of faithful service,
died 11th
March
1851, aged 54.
In affectionate and hallowed remembrance of the Rev. John M unro, for 50 years the pastor of the Congregational Church of this parish. He was an
In memory of the Rev. Francis

after 3 years of
W. Grant, who, By
his sister,
an earnest ministry, died 25th Jan.
eminently devout, able, and faithful minister of Christ, greatly beloved and respected in all the
relations
1855, in the 32d year of his age.
both
his
of
private
Margaret, teacher, Kirknewton.
finished
long,
laborious
in the
He and public life. and useful course,

age.
Erected by the Parishioners of Knockando in

affectionate
March
20,
1853,
79th year of his
remembrance of the Rev. John Clarke, minister of Knockando, who, after an

acceptable ministry of 11 years, died 18th Dec.
1866, aged 47.
" Well done," &c,
Upon
a headstone
In
addition to the above, other three parish

v.'ho
Erected by Hellen, Jessie, and Isabella TuUoch, in memory of their beloved parents Margaret GiLLAN, who died on the 19th Feb. 1840, aged 55
years
;
ministers are buried at Knockando,
have no
and her husband
Alexander Tullocu,
KEITH-HALL,
farmer, Crofthead,
or
MONKEIGIE.
301
who
died on the 17th Oct. 1840,
aged 55 years.
Alex.
tried
for
TuUoch was
the
killed
by
his
son-in-law,
Peter Cameron, Balintomb.
Cameron, who was

(S.
murder
at Inverness, 14th April,
SERF, OR SERVANUS, BISHOP.)

the
1841, pleaded that he had no intention to kill
TuUoch, but only intended to maim or disable him, so as to prevent him from marrying a woman to whom he was attached. Cameron was found
guilty of culpable homicide, and transported for
life.
JKBOUT
JfcSs
year
1175,
William the Lion
granted a charter at Edinburgh, by which
he confirmed the gift made by his brother. Earl
It
is
added
that,
under the circumstances,
much sympathy was
felt for
Cameron.
David of Huntingdon, to the church of S. Mary, and to the Bishop of Aberdeen, of the tithes of Munkegyn^ and those of some adjoining kirks. " Sancte Serwe altar in the paroche kyrk of Monkege" is mentioned in a deed of 1481 and
;
the present parish church (built in 1771), stands
Neither Elchies nor Knockando contain

of antiquarian interest,
if
much
upon a portion
is said,
of "
Sant Sares' bank," where,
it
we except
the remains
St Sares' fair was held previous to
its re-
of a stone circle at Ballinteem, near the Bishop's
and the Sculptured Stones in the kirkyard of Knockando. These latter are said to have been carried from an old burial place called Pulvernan, on the Spey, near Knockando House. One of them bears the name of SIKNIK" in Scandinavian Runes, being the same name that appears upon another Runic monument in Sweden
Priest's Crofts,
'
and
Another fair moval to the parish of Culsamond. Margaret's was long held on the farm of Mains of Keith-hall but whether it was named
called S.
;
in honour of Margaret,
last of the
who was
the heiress of the
De
Gariochs, or of any other lady of
local distinction (a practice which, as at present
was
not
uncommon
in old times), or in
honour
is
of S.
Margaret
of the
Roman
Calendar,
not clear.
(u.
Sculpd. Stones of Scot.,

place called
it
ii.,
p. 61.)
is
If after the last-named, there
had probably been
A
is
Lady Croft
an old
in Elchies, but
whether
refers to
ecclesiastical dedication
an altar at Moukeigie dedicated to S. Margaret. An eminence to the eastward of the old

kirkyard
is
uncertain.
called
of Arcluestoion^ so named from its founder Sir Archibald Grant of INIonymusk, was begun about 1760. In 1783, a number of the houses were destroyed by fire, among others that of the session-clerk and schoolmaster, when,
Village
The
Spital, or site of the ancient hospice, is
The Monk's Hill; and The upon the

to the
extreme east of the parish.
The name
of
Keith -hall was given
unfortunately,
the parochial registers perished.
mansion house (previously Caskieben), after 1662, about which year the property was bought by Sir John Keith,
parish, as well as to the principal
Lately a miserable village, Arcbiestown has
now
assumed, in consequence of improved roads, and

its
who was created Earl of Kintore. The parishes of Monkeigie, alias

Kinkell, were united in 1754,
third of
proximity to the railway stations of Carron

Craigellachie, &c., a clean tidy appearance.
and
main street, and byelanes; and contains Free and U.P. churches. The Spey is crossed by an iron girder bridge at Carron railway station, and by the fine
It consists of a square, a
added
to
Keith-hall, and when about oneKinkell, which included Thainston, was Kintore, and the rest to Keith-hall.
The
old kirk of Monkeigie stood near the mid-
picturesque bridge of Craigellachie
{v.
p. 26.)
There are also ferry-boats at Charleston of Aberlour, and at Black's Boat, near In vera von.
and upon a mound by a moss, or marsh, in early times (the bed of which is still visible), the site of the kirk must have had Taking these quite the appearance of an island.
dle of a basin-shaped hollow,
or eminence, which having been surrounded
302
EPITAPHS,
cousideratiou,
AND
INSCRIPTIONS:
Upon
Near
a marble slab built into a
:
facts
into
the site
had probably
since
monument on
suggested the
name
of
the locality,
the
the south wall of the churchyard
minister of
at
Gaelic words Mun-keig-ic have some such meaning, as an island, or mound, in " a cogue," or basin-
this wall are interred the mortal remains of
the Rev.
Dr George-Skene Keith,
shaped situation.
the parish of Keith-hall for 44 years, and of Tulliof the old kirk are traceallan in Perthshire for 8 months.
Only the foundations

able in the burial-yard.
Born
Auqu-
Within an enclosure in the north-west corner lie some of the Kintore one family, and within it are two small stones bears their arms, the initials E.I.K., and the date the other is dated 1710. Both refer to of 1698
horsk, Nov. 6,
1752, he died at TuUiallan House,
March
7,
1823.
Distinguished and beloved as the
clergyman
of a parish,
remarkable in a wider sphere
the time of the
first
Earl,
is
who
died in 1711.
:
plain granite headstone
thus inscribed
In
Kintore,
memory of Anthony- Adrian, eighth Earl of who was born 20th April 1794, and died
11th July 1844, in the 51st year of
>^
at Keith-hall, his age.
and science, of great mental and bodily activity, he preserved in age the same vivacity and cheerfulness, the same love of knowledge, warmth of feeling, and untiring Chi'istian benevolence, which characterised his youth and manhood. Some gentlemen of this county, who had intended to present him with a memorial of their high respect for his character, but were prefor his learning
also of his son William-Adrian, Lord Inverury, who was born 2d Sept. 1822, and
And
vented by his death, have erected this monument

to his
memory.
died Dec. 17th, 1843, aged 21 years.
Besides
The
first
above-named Earl bad no family by his wife, a daughter of R. Renny, Esq. of Bor-
sermons and kindred publications, Dr Keith wrote treatises on political economy, the View of the Agriculture of Aberdeenshire, &c.
His son John, who died in 1867, succeeded to
the church of Keith-hall, so that the father
rowfield, near Montrose.
By
his
second wife, a
daughter of F. Hawkins, Esq., he had two sons
and
and two daughters. The eldest son (Lord Inverury) was accidentally killed in England while The second son is the present Earl fox hunting.
of Kintore, of Capt.
son were in uninterrupted possession of the same
charge for about ninety years.
Another son, the

is
Rev.
Dr
Alex. Keith of St Cyrus, born 13 Nov.
who married his own cousin, a daughter Hawkins, by whom he has issue. The next inscription is from a granite slab inserted
into the wall of the family burial place
:
1792, and
who seceded
at the Disruption,
the
author of Evidences of the Truth of the Christian

Religion,
and other works.
Auquhorsk
is
a farm
of
in the parish of Kinellar,
reputed branch of
Erected by Kintore to the
loved
from which Keiths, a the Marischal family, were
memory
of his be-
long designed.
Aunt the Lady Mary Keith, daughter

of
flat slab,
in front of
Dr
:
Keith's enclosure,
is
William, 7th Earl
Kintore,
who
died at Bath,
inscribed round the margin
July
5,

first
The
Earl of Kintore was John, fourth son
Kintor,
Here lyes Iohn Keith, seruant who departed ye 27 of Sep

a headstone
:
to the Earle of
of the sixth Earl Mariscbal (v. p. 48).
He
was
Upon
In
1
J.
raised to the dignity of a Peer, &c., in 1677, in
consequence of the share which

It
it
was said he had

fifth
in the preservation of the Regalia of Scotland.
was through the marriage
of
David,
Lord
Bucklitsch, who died He was brought from Saxe Weimar by the late E. H. Anthony, Earl of Kintore, in whose family he acted as jager for 45
memory of John H.
Halkerton, with the eldest daughter of the second
years.
Earl of Kintore,
when
she
was only 13 years
Upon
and 5 months
old,
that the Kintore family suc-
ceeded to the estates of Glenfarquhar, Inglismaldie, and Dunlappie {v. p. 62).
" He 27 Nov. 1834, aged 75. was 40 years in the service of the Earls of Kintore,
David Crab, died
the last of
whom
he served raised this
tablet.
KEITH-HALL,
Here
lies
or
MONKEIGIE.
locality of his birth-place.
303
departed worth
No
any
stone in the burial

of the Johnstons,
God's noblest work
ground bears the name

although
a. 92. it is
of
An
In
honest man."
wf. of D. Crab, d. 1858,
said that " IMonkeigie was a chapel,
Jean Stewart,
built at first their

is
by the Johnstons
of
Caskiben for
road contractor, a native of the parish of Killin, who died Aberdeen, 31st Dec. 1825, aged 78. Erected by
of
memory
Mr Archibald M'Lean,
own
family"
an assertion,
however, which
contrary to the recorded facts.
The house
at a
little
or castle of Caskieben stood

is
upon
widow, Elizabeth Sangster, aged 77.

his
She died
18-46,
a rising ground, where a moat

distance from
of Keith-haU.
still
visible,
the present mansion

is
To
the
memory
of Provost
of the
burgh of Inverury, A tribute of 1746, and died 7 Dec. 1824, aged 78. respect for an upright and honest man. H. M. P.
1826.
William Mollison, who was born 8 Sep.
Keith-hall
It
a large building in
the Elizabethan style.
has been frequently
added to and
initialed
altered,
with several family shields.
E.I.K
:
and the front is embellished The oldest shield is C.M.K., and dated 1665. This
memory of George Reid, sometime one of the baillies of Inverury, who departed this life 22d June
In
1806, aged 81.
Lieut.
legend adjoins
This stone
is
erected
:
by
his son,
MAV
REST
Anthony Reid,
81st Regt.
He
died 1813,
TRVTH AND GRACE, HERE IN PEACE.

. .
aged
In
29.
The
still
old mansion house of Kendal (previously
memory of John Bopdie, late residenter in Aquhithie, who died 6 Sep. 1828, aged 84. Elizabeth Christie,
aged
70.
:
ArdiharraU), surrounded by a few venerable trees,
conveys an idea of
it
its
former importance,
his spouse, died 29th April 1829
though
It
has been long occupied as a farm house.

(Collec.
was here
Abridged
that the future Bishop

Jas. Cock, minister of the Gospel at
The Rev.
his age,
History of his
so famous.
Own
Abd. and Banff), in 1643, Burnet was born, whose Times, and the prominent
Keith-hall, died 17 Feb. 1776, in the 78th year of
part he took in contemporary events, have
made
title
and 38th
of his ministry.
Barbara Reid,
re-
The
Bishop's father,
who
died a
his spouse, died 27th April 1800, in the 80th year

of her age.
Senator of the College of Justice, under the

of
[Deaths of 3 sons and 5 daughters
corded. ]
The
of
district of Monkeigie belonged to the Earl Huntingdon, and subsequently to the De
Lord Crimoud, was proj)rietor of Kendal and Crimond, and fourth son of the baronet of Leys. His mother was a sister of Sir Archd. Johnston, the celebrated Lord Warristoun, who was executed at Edinburgh in 1G63.
whom, Andrew de Garioch, was The Gariochs ended in a daughter JMargaret, who married Stiven Johnston, a reputed brother of the laird of AnnGariochs, one of
sheriff of Aberdeenshire, in 1264.
The property
of
Kinmuck
;
lies
to the south-east
and according to tradition a battle was fought there between the Scots and
of the parish church
Danes.
It
is
further averred that in consequence
andale (Doug. Baronage.)
By
this
marriage the
to the
of a wild boar having been captured

lands, the
upon the
lands of Caskieben and others

stons, in
came
John-
name
!
of
Kinmuck was
conferred upon
whom
a baronetcy was created in 1626,

held by Sir
the district
muicli
But, since the GaeUc words Kinboar's head,"
which
ilk
title is
now
W.
Johnston of that
mean a "
it
and as the outline
and Hilton.
of certain parts of the lands suggest a resemblance
Dr Arthur Johnston, the celebrated scholar and Latin poet (uncle to the first baronet), was born at Caskieben in 1687, and died at Oxford in
1641.
to that object,
is
more
j^robable the
name had
originated from that circumstance.

It ought to be mentioned that the property of
His elegant verses,

i.
De
loco
mo
natali (Del.
Poet. Scot.,
601), are highly descriptive of the
Kinmuck was acquired by Sir Alexander Irvine of Drum, who, in 1629, mortified the rents of the
304
EPITAPHS,
AND INSCRIPTIONS.
in the south side of
pillars.
lands for the support of bursars at the University

of Aberdeen, the patronage being vested in his
the chancel,
it
had three
...
In the north side (opposite to the

it
successors in
Drum.
pillars), is
a place in the wall, wherein of old the
THE HAMLET OF KTNMUCK

is
host was preserved, with tliese inscriptions over

in
nearly half-way between the kirks of Keith-hall

It has
been long a chief seat of the Friends or Quakers, of whose history, in connection with
tlie
and Fintray.
est servatvm corpvs i)E VIRGINE NATVM.' Underneath is written OBiJT M. a. g.' (that is, Mr Alexander Galloway), 1528.' His name is also written a little
green stone
. : '
Hic
'
'
locality, interesting notices will
be
beneath the crucifix.

Avard,
...
side,
is
A
a
little
farther west-
found
in the
Diary
of Provost Jaffray of
Aberdeen,
on the same
little crucifix set in
and
in Barclay's
Apology
for the Quakers,
the wall,
made
also of a sort of green stone,
having
The meeting-house, which has been

larged,
is
recently en-
a neat place of worship.

is
Upon
the
opposite side of the road
a small but well-kept
on it. Here is also a very large Font. But this church is now so lamentably polluted and profaned," adds the writer, " that one
some other
figures
cemetery, with a few tombstones.
From
:
these
is
ashamed to write of
it."
the following inscriptions, which relate to a far-
The "
little
Kirktoun," at which the kirk was
mer family
at Lethanty, are copied
situated in 1724, has long ago disappeared;
and
James Glenny died 7 month 31st, 1804, aged 27 years. Elizabeth Glenny died 8 month 4th, 1854, aged 76 years. Elizabeth Glenny died 12 month
9th, 1823, aged 19 years.
the east end of the kirk

loose stones,
lions of
is filled
with rubbish and
among which
are bits of the old
the east window, &c.
muThe language
employed by the scribe of 1732, as to the place being " lamentably polluted and profaned," is
applicable to the present state of the ruins, as well
as to the burial-ground.
John Glenny
years
;
died 5 mouth 30th, 1844, aged 44 and Eliza Glenny died 12 mouth 26th,
Although the
died 10
peculiarities of this interesting old
Katharine Glenny
aged
65.
month
16th, 1863,
church have been often described, and the more

curious of
its
ornaments engraved
(v.
Archseol-
Scotica, vol.
iii.,
p. 10), the following brief notes
upon
here.
its
Of
present state may not be out of place the " great window" of 1732, the north
is all
g
(S.
side or lintel
i
that remains
and some of
is
Ii
<;
1 1.
the plaster
still
adheres to the north and east
MICHAEL, ARCHANGEL.)
of
walls of the church.

entire part
of
The north
;
wall
the most " three
the building
but the
BISHOP HENRY
LYCHTON,
its
in
1420,
erected the churchof Kinkel ("alias dictum-
plebaniam"), belonging, with
chapels, to the
1732 are gone. With the exception of some of the carvings upon the upper lintel, the awmbry appears to be in pretty much the same
lîllars" of
Knights of Jerusalem, into a prebend of the cathedral of Old Machar (Reg. Ep. Abd., ii. 253.)
state as it
was
in 1732.
is
The awmbry
flanked
by two
graceful scrolls,
legend,
The
church, of which
little
wall remains, appears to

structure.
more than the north have been an elegant
embellished with the above-mentioned
According Abd. and Banff, 571),

in the middle (for
1732 (Coll. "had, formerly, a turret a steeple), and a great window

to a writer of
it
. .
which appears to mean, " Here is preserved the Body born of the Virgin." It is carved in the contracted form represented below, and in ornamental
Roman
capitals
in the east end.
from
the rest of
was separated the church by a timber wall and

.
Its chancel
EST hic SVATV CORP' DE NATVM \Gl^

. .
. . .
KINKELL.
Below, and in the centre of the sill of the awmbry, a shield bears the Scotch lion, over which is the word
305
pened
in 1552, the joint offices of a professor in
King's College, Aberdeen, and rector of Kinkell.
MEORARE.
Upon
the right are the initials A.G.
on the
left
According to Dempster, he wrote a work (now lost) upon the natural history of the Hebrides, in which he gives an account of claik geese, and the
trees
ANO
DNI
1528.
In the same wall, a little to the westward of the awnibry, within a plain stone frame, is a fine
carving of
upon which they grow pavement slab, originally carved upon one
!
side only,
now
embellished on both sides, stands
Our Saviour upon

upon the arms
in a socket (lately
renewed) within the area of

incised effigy of a warrior in
the Cross, with the

of the calvary.
legend i>iRi
the old kirk.
The
winged angel, in the act of raising the host (?) kneels upon the left side of the cross, below which a ribbon, between four human heads,
bears
:
mail armour, with the hands in a devotional posture, covers the west face of the stone
;
and the
following remains of an inscription are round the
prs
satom
(?
preces sanctorum.}
Upon
is
margin
pjic
ffirie
.
iarft
.
the right of the crass stands a draped figure with
noliilis
airmtcjcr
. .
(Eilbevtijs
.
tit
.
nimbus below
The
(at
the foot of the cross),
the
anno
is
om
cccc
if.
fragment of a smaller figure, apparently seated.

calvary, or cross,
is
A shield
efiigy.
upon each
shield
is
side of the helmet of the

is
raised
upon three
initials
steps,
One
blank, the other
charged
in front of
which
is
a chalice, also the remains of
with a chevron, between two water budgets in

chief, and a hunting horn in base. The same arms are upon the breast of the figure and as these
;
some other object. Below are the and incised upon the frame
A.G.
ANO
1525.
(with the bugle possibly for a difference) are the

armorials of the
The
initials so often
repeated refer, as before
Griênlaw
family, the
tomb
shown, to
Alexander Galloway, who was

whom,
as the above in-
probably relates to a person of that name, and
parson of Kinkell, and of
one who
may have been

in
a relative of the contem-
scriptions imply, the church itself
had been
in-
porary bishop of Aberdeen, laws of that Ilk,
who was
of the
It
Greenis
tended to be a memorial.
that of 1528 to the time
The
it
earliest date, 1525,
Berwickshire.
also
possibly refers to the year the
work was begun,

finished.
probable that the person commemorated was one

of those noble preservers of the liberties
was
and inde-
Besides building the kirk of Kinkell,
Mr
Gallo-
pendence of Scotland who
fell
at Harlaw, since
way, as early as 1505, bought two acres of land for a manse and glebe to the chaplains at Colliehill, in Bourtie, which he presented to that church
(v. p. 132).
the date ujaon the stone corresponds with the year
This tomb has in which that battle was fought. been long and erroneously described as that of
He
also gifted costly
ornaments to
Scrimgeour
brated,
of
Dudhope,
whose fate
others,
in
is
cele-
the cathedral of Old Machar, and some property

at Fittie.
along with
many
the well-
For the last-mentioned donation he

for the souls of his father
requested prayers to be said upon the 7th of
known ballad of the Battle of Harlaw. Upon the reverse, and round the margin
Greenlaw's tombstone
pjtc
t'aeet
:
of
March annually
mother,
and
William Galloway and Marjory
bonorc
tllustn's et sancta
IJ'
morum
ptctate
Mortimer.
ornat' .foancs JForbcs
Slrtimurti'
rj'
rognots f}aerfs
obiit.
Mr
Galloway's liberality to the church, as well
4 qui anno
trtatis sua:
66
tulit
A.D. 1592
as his devout piety and learning, are recorded in
[Here
lies,
bright with honor, and adorned with
the obituary of the Franciscan Convent of Aber-
deen, and in the Register of the Cathedral, &c.
He
held, at the time of his death,
which hap-
character, John Forbes of Ardmurdo, fourth successor of his name (?), who died 8th July 1592, in the 66th year of his age.],
saintly piety of
QQ
306
EPITAPHS,
AND INSCRIPTIONS:
Theinston,
The Forbes arms
(with a hawk's head between
who
depairted this
life
March
23, 1785,
the three boars' heads) are boldly incised upon the
aged 75
1832 Erected by Jas. Moir, mail guard in Aberdeen, in memory of his father, who departed
:
upper part of the slab

21) in
below
is
the text (Phil.
i.
Greek
capitals.
" John Forbes of Ardmurdo (sa3's Lumsden), Graham, daughter of the Laird of married
this life the
2d Feby. 1829, aged 72 years :
Stop, stranger, stop, don't
walk along
Morphie, who did bear to him Mr Alex. Forbes, bishop of Abd. and John Forbes of Ardmurdo,"
Stop one moment and read
my
stone
And
The last-named
is
possibly the laird mentioned in
the above inscription.
wife was a daughter of
Lumsden tells us that his John Forbes of Towie, to
you read the end of me. Be sure for Death prepared to be Death did to me short warning give
as
;
Be mindful,
therefore,
how
to live.
which property she had probably succeeded, after " ye houss of Towie failled," which appears to
have been sometime before 1598. William Forbes of Towie had a confirmation charter of the lands of Ardmurthach from John Name of Cromdale,
1500-1.
the kirk
:
Three table shaped stones belong to the next mentioned family. The oldest (embellished with mortuary emblems) bears
:
Here
lies
Thomas
;
Tait, elder, sometime farmer
in Mill of Thainstone,
who
died Feby. 8th, 1759,
From
flat slab,
south of the ruins of
aged 80 years
and
also his spouse
Anna Moir :
Now
And
slain
by Death who spareth none,

low under this stone,
Heir lys under the hope of a ioyful resureotion K King, sometyme in Kiukel, who departed this Ij'f the 2 of Febrie 1658, and AIargrat Sime,
lies full
his spous,
who deperted
the 28 of luly.
:
Eotting in dark and silent dust, Prepare for death, for die thou must, Life is uncertain Death is sure.
Sin
is
At
south gable of church
the
wound Christ
is
the cure.
Tait, Esq.
,
Hie jacent
ecctiae
Mr Ioannes
Gellie, quondam pastor

4,
Sacred to the;;,memory of
John
late
de Kinkell, qui obiit Aug.
1683;
& Maria
:
cooper, Savannah-la-Mar,' Jamaica,
who
died at
Iaffray
eius uxor, quje obiit Feb. 4, 1705.
Aberdeen, the 30th July 1818, in the 60th year of

of his,_father Thomas Tait, in Mill who died 1782, aged 60 and of his mother, Margaret Cruckshank, who died in
[Here lie the church
Mr Johx
Gellie, sometime minister of
his age.
Also
of Kinkell,
Mary
JjVffray, his
(in
who died 4 Aug. 1683 and wife, who died 4 Feb. 1705.]
;
:
of Thainston,
July, 1818, aged 96.
A slab
the east gable of the ruins) bears
The
Geo.
1712,
third
INIill
monument shows
that
William
Elspet
Jacet hie sepulta Dna Maria Gordon, Skene, pastoris, uxor, que obiit Aug.
a;tatis 32.
M"
1,
Tait
at
of Thainston, afterwards at Crichie,
died in 1823, aged 70, and that his widow,
Mr
[Here lies interred Dame Mary Gordon, wife of George Skene, minister, who died 1st Aug. 1712, aged 32.]
Smith, diedîu^l843, aged 83. The same family still tenant the farm of Crichie, and also carry ou the business of paper making.
Here
lies
the body of
Upon
flat
stone on south side of gate
farmer in Ardmurdo,
89 years.
their. sons,
William Smith, sometime who died June 17, 1772, aged

Margt. Smith
;
Here lies the body of John Walker, sometime farmer in Ardmurdo, who died April 17, 1750, aged 63 years; and his two wives, viz., MarOxARET
And
;
also his spouse
Smith and Anna Walker as also his 2 children, Margaret and Barbara Walkers! Done by ye Mors janua vitie. care of Janet Ciue, his relick.
;
John, late in Tofthills, who died in 1804, aged 84 and of James, late in Ordifold, who died in 1809, aged 83 : Now slain by death, &c.
Au adjoining gravestone shows that one
of the
Here
lies
John Emslie, sometime
gairdinor at
above family, William, in Tofthills, died in 1823,
EDZELL.
aged
68,
307
and that
his spouse,
Nicolas
Mack ay,
ward
Balbithan. a turreted old mansion to the eastof the kirk, is surrounded by venerable trees.
estate belonged to a family
least the
Some
years ago the burial ground at Kinkell

south.
The
named Chalmers,
6th, to
was extended towards the

scription
is
The next
:
in-
from at
"
middle of the
about the
from a monument
in that locality
close of the 17th century,
one of whom, John,
In memory of Peter-James, infant son of Captn. W. Lanore Hawker, and grandson of Lt. -Col. Peter Hawker of Longparish House, Hants, who,
P.
like a spring flower,
gudeman
of Balbithan," slew
Alexander Keith
of the effects of
(possibly
of Ochorsk (Auquhorsk) at Aberdeen, in 1584,
The testament and inventory

David Chalmers,
John's father),
laird
March
1852, at
was cut down on the 18th the early age of 1 year and 8 months.
of
Balbithan,
who
died in 1580 (Ant. Abd. and
Banff, iii. 425), presents some curious items which ought to interest both lairds and tenants of modern
Being, as before shown, an ancient plebanian

church, Kinkell had a
times.
number
of
dependent kirks.
These were Monkeigie, Kintore, Drumblade, Dyce, Kinellar, and Kemnay. All were served by vicars under the parson of Kinkell, who, as one of the chapter of the cathedral, had his
residence at Aberdeen.
The Chalmers' were succeeded in Balbithan by James Balfour, an Edinburgh merchant. It now
belongs to the Earl of Kintore, by
perty was bought from
whom
the pro-
Mr
Abernethie- Gordon,
aisle at Kinkell.
whose remains
lie
within an
Mr
A. -Gordon, who
left
an only daughter, was a per;
Apart from
Mr
Galloway, some of the rectors

of note in their day.
son of great corpulency
of Kinkell were
men
On
I.
to the grave, the weight of his
and while being carried body broke the

ground, luckily,
a tablet within
4th July 1296, Peter de Charapayne, parson of

the kirk of KinkeU, did
spokes,
and the
coffin fell to the
homage
to
Edward
of
at
without sustaining injury.

the Balbithan aisle
:
Upon
Forfar
but, although probable,
it is
not quite so
certain whether
Champayne was parson
Kin-
kell in the Garioch, or of
Kinkell in Strathearn,
as that the
same king, on 15th August 1298, gave

then vacant kirk
Sacred to the memory of Benjamin AbernethieGoRDON, Esquire, the last Heir of Entail of BaU bithan. Born 22d May 1782, died at Strand Villa,
a
of
of
letter of presentation to the
Eyde,
Isle of
Wight, 4th February 1864.
Kinkell in Aberdeenshire, to John Bousche
sons were
London (Prynne, 791.) Among the later parJames Ogilvie, a son of Ogilvie of Boyne, who became Abbot of Dryburgh and
;
Alexander Anderson, the last Roman Catholic principal of King's College, was previously designed vicar of Kinkell.
Kinkell has long been, and
still is,
the seat of
Ilff
j>
an important market, named after the titular saint, whose " well" is in the neighbourhood of When Geo. Forbes was served the church-yard.
heir to his father,
(?S. LAURENCE.) HE kirk of Adel was a rectory in the diocese of

St Andrews, and the district appears to have
Dr John Forbes
of Corse (1649),
among
the lands and property enumerated, were
been a place of early ecclesiastical importance. Besides having its " Abbe," or Abbot, it was the site of one of those sculptured stones, with
to
the kirklands of the Kirktoun of Kinkell, also the
"ane frie fair called Michael-fair," which was held upon the kirklands of the same yearly. A ferry-boat has long plied upon the Don, opliberty of
and other carvings, which are believed This Pictish and Celtic times. interesting object, of which all trace had been
interlaced
belong to
posite to the old kirk.
was brought to light in 1870, when the old dykes of the kirk -yard were being renewed.
lost,
308
EPITAPHS,
AND INSCRIPTIONS.
the initials A.
letters
:
Whether Edzell had been

old times, like
a seat of learning in
L W.
also these
words and
or
title of
some other places where the name " Abbe" existed, and whore sculptured
is difficult
stones have been found,
to say
nor
VMINE
VITA CHRISTVS
IN
. .
TVO
LVMEN .V
is
there any
way
in accounting for the
name
ET
IN
of S.
Laurenck
unless,
being associated with the locaUty,

p.
HC
ER
.
lOANES
when at Laurencekirk {v. Primate may have visited Edzell.

however, that the old
bell,
288), that
It is certain,
GERMANVS .0 ORIS ERGO POSVI

. .
or skellach, which was
RS
lANVA
iu existence within the recollection of old inhabit-
ants,
was
called "
The
Bell of St Laurence,"
and
The family
burial vault (below the aisle), is

It has a groined freeis
a
of
spring, near
the
kirk-yard,
bore the
name
reached by a few steps.

four skulls carved in
"St
Laurence's Well."
Dr
Stuart seems to
stone roof, and the keystone

relief.
ornamented by
is
think (Book of Deer, p. iv.) that the kirk of Edzell, like that of Newdosk, was dedicated to
S.
There
a square
niche in the west wall of the vault, which
had
;
Drostan.
possibly been intended for an inscribed tablet
Down
to the year 1818,
when
the present place
of worship
was erected
at the village of Slateford,
but the fragments above referred to, bear the only visible record of the Lindsays at the church
of Edzell.
the church stood within the burial-ground, which

occupies a slight emiuence,
on the north bank of the West Water, about a mile north-west from The bell, which so long octhe present church.
cupied the belfry at the old kirk (now in the
session -house) appears
The
first
Lindsay
of Edzell
was
Sir
Alex-
ANDER, a lineal descendant of Walter of Lindsay, an Anglo-Norman, who came to Scotland about
1116.
Edzell, Sir Alexander acquired the lordships of
to
have been an
article
Lethnot,
and
Glenesk,
by marrying
of local
manufacture at
:
least it bears this in-
scription
TUE
PARISH OF EDZELL. THOMSON MINR. lAMES SCLAT FORD BY lOHN EASTON
.
. .
Katherine, a daughter and co-heiress of Sir John Sir Alexander's eldest son succeeded of Stirling.
to his mother's patrimony
;
and
in 1397, on the
MR
MADE AT
. .
death of his uncle, Sir James Lindsay of Craw.
1726.
ford, he
became
chief of his family,
and
II.,
heir to
The
bell
upon the kirk at Edzell bears

BARCLAY, MONTROSE, 1819.
the Lindsay estates in Clydesdale, &c.

ried Elizabeth, daughter of
He marand was
Robert
D.
created Earl of Crawford, 21st April 1398.
From the slender traces of a window lintel still remaining, the old kirk appears to have been in
It was composed of a nave and south aisle and the aisle, separated from the nave by a graceful
The
a
title
fifth Earl was created Duke of Montrose, which none of.his successors appear to have
;
the Early English style of architecture.

;
assumed
and when
it
was claimed by the
lato
Earl of Crawford, the House;; of Lords gave an adverse decision, owing to some real or supposed
restriction in the patent.
arch,
was the family seat or pew
of the lairds of
Edzell.
An awmbry
is
(about 13 by 30 inches),
is
at
with circular moulding,
built into the south wall
His lordship, who died Dunecht House, 15th Dec. 1869, aged 86, was He was succeeded Premier Peer of Scotland.
and there
a recess below the east window,
by
'
possibly for an eflSgy.
A broken octagonal-shaped font, about 20 inches

in
diameter,
of
rude
;
Avorkmanship,
is
pre-
served within the aisle

stone,
also fragments of a
tomb-
Lord Lindsay, author of the and other interesting and valuable works. 'I'he present Lord Lindsay, though young, is^ a [student of the science of astronomy, and was one of those who went to
his eldest son,
Lives of the Lindsays,"
bearing the Lindsay arms,
much
defaced,
Spain to witness the great solar eclipse in 1870.
EDZELL.
It
309
THAT
was shortly before the breaking out
of the
TO
GOD
.
Rebellion of 1715 that the last Lindsay of Edzell
VHOS
HEIL
.
parted with his paternal estates.

to the Earl of
He
sold
them
EVER PARDON
.
ND
.
.
IVST
.
Panmure, by
Buildings'
whom
they were soon
MANKYND
the
THOSE THAT HATH. NO REPOS

.
ON HIM BVT ON
.
.
TRVST
afterwards forfeited.
of the
After being in the hands
Company, the property was bought back about 1764, by William, the last Earl of Panmure, from whom, by entail, it came to the Earl of Dalhousie. A flat stone, in the kirk yard, with initials and monogram, &c., is thus inscribed
:
York
Another slab, near the one last mentioned, bears names of Andrew Lamie and Elspet Anderson, with the date of 1675. Upon a small
headstone
:
Hier lyes Thomas Don, who died in the year 1672, and Agnes Stevard his spouse, who died in the year 1686, and Elizabeth ther daughter who
died in the year of
God
1661.
flat
Here lyes James Duray, son to John Duray of that Ilk, who departed this life February 13, 1743, agd 36 Remember, man, as you pass by, That grave stone under which I ly, Read, and remember what I tell, That in the cold grave thou must dwell,
:
Round
which
is
the margin of a
v\ith
stone (the face of
The worms
Till the last
to be your companie,
embellished
is
carvings of articles used

:
trumpet
set
you
free.
by waulkmillers),
Heir
rests in the
the following
The above
relates to a family
who
are said to
Lord Alexander Walker indualler in Uackmiln of Corstonns, uho departed this life the 12 of and 670, and his age 90 his spovs IsoBEL Burn, uho departed this life 17 of Febuar 1679, and hir age 68 year. Here rests in the Lord Alexander Walker, indualler in Caepo, uho departed this life the 10 day of Februar .... his age 69 and his spous Iannet Balfouer, uho departet this life the 14 of Febrare 1692, hir
.
. .
have been heritable doomsters or dempsters to the old lairds of Edzell. Along with that office, it is added, they had a grant of the lands of Durayhill, from which they assumed the designation " of
that Ilk."
Round
Ifsr
the edges of an elaborately ornamented
stone, with
monogram, &c.
Hier lyes Iames Belly,
who
departed this
life
the 20 of Avgvst 1711
His spovse Isobal
age 57 years.
Stevrd.
:
Upon
a headstone
Remember man,
as ye go by, &c.
:
This monument was erected by John Bishop, tenant in Slateford, in memory of his spouse Janet
Upon
a plain headstone
Jean Jolly,
[&c.]
Duncan, who departed

aged 53
:
this life
August 6th, 1747,
Erected to the
tenant in
memory of David Low, late Meikle Tullo, who died 25th May 1852,
Also
of his spouse
Reader, cease thy pace and stay, Harken unto what we say ;
aged 78 years.
who
died 15th
March
As you are such once were we As we are such shall you be. Then provide whilst time you have. To come Godly unto your grave.
;
The above-named David Low was

renter and occupant of his
the last life-
name
in
Meikle Tullo
under-
possession which his ancestors held from a
pretty early period, as appears by the
The
a
flat
following traces of an inscription are upon

stone,
quoted copy of a
family.
It
is
lease, still
in possession of the
which
is
said to have covered the

{v.
in the
handwriting of the penul-
grave of Major "Wood

p. 14),
Land
THIS
.
of the Lindsays,
aisle
:
timate Lindsay, kiird of Edzell, and
on the south side of the Lindsay
BENEATH
. .
. .
.
STON
is a good example of the simple narration of fact and contract which existed at the period
:
MAN lAMES DONALDSON MORTAL MAN SOVN LO LAID

.
" J david Lyndesay of Edzell Binds and oblidges me my airs exrs and successors qUiomever, that
310
EPITAPHS,
in
AND INSCRIPTIONS
lia
Jolin
Low and James Low
mickl Tullo, shall
survived their mother, and Iohn, Iames, and
peacablie possess and Bruick ther possessiuu ther

for the space of five years nixt to com, they alwayes
another Cecelia died before her.
Upon
This
memory
of
paying ther yearlie duties mys as formerlie, usd & wontd in witt. wherof, J have subscrived this,
:
monument
is
erected to the
my
jm
obligatione, at
Edzell,
the sixt day of

'
Junn
vie nyntie six years.

'
D. Lyndesay.
jlk on of
" Notta that within ther taks to pay a wedder sheep."
them ar
John and James Low, who were
both in Meikle
Wardhouse, who died on 13th January 1792, aged 75; and of Jean Michie, his spouse, who departed this life on 13th July As also of their children, 1795, aged 63 years. Margaret, Elizabeth, Jean, Betty, Sophia, and James, the latter of whom is interred in the vault of the Church of St Martin's, Loudon,
James Duncan,
late of
Tullo in 1729, were, like almost every tenant in

the district, found to be in arrears of rent to the
These were the parents, sisters, and brother of Jonathan Duncan, sometime Governor of the
Presidency of Bombay.
in
of
York Buildings' Co. but they were many of their neighbours, that
;
so far ahead
it
is
He was
born at Blairno,
{v.
stated,
Navar, where
his father
was farmer
p.297.)
they "
may pay
all,"
if
allowed crop of 1715.
Probably the Rev. Georgk Low, of Birsay and Ilarray, was of this race. He was one of the most accomplished naturalists of his day, and was born
at Edzell, where his father
Wardhouse is a small property near Montrose, which Governor Duncan bought as a residence for
his parents.
Upon
a freestone
monument
was kirk
of
Sacred to the
officer
(v.
chant in
a chestspouse,
Land of the Lindsays.) Upon the only remaining panel shaped monument
:
memory of George Cooper, merSlateford, who died 29th Nov. 1831, aged
Also of Jane Lindsay, his
died 19fch April 1841, aged 90 years.
82 years, 4 months.
who
Mr Cooper
to Edzell
acquired a large fortune as a merleft
But yet the weight of flesh and blood, Doth soe her flight restraiue, That oft I prease, but doth small good, I rise and fall again.
chant in the village of Slateford, and
num-
ber of legacies for educational and other purposes,
and some adjoining
parishes.
To the memory of the ReV^ Andrew Hutton, who died on the 5th May 1842, after having faithfully discharged the duties of parochial minister of
headstone bears
in
Edzell for 53 years, and

yet speaketh."
by
his piety
and benevobeing dead,
This monument was erected h\ David Bruce, in memory of his father Iames Bruce, 1749. Here
lies
lence endeared himself to
all.
"He
Iames Bruce, sometime tenent
Westsyde
of
Edzell,
who departed
;
this life Julie 28, 1738,
aged
Upon a monument
Sacred to
tenant.
in the area of the old kirk
72 years
infancy.
and Iames Bruce,

[&c.]
his son,
who
&c.
died in
Intomb'd we with our fathers
lie,
aged 67
17th
memory of Thomas Wyllie, Mains of Edzell, who died 21st j\Iay 1795, and Isobel Black, his spouse, who died
the
;
From
a plain headstone
of his -wife
May
is
This stone was erected by lohn Fitohet, tennant

in Blackymill, in
The monument
tion
from which the above inscrip-
memory
Margaret
quoted, also bears that
Wm. Wyllie
and
(son
Valentine, who died the 19th of June 1775, in the 60th year of her age. She had by her first husband William Tindal, tennant also in Blackymill, three children, Anne, David, and Isabel Tindals, who and by the said John survived their mother Fitchet, six, of whom Martha, Margaret, and Ceci;
of the above) died in 1829, aged 58,
his wife,
Ann Mitchell in 183G, aged 61. The monument was erected by James Wyllik, son of the
last-named,
who
died in
1858,
aged G5.
Mr
Wyllie was
life-renter,
and the
last of his race that
tenanted Mains of Edzell.
NEWDOSK.
The
chief objects of interest in the parish are
311
the ruins of the Castle of Edzell, the history of
which and
its
old proprietors have been admirably-
told in the Lives of the Lindsays.
And,
as the
antiquarian peculiarities of the parishes of Edzell
the Countie paid a 100 pound, and the remander was raised by subscription. The undertakers was John ilolison of Ballichie, Provest of Brichine David AUardice, of Memus, Baillie in Brichine ; John Spence of Bodwarts, Commisar in Brichme
;
;
and Newdosk, are detailed

omitted in this place.
in the
Land
of the
Lindsays, notices of those points are purposely
George Erskine in Westside ; Thomas Wyllie in Mains ; David Christison in Carneskorn, tennants in Edzel ; and George Fairwather, tennant in
Smidiehill.
Anno Dominie
1771.
It need only be here said that the ruins of Edzell
Castle are the most extensive and imposing in
Before this
joining,
bridge was built, there was one of

often swept
Angus
and
that, along
with the unique stone

visited
carvings which adorn the garden walls, few places

in Scotland are
wood for foot passengers, which was away by the stream also a boat at
;
a place ad-
more worthy of being
by
called Trailsouud.
" Bodwarts," menis
"
tioned in the above inscription,

Cairiihank, a small estate
lovers of the past."
now
called
The
ruins are about a mile west from the village

;
near Brechin.
The
other places have
still
of Edzell
and the Gannochy Bridge, with

is
the same names.
its
AVith the exception of the
romantic scenery,
north.
about a like distance to the
Newdosk
is
or Balfour
This bridge, which crosses the North Esk,

built at the cost of
portion of Edzell, which belongs to Sir
was
Gladstone, the rest of the parish

Dalhousie.
first
James Black
1732
;
Thomas owned by Lord
(v. p.
295), farmer of
Wood
of Edzell, in
and in
was widened at the expense of the adAbout two miles further north, upon the Glenesk road, a bridge crosses the burn at AuchmuU, near to the site of an old castle. A tablet upon the south side of the bridge
1795
it
joining proprietors.
preserves this account of
its
building
The Village of Edzell (of old Slateand a Burgh of Barony), has lately much increased in size and importance. The soil being dry, and the air salubrious, it has become a favourite resort for summer visitors. The Established and Free Churches are at the village. It contains a reading room, a bank office, and good inns, and the streets and houses are lighted by gas.
ford,
1820
of
by the Honourable William Matjle Panmure, M.P., and Joh:^ Shand of The Burn,
:
Built
Esq.
Air
Shand having
contributed to the Bridge
as a mark of his Friendship for his Neighbours in the Waterside
and road one Hundred Guineas, and Glenesk.

Q.D.B.
;
J.
A. .Edif.
(S.
The Hon. Mr Alaule, created Lord Panmure in

1881, was father of the present Earl of Dalhousie.
DPvOSTAN, ABBOT.)
Neudos, like that of Edzell, was a
refill E kirk of
a*B
who belonged to about Fochabers, made money in Demarara, and bought the Burn
Shand,
:^
Mr
rectory belonging to St Andrews, and a place
of early ecclesiastical imjôrtance.
The
district,
and Arnhall,
which he was succeeded by his brother William, from whose creditors Colonel MTaroy, the present laird, purchased these
in
which was a thanedom,

Mearns.
is
locally situated in the
Along with the
kirk,
the parish was
annexed, in whole or inpart, to that of Edzell,
They belonged at one time to Lord Gordon, afterwards to Mr Brodie, whose daughter became Duchess of Gordon [v. p. 252.)
estates.
some time before the year 1662.
Adam
A spring to
by the name
font,
the east of the kirkyard

of S.
is
known
Drostan
and a baptismal
substantial bridge of three arches crosses the
West Water on
the road to Brechin.

:
in the north wall bears this inscription
tablet
broken in two, lies within the burial-ground, where the foundations

of the
of a very early type,
church about
7 paces wide,
by 20 long-
This Bridge was built by Publick Contrabution,
are
still visible.
313
EPITAPHS,
uuornamented
AND INSCRIPTIONS.
hes bene of mair stature
dressed, but
slab of soft red-
and quantite than ony

a knoll in
sandstone, about 5 feet high, stands near the east
end of the
site of
the kirk, and three venerable
men ar presently in our days." The old kirk referred to stood upon
church.
ash trees are upon the south of the cemetery.
the Links of Cruden, to the east of the present
Interments are
still
made
at
Newdosk, where
headstone, pro:
The
site is still
;
pointed out, also some
there are a few tombstones.
" grave-shaped" mounds

building remains.
but no trace of the
fusely ornamented, bears this inscription
slab of blue lime-stone, or
" Zona marble,"
lies at
the
new
kirk.
It presents
Here
lyes the corps of
Margaret Dury, some-
hollows or grooves for brasses and supports for

lamps.
time spous to William
Adam, tennant
She departed
years.
this
life
in Achmol. sometime in March 1735
Such tombs were commonly placed near

Story says that a
in battle
Also here lyes the corps of Margaret DuNCON, second wife to William Adam. She was born the first of January, and departed this life the 34th year of her age, year of God 1740.
the high altars of churches.
Prince or King of Denmark,

at Cruden,
who was slain
The
following, from the oldest of
two adjoining
died in 1871,
headstones, relates to an ancestor of Alex. Gold,
tenant of Hillock of Edzell,
who
was buried below this stone in the ancient kirk of S. Olaus, and after the destruction of that edifice the slab was removed to its present In speaking of the patron of Cruden, Arthur site. King, who gives 30 March as his celebration day, calls him " S. Ole, king of Norwege, and martyr
under Henrie ye crowkit."
According to
aged 89
:
lyes Lsobel
"An
Here
negie in
Gold, spous to Robert CarPitiiemon, who departed this life Septem-
Almanack and
" S.
New
Prognostication" for 1706,
Olks
first
Fair at Cruden, in Buchan," was held
ber 30, 1741, being the 31st year of her age, liweing
on the
Tuesday
of April.
tells
behend her a son that she and her husband hade betuixt them, Alexander Carnegie, his age 2 years.
The Chronicler
efter,
also
us that on
tlie
de-
struction of the old house, " ane kirk was biggit
with mair magnificence, in ane othir place,
mair ganand."
aisle at that
The
Earls of Errol had a burial
church, in which
of Brechin,
Dr James DrumBeing
MOND, Bishop
(^ X
(S.
was buried.
deprived at the Revolution, he retired to Slains
w tU n
OLAUS, KING
AND MAETYE.)
Castle, where he lived with the Earl of Errol, and died in 1695. Contemporary with Bishop Drummond was the
EOETHIUS
battle having been fought at
and other chroniclers aver that a Crudeu between
Rev.
the
translated
cities
John Barclay, parson of Cruden, who Dr Arthur Johnston's Epigrams upon

and principal burghs
of Scotland,
the Danes and Scots in IMalcolm III.'s time, in which the latter were victorious, Malcolm " biggit
and
ane kirk," which he " dedicat in honour of Olavus,

patron of Norroway and Denmark, to be ane
memoriall, that sindry noblis of Danis wer sum-
who also wrote a curious Description of the Roman Catholic Church (1689). Barclay had
possibly been buried within the church of
Cruden
its
but of this there
is
no monumental evidence.
time buryit in the said kirk
The kirk
The
kirk of Invercroudan, or Crudan. with
that was biggit to this effect, as oftimes occurris
pertinents, were confirmed to the See of
Aberdeen
in thay partis, was ouircassin be violent blast of

sandis.
Sindry of thair bonis war sene be us, schort time afore the making of this buke, mair like giandis than common stature of men
. .
. :
by Pope Adrian, in 1157, of which cathedral Cruden was a prebend in 1256. The present kirk, erected in 1777, was much enlarged and improved about 1834. In the
passage,
throw quhilkj apperis, that men, in auld times,
near the south door, a slab, initialed
CRUDEN-.
P.
313
C M.
:
C. (with shield in centre bearing moris
March
on the
1664,
tuary emblems)
thus inscribed
and completed it the following day of the month of ]
year,
Heir
lyes
waiting for a blessed resvrrection,

in
Upon a second
stables
:
tablet, over the entrance to the
Patrick Crvikshank, lawier

parted 22 Ivly 1656.
Abdn. who de-
He
that believeth in
leive 11 of
me
thovgh he wer dead yet shal he

2
V.
John
Built 1664 by Gilbert XL Earl of Erroll, Great Constable of Scotland, and rebuilt 1836 and 1837,
in the reign of
shall be satisfied
when
awak with thy

related to
WdUam the
IV. byWiLLM.-GEORGE,
,
likness 17 Psal. 15 v.
XVII. Earl
in Ardiffrie, notary public,
of Erroll,
Great Constable, and Knight
Possibly the " lawier in Abdn," was

Gawine Cruickshank
Marischal of Scotland.
The 17th
Earl married
Lady
Eliz.
Fitzclarence
town and lands of Easter Auchleuchries from John Gordon and his wife Marie Ogilvie, 1637; and who, in 1652, had a wadset of the same property from Gordon and his wife, redeemable upon the payment of 5500 merks
of the
who received seisin
(a sLster of the Earl of Munster),
by whom he
of the daughters
had the present Peer, and three daughters. Two became respectively the Countesses of Gainsborough and Fife.
(Diary of Gen. P. Gordon.)
A granite monument
bears
:
(enclosed) near west
dyke
Within a vault in the south-east corner of the kirk-yard of Cruden, shaded by an old spreading elm, lie the remains of a young English lady
of quality,
In memory of the Lady Florence-Alice Hay, infant daughter of the Earl and Countess of ErroU
born
31.
unfair means,
who, according to one story, died by and to another of a broken heart.

the same place,
Not
far
from
upon a
neatly
the
May
28th, 1858, died

3. 17.)
May
15th, 1859.
(Jer.
carved slab of about 2^ by 1^ feet in

following
:
size, is
3; Mai.
The Earl of
Errol,
who married Eliza-Amelia,

As Hays were
daughter of the Hon. General Sir Charles Gore,

succeeded his father as 18th Earl in 1846.
before observed (v. pp. 42, 172), the
first settled in
Heir under lies waiting for a blessed resurrection, Alexb. Anderson, who dept. this lyf the 7 of Oct.
1681.
I
am
the resurrection
:
&
the
lyf,
&c.
Adjoining the west wall
in
their old residence of Slains Castle
Buchan by Robert the Bruce, and was destroyed

Soon
after the latter event,
Here lyes John Rob, who died

72 years.
Wards
of
by James VI., in consequence of the Earl's adherence to Popery.
Cruden, upon the 19 Sept. 1702, and of his age the
a castle was erected within the parish of Cruden,
Upon
Under
flat slab,
within an enclosure on the

:
upon the promontory of Bowness, a singularly romantic site, overhanging the sea. It was this castle, added to and improved, which Dr Samuel
Johusou visited when on his tour to the Hebrides, and of which, and the neighbouring scenery of the Bullers of Buchan, as well as of his kind reA ception by Lord ErroU, he speaks so highly.
slab, facing the old piazza at Slains Castle, bears
south side of burial-ground
Charles
life
this stone lies the remains of

of Auchleuchries,
Gordon
who
departed this
the 9th of June 1777, aged 73 years.
The
Gordon
above-named was a descendant of Alex. in Sandend, who bought the lands of
Auchleuchries from Patrick, grandson of General
this inscription
GiLBEETUS
die Martii,
Errolliae
Constabulariiis, huius operis
Comes, Domin' Hay, Scotiai fundameutum quinde

1664,
fecit
anno Dom.
et
die
So far as known " Gordon in Gordon, in 172G. Sandend" was in no way related to the previous Gordons of Auchleuchries. The most celebrated of the old set of Gordons (who held Auchleuchries from about 1489) was
General Patrick Gordon, who obtained high
mensis anni seqnentis perfecit. [Gilbert, Earl of Erroll, Lord Hay, Constable of
Scotland, laid the foundation of this edifice, 15th
rank in the army, and favour at the Court of

Peter the Great.
The
Czar,
who frequently visited
RR
314
EPITAPHS,
AND INSCRIPTIONS:
Our Lord, MDCCLVIII, and in the LXXlld year of his age. And the remains of IsoBEL Barron, his spouse, who died the XXIId day of Dec. in the year of God MDCCLXII, and of her age the LXXVIIth. &c.
of Sept. in the year of
the General during his last illness, was

bedside
;
by his when he died and, as beautifully remarked by Dr Joseph Robertson, the learned editor of the General's Diary, " the eyes of him who had left Scotland a poor unbefriended wanderer,
were closed by the hands of an Emperor." In a vault, before the high altar of the first-
The next
posed (as
epitaph, which
is
upon a
flat
slab in
the kirkyard, with the face downwards, was com-
erected
Avhich
Roman
was
Catholic chapel at Moscow, and
Mr Ranken
of St Drostan's Episcopal
chiefly reared
by General Gordon's
Church, Deer,
kindly informs
me, upon
the
munificence, his body was laid with great
pomp
authority of the late
Dean Gumming,
the author's
and honour,
dignitaries
in presence of the Czar,
and other
inscription
:
grandson), by the Rev.
Mr
Skinner of Longside,
:
of
the
Empire.
This
author of Tullochgorm, &c.

S.
(Diary, p. 193), marks the General's tomb

"Sacrse Tzareaj Majestatis
Militice
M.
of the
Rev.
Mr Alexander
Keith, whose
all
Generalis,
probity of heart, sanctity of manners, easiness of

conversation, and unwearied attention to
duties of his office as a minister of the
Patricids-Leopoldus Gordon. Natus anno Domini 1635, die 31 Martii. Denatus anno Domini Requiescat in pace." 1699, die 29 Novembris.
of
the
Church of Scotland, under the many trying events of 8 and

life
[Patrick-Leopold Gordon, General in the Army His Sacred Majesty the Czar. Born 31st March 1635. Died 29th Nov. 1699. May he rest in
It was General Patrick Gordon's son-in-law, Alexander Gordon (the son of a merchant in Aberdeen), who saw much active service in Russia, and rose to the rank of Major- General, that wrote a History of Peter the Great, and died
40 years, rendered his

lamentable, and his
27, 1763,
valuable,
precious.
his
death
memory
Ob. Oct.
peace. ]
ffit. 68 : Ultime ScotoruminCrudenauis, Kethe, Sacerdos, Fratribus et plebi din memorande, vale.
Posuit uniei nati pietas.

[Priest
Keith, farewell
Last of the Scots,

;
Who
Long
taught in Cruden's vale

much-felt loss bewail.
will thy people
brethren all
Thy
The
morial.]
at Auchintoul, in
Marnoch
sp. to
(*'.
p. 235).
d. 1728,
piety of his only son has placed this me-
Christian Forbes,
a.
John Eamage,
39
:
mortal
When
man resigns
his transcient breath,

;
Aware
Club by
that the
name
of
The body only I give ore to death The part dissolv'd, and brokenframe I mourn, What came from earth, 1 see to earth return.
RoBT. Johnston, Midmiln,
d. 1745, a.
a.
associated with a
work
entitled a
" Al. Keith " was " View of the
Diocese of Aberdeen," edited for the Spalding
my much
felt
lamented friend
Dr Joseph
42
Anna
Robertson, I
anxious to
know
(particularly
Sutherland,
his wf. d. 1758,
54
Come shed
a tear, whoever passeth by,
For his unwisht for death ; Whose memory, For justice, mercy, honesty, and peace, Shal last till time, and death itself shal cease.
from being so largely indebted to that work in the compilation of notes upon the church-yards within the Diocese of Aberdeen), whether the
Parson
After
of
Cruden
and the author
of
that
valuable production could be identified.
The next inscription, from a table-shaped

relates to (u. Peterhead) the parents of the
stone,
much
unsuccessful correspondence, and
Right
personal inquiry in
Buchan
and
my
when
had
Rev. Bishop Kilgour
almost lost hopes of attaining
object
the
Here are deposited

tion,
in hopes of a
happy
resurrec-
the remains of
at
Robert Kilgour, sometime

of
Rev. Mr Ranken of St Drostan's, kindly transmitted the following valuable particulars regarding the old Priest of Cruden.
It will be seen
litster
Walk
of
Mill
Cruden, where, having
lived
upwards
LI
years, he died the
XXIIId day
from these that
Mr Ranken has
succeeded in iden-
CRUDEN.
tifying
315
Mr
:
Keith as the author of the work in
question
Aberdeen, He would, 1 have no doubt, deemed the information valuable. Slains Castle, the noble
'
"
am happy
to furnish
(writes Mr Ranken), in being able you with some particulars concerning Mr
Keith
probably
at.
aU that
can, at this distance of
proprietors of which clung to the disestablished and proscribed church, for many years, was one of the likeliest places to possess a copy of the manuscript,
time, be got
"On
referring to
one of
the
Spalding Club
volumes (' Collections on the Shires of Aberdeen and Banff,' toI. I.), I find the following in the Preface, p. xi. 'The View of the Diocese of Aberdeen', which takes the last place in the volume, is
'
although even their Jacobitism was at last tired out, to the Hanoverians, and got a qualified' English clergyman to Cruden, where, in course of time, Mr Keith would be quite
and they took the oaths

'
forgotten.
"As
to
Mr
printed from a manuscript in the Library of the
of the Rev.
Keith's parentage, he was the son George Keith, minister of Deer during
Faculty of Advocates at Edinburgh. This is the only copy of the work now known to exist, although another was extant about the middle of the last
century,
the latter years of the Episcopal Establishment, which the Prince of Orange put his heel upon.
among the MSS.
in the library of the Earl
of Errol at Slaines Castle, although traces of other

transcripts have been found,
much more
recently,
George Keith was in possession when the crash and through the local power of the Mari; schal, the head of his clan, and the Patron of the Parish, as well as from the esteem in which he was
Mr
came
in different quarters of the Diocese.
held by the Parishioners at large, he kept possession

until his death in 1711.
" Of the writer nothing
is
known beyond what

:
be conjectured, as to his name, from a note on one of the boards of the volume Al. Keith fint.
may
Deer,'
Then came the rabble of commemorated by Meston the poet, in which

'
'
and beyond what may be gathered, as to his calling, from the work itself. A perusal of its pages will leave no room for doubt that its author was a zealous presbyter of the Episcopal Church of Scotland and the persecutions which afflicted that communion, in his day, and
haec
MSS. Novr.
25.
1732
;'
the Presbyterian authorities were deforced in attempting to induct Mr Keith's successor ; and their being obliged to perform the ceremony in the neighbouring kirk of Longside.
" The following is the extract of Alex. Keith's Birth and Baptism, which shews that he was a boy
of 16 at his father's
death
during
many
following years, as they
may
help to
explain more than an occasional acerbity of expression, or peculiarity of phrase, into
which he
has been betrayed,

fallen
so,
perhaps,
they
may
suffi-
ciently account for the complete oblivion
which has
Geo. Keith minr. of Old Deer had a sone baptised by Mr David Sibbald minr. at New Deer, and named Alexander, & brought forth by Sophia Ros3 his wife upon the 22 of the sd. moneth. Godfathers Alexr. Gordon of Pitlurg, Alexr. Gordon in MUl of Aden, Alexr. Keith in Miltoun of Diirney, & Mr Alexr. Ross sometym Parson of Kathen,
-21,
"'May
1695,
FrHay. Mr
upon the learned and industrious compiler."
& Mr "
Alexr. Robertson the minister of Longsyd.
Witnesses
After giving a copy of the inscription, which
Mr
Pitfour, Captn. Binney,
&
Garal."
'
Ranken made about 1844, he continues, " I well remember standing at the side of the tombstone, along with my good old friend. Dean Cumming,
copying the inscription
the expression
'
Mr
Alex. Ross, the
exanctorated' Parson of
Ranken), was Mr George Keith's father-in-law, and seems to have lived after his
Rathen (adds
Mr
and on
Ultime Scotorum,^ he said,
my remarking on Ah
' !
ejection at the
manse
of Deer.
There
is
a tradition
that
Mr
Geo. Keith was Parson of Keithhall, near
you
little
know
the condition the church and the
Inverurie, before he
It
was translated
to Deer."
clergy were in in those dreadful days.

tinction, to all
Utter ex-
human
appearance, was coming upon
them
"
the clergy never expected to have suc'
need only be added that the above extract relating to the birth and baptism of Mr Keith is
a noticeable instance of the curious custom which prevailed in Scotland during Episcopal, and even
in later times, of having godfathers and godmothers present at baptisms, who bore the same Christian name as was conferred upon the child.
cessors.
I regret that I
never made
my friend and classof the
feUow, the late
Dr Joseph Robertson, aware

'
identity of the Parson of
Cruden with the Alex.
Keith, the author of the
View
of the Diocese of
316
EPITAPHS,
AND INSCRIPTIONS:
There are several tombstones to a blacksmith
family of tho surname of Smith.
Here lys interred the corps of Mr Gilbert Sterling, minister of the Gospel, and schoolmaster at Cruden, who departed this life upon the 17th of
April 1744 years, aged 43 years
of
;
From one of
:
'
these
bearing the blacksmith's crown, &c.
as also the corps
Here
corps of
lyes in
hope
of a blessed resurrection,
the
Forbes, his spouse Here lys intomb'd under this mould'ring dust,
:
Ann
Thomas Smith, sometime smith

[Psal. 39. 4.
]
in
Kep-
A man whose soul was truely virtuous A woman, too, who baseness did despise.
:
law,
who
departed this lyfe the 22d of Feb. 1767,
they both rest, in hopes again to rise To happiness ; thou, reader, drop a tear, And virtue's paths to follow, learn hear.
And
Upon one
and broken
side of a headstone,
now
lying flat
in
two
pieces
The above, and

S.
the next two inscriptions are
taken from table-shaped stones:
M.
If
goodness of heart and charity of hand,
Beneath this Stone is deposited, in Sure and Certain hope of a Joyfull Resurrection, the remains of a Sinner, redeemed by an inestimable price, and Created by divine grace, an Heir of Eternal Glory.
united to the tender husband, the indulgent father, and the social neighbour, can claim a respectfuU
Upon
To
years
the reverse of same stone

the
remembrance, Then, friend, behold this monument of faimly love, and drop a tear of veneration to the memory of George Forrest, surgeon, ob. Jun. 24,
1761,
c-et.
mill of
:
memory of Peter Lion, sometime at flour Slains, who died 4th Dec. 1813, aged 91 Also Helen Witherspon, his spouse, who
table stone
of
died 5th Janry. 1805, aged 81 years.
42.
Probably the
last
and next quoted epitaphs
Upon a
cian,
Peter Smith
age
:
were composed by the Rev.
Mr
Skinner
To the memory
of Aldie, physi-
of the Rev. Mr minister of the Gospel at Cruden, died on the 15th day of Nov. 1771, aged 18 years. Iean Hay died
Rebecca Hay, daughter
Hay,
who
died the
XXIId Nov. MDCCCXIII,
in
the
LXXIId
who
died
year of his
died in
daughter,
Catherine, his infancy, and John, his son,

in
June the 3d
who
Vllth
March MDCCXCIV,
:
the
1772, aged 24 years
XVIth, year
his spouse,
;
of his age
Also
Here
in one grave tuo lovelie virgins ly,
who
died on the
in the
Margaret Moir, Xth day of August

year of her age.
Tuo
sisters dear, destined in
youth lo dy
MDCCCXXVI,
of the kirkyard
LXXVIth
Their persons beauty, grace their souls adorn' d. No wonder then their death is deeply mourn'd. In glory they shall rise and bless their doom.
From a headstone
:
placed against the west wall
they have an everlasting bloom Learn hence, fair virgins, in your early days. Your great Redeemer by your lives to praise.
Then
shall
Sacrum memoriffi Reverendi Joannis Duncan,

Verbi Diviui miuistri in paroechia Dunrossness, in Insulis Zetlandicis ; qui naufragio periit XXII Februarii,
Within an
enclosure, in which
lie
it is
said a family
anno Domini MDCCCXIII,
et aitatis
suae
named Alexander
in Nether Mill,
buried,
who were tenants
XXXVL
[Sacred to the
minister of the
rossness, in
and
factors to the Lords ErroU,

:
are
two
:
slabs thus inscribed
P.G
M.M
memory of the Rev. John Duncan, Word of God in the parish of Dunthe Shetland Islands, who perished by
B.C.
In hope of a blessed resurrec-
shipwreck, 22 Feb. 1813, in the 36th year of his

age.]
tion here lyes the corps of
Peter Gordon, who

and dyed Nov.
lived in Neither Milln of Cruden,

17-7,
aged 58 years.
his spous,
Also the corps of

died August
in
4,
Mary
Mr Duncan was one of sixteen passengers, along

with a crew of seven men, who were lost in the schooner Doris, which left Leith for Lerwick on
the afternoon of Saturday, 20th Feb., and perished
Mackie,
T.S
:
who
1767.
I.S.
Here lyes
hope
of a blessed resur-
Tho., and Mary Stuarts, children to Thos. Stuart and lean Stell, his spouse, anno 1750.
rection,
the corps of George,
among
the rocks opposite Slains Castle, during a
dreadful gale of wind, on the evening of the 22d,
CRUDEN.
when
(Scott's Fasti), " this respected
'
317
and highly
all
afflic-
scenery than for
its
antiquities.
Of
its
scenery,
useful individual closed a life
embittered by
the evils of unmerited poverty and domestic

tion.'"
the Bullers, the promontory of Dunboy, and the Bow of Pitwartlachie, are the more remarkable.
"Many
of the passengers (Scots
Maga.)
The
of
first
is
well represented
by two
plates,
in
were highly respectable characters, and their loss will be severely felt in the islands to which they
belong.
master),
stitute
Cordiner's Antiquities and Scenery of the North
Scotland
(1780),
and has been frequently
It
is
added
that
Mr
Craigie
all
(the
engraved and photographed.

Tradition avers that the parish of Cruden had
its
was " long known to possess an upright character."
that con-
name from
is
the reputed defeat, or crushing of
Alex. Oldman, Kirkhill, d. 1803, beth Grant, his sp., d. 1820, a. 86

After the cares of former
a.
63
Eliza-
the Danes in the battle before referred to
a point
:
which
thus advocated in a popular

field
rhyme
life,
And many
Here
is
" Crush-Dane, the
labours past
and parish then were sfyVd
Though time anS
clever tongues the
name hath
spoil'd."
the harbour of old age
Its safe-guard
now
at last.
The
true origin of the
name
is difficult
to find.
From a
table-shaped stone:
of
Possibly the last syllable of the word
may have
To the memory of James Johnston, son to Andrew Johnston in Sand End of Cruden, who
departed this
life
:
reference to the stream which flows through the

parish,
and the
first
to the round-shaped knolls
on the 24th day

doth
rise
Febry. 17
or hillocks which are so
common
in the district,
aged 25 years
particularly in the valley of the Cruden,
where
Man
Also
in
of
like a flower
&
fall,
the old kirk stood.
Keturn
to dust
when God doth
call.
neat
Episcopal Church
(S.
James the
Andrew Johnston,
1804,
his father, late farmer
Less), with a spire about 90 feet high, has a
of Dec.
this life the 20th day aged 64 years. Also of his son Alexander Johnston, who was Surgen on bourd of his Majesty's ship L'Aimable, who departed this
Sand End, who departed
commanding
position
upon
south-west of the parish church.

1843, and there the late
of
ground was built in Rev. Dr Pratt, author

the rising
It
"Buchan" and
(V. p. 100.)
other
useful topographical
life off
a Martinico the 27th day of August 1795,
works,
continued to labour until his death in
aged 24 years.
to the
Katheren Dwgwjd, spouse foresaid Andrew Johnston, who died the 6tb
Also
1869
Dr
Pratt's
Buchan contains a
of Aprile 1829,
aged 90 years.
a good account of the history and antiquities of

the parish of Cruden.
The
is
principal bridge across the river
called the BisJiop's Bridge,
It consists of
Cruden one
these
John, the son of Uthred, gave his lands of

Slanys and Cruden to Fergus, Earl of Buchan,
before the year 1214, in exchange for those of
arch,
and three separate

side
tablets are built into
the south
of
the bridge.
One
of
presents a carving of the Errol arms, and the

initials
stafi"s,
Fedreth in
New
Deer, and Ardindrach in Cruden.
E.
I.
E.
the second, flanked by

(?
two pastoral
ini-
Two
villas at
Ardindrach, with pertinents, were
bears the arms of
the See of Brechin),
given by Bruce to Sir John of Bonville in 1321.
and Drummond impaled, dated 1697, and

tialed,
Traces of ancient burial cairns, rude sepulchral

stones,
B.
:
I.
B.
Upon
the third slab are the
and old personal ornaments,
&c.,
;
have
words
E.
been found in
many
of
parts of the parish
but the
more tangible
these
remains
the
REBUILT BY lAMES
OF ERROL, 1763.
Standing
Besides building the bridge across the Cruden,
or causing
it it
Stones, or circle which stood near the church
having been demolished in 1831, the district is now-a-days more famous for its romantic coast
to be built (for
it will
be seen that
bears a date subsequent to the death of Bishop
318
EPITAPHS,
i.VZ)
INSCRIPTIONS
with two silver
Drummond), that prelate also presented the church communion cups, which bear
:
Dedicated to the Service of Jesus and his church at Cruden, by Dr Ia. Drummond, late Bishop of Brechin, who died at Slains, 13th Ap. 1G95.
(S.
MACCONOC,
OR CONON.)
belonging to Cruden.
There are other four communion cups of Upon one

:
silver
Dedicated to the service of lesua and of his church

at Cruden,
by Samuel Hutcheon, who dyed
at
if NVERKEILOR, as now constituted, is comJ& posed of the two parishes of Inuirkileder and Atlujn. Both were in the diocese of St Andrews; the first is rated at 70 and the second at 50 merks in the Old Taxation, These were separate and independent ecclesiastical districts for several
Craighead the 16 Aprile 1611.
years subsequent to
Upon
each of the remaining three
Birness,
the
its
1574 Inverkeilor had own minister and reader, and Ethie was served,
Reformation, for in
Dedicated to the Service of Jesus, and of his
along with three other churches, by a different
church at Cruden, by Robert

1712.
Gumming of
clergyman, and a different reader from those at

Inverkeilor.
I am
indebted for these
cup
inscriptions,
and
Chapels were attached to both churches

these, along
and
other kind
services, to the late
Mr Robert DawBeing an
occaof
with the kirks, were granted to the
son, M.A., schoolmaster of Cruden.

accomplished conchologist,
sionally
Abbey
Those
of Arbroath at the time of its foundation.

of
Mr Dawson was
Inverkeilor were given by Walter of
employed on the Dredging Committee
Berkeley, lord of Redcastle, and those of Ethie
the British Association for the Advancement of

Science, in the course of which,
by
and by
his
own
Wm. the Lion. But, according to the Stat. Accounts, " Conghoillis" (? now Cowholes) was
name
of the parish.
unaided exertions, he made important additions to the MoUusca of the North-East Coast of Scotland,
the old
This idea appears to
have been founded upon a misreading of the name

of
is
and contributed papers to the Reports of Mr Dawson, who also excelled in geology and botany, was a native of Ordiquhill, and died in the prime of life, after a short illness,
the Association.
"Achinglas" in King William's charter, which probably a corruption of the Gaelic words, Athi>i-e(/lish, i.e., the church of Athyn, or Ethie.
The
ruins of the kirk of
29th Dec. 1871.
The only villages in Cruden are those of Bullers, Ward, Whinnyfold, Northhaven, and Hatton. At
the last-named of these places
is
ETHIE, ou
S.
MURDOCH,
a Free Church.
stand in a lonely and romantic spot near the Like the kirk of S. cHffs, east of the Redhead.
Skae, and similarly situated places of worship,
that of S.
With
the exception of Hatton, these villages are
occupied by a fishing population. In 1603-4, some of those " portis," in common with others in
the locality, were visited by "the pest." But, according to localrhyme, the Well of the royal patron
of the parish,
is
Murdoch
possibly
owed
its
origin to
some recluse who had taken up

sailors,
his
abode there
with the view of affording succour to shipwrecked
and pilgrims along the
coast.
Whether
which
all
is
near the
Bay
:
of Cruden,
the founder of the church was S.
Murdoch,
proof against
such calamities
"St. Olave's Well's low by the sea, Where pest nor plague shall never be."
(Dempster's Eccl. Hist., ii. 476), a hermit and bard who dwelt in a cell at Kilmurdach, in Argyll, the walls of which he ornamented with
pictures of his
lections
;
or of
S.
Murdoch,
bishop of Killala, in Ireland, who, about A.D.
440 (Butler's Lives, 12th Aug.), had a church
INVERKEILOR.
near to where the river
319
Moy
falls into
the sea, or
whether
was founded by a disciple of either of But it is to be those holy men, is not certain.
it
Presented to the church of InverkeUor by Agnes Rait, Anniston, on the occaaion of her Marriage,
1862.
noticed that another of the comparatively rare

dedications in Scotland to S.
similarly
fieth
IMiss Rait
Muiidoch was
Beaton
the
in
at a
Carnegy,
named
place
where the
^</u'e-
Moniin the
Mr
was married to H. A. F.-LindsaySpynie and Boysack, Esquire. Lindsay-Carnegy not only represents the
of
;
site still retains
name
oldest landowners in the parish
but
is
also the
first of
odd form {v. p. 114) of " Chapel Dockie." Only a portion of the west wall of the kirk of It is from about S. Murdoch of Ethie remains 16 to 18 feet in height, by about 30 feet in width.
:
representative of the Lords Spynie, the
whom, Alexander (youngest son

of Crawford),
of the tenth Earl
The
wall
is
about
?>^ feet thick,
pierced in six
was accidentally killed by his kinsman, young Lindsay of Edzell, upon the High also Street of Edinburgh, in 1607 (v. Lives
;
different parts
by
holes of about 8 inches square.
Land
of the Lindsays.)
The
present house of
The
corner stones and a string course are good

;
Kinblethmont, which occupies a rising ground,
specimens of ashler work

building
is
but the rest of the
of rubble.
and commands a fine view, is modern, and surrounded by tasteful planting.
The
area of the kirk of S.

feet.
Murdoch
measures
S.
A slab,
The
built into the left splay of one of the
about 57 by 22
The
cemetery, a pretty
east, presents
E. windows of the church, presents a shield,

(?
green sward, upon the south and
no
grave-mounds, although
interments have been
made
there within the last hundred years.
In the
into the
adjoining burn, which runs through a small den
upon the
south,
and
falls
over the
cliffs
by mistake) a double-headed eagle M.D.R., in monogram, flank the base; LR. and the date " 1628, 2 Feb.," are over the shield and below it is a death's head. Possibly this slab has reference to some of the
charged with
initials,
;
had doubtless, though now unknown, been a consecrated well and the banks of the burn are covered by those interesting terraces,
sea, there
;
Rams AYS,
contemporary
lairds
of
Cairnton.
resembling sheep walks, regarding the origin of
" Euphan Mudie" (mentioned in an inscription below), was a daughter of David Mudie (son of John Mudie of Brianton), and his wife Janet
which geologists hold various notions. The ford or crossing, by the cliff road, iu old times, to and from the Redhead, had been by this burn and, as the Gaelic words Atli-yn (? Athaen), imply a place of this nature, the name may have ori;
Ramsay
of Cairnton.
A
"
second slab, with a shield bearing the Durie
arms,
and " 3 Sep. 1631, M.I.D

are over
;"
is
built
into the splay of another window.
memento mori"
is
the
The words shield. The

:
ginated from that fact.
The
parish church of
following epitaph, which seems to be a sort of
play upon words,
below the shield

.
INVERKEILOR,
which was erected about a hundred and fifty years ago, has been altered and added to at difIt is situated upon the point of a ferent times. rising ground (? Kil-ard^ a church upon a height), and overlooks the valley of the Lunan. An octogonal font of freestone, embellished on each of the eight sides by sacred emblems and
QVOD
DVRVM
.
est.
.
FRACTVM NEC PLVS. DVRARE VIDETATJ. DvREVS AT DVRAT. CLARAQVE FAMA VIGET,
.
. . .
Durable is broken, nor appears any longer to enDure ; but Durie stiU enDures, and flourishes with bright renown.]
[That which
is
monograms, stands before the pulpit. " suffer LITTLE CHILDREN TO COME UNTO Me" is carVcd round the lip of the font upon the base
: :
Durie, possibly while minister at LogieMontrose, was present at the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, at Edinburgh, in 1602.
Joshua
He was
(Scott's Fasti) admitted to the second
320
EPITAPHS,
AND INSCRIPTIONS
Hay
two
has kindly communicated the following des:
charge at St Andrews in 1607, from whence he was translated to luverkeilor in 1613. Dr David Laiug of the Signet Library, Edinburgh, kindly informs me that Joshua was a son of ISIr John Durie, minister of Edinburgh, who died in the house of his son-in-law, the celebrated James Melvil, at Montrose, 25th Feb. 1600; and that, in 1590, John Durie, his wife, and Joshua, their son, had a grant from the king of an annual pension of 75 Scots, Avhich was confirmed by Act of Parliament in 1592: also that a letter from the
tinuation of this pension,
cription
" In the compartment on the right are

male and female, evidently, by the
figures, a
male figure, intended to represent Death, in the usual John Rait and his wife. form of a skeleton armed with a dart, is forcing his way between the two, and pushing them asunder. This compartment or panel, bears these
dress of the
inscriptions
nal marriage),
below Congugium carnale' (the car above, In morte dividimur' (in

'
;
Archbishop and Bishop to the King, for the conis dated 16th May
death we are divided.) " The other compartment has the same two
figures,
representing the same persons
but in
1606
likewise,
that after the death of
John
addition to the
gown and bands which
distinguish
Durie's widow, this grant was again ratified in
the minister as in the above panel, he and his

wife are both
favour of
Mr
Joshua Durie, then minister at St
now
represented with wings indi-
Andrews, Eupheme M'Kane, his spouse, and John The date of Durie, their son, 23d Oct. 1612.
cating that they have attained the spiritual state,
3d Sept. 1631,
keUor,
Durie's death
ujdou the
monument
:
at Inver-
probably refers to the time of Joshua

;
and the initials M.I.D D.E.M., in monogram, which flank the shield, refer respectively to Mr and Mrs Durie. Built into the right hand splay of the S.E. window is a monument, with the carving of a cherub on the top, and the text, Heb. ix. 27, in
Greek characters.
Infra sepulta
and are trampling Death, the same figure that was thrusting them asunder before, under foot. This panel has the inscription below, Conjugium geternum' (the spiritual and eternal marriage) and above, Omnia vincit mors Christi' (the
'
'
death of Christ vanquishes all.) " Between the two panels, crosswise,
scribed, 'Quis
will give
is
in-
mihidabitpennascolumbse?'
under both panels,
is
(Who
me
the wings of a dove ?)"
Across the
inscribed
This inscription follows
width
at
of the stone,
cum
sex liberis iacet Elizabetha
the same motto which appears upon a tombstone
Bettie, prior conjunx M". loannis Kaithi. Mortem obiit in Dno. Kal. Novemb. A.D. 1661. Filius Joannes A.D. 1675, ffitatissuce xxii. apud Indos in Ex liberis insula Mevi huic muudo valedixit. Eupbamic-e Mudie de Braintone conjugis M''. loannis Raithi, Eobektus et Ianeta jacent infra
sepulti.
Dun
{v. p.
222}:
Coniugium Christi ac animcB mors solvere uescit Sed carnale potest coniugis atc[ue viri.
Another slab (with the
text, Eccl. xii., cut in
Hebrew
characters, together with mortuary
em-
blems, M:I.R:I.R.,
lies
&c
),
bears the following re-
[Beneath
buried, with six of her children,

first
mains of an
inscrijation in
viri
Roman
capitals
Elizabeth Bettie,
wife of
Mr John
Rait,
Reverendi
IS
Magistr
died in the Lord, 1 Dec. 1661. Her son, John, bade farewell to this world in the island of Mevis, [? Nevis] in the [West] Indies, A.D. 1675, in the 22d year of his age. Of the children of Euphan
who
Raithi
antistitis e
diserti perspicu
lithum conduntur
Mudie of Brainton, wife of Mr John and Janet lie interred here.]
Rait,
Robert
Montrosarum trie spem lustris vero

. . .
stora
functus
.
Two
tion), present figures, incised, in the style of
compartments (below the Latin inscripHolbein's Dances of Death. Of these the Rev. Mr
Cal
is
Dec A.D LXII. a labo

.
....
quiev
....
[1
Cor.
iii.
6,
cut in Greek letters.]
mVERKEILOR.
Ret^
sacrae
821
Rete sacrum
asti
. .
Over the entrance, surrounded by carvings

angels with trumpets, &c., are the words
:
of
frvctifer
re
scivit
docendo
DIES
.
MORTIS
jETERN^
is
VIT^
NATALIS
EST
FIDELIBVS.
[Under
Rev.
this stone
were
laid the remains of the
[The day
unto the
of
death
]
the birth-day of eternal
life
John Rait,
a clear and eloquent preacher of
faithful.
the Gospel in this church,

years in Montrose.
1st Dec.
who was
previously three
of his age, &c.]
Possibly
first
the burial-vault was erected
by the
first
He
in the
rested from his labours
Earl of North esk after the death of his
A.D.
62d year
The Brechin Presbytery Records show that Mr

John Rait had " a communication"
of Montrose, 10th Dec. 1646.
as
His
first
2d minister wife had
which had taken place sometime before 1652, as Lament states in his Diary (p. 49), that on the 29th April of that year, and on the same day as his widowed daughter. Lady Scotstarvet,
wife,
possibly been from Montrose, or its neighbour-
name of Beattie has long been His second wife, as above seen, was a daughter of David Mudie, by his wife, Janet
hood, where the
the younger, was married to Preston of Erdree, in Fife, " the Earle of Etthie, in Angus, her
father (being about 73 years of age),
common.
Ramsay of Cairnton. Mr John Rait, whom Mr Ochterlouy

gentleman of the
was marled upon one of his owne tennants, surnamed Malle." This Earl, who was a younger brother of the
Earl of Southesk (v. p. 93), got Ethie and other
calls
"a
House
of
Hallgreen
lands from his father about 1595-6, and acquired

Inglismaldie, &c., about 1635 (Doug. Peer.)
in the
Mearus," was laird of Bryanton about 1682, and was succeeded in the kirk of Inverkeilor by bis son James. As a Non-juror, the latter was deprived of his living by the Privy Council, when the vacant stipend fell to the Earl of Panmure, patron of the parish, and lord of the abbacy of
Aberbrothock.
as well as to
years,
It appears that his Lordship re-
In
1639, he was created a peer by the
title of
Lord
Lour. He was created Earl of Ethie in 1647, which title, in 1662, was changed to that of Earl To his descendof Northesk and Lord Rosehill. ant, the sixth Earl, and his lady, a marble tablet
within the church
is
thus inscribed
of
signed his right to the half-year's stipend of 1695,

the stipends of seven succeeding " in favours of Mr Dauid Rate of Brey-
ington, one of the heretors," by
whom
the sti-
pends were to be uplifted and applied " touards

such pious and charitable uorks and uses as he
shall condescend
George, Vlth Earl of Northesk, Admiral of the White Squadron of His Majesty's Fleet born 2d Aug. 1716, o.s., and died 22d January 1792. And Ann Leslie, Countess of Northesk born 22d Feb. 1730, o.s., and died 11th Nov. 1779.
Sacred to the
: :
memory
chin and church of Inuerkillor."
on uithin or about ye sd paroThis arrange-
ment had probably been made with the view of aiding the deprived minister, to whom, during
that period, no successor was appointed (Assignations of Vacant Stipends at Panmure.)
Lady Northesk (a daughter of the Earl of Leven and Melville) had three sons and three daughters. The eldest son, who became a Vice- Admiral, saw much service under Earl St Vincent and Lord
Nelson, and was third in
of Trafalgar.
command
at the battle
in 1831,
His lordship, who died

Earl St Vincent, by
panel in front of the east loft of the kirk
married a
sister of
whom
he
exhibits the Carnegie

arras impaled.
S. I.
and Hallyburton
of Pitcur
The panel is dated 1635, and D. M. H. the initials being those of Sir John Carnegie, and his first wife, Dame Magdalen Hallyburton. The Northinitialed,
C.
had four sons and as many daughters. The eldest son, a midshipman, was lost in the Blenheim when The second son, born in 1794, in his 16th year.
is
the eighth and present Earl of Northesk.

is
His
the
son.
eek burial-vault
is
at the east end of the kirk.
Lord Rosehill, Commander-in-chief
Aide-de-Champ
to
of the Forces in Scotland.
ss
322
EPITAPHS,
AND INSCRIPTIONS
as a tribute of respect to the
A slab,
the motto
built into the front wall of the kirk of
memory
of
her rela-
Inverkeilor, presents a carving of the
Stewarts of Lome.
:
It
is
initialed
arms of the I.S., and bears
tions
who
lie
buried here.
And
it
is
her desire
also to be interred in the spot
QVHIDDEB
VIL
ZE,
Sir Robert Stewart

the
first
of Innermeath, father of
Lord Lome, acquired the lands and
which contains th ashes of her husband & of her grandmother, and mother, Magdalen Carnegy, and Agnes Mudib, parents, with whom she was long united in the closest bonds of love and affection, whose virtue* she reveres, and whose example she most earnestly
wishes to follow.
1818.
barony of Redcastle about the middle of the fourteenth century. The square tower or keep of
Redcastle was
probably built
by one
of
the
Stewarts, in whose hands the property contiuued

until about the close of the sixteenth century.
James Mudie, son of James Mudie, merchant in Montrose, was served heir to his father of
Arbikie, April 26, 1664 (Retours, Forfarshire.)
Angus and Mearns, p. *13.) The Stewarts, while in the locality, had doubtless been
(v.
Mem.
of
According to Burke, John Mudie of Brianton,

living in 1600, son of
living in 1570,
and the above-mentioned slab had possibly ornamented their aisle. The Stewarts of Redcastle and Lome are now represented by the Duke of Argyll, whose eldest son, the husband of Princess Louise, has the title of Marquis of Lome. From a marble tablet, within
buried at Inverkeilor
;
John Mudie of Gilchorn, was ancestor of the Arbikie and Pitmnies family. Forret and Cocklaw are properties in the shires of Fife and Aberdeen respectively
:
Letham
is
in the parish of St Vigeans.
the kirk
Sacred to the
Esq.,
memory of John Mudie
who
died June 1728, aged
years.
of Arbikie,
And
of
of his wife,
Magdalen Carnegy, daughter

of
;
James Carnegy
Bcendants.
Craigo, M'ho died 27th Deer.
1771, aged 89 years
and of their Family, & DeOf their family, which consisted of six
three daughters only
1st
Lord Newton, who assumed his judicial title from his property of Newton, in Stracathro, passed as advocate, 1768, and was raised to the bench in 1806, being accounted one of the foremost lawyers of his time. His Lordship possessed a great fund of humour and anecdote and that it was he and Mr Smellie, the printer, " drilled" the poet Burns, on his introduction to
;
"The
Crochallan Fencibles"(a bacchanalian club),
sons and eight daughters,
in Jan. 1787, a circumstance
which gave
rise to
came
Elizabeth, married to Robert Smith of Forret, Esq., who left an only son, William Smith of Forret, Esq., married to his cousin -german, 29th April 1784, the after mentioned ISJagrlalen Hay He died 2d Feby. 1785, leaving no issue. 2d Agnes, married to James Hay of Cocklaw, Esq., who left two sons & a daughter. Their eldest son, Charles Hay, Esq., advocate, afterwards Lord Newton, one of the
to maturity, viz.
:
one of Bums' happiest poetical fragments.
Lord Newton, who became excessively corpulent, died at Powrie House, near Dundee and never having
;
been married, he
sister,
left
the estate of Faichfield, in
Longside, &c., and his large fortune, to his only
(v.
in
Mrs Hay-Mudie who survived until 1823 Memoir of Lord Newton, and Portraits of him, The Hays of Kay's Edinburgh Portraits).
Senators of the College of Justice, a
man
of distin-
guished talents
&
second son of
inflexible integrity,
died Octr.
Their youngest son, James
Cocklaw and Faichfield were descended from a Hay of Rannes (v. p. 274). The family of Gardyne were of old designed
of that Ilk, a property in the adjoining parish of
Hay,
interred
& was 3d Anne, married to Robert of Letham, Esq., left an only daughter Stephen Anne, who diedNovr. 1806. Magdalen Hay, only daughter of James Hay, Esq., & Agnes Mudie, and relict of William Smith of Forret, Esq. the last
Esq., died at Edinr. 6th June 1787,
there.
,
Kirkden, where their

servation,
castle,
the family arms, dated 1568,
is still
ornamented with in good pre-
Alexander Lyall, Esq.

Mearns.)
and inhabited by the present laird, (r. Mem. of Angus and the
The Gardynes, who have long
pos-
Burvivor of the family, has erected this
monument
sessed the lands of Middleton, &c., bury at Inver-
INVERKEILOR.
keilor.
323
Their tomb consists of an enclosure of

-,
about 42 by 18 feet in extent old walls were removed, the door

bore the following lines
:
and, before the
lintel
(now
lost),
Were death Were death Were death

tablets,
denied, poor
man would live
in vain
;
denied, to live
denied, e'en
would not be life fools would wish to
die.
The Gardyne burial place contains a number

twenty -four children
of
from which the following inscriptions are copied. The first of these shows the remarkable fact of a lady having given birth to no fewer than
:
11.]
Lawton marrd. Janet Lind SAY of EdzeU, 1603. Their only issue, John marrd. Elizh., daughr. of Sir John Arbuthnott o that ilk, 1643, who had issue 4 sons and 20 daugh
of
ters.
David Gardyne
Robert, their
heir,
marrd. Grizel, daughr,

1676,
their
issue,
of Alexr.
Watson
of
Barry,
David, William, Elizah., who marrd. of Hedderwick, 2d Barclay of Johnston
1st Scott
;
Grizel,
who
marrd. 1st
Wedderbum
of that ilk,
and 2d
David Graham
Duntrune. David, heir to Ro bert of Lawton, marrd. Ann Graham of Fintray, Their issue, Elizah., who marrd. James 1706.
of
Guthrie of Craigie, 1733.

[2.]
Amelia, who married Alexar. Hunter of BalskeUy, 1741 ; David fought under Prince Charles at Culloden, and died at Newport, in Flanders, 1749 James, who married Mary Wallace, 1741 Clementina, who marrd. Alex. Graham of Duntrune, Robert, who died in minor age. James 1751 Gardyne had by his wife Mary, daughr. of Thomas Wallace of Arbroath, issue, viz.
; ;
:
324
EPITAPHS,
AND INSCRIPTIONS
In
previously called Little Inchoch, and the farm,
died unmarried (as above) in 1841, aged
accordance with his
uncle's settlement,
Bruce assumed the name of
Major Gardyne, and was
now Myreside, was anciently Anniston. The next two inscriptions are from table-shaped
stones, elaborately
succeeded by his son, the present laird of MiddleTo a son of the last-mentioned the followton.
ing inscription refers
:
ornamented
(1746)
Alexander Deas
Methiuks
I
:
lowder knell
hear the doolfuU passing Bell,

its
Thomas, born
1859, died 20th February 1864.
Setting an oneset to
The family
enclosure
of
Rait
of
Anniston bury within an
Methinks
hear
my
dearest friends lament
near to that of Gardyne.
The Rait
With
sighs,
and
tears,
and wofull drieryment.

I ly
Methinks
I see
enclosure contains a freestone
monument, which
my
children standing by,
Vewing the death bed whereupon

Methinks
1
is
encases a graceful group in marble, representing
hear a voice in secret say

run, and thou
the spirit of consolation, in the form of a female

figure, ministering to the
Thy
glass
lies
must
die to-day.
support of a person in
:
Here
ane Godlie and ane honest
man Iohn
eickuess.
Below
is
the following
In memory of the Right Hon. the Lady Clementina Rait, who died 16th October, A.D. 1848, aged 29 years, the beloved wife of James Rait, Esq. of Anuiston, second daughter of David, seventh Earl
of Airlie.
Mill, who departed this life the 10 of luly 1646, Likewayes here lies and of his age 56 years. honest and verteus Elspet Air, his wife, who departed this life the 20 of February 1668, and
of her age
66 years.
:
Upon
the upper part of the
monument
From
a headstone
Here
lyes the dust of
William Ruxton, some-
In memory of John Rait, Esqr. of Anniston, born 1748, died at Anniston, 1823 ; and of his wife, Elizabeth Guthrie, daughter of James Guthrie,
Esqr. of Craigie,
time tenant in Mireside, who had three wives that brought forth 14 children, the first one ; the 2d
who
died 1814.
And
of their
children, viz. William, died at Anniston, 1806 ; Georgina-Henrietta, died 1812 John, died 1815;
;
and the 3d eight, of which number 4 lyes here, William and James of the 2d Andrew & John of the 3d he died the 9 of April 1841, aged As also Margaret, daughter of Darid Rux84.
five
viz.
; ; ;
Agnes, married George Arbuthnott, Esqr. of Mavisbank, third son of Sir William Arbuthnott, Bart., and died in Lonclon, 1842 Amelia, married Patk. Geo. Skene of Pitlour, died at Pitlour, 1830 ; William, died in India, 1837 Alexander died 1830, whilst home on sick leave from the 1st Madras
; ;
ton and Margaret Brown, his spouse
Age and decay of Nature wore him of this stage He laid down into a good old age. To rest and sleep, till the last trumpet sound.
And
To
then to
rise
and with his soul be joynd
Cavalry
Murray
died at Anniston, 1819.

is
James,
with Christ his praises for to sing, That overcame the grave, and took away Death's
live
sting.
who
erected this
monument,
the only survivor.
The
Some
Raits of Anniston claim descent (Burke's

of Hallgreen,
Upon the
three shields
tains the
reverse of the above

:
monument
are
Landed Gentry) from the Raits

account of
of
an
the middle shield, dated 1742, conof
whom
the
is
given in Nisbet's Heraldry.

family became
small
Hallgreen
three wives,
proprietors,
others
churchmen, merchants, and

;
William Ruxton and hia Katrin Laird, Jannet Henderson, and Marget Williamson the shield
names
viz.,
;
farmers in Angus, &c.

first
and
it
is
said that the
on the
left
has the names of the families of the
Rait of Anniston who also owned Balmadies
at one
time acquired a
fortune as a merchant in
Dundee.
The
present mansion-house of Anniston, which
has been greatly
improved
by
Mr
Rait,
was
two first wives (Elizabeth, Alex., John, Wm., and Anna) that on the right those of the third wife (David, Margt., Alex., Elspeth, Andrew, John, Thos., and Wm.) David, of the third family, was the first of four generations of Rux;
INVERKEILOR.
TONS who have tenanted Mains and Mill Farnell. The Ruxtons, farmers at Balinhard
Arbirlot,
of
in
325
kittiewaicka
....
nothing inferior in tast to the
solan geese of the Basse."
Ochterlony also
tells
and those in Foveran and Belhelvie, Aberdeenshire, all sprung from David Ruxton, tenant of Myreside. Within the church, upon the
left of
that " sea-calves,
who gender
as other beasts doe,
bring forth their young ones in the dry caves " betwixt Arbroath and Ethie, and that " the old
ones are of a huge bignes, nigh to ane ordinare ox, but longer, have no leggs, but in place thereof
the pulpit
By Alexr.
the
Carnegie, minister of Inverkielor, to

of
memory
his father
John Carnegie,
four finnes, in shape
much
like to a
man's hand,
late
minister thereof, from 20th Feby.
1755, to 2Sth
whereupon they goe but slowly."
Feby. 1805, when he died, aged 81.
And
of his
Some
antiquaries are inclined to believe that
mother Catherine Walker, who died 25th Nov. 1790, aged 57 and of four of his brothers, who died
;
Kinblethmoiit was the scene of the battle of
Drumderg-Blathmag, which the Annals
of Ulster
in nonage, all interred La the area before the pulpit.
The erector of
beth Skirving,
on the north
(Johnstone's Extracts, p. 61), state to have been fought A.D. 728-29. Numerous traces of ancient
burial,
this tablet,
and
his wife
Elizadied in
and other old remains, have been found
in
are buried within an enclosure
the neighbourhood.
side of the kirk-yard.
He
The
Knights' Templars, as in most parishes of
1836, aged 73, she in 1835, aged 66.
Mr
C. was
Scotland, had an interest in that of Inverkeilor,
proprietor of Baldovie, near Montrose, which be-
and the farm
of
longed to the Melvilles
(v.
p.
129J
He
by
sold
of Kinblethmont, poiut to the place over
Templeton and St German's Well which
that property to the Southesk family, and bought

Redhall, &c., in the Mearns,
the Templars held superiority.

excellent
Mr
its
Miller, in hia
p.
now
held
his
work Arbroath and
Abbey,
136
thia
son John Carnegie, Esq.

successor,
An
adjoining obelisk
conjectures, with much probability, that in

locality
was erected by the congregation to Mr Carnegie's Mr Geo. Arklay, who died in 1866.
d.
Jas. Peter, hd. of Elizab. Rait,
1745,
a.
was situated the chapel of S. Laurance and to the monastery of Arbroath,. Richard of Melville, then (1189-99)
of Kinblethmont, to which,
No No
beavty, strength, can stay the fatal
doom
lord of the district, gifted (Reg. Vet. de Aberb.,

p. 99) ten acres in the plain or
virtve, worth, prevent th' op'ning tomb.

d. 1850, a.
meadow
of
Kin-
Geo. Paul, schoolmr., Inverkeilor,

;
47
blethmont, half an acre in the village, with the

:
Grave the guardian of his dust, Grave the treasury of the skies Every atom of thy trust
;
teinds of the mill of the same, also pasture for the
chaplain's horse, cattle,

;
and sheep.
The
chapel of the Blessed Virgin
Mary " de
Rests in hope again to
rise.
Qubitfeild" (Reg. Nig. de Aberb., 165), stood at the hamlet or village of Chapleton of Boysack.
It is
surrounded by venerable trees

is
and at the
The most remarkable

parish
is
natural object in the
old kirk-yard
the family burial place of the

of
the Redhead, the
Rubrum promontorium
Lindsay-Carnegys
Kinblethmont.
of Boethius "a point of laud which runneth far
into the sea"
near
to
which the Danes are said

in
But the ruin of Redcastle, picturesquely situated near Lunan Bay, is probably the more generally
interesting object of antiquity in the parish.
It
to have landed
when they invaded Scotland
king Malcolm's time.

Referring to the same locaUty, Monipennie writes that " a falcon engenders yearly upon a
high rock, past memorie of man." Mr Ochterlony (c. 1682) corroborates this statement, and adds that there is " abundance of sea-foul and
was engraved by Grose (1790), and is a fine subject for the pencil from many points of view. The lands and manor of Redcastle were given by William the Lion to Walter of Berkeley (the reputed founder of the Barclays in Scotland), from which race, by a female, the property passed to
326
EPITAPHS,
As
AND INSCRTPTIONS
before
1864, aged 72.
an ancestor of King John Baliol.

shown,
Redcastle
While
at Chapelton, he published pp., 1818), illustrative of

in 1847, long after
subsequently
came
to
the
a volume of
Poems (72
;
Stewarts of Lome, from

inherit the territory
whom
title of
the Argyll family

that
local traditions, &c.

left the district,
and
he
is
and
name.
appeared his History of Dundee,
During the time of the Stewarts, Redcastle underwent a siege by a son of Lord Gray (Mem. Angus and Mearns) but, being unable to take the Tower, he set the adjoining buildings on fire, and nearly suffocated the inmates.
;
which
is
a work of much greater value than
The
lands and barony of Redcastle were ac;
quired by Sir John Carnegie about 1621 and, owing to " the loyal tie" of the family, their cir-
cumstances became so crippled, that shortly before

the death of the fourth Earl of Northesk, Redcastle,
Another teacher of this place, Andrew Thomson, published (1841), a metrical version of Scottish Geography. The village of Chance Inn about half-way between Montrose and Arbroath is peopled by tradesmen and merchants common to such places. Near it are the Parish and Free Churches of Inverkeilor, also the Parochial and Female Schools.
generally admitted.
along with the baronies of Luuan, North
Tarrie,
lic
roup.
" for
and a portion of Ethie, were sold by pubRedcastle which is held of the Crown payment of ane Ridrose at the feast of John
name of blench-farm, if asked allenarly" was bought at 22 years' purchase, 8th Dec. 1724, by the Countess of Panmure,
the Baptist, in
(S.
through
Ethie
whom
is
MOLOCH, BISHOP.)
it
came
to the Earl of Dalhousie.
the oldest inhabited mansion-house in

It stands within a mile of the
;
^T
Ss,
is
believed that a church was founded at

(?
the parish.
Redof
Morthelauch
Mohr-tullach, great
hill%),
by
head, surrounded by good old trees
and, although
Moloch,
Lives),
tradition ascribes the building to David,
Abbot
a supposed disciple of S. Columba, early in the 7th century. He was a Scotsman (Butler's
Arbroath, afterwards Cardinal Beaton, Guynd states that it was " laitly reedified by John [first]
Earl of Ethie."
and a zealous assistant of S. Boniface. were long kept in great veneration at the kirk of Mortlach. Another writer adds that
His
relics
The only
first is
villages in the parish are those of
the church
Ethiehaven, Leysmill, and Chance Inn.

occupied by a fishing population
is
;
The
and at
'' has a bell called Ronnach^ said to have been brought from Rome."
The
present church, which
is
prettily situated
the second, where there

considerable trade
is
a railway station, a
in the valley of the
carried
on in pavement
the
quarrying.
of
The
stone,
is
known by
cut
name
Arbroath Pavement,
and dressed by
machinery an ingenious process, which, although now pretty generally adopted in granite
polishing
DuUan, has been frequently and Tradition affirms (forgetting that kirks as well as castles in Scotland were constructed of but frail materials in Canmore's time) that a
repaired
;
portion of the present kirk of Mortlach

to
is
that
the late
quarries,
and similar works, was the invention of James Hunter, manager of Leysmill
which King Malcolm, on obtaining his famous victory over the Danes, added, in fulfilment of a vow, three lengths of his spear
!
east of Leyshas long been a school in connection with the Established Church. It was taught for
mill, there
who died in May 1857. At Chapelton of Boysack, to the
As
sists
church of Mortlach conof a nave and north aisle. A man's face, in

it
now
exists, the
the north-west wall, rudely carved in stone,

said to represent
is
Beyn,
the
first
dignitary of the
some years by James Thomson, an industrious writer upon antiquities, who died at Dundee in
See of Mortlach. He died in 1041, and was " buried at the postern door of this cathedral,"
MORTLACH.
as were his two successors, Bishops
327
Donercius
nna
bte
.
tnnes
ctbs
qbe
obtit
and CoRMAUCH, -who died respectively in 1098 and 1122. The Bishopric of Mortlach was erected by Malcolm II. in 1010 and Mortlach was the seat
;
mcnsts
lies
Ifcccmbris
anno
ini
tnccccxiii.
[Here
Balvenie,
constable of
who
died on the
....
day
of
in the year 1420.
Here
also lies his spouse
....
of the Bishop, until about 1125, when, during the
NNA Innes, who
died Dec. 1429.]
time of Nectan, the fourth Bishop, the See was transferred to Aberdeen, at which period it owned
tire churches
The constable
James
and
appears to have been contemporary with James Douglas of Balvenie, who
their territories.
all
In 1157, Bishop Edward held

of Mortlach, including " the
of the
the property
same" there had been a school or seminary at Mortlach for training missionaries for the Early Christian
church.
town and Monastery an expression which shows that
(Rymer's Foedera) was sent to London, on 19th Aug. 1423, as a commissioner for the relief of
I.
From
is
a slab (" under window at east end of
church"), upon which a cross of the wheel pattern

incised,
pjic
and a sword under the

.
left
arm
.
of Mortlach, which is rated at 20 Old Taxation, was a parsonage of the Cathedral of Aberdeen. In 1574, it was served, along with four other adjoining churches, by Mr George Leslie, as minister, who had a stipend of 166 Scots, with the kirk lands, out of which he paid " the reidare of Murthlak'" a sum of 20 a year. The church is in the gift of the Crown. The east end is probably the most ancient part of the present church and I am inclined to think that the "oldest bits" about it are the tombin the
;
The church
facet
l)onorabtlis
.
bfr
.
Sofjannrs
.
(Eorbon.
.
be
33roblanb
.
qbi
obiit
apbb
33oe^rom
anno
33ni
miiiiitfj.
[Here
lies
Brodland,
who
an honourable man John Gordon died at Bochrom, A.D. 1533.]

:
of
" Under Pittyvaich seat"

ffi
resurrectfonfs ît fn pace rrqufcsettnt
cfncrcs a
Mr
Cowie gives the name

;
of
"
Gordon" from
from
:
a slab under the stair
also the following
stones, or coffin slabs,
now
part of the paving of
another slab " in the churchyard"

?^fc
facet Ijonorabilts
fair
the kirk.
Buncanus (5ovbon eum

sponsa qui
obiit
From
the present position of the slabs, the inpro])erly deciphered

of Cairnie,
;
fHarjorIa
....
a stone
scriptions cannot be
but,
The next
effigy in
object in point of antiquity and inis
the late Kev.
Mr
Cowie
when
school-
terest to those slabs, within the church,
master of Mortlach,
copied
these
inscriptions
armour.
It
is
built into the north wall,
while the kirk was undergoing repair about 1811,
in
an upright posture.
This had at
first
and engrossed them into the kirk-session books. It is from these (transcribed by the kind permission of the Rev. Mr Cruickshank), compared as
far as possible with the originals, that the follow-
part of a recess tomb, like those at Fordyce
formed and
;
being placed near to the old Kininvie sepulture,

the figure in
all
probability represents
Alexander
Leslie (a descendant
quhain),
of the fourth baron of Bal-
ing copies are printed.
One slab
" in the passage"
who
acquired Kininvie from the Earl of
presents a plain calvary raised upon steps, with a

shield
Athol in 1521.
stands,
Four years
later Leslie built the

still
on each side of the
shaft.
One
:
of the
house of Kininvie, part of which building
shields exhibits the Innes
coat,
the inscription
being round the margin of the stone

lîc
balbcitic
.
and dying about 1549, he was interred within the kirk of Mortlach, where the family long continued to bury. Their tomb is now out-
facet
.
[?
.
ronsltabijlarius
De
side the church.
qbi
.
obtit
.
bit
.
menais
The
first
baron of Kininvie
left
several sons.
anno
bm
tnccrcix
spousa
Walter, the eldest, who succeeded to Kininvie,
328
EPITAPHS,
1562, and the third son,
AND INSCRIPTIONS:
Marnoch
(v.
died in
George, re-
p.
235)
and a marble tablet at

:
ceived the lands of
was a became Earl

It
Drummuir from his father. grandson of George of Drummuir who

of
Mortlach bears
Sacred to the
this record of their deaths
Leven
of the fifth Leslie of Kininvie
and the eldest daughter was mother of Archtablet at

is
bishop Sharp.
in
The following (from a
memory of Archd. Young-Leslie of Kininvie, who departed this life 31 Oct. 1841, aged 74. And of bis spouse, Jane Donaldson, who died on 30 Nov. of the same year, aged 63.
This tablet
is ei-ected
Mortlach), erected by the Archbishop's uncle,
by
their children.
memory
of his (the sixth laird's) wife
The above were

of
the parents of the present laird,

is
Here lyeth the
pious,
verteous gentlewoman,
whose lady and a daughter there

:
the follow-
Helen Grant, goodwife of Kininvie, daughter to Belentom, who lived with her husband John Leslie
of Kininvie,
ing record
of
Sacred to the memory of Barbara-King Stewart,

the beloved wife of George A. Y. Leslie of Kininvie,
60 years, and departed
the
11
of
May
1712, the 82 year of her age.

laird,
and daughter
Gen. William Stewart
of Elgin,
The seventh
sold Kininvie
who was
provost of Banif,
C.B.,
who
died 12th Aug. 1853, in her 36th year
and Tulloch,
in 1703, to his third
and Mary-Jane, their infant daughter.
brother James,
who
built the
middle part of the
Mr Geo. A. Y.-Leslie had three sons and three

The eldest son, Archibald, an officer 23d R. Welsh Fusiliers, lately constructed a Family Tree, from which, and notes kindly furnished by my friend Robert Y'oung, Esq. of Elgin (author of excellent histories of Burghead,
daughters.
in the
house of Kininvie in 1725, and died in 1732.

relates to his first wife
He
was twice married, and the following inscription

:
Here lyeth Helen Carmichaell, daughter
to
Carmichaell of Clapertounehall in the countie of Midle Lothian, and spous to James Leslie of
Tullich,
1717.
the Parish of
New
Spynie, &c.), this notice of

is
who
:
departed this
life
the 15 day of
May
the Kininvie family
mainly compiled.
LL
H.C.
Memor
lethi fugit hora.
From
a mural
Another slab bears the name of a brother-inlaw of the eighth laird

:
fecit), within,
monument (Joannis Faid, m and near S.W. corner of the kirk:
Hoc conduntur tumulo reliquise Alexandri Duff de Keithmore et Helena Grant, uxoria
suse charissimse, qui
felici et
Here lyeth the pious and vorthie gentleman, John Grant of Navie, who was maried to Helen Leslie, daughter to John Leslie of Kininvie, who departed the last of August -7 J.G H.L.
quadraginta annos et
ultra
Uterc^
fcecundo connubio juncti, vixerunt.
The
James
eighth laird of Kininvie and Tullich en-
tailed the estates in 1730,
afterwai'ds he
and dying two years was succeeded by his only child
ille ex nobilissimis Fifae Thanis per vetustam familiam de Craighead, paulo abhinc superstitem proxime & legitime oriuudus ilia ex splendida & potenti Grantaôrum familia eodem quo(^ modo originem trahens. Ortu non
quidem ingenue natus,
as ninth laird. The ninth laird married a daughter of Stewart of Lesmurdie, by whom he had three sons and three daughters. The first
obscuri, suis
tamen virtutibus
illustriores,
opibua
;
affluxerunt,
pie,
&
liberis
ingenue
educatis floruere
et
sic
juste
&
sobrie vixerunt,
in
Domino
and third sons both succeeded. The first, who Bold Buchromb in 1795, had an only daughter, and the second died unmarried in 1839, in which year the estates came to the son of their eldest sister Jean, by Robert Young, factor and commissioner to Sir A. Grant of Monymusk. This son, who was a solicitor in Banff, and took a leading part in the
affairs of the county, married a daughter of James Donaldson of Kinairdy in
mortem
obiere, ilia
Anno Domini
1694, etatis susa
sexagesimo.
are laid the remains of Alex. Duff and Helen Grant, his dearly beloved wife, who lived in a happy and fruitful union for more than 40 years. Both were well born, he being very nearly and lawfully descended from the most noble Thanes of Fife, through the old family of Craighead, not long extinct, and she deriving her origin, in like manner, from the renowned and
[In this
tomb
of Keithmore,
MORTLACH.
poAverful family of the Grants.
birth, yet
329
more
illustrious for their virtues,
Of distinguislied they
adjoining
pews are
freestone busts of
left
Mr
Duff
and
his lady.
Keithmore
a family of three
all
were happy in a flourishing family of liberally educated children, lived piously, justly, and soberly, and so died in the Lord, she A.D. 1694, in the 60th year of her age.]
abounded
in wealth,
sons and four daughters.
The daughters were

;
married.
sons were respectively designed of Braco, Dipple, and Craigston and the eldest son
The
Alex.
of Dipple, after representing the county of Banff
Duff of Keithmore Baird's interesting " Genealogical

officer
(according to
Mr
Memoirs
of the
Duffs,")* was an abroad in 1646. and on his return home was imprisoned for some time by the Covenanters. He " was a little man," and becoming corpulent,
under Montrose, went
Parliament for several years, was created a first by the title of Baron Braco, then by that of Earl of Fife. From him the present Earl
in
Peer,
of Fife,
and Viscount Macduff,
is
the fifth Peer
in succession.
Although the averment
in the
Mortlach in-
was called by his friends Croilie Duff. " Tho' abundantly active and diligent, a great
share of
to his
liis
scription of the descent of Alex. Duff of Keith-
Success in acquiring
money is
ascribed
She was a sturdy, bigbecame so fat and bulky, that it is said it required an ein of plaiding to make her a pair of hose, and that one time when she threw herself hastily into her Chair without taking notice that the House cat was lying squat upon the Seat, she prest puss so effectually to Death with the weight of her body, that During it never waged a foot more the Usurpation of Oliver Cromwell, she had concealed a great leather bag full of ducatous in the Ceiling of the Hall at Keithmore, and the rats had just finish't gnawing a Chasm in the bottom of the bag, when a large company was at dinner, a shower of Dollars fell on the floor," Besides an ample dowry which Keithmore got by his wife, he succeeded, at the death of her
last
Wife boned woman, and at
more from Macduff, Thane of Fife, is not borno out by charter evidence, record proves that the surname of Duff has been one of respectability and consequence in Banffshire from at least the
time of king David
II.
a wadset which Duff received from the Marquis of lluntly about 1640-6. It is situated in Auchendown, and the house commands a good view of the ruins of the castle of that name, and of the valley of the Fiddich, &c.
It belongs to the
The property of Keithmore was
Duke
of Rich;
mond, as successor to the Dukes of Gordon and is occupied by an enterprising tenant, Avho has
much pleasure in pointing out the slabs (one dated 1080), with Alexander Duff's initials, arms and family motto virtute et opera as well as the " Strype of water," by the side of M'hich Keithmore's wife, feai'ing the aiiproach of king
William's Dragoons, had a bag of gold and silver
coins secreted
brother, " to 100,000 merks, including the

set of Allachy itself."
Wad-
Keithmore, the date of
whose death has not been recorded upon the monument at Mortlach, died in 1700, aged 76 and, exclusive of large purchases of land made by his eldest son, he is said to have left " 24,000 merks
;
by "her Grand Child, old Lesmurdy, a boy then 17 or 18 years of age." Another tablet (marble) near the Duff monument bears:
Mri. HuGoNis Innes, filij honorabilis Joannis Innes de Leichnet, qui, cum annos triginta quatuor sacra in hoc templo peregisset,
:
M.O.V.S.
viri
of
Land
rent."
his lady
Keithmore and
were both buried within

recesses
lost to
the kirk of Mortlach, in front of their monument.
Below
it,
in
two separate
within the
anno Christi MDCCXXXII, natus annos Posuit hoc mouumeutum pia ac dilectissima conjux Eliz, Abernethie, filia domini de Mayen.
obijt
LXVIII.
thickness of the wall
almost
view by the
of the Duffs" a most delightful piece of Scotch Family History, written by Wm. Baird of Auchmeddan, Esq., about 1763-73 were lately printed for private circulation by Major Gordon-Duff of Drummuir.
The " Genealogical Memoirs
[Sacred to the memory of Mr Hugh Innes, son o an honoui'able man, John Innes of Leichnet, who was minister of this church for 34
years,
and died
in 1732,
aged 68 years,
His pious T T
330
EPITAPHS,
wife,
AND INSCRIPTIONS:
Stewarts having been merely tenants of Pittyvaich.
and dearly beloved

daughter
ment. ]
Elizabeth Abernetliie,
this
of the laird of
Mayeu, erected
monu-
The property
belongs to Loi-d Fife.
Sacred to the
"This gentleman
(Old Stat. Acct., xvii.p. 432),
Forsyth, minister
departed this
of his age,
life
was possessed of a considerable share of bodily strength and personal courage and, in those days, if various anecdotes which are told of him be
;
of the Rev. Morris Gospel at Mortlach, who 19th Feb. 1838, in the 68th year
memory
of the
and 33d
of his ministry.
From
the kirk
a neat tablet built into the east wall of

:
true, it seems he
had occasion
for the exercise of
these qualities in the discharge of his clerical

functions."
To
C. B.
,
the
memory
of
Major John
Cameron,
E. I. C. Native Infantry, on the establishment
The Inneses of Lichuett were descended from James, second son of Sir Robert lunes of that One of them, ilk, and his wife Grisal Stewart. John, was a Colonel under the Marquis of Argyll, to whom, on 1st March 1649 (Acct. of the Family of Innes, 140), he was " the first divulger" of the
desertions from the
of St George,
who after serving

both in a
civil
his country in India
for 32 years,
and military capacity,
and particularly
in most of the principal events during that period, died on the 15th of June 1838, while officiating as Resident at the Court of
unwilUngness to
designed of
army in consequence march to the North.
of its
Hyderabad, aged 47 years. This tablet has been erected to his memory, and placed in the church of his native parish, by a few of his friends in India, as a mark of esteem and affection for his public and
private character.
The minister's wife, whose progenitors were long Mayen in Rothiemay, is said to have
ilk in
been descended of Abernethy of that

shire,
Perthuntil
Possibly the oldest tombstone in the churchyard,

is
and
latterly of Saltoun.
It
was not
one with a bold carving of the Farquhar-
17U6,
during the time of
Mr
Innes, that the
son arms near the middle.
An
inscription in old
General Assembly sanctioned the disjunction of
English characters, closely run on, and oddly ar-
Mortlach from the Presbytery of Fordyce and its annexation to that of Strathbogie, although the arrangement had been followed from the time
of the Revolution.
ranged toward the end,
is
cut in relief round the

true reading seems
is
margin of the
doubtful
;
slab.
The
:
but the following
probably not far
Mrs Innes
is
buried at Banff
from being the correct one

}
tit
and
Sime, who died in 1763 was one of thirteen victims to that malady, whose bodies lay unburied at Mortlach at one and the same time. Four other marble tablets within the church
of putrid fever,
Mr I.'s successor, Mr
l)ic
iarrt
fjoncrabtlts
iiix
"at
robcrtus farqufjarson
quint tncri anno
lautijtitbang qui obtit

lio sexto
mar
Jm
m qu"
cum sua
propiqTct'.
[Here rests with his kindred an honorable man, of Lauchtitvany, who died at noon on the [5th, or 15th] of March [1417, or
Robert Farquharson
1517.]
Sacred to the memory of Major LuDOViCK Stewart, Pittyvaich, and formerly of H.M. 24th
Kegt. of Foot,
who
died on the 25th of Dec. 1848,
It
is
said that
aged 66 years. Also of his wife Makg.vbet Fraser, who died on the 17th of Oct. 1859, aged 62 years. Their children Gordon-Elliot, Lieut., 22d Regt. Bombay N.L, died 12th Jan. 1849, aged 24 years.
[2 drs.
burial in his ancestral
the insult
Cuming of Kellas, when refused tomb at Altyre, avenged by changing his name to Farquuau
off
thus breaking
allegiance to his parent clan,
named.]
which, in those days " when might was right," was no ordinary loss to a chief. From him many
of
Sacred to the
of Pittyvaich,
memory
of
Mrs Ann Stewart late
the Farquharsons are descended, possibly also
churchyard.
whose remains are deposited in this She died 5th Feb. 1823, aged 81* years.
is
the old laird of Lauchtitvany.

of Elgin,
Provost Cuming
who
died laird of Auchry, in 1689, was

of Lochterlandich
(v.
The
word "of"
misapplied in the above, the
at one time designed
p.
MORTLACH,
1750 It is certain that before the 15th century, Cumings owned Lochterlandich, and other
go to prove some of
331
the
property on the North side of Glenrinnes as well

as in Glenlivat, facts which possibly
And by his mighty handy work, I'm here interr'd below. So in the silent grave I ly Along with many more,
Untill the day that 1 appear,
that the tombstone in question relates to
the Cumings
{v.
who took the name of Farquharson. Miss Cuming- Bruce's History of the Family
flat slab,
My Saviour Christ before.

Rudely cut upon a flat, undressed granite boulder
Heir lyes the desesd body of Iames McLanichal,
of
Cuming.)
which " lay in the passage towards
who
I
departed this
I
lif
in
Achmor Nomr.
I
7,
1726.
west end of church" in 1811 (now in the churchyard near to the south wall), presents a shield
in the centre with
M.
M.
2,
Heir lye the deseed
M vho depertet
Febery
1733, his age 49.
the Moir and
Reid
ia
impaled.
The
LYES
:
arms round the
lived in Priestswell,
sides of the stone
of Alex. Farquhar who and died May 22, 1733, aged 76 years. And of Barbara Gordon, his spouse, who died Nov. 1736, aged 70
Here
lyes the dust
MAN , CALLED ELSPET REID EFENCE OP WHO . WAS KILLED HOVS AT THE VALK MILN OF HIS OVIN DAY OF OCTOBR 1660. BOLVENIE THE 13 MEMENTO MORI.
HEIR lOHNE
. .
.
MOIR
. .
ANE HOKEST HVSBAND TO

.
. . .
.
Priestswell
is
in the vicinity of the church.

is
This stone
of excise, in
erected
by Alex. Anderson,
officer
to tradition, Moir, who was reputed was attacked by " the Cateran band,'' and killed by a gun-shot, while barricading the door The house or more probably one of his house. that had been raised upon or near its site long was till lately, and proafter the affair happened bably still is, pointed out by the peasantry as that Whether " lohne" had in which Moir was shot. been an ancestor of Dr Alex. Moir, a native
rich,
According
memory of his spouse Helen Gordon, who died 3d March ISIO, aged 23, daughter of John Gordon in TomnavouUan, who left 3 children, John, Alex,, and Margaret. In memory of John Gordon, in TomnavouUan, who died 6th June I.H.S f" His spouse Mar1831, aged 92 years.
GARET Gordon, died 13th July
year of her age, and
only son William.
left
1844, in the 78th

alive,
no family
but an
" William,"
still lives
the reputed Croesus of Glenlivat,
Tomnavoulan. Although past fourscore, he is an able and willing dispenser of " Highland hospitality."
at
and once schoolmaster

purposes to the parish
of Mortlach,
who
so gene-
rously left the interest of

is
600
for educational
uncertain, though
inscription
:
means improbable.
a
slab,
The next
by no is from
William Kelman, farmer who died Aprile 26, 1793, aged 80 and Helen McBarnat, his spouse, who died Isfc
Here
lies
the body of
in Lessmurdie,
with mortuary emblems
Dec. 1785, aged 75.
Hir lys the corps of the decessed Ianat Cattach,
vho departed
this life Ivly 3, 1751, spovs to

is
lohu
In memory of Mr Alexander Thomson, who taught the school of Mortlach 23 years, and died March the 21st, 1804, in the 57th year of his age.
This stone
as a
is
MacKendie
in Belmern, hir age
72.
:
placed here by his friends and pupils,
Upon
in
a broken table- shaped stone
lies the body of Alexander Cantlie, late Newton of Clunymore, who died 16th June 1807, Done by the care of his brother, years. aged
Here
mark of respect for his character as a worthy member of society, and an unwearied teacher of
youth.
Within an enclosure
Francis Cantlie, masson.
John Spence, Balandy, d. My God who gave me The world to and fro,
1777,
a.
82 :
strength to walk
The Rev. Alexander Grant, late minister of Glenrinnes, was interred here, Aug. 1, 1806, and This stone was repaired in hia Mother in 1777. Here lies 1807 by George Grant in Drumfurrich.
332
EPITAPHS,
AND INSCRIPTIONS:
wards of 25,000. Besides handsome legacies to relatives and friends, he left 500 to each of eight charitable institutions in London. He also left a legacy of 500 to the National Life-Boat Institution, directing that a boat, named James Sturm, should be employed on the coast of his native county. He bequeathed 2000 to found twa
scholarships for live years each in the University
of Aberdeen, for natives of Mortlach, of the of
fifteen years,
also tlie remains of the said of the Rev. Alex. Grant,
Elgin, 23 April 1816,
George Grant, brother who departed this life at ag^d 85, in memory whereof
added by desire
of his
this inscription has been
son, Alex. Grant, late of the Island of Jamaica,
on
visiting his native county from London in Aug. Janet Donaldson, relict of Geo. Grant, 1829.
Drumfurrich, died 1834, aged Alex. Grant, Aberlour, 1844.
78.
By
her son,
age
the
The above-named Alex. Grant, of the Island of

StrathJamaica, bought the estate of Aberlour, spey, from J. Gordon, Esq. Asister of Mr Grant's
who have been taught

;
in
school of that parish

of females of
also
500
for the education
Mortlach in the principles of the
Dr McPherson, farmer, Garbity and their daughter. Miss McPherson-Grant, is now promarried
;
Established Church of Scotland; and a farther
sum
of
500, a portion of which and interest,
prietrix of Aberlour, a
most lovely place, to which
to be expended for the relief of infirm poor per-
she succeeded by her uncle's will.
sons of the village of Dufftown.
From a table stone In memory of Robert Lorimer,

:
Here
senior,
lys in
hope
of a blessed resurrection
Bar-
who
de-
bara Barron, spouse
to
lohn Barron, dyster in

life
parted this
life
at
Glenbeg in a good old age, about
His sons William, James, and the year 1702. Thomas, all died unmarried. His fourth son,
Meuelock, who departed this lanuary 1779, her age forty one.
the r2th of Also there son
George, who departed the 13th

the
fifth
of Oct. 1769, in
Robert,
junior, lived in Myreside,
and died
there.
mouth
of his age.
John Lorimer
This monument was erected by his grandson, Dr of London, in the year 1795.
The above
to the kirk,
John Barron
is
gifted a pewter basin

:
Dr Lorimer
left
200
for the
maintenance of a
bursar at the school of Mortlach, and a like

to enable him,
if
sum
so inclined, to prosecute his
" Given by John Barron, Elder, to the kirk of Mortlach. Mr John Tough, minister, 1768." Some profane wag has scratched a verse of doggrel rhyme upon
which
thus inscribed
studies at Marischal College, Aberdeen.
Upon
:
the basin, the
first
couplet of which runs thus
a table-shaped stone, enclosed by a railing
This stone was placed here by John Mclnnes,

Dandalieth,
in
" This bason was presented by me, Iohn Barron, Who ever took the Scripture for my warran'."
memory
of
his
parents,
John
McInnes, Braehead, who died 21st Nov. 1816, aged 84 Margaret Luke, his spouse who died 4th
:
Helen Clark, mentioned in the next inscription, was a sister (v. Fordyce) of the late Sir James
Clark,
Feb. 1813, aged 74

interred.
.....
John McInnes
is
died here
at Dandalieth, 19th j\Iay 1850, aged 74, and
^ In pious
M.D. : memory of John Gordon, who
suc-
A monument of
This stone
in
is
Peterhead granite bears
ceeded to the farm of TuUochalum 1771, and died there 1820, aged 82. Mary Dawson, his spouse,
died 1824, aged 72.
LiAiNi,
And
;
erected
memory
of his
by James Sturm of London, parents Alexander Sturm, mer-
who
died in Jamaica, 1802
chant, Dufftown,
who
died 7th April 1848, aged 65

his wife,
and Margaret Murray,
who
died 6th
May
1847, aged 75.
The
erector of this
monument, who died
at
Hampstead,
May
7,
18G9, aged 57, was some-
TuUochalum, 1811 *' Gordon Highlanders," died in Jamaica, 1819 ; James, died at Aberdeen, 1824 Rev. John, died at Edinburgh, 1832; George, SS.C., Edinburgh, died at Paisley, 1838. Also of Helen Clark, the beloved wife of Alex. Gordon, who died at TuUoch;
WilAnne, died at Thomas, Capt 92d Regt.,

of their children,
;
time a clothier in Aberdeen.
He
afterwards be-
alum, 1822, aged 28 years.
R.
I.
P.
-.
came a furniture
dealer in London, and left up-
From
a stone in the east wall of churchyard
MORTLACtl.
William McConnochie, Auchendown, who died 13 Dec. 1824, aged 81. Done by his son John Omnes eOdem cogimur omnium
Erected in
333
memory
of
late farmer in
Boghead
of
S. Waloch is said to have had a mission at Balvenie (Bp. Forbes' Kalendar of Scottish Saints) long before the time of S. Moloch and a well
;
at Balvenie
was noted
in old times for its virtues
Versatur urna,
serii\s, ocitis
in curing various diseases.

It is further averred that
Sors exitura, et nos in Eeternum
Exilium impositura cymbte.
The
["
Balvenie, and conferred the
above, from Horace's
Ode
:
thus translated by
Dr
Francis
to Uellius,
is
Beyn's town), upon the

its
Bishop Beyn lived at name {Bal-Beyn, i.e., locality. More probably,

fields,"
origin
is
to be found in the Gaelic
We all must tread

And
the paths of Fate
Bal-bhana,
" the town of green
compound, which
ever shakes the mortal urn,
aptly describes the verdant aspect of the place
Whose lot embarks us, soon or late, On Charon's boat, ah never to return."]
!
and
:
its many pretty surroundings. The Cumins are said to have been
early pro-
table-shaped stone (enclosed) bears
prietors of the lordship of Balvenie, which, being
This stone was placed here by the Parishioners of Mortlach, as a mark of respect to the memory of the Rev. George Grant, who discharged with
fidelity the duties of a minister of this parish for
afterwards held by the great family of Douglas,
was
the space of eleven years, and died 10th Oct. 1804,

Also interred here
the remains of
Harriet-Ann Stuart or Grant, thereafter Irvine, widow of the said Rev, George Grant, who died at Aberdeen, 5th Sept. 1847, in
the 69th year of her age.
by Sir John Douglas, lord of BalAbout 1460, Sir John Stewart Earl of Athol, uterine brother of James II., bad a gift of Balvenie from the Crown, on the occasion of his marriage with Lady Margaret Douglas, " the fair maid of Galloway." She left two daughters and the Earl having married as his
forfeited
venie, in 1455.
second wife, a daughter of the Earl of Orkney,

she bore him a son, from
CJtley
Erected by a few friends in memory of John Wignall, Inland Revenue officer, who died
whom
were descended
the Stewarts, afterwards designed of Balvenie.

sold Balvenie about 160G, from which date until 1687, when the property was acquired by Alexander Duif of Braco, ancestor of
at Dufftown, 17th Jan. 1866, aged 27 years.
The Stewarts
fair
stone, round which S. Moloch's was held in old times, stands in the haugh of the Dullan, near the kirk. Both sides of the stone are ornamented with objects common to the same Near to this stone, about sort of antiquities. 1810, a gold bracelet of curious workmanship was found, which was given to Alexander Duke of
A sculptured
the Earl of Fife, the Inueses.
it
had several owners, including

is
The
castle,
which
guarded on the north by

is
a great ditch, with built sides,

to have been at first erected
popularly said
" has a large parlour in

Hall."
oldest
;
it,
by the Danes, and yet called The Danes'
The western
portion appears to be the
Gordon.
The stone has been engraved

i.,
in the
;
Sculptured Stones of Scotland (vol.
pi. xiv.)
and, according to Tradition, the
"set up" by King Malcolm

the Danes.
called a
monument was when he overcame
An entrenchment on Conval Hill is Danish encampment and it is said that,

;
and the S.E. part bears unmistakable eviArms occupy a niche over the entrance door upon which hangs a strong gate or yett of curiously wrought iron and the Athol legend is boldly carved upon the
dence of the Stewarts. The National
front wall
ggr
as at Gamrie, the skulls of three
Danes were long

It
is
FVRTH
FORTVIN
AND
FIL
is
THI
preserved at the kirk of Mortlach.

that, until repairs
certain
FATRIS.
were made upon the church
A shield
(within the castle court)
charged
in 1827, three skulls were kept in the wall of
with the Athol and Gordon arms impaled.
These
the old part of
it.
possibly refer to the fourth Earl of Athol,
who
334
EPITAPHS,
AND INSCRIPTIONS:
off by the hand of and fixed upon the gate of Auchendown Castle. These circumstances gave rise to the ballad of the " Burning of Auchendown." The castle was never rebuilt and not a
died in 1579, and to bis lady, a daughter of the
have been treacherously cut
house of Huntly.
Upon
another slab
is
defaced coat, over which
the motto
" spes
is
much
.
Sir
Adam
Gordon's lady,
MEA
xvs," (Christ
castle,
my
is
hope.)
position near the
The
which
surrounded by some grand
old trees, has a
commanding
trace remains of the Gordons, either in armorials
junction of the Dullan and the Fiddich, between

the railway station and village of DufTtown.
its
or initials,
if
any ever
existed,
about the noble
In
ruins of their old stronghold of
Auchendown.
Account of the
palmy days the house
of Balvenie
had con-
The writer
of the old Statistical
sisted of a large square,
occupying about a Scotch
Parish of Mortlach says that the heroine of the
acre in extent, with a strong lofty tower at the
song of " Tibby Fowler" lived in Auchendown
gateway, and turrets at each of the four angles of

the building.
and, speaking from the report of some old people
who had
was unroofed about a hundred and
it
seen her, tlie reverend writer adds, that

lass,
The
castle
she " was a plain looking

tocher."
with a swinging
sixty years ago, since which time
has gradually
become so much dilapidated that restoration would be almost impracticable. Had this been gone
about at the time the
costly,
first
of
The Village of Dufftown (from which the Castle Auchendown is about three miles distant), was
Earl of Fife built a
but now neglected mansion, a little farther down the glen, Balvenie might have been
at this day one of the noblest seats, as gives two capital engravings of
it is
founded in 1817, by Lord Fife. It contains a considerable population, with a neat Roman Catholic
Chapel, a Free Church, branch banks, and a
of
one of
number
good houses.
In consequence of the
the most interesting ruins in the North.

it
BiUings
salubrity of the climate, Dufftown
and
its
neigh-
in his Baronial
and
there
Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Scotland;

is
and
bourhood are much frequented by strangers during the summer months, to whom Balvenie, Auchen-
a good view (1787) in Cordiner's Redifferent type
markable Ruins.
Of a very
from the ruins of Bal-
Auchendown, These stand upon a high conical and grassy mound, the base of which is washed by the Fiddich, without a tree or bush to protect them from the storm. From the peculiar position and
venie are those of the castle of form, as well as the extent of the ruins, they present a singularly weird appearance, particularly
down, and the varied and romantic sceneiy of the Dullan and the Fiddich are objects of much interest, and particularly the locality of the Giant's Chair, upon the former river. The Glenrinnes portion of the parish, which
lies
sion station until within the last
between Dufftown and Glenlivat, was a misfew years. It is
now
a quoad sacra parish, with the necessary accompaniments of a church, school, manse, and
burial-ground.
when viewed from

superior, in
the ford at
Glenfiddich
some
respects, even to Melrose
when
seen by pale moonlight.
Indeed, so
Abbey much
of the of
was the Queen struck with the grandeur

scene that during her short stay with the
Duke
Richmond
at Glenfiddich, she sketched the castle

of view.
$,XU\\\XXt%
now
(OJltttlitW.
from several points
The property of Auchendown belonged to Ogilvy

of Deskford, before it
(?THE NINE MAIDENS.)
came
to the Gordons,
which
was about the year 1535. In 1592, the castle was burned by the Macintoshes out of revenge for the murder of their chief, whose head is said to
OIR ALEXANDER LINDSAY

father of the first
of Glenesk,
(v.
Earl of Crawford
Edzell), rebuilt the kirk of
Finhaven about 1380,
FINEA VENOA TELA W.

and bestowed it upon the cathedral of Brechin, in the choir of which the prebendary had a stall.
335
The
kirk of Oathlaw
is
rather a neat building,

trees.
The
old place of worship stood near the Castle
surrounded by some fine old tablet with this inscription

:
Within
it is
of Finhaven.
Some
of
the Earls of Crawford,
and the later lairds of Finhaven, and their families were buried at the church but, so far as known, no tombstone at Finhaven bears the name of any of the old owners of the property. Only two monumental fragments remain. One, though small, is a good example of the coffin
;
In memory of Mary Elizabeth Hillocks, the beloved wife of Captain James Webster, who departed this life in the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ,
January 2, 183-4 ; and cf their only children, David, died January 10, 1834, aged 2 years and 9 days
Mary,
died Augt.
3,
1834, aged 3 years 7

is
months
slab
the other
is
flat
stone, with the figure of
(with permission of the Heritors), erected by a sorrowing husband and father.
19 days.
This tablet
The words below are round the margin of the latter and the surname, which is partly obliterated, had probably been Bruce. This is inferred from the Bruce arms being upon a shield at the feet of the figure
a priest rudely incised.
;
:
headstone, within an enclosure at the east end of the kirk, refers to the parents of the above-named lady, whose husband was a seaman, and a son of Provost AVebster of Forfar
:
1831. Erected
by David HiUocks
at Mill of Fin-
haven, in
Ji)tc
.
iactt
.
Ijonorabills
bir
.
ins
.
recljErli
.
6t
Jjtiarias
Be
fintcban
qui
obiit
2o
memory Brown, who lived

in the faith of her
of his beloved wife,
Isabella
respected and loved, and died
"bit.
White, prebendary of Finhaven, was an original member of the College of

or
Justice,
Henry Quhit,
and died about 1541,
He was
left
Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, on the 11th February 1831, aged 97 years. David Hillocks died 6th June 1839, aged 86. Also much and justly regretted.
possibly
connected with Brechin, since he
the rents of
Mr Hillocks was long local factor on Finhaven,

Careston, and Hallyburton and his wife was a daughter of a factor at Aboyne. Mr H.'s brother, sometime farmer of East Newton, afterwards
;
a toft and tenement of land adjoining that city to the chaplain of the altar of S. Catherine at Brechin (Reg. Ep. Brechin.)
a grain merchant in Montrose, died about 1859, aged 96. Their father was farmer of Peebles,
near Arbroath.
O A T H L A W.
Although Oathlaw has been the name
tury,
of the
An lona cross (ornamented with the famUy arms and motto), within a railing, in S. E. corner
of burial-ground, bears
upon
its
base
parish from about the beginning of the 17th cen-
and the church situated
in that locality,
memory of David Greenhill-Gardyne of Finaven, who died 19th Oct. 1867, in his 72d year.
In
the whole district was previously
known
is
as Fin-
Mr
cousin,
Greenhill-Gardyue,
who
succeeded
his
haven, or FiNAVEN.
Oathlaw
supposed to
have been merely the site of a chapel, dedicated So to S. Mauv, and dependent upon Finaven. far as I know. Tradition and Mary's Well are the
only authorities for these ideas.
Carnegy-Gardyne in the lauds of Finhaven, &c., was a son of Mr Greenhill of Fearn, and his wife Clementina Gardyne of Middleton {v. Inverkeilor.) Like his cousin,
Mr
he assumed the additional name of Gardyne.
He
The
1731.
parish was disjoined from the Presbytery
erected the present mansion-house at Finhaven,
of Brechin,
and annexed to that of Forfar, in present church was built in 1815. The old bell, which is at the parish school of
where he died as above.
Mr
G. was a District
The
Judge
sides
in
the
H.E.I.C.'s
Finhaven, he
Beowned Craignathro, near

Civil Service.
Careston,
SOLI
is
inscribed
Forfar, also Glenforsa, in Argyll, which last he

.
D0
GLORIA
1018
bought from Lord Strathallan.
His son and sue-
336
EPITAPHS,
G.-Gardyne (by
AND INSCRIPTIONS:
i*lonumcntum.
to
cesser, Lieut.-Colonel
his wife, a
officer
Here lyesMAV Prophet, spouse

minister at Oathlow, born
of a resurrec-
daughter of
in the
Dr
Wallace, Arbroath), was an
Mr
Thos. Raiker,
5,
Coldstream Guards.
He
married the Hon.

of Viscount
Novr.
life
1715, maried Feby. 4, 1742, departed this
Strathallan,
Amelia-Ann Drummond, daughter by whom he has issue.
tion to
July 20, 1798, in the lively hope Immortal life, aged 83.
Time,
Round
the sides of a
flat
stone (in the centre of
Before mankind a better wife shall see,
which are also traces are these words

:
of
. .
a Latin inscription),
Death, shall strike a dart at thee.

side of
[On west
.
.
same stone
;]
ELMVS rODE QVI OBIIT OCTOB ETIAM ALEX FODE EIVS FILIVS QVI
.
Thomas Raiker was born on
the 11th of June
OBIIT
25
MAII
1618.
" Fode" looks like a corruption of

fai-shire
the old For-
name
lyis
of Fothie or FitJue, which some-
times takes the form of Fadle.
1711, ordined Minr. of this parish on24th Deer. 1740, and died 30th June 1803. He was at the sametime a regular and zealous servant of his Divine Master and attentive to his own concerns. Let those who were edified or benifited by the labours of his long life, cherish and imitate what was praiseworthy in
his character.
Heir
loHN Marno, svmtym indvelar
in
Ovthlaw, who depairted in November 1675, his age
was 76
yeirs
Rests before this stone, the mortal clay
now Marnie^ is probably assumed from Marnoch, or S. Marnan. Heir lyis Robert Moor, svmtym indvellar in
Bogardo, hvsbaud to Evphan Ese
this lyf the 1 of
;
" Marno,"
Of Thomas Raiker,
till
that awful day.
When
And
Christ will send his angel thro' the skies,
to the dead proclaim
ye sleepers Rise.
he depairted Also
Then may the Saviour to this Servant say Enjoy a Crown thro' an eternal day.
Agvst 1694,
of age 76 yeirs.
his children lye heir Ioiin,
Kathren, and Ianet
Mr R.'s father was an officer of excise at Anstruther Wester, and his wife was the daughter
a merchant in Kirriemuir. He left 20 to the was never three Sundays out of his own pulpit, and preached on the
of
Moor,
&c.
is still
" Ese" or Essie

of local origin.
a surname in Angus, and
poor of the parish
From another
stone
tym
SS Heir Ij'-es Thomas Hood, indveller in Wilds Hillock,

life
hammerman, svm-
last
who
departed this
his wife,
(Scott's Fasti.)
Sabbath, except one, previous to his death. Mr Raiker's epitaph is locally
present
the 18 day of lanvarie 1699 years, and

;
attributed to the late Rev.

dice,
of his age the 87 year
also
Ianet Svtar
who, in speaking
of
Mr Mr R.
Buist of Tannabeing " attentive
and
his children
is
to his
own
concerns," possibly had the fact in
Death
the horison
wher ovr sone doth

is
set.
Which
will throvgh Christ be a resvrectiou grate.
view that during his 65 years' incumbency Mr Raiker saved some 5000 off a stipend of about
The
glass
:
rvne.
From
a son
a head-stone
d. 1768, a.
70 a-year.
Raiker's
:
From
head-stone near to
Mr
Wm. Cuthbert,
John
d. in
Wright, Carsburn,
:
72
Sacred to the
memory
of
the Rev.
Andrew
for
infancy
Cromar, who,
after being minister of
Oathlaw
Heir lys the Father and the Son, Together in the dust
Consider
this, all
the short space of
four years and six months, died
on the 10th day

year of his age.
is
of
November
1835, in the fortieth
that pass by,
is
That follow
fast
you must.
the folaltered from
cut down."
He cometh " What I say
"
forth as a flower
and
unto you
I say
unto
Upon
Ben
the east side of a head-stone
all,
Watch."
lowing inscription.
The
couplet
is
Jonson's epitaph on the Countess of

:
Pem-
broke
[On the west side of same stone :] George Philip Cromar, wine-merchant, Arbroath, sou of the Rev. Andrew Cromar, died 12th
OATHLAW.
Dec. 1862, aged 31 years
;
337
and
is
here interred.
Antiquarian and historical notices of Finhaven
Jane Cromar, daughter

mar, and wife of
Revd. Andrew CroDavid Ritchie, Rio de -Janeiro,

of the
;
having been already given by the writer in the " Land of the Lindsays," readers are referred to
that
died 1st April 1863, aged 32 years

at Petropolis, Brazil.
and
is
interred
book more
work
of
especially to
Lord Lindsay's de-
lightful
the "Lives of the Lindsays."

hill of Finhaven an extensive vitrified
The Rev. Mr Cromar, who belonged

Hon. Gen. Ramsay
Oathlaw.
of Kelly. It
to
Lura-
It
is
need only be stated that the

remarkable as the
;
phanan, was sometime tutor in the family of the
site of
was through
fort
and
that, in
General Roy's time, and for

traces of a
the General's influence that he got the kirk of
many years afterwards, there were Roman camp at Battledykes.
was succeeded by the Rev. Harry who was appointed to the living through Lord Hill, Commander-inStuart, a native of Birse,
as a chaplain in the army,
Mr Cromar
stately portion of the ruins of the Castle of
Chief of the Forces, in recognition of his services and for the valuable
evidence which he gave in 1835, before the
mission which was appointed
to
Finhaven occupies a rising ground near the junction of the Lemno with the South Esk. This is probably a portion of the house to which Earl
Beardie
fled after the battle of Brechin and in which he exclaimed that he " wud be content to hang seven years in hell by the breers (eyelashes)
;
Com-
inquire into
Military Punishments, and the Discipline of the
o'
the e'e," rather than have lost the victory which

fallen to his antagonist, the Earl of Huntly.
Army
in general. in
Mr
Stuart published, in 1853)
had
an appeal
favour of Agricultural Labourers
stone bridge crosses the

;
in Scotland, which,
whether for straightforward
North Road
dated 1796.
Lemno on the great and that over the South Esk is
heartiness in the cause, or graphic delineation of
peasant
and character, is one of the best works that have appeared upon the subject.
life
The Kirk-session records of Finhaven and Oathlaw shew that " the Ladie of Finhaven dyed on
buried on Friday thereafter in the Isle."
relates to the first wife of
The
parish school and school-house are at the
Sabbath morning the 20th Aug. 1738, and was This
Kirkton of Oathlaw. A tablet with the following inscription, the admonitory part of which is from
James Carnegy
of Fin-
haven, who, in a drunken brawl in 1728, accidentally killed the Earl of Strathmore upon the
streets of Forfar (v.
Juvenal
(Sat. 14), is
upon the
school- house
Land
of the Lindsays.)
:
The
Auspiciis NobilissimiCAROLi, Comitis de Aboyne,

Bar. de Finhaven, Patroni,
erisque.
following extracts are curious

1734,
cum
cteteris
Prop, et
Poss. fundi parcechise de Oathlaw.
Virginibus pu-
March
15,
" Agnes Clerk, spouse to John
Fairweather in this town of Oathlaw dyed and waa

buried tomorrow."
1735,
Nil dictu fcediim aut visu' htec limiua tangat

Intra quae puer est
Nov.
!
3,
"The
church
officer's sick
child
Maxima debetur
A.
pueris reverentia.
S.
buried here"
1784.
On
at sea,
strangers that were dumb, being taken
4th July 1736, charity was '"'given to two by the Turks
[Under the auspices

of the other
of the
Most Noble Charles,

in the parish of
and
their tongues cut out."
Earl of Aboyne, Baron of Finhaven, Patron, and
Landed Proprietors
Oathlaw. For boys and girls. Let nothing unbecoming to be spoken, or seen touch the threshold, within which a child is. The
greatest reverence
is
The annexed wood cut is a representation of the tombstone of Richard Bruce, vicar of Finhaven,
referred to at p. 335
:
due to children. ]
SUPPLEMENT.
In
memory
of
Williaji Watt, sometime Re-
Alford (page
A costly granite
of the burial
120.)
side
porter to the Aberdeen " Free Press,"
who
died
27th March 1854, aged 30 years.
monument, on the north

of Alford, bears
:
ground
The next
inscription records the fact of a

his
man
becoming a father in
82d year
To the memory
beloved pastor of
of the
Eevd. James Farquhar-
SON, LL.D., F.R.S., for 31 years the faithful

this parish,
and
Erected by
Wm.
Lawson
in Mill of
Commerce,
who
died
lamented Deer. 3d 1843, aged 62. This was erected out of grateful and affectionate
much monument
re-
parish of Midmar, in
memory of his parents William
membrance by
his parishioners.
officer at Coull,
the son of an excise was 12 years schoolmaster at AlHe was ford before he succeeded to the church. a successful student of meteorology, and wrote upon the Aurora Borealis, the Currency, the Native Forests of Aberdeenshire, &c. His wife
Dr Farquharson, who was
Lawson, who died 29th Novr. 1782, aged 84 years. Also of his spouse Jean Forbes, who died 29th July 1818, aged 78 years. Also of Effie, their daughter, who died 27th Octr. 1793, aged 13 years. Also of William, son of the above Wm. Lawson,
who
died in infancy.
From
a granite obelisk
was a
sister of the
under-mentioned
is
Mr Farquhargranite
:
In memory of Geokue Thomson, Guard S. N. E. Ky., injured while on duty on 22nd, and died on 23rd August 1862, aged 27 years. This stone is erected by his fellow- servants and friends, by whom
son Taylor, to whose
memory a handsome
he
is
deeply regretted.
monument, with draped urn,

In memory
J. P., farmer,
thus inscribed
aged 58. testimony of their respect for his sterling integrity as Factor for many years, on the estates of Haughton, Breda, and Carnaveron ; and in affectionate remembrance of his high character and worth as a
Farquharson Taylor, Esqre., who died 13th July 1857, Erected by the parishioners of Alford in
of
Wellhouse,
Auchterless (208.)
The following inscription relates to ancestors of Edward Ellice, Esq., who has represented the St Andrews District of Burghs, since 1837
:
Neighbour and a Friend.
Mr
Taylor's grand-father,
who was farmer
of
Here lyes Adam Barclay, sometime in KnockHe leith, and Christian Chalmers, his spouse. died 12th of August, 1695, and She the 18th of April, 1696. Also, Isobel Barclay, their daughter,
the Kirktown of Alford, died in 1800, aged 70.
& George
of
Ellice, her husband.
She died
2Stli
His own father died in 1837, aged 81.
December, 1727, and
He
the 23d of June, 1736.
340
EPITAPHS,
AND INSCRIPTIONS.
]\Ir
Also William Ellice, their son, -who lived at Mill of Knockleith, and Mary Simpson, his wife. He died 19th August, 1756, aged 37, and She the lath
of February, 1786,
Fithie probably retired to the
Castle of
Claypots after his deposition. He died sometime before 1st May, 1655, as of that date " Mr
aged 76 years.
possibly tenant of the farm
James
Henrie
gift
Fithie, only lawful sou of the deceased

Feitliie,
Mr
Adam Barclay was

his
late minister at
of,
Mains," had a
of INetherthird of Knockleith, for, according to
from Patrick, Earl

St Salvador,
the List of Pollable Persons for Aberdeenshire,

1696, Netherthird was tenanted by, apparently,
laincy of
Panmure, of the chap" foundit for ye Lady
widow, " Christau Chalmers," when she and her family, " Hary, Elisabeth, and Isobell Barklays,"were charged 36s of poll duty.
As
Christian
Chalmers died on 18th April, the tax must have

been fixed before that date in 1696.
Marie Church of Dundee." Mr James Fithie was appointed minister of Mains in 1663 and, as his second wife was named Martha Johnstone, she may have been related to Mrs Edward of Murroes (infra, p. 123). As elsewhere stated (INIem. Angus and Mearns, p. 43), Fithie is an old Forfarshire name, and was
;
Ben vie (192.)

Mr Henry
is
assumed from lands in the parish of of Fythie was one of the Commissioners appointed by Robert the Bruce to inquire and report what rights and privileges the
originally
Farnell.
Henry
town
Fithie,
of
Arbroath had from his
predecessors.
who was admitted
minister
Fithies were designed of Boysack at one time,
of Benvie before 4th April, 1627, and whose
name
was
de-
and a Henry Fithie was provost

(Nisbet,
i.
of
Arbroath
upon the old kirk bell of that translated to Maius about 1633.
sters in the
parish,
353).
plate,
He was
handsome communion bread
which
posed in 1649, along with seventeen other miniloyalty to
belongs to the kirk-session of Dundee, presents a

shield,
Synod of Angus King Charles.
(Scotts' Fasti), for
charged with a crane, pierced by a sword

(for
in
Mr
Fithie,
who
;
possibly' officiated
at
times
j)robably showing descent
after his deposition, continued in favour with the
Earl of Panmure
letter appears to refer to
and the following interesting some official engagement

his Lordship, tlirough his
is
and three stars in chief, from a second son. The donor of this plate, who was a merchant in Dundee, and sometinie proprietor of Benvie and Balruthrie (Mem. Angus and Mearns, 305), marbase
Fithie),
which he had made with

factor,
ried
Mr
Lord
Pilmure.
It
addressed
"For
the
Margaret Strathvvhan, or Strachau. is round the shield

:
The
verie noble lord the earle of
panmure"
Johne pilmure Lops, letter from him so I at the receat of yo on Sundays intendit to haue been with your L night but that day an issue of bloud brak vpon
. . .
.
My
As I promised to
Mr
lOHANNES EITHEVS, IN AMORIS TESSERAM, ECCLETAODVNENSI AD SACRAM C(ENAM CELEBRANDAM VAS HOC ARGEInTEVM DONO DEDIT. 1665.
SI.E
wherby
wher.
was
altogither vnable to ride or go anie
[John Fithie presented this silver vessel, as a token of his attachment, to the Church of Dundee, to be employed in the celebration of the Holy
Supper.
1665.]
it
it might haue closed on mead all that might h but I must short iournj' after the close therof take pa ence vnder this arestment, and oraue your lop humble pardon that I can not be assistent this day as your lop desjn-ed, I abyd your Lop
yet I hoped that

that
i
munday and
.
,
But
of
intrinsic value
ought to be added that, apart from its and antiquity, this plate is an object
con-
much
local interest, in so far as it bears, in
junction with the
Claypotts ye G of
humble Seruant t my pour M. Henkie Fithie. June 1G53.
Assay Office of Edinburgh, the arms of the town of Dundee. I am indebted for this interesting fact to the Kev. Mr R. R. Lingard-Guthrie of Taybank, who,
of the
mark
SUPPLEMENT.
I believe, has the merit of discovering the Dundee mark or stamp, which he has found not only
341
Bervie (2G.)
There was probably an earlier bridge across the Bervie than that of 1695 at least the following charter notice shows that it was proposed to erect one towards the close of the 15th century :
;
upon the Fithie plate, but also upon later pieces of silver work at Taybank, &c. The Dundee arms or mark shows that the pieces of plate upon which it appears were made by local craftsmen. Mr James Rettie, jeweller,
Aberdeen, who
informs
is
well versed in these matters,
me
that
when
plate
was sent from the
to
"Ch. to Alexander Straitoun of Kuox for supplie him to help to big a brig ou the water of Jauerof the said
provinces to the Assay Othce at Edinburgh, the
bervy of the kings fishings
water and
arms or mark of the town in which the maker resided was added to the regular Hall Mark. He also refers to Chaffers' work on " Hall Marks," from which it appears that the plate originally
cheifely the fishing betuixt the Sea marck in the shirrifsdome of Kincardine qlk uas never given before to any excepting all former donationes given
to
made
Plate
at St
Andrews bore the St Andrew
Cross,
and that
of the city of Perth the spread eagle.
at Aberdeen bore the three castles, and that of Dundee had the pot and lily. Although I have seen no record of the silverBmiths of Dundee, I have no doubt but much
made
any other gentlemen uith pouer to him to putt Cruives and coupis on the said watter and to make a Clouss in the brig for his mair Commodious bleuehe for a reid roiss at St John Baptists fishing
day at the toim of Jnuerbervy 28 May 1474 Edinr " (M.S. Notes of Scotch charters at Panmure.)
that
is
interesting could be gleaned from their
Minute Books. The trade was practised there at an early date, as is proved by a tombstone near the north-west corner of the Howjf, which bears
to have been erected to the
memory
of a " gold-
C
The
army Hie (-246.)

Carmyllie was formed out of
;
smith" who died in 1603, at about the age of 70. ay This stone is much defaced, but as ...
.
parish of
surname and the Kamsay eagle can be traced upon it, the name of the craftsman is placed beyond doubt. Having been contemporary with, this Dundee
the last
two
letters
of the
several adjoining parishes

(p. 246), a chapel
and, as before stated

in the early
was erected there
part
of
the
16th century, of which Malcolm
Strubble was chaplain.
By
the deed of erection
goldsmith
celebrated
may also have been related Davy Ramsay, clockmaker

It
to,
the
the chaplain and his successors were bound to
to
King
keep a school at the chapel
of Carmyllie for the
James, and a reputed descendant of the Kamsays

of Auchterhouse.
of
instruction of youtli (Reg. de Panmure).
may
be repeated
(v.
Mem.
is
Angus and Mearns),
that Lord Dalhousie
in
" The presentation of ye chapell of Carmyllie, givein to IMr David Lyndsay be ye lerd of Carmyllie,
possession of a curious watch, inscribed "
David
w* consent of
of
his curators," supplies the
Ramsay, Scotus, me
It
fecit,"
and which
is
said to
names
two
of the old ministers of the district.
have belonged to Mary Queen of Scots.
may
also be
added
it is
that, in a
deed signed and
sealed iu the church-yard of St Clement,
Dundee,
11th
of
May
1427,
stated that
Thomas Maule
seal
Panmure used a newly made

local artificer.
the goldsmith (Reg. de Panmure).
by Donald Donald had
(here printed from the original at Panmure, by the kind permission of Lord Dalhousie), is dated the same year (1609) as Parliament ratified " the Erectioun of the kirk of Carmylie in ane parochkirk, conforme to the actis of the
The deed
kirk maid thairanent" (Acta Pari.,
iv.
442.)
probably been a
As Dr
Scott (Fasti) states that
Mr
George
Ouchterlony was admitted minister of Carmyllie
312
EPITAPHS,
Mr Lyudsay
AND INSCRIPTIONS
before 28th Dec. 1611,
had not been

sur-
long there.
person of the same
name and
a copy of
:
Coldstone (284.)
An
"
" lona Cross," within a railing near the
is
name was admitted Sept. 1610. The
to Kinnettles (Fasti), before
followiug
is
Mr
Lyndsay's presentation to Carmyllie
gate of the church-yard,

1 will lay
thus inscribed
Be It kend till all men be yir prnt. letters, me James Stracliaucha of carmylie, wuJoubted patron
of ye cbapellaurie of Carmylie,
Sacred to the
me down and take my rest." memory of John Farquharson
of
Corrachree, Lieut. -Colonel H.E.I. C.S,
Died 19th
with consent
of
my
July 1871.
curators wndersubscryvaud for yair Interest, wnder-
standeut the qualification, literatur, and gwid vnder-
Colonel
Lyndesay, sone lawfull to James Lyndesay, burges of Dunde, and of his earnest desyr and Intention to Preache the Word, TherfFoir I haj-fF nomted. and presentit, and be yir prntis Noatts and preseuttis the sd Mr Dauid In and to the chapellanre of carmylie, lyand within
standing of
the diocie of brechin and shrefTdom of forfar, haill
frwits, dutties, profeitts,
Mr Dauid
Farquharson married a sister of Mr Farquharson of Whitehouse in Tough, but left no issue. The Colonel was a grandson of the last
of
Farquharson of TuUochcoy, and representative His the Inverey branch (supra, pp. 215.)
Isabella
mother,
McHardy, who belonged
to
Cabrach, had a nephew, some time sheriff-substitute of Lanarkshire,
and
casualitie ptning yrto,
now
the wife of
Mr
and his eldest daughter 's Merry, M.P. for the Falkirk
:
Dwering
In
all
the dayes off bis lyftym,
now waccand
Burghs.
my
handis and at
off
be ye deceas
of
my Disposition & presentation Mr Thomas Strachaehyn, last
Upon
In
a granite obelisk
chapell lin yroff,
brechin, to admit
humble requyring Andrew, bishop and resaue him yrto, and
him with his testimonial! of admission yrwpon In dew and competent form as affairs. Lykwayes hmble requyring ye lordis off couusell
authorise
Francis Beattie, A.M., for 49 years schoolmaster of this parish. Born 1st Jany. Erected by his grate1785, died 24th Septr. 1855. ful and attached pupils who mourn in him a zealous teacher, a wise counsellor, and a constant friend.
of
memory
&
sessioun to grant
&
direct letters at the Instance
From
a granite head-stone
of ye sd
Mr
Dauid, for ansueriug
& obeying him
hundreth and nyn

lyftym.
of ye frwits, reutis, profeits, & emolemtts of ye sd chappellanre off ye crope & yeir of god j'" sex yrs. Instant, & forder duering his
To the memory of the Eev. James Wattie, M. A. parish schoolmaster of Crimond from 1813 to 1856,
also tenant of the
to which
years.
farm of Bellastiaid in this parish he latterly retired where he had been
In witness qroff to this
sabscryvet be
my preseutatione, me & my curators, my seill Is affixt

day
of
born, and where he died 31st July 1872, aged 83
att brechin ye first
Maij jm sex hundreth and nj'u yrs befoir yir vitnes the sd John Kory.
In early
lore.
life
Mr
Wattie became a tutor
in the
Island of Eig, where he acq lired some knowledge

of the Gaelic language, and a taste for traditional
James Strauchiue.
Alexr, Strachauchin,
of brigtoun, curator.
He
afterwards cultivated the latter gift

;
Georg Strathen,[?] curator.

Al, Strathauchin, fear of brigton,
curator.
with considerable success

matters to writing.
and
it is
to be regretted
that he did not commit his knowledge on these
His own sayings and doings would form a

chapter rich in the curiosities of
Pie was tall
human
character.
and rather spare

in his
in person.
When he
he gener-
went abroad
own neighbourhood,
in the
ally carried a staff nearly as long as himself,
wore a heavy cloak which, even of summer, covered no end of
and warmest days flannels and great-
SUPPLEMENT.
Although learned, well read, and of a is said to have been more frequently seen than welcomed by his friends. Mr Wattie was exceedingly vain of the attentions of the great, and seldom lost an opporcoats.
343
sociable disposition, he
tunity of thrusting himself into their presence.

is told that soon after he became a preacher, he was introduced to Lord Aberdeen, afterwards Premier, and that his Lordship signified his in tention to procure a church for him. Mr Wattie
To the memory of James Thom, once tenant in who died 6th January 1859, aged 83 years. Also of his wife Margaret Williamson, who died 4th January 1859, aged 82 years and James Thom of the fourth generation of the name of Thom in Elrick, son of James Thom, farmer, Elrick, who
Elrick,
;
It
died 27th February 1841, aged 28 years.
allowed few chances to pass without reminding his
Cupar- An gf US (7 3.)
A U.P. Church was established at CuparAngus in 1743, and a Relief Church in 1787. The undermentioned Messrs Small, Allan, and Muirhead, were respectively, the 2d, 4th, and 5th pastors of the former, and Mr Dunn was the 4th pastor of the latter body (Dr Mackelvie's Annals).
1773
:
Lordship of
his
promise by letter
but as writing
proved ineffectual, he determined to make personal In course of time an opportunity application.

occurred, and upon
Lord Aberdeen remarking
that the church sought after was scarcely suited

for
is
Mr
said to
Wattie, the latter, in his own blunt way, have inquired, " Then, my Lord, what
sort of a church
do you think would

!"
suit
me?"
Hie jacent cineres Domini
veri Christiani,
to which
it
is
said the Earl laconically replied
Thom^
Small,
" The
It
is
Ld
only knows
&
fidelis pastoris,
ut speramus, in Ec-
pleasing, however,
to have to
his gifts as
skill as
add that
clesia Associata, Cupar Angus, qui in opere Evan-
geliiassidue laboravit, donee
though he did not recognise

his
a preacher,
Lordship perceived his
a farmer, and
when Mr Wattie came

Bellastraid,
to reside as his tenant at
Deo placuit in gaudium Obiit quinto die Maii, Domini sui eura vocare. anno millesimo septingentesimo septuagesimo secundo, atatis sute vigesimo nono et
[Here
lie
he gave him every encouragement,

the ashes of
and
left
nothing undone to make his latter years
Mr Thomas
Small, a true
comfortable.
we trust, in the Associate Church, Cupar- Angus, who laboured diligently in the work of the Gospel until it pleased
Christian and faithful minister, as
God
to call
him
to the joy of his Lord.
He
and
.
died 2d
. .
.
May

[2.]
Cowie
Upon
To
the
:
(5 5.)
minister of the First
memory
of
of
Man, a native
Granada,
Eaymond Stewart, a Black who lived for thirty
Rev. Alexander Allan, Un. Assoc. Congregation, Cupar Angus, who died on the 30th January 1824, in the 72d year of his age, and 43d of his ministry. This stone is erected by the gratitude of his flock.
To the memory
of the
years in the service of the late.
Mr
Farquharson
of
Breda, in this country, and was much respected. He died at Elsick the 3d January 1834, leaving
diis,
Qualiscunque fuerit pietate, iugenii dotibus, stuofficiisque, cordibus viventium vigeat, lapis
sepulchralis taceat.
money which he had saved
for charitable purposes.
From two flat slabs 1772. John Tiiom,

:
[Of his piety, his intellectual endowments, and his zeal in the discharge of his duties, let a vivid recollection dwell in the hearts of the living ; hut
let
March
dead. ]
1763, aged 72.
Ann Burnet,
tenant in Elrick, died 27 his wife, died
the tomb-stone be silent.]
April 24, 1779, aged 76.
[Nine children recorded
Mr
Allan was author of a work on the Power
of the Civil Magistrate in matters of Religion,
344
EPITAPHS, AND INSCRIPTIONS

[3.]
To the memory of tlie Kevd. Charles Muirhead,

pastor of the United Associate Congregation, Cu-
Dun (22 2-5.)

A
handsome
cross of polished granite has
par Angus,
is
who
died 2d Aug. 1830, in the 31st

of his ministry.
flock.
brief,
been
the
:
year of his age, and 5th
This stone but the exenlightened

sweet-
raised alongside the
monument
p.
to
Lady HallyIt
is
erected by the gratitude of his The course of his ministry was
burton,
mentioned on
of her only son,
222.
is
to
memory
and
thus inscribed
tent of his great literary acquirements, the maturity

of his jiulgineut as a theologian, tbe
Sacred to the
memory
of
William-Henry Ken-
fidelity of his official labours, the sanctified
nedy-Erskine
ness of his disposition, and the heavenly serenity

of his
dying hour, will be long remembered by the
of Dun, the son of the Hon. John Kennedy-Erskiue and Augusta Fitz Clarence, his wife. Born 1st July 1828, died 15th Septr. 1870.
I will
surviving few
his worth.
who had
the happiness of knowing
trust. Isaiah 12.2.

is
This
[4.]
of
monument
erected
by
his
Widow,
Catherine Kennedy-Erskine, in loving remembrance
Here are interred the remains of the Revd. William Dunn, A.M., late minister of the Relief Congregation, Coupar Angus. He died the 17th of May 1829, in the 56 year of his age, and 21st of his
ministry.
him who made the happiness

jNIr
of her life.
This stone
is
inscribed bj' the
Members
of his
of the Relief Congregation in
remembrance
unwearied exertions while their pastor. Separated by 15,000 miles from the dust lielow, whither she
Kennedy-Erskine left a son and two daughters. He was of an affable, kindly disposition, and much beloved by his tenantry. A marble slab, erected to his memory by the parishioners of Dun, is placed over the entrauce
to the parish church.
had followed
mains
above,
of
their surviving children,
lie
the re-
A much
like
defaced tombstone in the church-yard
Martha
who
Crosbie, the beloved wife of the died at Melbourne, Australia, on the

63.
bears the following sinjple record of one who,
Marjory Scott
of
Duukeld, had seen and
5th December 1852, aged
Her end was
peace.
survived some of the more eventful and stirring

scenes in the history of our country
:
Mr
Dunn wrote
the Life of St Columba, and
several other works.
Here
Smith.
yeirs.
lys
Young, husband
to
Margaret
From a headstone : William Small, spovse

Kethick, departed this
of age 48.
life
He
died ye 27 Febr. anno 1690, of age 90
to Marjory Elye, in Agvst 27 day 1712, and
The next
three inscriptions are from old head-
stones built into the kirkyard dyke:
Sim1699, of age
Devot and pious vinto God He vas vpright to man.
[L]
^
son,
Here lyes an honest

died ye 16 of
virgin,
Margret
A head-stone, which presents a shield charged with the odd figures of two spirit measures, a
drinking
:
who
March anno
21 year.
quaich, &c., bears this inscription
[2.1
1766 This is erected by Robert Fissher & Jean Small his spouse, in Kethuick, in memory of their
son Peter Fisher,
niue weeks
M. I. F. Here lyes William Findlow, who dyed May 29, 1702, being of age 72. Here lyes Jean Milne, spouse to William Findlow.
F.
:
W.
I.
who
died 17th July 1765, aged

_
_
[3.]
Over a rudely
incised carving of the Strachan
Parents freet not at God's comaud,
When
arms a
1696
:
he your children doth demand.
hart (?) tripping is the following:
Here
lyes
Robert Strachan, younger,
who
died ye 10 of October anno 1696, of age S
years.
SUPPLEMENT.
The next inscriptions
are from
345
two of the
oldest
Jonathan D. G.
Robert
of several tombstones which relate to ancestors of
Scott, 28th Regt. B. N. Infantry, died 16th Jany. 1859, aged 27 years.
Scott, farmer, Balwyllo, died Sth July
a family named Thomson, who were sometime

farmers at Leuchland, Arrot, and Findowrie, &c.,
in the parish of Brechin;
and one
:
of
whom was
long town-clerk of Montrose
his spouse,
The deaths of four sons and three

the last-mentioned of
of
Mr
Scott's
daughters are recorded upon the same monument,
Here lyeth the body

tenent in Mains of Dun,
of
Iames Thomson, late

died Feby. Sth 1719,
whom, David, surgeon-
who
major, Bengal Medical Service, died at Umballa,
aged
36.
As
also Is.
Thomson,
who
16th Sep. 1867, aged 42.
died luly 12, 1742, aged 58.
Tho' Boreas'
blasts,
and Neptune's waves, &c.
From
of
a headstone
:
memory
1799,
of this parish
which bears to have been erected in 1757, presents the coulter and sock of a plough and the initials " la. Thn., Is. Th., Ro. Th., Is.
stone,
This
1872
Erected by a few friends to the
William Mackie, Schoolmaster
for 41 years.
Born at Brechin, 2nd Nov.
died at Dun, 1st June 1863.

in everlasting
The just
shall be held
Th."
The
verse (sup. p. 276), of which the first
remembrance.
line is given, possibly
shows that James Thomson
was at one time a sailor. The other stone, initialed " la. Th Ma. Low, lo. Th., An St :" bears :
,
:
Dunottar (51.)
The next two inscriptions
are from marble slabs
built into the wall of the Marischal aisle
Mors neminem fugit. 1751. Here lyeth the body of Iames Thomson, late tenent in Balwylo, who died Nour. 2ud 1735, aged
53.
:^
Also Mart., his daughter, died Sepr. 11th,

2.
1721, aged
Sacred to the memory of Rose Christian, wife of Peter Christian, writer in Stonehaven, and
Thus speak ye dead
to those that passing by,
youngest daughter
of
James Youngs
late sheriff-
Behokl death's triumphs with a careless eye By death we're landed on ye silent shore, \Mjere billows never break, nor tempests roar ; Secure from care, from endless trouble free'd, We rest in hope of glory to succeed. When high in air ye mighty trump shall sound, & calf ye dead from all j"e world around ; Â'hen fresh in youth ye just in Christ shall rise.
substitute of this county,
who
closed a virtuous
and amiable
life,
21st April 1833, aged 57 years.

of
To the memory
Jean Cowan, second wife
of
Hugh Fullekton,
sheriff-substitute of Kincardine-
And never fading glories bless their eyes Thrice happy they in him who've put their trust. They fear not ye decay of Time, nor terrors of the
;
Erected shire, who died 1st June 1833, aged 42. by her husband as a tribute of affection. He died 20th January 1846, aged 66, and is here interred. Their outy son Alexander, died at Tuticor, in East Indies, 4th May 1855, aged 26.
From an
adjoining table stone
dust.
Mr George
Milne, writer
in Stonehaven, died 7
The
following inscriptions, abridged from three
adjoining tombstones, relate to a family, some of
whose members were among the most enterprising agriculturists and stock-rearers in Angus
:
His widow Mary Aug. 1798, aged 54 years. Milne, daughter of James Young, some time sheriff, substitute of this county, died the Sth of December 1843, at the age of 76 years, and is here interred.
Helen Mitchell,
wife of David Scott in Bal-
Abridged from a table-shaped stone
wyllo, died 2Gth April 1824, aged 59 years.
David
James Farquharson, Esq.,
late of Coldrach, in
Scon-, late of Newton, died the 20th January 1846,
aged 90 years.
David Scott, younger of Newton, died 12th February 1845, aged 53 years ; and his third son
Braemar, died in Stonehaven, 19th November Two daughters, Catherine, 1794, aged 74 years. diedWoct. 1828, aged 77 ; Jean, 18th Feb. 1833,
aged
83.
His youngest son,
Murray Farquharson,
346
EPITAPHS,
AND INSCRIPTIONS.
it,
Capt. in the 1st

Col. of the
West luclia Ilegt., sometime Lieut. 2d Regt. of Aberdeenshire Local Militia, died at Elsick, 2d Nov. 1837, aged 76.
James Burley, Cowieswell, d. 9 Jan. Mgt. Moncur, his sp., d. 7 Nov. 171)6,
Our life is but a winter day, Some only breakfast and away
:
has announced to us
officially
all
that he
is qiiite
prepared to take upon himself expenses of that expedition.

this
We
the subsequent have accepted
handsome
;
offer,
and
of course
we
shall reduce
1783,
a.
a.
50
the
expenditure
within the narrowest possible

it
63
limits
but at the same time,

is
is
very gratifying
to find that there
that public spirit, that apprecia-
Whilst others do to denner stay. Large is his debt who lingers out the day, Those who go soonest have the least to pay.
Dr Livingstone, and that interest in geography which prompts a gentleman like Mr Young to come forward and place funds at the disposal of the
tion of
society.
On
reporting his offer to the council to-
The above
CO.
" Man's
is
an
inferior
copy
of a
well-known
epitaph upon an innkeeper, said to be at Barnwell,
day, 1 was authorised to transmit a unanimous vote of thanks on the part of the council to Mr Young,
Cambridge, which reads

life is like
full fed,
and
think
it
would be gratifying to them

to present the thanks of
if
the
a winter's
day-
present meeting would supplement that vote by
Some only
breakfast,
and away
permitting
believe I
me
the whole of
I
Others to dinner stay, and are
the Fellows of the Royal Geographical ISociety.
The oldest man hut Long is his life who
sups,
and goes to bed. lingers out the day

thi.
may
take
it for
granted that I have your
He who
authority for doing
so.
goes soonest has
least to pay."
Unfortunately for the cause of Science,
Mr
The next
In
inscription
of
is
from a table-stone
Young had no opportunity of fulfilling his generous

intentions, for soon after these
memory
Ann Gordon-Rose,
daughter to
Charles and Jane Gordon-Rose of Blelack,
who
died
a telegram brought to
were announced, England the melancholy
the 16th of July 1797, in the 5th year of her age.
intelligence of the death of the great traveller.
The
(Mem. p. 52.) The castle of Dunottar, &c., were sold by Sir Patrick Keith-Murray, Bart., in July 1873, to Major Innes, of Cowie and Raemoir, for
about 80,000.
of
following (received at the
London
INIarch
Office
the
New
:
York Herald, 29th
1874,)
gives an interesting account of

last
Dr
Livingstone's
days
" The
Malwa
arrived off Suez at eleven on Saturday
night, having
Mr Arthur Laiug, and Mr Jacob Wain-
Durris (105.)
The
of a
wright aboard, with the body of Dr Livingstone. He had been ill with chronic dysentery for several months Although well supplied with stores and medipast. cines, he seems to have had a presentiment that the
attack would prove
fatal.
He
rode a donkey, but
following newspaper cutting, from a report
held in
meeting of the Royal Geographical Society, London on 12th Jan. 1874, (Sir Henry
subsequently was carried, and thus arrived atMuilala, beyond Lake Bemba, in Bisa country, when be said,
'
Build
me
a hut to die
his followers,
who
'
first
in.' The hut was built by made him a bed. He suffered
Ilawlinson in the chair), refers to a proposed act

of munificent liberality of Durris
on the part of Mr Young and Kelly, which is but rarely to be met
with
have sincere pleasure (said the chairman) in announcing to you what, I think, will make all geographicalists thrill with plea.=ure, and it is, that
I
"
very greatly, groaning day and night. On the third day he said, I am very cold put more grass over the hut.' His followers did not speak or go near him. Kitumbo, Chief of Bisa, sent flour and beans and beOn the fourth day Livingliaved well to the party. st<ine became insensible, and died about midnight. Majuahua, his servant, was present. His last entry
;
in his diary
was
in April 27th.
Mr
Young, a very
his
liberal friend of
Dr
Livingstone,
sadly of
home and
family.
He spoke much and When first seized he told

to
who
instituted the expedition,
and has already paid

of
his followers he intended to exchange everything for
2000 from
own pocket towards the expenses
ivory to give to them, and
push on to Ujiji
SUPPLEMENT.
and Zanzibar and try to reach England. On the day of his death his followers consulted what to do, and the Nassick boys determined to preserve the renjains. They were afraid to inform the chief of Livingstone's death, and the Secretary removed the body to another hut, around which he built a high fence to ensure privacy. Here they opened the body and removed the internals, which were placed in a tin box, and buried inside the fence under a large tree. Jacob Wainwright cut an inscription on the tree as follows 'Dr Livingstone, May 4, 1873,' and superscribed the name of the head man Susa. The body was then
" David Livingstone,
347
Born
Died at
at Blantj^re, Lanai-kshire, Scotland,
19th
Ilala,
March 1S13
Central Africa, 4th
May
1873."
In Punch of 18th April 1874 appeared the following befitting tribute and epitaph to the
memory
of
Dr
Livingstone
colours,
Droop half-mast
bow bareheaded crowds.
preserved in salt and dried in the sun for twelve days. Kotumbo was then informed of the death, and he beat drums and fired guns as a token of respect, and allowed the followers to remove the bodj', which was placed in a coffin formed of bark. The Nassick boys then
As this plain coffin o'er the side is slung. To pass by woods of masts and ratlined shrouds, As erst by Afric's trunks Liana hung.
'Tis the last of
many thousand
trod
With
failing strength,
By the worn
Or
if
frame now
but never-failing will, at its rest with God,

its fight
journeyed to Unyanyembe about six months, sending an advance party with information addressed to Livingstone's son, which met Cameron. The latter
sent back bales of cloth
arrived at
That never rested from
with
ill.
the ache of travel and of toil
and powder.
The body
Would sometimes wring a short, sharp From agony of fever, blain, and boil,
'Twas but
to crush
it
cry of pain
and
rested there a fortnight.
Dillon were together there.

blind,
Unyanyembe two days after advance party, Cameron, Murphy, and The latter was very ill, and his mind was affected. He committed
and was buried
there.
down, and on again
suicide at Kusakera,
not that the trumpet he had blown Out of the darkness of that dismal land, Had reached and roused an army of its own, To strike the chains from the slave's fettered hand.
He knew
"Here
bark
natives
Livingstone's remains were put in another
case, smaller,
done up in a bale, to deceive the
who
objected to the passage of the corpse,
Now we believe he knows sees all is weU How God had stayed his will and shaped
his
way,
which was thus carried to Zanzibar. Livingstone's clothing, papers, and instruments accompanying the When ill, Livingstone prayed much. At body.
Muilala he
said,
'
To bring the hght to those that darkling dwell. With gains that life's devotion well repay.
Open the Abbey doors and bear him in, To sleep with king and statesman, chief and sage, The missionary come of weaver kin, But great by work that brooks no lower wage.
am going
home.'
" Webb, the American Consul at Zanzibar, is on his way home, and has letters handed to him by Murphy from Livingstone for Stanley, which he will deliver
personally onlj\
Chumah
remains at Zanzibar.
He
needs no epitaph to guard a

shall prize while
name
" After Stanley's departure, the Doctor left Unyanyembe, rounded the south end of Tanganyika, and
ti'avelled south of
Lake Bangneales,
crossed
it
south
worthy work is known; He Uved and died for good be that his fame Let marble crumble, this is Living-stone
Which men
to north,
and then along the
east side, returning north
through marshes to Muilala. All papers sealed and addressed to Secretary of State, in charge of Arthur Laing, a British merchant from Zanzibar. Murphy and Cameron remained behind."
The remains of
the great explorer were interred
Ellon-(Gl.)
The church bell of Ellon bears to have been by " Baird & Ellis, Abdx, 1828."
within Westminster Abbey, on Saturday, 18th

April 1874, in presence of his
faithful follower,
own
family, bis
Jacob Wainwright, and a large as.semblage of mourners, many of whom were of the liighest intellectual and social standing in Europe.
cast
In consequence of recent alterations upon the church and church-yard of Ellon, several old
The
coffin-plate bore this inscription
tombstones have been discovered.
The
first-
348
EPITAPHS,
AND INSCRIPTIONS
purchase was completed, the transaction was carried through
quoted inscription
It presents is from a flat slab. some mortuary emblems, and the letters are cut in raised Roman capitals. Although the inscription
by
his grandson,
John Forbes, in
1775 {]Vatertoune Papers.)

Several tombstones belong to a family
may
be of
little
is
value to the general reader,
named
the
some local interest, in so far as it bears the name and craftsman's mark of " Thomas Tait, sculpsit, y." This was the
of
monument
LiGEKTWooD, some
chants,
of
whom were advocates, mer-
Mr Joha masons, &c., in Aberdeen. Ligertwood, the present sheriff-clerk of Aberdeenshire,

is
reputed great-grandfather of the Archbishop of
come
of this family
another,
who
Canterbury (supra,
thus
:
p. 97.)
The
inscription runs
died in 1834, aged 77, was proprieior of Logierieve, Udny. The following inscription, abridged
Hoc sub cippo requiescit corpus Patrici CatTANACH, quondam in Mickle Milu de Essilmont, qui, 18^0 meusis lulii die auuo Domini 1717 atque Hie etiam setatis suai SG'o, diem obiit supremum. requiescunt quatuor illius liberi, duo Alexandri, Hie quoque iacet Iacobus, atque filia Isabell. filia, nomine Maria, qu vigesimum agens annum
6to lanuarii die, 1727, vitaexcessit.
on
p. 60, is here
given in
full
Here lyes in hopes of a blessed resurrection, James Ligertwood, born in Cairuhill, June 11th, 1681, and died there January 5th, 1745 ; as also two of his children, James & Marjory LigertwooDS. Likewise Marjory Ligertwood, his
spouse,
years.
who
died the 15th of
Jani'. 1772,
aged 80
[Beneath this stone rests the body of Patrick Cattanacii, sometime in Mickle Aliln of Essilmont, who died 18th July 1717, in his 5Gth year. Here
also rest four of his children,
Thomas who died 19th Janr. 1782, aged 5G years. And Thomas Ligertwood, late farmer in Cairuhill, who died Octr. 1782, aged 64 years.
Aho Margaret Gordon,
spouse to
Ligertwood,
two Alexanders,
The next two inscriptions are from table-stones:

Janet Thomson,
wf. of
James, and a daughter Isabell. Here also lies a daughter, named Mary, who departed this life Gth
Alex. Clark,
wright,
January 1727,
in her 20th year.]

is
The
following
a line-for-line copy of the
Old Aberdeen, d. 1809, a. 74 : " She v\as a dutiful wife, an affectionate mother, and a patron of Industry and Temperance."
This stone was erected in memory of John Bean, . sometime chymist in London, son of
. .
inscription previously given
on p. 60
.
.
SALVS
per CHRISTVM VIVE VIVAS. [Forbes and Ramsay arms impaled.]

. .
Beau, late in Ardgrain,

1781, aged 84 years
who
bell,
:
F
by
:
W
1G37
I
:
R
:
From
a slab, upon which a
a book, cross
Built
Son
to
&
I.
R
:
of Tolqu Dautr to Balmain

: :
F F
of
bones, and a skull are rejtresented
Remember Lord how

I shall
short a time
;
on earth remain
is it
in 1G37
Rebuilt by
of
T F
:
&
M M
:
o wherefore
:
so that thou
in 1755.
hast made all men in vain. Here lies in hope of a blessed resurrection The Corps
William Forbes
about 16o3.
of
Tolquhon acquired the lands
of AVaterton from Alex.
Bannerman
of Elsick,
George Bowman, sometime in Laverocklairs, who departed this life, 26th of August 1743, aged
of
The
original builders of the aisle
54 years.
Also Christian Garioch, his spouse,

. .
were I. (? T.) Forbes and his wife and the rebuilders were Thomas, their greatgrandson, and his wife Margaret, eldest daughter of Montgomerie of Asloas. It was the last-named
;
Jean Ramsay
who
died the 29 of Janr. 17-^ aged
From
In
a granite slab on east of churchyard
memory
of
George Chalmers, LL.D., who

March
1787,
died at Hornhillocks, in this parish, in
laird
who
sold the lands of
Water ton
to the Earl
of Aberdeen, about
1770
but dying before the
aged 77 years. Erected by John Chalmers, Rose Street, Aberdeen, 1838.
SUPPLEMENT.
Archd. Ainslie,
dr. 3 years, d. 1S17
officer of Excise, a, 42,
349
and a
altar rails are of English
oak
and a handsome
baptismal font, of red granite,"stands in the porch.

Six of the fourteen windows in the church are
already
low.
filled
A
My
Ye
living
funeral thonglit
Hark, from the tombs a doeful sound

ears attend the cry
with stained
glass, as described
be-
Two
of these,
which are
in the chancel,
and
:
men, come
vievv the
lie.
ground
respectively represent the Crucifixion
and Resur-
Where you must
shortly
rection of
Our
Saviour, are inscribed as follows
Great ones, this clay must be your bed In spite of all your towers. The tall, the wise, the reverend head
J- Grateful to a Heavenly Father, Richard Boyle places this memorial of his love for his child,
Must
Abdn.,
lie
as
low as
ours.
Eleanor Boyle, who

11, 1871,
died at Ellon Castle, August
Margt. Chalmers,
d. 1817, a.
wf. of
David Wood, shipmr.,
aged
25.
28
:
;
This young lady was the daughter
of the
Hon.
All you that stop to read this stone.
Consider
how
soon she was gone

flight,
Swift was the
She
clos'd her eyes,
A loving wife, A true and faithful

Ready
to forgive,
and short the road. and saw her God. a tender mother dear,
friend lies here
;
and Rev. R.- Cavendish Boyle (fourth son of the eighth Earl of Cork and Orrery), rector of Marston-Bigott, Somersetshire, and his wife, EleauorVere, youngest daughter of the late Mr Gordon
of Ellon.
The next
refers to a brother of
Mrs
&
fearful to offend,
Boyle
Beloved in life, lamented in her end. Grieve not for me, my child & husband dear.
For we shall meet when Christ the Lord appears As I am now, so must you be,
Therefore prepare to follow me.
J- To the Glory of God, and in affectionate remembrance of Bertie E. M. Gordon, William, Charles, and Everetta Gordon have placed this
window.
RoBT. ScROGiE, Wright, Ellon,

wf. Isabel
d. 1833, a. 89, his
Mr Gordon was
Ellon,
second son of the late laird of
Kelman,
have
d. 1832, a.
86
Tis safer. Lord, to hope in thee
And
my God my
men
of
friend.
Than
trust in
high degree,
And
S.
on their truth depend.
MARY'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH,
Erected in 1870-1, chiefly throHgh the exertions of Mr M'Leod, the present incumbent, stands a
little
to the north-east of the old place of worship.
It
was erected after designs by Mr Street, R.A., and is surrounded by a burial-ground. The new church is a handsome building in the Early English style, with narthex, nave, and chanA belfry and vestry are upon the north side cel.
of the church,
and Colonel of the 91st Argyllshire Highlanders. He was a man of great courage and presence of mind, and it was owing mainly to his judicious and gallant conduct that the lives of his men were saved when on board the " Abercromby Robertson," at the time she was wrecked in Table Bay. He died at Ellon Castle, and his remains were buried at the east end of the church of S. Mary, where, in addition to the above tribute to his memory, his widow has erected a cross of polished grey granite, raised upon two steps.
Upon
grave,
the steps of the cross at the head of the
and upon a plain

:
slab at the foot, are these
inscriptions
" Until the day break."
and an organ
recess
is
at the south-
east corner of the nave.
semi-circular timber roof.
The nave itself has a An aumbry is upon
Bertie E. M. Gordon. Born December 17th, 1813; died July 27th, 1870.
In the grave, with bitter weeping, Loving hands have laid him down There he resteth, calmly sleeping, Till an angel raise the stone.
the north side of the altar, and a piscina and sedilia The chancel-screen and pulpit on the south.
are of carved frec-stonc
;
the lectern,
stalls,
and
350
EPITAPHS,
AND INSCRIPTIONS
He taught them as one having authority. In memory of John Turner, Esq. (of Turnerhall), born 22ud July 1796, died 2nd August, 1834 ;
and
of
Colonel
side his
Gordon's father, who died at Ellon
Castle in 1873, in his 90th year, was buried be-
wife in the old church-yard of
Mary
Culter.
a fine
;He was a highly respected landlord example of the " old country gentleman"
interest
Elizabeth-Helen Urqchart,
his
wife,
and took a great
in the church of St
Mary
of Ellon.
is
brass,
:
on the north side of
born 20th June 1800, died 5th January 1837. In memory of Anna-Margaret, wife of the Revd. George Kemp, Piector of St Alphage, Loudon, and eldest daughter of John and Elizth.-Heleu
the altar,
thus inscribed
Turner, born June
10, 1S31,
died Deer. 18G1.
In loving and reverent memory of
Alexander
The only
filled
is
Gordon of Ellon, whose fatherly care and beneficence are here recorded by his youngest son, in humble gratitude to Almighty God.
of
other
window which has yet been

side of the nave.
upon the north
It
i-epreseuts the
lee
;
Marriage Feast of Cana of Galiit
and, as indicated by two adjoining brasses,
Mrs Gordon, who died in 1848, was a daughter Richard Cumberland, by a daughter of the
is
to the
memory of Messrs Thomson and Milne.
third Earl of Buckinghamshire.

plate of St Mary's,
The
offertory
They were both farmers, the former at Fitmeddeu, and the latter at Waterton.
which has the Sacred monothe
gram,
lical
ifjs,
in the centre, surrounded
representations of
by symboFour Evangelists,
:
bears the following inscription
p Deo et
Deus.
ecclesise
de Ellon in
mem
Albini.-e
Eltzabetu-E Gordon.
Ejus
animc-e
propitietur
Farnell (92.)
A
headstone (erected to
[To God and the church of Ellon, in memory of Albtnia Elizabeth Gordon. May God be merciful to
John Dear,
weaver,
her soul.]
Bonuington, who died in 1726, aged 65), upon which the lay of a handloom, and a weaver's
shuttle,
Alleluia. 4- Domini est terra et plenitudo ejus. [The earth is the Lord's and the fulness thereof.]
&c
are neatly carved, bears
My
&
days are swifter than a weauers shuttle.

like a
On
the
the south side of the nave of the church are
memorial window and

of
monument
p. 61.
to
Mr
adis
Job the 7 & 6. I have cut off

12.
weauer
it is
my
life.
Isaiah 38
Gordon
joining
Eslemont, noticed at
of
An
is
window
of
two
lights, in
which Christ
The Weauers Art

That
renowned
it
so
represented Blessing Little Children,
to the
rich nor poor without
cannot go.
d. in
memory
Anne,
Ethel, and Margaret,

heiress
daughters of
Mr and INIrs Wolrige-Gordon, now of

Mrs W.-Gordon, who became
was a niece
of
his wife Isobel
Charles Ferriee, tenant, Eithie, Leith in Maj' 1729

:
Ap. and
Eslemont.
his death, a
of Eslemont,
Mr
Hei'e rest in hope of a
Gordon.
Since
new
mansion-bouse has been erected
at Eslemont,
castle of the Cheynes,
and the ruins of the old moated which possibly indicate a
most glorious life, and a faithfull wife, ^Yhose hearts were so unite with Divine love. That death could not those sacred bonds remove. But rich perfumes broke up, or blown by wind,
frugall husband,
work
still
of about the close of the 16th century, are
Do
leave a lasting fragrant smell behind.
preserved
among some
old trees, near the
gate of the
Another window
the
new mansion. of two

(supra, p. 60),
lights,
side of the church, representing the
upon the south Sermon on
So these blest souls now purg'd of earthly dross, Who on eternal love themselves rejiose, Have left on earth an obelisk of fame, A dear remembrance of their precious name.
Mount
:
is
thus inscribed along
John Ferrier,
wright, Montrose, died loth Dec.
the base
SUPPLEMENT.
John Smith, Greenlaw, d. Under this monument
Our
nature's
frail,
351
1723,
a.
45, &c.
part he took in the Greek war, that he was then

(1824^, "young, and the spirit of the Covenant and the Grampians came o'er me. Besides, a solemn sense of duty made me accept the special invitation of the Greek Government, and of the great Scottish naval hero (Lord Dundonald, then High Admiral of Greece), to become secretary to the Greek Fleet, and take a personal share in the
of stone.
:
Lyes both the father and the sou
we
are
And
to the earth I'eturn
made of we must
dust,
One part of man in ground doth ly. The other mounts aboue the skye The immortal soul to God resigned. A happy union the rest to be. Even to all eternitie. Remember man thou'rt made of nought Thou sold thyself, Christ hath the bought,
;
struggle of civilization against barbarism
of
the
Cross against the Crescent."
Mr
Masson,
who
was
latterly professor of
Greek
in the
Assembly
And ransomd
Which
the from death, the grave.
College, Belfast, died at Athens, 7th July 1873,

in his
to obtain his life he gave.
Elisabeth Taylor, wf. of John Crichton, tenant in Woodwrae, d. 1747, a. 61

:
My
bones in grave lyes here below,

yet know,
a time
A resting place hath found,

God hath
when
he'll
73d year. There are three headstones to a family named RuxTON, who were tenants of Mains and Mill of Farnell for three (misprinted "four") generations, supra, p. 324, in which page also is the more
obvious misprint of " 1841" for 1741.
me
raise,
Eternaly to sing his prais.
An adjoining table-shaped stone bears a renewed

inscription, to the
;
Espous'd 1 was to a Husband dear, Liv'd with him five and twenty year
memory
:
of
David Duquhare,
East Fithie, (husband to Isobel Marnoch), who

died in 1713, aged 55
Now
children four I left
him have,
d. 1734, a.
we
go.
;
I rest in
hope God will them save.

40
:
Death
rage,
is
the passage through which
David Cowllie, shoem., Karkrie,
It's just to all,
spares neither rich nor lou
When death doth come in his full He spares not young nor old
;
If all the uirtues could
But
cutts
men doun
of
He'll not be brib'd
any age by Gold.

see.
Then here lies With any nice or yet perjury But its ordained that all men once must
:
have made it stand, he who never one could brand

die.
Take warning then ye that may And read this passing by ;
As he
lined
Godly
so he died in peace
His fame survives an honour to his
race.
And learn so to live May not be fear'd
as ye to dy.
The
following inscription was composed, and
carved upon the stone, by a late beadle and gravedigger at Farnell,
Some
upon a
above inscriptions were possibly the composition of Mr John Sim, the parochial schoolmaster of the period, who, in 1730, entered
of the
lease of 19 years of the half of the Croft-
who was a
1840
tailor
by trade
MA
A L
J E 1817
AV
ERECTED BY JOHN WALKER

IN BIEMARY OF
W
W W E G 26 W
17
heads of Farnell, valued at 40 merks, and which
he held as part payment of his salary.
Two
guished
of the teachers of Faruell,
and the
Jamks Bowick Rev. Edward Masson, were distinThe former, who was in their day.
;
OUR PAR ANTS JOHN WALKER DEYED 21 FEB 1823 MARGET PETER DEYED 1 AUG 1820 BOTH INTERRD HER 5 OF THER
CHILDREN.
B E 1823 G O 1840
24
a native of Arbroath, wrote a Life of Erskine and the latter, who was born at of Dun, &c.
Laurencekirk, published PhilJieUenia, or translations from the Greek.
In the Introduction to
this brochure the author states, in apology for the
352
EPITAPHS,
AND INSCRIPTIONS:
Fettercair n (2 5 4.)
whick was recently discovered in the church-yard of Fettercairn, ornamented with reA.
Fetteresso (75.)
The
first
slab,
four inscriptions are fi-om tombstones

Fetteresso,
within the old kirk of
the
first
of
presentations of a Wright's mallet, chisel,

passes
com-
which bears a carving of the Fullarton arms,

prettily executed in raised
[1.]
and square, &c., and initialed, I. R., C. M., bears this inscription round the D. R margin
,
:
Roman
capitals
am an-
Memorire
tissimi,
et pietati
patris svi
g^jT
HIC
.
lACET
.
PIVS
ET
R0CHV3 DOMixr
QVI
.
COMMVTAVIT
.
HONESTVS IAC0BV3 LVCEM* IN AXNO

.
M. Iohannis Fvllartoni,
Ob. 10 die
genere, meritis,
fortvna, privatim pvblice' clari,

P. F.
monvmeutvm hoc
[Here
years.]
lies
[* sic. 1642 HIS ag 43 y. a pious and honest man, James Roch,

. .
Ivlii a.d. 162-, aitatis svaj 79.
who exchanged
The
life
for death, in 1G42,
aged 43
writer of the following letter, dated 21st

(?),
May
1523
of Claypots, near
was probably a brother of the laird Dundee, from which place it is

to his "
monument, sacred to the memory and piety most loving father, Mr John Fullarton, a man of distinguished birth, merits, and good fortune in his public and private life, who died on 10th July, 162-, aged 79 years, was erected by his
[This
of his
son.]
dated,
and addressed
cuyne" (cousin),
[2.]
the laird of Carmyllie. the original at
It is here printed
:
Panmure
well,
I
from
M.
S.
Georgii Logi,
Clerici
filij,
Vicecom
sinceri,
de Kin-
cardine, prope sepulti,
mariti, parentis, heri
HonoW
SS'"
and Cuue, pies zou
ame
optimi,
amici vero strenui
&
in negotija
adveset yt ze ar to be fra zor place ye maist pt of yis somer quharfor praie zou yt ye will cans deliver to my bruder ye berar my blak govne ye vestimenfc
periti simul
&
integri,
multiset
!
demum
virtutibus
ornati, prematura,
heu
nimis morte abrepti, 35to
wt ye
ptuitis
and ye
siluer chalice for I feir yt
ye
nempe aetatis anno. Tabellam banc exarandam moerens curavit amicus. Obijt 21o Apr. 1752.
[Sacred to the
clerk of Kincardine,
thrie pt of ye fruits of ye beficis sal be taken yis under Gods kepe ys At zeir as it wes ye last zeir
memory of George Logie, sheriflfwho lies buried near. He was
Claipotts ye xxj
day
cf
May
'23 zowr Cuyne Ja Strachauchin
warm and
virtues.
psone of fethercarne
an excellent son, husband, father, and master, a true friend, an able and upright man of business ; and, finally, was adorned with many
To ane hono^;'! man thes com Thomas Strachauchin of Carmily.
He was
cut
ofif
by
a death, alas
too pre-
mature, in the 35th year of his age.
sorrowing
have learned nothing of the history of
Mr
friend caused this tablet to be erected.
He
died
Strachauchin or Strachan, except that on 27th
21st April 1752.]

[3.]
February 1556, when an application was made to

the Sheriff of Forfarshire to appoint tutors
.to
" Johne Thornetoune
of yt Ilk,"
" Master James
Strathauchin, persone of Fetterkerne," was no-
minated as one of the nearest of kin to Thornetoune on " the moder syde," along with " Johne Strathauchin of Claypottis, and Johne Nevay, younger, apparand of yat Ilk." (Deed at Pan-
In memory of Mrs Elizabeth Logie, widow of Mr William Garden, late at Braco Park, parish of Pitsligo, who departed this life at Woodcot, the 20th of May IS 19, aged G6 years. This stone is placed by her son and daughters in grateful remembrance of an excellent and affectionate Mother.
[4.]
Sacred to the
years
memory
of
mure.)
Other ministers of Fettercairn bore the

of Strachan,
sheriff- clerk of
Kincardineshire,
William Young, many who departed

on the xix
surname
of
one
of
whom became Bishop

sister to
this life at Mill of Forest, in this parish,
of Brechin,
and married Anna,
Barclay
Ury.
day and
of
March mdccxc, in the lxxiii year of her age ; of his spouse, Elizabeth Forbes, who died at
SUPPLEMENT.
the same place on the ix day of Aug. mdccciv, ia the Lxxxi year of her age.
353
The next two
inscriptions relate respectively to
Also of their eldest

life
son William Young, who departed this
at the
the great-grand, and grand-parents, of {v. p. 75) the Rev. John Longmuir, LL.D., Aberdeen:
J. L.
June mdcccxv, in the Liii year of liis age, all of whose mortal remains lie buried under this stone, which was erected by Jane Keith, Hellen, and James Young, children of the before-named William Young and Elizabeth Forbes, as a memorial of their dutiful and tender affection for the best of parents and of brothers, the remembrance of whose virtues and worth will live in their hearts till they follow them to the grave The sweet remembrance of the just.
place,
of
same
on the x day
1790.
C. B.
In memory
80 years. aged 99.
in Hill of i\Ionduff,
James Longmuir, who lived once and died 4th March 1782, aged Christian Beattie died March 3d, 1799, Christian Longmuir, their daughter,
of
died Jany. 8th, 1801, aged 55.
To the memory
in
Midtoun
61 years.
John Longmuir, once tenant who died 2Sth April 1795, aged Also Elizabeth Collie, his spouse, who
of
of
Cowie,
Shall flourish
when they
sleep in dust.
died 13fch June 1823, aged 91 years.

cliildren,
And
of their
Here also are interred the remains of Elizabeth Farquharson, mother of the above-mentioned Elizabeth Forbes, by her husband John Forbes of Kincardine she died at Mill of Forest mdccxxx.
;
who
once shipmaster in Aberdeen, died at Leith, 7th October 1802, aged 41 years.
Andrew,
Alexander,
infancy.
Rebecca,
and
William, died
173.]
in
Come
see the house,
&;c. [v. p.
flat
stone,
near the east end of the church
(outside), bears this record of other
and
:
earlier
members
of the family
above-mentioned
It
is
said that the house of Fetteresso,
now
the
property of
Memorise Rop.erti
Young
in Mergie, qui fato
tlie
Duff (supra, p. 76), was built by Keiths about the time of the Reformation, and
it
Mr
A.D. 1714, aitatis suaj et Margaret.^ Forbes, ejus sponsfe, quaj 50 vitam deposuit 8 die 1^'ebi-uarij, A.D. 1734, eetatis sua; 6f>, Johannes Young, Clericus Vicecomitatus de Kincardin, eorum Alius natu maximus, hunc cippum ponendum curavit. Nati illorum sex fuere, viz. predictus Johannes, Jacobus, et David, qui
concessit 19 die Septembris,
. .
.
that
continued ever after to be their chief seat.
The
esso,
letter given below, being
dated from Fetterprobably goes to disprove the statement by
Douglas (Peerage, ii. 194), of Earl Marischala having been kept prisoner in the Tower of Lou-
spiritum tradidit 5to Aprilis 1724, setatis suse 16
don from 1651 until the Restoration. It also shows that certain of the Earl's friends bad be-
GuLiELMUS, qui peradolescens naturae

Abredonise sepultus fuit
est 16
et
;
come
security for his

;
"good behavour"
letter,
is
to the
cessit,
et
Isabella, qua; mortua
powers that were

printed for the
and the
time,
Novembris 1727,
setatis
su^ 32
first
which is here addressed " For the

:
Margareta,
quse in pueritia obijt.
Eeddenda
Right llouble
my Lord Paumure"
est terra terrce, sic jubet necessitas.
Fetterresso, the 25
who died
[To the memory of Egbert Young in Mergie, 19th Sept. 1714, aged 50, and of Margaret Forbes, his spouse, who departed this life 8th Feb. aged 66. John Young, sheriff-clerk of Kin1734, cardine, their eldest son, caused this stone to be They had six childi-en, viz., the aforesaid erected. John, James, and David, who died 5th April 1724,
September
'57.
My Lord, 1 hau sent Arthur Straton to Conclud

wt Captan Hutton wlier he shall waitt on your L. Morphe and My neplivo Pitsligo to Engadge for my good beliavour It is my Lord 1 Coufes a favor of sh an hye natur thatt your L. is pleased to becom
William, who died very young, and was Isabella, who died 16 Nov. buried at Aberdeen and Margaret, who died 1727, aged 32 Dust must return to dust, so nein childhood.
aged 16
; ; ;
.
my surte as I shall never be able suffacentlie to acknoledge the sam but on thiuge I promise your L. thatt I will break my necke and fortun befur I
break this bonds or bring your Lo. and my frends besyd, I hau aqyaintd Arthur in the Least hazard, Straton to draw up ane band Conforme to thatt
cessity requires.]
XX
354
EPITAPHS,
AND INSCRIPTIONS.
turned out to be
gentleman
to
with your L. aid the rest sLaU Subsryuevvherin I will obledge my selfe to keip your L. and all the rest harmles. he will also aquaat your L. wt his Jurny to Edr. and I shall desyr your L. will give him
;
Mr
Barclay of
is
Ury
(the son of the
whom
the assault
locally attributed ),
your advyse and drectines for in any thinge thatt shall concerne me I do Confed in non mor then your L. who hes gne me Large and ample pruffes
of
selfe quhill I
your kyndiies to me for the wche I subrye my am, My Lord, Your L. most faithfull and humbl. Servand,
" travelling Southward on Foot in the Figure and: Dress of a Runner or Horse-hirer, without any Upper-coat, in a Waistcoat without Sleeves, hisGarters tied below his Knee, with a large Pole or Kent over his Shoulder, followed by another Man upon Horseback, carrying a Cloakebag." Supposing
the pedestrian
"
to be of equal
Rank and
of
Station
with themselves," one or other
Marischall.
William, 7th Earl Marischal, the writer of this

letter,
was a strong supporter
of the Stuarts, in
consequence of which he was excepted from Crom-
them addressed him "in an easy, familiar Way," by saying, " Fellow Traveller, How do you do ? or how far do Whereupon, you go ? or Words to that Purpose conceiving, as it would seem, that he was thereby
:
His mother well's Act of Grace and Pardon. became the third wife of the first Earl of Panmure and when her daughter, by Earl Marischal, was married to Lord Ilopetoun, on 29th October 1657, "the manage feast stood at Boshen, in Angus, the Earle of Paumore, his house" (Lamont's Diary .) The house of Boshen or Balishan, which was built by Earl Patrick's father five years
;
affronted to be addressed in this familiar Stile, (he)
did return the Compliment with very abusive Language, and without any further Cause of Provocation,
having clubbed the Great Kent or Pole" .... aimed a Stroke at Rannie, which he escaped, by his horse jumping to aside. Having recovered his stick, Barclay aimed a stroke at Shaw with it which knocked him from hi horse, by which he had " one of his Legs quite broke, and fractured a
little
after his marriage with ]\Iargaret, daughter of
above the Ancle."
Erskine of
of
Dun
(Reg. de Pan.), appears to have
stood near the site occupied by the present
House
as the
The indictment concludes for the payment to the said Edward Shaw of the sum of 500 sterling,
Pan mure. It was on 20th
]\Iarch of the
same year
The "
above letter was written (which shews, by the way, that Earl Marischal had not improved his
spelling while in prison), that General ]\Ionck is-
and Damages." Trial" forty-five in number includes the names of twenty landed gentry of the south of Scotland, and twenty-five
of Assythnicnt
" in
Name
List of Assize for the
sued an order by which the grass of Fetteresso
was prohibited from being appropriated
to
any
This
One of the twelve witEdinburgh merchants. nesses was " James Reid, Servant to Thomas Fotheriugham of Pourie, Esquire."
other purpose than the service of the army.
was done by the lieges being briefly warned that " the grasse within the parke of ifetteresso, belonging to the Lady IMarshall,
is
ordered for the
supplying of severall Troopes with grasses this
sumer."
F earn (268.)
From
a flat fragment near the middle of the
:
The
traditionary account of Barclay of Ury's
attack upon a servant of the Earl of

told, supra, p. 82.
Panmure
is
kirk -yard
The
:
true version (taken
from
a copy of the indictment, which I have lately

seen), is as follows
WATSON EIUS
and another
of
HIN ET INCOLA DE FERNE ET DAVID FILIUS QUI OBIIT 2dO NOVEIS 16 .

.
Edward Shaw
(brewer),
Lord Panriding
mure's servants (R. K.nmne, postilion),
\\liile
The
following inscription relates to the father
on horseback on the high road from Kirkcaldy to Kennoway, on 11th Aug. 1761, met a man, who
of Isabella Black,
who
died in 1717
(misprinted
1723 on
p. 268)
SUPPLEMENT.
Margret Bell erected this in memorie of hir husband Iohn Black, somtime in Windsors, who
died the 5 of December anno 1709, of age 52 years.
tosh's gratitude
355
to his Lordship lasted only so long as he was able to benefit him, as is proved by the following extract from a letter, dated 18th
Sept., 1725, addressed
The
following
is
a more perfect copy of an in:
Brechin Castle, to
Mr
by Mr Ochterlony, factor, David Maule, W.S., Edin-
scription
and epitaph, given on same page
burgh
. .
Hier lyeth Iohn Reid, who was smith here the

space of
.
"The
tack geven by Provost Gordon being

ia
years.
He
died in the
1702, his age 70 years
spouse dyed on the ninth of
month of March Hood, his November hir age 64
expired,
sett to
the possession called the Waterhead,
years
&
their children
Full seventy years he livd upon this earth,

livd to dye the end of life is death Here he was smith six lustres and three more. The third three wanted; it had but two before.
He
on George M'Keuzie, a son of Dalmor's, who wretts att Edinburgh. This was done by Mr Cameron, upon the sollicitation of on Mcintosh, a very undutifull Tennant of my Ld. Southesks, and an awoued enemy to all the suffering Gentlemen in
this countrey."
Sculptured records of the parents of James and
Dr H. W.
John Hood,
blacksmith, on children (1714)
:
manse.
These corps interred below, Lyes hide from eyes. Whose souls advanced with Christ
Tytler were lately found near the These consist of two slabs, which had possibly been built into the old manse. They
bear respectively these
initials
and dates:
"17
Above the skyes. Above all treads the Smith hath this renown The hammar and the royal crown.
M. G. T: L R. 47" ":\L G. T: 17: L R."

79,
Mr Geo. Tytler died in 1785, aged

wife,
and
his
The
stone.
Janet Robertson, died
in
17, aged
hammer and crown
are carved upon the
The only monument to a clergyman at Fearn is that which relates to the late Rev. David Harris,
on twin
I
John Duke and Janet Pickeman, children, &c. (16871713) .

hope
in
Tannadice,
who
died in 1867, in the 93d year of his age and
the 65th of his ministry.
Mr
Harris died "Father
heaven thire blessed souls do sing O grave where is thy victory, death where is thy sting ? While we have time to cry for grace we ought, Seeing all flesh unto the dust are brought The life of man is like ane dial shade. Or like the grass that suddenly doth fade.
of the
Church
of Scotland "
His
wife,
Grace
Dow, who
which she
assistant
predeceased him in 1845, aged 62, had

a large collection.
a taste for Scotch Ballad poetry and music, of

left
Their eldest son, George, who was appointed
An
adjoining tomb-stone,
that her husband,
erected
by
Isabel
and successor to his father, became sad and disheartened, and died in 1860, aged 42 years. Having studied medicine, he was of great service
to the poor of his
all of
Thom, shows
tenant of Shanford, died in

kirk-yard of Sihciras."
David Leighton, 1794, aged 92. Some
with
own parish and neighbourhood, whom he was a favourite. He was
of his relations are said to be interred in " Neither
naturally of a warm-hearted, loveable disposition,
a good scholar, and geologist.

p.
He
also possessed
Some notice is taken in tosh, who took an active

Sauchs.''
269 of John Macin-
a great fund of humour and anecdote, and had a
part at the "battle of
He was
;
farmer of Leadeuhendrie (mistradition says that he received
printed "Leadeudrie"), which belongfid to the Earl

of
Southesk
and
keen sense of the ludicrous. On being called upon to attend the funeral of an old man, soon after he became assistant to the late Mr Wilson at Gamrie, and being anxious to notice the leading
characteristics of the deceased in his prayer, he
many
*'
favours from the Earl for his services at
the battle."
But
it
would appear that -Macin-
asked iuformatiou from some of the assembled
356
EPITAPHS,
success.
AND INSCRIPTIONS
targe.
company, but without he had resumed his

begin prayer a
position,
At last just after and was about to
guard,
man
stepped across the barn, in
which the party were met, and tapping Mr Harris upon the shoulder, whispered into his ear" I
can
tell
A sword, with antique pommel and upon the left side of the shaft, and upon the right are the more interesting and rare figures of a bow and arrow.
is
As
the style of this slab corresponds with those
you,
dee (do)
what Sauu'ers (Alexander) cou'd he cou'd dance upon a peat wi' ae fit!
sir,
that were
common
centuries,
in Scotland during the 14th

it
and 15th
families
had probably covered the

;
Cone
foot.)
grave of a Wishart or a Strachan
for these
two
Local rhymes, consisting of an enumeration of
names
but in
often
of places, are
common
not only in Scotland,
were then the most important landholders in the eastern parts of Fordoun (Proceedings of So. Antiq. of
vScot,, vol. x).
many other
countries.
Although they have
meaning, they sometimes indicate that all the places named are to be seen from any one of them. This is not far from being the case with
little
An old tomb of the Irvines of Monboddo a property which came to them through the Strachaus
occupies
the north-west corner of the chapel.
regard to the following, which refer to places in

the parishes of Fearn, Tannadice, &c.
:
It bears a Latin inscription (supra, p. 63), of
which the following
is
probably a better transla:
tion than that previously given
"Deuchar
sits
on Deuchar
hill,
Lookin' down on Birnie Mill ; The Whirrock, an' the Whoggle
[In the hope of a blessed resurrection here as in

;
The Burnroot,
Waterhaughs,
an' Ogle
a perfumed chamber sweetly sleepeth in the Lord, Capt. Egbert Irvin, Laird of Monboddo, who
piously departed this
life,
Quiechstrath, an' Turnafachie
6th July 1652, in his
an' Drumlieharrie."
SOth year.
The following are a few more examples of the enumeration of names of places near one another,
and
in the
In this tomb lies Irvin, a man happy in his wafe and family, a lover of virtue and honour, and the
scion of an ancient house.
The
rest is
for
known
its
to
same
district
the
hill
;
Muse and the
Seine,
famed
vine-
" There's Blackha', Buckit

Lochtie an' the Lint mill
nourishing waters.]
Cowford, the
Waulk
mill
The Millton an' Balmadity The Bogie an' Ba'qubarn The Farmerton o' Fearn."
;
Three marble tablets have been recently erected near the Irvine tomb, and are respectively in;
scribed as follows
[1-]
The Burying place of the Family of Monboddo. James Burnett of Lawgaven married the daughter
and heiress
of Col:
Irvine
of
Mono, and thus
Fordoun (62.)
St Palladius' chapel was being repaired in 1872, the workmen came upon a coflBu-slab which had been long used as the inner lintel of
When
the north door of the chapel.
It is about 4 feet 10 inches in length, by about 20 inches in breadth,

incised carvings.
sort of shaft with a bulging
and presents some In the centre is a
came into the property. They are buried here. He was succeeded by his son, James Burnett, who married a daughter of Sir T, Burnett of Leys, and and they are buried here. He was died succeeded by his son, James Burnett, who married a daughter of Sir Wm. Forbes of Craigievar, and and they are buried here. He was died succeeded by his son, James Burnett, afterwards Lord Monboddo, who married Miss Farquharson, a relation of the Keith Marishall family, and died
, ,
base of about 9 inches in breadth, and a circular top of about a foot in diameter, with a six-leaved
ornament, resembling an old-fashioned shield or
and both are buried in Edinburgh. He was succeeded by his daughter, Helen, who married KiRKPATKicK Williamson, Esq., and died in
in 1799,
SUPPLEMENT.
1833, and is buried here. She was succeeded by her son, James B. Burnett, who died in 1864, and
is
357
Auchinblae.
His son, William, who became a
partner in the firm of Aberdein

spinners, Montrose,
&
Gordon, millof
buried here, as are his two younger

his
and Margaret, and

In memory
of
Grace younger son Arthur.

sisters,
was the father
Mr
Alex.
Gordon
of Ashludie (supra, p. 112.)

:
[2.]
On
of
north side of aisle

:
Mrs H. W. Burnett
Monboddo,
who
1814
In
memory
of
died 17th Feb. 1833.
Alexander Milne, A.M.,
This has special reference to the heiress of Monboddo, mentioned in inscription

three sons and four daughters
[ 1.]
who having been 46
years schoolmaster of Fordon,
She had
died 16fch December 1812, aged 72 years. Also of Elizabeth Milne, his spouse, who died 7th Jany.
1825,
The
eldest sou succeeded to
by j\Ir Williamson. Monboddo, and the
aged
75
years.
And
of
;
their
children,
Catherine, died aged 21 years

3 years.
John died aged
two younger were John, a surgeon, who died in India, and Arthur, who was sometime sheriffBubstitute of Peeblesshire.
Wîthin an enclosure on north side of church
Mrs Burnett appears
George Mackenzie,
of
Capt. 55th Regt. of Foot,
to have inherited from her father a love for the
died Sept. 24th 1791, aged 21.
James Mackenzie
1799,
Btudy of the
classical languages, for
down
to the
Drumtochty, died
May 22ad
aged 24.
of
time of her death, she continued to use a Greek
Ann Macpherson,
relict of
John Mackenzie
New
Testament in church. Her younger sister, Eliza " whose amiable disposition and surpassing beauty" were the ad-
Strickathrow, died Nov. 12, 1810, aged 75.
The above-named John Mackenzie, who died in

Dec. 1775, made money as a surgeon in India,
miration of
all
who knew her
has been celebrated
by Burns both in his Address to Edinburgh and in an Elegy upon her death. She died of consumption, 17th June 1790. Her portrait, painted by Raeburn, is at Monboddo.
and bought Stracathro from

1767.
late
his
brother Colin,
" of the Island of Jamaica," sometime before
Mrs Mackenzie
sold
Drumtochty
to the
The
following relates to a great-grand-son of

in India
:
Lord Monboddo's, who was sometime

[3.]
J-<
Mr G. H. Druminoud, banker in Loudon, by whom the present fine mansion-house was erected. The property was again sold to the late Mr Jas.
Gammell, banker in Greenock, ancestor
present laird {iupra, p. 64.)
of the
Sacred to the
memory
of
Arthur-Coffin
[John
iii.
Drumtochty belonged
in old times to a
branch
Burnett, Born 1840, died
1871.
16.]
of the Raits, afterwards of Halgreen, for about
The next
stones,
inscription
to
is
from one of three tomb-
the year 1440, John Rait of Futhes (Fiddes) had

a charter of the lands of Drumtokie, in Kincardineshire,
erected
families
named
respectively
Gordon and Kerr,

Chapel
:
at the east end of St Palladius'
and
his
of the half
lauds of Campsie, in
Angus, on
own
resignation.
Soon
after that
Sacred to the
chant in
memory of George Gordon, merAuchenblae, who died on the 12th day of

;
date, the said
west half of
It
also
John Rait gave a charter of the Drumtochty to his son Henry, and
October 1830, aged 75 years and of Isobel Kerr, his spouse, who died on the 9th day of November Erected by their grateful 1830, aged 79 years. and affectionate family, of whom Alexander, born
another of the east half to Thonias of Gillmouk.
Hew and
of
appears that Alexander Calder, son to Janet Ogilvie, his spouse, had a charter
2d July 1781, died 27th November 1858 Margaret, born 29th August 1792, died 11th Feby.
;
Drumtochty, on the resignation of his father and of Elizabeth Rait, his spouse {MS. Notes of
Scotch Charters at Pannmre.')
1860
Elizabeth, born 13th Dec. 1785, died 15th

1866.
Three spring
(? S.
wells, called respectively the

(? S.
Nine
June
Maidens', Bright's
Bridget), and
Marot's
George
Gordon, originally a stone mason, was Bometime postmaster, and the last baron bailie of
Margaret), are upon the lands of Friars Glen or Glensaugh, the barony and superiority of
358
EPITAPHS,
AND INSCRIPTIONS
universo patriae veto, bono publico admoti
:
which were given by Lord Oliphant, 26th Oct.,

1-473, to
qui,
sibi
Mr Thomas
Guthrie
is
{Îbid.)
dura nimia hac vigilautia, patrice plus
quam
Auchinblae, which
the chief village in the
viveret, obiit, 15 Decembris, 1685, ajtatis 46.
parish of Fordoun, appears to have been in exist-
ence early in the sixteenth century, for in 1506,
George, Abbot of Arbroath, as superior of the

district,
gave a lease to John Strachan and his
spouse, Mariote Martin, of "
moderne
villain
nostram de Auchinblay" for the annual payment of 3 6s 8d Scots, with a " rynmart weddyr,"
In 1510 the same parties had a renewal of their lease of Auchinblae, to which was added " le Awrne Aylhows," within the barony of Newlands.
&c.
" This sepulchre contains the ashes (or remains) of Sir David Falconar of Newtoun, descended of the family of Halkertoun, most upright President of the Session, and most faithful counsellor to King Charles the 2d, and King James the 7th. Advanced to that high pinacle of honour by the unanimous desire of the countrey, and for the publiok utility by reason of his greatest loyalty to his prince, and for his great and notable vigilance and dispatch of business by which nimious vigilance, while he lived more to his countrey than to himself.
; ;
John Strachan and her son James Gardin, had a lease of the same and some other adjoining lands from Abbot David, afterwards
It also appears that in 1525,
his spouse, Egidia
He
died as above."
Gardin, and
was about 1620 that Sir David Falconer He was the brother of Sir Alexander, who was created Lord Halkerton
It
acquired Glenfarquhar.
the celebrated Cardinal Beaton (Reg. Nig. Aberb.)
in 1647. as a
These, as before said, were the same Strachans
who
held Mouboddo, the heiress of which carried
the lands to the Irvines.
Bat
lands
the village of Auchinblae, as well as the

of
His Lordship was deprived of his office Lord of Session after the murder of Charles I., but was reinstated on the Restoration of Charles II. He died in 1671 and the following Sonnet, addressed to him by Drummond of Haw;
Glenfarquhar,
now belong
to
Lord
thornden (Arcbaelogia Scotica,

that the poet feared that his
iv.,
102),
shows
succeeded to them as heir to the Lords Falconer of Halkerton and Glenfarquhar.

Kintore,
who
own
loyalty to the
Stuarts might also bring him into trouble, a mis-
Their
first
property in Fordoun was
that of
fortune which was possibly averted by his death,
Phesdo, which was acquired towards the close of the 16th century, by the second son of Sir David
which took place during the following year
"
Falconer of Halkerton (Land of the Lindsays.)

ton, whose initials
David was uncle to Patrick Falconer of Newand those of his wife P. F G. B. are upon a stone at Newton, dated 1C29. His wife had probably been a Barclay. Sir David Falconer of Newton, second sou of
Sir
:
Sir
David
of Glenfarquhar, died Lord^President
of the Court of Session,
and was buried
in the
Greyf riars' Church-yard of Edinburgh.
His tomb
bore the following inscription, which, along with the translation, is copied from Monteith's Theater
of
feare to me such fortune be assigu'd As was to thee, who did so well deserue, Braue Halkertone even sufFred here to sterue Amidst base-minded freinds, nor true, nor kind. Why were the Fates and Furies thus combined Such worths for such disasters to reserue ? Yet all those euills ueuer made thee svverue From what became a well resolued mind ; For swelling greatuesse ueuer made thee smyle, Despising greatnesse in extreames of want happy thrice whom no distresse could dant Age Isle Time Yet thou exclaimed,
!
Mortahty (1704,
p. 44.)
^Yhere
flatterers,
fooles,
baudes,
fidlers,
are
!"
rewarded,
Tenet hoc sepulchrum cineres, *'M. P. Q. S. D. Davidis Falconari, a Newtoun, e familia Halsupremi senatus praesidis incartoniana oriundi tegerrimi Carolo 2do & Jacobo 7mo., consiliarii fidelissimi in summum illud fastigium, sumnia in
;
Whilst Vertue sterues vnpitied, vnregarded
Two
inscribed stones are built into the farm
steading at Mains of Glenfarquhar.

1671, and the other
S.
is
One
bears
initialed
and dated thus :
Reges
fidelitate,
&
insigni in
negotiis vigilautia,
A. F.
1674
D. H. G.
SUPPLEMENT.
359
Both stones refer to the

coner,
time of Sir Alex. Fal-
who was
created a Baronet in 1670-1,
The following (supra, p. 150), is from another table-shaped tombstone at Inveravon

:
and whose son became the fourth Lord Falconer of Halkerton. Lady Falconer had probably been a Graham.
It
is
In
memory
of
Margaret Stewart, who
died
25th March 1841, aged 88 years.

years a faithful servant in
interesting to notice that the oldest spell-
George Forbes, minister of
She was many the family of the Rev. Lochell, by whose son,
ings of the names of Fordoun and Dunottar are
exactly the same (except that the syllables are

reversed), the former being Fother-dun,
latter Dun-fother.
is placed over her remains, in testimony of his grateful recollection
Sir Charles Forbes, Bart., this stone
and the Both may have had a common
of
Maggie Stewart's kindness to him when
a boy.
1842.
origin (supra, p. 52.)
Gartly (43.)
When
a
Inveruri e (180.)
S.
new stock was
lately given to the kirk-
Pol'nar's Chapel
is
believed to have been
bell of Gartly, the schoolmaster
kindly copied
a subsidiary place of worship to the church of Inverurie. It occupied one of those rath or fort-
the inscription, which the height of the bell from
the ground prevented being given in our

notice of the parish.
first
looking knolls which are so
common
in the locality,
As was then
:
anticipated,
the inscription runs thus
lOHN
IN
.
MOWAT ABD ME FE
. :
.
175S.
and stood about three miles to the north-east of the town of Inverurie, upon the north bank of The place was sometimes called the Don.
USUM
.
ECCLESI^
.
SABATA
It
PANGO
GERTLY. DE FUNERA PLANGO.

.
.
was
also
found that the inscription upon one

of the
.
The former name proRathael or Rathaelt. bably signifies " the rath or fort of the cliff," the latter " the rath of the burn."
of the stones of the belfry (which
to bear the
bore:
" yis
name
.
Rev.
Mr
was conjectured Rethe or Reid),
is
bethel."
The burial-ground is enclosed by a stone wall, and planted with trees and bushes. The kirk was situated near the middle of the enclosure but
;
only the ivy -clad ruins
now
remain.
The chapel
appears to have been about 36 feet in length, by
about 18 feet in width.
The only
inscribed stones
Inveravon (145.)
The
old place of worship at the
(p.
now
of Kil-
visible are four slabs in the east
end of the
:
church, upon which are these initials and dates
Haugh
maichlie
146), was dedicated to S.
Machalus
F
A. F. 1662
E. F. 1662
P. F. 1666.
(Bp. Forbes' Kal. of Scottish Saints.)
Id
59
The first par. of same page

Scalan, in Glenlivet, for a
it
(col.
2) should read .
There was a Roman Catholic Seminary at
number
of years
but
In the View of the Diocese of Aberdeen, it is stated that the lands of Badifurrow were " lately
was removed
in
1799 to Aquhorties
years
(siiprn, p.
it
180).
About
thirty
afterwards
was
taken to Blairs, in
Mary
Culter.
In the inscription from the to?/Ze-shaped monument (not " headstone ") to " Captain Allan
by the Fergusons (now of Pitfour), and by Forbes of Badifurrow." The above initials and dates probably belong to for in 1696, the Poll Book shews the Fergusons
possessed
at present [c. 1732]
;
Grant,"
the
surname
ought
to
be
spelled
that Lucress Burnett, relict of the deceased William Ferguson of Badilurrow, was then tenant,
Grantt throughout.
and that her children Patrick, Walter, and Mary,
360
EPITAPHS,
AND INSCRIPTIONS:
In
is
were living with her. The heritor of Badifurrow stated to be " out of the kingdom."
memory
of
the
of
Birkenburn.
Also
Gordons and Stuarts of Alexander Kynoch, mer-
As a
part of the possessions of
tlie
Abbey
of
chant in Keith,
who
died 15 Oct. 1867, aged 52.
Lindores, the lands and fishings of Badifurrow
Mr Kynoch married INIagdalen Stephen, daughter of a
were given
1600,
to Patrick Leslie
by James VI.,
Leslie,
c.
West India
of the first,
]\Ir
planter.
She was grandof the last Stuart
when he was
Bff.)
is
created Lord Lindores (Antiq.
daughter
and niece
Abdn. and
Raphoe,
Badifurrow.
Dr William
is
Bishop of
of Birkenburn.
Kynoch's father came to
said to have been of the Leslies of
Keith from Aberdeen, and to his original trade of

a coppersmith joined that of a provision merchant.
He
described as very learned

as " the oldest Bishop in the
and courageous, and

worlde in his time."
relative
grand-son of the last-mentioned, through a named Shand, succeeded to the property
The property
longs to
of Badifurrow,
now
Planar, be-
of Hillside of Portlethen, &c.,
and takes the name

:
Mr
Gordon, whose grand-father was oriAfter having been some
of
Kynoch-Shand.
Upon
of
a plain headstone
ginally a watchmaker.
To
the
memory
the Rev.
James Bunvan,
in Keith,
time in the E.LC.'s Service, he joined a brother

at Madras,
ler.
minister of the
first
United Ass. Cong,
who
carried on the business of a jewel-
who
died 1st June 1828, in the 71st year of his age,

of his ministry.
On
returning
and gave it of Manaar, near which,
home he bought Badifurrow, the name of Manar, after the Gulf

it is
and 41st
He was an able
;
ful preacher of the
Gospel
and faithand having, through
said,
he acquired
much of his wealth. The chapel of S. rol'nar

place,
is still
used as a burial
life, been zealous in his duty, bearing afflictions with patience, he resigned his spirit into the hand Erected as a of his Pvedeemer with confidence.
and therein lie the remains of JMr Gordon, who bought Badifurrow, and those of his son and
successor, &c.
memorial
of affection
by
his
widow Anna
Clark.
The
last-named,
who married
ground of Keith has been recently enlarged, and laid out with much taste.
The
burial
daughter of Henry Lumsden of Aucliindoir, died 17th June 187-4, aged 61, and was succeeded by
his son
Henry.
of the present laird of
The great-grand-father
Manar, came from Cabrach, and was tenant of One of his brothers, Old Merdrum, in Rhynie. who was farmer of Drumferg, was grand-father of General John Gordon, who died at Culdraiu
in
In the inscription from the tombstone [Errata. James Thurbuin (p. 167), the year " 1798 " is a misprint for 1793 (see also pp. 103-2). In the next page the surname of " Jamieson is misprinted for Jameson ; and (col. 2, Hue 12,) Keith should be substituted for "Pife-Keith."]
of
1861 (supra,
p. 258.)
The
Pol'uar
Burn runs
is
past the east end of

into the Don, near
Kirkmichae 1 (6 9.)
[1.]
the burial ground, and

the Chapel Pool, which
anglers.
falls
a favourite resort for
Here
lies
James Grant
life,
of
Strathaven and Glenlivet, who,

his age, departed this
Euthven, Bailiff of in the 73d year of

9, an.
Dec.
1743.
This was a
at
man remarkable
still
home, abroad,
still
hospitable
a good companion, trusty friend,
Keith (IG 5.)

The monument
to the
and
obliging to mankind.
Pallida mors, &c. (supra, p. 91.)
Gordons and Stuarts of

p.
[2.]
Birkenburn, from which the inscription at
165
was copied, has been replaced by a granite monument, with this inscription
:
Here lys the body of Isobel M'Lachlan, spovs to James Grant, who departed this life
year of his age, Oct. 29, 1722.
SUPPLEMENT.
Alexander Wysse
hail children equally
361
amongst
them
in fee, excepting
is
David Wysse,
his eldest
Laurencekirk (292.)
The
following inscriptioa (from a head-stone
is
on the south side of the kirk),

fully interlaced
giS*
carved in beauti:
Koman
capitals
no share thereof with the oyr left the liferent of 1000 merks to each of his two daughters, Elizabeth and MarThe former was margaret, and their husbands. ried to Arthur Shepherd, sheriff- depute of Kinson,
who
to have
children."
He also
Here
....
Iames, David,
.
Margrat,
cardineshire,
and the
latter to
James
Allardice, in
Mare
St\^\rt, lavfvl children

his spovs,
David Stvart
Powburn.
said
will,
The
last-named, and Alex. Jamieson,
and Jean Wallace
vho departed this lyf in the yearis of God, 1671, 72, 7-, and 77. No sooner cam they from the vombs dark cave
to the grave Bvt back again they most For uon of them bvt on did years atiue
. .
writer, Montrose,
were sole executors under the which was dated at Montrose, 20th
March,
1732, and witnessed by Mr Hebdry Ogilvy, minister of Lunan, Peter Japp, wheelin Montrose.
In
vhom God's
spirit
vorking might be seen
wright, William Rob, smith, and Alex. Beattie,
Vherby he did apear to" take delyght ke to perfyt In them that he an Vhich Christ himself provideth in his book
Concerning babs in the IS
of
"servitor" to Alex. Jamieson,
all
In addition to the above-mentioned legacies,
Lvk.
sessions
flat
is
slab,
near the stone from which the

:
David Wysse left 250 merks to each of the Kirkof Lunan, Montrose, Ecclesgreig, and Laurencekirk, payable within six months after his death. He died before 7th July, 1732, and
appears to have been survived by his second wife,
above
copied, bears
. .
David Mains of Lavr

s
. ,
y
.
Margaret Burnett.
.
.
The above-named Alexander Wysse, who marMargaret Strachan, bought the estate of Lunan, 30th October, 1723, from John Ogilvy of Balbegno. It was about thirty-six years in the family of Wyse, David, the son of Alexander
ried
LIFE
.
November
THE
DAY
W M
:
These
few words are all that now remains of an inscription which i-eferred to David Wysse or Wise, son of Alex. Wyse, Mains of Thornton. He was twice married, first to (" M. N.") Margaret, daughter of Alex. Nairn,
(?)
Pitreddie (Mar-
Wyse, having sold the same to William Imrie, in 1759, and retiring to Dundee, he died there in His eldest son, Thomas, of Clermont, in Jamaica, returned home, and bought the property
.
riage Contract dated at Montrose, 9th Nov. 1681),
of Hillbank, in Dundee, where he died in 1816.
and next to Margaret Burnett. In his last will and testament (a copy of which is engrossed in the kirk-session books of Laurencekirk), David Wysse is described as " sometime in Mains of Lawristown, now residenter in Montrose;" and by
this
He
married a daughter of
Wm.
Glenericht, town-clerk of Dundee,
Chalmers of by whom he
surviving son,
had four sons and two daughters. Their eldest Dr Thomas-Alexander AVise, representative of the Wysses or Wises, of Lunan,
claims through his great-grandmother, the abovenamed Margaret Strachan, to be the representative
deed he
left
his second wife, in

estate,
full of all
demands upon
an annuity of 200 merks, his whole household furniture, and his cow. Mr Wysse had a son and two daughters alive
his
and
heir-of-line of the old family of Strachan of
Thornton, in
the
Mearus, who were created
at the time he
made his will, for he therein leaves " Alexander Wysse of Lunan, my son, and Margaret Strachan his spouse, the sum of 6000 merks Scots money to be life-rented by them or either of them, during their lifetimes, and to the said
baronets in 1625.
The English portion of the next inscription is carved in raised Roman capitals, and the Latin, previously given from an older tomb-stone at
Dun
(supra, p. 223), is incised
:
YY
362
EPITAPHS, A AW INSCRIPTIONS
Although the above grant does not appear to it was
gsr Here lyes vnder the hope of a gloriovs resvrrection,
Alexander Covie, hvsband

life
garet Beatie, somtime in Mil of
departed this
age 79 years.
the 3 of jNIarch
MarHalcartovQ vho 1709, and of his

to
:
have included the Castle of Kinghorn for

held
"cum monte" by
is
Kirkcaldy of Grange in
it
15G4 it
evident that
comprehended that
piece of property which has been long
known
as
Disce mori, qvicvnq, legis
mea
:
scripta, viator
Omnes
ajqva
:
manent fvnera
Frater discat
Disce mori
Disce mori
cvm
prajsvle, clervs
Cvm
From
ivuiore senex,
cvm
sapiente rvdis.
I.
A.
M.
A. C.
:
a slab fixed to the east wall of the kirk
gS" Here lyes iu hope of a glorious resurrection, Robert Mortimer, messenger, husband to Susanna
In proof of this it need only be stated that these lands, which consist of about 13 acres imperial, and yield an annual rental of 45 sterling, were long held by the Glamis family. As shewn by the rental of the Earl of Kinghorn's " ffewdewties and Teynddewties" for 16G0, the " castle rigges" were then
occupied by three different tenants, and at the
following rents
:
" the Castle rigges" of Kinghorne.
Smith,
who departed
this life the Gth
day
of
Decemare
ber 1734, aged 46 years.

also buried here, viz.
Two of his children James & William.

:
Cristiane Eeidie payes valued teynd bolls for
8 aiker of the Castlerigges
h b
b
Sic transit gloria niuudi.
Johne Smetowne payes

E.
for 4 aiker of the Castle,
E.
S.
J. Î
W.
W.
2 rigges valued teynd bolls Alisone Wallace payes for 4 aiker of the Castlerigges valued teynd bolls
The following additional notes regarding the lands of the Castle, or Castleriggs of Kiughorn, in
Fife,
now
the property of
Mr Shank
(supra, p.
There are thirty separate entries in the paper from which the above is copied. The only other
surnames in
it
by Douglas (Peerage,
It is stated 292), cannot fail to be interesting.* ii. 562-3), that the lands of
are those of Orrock, Blak,
Syme,
the
Ii
and Gordon.
the Castle of Kinghorn and others were given to Alexander, second Lord Glamis, and his wife Agnes, in 14G3. This statement is corroborated
The name of Castleru/gs does not appear in MS. from which the next excerpts are made.
is
by the following
vol. of
extract, copied from an old MS. Notes of Scotch Charters at Panmure

:
a dateless Valuation Roll of Fifeshire, bub apparently the same as that to which the date of
1695
is
is
given in Sibbald's " History of Fife."

it
It
"Ch. of con. of a Charter granted be the kings mother Marie, to Alexr. Lord Glamues & Agues his
spouse, of the Lands of the (Jastell of Kingorne
here printed because
contains the
name
of
Hendrie Shanks, a reputed ancestor of the present

laird of Castleriggs
:
with mylue, & mylnelands of Kingorne, be his oun resig., with the lands of Balbardy in fyffe, also resigned be him. warde of rege. Ednr. 19 October 1463." 14G3, and confirmed Ednr. IS October
* The paragraph (pp. 291-2) immediately succeeding the inscription from tlie tombstone of the Rev. Mr Shank, at Laurencekirk, ought to read thus : minister ]\Ir Shank, who was a grandson of the of Drumoak, Aberdeenshire, was presented to the
"
The trew Eentall

ffife
of such heretors Estate iu the
Shire of
as the
missioners of
samen was taken up by the ComValuation, wt the valued rent on the

)
margin :"
24.
William Birrell William Smyten
48.
both held " aikers"imder the Earl of Strathmore, to whom, over their rents, each paid "tua bolls of bear." Hendrie Shanks. The rent of his aikers is ane chakler of bear, and over that rent to the
I
Earle of Strathmore, four bolls of bear.

42.
church of St Cyrus in 1759 (Scott's Fasti). It was about 1781, when he succeeded to the fortune of his namesake, Alexander Shank of Castlerig. in Fife (only son of the Pvev. Martin Shank, of Banchory-Ternan), that he resigned the charge of St Cyrus. By his wife, &c.
James Doniiy.
The rent of his aikers is fourteen bolls of bear, and over that to the Earle of Leven of iew, twelve bolls tua firlots of bear.
extract given below
is
The
Registers of Kinghorn.
It relates to the
from the Session bap-
SUPPLEMENT.
trism of
363
the future minister of Banchory-Ternan
was previously incumbent of Auchtertool, in Fife, Although I have seen no proof of the fact, I am inclined to believe that Margaret Dauney, who was the wife of the Rev. Mr Shanks of Banchory, had been in some way related to "James Douny," mentioned
(^supra^ p. 4),
who
(Scott's Fasti)
may be added, in connection with the town Kinghorn and the name of Shanks, that possibly the oldest and finest carved grave-stone there bears an inscription to Robert Glen of Enchky,
It of
town-treasurer of Edinburgh.
riod of
office
During
the "
his pe-
(1564-5), and
when
Heding
in the above Rentall

Julii 1670.
jprobably
a daughter
Aix" or Maiden was being made, he.paid certain sums of money to Patrick and Adam Shang
(?
henrie shacks Bailye
&
Aetnes balfour,
their childe born the 28 of Junie,
named Martina, was
to
Shank), carpenters in Edinburgh, who appear have been the principal makers of that cele-
baptized the 10 of Julie

trick Wallace,
W. Johne bruce, baylie, paWilliame Smeaton, Mr William Bett.

:
brated instrument of punishment (Proceedings of So. of Antiq., vii. 548.)
It
may
be added that the surname of Shanks
Reference has been made on p. 293, to the interesting collection of portraits of original feuars
of Laurencekirk,
appears twice in the baptismal register of King-
horn during the 16th century in 1577 and In each instance " Martine 1578 respectivelj'-. Shankis" is a witness to a baptism. This was probably the father of " Hen. Schankis," who
and
list
others,
which
is
preserved
in the Gardenstone
Arms Hotel
of these
of that place.
Believing that a
may
be appreciated,
I subjoin the names of the persons represented,
was made an elder of Kinghorn in 1608, and who, was allowed " to set up ane foir-face to the boukar of his dask to saue his Avyfe and wynis
in 162-4, fra being tred upo' be these y' gois in to the yll."
copied from the backs of the- drawings, with additional notes within brackets, viz.
:
David Beattie, factor. [Father of James Beattie, Prof, of Nat. History, Mar. Coll., Aberdeen, and uncle of the author
In
Mr Hepburn's
it is
interesting little book of ex-
tracts from the Kirk-session Registers of
King-
John
of "The Minstrel."] Hcott, parochial schoolmaster.
horn,
also stated that
" the house of Henry
[Long Baron Bailie of Laurencekirk. One of his daughters became the wife of Mr P. Mason,
corn merchant, Montrose.]
Bailie Garden.
Shanks, the kirk-treasurer of those days,

still
may
be seen above the railway viaduct."
[Mr Garden, who was an Aberdeen
This old house presents two nicely carved, but slightly defaced, coats of arms, in pale, with
crest, over the principal door.
the shield
as
Upon the left of much the same coat and crest now borne by Shank of The Villa, and
are
the Balfour coat has a crescent in base, which
advocate, and Baron Bailie of Peterhead, became factor for Lord Arbuthnott. He married a daughter of the Rev. Mr Moir of Ellon, and having removed from Mains of Fordoun, he died at Birness, in Logie-Buchan. He was connected in some way with the Gardenstone family, and a portrait of Lord Gardenstone, which belonged to him, was given to the town of Laurencekirk by his youngest daughter. Mr Garden was maternal
probably shews descent from a second son. The initials and date of " 16 : H. S B. B 38," are
: :
upon the door lintel below the arms, but the arms and initials appear to be in a later style of carving than the date, and correspond more with the time of Henry Shanks and Agnes Balfour. Although I have seen no grave-stone at Kinghorn bearing the name of Shank, there is one at Ceres to the " memory of Iohn Shanks, fewer
of Thirdpart,
grandfather of Mr .John Garland, Calrnton.] Johnstone. [Paternal uncle of Mr J. Badenoch-Nicolson of Arthurhouse and Gleubervie.] Alex. Smart, Powburn. [Grandfather of the late Mr Alex. Smart, writer, Stonehaven.]
Mr Badeuoch,
Mr Dewar, Aberdeen. John Eae, manufacturer.

[Grandfather of
Mr Eae,
farmer, Haddo.
John
Dallas.
Mrs Cruickshank, aged
78 [innkeeper].
Wm.
Town House
Customs, and Milu of

If not a
Ceres,"
brother,
who
John Shanks may have been
other\Yise
related to the minister of Banchory.
Cream, innkeeper. [Father-in-law of Dr Fettes, Baron Bailie of Laurencekirk]. John Silver, baker. Peter Eamsaj', mason. James Laurence, blacksmith. [Formerly at Charter Stanes, afterwards at
364
EPITAPHS,
AND INSCRIPTIONS:
Sx Meddan, before which deand pilgrims had often knelt, and round which fairs or markets had also been held.
of the Cross of
-
Laurencekirk. It was after him that CharAmonpr ter's Square, in the village, was named. the many odd stories that are told of " Charters," it is said that the Rev. Dr Cook and he having quarrelled on some occasion, and the Doctor having asked him, in a lofty tone " Do you know who I am, sir?" " Charters" rejoined " Brawly that you are my servant ae day i' the week, an' the ither sax if I want you !"]
!
votees
William E,ue, John Charles,
tailor.
tailor.
Logie-Dundee (196.)
levelled,
J<jhn Eae, gamekeeper.
James Hay, forester. James Murray, forester.

Robert Trail, hedger.
Lord
Colville, Ochiltree.
artist, 1790.
[Said to have been a local character.]
Mr Erich,
the burial-ground of Logie-Dundee was and otherwise put into a good state of repair, soon after it was closed against interments by order of the Privy Council, two or three additional tombstones were found. One, initialed and
When
dated D.
of a blacksmith's
E. C. 1722, presents a bold carving crown and hammer. Four other

:
stones bear the following curious inscriptions
Lintrathen (280.)
[!]
Here
ers,
[1.]
Here lys Georg Roger and Mary Roger thy both

of
lyes
Janet Candow, spous
John DeuchDeparted
did on the 14 day of December 1723 the lad

S years the las 4 years
.
was
Hamerman
in Burnside of Kinclune,
this life
September 26, 1721 ; and of her Children John and Robert, uho died in their infance.
and Margrat Roger died the 7

[2.]
of
Ivn 1725.
Under
this ston
intombled lyes,
;
Ane woman of honest fame And of hir uirtues while she liud,
Hir name doth still remain. And to hir husband and parents dear, Ane help and comfort uas But nou the Lord hath crouned hir, With joy and heauenly bliss.
;
In 1744 James Allan uas infeft ia the burial stone at the death of Alixander roger ia 1744 & is also interrd under same stone Lelyabeth roger & her children & barbara heuderson & her
children
& Jannet
1791
died
Farguson.
[3.]
John
deer
x x
Robert
th20
yer
[2.]
Agd X
55
[4.]
Heir lyes David Stil spovs to lanet Wright. lived in Fornitie and departed this lif the 5 day of December 1705, his age was 58 yeares.
He
Erected by John Watson and his Spous Beatty
Operations for the supply of water to Dundee (^snjn-a, p. 281), having been commenced at Lintrathen, the fragment of a sculptured cross
Whitson Pleasantes in meamery of there Daughter Elisbath, who died Febr 19th 1808, aged three
years.
was
This
[Errata. -p. 197

position
; (1.
found
at.
a short distance from the church.

is
17)
(col. 1, line 5) for -posiine read read genuine worth, integrity, &c.]
interesting relic, which
either part of
is
the top of a freestone cross, the interlaced work so

objects.
an arm or ornamented with

to this class of
toft
common
It
had probably stood upon the
Long side (100.)

The
Scott.
referred to in the curious charter of 27th
June
is
from the oldest of
1447, by which the bell of S.
Meddan
it is
of Lin-
several tombstones which relate to a family
named
trathen was resigned to Sir John Ogilvy {supra,

p. 280.)
There
is little
doubt that
a portiou
female descendant became the wife of the late Mr Russell of Kiuinmontb, brother to
One
SUPPLEMENT.
the laird of Aden, and another married the Rev.
365
And may their
Dr
now
Christie, late of
Kildrummy, Aberdeenshire,
:
of Kilreuny, in Fife
A. S
M.
W. S
I.
M. G.
children learn from them, In virtues paths to tread Like them respected when alive ; Like them esteemed when dead.
R.
I.
P.
Here lye, in hopes of a blessed resurrection, Alexr. Scott, some time in Nether Aden, who departed this life on the 8 day of Feb. 1699 & Margaret Arbuthnot, his wife, who died the 13th Septr. 1756, aged 94. Also Iean Strachan, lawful spouse to William Scott in Nether Adan, who departed this life on the 2Sth day of March 1716 and Mary Gordon, his second wife, who
; ;
The
of
first
of the above-mentioned four sons suc-
ceeded his father in Nether Innervedie; the second
became farmer
of Smallburn,
and was grandfather

;
Mr
Nicolson,
Dean
of the Diocese of Brechin
the third, farmer of Braeside, married a daughter
died the
XII
of
May MDCCLXIV,
in the
67 year
of her age.
There are likewise interred here the remains of the said ^YILLIAM Scott. He was born at Dumstone, the XIX of June MDCLXXXIII, and died at Peterhead, the of June MDCCLXV.
and the fourth went abroad. The family are said to have come from Skye to Glenlivat during the Civil Wars, and to have changed their name from Macdonald. The next two inscriptions are from head stones
of
the author of Tullochgorm
XXV
96)
:
From a
Here
life,
flat slab (s. p.
lyss
the 3 of
Iames DuNCAJf, who departed this May 1703, lawfuU son to Alexr Dun-
Geo. Walker, Fortry, d. 1827, a. 94 : "His grave is here pointed out as the resting place of a man who practised the truth " as it is IN Jesus," in all its simplicity."
Erected by Andrew Webster, farmer in Ardlaw, memory of his wife, Isabella Porter, who died the 11th of Septr. 1870, aged 72 years.' Also of her
can in Enervedie.
in
From
church
:
a table-shaped stone near west door of
Aunt,
I.SABELLA PoRTER,
who
died the 30th of
Septr. 1868, in the 101st year of her age.
In memoriam
Guoelmt Beown, A.M.,
scholce
Longsidensis pra-fecti per annos quater fere septenos

evigilantissimi, qui
Athougb unrecorded by any tombstone, I am

told that the remains of Lizzie
Nonis Martii, zE. C. 1761, atatis vero quinquagesimo octavo labeute anno, diem obiit eupremum, Maria Vallas, ejus vidua moerens moestaque, hunc posuit lapidem. Hie quoque con-
AVilkin are in-
duntur
sexto,
reliquiae ejusdera
Maki.e Wallace, quae
She died at the reputed age Her father was carpenter to Earl of 103. Marischal at Inverugie, and it is said that she remembered of him making " drumsticks" for the
terred at Longside.
of 1714-15. which exhibits a nicely carved, but much defaced coat of arms, with the motto " Spero," a crest, helmet, and mantlings, &c., is
quarto Cal. Feb.,
M.
C. 1796, tetatis vero sexagesimo
rebel
army
diem
obiit.
slab,
[To the memory of William Brown, A.M., for most energetic master of the school of Longside, who died 7th March 1761, in the 58th year of his age, Mary Wallace, his sorrowing widow, Here also are laid the remains erected this stone. of the said Mary Wallace, who died 29th Jan.
aboiit 28 years a
built into the east
dyke
of the kirk-yard.
The
shield
1796, in the 66th year of her age,]
charged with the Forbes and Barclay arms impaled, the former having a crescent, and the latter a boar's head for difference. The crest
is
From
a table tone
To the memory of John Nicholson, in Nether Innervedie, a loving husband, a kind father, and industrious farmer ; an agreeable neighbour, and a
eiucere Christian,
of
also composed of a crescent ; and, as the " difference" corresponds with that used by Forbes of Savock, as described by Nisbet, who also states that this branch of the Forbeses was come of a
is
who

wife,
And
1796,
second son of the laird of Tolquhon,

that
the slab
it is
probable
Jean Mattheu,
74.
his
who
died in
aged
Their four sons dedicate this small monu-
Forbes of
had marked the burial-place of Savoch and his wife, the latter of whom
a Barclay of Towie.
ment
of filial
duty to the best
of parents.
may have been
EPITAPHS,
The
AND
INSCRIPTION'S;
who, being zealous
Christ, was,
for the truth as it is in
churcli-yard of Longside has been recently
Jesus
enlarged and otherwise improved. An interesting example of a " lich-gate," which forms the west
burned
(to
when upwards of eighty years of age, death) by the Popish persecutors of the
This monument was erected
T.
entrance to the old portion of the kirk-yard,

of stone.
is
built
same, iu the market place of St Andrews, on the
Although an
inferior specimen to that

it is
29th of April, 1558.
at Blackford, in Perthshire,
quite entire.
those erections
by R.
J.
G. [Rev.
John Gowans, and]
W.
[Isa-
It need scarcely be said that
bella Webster, his wife], in 1818.]
were used for sheltering coffins while graves were being made, and the burial service read. They were named from the Saxon word lich or lice, which signifies " a corpse or dead body." The well-known ceremony of " the lyke wake" or
corpse watching, has
its
most graphic, as well as the most trustworthy account of the apprehension and burning of Mill is probably to be found in Pitscottie's " History of Scotland," pp. 519-23 {sunra p.
241).
The
name from
still
the same word,
In addition to notes of writs regarding the proprietary history of Lunan, which
which
also appears in
" lyke-stanes."
Major Blair-
Although " lich-stanes" are
found in some
Imrie has so obligingly communicated (see supra,

p. 243), he also gives the
out-of-the-way places in Scotland, they are by no
following interesting
:
means common.
know
of examples near
New-
account of his
own
ancestors
burgh, in Fife, and there are others in Buchan.
The latter are upon the old Mormond Hill road, between Strichen and Rathen, and bodies were rested upon these stones when they were being conveyed for burial from the one jDlace to the other. I have also met with the name of " Lichar-ford," which doubtless has a similar meaning,
and points out the ford or the crossing of a burn or river by which dead bodies were conveyed to
their last resting place.
" William Imray, or Imrie, who bouglit Luiian from David Wise, 27th Nov. 1759, was the sou
of
a farmer in Aberdeenshire.
He
assisted his
father
upon the farm
for
some time, and while
quite a youth, left

his design to
home without commuuicating

Having mounted
auy one, and walked along the coast
road until he reached Redcastle.

the
hill
on which that old ruin stands, he lay down, fell asleep, and dreamt he was Laird of Lunan. He went to England, sailed several times
married a
of
to India,
woman with money, and
be-
came the owner

Strand, London.
a hotel in Fountain Court,
Lu nan (241.)
The
inscription given below, to the
memory
of
Walter Mill, the well-known Scottish martyr, was composed and set up at Lunan by the late Rev. Mr Gowans. It has long ago disappeared but, being
;
correct in reference to facts,
it
is
probably to be
in preference to
regretted that the one
it
was not adopted

the church
:
now within
"M.S. Reverendi Gualteri Mill, hujus

siffi
Eccle-
olim pastoris eximii, qui veritatis studiosus Jesu
Cbristi a Pontiticiis ejusdem insectatoribus jam major octogenario in foro Andreapolitano igne crematus est tertio Kaleudas Mali MDLVIII. Hoc pos: R. J. G., I. W. 1818." [Sacred to the memory of the Reverend Walter
This tavern, which at that time was the favourite resort of the Forfarshire lairds when they went to London, ultimately degenerated into the well-known Judge and Jury' Tavern, over which for so many years presided that celebrated character, the Lord Chief Baron Nicholson, of facetious memory, whose dry judicial humour was more remarkable than the purity of his language. " The incident at Redcastle left a deep impression on William Imrie's mind, and having become rich in London, he returned to Scotland, and there realised the dream of his youth. "William Imrie's children all died in infancy, and his wife only survived her removal to the old
'
Mill, formerly an excellent minister
of this
Church,
mansion house of Lunan for the short space of six Simpson, weeks. He had a sister married to and their child, Agnes, became the wife of Alexander Taylor (whose mother was Jane Silver of Netherley), at Cushnie, in Fordoun. He left Lunan
SUPPLEMENT.
life rent, and to their fee, and died in 1790. Alexander Taj'lor (great-grandfather of the present Mr Blair-Imrie) succeeded in 1790, he assumed the name and arras of Imrie. He died on the 21st September, 1813, and was succeeded by his second son, William Taylor-Imrie, who died unmarried in 1849, leaving his property to his nephew, Lieut. -Colonel and Brigadier James Blair. " In acknowledgment of the public services which Brigadier James Blair had rendered for 36 years in
367
to his niece's husband in
second son, William, in
had a brother, John, who was alive in 1493, but the latter appears to have died, and iôssibly without
issue, before
"When
1520.
It appears that in 1528-9,
William
Wood had
a feu of Newbigging and Kirkton Mill in Inverkeillor,
with the astricted multure, and " ryng
beyer," &c. (Reg. Nig. Aberb.)
On
3d March,
1530, he acquired a charter, on the resignation of James Durliam of Ardeastie, " of the 6 part of
the lands of FuUartouu, a third part of the lands
of Ennenie, a 6 part of ane 18 part of Kinnaird,
India,
it is
said that the
Home Government
of
directed
that his papers should be forwarded, with a view of

conferring upon
and a 6 part
of
ane 18 part of
little
Carcarrie."
him the honour
knighthood.
By
some inadvertence the papers were mislaid, and before the error was corrected death had transplanted him to that land of peace, where worldly honours could avail him nothing. Shortly after his death, his brother officers erected an obelisk to (See supra, p. 242.) his memory at Lunan."
Maryt on (2 35-8.)
When
the church-yard of
Maryton was im-
proved in 1872, some interesting old tombstones were brought to light, which had been hidden
same upon the resignation of Wm. Earl of Montrose {MS. Mem. at Panmure.} William Wood, who was alive in August, 1532, had a son, James, who married Elizabeth, daughter of Lord Ruthven, and from them was descended John Wood of Bonnington, who, as before shown (sup., p. 237), was created a baronet. Besides the lands of Bonnington and others adjoining, the Woods also owned those of Lethara and Id vies but, about 1682, their affairs became much embarrassed, and their estates were adjudged to be sold in the time of Sir John Wood. He was succeeded in the title, and possibly in any
years later he acquired charters of the
lands, Fullarton excepted,
;
Two
from view for a great number of years. Amongst these was a mutilated slab of red sandstone, upon which was cut, in low relief, the effigy of a baron dressed in the costume of the sixteenth century. A shield, charged with the arms of the family of Wood (an oak tree growing out of a mount), be-
part of the family inheritance that remained,

his eldest sou,
by
James, who was alive in 1728. The surname of Wood, or J)e Bosco (as it was anciently written), is one of the oldest in Scotland; but the clan being numerous, it is difficult to say to which branch the first Wood of Bonnington had
belonged.
tween those
crosslets),
of Tulloch of Bonnington (two crossadorns the lower portion of the slab.
He may
have been related to Andrew
The
initials
V. V. are below the
shield,
and the
following traces of an inscription are upon the

sides of the stone:
. . .
ttlclmbs
tooti
fliim
tfomin
....
Wood, Hostiarius, who is a witness to the resignation by Walter Tulloch of certain lands in the Mearns, 1488 (Montrose Dukedom Case, 99b.) It is certain that, on 5th July, 1493, the king confirmed a charter by Dorothy Tulloch, with consent of her husband, William
of
As the carving
to the
first
fragment seems to belong half of the 16th century, it was probof this
Wood,
of the lands
ably the tombstone of William Wood, who is described in 1520 as the son and heir of Dorothea Tulloch of Bonnington and her husband, Walter
Bonytoun and Baluamun, which were hers hereditarily, to John Wood, their son, reserving But as Dorothy was a co-heiress, their life rent.
must refer only to one half of the property, on 23d Nov., 1498, Jonet Tulloch, " one of lands of the Ladies of Bonytoun," resigned the Balnamone and Bonytoun, with her part of the
this
Margaret Ogilvy (misnamed " Elizabeth" in Douglas' Peerage), eldest daughter William of the second Lord Ogilvy of Airlie.
Wôod.
lie married
since,
368
EPITAPHS,
AND INSCRIPTIONS:
the spirit that they
mill thereof, to in
Thomas Lord Innermeath, who,

to
may
rest
from their labovr and
June,
1508, conveyed back these lands
their vorks do folov them.
David Garden, son and heir apparent of David Garden of Cononsyth, and his wife Janet TuUoch
MS.) was on 18th March, 1377, that Walter Tulloch possibly the same individual as was Deputy Chamberlain of Scotland for parts north of the Forth received charters of Bonuington, on the resignation of John de Capella (Reg. IMag.
(Mlscell. Aldbar,
It
Heir lyes Tames Dall hvsband to Agnis PeaterSON his spovsse. Theis tvo persones desesed September 22 and Febrvar the 10 the yer of god 58 and 55 and of age 45 and 63. and Isobell Reat spovse to Thomas Dall vho deceased in September the 10 the yeir of god 42 and of age 44 Memento mori 1643.
[4.]
Sigill.,
130
Chamb.
Rolls,
ii.
pasxim.)
more injured, and bearing the inscriptions given below, were found at the time the church-yard was improved. Besides its quaint
Slabs, all less or
orthography, the
first
quoted inscription contains
Heir lyes an faithfull brother, Walter Greio, hovsbaud to Margret Black, who died the first of Ivly, the year of God, 1645, of age 48 years. &" Here lyes Margret Blvck, spous to Walter Greig, elder, who died ye 15 of April anno ....
of age 78.
a denunciation in regard to the stone upon which

it is
W. G
M. B
VV. G. I.
H.
carved, that will remind the reader of a similar
threat in Shakespear's epitaph regarding his
own
The next two
inscriptions
possibly relate to
bones
cadets of the Melvills of Baldovie, a property to the

[1.]
eastward of the kirk of Maryton.
It will be re-
membered
(ii.
Melvill's Diary) that the celebrated
ANd OF Ye AIGES OF
Reformers,
Andrew and James

:
Melvill,
were sons
[A shield, charged with a blacksmith's crown and hammer, and initialed, W. S., is here carved.]
of Melvill of Baldovie
m WO
HIM
TIS
. .
bE
.
.
yAT
ylS
.
TO PV TOO
[5.]
A. M.
B. R.
1667.
ANy
WdER
WS
.
.
WHA
. . .
IN A NO A MVCLX XXIV yN yAR
dESEClT
l hovsband to Here lyes Alexander Bessie Ramsay sometyme in Cotovn of Old Monof trose vho depairted this lyfe in the Lord the
.
.
May
the year of
God
1667.
[6.]
[2.]
Death
is
the end of
all tribvlation,
:
Villame Lietch and David Lieth tvoe brietber sovm tyme in Old jMontrois, vho depairtet the nynthe of March the year of God
Heir
lyis
wyse men a swet consolation Here lyes William Mellvil, hvsband to Barbra Mikeson who died in the Lord the 5 of Avgvst the
And
therfor to
1G66 yires of aige 63 yires, and the other departit

the tvautie thrie of Decembre
the yeir of
year of
God
1677, of age 55 years.
God
wM
AV
1642 yires of aige 6
W. L
glass are carved
D. L.
1673.
of a bell and a sandupon the last-noticed slab. Upon the next are a blacksmith's crown and hanamer, also a shield charged with a bird of some sort (pro-
The mortuary emblems
YOVNGER lEAN ANNA

MELLVILL
[7.]
BM EW
Heir lyes loHN Grieg and Ianet his spovs vho decesed both in on ag
the yeir of
.
72
bably a pelican, for Paterson), initialed A.

[3.]
R.
.'
I.
Blessed ar the ded vhich die in the Lord yea saith
March 1670 M. W. C. E. G. memento MORI. 1673.

. .
....
C.
SUPPLEMENT.
[8.]
369
Heir layes Elizabeth Lonkine, Valter Dall ia Ananise, & mother
lafvl spovse to
Monifieth (106.)
with carvings of a mariner's compass, anchor, &c
flat slab,
:
...
to lohn
.
Gray ia Cottovne, vho departed this
aw...
life
ovs, relia;iovs
ife,
From
to a better, of her age 65
November
. .
70
of age 21
ovng man vho died

I
Septemb
I
I
4,
1G70.
E L
is
1673
G D
it
Here lyes John Knight, shii^master in North Ferrie, who departed this lyf the Sth of November 1721, and of his age 82, as well as his spouse Isobel
Hill,
1713,
who
departed this
life
the 4 of
November
The word Ananise

looks
and her age 68

Tho' Boreas blasts on Neptune's waves Hath Tossed us to and fro,
carved in such a curiously

variously
interlaced form in the above inscription, that
more
like
" nanse." The name
is
spelled Inauey, Enene, Ennenie, &c.

itself,
The
Yet by the order
place
is
now
familiarly
known
We
of God's decree harbour here below.
as
Ananias,
of
some
historical note, in so far as the lands
were
Where now wee lye at anchor With many of our fleet,

Expecting on day to set
sail
sure
given by William the Lion to Crane, the heridit-
ary gate-keeper of the King's castle of Montrose
Our Admiral Christ to meet.

Thos.
(Mem. Angus and Mearns,

[9.1
p.
46
supra, p. 237.)
3 children d. 1732-41
Arcklay and Janet Cwper :

three,
in Hillock
Let us be attentive to the call of the Almighty. D G G A K. William Greig with his spouse Magdalene Dun, who died in the year of our Lord 1702, and
Lo children
by God's
ly,
decree,
Dissolving here do
Their tender years with floods of tears, Lament ought you and I.
Let's cry, alas, all flesh
is
ye 67 of her age. He dyed iu the year 17 And Andrew Greig, their son, aged 84 years. farmer in Marytown for the space of 28 years, departed this life, August 8th, iu the year 1718, aged 64 years. His son Walter Greig succeeded him, and died 24th August 1761, aged 63 years. Elisabeth Beattie, his spouse, died Deer. 1786,
in
.
grass.
;
Here fades
all
worldly pleasure
Let's dart our eyes
beyoud the skies
&
seek for heavenly treasure.

decreed, we've all agreed
As heaven
aged 84 years. Although their bodies Mulder here to dust, To wait the Picsurrection of the Just
Their souls in trouble rest iu peace,
Ordain'd of
That soul from body sever, Eerth to the clod, the soul to God Shal live and reing for ever.
Ye
parents kind,
Pale Death, hath
God
for all the chosen race.
Yet comfort & meet in endless
who stay behind, made you sorry take, we shall awake

glory.
Their children were Elisabeth, Ann, Jane, Andrew,

Christian, Margaret,
Marjory, Kathrine, Walter,
Within an enclosure
Sacred to the
and Robert Greigs.

[10.]
lies Christan Rany davghter to Heir the Cott ..... Dysart lames Ra departed t ... life the 12 of May 1705
.
memory
of
David Hunter,
fourth
son of General Hunter of Burnside. Born 20th April 1801 ; died 16th Aug. 1854. This last tribute
of affection is erected
by his deeply
afflicted
widow,
Sarah Kerr Hunter.

'
her
age
18
yeares.
Repose, then. Precious clay
Thou art in safer custody than mine. What though The purchase of atoning Blood The sods of earth now cover thee, and rage
!
z z
370
EPITAPHS,
AND INSCRIPTIONS
A
plain head-stone thus records the death of a
The elements around thee ? Angels watch The sleeping dust nay, more, Omnipotence
;
patriarch,
who was born
in Fettercairn
Is th' invisible
Guardian
of
thy tomb.'
1843
:
Erected by David Rennie, farmer. Mill
A
yard.
costly freestone
monument, with columns,

Peterhead
and three inscription

granite,
is
tablets of polished
Omachie, in memory of his wife 9th April 181S, aged 57 years.

PiENNiE, died 3d
his son
Ann
Kid, who died
The above David
built into the north dyke of the church-
March
1857, aged 102 years. Also,
It
of
Grange
was " Erected by Thomas Kerr of Monifieth, A.D. 1867." The panels
:
Thomas, who died 12th Dec. 1860, aged GO
years.
are respectively inscribed
Abridged from a marble slab
[1.]
fieth,
In memory of Thomas Kerr of Grange of Moniborn 30th December 1737, died 22d Decem;
ber 1811
of
also of
Catharine Kerr,
Isfc
his spouse,
;
In memory of John Arklay, late of Hillock, who died 12 June 1828, aged 87. Matilda Crammond, his relict, died 8 Dec. 1830, aged 72. Their son PkOBERT Arklay of Ethicbeatou, died 2 June 1837,
of liobert, was drowned whilst river Tay, 18 Aug. Elizabeth Sim, spouse of Robert Arklay, died 26 Aug. 1859, aged 75. Robert Arklay died 1859, aged 70. Agnes, their youngest
born 1st January 1730, died

1768, died
January 1808 and Elizabeth Kerr, their daughter, born 8th June
aged 58
John, son
May 1839.
[2.]
bathing at Monifieth in the

1837, aged 11.
In memory of David Kerr of Grange of Monifieth, born l'2th October 1766, died 5th October 1843 ; and of Ann Anderson, his spouse, born 16th
daughter, died 1862, aged 31.
March
1760, died ISth
June 1840.
[3.]
The next two inscriptions are also abridged. The former is from a monument on the south side
of the kirk,
In memory of the following children of David Kerr and Ann Anderson, viz. David, their younger son, born 23d May 1803, died 11th June 1832 and
;
and the
latter,
" erected by the

is
mem-
bers of his congregation,"
from one in the

:
south-east corner of the burial-ground
Margaret Kerr,
born 5th July 1800, died 31st
May
1865.
The Revd. John Bisset, minister of died 5th March 1839, aged 61 years
Isabella Dick, his spouse 1825, aged 47.
this parish,
11 months.
Kerr was some time farmer at PitHe bought the property of South Grange skellie. of Monifieth in 1795 and his son David, who died in 1843, bought that of Newbigging, in Monikie,
;
Thomas
for nearly 16 years, died
The Revd. Peter Myles, minister

for 14
of this parish 28.
months, died 24th Feb. 1855, aged
in 1821.
Thomas, erectof of the monument, and grandson of Thomas Kerr of Grange of Monifieth, possesses both estates, also North Grange. Within an enclosure are two inscribed tableshaped
of
monuments.
One
The
records
the
death
A neat Free Church was erected a little to the north-west of the Parish Church of Monifieth in
1872.
Charles Kerr,
tenant in Fore Boath,

other bears
:
who
In the following year the interior of the

:
Parish Church was improved at an expense of

nearly
1000
sterling.
Inscribed by Thomas Kerr of Nortli 1848 Grange, in memory of his father Egbert Kerr, who died the 8th of July 1813, in the 79th year of Margaret Kid, his mother, who died his age.
Mem.
In noticing the Chapel of Ease at Droughty

viz.
Ferry (supra, p. 115), there are two misprints, " 1826" for 1827, and " 1838" for 1863.
the 16th of July 1813, in the SOth year of her age.

[Also 2 brothers and 3 sisters named.]
Thomas
of
Kerr
of
North Grange died at Denfind, the 3d
April 1S64, in the 90th year of his age.
SUPPLEMENT.
years.
371
He
bequeathed two hundred pounds to the

the interest of the poor industrious families
Monquhitter (175-8.)
[1.]
Kirksession of Monquhitter,
same
to be paid yearly to
To
the
memory
his
of
Isobel Eettie, sometime in

;
in the parish, not on the poor's Roll.
Blessed are
and of Jeak Ore.m, daughter to the Reverend Mr Orem, his beloved wife, this monument of filial piety and connubial love is gratefully dedicated by John Russell of Balmade. The one died Nov. 12th 1770, aged 69 the other died July 27th 1771, aged 38.
Balhangie,
the dead
who
die in the Lord.

[6.]
respected mother
Sacred to the
geon, Fyvie,
memory of John Chalmers, surwho died 14th June, 1833, aged 34
years. For the unwearied attention with which he discharged his professional duties, and his kind
consideration of the condition of the poor, his me[2.]
mory
a.
will be long cherished,
Wm. Allardyce,
Corbshill, d. 1782,
43 :
in the neighbourhood,
A gen'rous heart he had,

Could melt at woe The poor man's friend he was, To none a foe.
;
and his loss regretted which was the field of his
useful labours.
ficiently
Although modern, the next inscription quaint

:
is
suf-
[3.]
[7.]
Under
this stone is deposed the
body
of
Isabella
Irvine, who died the 17 of Oct. 1787, in infancy. This stone is erected by George Irvine, Esquar of
Bayndlie.
beloved
Erected by Sophia Stewart, in memory of her husband, Alexander Cran, feuar in
[The Lord gave, &c.]

or Boyudlie,
in
Cuminestown, who died 16th June 1833, aged 60 years, by mutual concent of Andrew Lorimer, his
Successor.
"Bayndlie,"
Tyrie,
the
parish of
now
belongs to a branch of the Forbeses.

inscription probably relates to a de-
The next
of
this
scendant of Guthrie of King Edward.

family succeeded
to
The
first
the
baronetcy of
Guthrie of Colliston, in Angus.
They were come

:
Nevay (68.)
"S. Neyeth, Martyr, was one of the sons of Brychan. He is said in the Welsh Genealogy of the Saints to have been a bishop in the north, where he was slain by the Saxons and the Picts. The ecclesiastical district of Nevyth (Nevay) now
uuited to Essie, near Meigle,
Pictish territory.
at Nevay."
Saints.)
lies
of a younger sou of Guthrie of that Ilk

[4.]
Died at Cuminestouu, Octr. 1797, in his 70 year,
Walter Guthrie,
and
manufacturer.
Piety, virtue,
contentment and As a husband, a father, and Christian peace. monitor, he was revered by his family. His industry, integrity, and medical skill, were grateful to society. His life was the life of the righteous, and his death illustrated their comforts.
faith diffused in his heart
within the old
Perhaps
S.
Neveth was buried
(Bishop Forbes' Kalendars of Scottish
As
the ivy-clad ruins of the church of Nevay,
Religion cheers the vale of tears,
or Kirkinch, are
;
among
the most picturesque in
Excites our hopes,

It guides the
&
lulls
our fears
the county of Forfar, some of the 17th century
They
live esteem'd,
good through evry scene and die serene.

[5.]
monuments
are also fine examples of their kind,
in the art of carving.
Were
the grave-yard
trenched over and put in proper order, some

equally,
if
In memory of Alexander Grieve, late merchant in Cuminestown, who died 26th April 1806, aged 73 years ; and also of his spouse, Margaret
not more, ancient and interesting stones,

in the course of opera-
would probably be found

tions.
Clark, who died 26th November
1807, aged 58
The church
of
Essy
(p.
C7),
which had
S.
371
EPITAPHS,
for its patron
AND INSCRIPTIONS:
[5.]
Brandon
Saints),
(Kaleudars of Scottish
gS" Heir lyes
of
was dedicated, in 1246, by David, Bishop

stone,
of St
Andrews (Robertson's Concilia.) The shield upon the mutilated Tyrie

is
Iohn Dvgats, children Gilbert Dvgat and Elizabeth Scot in Temple-
tovne, their ages are 20 days

as
.
....
yeares
....
within the ruins at Nevay,

initials I.
flanked
(?
by the
was
. .
10 of
November
1667,
departed
T.
The Tyrie
is (?
coat
a cheveron bet.
remains.
:
Febr. 1678
crescents),
defaced, but the impalement of a

for Crichton)
still
Beneath this stone lyes
sone
lion
rampant
The
The
a
following traces of an inscription are from
at the west end of the ruins.
It bears
flat slab
inscription (supra, p. 69), reads thus
YRIES'
.
IX
NEV
a shield, charged in pale, a cheveron, between three

roundels, possibly for
.'
FOLLOVIS
Myreton
of
Cambo, and a
The rest of
the inscriptions are from

:
monuments
St Andrew's cross, probably for Maxwell:

[6.]
gSr'
in different parts of the church -yard
Heir lyis
gentlewoman
.
Heir lyis Thomas Tyrie, svmtym indvcUar in Nevay, sone to vmvmhyl David Tyrie, and hvsband to lanet Veilant, vho departed the 10 of October 1651, his ago vas 3- yeirs
:
Margret
tvn
of age
M
55
.
ars
.....
fol-
Heaven keips
bis savel, heir the bodie lyis
On
earth he vas both vertvvs cynd and vyse.
There are several tombstones to a family named Barron (r. p. 69, in which the date of " 1853" is misprinted for " 1753.") The oldest stone bears
a pretty long Latin inscription, of which the lowing
is
ME5IENT0 MORI,
[2.]
a portion
Heir
in
lyis
ane honest
man Iohn Riyis

rted la
[?
Eynd]
H.
S.
[7.]
Navey
his spovs
Andreas
B^vrok, mercator, qui obiit

;
and
Elspet
stay
40 Id' Octobris A. JE. C. 1714
et conjuge
Mar-
IVIarch
gareta Fairweather,
&c.
;
quae ob. die Paschali 1692,
Yov vho is in pomp, I Death areast yov, I lay al pomp and honovr iu the clay.
I.
The
of
latest of the
Barron stones
is
in
memory
aged 82,
Pu, E.
W., M.
[3.]
is
I.
1645.
Andrew Barron, who died
in 1851,
The hour
Heir
.
run
and his wife Margaret Smith, who died in 1826, aged 55. It was erected by their daughter, ]\largaret,
lyis
ane
nest
man John "Wardroper

November
wife of
Charles
Clark
of
Princeland,
Templetvn
arted
[4.]
Coupar-Angus.
[8.]
ID. ID. HB. Heir lyas James Doog, lavfvll son to Androv Doog and lean Wardroper, indvellers in Gatesid of Ballgrvgo, who dayed iu 1715, of his age 29 :
AD.
IW
heir lyis ALEXANDER NEA\-E X lEAN STORACH.

[9.]
His uattralle temper uas so good. His vertve in bis blossovme ; And to his parants vas so kind ;
It
Heir lyes Iean Pullar, spouse to Iohn AnderShe died Apryle 7, 1755, son, who lived in Navy.
her age
was ther
griefe to loss him.

life
table stone at the west end of the ruins
is
A holy,
To
harmless
hee lead,
erected
by Elizabeth Murray
in
memory
tenant,
of her
From wice hie was esstranged ; Bvt nov the Lord hath crovned him
joy,
husband,
Egbert Anderson,
North
from
girefe is ended.
Nevay, who died in 1801, aged 88, leaving four children Margaret, Andrew, Janet, and Eobert.
SUPPLEMENT.
The next
373
Newtyle (138-41.)
When
the church of Newtyle was taken
stone,
down
in 1870, to
bits of old
make room
inscription and epitaph are from a which has the initials, R. I. S., upon the left, and those of the seven children referred to below upon the right side of a shield. The
for the present building,
shield bears
an oivsen-iow or
ox-collar, &c.
carved stones were found in and about

Erected by George
the walls, and also some grave-stones in the burial
Probably the most interesting of these was the top stone of an awmbry, about 2 feet 4 inches in height by about 1 foot 9 inches in breadth. It bore ornamental carvings, and these words upon a scroll or ribbon
ground.
relics
:
Alexander Masons in memory of there father Robert Mason, late tennant in Pitnepie, who died Aprile 20th 1748, aged 84 years & Iean Iackson, his first spouse, who died Aprile 20th 1708, aged 40 years, by whom he had 5 children. His second spouse, Isobel Spaukie, sur;
&
vives him, by
whom
he had 2 children.
of
lACOB'.
HOC
vicar,
FIER
^vsapii
[James Lyndesay,
FEC sravoTA
. .
.
Struck by the fiery dart
Death,
Here Robert Mason
Lies,
caused this to be erected.]
Awaiting the Eternal Call

Of Christ beyond the Skies, He while on Earth mankind did aid, & genarously befriend. For which we hope, Almighty God
has bless'd his latter end.
On
of
13th March, 1519,
Mr Andrew Dure
was
presented to the vicarage of Newtyle, on the death
Mr Wm. (? James) Lyudsay (Reg. Nig. Aberb.) Two of the fragments possibly relate to the
who were
early proprietors in the dis-
Oliphants,
trict (mpj'a, p. 141.)
One bit
bears the Oliphant

initials, I.
and
.
C
AGE
.
(?)
;
Crichton arms, with the
O
:
He by god's blessing often did. Lame people Safe restore. To wonted Strength, although their
were bruised very sore. BIEMENTO MORI.
bones,
and upon the other
bit are these

,
words
OLYPHAN
YE
.
AND
The
1603.
:
first
portion of the following inscription
is
Upon
a third fragment
in raised interlaced
Roman
capitals, chiefly
is
round
incised
VIR
10
.
EGREGl'
PR^DICA
.
the verge of
capitals,
the stone, the rest
in
:
SEPTIMO
QUIEBTJ
and disposed
lyis
. .
as indicated below
.
NO
Heir
Ihon
.
, ,
Mitchell
. ,
indweller
.
.
in
The
covered
text,
lintel of
the old kirk door was also disthe debris.

It bore the following
among
in
interlaced
capitals,
which
has been
attempted to be imitated over the principal entrance to the new church

:
YE LORD GATE INTO VHICH YE RYCHTEOVS SAL ENTER,

.
OE
.
A coffin -slab, with

K
hvsband to Grissell Grein who decased the 20 d of .May 1678 and of his and she departed the 2 d of 78 age March 1075 and of hir age 82. and vise Heir is intombd on kiude svllan tymes thrice Who lived one and nynes thrie as he did finde Of years the [climac]terick great cord wntvind
Craighead
.
bevelled sides presents the

:
When
d[eaths dar]te
I,
his
siluer
following, as here arranged
M,
G.
G.
Hiaz
.
zL
.
LYIS HEIR BALMAV LER IN BEL DOG I FER

,
. .
. .
HA aov lOHN
.
sih
ko
'
aNV
.
MICHEL
g09T VITTA
ISSO
AND
.
HVSBAND
.
TO
WHA
GOD DEPARTIT. YE. 17. DAY
Another tombstone, upon which there is a shield near the top, charged with the initials, A, K, G., the date of 1730, and an old fashioned
OF.
NOVEMBER ANNO
.
plough, coulter, and sock, beai:s this epitaph
374
EPITAPHS,
AND INSCRIPTIONS:
Oat hi aw (335.)
From
to
Here lyes interrd belou this stone, The dust and ashes of Andrew Whitton,
And
of his age ninety even,

1
But now
hope he
lives in heaven.
a lately recovered tombstone

:
. .
He was
a freind to ricth and poor.

;
1732
Here lyes Elizabeth Voluji, dau
ter
His living was in Auechteryre Aue honest wpright husband man. But nou hes lying in the ground here. Also interred belou this stou,
lohn \"olum
Finevan,
&
lannet Cato in Main Shott of Helen Yolum, their daughter, who
&
died the 10 of lune 1731, aged 19 years.
child of nonage,
whos name was

be,
Ioujn^
The
;
above were probably descendants of a
His children seven remaining
family
of
And
of his oyes thirty-three.
named Volume, who were once proprietors Woodwrae (r. Laud of the Lindsays.) They
The
appear to have fallen into a state of indigence, for

stone which bears the above inscription
presents some mortuary emblems, also the initials

of the seven children above referred to.
It stands
within an enclosure on the west side of the burial-
ground, where there
is
:
monument
of
Peterhead
granite thus inscribed
Erected to the
Esqr. of Couston,
memory of Andrew Wiiitton, who died 14th May 1861, aged
and 1638, the Brechin Session records show that " Alexr. ^Vellom, sometyme of Woodurae," received charity from that body. llobert Volum, in Kirriemuir, who was served heir to his uncle, Thomas Duulop, dyer and burgess, Arbroath, 8th Sept. 1668 (Retours), was probably of the same stock.
in 1636
68 years.
son,
who
died 12th
Also of his mother. Christian RobertMarch 1835, aged 74 years
and
of his father,
Kobert Whitton, who died 26th
The name of Volum is now better known in Buchan than it is in Angus. Catto, which is quite a Buchan name, may have been assumed from
the district of Cairn Catta, near Peterhead.
October 1840, aged 82 years.
The
first-named in the above inscription was
succeeded in Couston and Scotston by his sou,
now local factor for Lord From a head-stone

:
Wharncliffe.
Pert (213.)
The
first
memory of Anne Dalrymrle, Newbigging House, who died the Erected by a few 21st Febr. 1839, aged 63 years.
Sacred to the
school-mistress,
of her Pupils, as a
slabs in
two inscriptions are copied from flat the kirk-yard of Pert, and both bear
mortuary ornaments, &c.

[1.]
token
of their respect for her
memory.
The church bell of Newtyle is dated 1736. The patronage of the kirk was acquired by Sir George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh, King's Advocate,
The top
from George, Earl of Panmure. of the old awmbry, and four of the
Hir lys aia fames yovth son to loiiN Smith, in Galro, vho departed this lyf Febrvar the 20 day and of ag 27, 1G6G Com al and se as yov go by En honred corps hir lov do ly As ye ar nov so one vas ay As ay am so sal ye be Eemember man that thov most dei
somtym goodman
fragments above noticed, as well as the stone with

the curious inscription to Gilbert Mille (supra,
p. 140), have either been buried or destroyed The marble since I took note of them in 1870.
[2.]
Here
lys loiiN Tame,
vho departed
this lyfe in
the year 1708, and of his age 86 Ian. 2 day. And Margrat spovse vho departed this
lyfe in the year 1702,
tablet to
Mr
Alison,
who was
long factor for the
Belmont
estates (supra, p. 139), lies
broken and
and of her age 84. Here lys David Iamie and Ioun Iamie, and Iean Pitcarnes and Margrat Gleag ther spovses.
imcared for within the burial-ground.
SUPPLEMENT.
The
following
is a complete copy of the inscripan abridged form on p. 211
:
375
tion, given in
older of
these stones
Durie in Capo, and

in
his wife
was erected by Thomas Margaret Middleton,
Sacred to the memory of Mary Allardice, daughter of James Allardice, Enquire of that Ilk, in the Mearns, and second wife of James Macdonald,
Esquire, long sheriff-substitute of that county, and
memory
of their
daughter Isocel, who died in

other bears the
1791, aged 14.

son,
The
name
of their
Charles Durie, farmer of Capo, who died in 1862, aged 72,

two
of his daughters
Dalladies
also the
and names
only son of Thomas Macdonald, advocate, Aberdeen.
of
and three
of his sons.
She died at luglismaldie, 4th January 1801,

75th year of her age.
said
of
in the
of the
Mr
Durie,
who was long an
auctioneer and
Also to the memory
land valuator, was as remarkable for honesty and

integrity of character as for his great good hu-
James Macdonald, Esquire, who died 23d August 1809, in the 83d year of his age. They lived together upwards of 42 years in greatest happiness, and in the practice of every Christian virtue, beloved and revered by their family, and by all who knew them. This stone is erected by their only
daughter Mary, only surviving child of six children, and wife of Charles Ogilvy, Esquire of Tannadice. Also, here lies the body of Margaret Ogilvy, daughter of the above Charles Ogilvy and Mary Macdonald, who died 25th Oct. 1805, aged 3 weeks.
mour.
His eldest son, Charles, who succeeded

farms of Dalladies and Capo,
his father in the
died in 1S70, aged 39.
He was
Club,
Secretary to the
The remains
Dr
of
Mr
Ogilvy of Tannadice and
and was esteemed alike for his kind heartedness and general intelligence. His younger brother, Alexander, died in 1872, also aged 39. He was sometime Dean of Guild of Brechin, and carried on the business of a brewer at the North Port of that city, where his maternal ancestors had conducted the same trade for nearly 200 years.
Fettercairn Farmers'
I have now ascertained that the relationship between the Rev. Mr Lunan, Rosehill, and his namesake at Daviot (as stated on p. 213), is uncertain. But it appears from documentary evi-
his wife also lie at Pert.
Having made money
as a medical officer in the H.E.I. Co.'s Service,
Ogilvy bought the lands of Tannadice towards
the close of the last century, and built a mansion-
house there.
officer in
He was
came
succeeded by his son, an
the army, and upon his death in 1845-G,

to his elder sister,
the property
Mrs Balfoursister
Ogilvy (see
married
father
supra., p. 48).
His younger
Mr
Ogilvy of Inshewan.
Dr
Ogilvy's
Mr Alex. Lunan, Episcopal minister at was a grandson of the Rev. Mr Alex. Lunan of Kintore, who married Jean, daughter of William (son of Sir Wm. Forbes of Monymusk.
dence that
Rosehill,
was
laird of Murthil,
practitioner in Forfar.
and long a medical His daughter, Jane, was
Mr Lunan
and
his wife
Jean Forbes), married
the second wife of Walter Ogilvy, seventh Earl
Barbara, daughter of Alex. Gordon of Merdrum, They had a son in Rhynie, 24th Dec, 1663.
and grandmother of the present Earl. There are two head-stones at Pert erected by Mrs Ogilvy (daughter of Mr James Macdonald, Inglismaldie), to the memory of two domestic
of Airlie,
servants.
and a daughter.
Isobella, a
The
son, also William, married
daughter of Thain of Blackball, in the Garioch, 4th Oct., 1691. By her he had a large
family, of
whom
the minister of Rosehill (born in
One
stone bears that
James Bromley,
1703), was the seventh, and his sister

in 1710),
Ann
(born
who had been 30

that
years in her father's service,
died Sept. 1809, aged 73, and the other shews
Elizabeth Ogilvy,
died in
March 1804,
in the
was the tenth. She married N. Cruickshank of Aberdeen, For this information, I have to thank Mr Cadeuhead, advocate and procuratorfiscal of
aged 63, after a service of 50 years

family.
same
Aberdeen, who
is
himself a descendant
of
Mr Lunan
of Kintore.
Mr
Two monuments upon

who have been
the west side of the
burial-ground relate to a family
long farmers in tbe
named Durie, The district.
made up a most interesting account of Lunan from a pretty early date.
Cadenhead has of the Family
376
EPITAPHS,
AND
IN'SCRIPTIONS
[5.]
St
Cyrus (36-9.)
In Memoriam
of this parish,
Elizabeth Anderson, a native widow of Robert Wills, cabinet:
The following is a more complete ami accurate copy of the inscription upon the old Straton tomb than that on p. 36
:
maker, Montrose, died 12 November 1851, aged 84 jêars. Sed [quod decet mulieres pietatem in Deum
spondentes] operibus bonis.
said
1
Tim.
ii.
10.
The
SS* HIC
SEPVLTVS .CI
LEONIS
1646
.
...
.
Robert Wills, died 25

is
Septr. 1818, aged 65
THVRVS
STRATON
.
years.
.
MARGRET^
.
QV^
.
OBIIT
SVJF.
The above inscription

memory
of
his spouse
from an obelisk which
iETATIS
58.
stands upon the south side of a head-stone to the
[1.]
loHX Will, weaver, Brownhill, and Iean Fern, who both died in 1751.
Here
lyes interred the
body
of
Jamf.s
Aber-
CROMBiE, sometime Gardener iu Morphie, who died the 12th July 1789. Likewise the body of Mary Vicar, his spouse,
who
died the 20th January 1776.
Ellon (61,
[1.]
347.)
Crux
Christi nostra Corona.
death, thy power.

[2.]
This stone was raised by William Gibson in
Mains
of
Morphie, in
his spouse,
memory of Ann Allardige, who departed this life 13th March 1767
years, in the 2J:th year of her age.

[3.]
Gold and any Kind, but the body of John Cruickshank, the younger son of Patrick Cruickshank and Christian Walls They resided long at Fordmouth of Arnage, in this Parish. John Cruickshank died on the 11th day of March 1839, aged This stone was erected by George 80 years.
this tornb-stone are not hidden
Under
Silver Treasures of
This stone was erected by William Gibson, physician iu Montrose, and Jean Barclay, his spouse,
in
Wynes, late in Steuart Field, who died the 14th March 1817, aged 56 years.
[2.]
are interred here.
two beloved children whose remains George, died 14th September 1818, aged 8 months ; David Stewart, the 30th
of
memory
memory of Forbes Frost, lx)okseller in Aberdeen, who died 2Sth June, 1845, aged He was the son of William Frost, 57 years.
Sacred to the
gardener at Dudwick, and of
October 1818, aged 5 years.
Mary
Leask, his
The erector of
of the late
this head-stone
was a half brother
Dr Gibson
of Auchenrioch.
who along with their two daughters, Mary and Helen Frost, are interred here.
Spouse,
[3.]
[4.]
Geo. Robertson,
sailor,
sail"!
died 1816,
a.
27
Erected by Thomas Christie, Tenant in Mains of Woodston, iu memory of his son William
Christie,
Nine years I
the Rageing main.
Till death, the terror of all
men,
who
died the 5th Nov.
MDCCXCV.,
iu
the 8 year of his age.
Much
sprightliuess this Christian

life,
youth adorned
justly mourned.
Hath taken me on my Native Shore To meet with Christ, to part no more. No more he'll Plow the Briny deep.
In Search of Gold or Earthly store. But underneath this Turf he'll sleep, Till time shall end, and be no more.
Thro' his short

'Tis
as
made him
God
that
lifts
our comforts high,

;
And sinks them in the grave He takes, and when he takes away, He takes but what he gave.
Let patience teach us
all
our woes to bear.
^Dif^^v^,<3
And may
eternal things engage our care.
APPENDIX
OF
Illustrative Papei^s and Notes,
Awmbrif
at Airlie Church.
APPENDIX
Illustrative
Papers and Notes.
I. (pages 1-30
The Parish School, and
Beids of BanchoryTernan, 1651-1753.
the
were given
to the master,
and one-third to the
under-master; but upon condition that the former sliould pay at the rate of 8 pounds, and the
latter 4
pounds
if,
yeai-]y
The
tion,
(for
towards the repair

it
of the
following extracts from a
Deed
of Mortifica-
"
edifice,"
at the sight of the Laird of Leys, the
regarding the Old Schools of Banchory-Teruan

I
the use of which
am
indebted to
Mr
parish minister, and elders,

daniified."
"shall be found
Steuart,
inspector of poor), are not only illustrative of the
history of the Parochial Schools of Scotland generally,
but are Sitting additions to the notices already
given of the family of Reid,
who were
:
so long
"Books of Humanity, and Prophane Historiographers to the Grammar School of Banchorie-Ternan." But of these, as of the "Liberarie," which was subsealso left his
Dr A. Reid
as Poets, Oratours,
ministers of the parish of Banchory

It is recorded that,
quently given by Sir Thomas Burnett, neither a

catalogue nor a volume
is
by
will,
left
dated 1st February

the liferent of
(1),
now known
to exist.
1639,
Dr Alexander Reid
;
In addition to these gifts to his native parish,

to
100 towards the increase of the minister's stipend at Banchory-Ternan (2), 100 to the poor "born or bred," or. who have lived the greater part of their lives "in the paroch," the same to be "distributed amongst them at the feast of the Nativity and Resurrection of Our Saviour and (3), 100 to the school of Banchory for "one who shall there teach arithmetic, and write a fair hand."
;
Dr Alex. Reid left 400 sterling (which was owing him by "the Right Honorable the Earl of
his sureties ") to be invested
Annandale and
interest of
by the
Magistrates and
Town
Council of Aberdeen, the
one-half of which
of the
was
to be divided
"amongst the Regents
Old and
New Town
of
College," and the other half was for the benefit of
the schoolmasters of the Old and
New Towns
Aberdeen.
The same deed

Reid,
also
shows that Dr Alexander

I.
who was
physician to Charles
to
(supra, p.
3),
umqhle James Reid, sometime minister of the said Kirk of Banchorie," mortified 4000 merks Scots, for behoof of the two teachers, and for upholding the " edifice of the said schoole, For the same and hospitall under the same." purposes 1000 merks were given by Mr Alexander Burnett, agent and indweller in Edinburgh. Twothirds of the annual rent of these 5000 merka
and "son lawfull
4000 merks towards the endowment of rhe school for males, Dr Alexander Reid also mortified the sum of 1800 merks for the "sustension" of the mistress of the " womans
Besides his original gift of
This was supplemented by his brother Robert Reid, parish minister, to the extent of 200 merks and Sir Thomas Burnett of Leys also contributed to the same object, by giving " ane house for a schoole for the education and virtuous
schoole."
Mr
upbringing of young
women and maids
of the said
380
APPENDIX.
and dedicated the same to the
of mortification, of
town
of Banchorie,
said use in all time coming."

It appears
Rentall of the west ferrie yearly qll it was in my Lord balmerino possesione & the which rentall is
by deed
dated 29th
Leys built "ane schoole [at Buuchory-Ternan] having aue chamber for the maister and under Doctor of the said schoole, and ane room or ane other chamber for ane Liberarie, and such books as upon iuventure, and ane perfect Catalogue are delivered in
custody to the Maister of the said Schoole .... that the said schoole having been all auce burned by negligence, I having re-edified the same, having
four bospit:ill vaults or chambers under the said schoole for four old poor and four to attend them,
Oct. 1651, that Sir
Thomas Burnett
the young being maills, to be taught be the maister
and under Doctor
of the said schoole, nothing for their instruction "
gratis,
paying
now agmented by the Laird of Powrie. Item payed be David Rodger elder to my Lord balmerino for ane aiker of land with the tend yrof and ane house 020 Item payed be Johne Ramsay & Isobell Knight his spouse for ane aiker of land wt the teind yrof and ane house 020 Item be them aue singell tuft 005 Item be Issobell Artchor for ane aiker of land with the teind yrof and ane hous 020 Item be Issobell Hay for ane aiker of land with the teind yrof and ane hous 020 Item be Henrie Knight for aue aiker of with the teind yrof and ane house land 020 Item be Issobell Charters wlddow for ane aiker of land with the teind yrof and ane
. . . . . .
00
00
08
0.0
:
00 00
The
school and schoolhouse at Banchory-Ternan,
hiMis
020
00
which had
"an chamber
for
the master," was
erected in 1G50, upon the north banks of the Dee, to the south of the present railway station. The
former part was used as a school until 1709, when the great flood of that year undermined it, and the
was occupied by the teacher until 1829, when both his house and garden were destroyed in the same way. In 1799 the school was removed to an old house upon the north side of the turnpike road,
latter
Item be Grissell Smyth & her spouse f<n' ane aiker of land with the teind yrof and ane house 020 00 Item be them ane singell toft 005 08 Item be Issobell Charters and some tyme be Johne Howathsone aue aiker with teind and ane house 020 00 Item be Thomas beatoun for ane singell
:
toft
005 010
08
Item be David Rodger younger any double

toft
where it remained until 1824, when a new school was erected. A school-house was built in 1829-30
;
16,
but in 1854, when the Deeside Railway was beina constructed, the school-house had to be removed and the present school-buildings were then erected near the parish church.
Item Item Item Item
be
Thomas Andersone ane
single toft 005

.
be ffindla Johnstoun ane singell tuft
005 010
be William Knight ane double toft
be Hendrie Knight James Abbut George Sandersone and Thomas beatoun
mentioned that another member Eeids attained eminence as a surgeon in the Royal Navy. This was Dr George Read, whose monument is still at Banchory (supra,
of
It ought to be
for the
salmond fishing of the west crook

fiferri-i
. . . .
the Banchor3^
belonging to the
040
00
Item be tennents
all sorts of
in the
west
fferrie forsaids
are obleidged to furnish to
my
Lords house
whyt
fish in
the sumer seasone
which he thus provides in his will, dated 23d August 1753 " As I intend, if it may please Almighty God, to be buried amongst my ancestors at Banchory-Ternan, I leave the sum of 100 stg. [to the poor of the parish], and 10 for a gravestone."
p. 3),
and
for the erection of
hundreth and threttein shilling four penyes in winter and febry. haddoks at on lib. 6s 8d pr. hunder
at
ten
shilling
for
the
148
12
Item payd
for the
maines
of
Balumbie ten
II. (106-116.)
Rentals of West Ferry and Mon'ifieth, before 1654.
chalder victuall
viz.
The
feith,"
following
is
copied from a dateless
MS.
at
Panmure, which is docquetted " by Earl Patrick, who died
rentalls of
in
moni-
1654
Item of bear Item of wheitt Item of meall Item of money rent merks
thrie
hundreth
200
:
00
APPENDIX.
Rentall of my
Silver dewties
381
Lord Balmerinos Lairds

for the
.
in Awjuse.
lib
III. (121-2.)
FothringJiam of Powrie.
Payed be the bonnet makers

walke milne
. ,
022
00
00 06 00 00 10
Archibald Fothringham, son to
the
laird
of
Payed be John Airth
for the
Lavorik
010 house 001
: : : :
Powrie, entered the service of the Chevalier, and

8
Land
Payed Payed Payed Payed
yaird
be be be be
Margaret whyt
for her
became a Lieutenant in the Earl of Panmure's regiment. He was taken prisoner at Sheriiimuir, and
carried thence to Stirling Castle, along with other
David
for his
_
hous 006
.
Henrie Scott younger 001 Pa: Jack for ane hous and a
001
for his house
rebel officers, on 14th Nov. 1715.
Fothringham appears
: :
to
have been afberwards
sent to Edinburgh, whence he
made
his escape, as
Payed be James gaivane
& chope
Payed be James Lovell
chope
for his hous
thus graphically narrated by the Countess of Pan002

:
00 00
&
003
:
mure, in a letter to her husband, dated 3d June "Last week Poorie made his escape from 1716
:
More payed be James gaivane
for ane
his Lodgings in ye Canongate, having gott liberty to

:
house formerly possest be ]\targaret 001 Smairt 003 Payed be Mitchell guild Payed be Cristane Jack for the maill 001 of ane house
. .
. .
come out
of
my
Lord Winton's house
to take a
00 00
course of Physick, so he had onlie sentrys on
him
and Borrowfield and Glenlyon has made their escape from Stirling."
8
4 8
00 06
13
Payed be Alexr Carmichell for his hous 007 Payed be Henry Whytlaw for ane
house
005
.
Payed be Pa: Key Payed be Alexr milne
001
001 113
00 10
10
Thomas Fothringham, who King to grant him a pardon for the unpremeditated murder at Florence, in Aug. 1737, of Dennis Wright or M'Intyre, was a member of The cause of quarrel is not the Powrie family.
It
is
probable that
petitioned the
for ane house
but according to the copy of the Petition, it appears that both were "heated with drink " at the time, and that the affair began
stated
;
now
before us,
Payed be the
fishings
laird of
grange for his

fourtie
.
by "throwing
047 00
of Bottles
& Glasses and

;
afterwards
of
gall
and bnddon
(as the petition continues)

:
your Petitioner having
sevin
pound
unluckily got into his hand a Hanger that was lying in the Pvoom, I gave the said Dennis a wound
Besides the "Rentall of the West ferrie," and the "silver devfties" given above, the same paper
contains a
bear,
list of
meal,
capons,
payments to Lord Balmerino in hens, chickens, and geese.

five
These were paid by
different
tenants,
(1)
Wright, who died within two days emitted a declaration, dated 29th August, which contains this frank and highly honourable statement:"! forgive him with all my heart, and I do by this my Declaration, put a
in the Belly."
after the accident,
stop, as far as in
Alex. Kid, for third part of Barnhill and Balmossie Mill ; (2) Thomas Miller, for part of Barnhill ; (3)
me
lyes, to all prosecutions that

of this accident."
may
arise
on account
(Papers at
David Patillock, who Balmossie (4) John "the Bonnet Makers,

;
also paid 12 bolls wheat, for

Bull, for
for the
Panmure.
Burnside
and
(5)
Walke Milne."
IV.-(125.)
The Outlines of Westhall,
c.
1682,
et sub.
In Macfarlane's MSS. (vol. iii. pp. 275-9), in the Advocate's Library, Edinburgh, the words "Westhall, with a dovecot," are deleted in Ochterlony's
Account
of the
Shire of Forfar, and
"Mr
John
Mr Guthrie Guthrie of Westhall," substituted. had probably succeeded Mr Archibald Pearson in

these lands {supra, p. 160,)
3b
382
APPENDIX.
Guthrie had two daughters, Isobell and The former was married first to Bishop
Mr John
Margaret.
of the Eev,
Norie of Brechin (Marr. Contract in the possession
William Murray in the Old Town of Aberdeen. In the said year Bp. Gadderar in his visitation course of his Diocese, during which time (ten weeks) I officiate
for him in the Honble. the Viscount of Arbuthnott's Family, settled me optionally in Skeen Elder and Younger, their Familys for which cure I was to have had twenty lib: St. yearly. At which juncture of time I had an unanimous call given by Lochlee and Lethnott Parishes, which I preferred to the abovementioned settlement. Lochlee Parishioners bound
and next to David Gardyne of Lawton, who "fought under Prince Charles at Culloden" {supra, p. 323.) Her sister and coheiress (misnamed Ann in Nisbet's Heraldry) became the second wife of Sir David Ogiivy of Barras, to whom she bore a family of sons and daughters. One of the daughters, Susanna, married Mr James Ogiivy, minister of Essie, who was also designed of VVesthall. filr Ogiivy, who died in 1802, was long survived by his widow and their son, NVilliam Ogiivy, was also designed of Westhall. Mr James Ogiivy of Westhall, and minister of Essie, was a son of Mr George Ogiivy, minister of
dated
;
April 1708),
Mr R.
R. Lingard-Guthrieof Taybank,
Kirriemuir (Scott's Fasti),
1)y his wife,
Trail.
V.-(127, 2U.)
Rev.
themselves to pay to me yearly fourteen lib: Ster. which they paid punctually for several years. Lethnott promised five lib: ten sh: St. yearly, qch they never pd me. The Collections of both Houses were applied by proper Managers and me to pay all publique things and satisfy the demands of the Poor the Superplus was given to me. "Since my entry to my present charge to 1745, I was privately supported by the Interest & Addresses of Lord Panmure & his Family, but nothing from their own Pocket. Some years before 1745 to 1747, I was grately supported by the Right Honble. Lady Sinclair, & from 1747, my wife & I have an annuity during
Mr Rose,
Episcopal Minister of Loclilee, 1723-58.
Life five
lib:
St.
From
1750,
to
his
deatti.
Sir
The
interesting paper, printed below, regarding
the Rev.
Mr
Rose,
is
from a copy by the Rev.
Mr
Moir, now of St John's Episcopal Church, Jedburgh, formerly Dean of the Diocese of Brechin.
Mr
]\loir
found the original among the papers
of
his maternal grandfather, the late Rev.
Mr
Jolly,
Alexander Ramsay was my great Benefactor ; & from 1747, I was much obliged by the good offices of John Erskine of Dun, Esq., and James Carnegy Arbuthnott of Balnamoou, E'sq. for several years. And for the space of Thirty years, George Skene of that Ilk was ray true Friend. My present Sallary, arisable from the good will of the after-mentioned Familys and places --From Balnamoon Family, four
:
and gave
it
to
I
Mr
am
Rose's great-grandson. Lord

obliged to the courtesy of the
of
Bolls of Meall, one Boll of Oats,
& one of
Bear.
From
Strathuairu.
Keithock a Boll
a guinea.
of Malt.
From Lady
Smidyhill, half
Mr
Right Rev. the Bishop of Brechin for the use Moir's copy of the paper
:
besides altar collections.
From Lady Findowry two Bolls of Meall, From Lady Ballbegno, &
"A brief
dred
Before
account
how
I have been supported in the

Office since its
Exercise of
my Priestly
commencehun-
tions.
ment Barnabas-Day one
Thousand, seven
&
twenty-three
I passed
my
Tryals in the Old
Town
of
Aberdeen
The Right Revd. Bishop James Gadderar, The Very Revd. Dr George Garden, Doctor James Garden, Doctor George Middleton, The Revd. Mr
William Murray, all living in the Old and New Town Aberdeen, June ninth & tenth 1723, Upon St Barnabas-Day said year. Present, the above-mentioned Clergie and several Laity. I was ordained a Deacon by the Right Reverend Dr James Gadderar, Bishop of Aberdeen, in the House of Dr George Garden in New Aberdeen. I was consecrated a Priest in the same year upon St Bartholomew-Day by the above-mentioned Bishop in the House of the Rev. Mr
of
Miss Ogilvie three bolls of meall besides altar collecFrom Lochlee House at Milltown yearly nine Pound St. From all the Retainers to Wcodside from Caraldstone, Brechin, Lethnott & Navar Parishes Three Pound sterling. From Woodside Collections, altar & daily, deducing publick charges, seven lib: st. From Lochlee Collections deducing publick charges three lib. sterling. By prudent management & timeous Application these Funds and my share of the Charity Fund may be continued with my Successor in office. The truth of their Presents is attested at Milltown in Glenesk, January the eleventh One Thousand seven hundred and fifty-eight by the Subscription of " David Rose, (Signed) Priest of the Scots Church."
APPENDIX.
&
VI.-(135.)
The Montgomeries
c.
383
2 pints ale
6s, to
the
man
for
Scobing
.
the barrels
Is, to
Custome
4s, in all
01 02 00
in
Knapp of MaryUrk,
To Expence
1630-7.
went with Doctor Arbuthnett, being a night In

for the horse that
Town
To To To To
hens Chickens and geese expence in bringing them home
.
.
00 08 00
.
.
from a dateless " Rentall about the beginning of the 17th century, throws some additional light upon " the Montgomeries, in Knap " of
The following
extract,
04 12 10
of the Lordschip of Brechin," but of
00 05 02 00 04 08
Eggs Double
tree
Marykirk
bringing
and nails, and expence them home

.
.
in
.
02 07 10 00 04 02
03 00 00
To Expence
in bringing
home
necessaries
.
"The Corns and Laudis

;
of haltoun occupat be
for fiindaurie
and
his sert
Eobert Montgumrie, payes yearly off Bear, ix chr. V bs. Meall, xviij chr. x bs. Linuing clayth, viij.
;
To To
5 Serts for carrying the buriall Letters
the serfs expence for going to
Dundee
. .
to
don.
elnis
Caponis, xij
Svvyne,
j.
It is to
be
bring
home
five
bunder merks for defray.
rememberit the Landis oif haltoun of auld, befor ye sett of ye last nynetene yeirtak, payed Tua dosone elnis Linning clay the.
ing the funerall expence
00 07 00 00 13 06
To
carrier,
and expence
. .
for bringing
.
home
. .
cauarie
To expence
The
story of the wealth of the Montgomeries
was
probably mythical, for it appears that "Ion and George Montgowmries " were 226 8s 3d in arrears
of rent for crop 1636-7.
nture.
to the sert who went through the 00 04 00 countrey seeking doves . 01 16 00 To 9 Duckes at 4s per peire 00 06 00 To a hen and eggs
. . . . . . .
(OrUjlnal Rentals at Pan-
To
To two Sheep To Elizabeth Arbuthnett's grave

per
acc.t
a Sert for going to Kerrimuir for more 00 07 00 fowls, & for a mure fowl 03 13 04
. .
Cloaths, as
. . .
and
receipt
VIL (159)
1704.
'
Funeral Expenses of Miss Arhuthnott of Flndowrie,
To 2 bolls Meal To flower bread To expences for horse & serts for bringing home the plumb Cakes, and silver worke
from Montrose
.
27 13 06 12 00 00 00 16 06
The many curious items which

of
are charged in the
00 12 00
. .
.
following account, in connection with the funeral
Miss Arbuthnott of Findowrie, in 1704, will form an interesting accompaniment to the inscripThe tion from her tombstone, printed on p. 159. "accorapt" is copied from the original among the Findowrie papers, kindly lent through the late Mr P. Chalmers of Aldbar, by the late Mr J. Carnegy-
02 06 00 To an pair mourning Shoes 00 16 00 To an ell black ribbans To James Guthrie for Capers, Cordendron
. . . .
orange pill, & Cinnamon, as per accompt To sweat meats, as per accompt To almonds 12s, an side of beef 9 lib, mourn.
06 08 00
07 11 10 15 12 00
ing greath 6
lib,
in all
To an
pair buckles 7s, 6 8 dales 4 lib 16s
pound candle
.
Arbuthnott
of
Balnamoon
6s,
Ub .06 09 00
Accompt
of Elizabeth Arbuthnott's funeralls
others Disbursed by the Laird of
and Ballmadies
lib.
s.
d.
To 2 pounds
cut Tabacco 21b
os,
.
2 Dozen
. .
00 16 00 To express for Evlick To custome for the carts 12s, To corn and expence for men and horses 10s, 2 bungs 0112 00 10s, in all
01 08 00 To 2 pecks flower 00 03 04 To spice 00 04 00 To 2 pints ale drunken by the carter To misscompted by the Bearer in paying the
.
.
pipes for late
wake
4s
02 09 00 00 14 08 I'l 08 00
04 00 00 01 14 08
To expence
cloaths
for bringing
home her grave
To To To To
18 gallons of ale 6 pecks flower candle

I
above accompts
00 05 10
peck Gates
5s, grass 2s, stable fee 2s,

2s,
corks for the barrels
2 penny Loaves
01 14 00 To an Lamb 00 04 00 To Ardovie's man for bringing doves To Edzells servt^that kill'd the deer, and
.
.
384
APPENDIX.
them
01 06 08
for ale to
To expence
to the sert
who went with Letters

.
to the Mearns, ffingzean, and Edzell

.
00 15 04 01 00 00 00 02 06 08 06 08 00 13 04 06 06 08
To Andrew Ogilvie for his service To eggs To 12 gallons of ale and an half at the Late wake and buriall, from ffrancis Scott To ohoppin aqua vitse To an boll Gates for gentlemens horses at the
. .
with the coats of Ochterlony and Beaton of Balfour. These appear to be the oldest carvings about the Probably both belong to the last half of the place. 16th century, and may refer to the time when the
property was held by the old race of Ochterlonys,
buriaU
To James Arbuthnett
charge
.
.
for the coffin, per dis. .

. . .
06 13 04
whom it belonged from about 14S0 [Mem. kindly communicated by the late Mr Pierson of Guynd. It was in 1624 [supra, p. 159) that Alex. Pierson and his wife Isobel Beatoun acquired Auchtermergities or Balmadies ; and it seems probable that, although of a prior date, the uppermost of
to
To
the Master household 5 Dollars,
To the
30 09 00
the shields above referred
to,
which
is initialed
Cook 4
in all
Dollars,
The Carter
1^ Dollar, 10 00 00
A. P.
dated 1615, and charged with the Pierson and Beaton arms, may have been brought
I.E.,
To money To bailif
distributed
among the poor
Ogilvie
and
Mr
Dempster,
for
plumb cakes, two accompts

brandie,
bisket, &c., per
49 11 06 00 06 06 01 04 00
To expence
To To
to the sent that returned the
Silver worke
2 skins for breeches to ffindowrie's sert

1 pair
Mitchell
mourning gloves 12s, To James suite of for making three

all
.
.
from Some other of the Pierson properties, and placed at Balmadies by them. Mr and Mrs Pierson (the latter of whom died before 1641) had a son and successor, also called James, and it was probably he who had the following admirable inscription carved in stone, which has luckily been preserved to us, and which, no
doubt, had graced either the front of the house, or
Cloathes, &c., 8 lib 2s, in
To Andrew Ogilvie To Drink money to

. .
. :
08 14 00 00 10 00
07 00 00 03 08 00
the chimney-piece of the hall of the family mansion.

It is in raised
Roman
.
captals,
.
and
ruris
thus
sert 14s, to a
.
in all
.
DOMVS HOSTEM ARCE

.
HOSPITIB'
.
To the mortcloath, and making the grave To Alexander Gibson for serving the Cook
three days
PATEAS
SIC
.
ET
.
NVNQVAM
O
AMICIS -'(((O))).. .<(((0)))iTE DISPAR

.
00 09 00
TENEAT
[My
foes
DOMVS
house, to friends
1657.
Summa
Totalis
328 00 04
keep out, open be

thee.]
and strangers
And may
Carved Stones at Balmadies.
such ever be the mind of him that holdeth
In addition to our remarks upon the parish of Rescobie {supra, pp. 155-61), the subjoined notices of some carved stones at Balmadies maj- be interesting.
lintel,
below the inscribed

:
tablet,
presents
these initials
M
(D
A
Dame
(D
M
They
fragments are preserved in the farmOne consists of an old corbel, and the steading. In the north other presents the date of 1603.
of the
Two
The above
his wife,
refers to
Alexander Pierson and Margaret Murray, whose gravedied respectively
Mr
stones are at Chapel-yard.

in 1700,
pillar of the
is
also
west gate of the mansion-house, there a stone with ornamental work upon it, and
:
these traces of a legend

DEPv
. .
and 1694 [supra, p. 159.) Their son, James Piei'son, who married a daughter of Lindsay of Evelick, and died in 1745
[supra, pp. 159-60), executed, in 1739, a disposition
of his
IRTVS
SIBIMET.
cluster of slabs, of various dates, is built into
the south-east gable of the stables of the mansion-
green, Berryfold,
Two of these had been skew-put stones, One is initialed I. 0., and both bear shields. the other A. B., and they are respectively charged
house.
whole estate (Balmadies, Lochlands, Barnand Smiddycroft,) in favor of his second son, Robert, advocate, with certain reservations in favor of his eldest son, John, and his youngest son, Thomas [MS. Mem.) John died
APPENDIX.
unmarried in 176-3 ; and Robert Pierson, advocate, who then came into absolute possession of the property, married Anne, daughter of Fraser of Kirkton and Hospitalfield. He was grandfather of the
385
who succeeded to Guynd maternal uncle [supra, p. 247. [Since the preceding sheet was printed off, I have seen a deed which shows that Piersous were designed of Balmadies in 1614.]
late
Mr
Jas. A. Pierson,
of his
in the Abliacy of Arbroatli, for an annual payment of 42 6s in money, with certain cane payments, or an augmentation of the rental to the extent of 44 payable at Whitsunday and Martinmas, together with three suits yearly to three chief courts of the
on the death
regality of
Aberbrothock.
Ogilvie's
heirs
were
bound
to double the feu-duty the first year of entry,
The present mansion-house of Balmadies was built about 1820, when the property belonged to the late Mr Henry Stephens, the well-known author of "The Book of the Farm."
but neither he nor they had power to dispone any portion of the property " without ye sd David
and
his successors speciall licence
had and obtanit
j'reto."
The
at tlie
is
original charter of Balfour, which is dated Monastery of Arbroath, 20th February 1539, a deed of more tlian ordinary interest. It con-
An
to the
old door-lintel, built over the back entrance
tains (as printed below) the signature of Cardinal
manse
of Rescobie, is thus inscribed
Beaton, also those of twenty-four members of the
10
SPALDINVS.
.
1602.
The
leck.
above has reference to
Mr John
Spalding,
Convent of Arbroath. Although differently spelled, the names marked thus \, occur in the ColHston charter of 1544 (Reg. Nig. de Aberb., Appendix;
V.
minister of Rescobie, and his wife Barbara Auchen-
also pp. 316, 410, 439.)
One
of
Mr
Spalding's sons became his col-
league, and predeceased his father (Scott's Fasti.)
t Dautd Cardws Sti Andre. Come'datar' de ab'broahok.

Johes b'ad sup'spor
Mr
Lindsay [supra,
p. 15G)
probably succeeded
]\lr
manu
ppie
Spalding,
VIII. (1G4.)
The Lands of Balfour,
*'
in Kinfjoldrum, 1539.
The
first
ffew chartour of Balfour, grantit be
Johne Wai'dlau ad id t Dauid craylle ad id t Dauid teynder Nycholas purwys aly'r gyb t Johannes Renie Thoma' stott
|-
+ David scot t Johanes Logy

dauid
Kay
+ Johannes peirson t Valter' Baldeuy

Patri'
Mray
+ Wilelm' craund
Alanus mrttynn
David Beton, Cardinal and Abbot of Aberbrothick," was made in favour of James Ogilvie of C'ookstone, Marjorie Durie his spouse, and their heirs and assignes, whom failing to the nearest lawful heirs and assignes of the said James Ogilvie whatsomever. The deed (of which the following is an abridged translation) conveys to Ogilvie and his heirs "all and sundrie the lands of Balfour, Kyrkton, Ascrawys O wer and Neyther, the mill of Kingoldrum, with the
astricted multures,
lie
Thomii' ruytlfurd
Johis gyll
Thomas
saidlare
Robert' Dauidsou
Robt' d'uard
t Andreas barde
Thomas Nych
+ Willmis wedd'burn
The
also
charter of Balfour, and several later deeds,

titles
an Inventory of
down
to 1612, are at
multer
sheif, ring bear, of all
the baronie of Kingoldrum,

of
viz.
the lands and touns
Panmure. It would appear from these, that James Ogilvy of Cookstone, whose original feu-charter was confirmed both by the King and the Pope, died before
ISth
Easterpersy,
persy,
Mydpersy alias Balgray, WesterAscrewys Ower & Nethyr, Kirktone, Balfour,
November
of
1588, as of that date, John,
Com-
Balduwy, Kinclune, Meklecany, Litlecany, Aucheroch, with their tofts, crofts, outsetts, pertinents, and cottages." These lands are described as lying within the barony of Kingoldrum, regality of Aberbrothock, and sheriffdom of Forfar, and were to be held in feufarm of the said David and his successors
Aberbrothoc, granted a precept for infefting "James Ogilvie of Balfour as heir to
mendator
wmqll Mr James Ogilvie

drie ye sds lands," &c.
It is also
of Balfour, of all
and sunof his
proved that during the lifetime
and on 1st October 1558, Mr James Ogilvie and Margaret Steuart his spouse, had seisin of "the
father,
3c
386
APPENDIX.
fnnus amplissimum in hac basilica faciendum curavit,
et
of ye said lands of Kinclwne, with ye teind sheiwes yof includit, whilk wer never in use to be seperat from ye stock, with all and sundrie yi' pertinents, annexis, connexis, depen-
fourt part
Monuraentum
posuit.
-q
0u)s iv T7j CKorlq. (palvei, Kal
aKoria avrb ov
dentijs," &c.
for certain
These were to be held of the Abbey yearly payments in money and kind, head courts, or to
[Sacred to the
of
memory of George Conaeus, a native

Laird of
family of Maodonald),
Aberdeen
in Scotland, son of Patrick,
and
for giving suit to the three
Achry
(a scion of the ancient
such other courts of the regality, as the feuar shall be cited to attend, "to be holden at Cairdenkonneth [Cairnconan] as use is, or any place in yr tolbuith wtiu ye burgh of Aberbrothock yearly."
and Isabella Chyn,

mont, who men by his
of the baronial house of Esselimmortalised himself among his countryeloquence and learning acquired at Douay
The fourth part of the lands of Kinclune, which was disponed by Ogilvy in the year 1618, appears to have been the first portion of the property which was sold by the Ggilvies, who long continued to hold the estate. In a memorandum of 9th November 1698,
it
.
and Home, and also by his published works ; who, by his prudence and skill in the conduct of affairs, won
the goodwill of powerful princes, and, in particular,
that of Cardinal Barberini, at whose court he long

lived,
and to whose embassies to France and Spain he was attached ; and his high esteem for whom Pope
is
.
said
.
that
"yis pnt ballfour his

Balfour came to
Grandfather
is
yett living."
Urban VIII., an admirable judge of ability, testified both by sending him on a mission for the comfort of the Catholics to Henrietta, Queen of Great Britain,
his profound grief at his death, which had prevented him from shining with greater lustre in a more elevated position. He died 10th January, 1G40, in the house of the Vice-Chancellor, who caused a most sumptuous funeral to be given to his friend, in this church, and erected this Monument to his mem.ory.
the Fothringhams through a female descendant of
and by
the Ogilvys, towards the middle of last century.

It
was sold by the Fothringhams about 18 which time it has frequently changed hands.
since
The
light shineth in darkness,

it
and darkness compre-
IX.-(177.)
Conn of Auchry,
1644.
hended
not.]
of Scottish Writers,
Maidment, in his Catalogue

gives a
list
following inscription referred to (sxqira p. 177), is copied from Ardueolor/ia Scotlca (iv. 376),
The
of five different
which
at
is
a Life of
in 1625.
works by Conn, among Mary Queen of Scots, published
where it is stated that the monument is surmounted by a bust of George Conteus, and a shield charged with his family arms. It appears from the inscription that the Conns of Auchry were a branch of the Celtic sept of Wacdonald
:
Eome
X. (185.)
The first Earl of Strathrtiore.
Reference has been made to the part which the
third Earl of Kinghorne, afterwards the
of Strathmore, took in the Civil
first
"D.O.M. Georgio Conaeo,

Patricij
Scoto Aberdonensi,
Domini de Acbry ex antiqua Magdonaldi
Earl
familia et Isabella
filio,
Chyn ex baronibus de Esselmont
Wars,
qui inter conterraneos eloquentia et doctrina
extracts are given on page 185, from his
Duaci et Eomse haustis, librisque editis immortalitati se commendavit ; prudentia vero et agendi dexteritate suromorum principum, ac prsesertim Cardinalis Barberiui,
dum
in cuius aula diu visit, cuiusque legationes Gallicanam Hispanicamque secutus est, benevolentiam promeruit quern Ilrbanus VIII. Pontifex, ingeniorum maximus existimator, quanti fecerit, et ad J\Iagnag Britannios Keginam Henrichettam in Catholicorum solamen allegation e, et ingenti in ipsius morte, quae ne in editiori loco positus clarius elucesceret vetuerat, moerore testatus est. Obiit die x Januarii an. M.DCXL. in aedibus Vicecancellarii, qui amico
;
book, when he visited Paris in Lordship was a grandson of the first Earl of Panmure, and being left a minor, his uncle, the second Earl of Panmure, was appointed one of his guardians and trustees. The young Earl was educated at St Andrews, and, through the courtesy of the late
also some memoran1683. His
Earl of Dalhousie,
interesting
is
who
kindly allowed the following

to be published, a glimpse
life of
"Inventor"
got into the Scotch College
the nobility of
the period, in so far at least as relates to the sort of

articles
with which their chambers were furnished
APPENDIX.
An
Inventor of furnishins; in Lord Kingorn chamber in the Colladag of St Androus 22 of JSTovember 1655, wher of som cam from Glames
his
387
My
Item three ellesof small tuedling to lynne the breeches and doublet Item ane elle and ane haffe of playding to be under
lyning to the breeches
the Last of October 1654.
To
witt
Item three imbroudred pands Item tuo imbroudred broun velvet courtaines Item an peice of rid velvet imbroudred with my Lord Kingorn his armes and name plaised above the chimney Item ane turkie carpet Item tuo velvet cusshens Item tuo turkie worke cushens which cam wnlynd and wustuffed Item four pair of sprainged bed plaids Item five peaces of arras hangings Thes things fouUouing wer sent from Glames for furnishing My Lord Kingorn his chamber in the colladge at St Androus the Last of October
1655, to witt
Item a paire Item three

breeches
of grait pockats
elles
and ane paire
of lesser
of stringing to the knees of the
Item Item Item Item Item
a dozene of glaspes and eyes a coller and tua bellie peeces

four elles of wattings
halfe ane elle of lupping
five
dozen of small buttens to the doublet and
breeches
Item sex dozen of grater buttens to the coate Item twa dozen and ane
cloacke
halfe of grait buttens to the
of smaller buttens to the
Item ane dozen and ane halfe

cloack necke
Item three feather beads Item three boulsters Item four pair of sprainged bedpleds Item sex paire of course bedplyds Item a peice of strypt hangings Item tuo cussens Item five codds Item three soued coverings All thes Inventored and taken in costodie at St Androus 22 of November 1C55 by me Robert
Item a long tallied butten for the cloack necke Item ane ounce of silke wherof ten drope of roimd silke for the butten holes and sex drope of small
silke for sheuing the
seemes
a quarter and a
Item
for halfe
ane
elle of sairg or
halfe of taffatie to face the cloack
and
suite
Item tua paire of gray stockings Item tua paire of gloves Item tua paire of shooes elles of rebans to trime the Item
for the shooes.
suite
and
hat,
and
Maule
Keceaved the 23
of
Robert Maule.
Januar
1656.
Six pair of Sheets.
A note of
my
necessaries for Robert
M aule
servant to
Thrie cloathed chaires. Thiie lathered chaires. chamber pots. Thrie vhyte Iron Candle Sticks.
codvares vith a 7 torn
I Robert
Two
Six
&
rent
Item 6
ar,
febr. 3
codvares
Lord Kingorne Item three elle and three quarters of Yorkshyre cloath to be a suite and a closse bodied coat of darke
couler suting with the cloathe he gat the last yere
old and two dornek servits as they
Maul testifyes
yt I receaved al these things
by
my
subscription at St
Andrews
the 4 of
March
1656
R. Macle.
In addition to the above interesting "Inventor," the following "particulars of furnishings bought for the earll of Kingorne " for the winter of 1655,
as well as for his "servant," cannot
fail
Item ane elle of stenting Item three ells and halffe of tuedling for lyning to the doublet and breeches Item ane p)aire of grait pockats and ane paire of lesser Item three elles of stringing to the knees of the
breeches
to form an
acceptable addition to the information
we
already
:
possess of the Domestic Life of the 17th century
Ane
Item
note of some necessare things for Kingorn for winter cloathes
my
TiOrd
five elle and a haffe of Londone cloath at sex quarters broad to be a cloacke a suite and a close-
Item ane dozen of glaspes and eyes Item halfe ane elle and halfe ane quarter of loupping Item a coller and tua belHe peices Item three elle and a halfe of wattings Item five dozen of buttens to the sute Item sex dozen of graiter to the coate Item tuelve drape of silke where of eight drape of round silke to the buttens holes Item ane hatt and hat band
Item a paire Item a paire Item a paire
of gray stockings of gloves of shooes
bodied coate for my Lord Kingorne Item ane hat and hat band for my Lord Kingorne Item for ane elle of stenting
388
APPENDIX.
written by the survivor of the
to
Item halfe a dozen of bands and cuffes Item halfe a dozen of handcuichars Item shirts foure Item elles of ribans to trime the sute
"two zoung
boyis,"
whom
poison was administered by their paternal

p. 225.
uncle and aunts at Montrose, in 1610 (siqjra,
The writer of the letter succeeded his uncle's son On 23d December 1631, as laird of Dun in 1621.
he had a charter
in of the barony of Dun, &c. favour of himself and his eldest lawful son, John
,
As the above "Inventor" shows the equipment

of the Earl of
Kinghorn (afterwards Strathmore) when a student at St Andrews in 1G55, and his personal outfit for the winter of the same j'ear, the
following letter, from the Findowrie papers, exhibits
Erskine, by his wife, Margaret Lindsay, daughter

of the first Loi'd Spynie.
He
is
described as
S'(>-
the Earl in the character of a true soldier and a
gentleman.
am
indebted to the late
Mr James
Carnegy-Arbuthnott of Balnamoon, through the late Mr Patrick Chalmers of Aldbar, for the use
of the letter.
Alexander Erskine of Dun, in a charter of the lands of Newbigging, 26th July 1637 (Wodrow's-Collection Sir Alexander may have (Mait. Club), vol. i. 414.) been knighted through the influence ot his "Louing Wnkill, the Laird of Panmure, one of the Kingis Majesties beed chamber," to whom the letter, which
is
It is addressed,
"ffor
The
laird of
a beautiful specimen of caligrapby,
is
addressed:
ffindourie, Yor.,"
and
is
as follows :--
At
Sir
the
Incampment of the Angus regiment 18th June 1C85 in Strath bla in
Right Houbl and Louing Wnkill,

I
hope
my lest
my
letteris
be come to zour handis, long

it
befor this tyme.

I have alwayes
knoue
wer onnecessarie
to
me
to
As
made
of
it
my
bussenes to adjust the
renoue
request to zou in that bussines for I assure

will be carefull of zat in regard
it
severall
Comands
for
it,
my
Militia regiment with per-
my
self! ze
may
sones
into
fitt
It has bein
lykwayis
my
to suport the credit of the Service, that few
endevour so comes
any Comand therein but such
as (modestly speak:
ing) are als
present a cleir vaikancie by
I have at good a? those who were befor Shamfull desertion (which I scorn to persew) ; this is knoun to the Lords of the Secret Comittee at Edr. als weall as to the
Sr the Laird of bonitoune ane puipose wich he tellis me he proponnit to zou him selflf at zour lest being in Scotland. I find him werie willing and desyrous to bestoue his eldest sone wpon zour dauchter. Sr he hes desyrat me to wrett to zou to lett zou knoue that he will be
tend so far to hes spoking to
weill.
my
me
of
willing to remitt the haill conditions to zour
selff,
genell persones in the field.

is
Yow
yow
ar the persone
its
who
most acceptable to the whole Gentlemen my Companions in the Comand of the regt. Your trauslane is easie from A ruyter of horse to the Comand of that Companie which was Cookstouns, formall Goodnights So I intreat Yow come downe imediatlie now before wee march, which is impatiantlie expected by
choyse,
I assure
my
And
what ze will be plesit to give wt zour dauchter, or what coniunct fie sail be giwine to zour dauchter, and
at zour sight to giue his sone ane
fie
of his Estait.
Sr
I will assure zou on thing ther

posit zouth in this
is
not ane better dis-
give ze
it IS
mynd to bestoue zour dauchter
kiugoome nor zoung bonitoune is, in this kingdome
oblist to the laird of bonitouns respect to zou
not ane offer to be neglectit, housoeuer Sr, ze are and zour

is
Your werie
reall freind
&
Sert,
hous, ther
to dell
to
my
knoulege the occasions of good
Strathmore.
fortunes oflerit to him, but he hes ane grytter
mynd
wt zou then wt anie qhuatsumeuer, and will not enter in termes wt anie till he haue ane ansuer
XI. (225.)
The ErsMnes of Dun.
I
from zou, wrettine to me.
Sr
giff ze
mynd
till
to dell,
it
will be fittest that the matter contineu
zour
awne
found the original of the letter printed below,
cumming
to Scotland.
Sr according as ze in joyne
me
It was used as a among the Panmure Papers. cover to a MS. in the handwriting of the gentleman
to
whom
it
was addressed, and docquetted thus

things bought for
curious
as
" 1633
a note of
my
self
withe
be zour letter I sail most carefullie and secretly obey zour desyr. I heir the Kingis maiestie is to be in Scotland this zeir, Sr iff ze think it fitting that I proi;yd my selff to repaire to Edinborie at that tyme to attend his maiestie's seruice, and to haue the honor to
kisse his
prycis."
M/
handis, I will dou it?

is
wtherwayes
not.
Besides being
interesting, in
iu
it
itself,
the
letter is
knoue ther
sundrie places of seruice wich belongis
so far
bears to
have been
Scottismane to dou to his Majestie during the tyme
APPENDIX.
of his stay heir,
for me, or
389
ther be anie of them ze think fitting ane occasione of his maiestie's fauor and cuntinance heirefter, I knoue it wald cost zou but ane word, Mr G-eorge flegger cane informe zou of the haill places that will be weakand, or is to be giwine to anie. Therfor Sr, I will most humblie intreat zou to
iff
may be
XII. (296.)
"
Testificatione anent the waisting
of the parioche of
Navar," 1645-6.
The "
Testificatione," printed below, has refer-
mak
chose of soume place, for I hope, god willing, to
discharge
my self of
ence to the ravages which were committed in Navar
anie thing In that
kynd
as weill
Sr I hope ze will excuse my rudnes, and homlie wretting to zou, for iff I reposit not more in zou nor into anie wther, and haid grytter confidence
as wtheris.
of zour fauor to me, I
wald be loth
to troubill zou.
assure
my selff ze will not tak exceptions that I troubill
zou wt requestis in this kynd, for ze kuaue, Sr, I haue not entrese to anie hes suche pouer. So wissiug zou all happines, I rest and sail euer remane,
by the soldiers of the Marquis of Montrose in 1645, at which time they also burned the kirk of Lochlee, and harried adjoining districts (v. Land of the The minister, who was son-in-law to Lindsays). Guthrie of Pitforthie, was previously Preceptor of the Maison Dku of Brechin. He was translated
from Navar to the church
of
Brechin about 1650.

to
Zour Louing Nepheu to serve zou, A. Eeskine off Dun.
We
estaites
wndersubscryevaAd,
of
Testifies
the honoll
Dune
the 8
of februarij.
The laird of Dun's pleading with his uncle, in behalf of " zoung bonitoune," appears to have been
His uncle's two daughters both mareldest became the wife of the second Earl of Northesk, to whom she bore the third Earl, and other children. The second daughter married first the Earl of Kinghorn, and secondly the Earl of Linlithgow. By these two marriages she was the mother of three Earls, vizt. The Earl of Kinghorn (whose outfit as a student at the College of St Andrews, in 1C55, is printed on pp. 386-7), the Earl of Linlithgow, and his brother, the
unsuccessful.
ried Earls.
and vtheris haveand thair power. That the parochine of Navar, belonging to the laird of Panmuire, Lyand wtin the shrefdome of fforfar. Is totaUie waisted by the creweltie of the malitious enemie of this kirke and kingdome, qrby, to our certaine knowledge, he hes
parliament, thair
comitties
bein frustrat of his reut thir tua yeires bygane, In

regaird the saidis landis ar in a great pairt unprofitable and lying waist, And suche as ar labored ar
The
wnable to pay any dewtie. The tenents not being able And to labor aboue to serve thair owen necessaties.
sicke lyke, the minister of the said parioche Is con-
becaus of the frequent Incursions of the broken and barbarous heighelanders. To retire himselff wt his whole famelie to the toun of Brechine,
strained,
Earl of Calendar.
Sir Alexander Erskine of Dun died in lG5o, and having been predeceased by his eldest son. Sir John
They haveing befoir his removeall, plunderit his hous, taken away and destroyed his haill comes, and victuall. and buikes. This we testifie to be of veratie be thir
pntis, subscryvit
wt our handis as followes, at Brechine,
the Tenth day of Januar 1646.
he was succeeded hy his younger son David, by a second marriage. David Erskine of Dun married a daughter of Lumsden of Innergelly,
Erskine,
in Fife,
Mr
L. Skinner,
G.
J.
Symmer
of Balzordie
minister at
Navar
Guthrie of patforthie
elder of brathie
and was father
of
Lord Dun (great-grand-
Jhn Symer
father of the Marchioness of Ailsa, siipra, p. 221),
Alexander, merchant in Montrose, ancestor of the Erskines of Balhall, and other children (Wodof
Johne Symmer fek of Brathinche Dauid Levingstoun of dilapie George Straton off athdouie
row's Collections.)
3d
tribute to the
The subjoined Inscription from " Maule's Cairn" in Glenesk is here printed as a slight but grateful memory of the late Earl of Daliiousie, who died at Brechin Castle on 6th July, 1874.
31
A U L E'S
ERECTED
CAIRN.
A.D. 1866,
BY
FOX EAEL OF DALHOUSIE,

IN
K.T.,
G.C.B.
MEMORY OF
The Right Hon. Montagu, Baroness Panmure The Hon. Col. Lauderdale Maule, M.P. The Hon. Williajm ]\Iaule-]\Iaule The Lady Patricia Young; The Lady Ramsay; The Lady Mary Hajiilton; The Lady Georgina Do\^TiiGGiN;
;
;
AND ALSO OF
Lady E.4JMSAY ISUCDONALD The Lady Christian Maule,

and Himself,
When
it
shall i:)lease
God
to call
them hence.
W^^&:0m
GENERAL INDEX.
A
BROTHER
tomb 285
Helen 183, Jas. 248 Balbithan 307 Baldarroch witch 7 Balfour 164, feu-charter of (1539) 385 Janet 309 Balgavies 9 Baliuhard. {v. Carnegie) Balishan of Panmure 354 Ballantyne, John 75 Ballindalloch 147, 210 Ballumbie 121 Balmadies 384 Balmoral 216-17 Balneillie 224 Balvenie castle 327, 333 BANCHORY - TERNAN 1-7 ; schools 379 Bannatyne, G. (poet) 141 Bannerman of Elsick 55, 287 Barron, John 332 Barclay of Caldham, Johnston,
Balbirnie,
1.34,
LIES 173
Altho' this
A deep and rapid 280 A !odly man 205 A hamorous 233 A pearl precious 296 A watchman 153
Abbd of Brechin 130 Abel, Geo. 258 Aberchirder. (v. Marnoch) Abercrombie, Jas. 376 ABERDOUR (Deer) 55-9 7-10 Aljernethy of Rothiemay 29 Abernethy-Gordon, Beuj. 307 Addison.G. 192,Janet,Jean,223-4 Adam and Eve 253 Adam, Wm. 182, 312 Adams, Dr Francis (poet) 6 ; 189 A damson, Janet 9 ^tatem ornavit 257 After the cares 317 Ah early lost 292 Ailsa, Marquis of 221 ; 389 Ainslie, Arch. 347 AIRLIE 162-3 Aitken, Jean 120 " Ajax's Speech" 19 "Albert Cairn" 216 ALDBAR 10-11 Alexander, John 265, Mary 97, Robert 34 ALFORD 116-121, 339 Alison, James 138 All men live 112 All shall die 39 All time relations 280 All who pass by 210 All ye in life's gay morn 47 All you that stop 349 Allan, Alex. 343, Barbara, Geo.
Among the earth 205 Among the rest 203 An honest man 47
Ananias lands 237, 369
Annabella, Queen 72 Anuand of Auchterellon 59
Wm.
12
And he come who is And is she gone 97 And must this body
Anderson
of
77
die? 197
ABERLEMXO
Candacraig 152
Arch. 216, Alex. 41, 112, 313, Geo. 9, 14, 187, John 14,
Thos. 58
Ane
epitaph 34 "Angel's Whisper " 112 Angus, Descrip. of. {v. Edward)
Aodh
or Eth,
King 179
Arbroath Convent 385 Arbuthnott of Findowrie, Miss

159, (funeral expenses) 383
Abbot 100, Jas. 97, Dr John 174, 236, Robert 24 Andes, Malcolm (hist. 209 Arklay, John 370, Thos. 369
)
Mathers
41,
Towie
45, 86,
80-4, 211, 354 339, lir Geo. 208, John 253, (poet) 312, Robt.
Ury
Adam
Arklej' of Dunninald 124 Arnhall Chapeltou 252 Arnott, Jas. 64 Arsludie or Ashludie 112
As a mark of respect 101 As our shorter day 260 As pensively yon pass 102 Auchendoun castle 334
Auchleck, H. 30, John 54 AUCHTERLESS 206-9, 339 (v. Ochterlony) Auchterlony. Austin, Wm. 251
243 Baron, And. 372 Barondon, John 15 Bass of Insch 22, Inverurie 180 Baxter of Kincaldrum 197 Be mindful 154 Before mankind 336 Below this monument 184 Below this stone 163 Below this tomb 280 Beneath this stone 166
Beattie, Alex. 292, Elizabeth 320, Francis 342, George (poet) 39, Dr Jas. (poet) 65, 292, 295,
Backboth chapel
286,
Jas.
287,
Joseph 228,
Wm.
248
AUardyce castle 27 of A. 211, Dunottar 222 Ann 379, Mary 211, 375,
35, 249 Baden, Alex. 140 Badenach-Nicolson 91 ; 363 Badenoch of Whiteriggs 64 Badenoch, Wm. 117
Beaton
Bell,
Jas. 21 of
Melgund 10 charter by Cardinal 385

9,
Euph.
Rev. Dr Pat. 249,

163,
Bain, Geo. 187
Thos. (comedian) 73
Bells, old church 1, 279, 308, 326, 335
Wm. 8, 371 Altho' by nature 29
Baird of Auchmedden 56, 329,
268,
UrySO
392
GENERAL INDEX.
240,
Bell foundersBarclay, R. 221, D. 308, Bur-
Lady Bridge
31,
Leuchars
gerhuys, John 89, 190, Michael

192, 235, 280, Dickson & Co. 250, Easton, John 308, Ehem, And. 155, Gely, Albert 20, Jansen, Peter 207, Kilgour, F. 175, Maxwell, Eobt. 8, Mears,
19, Mark 131, Manooch 234, Marykirk 138, Newe 155, Noran 48, Northwater Lower) 43, (Upper) 213, Park 106,
(
Thos. 23,
43,
104,
27, 165, 226, 359, Orminstou, 246, Ouderogge, C. 296, Ser, Jacob 108,
(J3,
Mowat, John
117,
Wm.
1,
Stens, Peter
169
BELLIE
11-16
289 Benuet, John 197 BENVIE 192-3, 340 Bequest, curious 40 Bereans 137, 253 Bergstrome, P. 0. 124 BERVIE 23-7, 341 Besler (Batchelor) Jas. 202 Bevn, Bp. 326, 333 Bidie, Wm. 188 Biuny of Fearn 105, 268 Bisset of Lesseudrum 257-8, Lovat 276 John 309, 370 Bishops, R. Cath. 278 Black, Anna 73, Jas. 44, 295, 311, John, Isabella 355 Blackball lauds 30 Blair, John 182, Wm. 139 Blair-Imrie of Lunau 241-2, 366 Blelack Howff 281 Blest is the man 268
Bellie, Jas. 309, Pat.
Pitmuies 35, Pooldhulie 155, Ponskeeuie Pow 95, 131, Shiach 106, .Stonyford 297, Tarf, Turret 131, Viuny 35, Wellford 48, 270, Westwater 297, 311 Bridgeton (St Cyrus) 40 Brodie of Idvies 35 Brokie, Alex. 52 Brougham, Lord 119
246-9, 341 Carnegie, lands of 247, 249 Earls of Northesk 343-4, 321, 320 ; Earls of Soutbesk 93-4, 238, 249, 253, 269; of Balmachie 295, Craigo 90, 209-10, 323, Finhaven 337.
CARMYLLIE
BROUGHTY FERRY
Brown, David
115-6, 370, old rentals 280 41, Jas. 57, Jas., John 205, 286, Matthew 240,
Glen 182, Redhall 325, Chas. 94, Robt. 312 Carny, Alex. 245-6, Jas. 228 Carracci (artist) 277 Garment, Jas. 276 C attach, Janet 331 Cattauach, Geo. 266, John 164, Margt. 187, Pat. 348 CATERLINE 173-4 Cathrow, Alex. 182 Causey Mouufch 84
Chalmers
BOG WELL
51
Bonesetter 38, 373 Botli in one grave 204 Bowick, Jas. (poet) 351
Bowman,
Boyue
Jas. 60, 112, Geo. 348
BOYNDIE
199-201
castle 200
Breadalbane. Marquis of 243
BRAEMAR
217-20
Brewster, Wm. 61 Brich (artist) 364 Bride, a lost 44 Bridges Alford 121, Auchmull 311, Banchory on Dee 7, Bervie 26,
(charter regarding, 1474) 342, Brawny 131, Buxburn 285, Carron 53, Oluny 220, Courtford 48, 270, Craigellachie 301, Crathes 106, Cruden 317, Don 180, Dreip 31, Dun 225, Dye
31,
Wm. 365 Bruce-Gardyne. (i'. Gardyne) Bruce of Innerquhomery 95-6 Barbara 119, Jas. 58, 182, 310, Richard (vicar) 335-8 Bryce, Pat. 247 Buchan of Auchmacoy 197-8 Mrs(imposter)201, Wm. 179 Buchanan, John 212 Buckie, town of 276-7 Bucklitsch, J. H. J. 302 Budworth, John 183 Buick, John 204, Wm. 203 Buist, John, and family 47 Bunyan, Jas. 300 Burgon, R. Cowan 25 Burley, Jas. 346 Burn, Jas. 224 Burues of Montrose 135 Burns, Wm. 225 Burnett of Leys 1, 2, Monboddo &'i, 356-7, Sauchen 4 Alex. 259, Bishop 2, 303, Jas. 228, Robt. 286, Wm. 41 By honest industry 236 B^-ers of Tonley 61 Byres, Jas. 199 Byron, Lord 220
"
of Aldbar 8, 10, Christian 339, Elspet 77, Geo. (hist.) 16, LL. D. 348, 258, Hugh 233, Jas. 88, 184, John 44, 371, Mary 298, 208, 227 ChapiJell of Grace" 27
Wm.
CHAPELYARD (Rescobie)
61
159-
CHAPEL-HOUSE
264
(Abdnsh.)
Charles X. of France 168 Charmers 103
Cheyue
of
Esselmont 59, 178
Child, wife 196 Christie, Geo. 234, Jean, Duchess 12, John 248, Wm. 252, 376 Christian, Rose 345 Clark or Clerk, Jas. 259, Geo. 57, John 300, Wm. 24
" Clavies" 149

Clayhills of luvergowrie 193 Cloch-na-ben 31 (Abdnsh.) 260-1 Cluny-Crichton castle 6
CLOVA
Caidyow, Walter 17 Caird, David 248 Cairn Greg 115

Cairn-o'-Alounth 31, 256
Cook, Dr Geo. 291 Cookney church 76 Cob, David 191, 224 Cock, Jas. 303 Cocks or Cox (Lochee) 195 Cockfighting 46 COLDSTOXE 283-5, 342
College furnishings (1655) 387 CoUie, Wm. 5
Colmau
(poet) 293
Cameron, Major 330 Campbell of Blackball 30 Agues 41, Archibald David 37, John 73
Candieglerach,
1
101,
Come see the house 173 Come all aud see 374 Come shed a tear 314
Con of Auchrv 177-8, 386 Conjugium Christi 222, 320 Conveth 288-93
Corrimulzie 220 Corgarff castle 155
Ellon
02,
Fochabers
16, 253, 295, 311, Gleneffock 131, Invercauld 220, Isla 103, 168, Keith 168, Kincardine o' Neil
Feugh 7, Gannochy
31,
Candow, Janet 364 Cant, And. 31

Cantlie, Alex. 331
Cardeau, David 162 CARESTON, 259-60
Cormauch, Bp. 327 CornhiU of Park 28-9
GENERAL INDEX.
Cooper, Geo. 310, Wm. 124 Cossins of that ilk 185 Coulie, David 351, Susan, Wm.
393
223 Courteney, Eandell 138 Coutts of Hallgreen, banker, &c. 26 (errata) Cowan, Jean 345 COWIE 53-5, 343 Cowie, Alex. 362 Coxton tower 272 Crabb, David 302 Craigievar 189 Cran, Alex. 371 Cranstoun, Margt. 153 Crathes castle 2 CRATHIE 214-17 Crawford, Earls of. (('.Lindsay) Cromar District 281-5, 342 Cromar, Alex. 224, And. &c. 336-7 Crooks, Thos. 224 Croll, Alex. 252, Robt. 25 Crombie of Phesd.. 63-4, 134 Cn.sbie, Martha 344 CRUDEN 312-18 Cruden, Geo. 198, Wm. (poet) 210
Ciuick-haTik. Eliz. 275, 208, John 376, Pat. 313, 79, 183
Jas.
Death is the end 41 Death is the horizon 336 Death is the passage 351 Dempster of Auchterless 209, Careston 209, 260, Dunnichen lOS-9, 139 (letters by 108, 139)
Thos. (historian) 209 Dennies, David 236 Dennis, Lady Eliz. 17
Duncan, Agnes 191, Jas. 365, Janet 309, John 316, Jonathan 297, 310, Major 164, 168, Thos.
96
Dundarg castle 59 Dundee plate-mark 340

Viscounts
geour)
( I'.
Graham, Scrim-
Dunlop, Ludovie 226
Desswood 240
Deset nor proud 63 Deuchar of Deuchar 269 David 351 Deus dedit 35 De Witt (artist) 185
Dick, Dr. Thos. 116 Dickson of Clocksbrigga 157 Dingwall of Brucklay 58 Geo. 208 Disce mori 223, 362 Disruption of 1843 234 Doig of Cookston 90, Reswallie 158 Dr. David 90, Jas. 372, Isobel 373 " Dominie Deposed " 19 T>on, Joiin 140, Thos. 309 Donald Bain 161, Geo. 5
DUNOTTAR 48-53,
Dunnideer 22
345
109-10
Durham
Duray
Durie,
of Pitkerro
DURRIS
104-6, 346
of that ilk
309
Jas.
Chas.
375,
236,
Joshua 319, Margt. 312

Duthie, Robt. 33, (poet) 79 DUTHIL 142-3 Dykar, Wm. IS
DYSART.
Each
(v.
Maryton)
revolving year 73 Earr.h, take thv earth 248 E:H.sie, Eut)han'336

Eocle<greig.
(v.
St.
Cyrus.)
Eclesmonichty 114
ECHT
Wm.
CUIKSTOUN92-3
Cnllet.,
Three Kings
of 276
Culquhaniiy 155 Culler house, lands 17

Cuiuine^towii 177
Cuuiiti
" lini.ald Oig" 214 Donaldson of Kiuainly 235, 328 Jas. 309 Doth infants pain 236 Douglas of Bri.lgtford 173, Til-
65-6 Edward, Rob. (of Murroes), and family 122-3 E Iwards, Anne 54, John 234
EDZblLL
307-11,
iv., xxviii.
EJisjohn 220
Ellioe, Geo. .339,
Wm.
whdly 2
Bishop
3,
Robt. 61
146
ELLON 59-62, 347, ELCHIES 297-9
340 376
or
Cuming
of
Auiihry
"Donpin'
175, 330, Culter 4, 17, Inverallochy 17
DoWNAN
I
Sr.aiie" 19
(Bai,flfh.)
Elphai^^tone, Lords 261-2
Cuming, Alex. 298
CUPAR- ANGUS
72-4, 343
Downie Park 48 John 207 Downys, on aid 154
El|,hiMstonof Bellabeg65 Mnrjory 178 ELSICK, chapel, lands 55

Eu.slie,
John 306
"Curracher" (boatman) 147
CUSHNIE
187-90
Drum
Drowstie 129 Stone 228

147
Jas. 194, Bp. 312
Cushnie, Pat. 51.
Diumin
DKUMBLADE2-.7-9
Dakers, David 46 Dall, Agnes 34, Jas.
Thos. 158 Dalgarno, Margt. 57 Dalgety, Alex., And. Dalhousie, Earl of
.
Drummond,
368, Janet,
Drumnagair 27
Drumrossie 20, 22 Dubois (artist) 168 " Dubrach Grant" 219 Duff of Braco 101, Culter
Fetteresso
76,
17,
9,
(?'.
John 138
Maule)
17,
Dalrymple,
Ann
374,
Mary 28
Tilly-
Hatton
328-9,
207,
Daun, Geo. 21 Dauney, E. 4 Davidson of Pettens 285,

chetly, &c. 4, 118
Adam
68,
And. 205, Geo.
285, Jas. 228,
Wm.
179
Dawson, Alex. 51, Robt. 318 Deeply the widow G3 Dear, John 350 Dear as thou wert 160 Dear pilgrims 183
Genealogy of 56, 217, 220, 259 John 202, Wm. 104 Dufftown 334 Dugat, Gilbert 372 Duirs, Dr. Wm. 288 Duke, John 3."J5 DUN 220-6, 344, 388 Dunn, Wm. 344 Dunbar, Alex. 266, Michael 265, Nath. 154
Keithmore
Enererity, David 89 Entoniii'd here lies 128 ENZIE 277-9, 15, 27 Ere yet his lips 66 Errata, vii. (?'. Hay) Errul, Earls of. Erskiue of Dun 210-13, 220-2 225, 334, (letter by, 1633)388, Linlathen 111 John 222-3, Kath. 77 ESSIE 67-8, 371 Esplin, Thos. 262
ETHIE
318, house of 326 Expect, but fear not death 119
Faith, Jas. 176 Faith makes us sons 210 Falc.mer of Glenfarquhar 62, 132, 302, 358
Bp. 211, Wm. 145 Farewell, vain wôrld 205 89-95, 350
FARNELL
3e
394
GENERAL INDEX.
FOYERS
Frail
Farquhar
of Hallgreen 27, Newhall 78, Pitscamily 155-6 Alex. 331, Jas. 5, Margt. 134 Farquharson of Allargut; 153,
67
Glenmark
131
man
212
GLENMORISTON
283, Auchriacban 70, Baldovie 163, Balt,.ur 25, BalnabudacL 215, Breda 120, 153, Coldrach Corrachiee 229, 345, 342, Haughton 117, Invercauld 214, 217-18, Locbteilaudieh 330, M-iialtiie 214, TuUochcoy 215,
Wardfs
20,
VVbitehouse 284-5
Dr. Jas. 339, Kath. 77 Farskui, kirk of 273
FASQUK
254-5 FEARN (Augus) 268-70, 354 Fentou, Jas. 280 Ferguson of Badifurrow 359
Fergusson, And. 236, David 91, Jas. (astronomer) 102, 166 Ferrier, Chas., John 350 FETTERCAIRN 250-6, 352 FETTEEESSO 75-85, 352 Fettes or Fetus, Geo. 25 Fielding, Serj. Alex. 79
Fife, Earls, (o. Duflf) Fife- Keith 168
Eraser of Durris 104, Findraek 238-9, Fovers 67, Philorth 59 Jean 240 Frendraught Aisle 43 Friend, would'st thou 153 Friockheini 35 From dust I came 204 From what befalls us 128 Frost, Forbes 376 Full seventy years 268 Fullarton, Kath. 223, Hugh 345, John 352 Funeral letter (1672) 10 Kath. 202, Fyfe, John 296, Margt. 296
66-7 Glenny, Jas., etc. 304 Gleiinnnes 334 Gold, Alex., Isob. 312 Goldsmiths (DuikUc) 341 Good, sober, pious 184
Goodall, Walter (historian) 29 Gordon, Duke of 12. 13, 15 .(?'. Hinitly), Lord Adam311, Lord George 12 Ardof Aherd<mr 56-7,
mealie 232, Auchei.doir 286,

Au':lileuuLries 313, Auchentoul 235, Avochie 232, Hirkenburu 165, 360, Blelack 281-2, Brodland 327, Buckie 346, 275, Cairnfield 275, Dalpersie 265, Ellon 62, 349, Eslemont 61, 350, Farskan 274, Glastiiira 274, 278, Glenbucket 69, Lesmore 262, Letterfourie 277, Manar 360, Park 28 ((Jroughley) 70, (Minmore)
Galloway, Alex. 304-5 Gammell of Drumtochty 64
GAMEIE
Garden Troup
85-9, 244
Midstrath 127-8, 87, 176 Geo. 54, Jean 275, ilargt. 195, Peter 209, Bailie 363 Gardenstone, Lord 87, 290-3,
of
146
Adam
104,
13,
Alex. 76,
176,
363
Gardiner, Geo. 58
Anna
Donald 282, Dun-
FINHAVEN
334-5 Finlay-xMore 218 Findlay, Wm. 344 Finlayson, Alex. 68 Fisher, Peter 344 Fitchet, John 310
Fithie,
Gardyne
H. 192, (letter by) 340, John 193, 340, Wm. 336 Fix'd is the term 79 Fleemin, Jamie 100 Foote, Pvobert 253 FOCHABERS 11, 15 {v. Bellie) Foggieloan 234-5 Forrest, Janet 60, Jas. 236 Forbes of Ardmurdo 305, Auchernach, Dunottar 150-1, Auch-
of Gardyne 32-3, 322-4 Garioch of Kinstair 120, Mergie 79, 301-303 GARTLY 43-5, 359 Wm. 22 Garvock, John 176 Gavin of Langton 243 Gavin, Capt. Wm. 79 Geddes, Dr. Alex, (poet) 277, Agnes 271, Janet 168, Geo.,
Thos., John 14 Geekie, Janet 193

Gellie,
medden
58, Badifurrow 359, Baltluig, 117, 283, Brux 262, Craigievar 186-9, Deskrie 154,
Inverernan 151-2, Kincardine 353, Newe 149-50, Savoch 365,
Thornton 348
134,
Waterton
60,
Alex., David 291, Elizab. 174, 227, 352, Geo. 44, 284,
239, Kath. 227, Margt. 57, 284, Robt. 178, 283, (poet) (poet) 19 19, 62-5, 356 John of 65 Forsyth-Grant of Ecclesgreig 42
John
John 306 Gibb, D. 26, Jas., etc. 252, Walter 202, Wm. 68 Gibson, Jas. 91, John 248, Wm. 124, 128, 376 Giffard of Strachan 31 Gillan, Margt. 300 Gill, And. 271, Geo. 200 Gillatly, D. 19 Gillies, John, and family 259 Giles, John 166 Gladstone of Fasque 30, 254-5, 311
can 327, Elizab. 258, Elspet 13, George 44, 357, (poet) 169, Hugh 177, Jas. 155, John, &n. 331-2, Mary 271, 306, Mr. 117, Robt. 176, 258 Gorme, Janet 211 Gowans, John 242, 366 Graham of Montrose 12, 148, 169, Fintray 201-3, Morphie 37-8, Largie 172 Grainger, Jas., of Kinneff 171 GRAN(iE 100-4 GrantuUy. (v. Gartly) Grant of Grant 142, Aberlour 332,Ballindalloch 143-4, Burnhall 66, CloghiU 145, Elchies 298-9, Glenlochy 70, Glenmoriston 66-7, Hilton 174, Kilgraston 70, Kincardine O'Neil 240, Tullochgorm 142 Allan 145, 359, Mex. 331,
Chas. 145, Sir Francis (artist) 70, F. W. 300, Geo. 332, Jas.
145,
360,
Joseph
(poet)
30,
John
142, 144, Peter 219, 142, 144
Wm.
GLAMIS
180-6, 386-8
Wm.
FOEDOUN
Glashan, James 166 Glass, David 63

Glassel 5 Gleig, family of 135 Glen, Alex. 228, Janet 236 Glen Dye 31
Forsyth, M, 320
Grassick, Geo. 154 Gray of Carse 156 Alex. 29, Agnes 191, Jean 299, Margt. 223, Eobt. 233 Great is the wonders 140 Green, Grisal 373
Fothringham of Powrie 121-2, 381

Foudlen, Glens of 22
Four hundred years 218
Glenkiudie 155, 230 Glenlivat, 146-7
Greenhill-Gardyne. [v. Gardyne) Greenhill of Fearn 323, Finhaveu 335
GENERAL INDEX.
Greenlaw, Gilbert, Bp. 305 Gregory's Walls 22 Gregory of Kinairdy 32, 235 Helen, Wra. 51, Jas. 5
Greig, Alex.
236, Walter 368, Wm. 77 Grieve, Alex. 371, Nath. 60 Grig, King 52 Grim, Wm. 161
395
Gudefellow, Jock 296 Guthrie of Colliston 371, Gagie

126, King Edward, Westhall 318, Pitforthie 108, 389
Here lys below this stane 119 Here lys beneath 192 Here lys interred 230, 374 Here lys the father .>36 Here one doth lye 278 Here rest in hope 350 Here rests together 212 Here rests the bones 34 Here with the aged 21 "Hie, bonnie lassie" 171
" Highland shearars
Hill, Jas. 112, Alex.,
"
Ineney 367, 369 Ingenious youth 212 David 129 Inglismaldie 137-8 INSCH 20-3
Inglis,
INVEPAVON
Inverbervy.
143-9, 359
{i\
Bekvie)
193-6
INVEPGOWPIE
Invermark 130-1
Invernochty 154
148 John, Thos.
INVEPKEILOR 318-26 INVEUUPIE 178-80, 359

Ireland, W. F. 227 Ironside, Geo. 54 Ir^^ne of Boyndlie 371, Cults 17, Drum 10, 229, Kelly 10,
193, Robt. 136
Helen
184.
Walter 371
Gycht, Bog of
12, 15.
Hillocks, Da\4d, &e. 335 His natural temper 372 His was the soul 47
Hall, John 204

Hallgreen castle 26 Hal lid ay, Aud. 104 Hallyburton, Lady 222, 344 Halkett, John 72 Harris, David, Geo. 355 Harper, John 2G5 Hart, Edward 129 Hastings of Dun 224
Hood, Thos. 336 Hodge, John 41 Hodgston, Jas. 212 Hogg, Jas. 227
Monhoddo
Its pride
62,
its
aud
356 pomj> 125
Honyman (minrs. Kinneff) Home, Jas. 125, 184
171
Hatton
castle 141
Haures, Christian 208 Having now found 24 Hawker, P. J. 307
Hav
75
of
Err.,1
72,
313,
273-4, 322, Tullybole 15,
Pannes Ury
Horsley, Dean 196 Hospitals, ancient 31 Hovv useful they 203 Howe, Alex., Jas., Ann 286 Howie, Alex. 104 Howison, Janet 194 Huddleston, Pobt. 242 Huie, Ann S. 246
Adam
175, Peter 141
Headhouse or Hoodhouse 120 Heav'nward directed 145 Heaven keeps the soul 372
David 266, 369, 204, 326, John 61 castle 15 Huntly, Earls, Marquis of.
Hunter,
Jaa.
Huntly
Jack, Jas. 191, Eobt. 195 Jackson, Wm. 141 Jaffray, Alex. 287 Jamie, John 374 Jameson, Alex., Jas. 360, 168 Jarrou of Balbinnie 8 Jobsons (Newt.vle) 140, 202 John>tou of Caskieben 303 Alex. 119, 176, And. &c. 317 Jolly, Peter 128-9, 382 Jopps (Inscb) 20 Juuor, Sandy 254 Justice and truth 116
(i'.
He as a rock 252 He who was sober
Gordon) Hutton, And. 310 Hutcheon, John 78

Id VIES of that ilk 35
248
KEITH 164-9, 360 Keith- iMarischal, Earls of 49, (letter by) 353-4, Field-Marshal 49
of
He'll order death 137 Henderson, Cath. 227, Hendrie, John 141
Wm.
184
If
at this
humble urn 30
quharn
96,
Caldhame 138, Troup 86

(hist.)
Lud39,
If
honour wait 39
Alex,
314-15,
Pickarton 76 Geo. 55 Herald, Wm. 46 Herd, David (poet) 136

of
Hepburn
1 lived almost 205 I am now inter 'd 182 I rest in hope 33, 202
Elizab. 50, Geo. 53, 302,
John
302
KEITH-HALL
Kellie, Jas. 187
301-4
Herdman, Thos. 51, Wm. 184 Her stately person 69 Here are repos'd 69 Here doth ly 278 Here gentle reader 249 Here in this bleak 287 Here is intombed 373 Here James lyes 93 Here lies a child 34 Here lies a sweet 183 Here lies consigned 96 Here lies the man 9, 233 Here ly the dust 141 Here lyes a harmless 112 Here lyes a youth 34 Here lyes ane bereaved 24 Here lys au honest 9
the trumpet 236 Imlach, Alex. 124

I
when
Kelman,
Wm.
of
331
of
Imrie of Lunan 241, 366 Innes of Artanes 178, Cowie 53, Coxton 271-2, Durris 105, Edingight 101, 103, Leuchars 53, 270, Lichnett 329, Miiiryfold 101, 232, Tippertie 199 Alex. 274, Anna 327, Prof. Cosmo xxii., 53, 105,270, John, Jean 53, Hugh 329 Inchmarlo 4 In hopes in peace 9 In one coffin 299 In one house 21 In the cold bed 112 In the grave 349 In this lone spot 247
Kennedy
Kermucks 62
Kennedy-Erskiue
344, 389
Dun
xvi.
225,
Kethenvs, Ingram of
Kerr, Alex. 101, Thos. 370 Kidd, And., AVm. 99. David 182, 248 Kid, Tho. 58
Kilbattoch.
(r.
Towie)
260-7
KILDRUMMY
Kinairdy house
Kilgour, Robt. 314,

32,
Wm.
235
54
KINCARDINE O'NEIL 238^0

Kincardine castle 62 (v. Braemar) Kindrocht. King, Arthur 306
396
GENERAL INDEX.
L'iiertw.MMi, Jas., J..hn 60, 348 Like to the seed 158
Kiiiit;eniiif 112 Kiii^honi oîstle 362 Kinghc.rn, Edils ,,f. (v. Lvon) KINGOLDHUiM 163-4, 385 Kingoriiy 174 Kingswells 287 KINKELL (Al>erdeenshire) 304 Kinlurh, J. ,1,11, etc. 25.3-4
KINMUCK
Kiiitore,
(Ate
dee.i.-bire)
304
KINNAIRU (Angus) 92-5 KINNEFF 169-74, 23, 119

EarK
.,f.
(r.
Falconer)
Luid.savs of Edzeli, Glenesk 130, 308-9, B.lgavies 9, Blairiefedden 157, Eveli.-k6:)-70, 159, Fearn 260, Spvnie 319, 325 Ann 69, David 235, Is(d)el 224, Jas. (vica.) 373, Robt. 230, (Whistlebeny) 172-3 Lintîvn, Win. 51 279-81, 364 Livmgstone, Dr. 340-7
Mîrlenan, Mr. 215 MacplieTson-Grant of Balliiidalloch 143-4, 209 Mactier of Dun is 105 Macvicar, Archd. 72 M'Coml)ie of Easter Skene 227 M'C(mnach, Hugli 120, 281 M'Conm.chie, Wm. 333 M'Donal.l, Alex. 219, 145, Donald
129,
Jas.
145,
Pat.
67,
LmrRATHEN
L<i,
Wm.
99
KIRKDEN
32-5. {v. idvics) Ki.kla.ul, Alfx. 212 (Banffshire)
her>^ lies
one 183
LOCHLEE
Lochn
.gar
127-31, 382, 390
KIRKMICHAEL
220
197-9
196-7, 364
Joseph 179, Robt. 71 M'Hardy, John 154, 284 M'Innes, John 283, 332 M'latosh, L. 219, Jolm 269, 355
M 'Gregor,
69-71, 360 Kirkbide 36, 42, 376 Knight, Isuhel 13, John 369 299-301 Know, mortal 158 Knox, John 23, Robert 28 Kyle. Bishop 168, 277 Kynoch, Alex. 360
LOGIE-BUUHAN
LOGIE- DUNDEE
M'Kundachy, Jobn 167
KNOCKANDO
LOG IE- MAR
281-3
LOGIE-.MONTROSE 209-10
Logie, Geo., Eliz. 352
M' Lac h Ian, l^ôbel 360 M'L:iggan, Juhu 282 M'Lanichal, Jas. 331
M'Lean, Archd.
272
303, Jas.
167,
Laing, Alex, (poet) 284, Jas. (hist.) 209 Laird of Strathraartin 204
L'Amy
of
Landon,
68, 181 L. E. (poetess) 167
Dunkenny
Langlands, Janet 182
LAURENCEKIRK
Lauriston 37
288-94, 361
Laws, hill of 115 Lawranee, Wm. 236, Jas. 363 Lawson, David Wm. 289, 339 Lay, Wm. 63 Leadenhendrie 355 Lean not on earth 248
Lees, Sir
Edward
S. Ill
Leighton, David 355 Leitch, Alex. 236, Tsohel 248, David and John 295, 368 {v. Hay) Leith-Hay.
Logy, Margt. (Queen) 48 Longmore, Adam 166 Longmuir, Alex. 104, Jas., John, 353 LONGSIDE 95-100, 364 Lorimer, Robt. Ill, 332 Love ciinvgal 63 Lovell of Ballumbie 124, 194 Low, George (naturalist) 310, Margt. 136, 252, Robt. 228 Low, children three 369 Low here 39 Lumgair, Ogilvy of 50 Lumsden of Cushnie 188-9, 263, Clova 263-5, Auchendoir, Blairmonmonth 79, Corrachree 188, 229 - John 153, Robt. (poet) 188, 229 241-3, 366 Lunan, Alex. 129, 212, 375
M'Leod, Finlay, Peter, 67 M-Pherson, Geo. 258 M'Qiieen, Donald 286 M'Sween, Donald 53 'William, Jas. 265
M 'Willie,
Wm. MAINS 201-3 Mair, Wm. 5

Maitland,
144
Adam
176
21,
207
Malcolm, Wm. 189 (errata) Man's life on earth 112
Mann,
Wm.
Marriage pledges 148 Mar, Earldom of 267 Mar's Stone 22

Marischal, Earls Mark, Geo. 19 Marno, John 336
of.
{v.
Keith)
LUNAN
MARNOCH 231-5
Marshall, Jas. 203, Wm. (composer) 13 Martin, Wm. 18, D. 30 Martyr's mont. (Dunottar) 50 mai;ykh:k 133 8, 383 MARYTON, 2.35-8, 367 Masson, Prof. Edward 351 Mason, Robt. 373 Mathison, Geo. 279 Mathers, Kame of 41 Mathew, Alex. 202, Grissel 16'2, 195 Maundach, Jan (poet) 143 Maule of Panmure 130-1, 193, 219, Melgund 10 "Maule's Cairn " 390
{errata)
Lundin, Walter
of
193,
Wm.
Leith-Lmnsden. {v. Lumsden) Leith-Ross of Arnage 59

Sir Alex. 229-30, Alex. 266 Leith of Whiteriggs 64-5 Leithe], Alex. 191 LEOCHEL 186-7 Lessel, Robt. 170 Leslie of Kininvie 327-8, Coburty 55 Alex. Jas. 65, 3 LETHNOT 294-5 Let marble monuments 248 Let none sujjpose 34 Lfvs, Lofh of 6 271-2 " Lieh-gate " 366 LIFF 190-2 Life's everlasting gates 112
Leith,
179 Lyall of Gallery 91, 212, Kinuordy 92, (Carcary) 91-2 Lyell of Gardyne 32-3
David 260
Lyon
of Glami3 48, 181, 185, 362, 380-8 Alex. 230, Jas. 181, Janet 268, Margt. 34, Peter 316
still,
Ly
sweet maid 173
MACDUFF
Mackenzie
244-6 Macfarlane, Thos. 272 Machar, Isobel 280

of
Maxwell, David 206
Drumtochty, Stra-
M earns. Men
Meff,
of the
52
LHANBRYDE
cathro 357 Daniel 194, Geo. 227 Mackie, David 77, Isobel 275
Mearns, Alex. 21
18 Meiklejohn, Lieut. 152 Mellis. Geo. 228
Wm.
Mackay
or
M'Kay
28,
John 165
GENERAL INDEX.
Meldrum of Ciombie 231-2 Melgund castle 10
Alex. 368, Geo. 286, Margt. 135, Wm. 368 Metiie.ss, Eobt. 51 Meuzies, John 13 Mercer, Benj. 265 M.chie, Capt. 152, John 154 Mi.l.Ueton, E.rl <.r 138, 238, 256 Mildness uf temper 160 Mill, Ja.s., John Stuart 213-14 Mtll (BoyiiHie) 199-200, Walter
JVJelviile,
397
MURROES
Muschet
121-6, 381
Mur.loch, John 166 72 My hones in grave 351 My friends in Christ 210 My God who gave 331 Mv parents here 252 My voyage is made 88 Myles," Peter 370
ot Oargill
Napoleox
T.
168, TTI. 158
(martj'r) 241,
366
296-7, 389 Neave, Alex. 372
NAVAR
of
death, tierce is, &.;. 92 death, grave 268 man, live thou 155 mortal man 195 my soul 112 painted piece 179 Oh, that it were 137 O that men 141 Once lovely youth 208 On earth I waulked 111 Our life is short 77
Our
life IS
but 345
Miller of Ballutnbie 124 Milligan, Wm. 35 Milne of Kinstair 167 Miln, And. 77, Alex. 16, 64, 857, Cath. 248, Chas. 236, David 9, Elizabeth 13, Geo. 345, Jas.
61,
Neish
Laws
115,
Tannadice 48
NEVAY
68-9, 371
Pain was my portion 79 Pan mure, Earls of. (v. Maule)

Pauter, Patrick 85 Pan ton, Geo. 176 Par mens eloquio 252 Paterson, John 270, 223, Margt. 223-4, Rebecca 207, Wm. 198 Paul, Geo. 325, Pat. 272, Wm. 202 Peebles, Chas. 203 Peace to his body 99 Peace to thy soul 11 Peat, Alex. 252 Pedev, Alex. 241 PERT 210-14, 374
>ÊWDOSK
NEWHILLS
311-12 285-7
Newton, Lord 322
NEWTYLE
John
Wm.
Mylne
129, 265, 289
Marjory 228,
Milner, Peter 186
138-41, 373 Nichol, Dr. J. P. 226 Nicol of Billogie 78 Nicolson of Glenbervie 91.
{v.
Miltouhaven 41-2
of Mylnefield,
Badenach)
Bp. 278, John 365 Nine years I sailed 376 Nipt by the wind 21 Niven of Peebles 264
Mitchell.
Adam
194-5 21, And. 7, Alex.
44, Geo. 140, 260, Gilbert 140, Jas. 8, John 191, 373, Thos. 7 Mitchell, Major 152-3 (errata)
Moatach Well 22 Moir, And. 60, Jas.

331 Mollison,
Niven-Lumsdeu, Sir H. 264 No beauty 325
PKTERCULTER
16-20
35, 306,
John
No No
lingering sickness 105 sooner cam they 361

of.
(v.
Wm.
303
63,
Northcsk, Earls
356.
{v.
Car-
Monboddo,
Lord
Burnett) Monck, Gen., 'protextion'byl82 Moncur of Knap 24 John .58, Kath. 191, Wm. 79 MONIFIETH 106-15, 369, old rentals 380-1 Montealts of Fearn 269 Montgomerys in Knap 135, 383 Monkeicie. (v. Keith-hall) HITTER 175-8, 371 Montrose, Marquis of. (i'. Graham) Moor, Robt. 336 Moram, David, Janet 110, 113 Mores, Elspet 293 Morrice, David 251, Wm. 240
Now,
negie) cruel death 248
Petrie, Jas. 236-7 Philip, J. (artist) 120, Pat. 182 Pickieman, trade of a 9 Picts' houses 94, 125, 154, 161, 267, 284
Now Now
she
is
whom
116
slain
by death 306
OATHLAW
335-8, 374 Oehterlonv of Guynd 7, 161, 247, Balmadies 161, 384, Flemington 7, Kelly 247 Ogilvy, Glen of 182, 185
MONQU
Ogilvy, Earls of Airlie 281 of Balfour 385, Barras 16970,
207,
LumgairSO, Milton
dice 211, 375
Culphin 199, Dunlugas 203-4, Inverquharity 169, Tanna-
M (prison,
Jas., letter to laird of
Troup, 87, John 28 !Morphie, Stone of 37 Mortimer, Robt. 362, Edward 167 MORTLACH 326-34 Moug, John 140
Mowat, John 77 Muchals castle 84 Mudie of Arbikie 35,

Muirhead, Chas. 344 Mullo, David 195 Munro, John 300
241, 320-22
Alex., Jas. 280, Henry 242 Ogston of that ilk 3, 256 Barbara 176, Jean 57 "Old Mortality" 50 Oliphant, Lords 141, 109, 373 Orr of Bridgeton 40-1 Jas. 236 ORDIQUHILL 27-29 Ord, Helen 275 Of Barclay's single life 109 Of manners mild 227 Oft shall sorrow 69
Piersonof Balmadies, Guynd 15961, 247, 384 " Pin the widdie" 252 Pitfodels, Reids of 3 Pittarrow, Wisharts of 64, 356 Pitempan 206 Playfair, Principal 181, 183 Popular Rhymes 53, 285, 317-18, 356 Porter, Isabella 365 Porteous of Lauriston 40 Poussin, N. (artist) 290 Pratt, Dr. 100, 317 Presentation to a church (1609) 342 Preshome 277 Prince Albert 216, 256
Proctor,
John
230,
299,
Pat.,
Wm. 184 Prophet, May 336 " Puri nativi " 36, 48 Pyot, Jas. 158
Quakers
80, 82, 287, 304 Queen's "Leaves " 220, 256 Queen's Well, The 131
Murray
of
Melgund 10
Jas.
224
dear child 73 dear John Dalgety 183
Radulph
(sacerdotis) 20
Raiker, Thos. 336
398
GENERAL INDEX.
Bryanton 320-1, Drum93,
Eait of Hallgreen 26-7, Anniston

323,
nagair 27, Drumtochty 357
Rothiemay 29 Rothiemurchus 142-3 Row, John 294

Eoxburghe, Duke of 272 Roy, Peter 219 Ruddiman, Thos. 11, 201, 289 Ruddoch, Isabel 16 Russel, David 272 Ruthven, Earl of Forth 110 Ruxtou, David 324, 315
S.\DLER, John 272 ST. ANDREW'S(Elginsh.^ 270-1 ST. CYRUS 36-43, 376 ST. NIXIAN'S (Banffsh.) 277-9 ST. POL'NAR (Abdnsh.) 359
Henry
320
Wm.
25,
John
Nathlan 53 Neveth 371 Nine Maidens 185, 206, 241, 334 Ninian 49, 89, 201, 268, 277 Niniar or Manir 214
Glaus 312 Orland 184
Eamsay
Balmain 2, 251, Banchory-Lodge 2, 30

of
Geo. 207, Jas. 140, Wm. 57, 140-1 William 1S3 Rare Rattray, Lt.-Col. 48 V H;N 273-9 Reader, repent 164
2,
Dean
Our Lady
RATH
Reader, suppose 99
106, 114, 231 Palladius 62 Paul 168, 277 Peter 16, 142, 143, 168, 193, 273, 277 Philip 174 Ronan 267
Reaping machine 249
Reddenda ex terra terra 51 Redcastle, Redhead 244, 325 Reid of Glassel 5, Newmill 263,
Pitfodels 3 ministers of Banchory-Ter-
Saints
Aid an 159
Ruffus or Maelrubha 32 Rule or Regulas 36, 106 Rumon 82 Serf or Servanus 301
Andrew
11. 43, 116, 155, 197, 217, 254, 270
Thomas
168
nan
3,
379
Anthony 293
Apollinaris 178, 359
Tern an 1, 45 Triduana 155-61
John
130
Reidie,
5, 379, Geo. 130, 303, 268, 276, 355, Thos. (poet) 3, Dr. Thos. 32,
Alex.
Walock 281,
Saudeman, G.
,
Arnold 169
Boniface 193
285, 333 C. 47
Wm.
Lord 69
129, 268,
Remember all 38, 162 Remember man 38, 89,

348 Renuie, David 370
Rejiose, then, precious clay 360
RESCOBIE 155-61, 384 Rests befi)re this stone 336 Rettie, Isobel 371
Revd. and grave 265 Reynold, Alex. 57 Rhynd of Carse 157
Jas. 247-8, John 372 Rickard, Geo., &c. 269 Rickarton church 75 Riddoch, Margt. 246
.
Brandon 199, 371 Bridget 48, 71, 226, 260, 271 Catherine 65, 256 Columba 66 Cougal 104 Cowan or Congan 176 Don an 206 Drostan 20, 55, 127, 311
Sanders, Wm. 12 Sangster, Jas. 44 Sauchiehurii, 137
Sauchs battle 269 Savoch chapel 62 S.;alan 359

Scologs of Ellon 61 Scottish Regalia 169-70 Sett, Alex. 190, 252, Robt. 161,
345,
Ennan 48
Erchard 65, 238 Fergus 180 Finnan 45
(iregory (mispd. Mary) 277 Grig or Cyricus, 36
Scougal,
David 345, Wm. 238, 365 Henry 209

192,
"Scourger " 147 Scrimgeour of Dudho^Je

Tealiug 122 Scrofula 103 Scrogie, Robt. 349 Sculptured Stones Aldbar 10 Col.l stone 284 Corrachree 188 Edzell 307, iv. Farnell 89
of
Hilary 257
Huchomy
John
189,
234
65, 85, 137, 162, 155, 169,
Ritchie,
Jerom
266,
John
260
Robb, Alex.
191,
John 313
Roberts, Elizabeth 208 ph Robertson, Geo. 376, Dr. J 186-7, Dr. Robt. 72, John 189,
249 Roch, Jas. 252 Roger, Geo. 364, John 240,

211,
Wm.
Wm.
157
Rob.k, R. and Y. 162 Roman, John (archdeacon) 7 Ross of Arnage. {v. Leith-Ross) Alex, (poet) 127, 240, 281,
289, Jas. 13
234 Kieran or Caran 85 Laurence 37, 288, 307, 325 Macconoc 318 Macalen 297 Macarius 267 Machalus 359 Madoc 159 Maelrubha 32, 164 Mark 250, 256 Marnan 186, 231 Martin 169, 204, 209, 253
Fordoun 65
Glamis 18^5
Insch 22 Invergowrie 193 Keilor 141 Kingoldrura 163 Knockando 301 Liiitrathen 364
Mary
208,
23,
27, 53,
59, 68,
220,
235,
246,
190, 273,
Marykirk 137
Monitieth 106, 115
:Mortlach 333
285-6, 294, 325, 334
Rose or Ross, Alex. 208 David (Lochlee) 129, 294,

382, Kath. 165
Meddan
Michael
162, 279,
69,
364
Menimis 234
304 Moloch 261, 326 Murdoch 114, 318
Rosehill chapel 137
Rose-Innes of Netherdale 232-3 Rostinoth 7, 193
Muren 114
Pitmuies 35 Pitscandly 161 Strathmartin 205-6 Tannadice 47 Seaton, Mary 53 Seton of Cariston 260
GENERAL INDEX.
Shand, Jas., Sir C. F. 135, Helen
14, John 311 Shank of Castlerig
4,
399
291-2,
362-3 (v. errata) Janet 21 Shanwel, John (abbot) 74

Sharp, Geo. 161 Sbaw, Eilw. 354,
!She
Stirling-Graham, Miss 201 Stirlmg, Jas. (artist) 19, 120 Stocket forest 287 Stonehaven, Newtown of 85
STONEYWOOD CHAPEL
STRAOHAN
Strachau
pots
ot
286
Stop, pas.>-enaer 128, 137, 306
Wm.
29-32 Carmyllie 342, ClayGletikiudie 230-1, 358, Thornton
honoured as she bore 68 Shepherd, John 283
352,
Monboildo
&c.
Sheriffs, Dr. E. B. 254,
Wm.,
132-4, 165
Jas. (letter
266
Shiels,
by
(?),
1523) 352,
Anna
179
John
344,
238,
Bishop 249, Robt.

173
Shilgreen, Isabel 89 "Shirra Miiir" ballad 215
Wm.
Sibbald bequest 126 Silent grave 207

Silver of Netherley 78 Simpson of Concraig 18 Margt. 223, 344 ; Jas.,
STkATHDON 149-55 STRATHMARTIN 204-6

Strathmore, Earls of
(;,'.
Lyon)
John
233
Siste,
Viator 113 SKENE 226-9

!
Skene
of
Skene 226, 229

&c.
Strathnairn, Lord 129, 294, 382 " Stragler woman" 148 Stratou of Kirkside 36, 42, 376, Lauriston 37 Alex. 51, Geo. 389 Struck by the fiery dart 373 Stuart-Forbes of Fettercairn {v.
Theirs none in questiim 63 They were a couple 116 Tliink ye 46 Thir lines engraven 46 This charming child 203 This eoU|Je lived 124 This dormitory 57 This (lust which here 63 This honest man 141 This life they steer'd 116 This little band 176 This man and his wife 68 This stone doth hold 259 This stone in memory 159 This stone is set 182 This woman 223-4 This worthy pair 162 Tho' Boreas blasts 369 Tho' .-Eleos blasts 276 Tbo' this fine art 9 Tho' 84 be long 99 Tho' young in years 30 Thom, Barb., 140, John, James
343
Geo. 306 Skinner, Kev. John,
90-9,
Laurance 389
Slidders,
John 141 Small, Geo. Jas., Dr. (hist.) 246, J. G. (poet) 25, Olifer 163, Eob. 141, Thos. 343, Wm. 344 Smith, Alex. 44, Colvin (artist) 105, 219, Geo. 165-0; Janet
184, Jas. 246, 253, John 54, 351, Peter 8, 316, Thos. 316,
306 Smith-Skene, Capt. 196 Sod Kirk 76, 264 Souter, Jas. 25 Southesk, Earls of. (v. Carnegie) 93-4 SOUTHESK Spanzie, Jas. 193 Spark, Robt. 290 Spink, And. 110
66,
Wm.
Forbes) Stuart of Birkenburn 165, 360, Bogs 279, Edinglassie 153, Ordens 199 John, LL.D. 166, 220, Geo. 224, Harry 266, 337, Thos. 316, Margt. 359, 361 Sturm, Alex. 332 Sturrock, Stroak 114, 158, 372 Superstitions, various 43, 103, 106, 126, 148, 225, 249, 256, 282 Sure death may kill 162 Symers, Alex. 295, Geo. John 389
,
Thomson, Alex.
119, 281, Geo. 75, 339, Jas. (hist.) 326, 345, Robt. 54, Thos. 202.
Thornton
of that ilk 251, 352 Alex. 183 Thurbiirn of Murtle 18, 360, 164, 167 (v. errata.) Thy life, dear man 276 Thy name aye 205
Tillychetly 4
TilwhiUy
'Tis safer,
castle 3
'Tis here the fool
92
Lord 349
To honour the dead 202

Tailliovr,
HOWFF
Magnus 51 Tait (Archbishop), Geo. 96-7, Thos. 61, 79, 306

45-8 Tawse, And. 284 Taylor of Kirktonhill 134
Tocher, Alex. 246
Wm.
Tomintoul 71
Torn, John 242 TOWIE 229-31 Trail, Jas. 41 Trew, H. L. 6 Trouble sore 71 Troup, John 54
TANNADICE
Spital (The) 31 Spence, John 9 Sprot, And. 300 Stay, passenger 242 Stay, reader, stay 60
Dr. Alex. 189, Farq. 339,
Joseph 117, John 233, Thomas 182, Walter 89 Taylor-Imrie of Lunan 241, 366
Tealing xvi. Tenant, Thos. 176, Thain, John, David 204, Jean 189, Margt. 193, Wm. 233 That James had failings 79 The grave, great teacher 128 The loving wife 268 "The men of Ross" 142-3 The penetrating art of man 34 The saints are pilgrims 39 The smiles of fortune 44 The tender grass 93 The tyrant death 252 The weaver's art 350
Stephens of Balmadies 385 Sterling, Gilb. 316
Steven or Stevenson, And. (poet) 85, Kath. 223 Stil, Davi.l 364 Stiven, Chas. 292 Stewarts of Innermeath, Lome, Redcastle 244, 322, Carnaveron 119, 174, Tannochy 275
Charles
173,
Trustach forest 6 TuUoch of Bonnington 237, 367 Alex. 300 Turnbul, Margt. 245 Turner of Turnerhall 60, 350 Tyrie of Drumkilbo 23, 69, 372, Kunnideer 23, 228, Lunan 243 Eliz. 2, 228, Thos. 372
Tytler, Jas. 269, 355
and Henry W.
(poets)
James
(Deskrie; 146, (Minmore) (Pittyvaich) 145, 330, Ray-
73, 146,
Unconstant earth 158 Under this monument 91, 351 Under this stone 202, 223-4, 251,
364
mond 343
Unknown
to
pomp
14
400
GENERAL INDEX.
140, Jas.
Unmark'd by trophies 282 Urquhart John 110, 113-14
164, 233, 269,
John
364,
Wm.
300
URY HOWFF 80-4

Vain mortals 105
Vain tears give o'er 293 Vallentine, John 251 Vallognes of Panmure 193 Vayne castle 269 Virtuous and learned 8 Volum of Woodwrae 374
Wauchop
of Culter 17
of this child 162 Webster of Balruddery 191, thie 111
We We We
are but earth 68 do not 93
Mea-
James 38, Janet 91, John 247
West Ferry, old rentals Whamond, Jas. 46
of
380-1
Waddle, Wjf.
Wallace,
192 John, Thos.
158-9,
Mary 365, Margt. 300 Wallace's castle 88 Wallack, Kobt. 211 Walker, Alex. 309, David 38, Geo. 224, 365, Jas. 50, John
Jean
187,
306, 351
Walram
Walton,
of "Normanville
Eliz.
29
272
Warden, Isohel 298 Warburton 37, 41 Wardroper, John 372
Watt
of Logic 190 (v. errata)
John
200,
Wm.
9,
178, 339
Wattie, Jhs. 342
Watson, Alex
Bishop 289,
Chas. 219, David 354, Hugii
164 What's mortal here 127 When death's darts 248 When death doth come 351 When first I drew 39 When low in dust 88 When minstrels 184 When mortal man 314 When silver bands 223 When this man liv'd 159 While here on earth 205 While manly beauty 18 While nature shrinks 162 White, Alex., David 139, 253 Whitton, And. 374 Whoe'er thnu art 223 Who.se turn is next? 212 Whyte, Abhot John 57 Wighton, David 68, Jas. 191 W.trnall, J. Hrley 333 Will, curious 40
What havock
Wilkie, Jas. (poet) 231, Margt. 183 Wilkin, Lizzie 365 Wills, Robt. 376 Wilson, Alex. 228, Jas. 90-1, 246, Geo., Pat. 102, 176, Wm. 246 Winchester, Col. E.. 239, Jesper, &c. 270 Wink, John 300 Wise of Lunan 244, 361 Wishart, Geo. 64, Jean 119 With husbands two 192 With temper meek 154 Within this grave 223
Within Within
this isle
1 1
Wo
this narrow house 18 be to him 368
of Bonnington 237, 367, 388, Balhegno 250 Jas. 260 Wiight, And. 162, Dennis 381, Isabel 163 Wyllie, Jas., Thos. 310
Wood
Ye gentlemen
Ye
readers
all
103 58
Yet where,
where 29
You, who is in p"mp 372 Youi.g of Aid bar 11, Durris 105, 346, Stnnk 172. 344, 352-3 Youiigson, Anil. 58 Youth fades 246
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ALLEN COUNTY PUBLIC

3 1833 00858 3228

BURIAL GROUNDS & OLD BUILDINGS

and Antiquarian Notes,

AN APPENDIX OF ILLUSTRATIVE PAPERS.

lERVISl^:, KS.A. S COT.,

AUTHOR OF 'memorials OF ANGUS AND THE MEARNS,'

EDINBURGH: EDMONSTON AND DOUGLAS.

[All Rigkis Reserved.]

Study their monuments, their gravestones,

on the spots where

possible, the scenes of the events, their aspect, their architecture,

the tradition which has survived the histoiy

the legend which has

survived the tradition

the mountain, the stream, the shapeless stone, which has

survived even history and tradition and legend.'

[250 copies printed.

PROFESSOR COSMO INNES,

Sculptured Stone at Edzell.

Nevay (Angus), Newdosk

304-7 304 32-5 69-71, 360 299-301

Laurencekirk (Mearns), Leochel (Aberdeenshire), Lethnot (Angus), LhaNBRYDE (Morayshire),

Pert (Angus), Peter Culter

294-5 271-2 190-2

390 197-9 [96-7, 364

244-6 201-3 231-5

93-4 286 29-32

Marnoch (Banffshire), Marykirk (Mearns), Maryton (Angus),

235-8, 367 106-15, 369, 380

Tannadice (Angus), TowiE (Aberdeenshire),

MONQUHITTER (Aberdeenshire MoRTLACH (Banffshire), Murroes (Angus),

339-76 377-90 391-400

Author of this volume having occupied much of

his leisure during

a great part of his lifetime in copying Epitaphs and Inscriptions

transcriptions the present

volume contains upwards

of two thousand, or considerably less than a fourth part of the whole.

originally intended for private distribution only.

which have happened since the Author began to

print the papers

which formed the nucleus of the volume, he has yielded

to the wishes of personal

literary friends in offering

not only would the

and various other

would have received greater

In addition to epitaphs and inscriptions

from burial grounds,,

volume not only contains

and dates from kirk

from bridges, old buildings, obelisks, and other

personally collected by the Author, but

in genealogical, biographical, historical,

quarian literature, that he thinks

EPITAPHS AND INSCRIPTIONS.

and family papers, extracts from kirk-session records, notices

from chartularies and other authentic sources.