History and traditions of the land of the Lindsays in Angus and Mearns

FINHAVEN — MODERN PROPRIETORS. 163
In early life, Carnegy married Margaret, daughter of Sir
William Bennet of Grubett, by whom he had several daughters —
his refusing to consent to the marriage of one of whom with Lord
Rosehill, was given by him as the main cause of his quarrel
with Brigton. His first wife died in 1738, and he subsequently
married Yiolet Nasmyth, by whom he had his son and heir, and
a daughter " called Babie," or Barbara, who was married to
Dr. Sir Alexander Douglas of Glenbervie, son of the compiler
of the Scottish Peerage and Baronage.
Carnegy died in 1765, and, with the exception of his son,
who died issueless at Lisbon ten years afterwards, he was the
last of his race of Finhaven, when the succession devolved on his
daughter, Lady Douglas, who, to meet the demands of her
brother's creditors, had the lands sold in 1779. They were pur-
chased by the fourth Earl of Aboyne, by whose frugality and
industry the ruined estate of his ancestors was restored to its old
and important standing, and in 1781 he resigned Finhaven in
favour of his son by his second wife, the Honourable Douglas
Gordon Hallyburton, who sat long in Parliament for Forfarshire.
Hallyburton sold Finhaven in the year 1804, to James Ford,
an extensive manufacturer in Montrose. Ford's circumstances
having become embarrassed, he went abroad and followed the
laborious calling of a teacher, and the estate being exposed for sale
in 1817, was bought by the present venerable Marquis of Huntly,
then Lord Aboyne, at the price of £65,000, being an advance
of no less than £26,000 over the purchase money paid for it
by his father in 1779.
Like the affairs of his predecessor, those of the Marquis also
became embarrassed, and in the year 1843, Finhaven was pur-
chased from his trustees by those of the late Thomas Gardyne of
Middleton, in terms of whose testamentary deed it is now held
by his maternal nephew, James Carnegy, W.S., who is designed
of Finhaven and Noranside, and who, in the failure of male
issue, will be succeeded by his cousin, David Greenhill of
Craignathro.
Thomas Gardyne was the last male descendant of the ancient
family of Gardyne of that Ilk, who were proprietors in Angus
from a remote period, one of whom was married to Lady Janet,
daughter of Sir -David Lindsay of Edzell. Mr. Carnegy, the