Memorials of four old families

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UNDER " RAYNE." — There is a cairn called Drum's Cairn near Old
Rayne, said to mark the spot where Irvine of Drum was slain while
pursuing Donald, Lord of the Isles, after the Battle of Harlaw, though
according to another tradition he fell at Harlaw when engaged in close
combat with Maclean of Dowart.
[The latter tradition is probably correct— D. W.]
UNDER " St. FERGUS."— Mariot, daughter of Sir Reginald Cheyne,
married 2ndly John de Keith of Ravenscraig, 2nd son of Sir Edward Keith,
Great Marischal, who in her right became proprietor of St. Fergus about
1360. This family was a separate branch of Keiths for seven or eight
generations till in 1538 the heiress of Sir William Keith of Inverugie
married William, 4th Earl Marischal. Inverugie Castle was once the
principal residence of the Earls Marischal.
UNDER " FWIE." — There is a property in this parish named Ardlogie.
Under " Tarves." — The Mansion-house of Schivas in this parish was
built about 1640 by a gentleman named Gray, descended from the noble
family of Gray of Kinfauns. In the house there is an old oak cabinet bear-
ing the inscription " G. G. of Schivas " and the date 1697. The room used
by Mr Forbes-Irvine as a dining-room had been previously used as a private
chapel, and contained a recess where the altar had formerly stood, the cross
still remaining in 1842 with the words inscribed " IHS Jesus Hominum
Salvator :" also a place for holy water, the Gray family having been Roman
Catholics.*
UNDER " FORGUE." — There were, in 1842, two old Communion cups
here bearing the following inscription, " Giftit to God and his Church by
James Chreightoun of Frendraught to the Kirk of Forrig, 1633 ;" also a
large silver baptismal basin, on the bottom of which the Crichton arms and
motto are engraved, and round the edge the inscription " Giftit to God and
the Church of Forgue by James Viscount of Frendraught, Lord Crichtone."
[This must have been the husband of a daughter of Irvine of Drum. —
D. W.]
UNDER " Longside." — A Mr Alexander Irvine was minister of this
parish, 1635 to 1662.
Under " Drumoak."— " The Park of Drum," reserved by Robert
Bruce, when he granted a Charter of the forest to Wm. de Irwin in 1323,
was granted by Charter from King David Bruce to Walter Moigne. In
1348 John Moigne, Lord of the Park of Drum, executed a disposition of it
"to Alex. Irvine, Lord of the Drum," and in 1393 the said John Moigne
granted a Charter in favour of said Alex. Irvine of a chalder of meal, paid
of old to him by Wm. de Barnard, for sustentation of the Park of Drum.
These lands continued in possession of the Drum family until 1737,
when, on reduction of the entail, they were sold to Duff of Culter. They
afterwards passed successively into the hands of Mr Thos. Burnett,
*Note. — Schivas formerly belonged to the Huntly family, and before that to the
Maitlands of Gight : for George, 2nd Earl of Huntly, had a Charter of Schevas in
Aberdeenshire, and Naterdale in Banffshire, on the resignation of Elizabeth and
Janet Maitland, daughters and heiresses of the deceased Sir Patrick Maitland of
Gight, knight, i8th June, 1467.