New Spalding Club > Thanage of Fermartyn including the district commonly called Formartine

F O V E R A N.
THE TURINGS, THE FORBESES, THE ROBERTSONS, AND
THE MACKENZIES.
FovERAN originally belonged to the Earl of Buchan, but on the forfeiture of that noble
family, King Robert the Bruce gave it to William de Strabrok, of a burgess family of
Aberdeen. This William de Strabrok got a charter from the King, of Foveran, Ardache,
and three parts of Auchmacoy, on the Festival of the Annunciation, 1340.'
William de Strabrok, burgess of Aberdeen, with the consent of his son and heir,
William de Strabrok, gave to the church of St. Nicholas, Aberdeen, six merks sterling
annually ; also forty shillings from certain lands for the salvation of the souls of his
father, his mother, and himself =
From the Strabroks, Foveran passed to the knightly house of Turing. This name
has been variously spelled, Turyne, Thuring, Thurin, Turin, Turing. The family was
originally of Norman extraction, and is said to have first settled in Angus, in a barony
of the same name, from which they removed to Aberdeenshire, about the beginning of
the fourteenth century. The first to be found is
I. Adam Turin.
He is mentioned in a deed regarding the park of Fyvin, of date 1323,^ and in 1325, he
is found among the jurymen in a determination of the marches between Ardlogie and
Fyvy.-* His son or near relative was
II. William de Turin.
He attached himself to the fortunes of King David II., and shared his sovereign's
exile. In requittal for his services, he received a charter of Foverne, by " recognition
fra Henry de Strabrok," and hence may be considered the first Turing of Foveran.' The
next, probably a son, is
III. Andrew Turin de Foveran.
He is mentioned in deeds of date 1388, 1390, also 1400. He is also mentioned in
a letter of sale, of date 1424, to Sym Bannerman of Alesyk, as having two sons.'
1 Ant. A. and B. I. p. 364. 5 Robertson's Index of Missing Charters, p. 45.
2 Chartulary S. Nicholas, X.S.C. I. pp. 54, 55. 6 Ant. A. and B. I. p. 380; II. pp. 93, 290,
3 Ant. .\. and B. I. p. igS. 304 ; III. p. 96.
4 Id., 111. p. 549.