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

THE LINDSAYS OF URIS, AND LUMGAIR. 319
de Glocester, that Sir Alexander dc Lindsay of Kinneff, younger
son of Catherine Stirling of Glenesk, came into possession of
the lands of Uris, Lumgair, and others in the neighbourhood.*
The first of these, which passed from Duncan de Walays of
Barras, and Matthew de Eychles, portioners of the same, was
subsequently resigned by Lindsay to Oliphant of Aberdagie, and
Ogilvy of Auchterhouse, it being only at the close of the fifteenth
century that Keith Marischal had any interest in Uris ;f and,
whether by mortgage or otherwise, during the possession of the
third Earl Marischal, Patrick Crichton of Cranstown Kiddell
had retours of that barony. It again fell to the Keiths, how-
ever, and was given in wadset in 1672 to the father of the
celebrated Robert Keith, Bishop of Caithness and Orkney, author
of the Lives of the Scottish Bishops and other meritorious books.
The Bishop was born here on the 7th of February 1681, and was
lineally descended of Alexander, the youngest son of the third
Earl Marischal4
Besides being an early acquired part of the Lindsay property,
Lumgair is farther remarkable as the first Mearns-shire estate
of the Ogilvys of Barras, the first of whom, William, second and
only surviving son of Ogilvy of Balnagarrow and Chapelton
(a cadet of the house of Inverquharity) , sold his patrimony in
Angus and had a wadset right of Lumgair from Earl Marischal,
who was then superior. He married a niece of Strachan of
Thornton, by whom he had the brave governor of Dunottar
Castle. He and his wife were buried at Dunottar, and the
following inscription is on their grave-stone : — " Heir lyes a
famovs and worthy gentillman William Ogilvy of Lumger and
Catherin Straquhan his spovs he being 76 yeirs of age he
departed this lyfe in peace 3 Jany 1650 and shee being 89
yeirs of age departed hir lyfe the 28 of Febr 1651." The
first of the Falconers is said to have had charters of Lonkyir
(Lumgair) from David I. ;§ but the earliest authentic notice of
that family only occurs in the time of William the Lion, when
William de Auceps, or William the Falconer, granted certain
lands to the kirk of Marington, or Maiwkirk.||
* Robertson's Index. t Reg. Mag. Sigill.
J [Keith's Catalog., p. xx.] A farm called Chapelton lies about a mile and a half west of
Uris; and from Ragman Rolls (p. 105), it appears that John Vicar de Urres, swore fealfy to
Edward in 1296. 5 Chalmers' Calcd., vol. i. p. 541. II Reg. de Aberbrothoc.