Memorials of four old families

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ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS.
Pedigree — 1st portion — As to succession of early lairds see Appendices
A and H, and additions to the latter below.
2nd Portion — At end, for "Alexander born 1886," read "Alexander
born 1 88 1."
Pages 5 and 6 — As to the lairds numbered V., VI., VII. and VIII.,
see Appendices A and H, and additions to the latter below.
Page 5, 6 lines from bottom — It seems doubtful whether this name
should be " Westercourt " or " Westercoul."
Page 56 — For " Garnock " read " Earnock."
Page 60 — Nos. V., VI., VII. and VIII., see additions to Appendix H
below, which seem to show that the pedigree given in Burke (later editions)
is correct, and that Alexander who married Marioun Forbes, leaving also
several illegitimate children by Nannys Menzeis, died in 1493, and was
succeeded by his son Alexander, who is several times mentioned in 1483,
1484, ai.d 1492 as Irvine of Lunmey. This son (not his father) probably
married twice, first, — — Lindsay, by whom he had several daughters, and
secondly, Janet Keith : he is mentioned in 1494 as Alexander Irvine of
Drum along with " his moder Marioun Forbes."
The next laird, his son Alexander, evidently was the husband of Janet
Allardes, who seems to have been his first cousin : but the date of his
succession and his father's death seems uncertain : I think it was in 1499.
A Charter granted to Alex. Irvine and his wife, Joneta Allardes, by his
father, Alex. Irvine, of the lands of Forglen, was confirmed by a Charter
from the Abbot of Arbroath 10th Sept., 1499, at Aberdeen, and again by
the Abbot and monks on 6th July, 1500, at Arbroath; which seems to
point to a succession in 1499, though the Abbot may have confirmed by
Charter a grant made by the father to the son, while the father was still
alive, and the latter may have lived till 1527. This son, however, Sir Alex.,
the husband of Janet Allardes, got a Charter under the Great Seal of Drum
and other lands in 1 506, and must have lived till after the Battle of Pinkie
(1547), at which his eldest son was killed, and apparently till 1554, for there
is a Charter under the Great Seal dated that year in favour of Alex. Irvine
of Drum, grandson and heir-apparent of Alex. Irvine of Drum, on the
resignation of his grandfather : this grandson being the husband of Lady
Elizabeth Keith. See below.
Page 66 — Appendix H — Forglen appears to have belonged to the
Abbey of Arbroath, who perhaps at first granted to the Laird of Drum a
lease of the lands, and subsequently granted them in fee, as appears to have
been done in the case of the kirklands and fishings of Kilmorack, in
Inverness-shire, in the 16th century.
Page 6j, under year 1487 — Perhaps this son was Alex. Irvine of
Strathdee.