Memorials of the Browns of Fordell, Finmount and Vicarsgrange

16 HISTORY OF THE FAMILY OF
Scott. The Balwearie arms are — argent, three lions' heads, erased gules,
armed and langued azure. According to a MS. birthbrief he had another
wife, a Halyburton, of the family of Dirleton. He had two sons, and
probably two daughters.
1. John.
2. James, living in 1602, when he is a witness to his brother's
will. In 1585 he was denounced rebel, and his escheat granted
to his brother, John of Fordell. On 4th July 1600 he had a
tack for life from the King of the annualrents of the Priory
of Restennoth, county Forfar, for which he had long been
factor. He had a son, George, witness, in 1602, to the will of
his uncle, John of Fordell.
1. Alison, married ante 1543 Alexander Gaw of Maw, county Fife.
She is a party to many deeds by her son and grandson, and
was alive in
2. Elizabeth, married, before 1550, John Ogilvy of Alyth.
Robert of Fordell married again , sister of William Schaw,
Provost of Abernethy, and had —
Margaret, who married John Spens of Condy, county Perth, and had
two daughters.
In 1515 he acquired the lands of Craignathro in Forfarshire, from
Elizabeth Shear, and had sasine on 15 th August.
X. John Brown, third of Fordell and first of Finmount, acted as one
of the curators of his nieces, Janet and Marion, daughters and heirs of
the late John Spens of Condie. He married, first, before 1554, Katherine,
a daughter of the family of Melville of Raith, county Fife, and widow
of Robert Quhite (Whyte) of Bannathill, Maw, and Easter Lumbenny,
county Fife — from whose brother and heir, John, descended the family
of Whyte-Melville of Bennochy and Strathkinness. She had the lands of
Balhabroun, in the barony of Easter Elcho, county Perth, and a part
of Alva, county Clackmannan, in liferent from her first husband, but
the latter was redeemed from her and her brother-in-law in 1555,
for 1000 merks, by Menteith of Kerse. By her, who had no children