Memorials of the Browns of Fordell, Finmount and Vicarsgrange

BROWN OF FOEDELL. 19
from nothing, by trading to the town of Dantzick. He was descended
from Scotland, lived at Dantzick, came over into England, went thence
into Holland, and after returned to Dantzick again. His son lives in the
Pell Mell."
Sir William's sister married a merchant in Dantzic of the name of
Kisson, and had a daughter, Janet, who, in 1713, married John Nicholson,
shoemaker in Dundee, son of a merchant in Dantzic.
His son Sir John, resident in Pall Mall, sold a house on Kew Green
to Queen Caroline. He obtained another extract of arms from the Lyon
Register 29th August 1727.
His son and successor lived and died in Poland, and the family is
understood to be extinct in the male line.
The other daughters of John Brown of Fordell are —
2. Nicholas, married Patrick Grserne of Inchbrakie, county Perth,
brother of George, Bishop of Orkney, and great-grandson of the
first Earl of Montrose. The present Patrick James Frederick
Grasme of Inchbrakie and Aberuthven, the lineal descendant
of this marriage, is understood, failing descendants of the
present Duke of Montrose, to be heir to the earldom.
3. Isabel, married, 1st July 1598, with a tocher of 5000 merks, Sir
Patrick Murray, then of Geanies, county Ross, afterwards of
Byn and Drumcairn, county Perth, a member of the Privy
Council, who died 1604. He was an officer in the bodyguard
of James the Sixth, brother of David, first Viscount Stormont,
younger son of Sir Andrew Murray of Arngask and Balvaird,
and grandson maternally of William, second Earl of Montrose.
Of this marriage was born one child, Catherine, who died
young.
Isabel survived her husband, and married secondly Sir
George Erskine of Innerteil, county Fife, the alchemist, a
Senator of the College of Justice 1617-1646, brother of the
first Earl of Kellie. She died in October 1639. They had
two daughters and co-heirs —