Memorials of the Browns of Fordell, Finmount and Vicarsgrange

20 HISTORY OF THE FAMILY OF
1. Anne Erskine, married John, Lord Melville, and was
mother of the first Earl of Melville, whose descendant
is the present Earl of Leven and Melville.
2. Margaret Erskine, married, first, Sir John Mackenzie of
Tarbat, county Cromartie, Baronet, and was mother
of George, first Earl of Cromartie, Lord Justice-
General, Lord Clerk Register, and Secretary of State,
whose descendant is the present Duchess of Suther-
land, Countess of Cromartie in her own right ;
secondly, Sir James Foulis of Colinton, county Edin-
burgh, Baronet, a Senator of the College of Justice
1661, and Lord Justice-Clerk 1684-1688.
4. Elizabeth, married, in or before 1591, Andrew Lundin of Conland,
county Fife, a favourite of James the Sixth, whom he accom-
panied to England in 1603, and spent his estate at court.
He was third but second surviving son of Robert Lundin of
Balgonie, county Fife, and Margaret, his wife, daughter and
heir of Andrew Lumsden of Conland. Andrew Lundin of
Carrie, second son of Elizabeth Brown, was one of the tutors
of Antonia Brown, heiress of the Fordell family.
5. Janet Brown, married, in 1576, her cousin, Alexander Gaw of
Maw, and had issue. Her husband was dead in 1606, but she
survived him many years, and in 1623 is a consenting party
to a contract entered into by her grandson, John Gaw of Maw,
then a minor, with consent of David Brown of Fmmount,
Robert Bruce, fiar of Clackmannan, Robert Bruce of Blairhall,
and Mr. James Spence, minister of the Gospel at Tulliallan,
his curators, and Marjory Bruce, his mother. Janet Brown's
daughter, Elizabeth Gaw, married Robert Bruce of Kennet,
and was ancestress of the present Lord Balfour of Burleigh.
This laird added considerably to the family estate by the purchase,
in 1569, from his kinsman, Archibald Dundas of Fingask, of his half
of Balbarton ; he acquired the estate of Finmount, in the parish of
Kinglassie, county Fife, which he settled on David, son of his second