Memorials of the Browns of Fordell, Finmount and Vicarsgrange

BROWN OF FORDELL. 25
Craigcrook (by Dorothy Galloway, his first wife), who, in 1619, acquired
some lands from John Gaw of Maw, and appears at a later period as a
party or witness to several deeds of the families of Gaw and Brown.
Margaret was niece maternally of James Galloway, Lord Dunkeld,
Master of Requests to Charles the First. Her branch of the family
of Adamson gave birth to Countess of Southesk ; Patrick,
Archbishop of St. Andrews ; Janet, wife of Macgill of Ean-
keillor, a Senator of the College of Justice ; James, provost, and Henry,
a bailie of Perth, both of whom represented the burgh in Parliament.
They had —
3. William, who was served heir-general to his father, John Brown
of Fordell, 26th November 1634. On the 24th of the
following month he had a Crown charter of the lands of
Deuglie, Mill of Arngask, and the teinds of Deuglie. He
died without issue 3d June 1646, when these lands were
inherited by his elder brother.
2. Jane, married 17th November 1647 her cousin, Andrew Lundin
of Carrie, and had issue. Carie, in the parish of Abernethy,
was disponed by Sir John Broune of Fordell in 1650 to this
Andrew, then designed "of Provostmains."
John Brown died in June 1631, and his wife, surviving him, is
mentioned in charters granted to her son and stepson. He left the
estate heavily encumbered, as shown by an agreement entered into in
1631 by the relatives of his son and heir to aid his children.
John Brown of Fordell was one of the heritors of the parish of
Forgandenny, who reported in 1627 to His Majesty's Commissioners
for the Plantation of Kirks, etc. : —
" Fordill and Blairstruo lyis four myllis large fra the said Kirk " of
Forgandenny, and within a mile and half of the Kirk of Arngask, " quhilk
Kirk is lykwayis unplantit."
John Brown, being tacksman of the teinds of Wester Dunbullis.
is thus referred to —
" The landis of Fordill and Blairstrowie with the pendicles the greatest
pairt thairof lies bene and is labourit in manseing estimat to pay com-
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