Memorials of the Browns of Fordell, Finmount and Vicarsgrange

52 HISTORY OF THE FAMILY OF
Finniount in liferent, and his son, James, legitimately begotten
between him and his late wife, Margaret Murray, and the heirs
of his body in fee, of an annualrent out of the lands of Lundin,
granted in June preceding by John Lundin of that Ilk. James
was dead without issue 1641.
David Brown married, thirdly, before May 1611, Agnes, daughter
of Sir William Scott of Balwearie and Janet Lindsay of Dowhill, and by
her, who died 27th February 1614, had one daughter —
3. Agnes, who married, 28th December 1637, Mr. Gilbert Clark of
Pitteuchar, in the parish of Kinglassie, a younger son of Sir
Alexander Clark of Pittencrieff, by Mary Primrose, his wife,
who died in June 1653, leaving a large family by her. Mr.
Gilbert Clark was of the family of Clark of Balbirny, which
intermarried with Bruce, Lord Kinloss, Brodie of Lethen,
Alexander of Skeddoway, Ayton of Ayton, Bethune of
Balfour; his father, who acquired Pitteuchar in 1630, was
Lord Provost of Edinburgh, as was his grandfather, who also
represented the city in Parliament.
David Brown of Finmount had a Crown charter of confirmation,
30th August 1630, following a sasine, dated the 2d of that month, of an
annualrent out of the lands of Seafield, in the parish of Kinghorn, to him
and Agnes, the only daughter legitimately begotten between him and his
deceased wife, Agnes Scott. An annualrent out of the lands of Lundin
was also acquired by them in 1626, and confirmed in the Crown charter
of that year previously quoted. He married a fourth wife, Johanna-,
daughter of James Macgill of Rankeillour, in the parish of Collessie,
county Fife, son of Mr. James Macgill, Clerk of the Register, and Janet
Adamson, his wife. This lady was sister of Lilias Macgill, wife of her
step-son, Robert Brown of Finmount, and through her mother Jean,
daughter of Sir David Wemyss, was niece of Henry Wemyss, who
married her step-daughter, Catherine Brown.
By this lady, David Brown had five children, all named in a sasine,
dated 2d August 1630, to him and his said wife, of an annualrent out
of the lands of Seafield, on a charter by Sir George Erskine of Innerteil.