Memorials of the Browns of Fordell, Finmount and Vicarsgrange

BROWN OF FINMOUNT. 53
4. John of Vicarsgrange, in which he succeeded his nephew as
already stated, married Christian Hamilton, and died 15th
November 1678. They had issue —
John, baptized 5th November 1667, died before his father.
Isabel, baptized 20th October 1669, died before her father.
Margaret, born 19th August, and baptized September 1670.
She and her sisters, Christian and Katherine, all
unmarried, were served heirs-portioners special to their
father in the Kirklands of the vicarage of Kinghorn
Easter, with the glebe and manse, 13th March 1694,
and heirs-portioners general to their mother, 31st
March 1704.
Katherine, co-heiress of Vicarsgrange.
Christian, baptized 26th November 1672, co-heiress of
Vicarsgrange.
5. Alexander is a witness in May 1638 to a deed a,t Finmount ;
was dead June 1642, apparently without issue.
6. George (Mr.) alive 1642, resident at Balbirnie in 1669.
4. Lilias.
5. Margaret, married, in 1646, Thomas Alexander of Skeddoway, in
the parish of Dysart, county Fife, representative of a family
seated there from the middle of the fifteenth century, and
bearing for arms, parted per pale argent and azure a cheveron,
and in base a crescent counterchanged. Lamont mentions her
death : " 1654, Agust 16, Margret Broune, Thomas Alexander
of Skedowey in Fyfe, his third lady, depairted out of this
life at Skedowey, within some hours after she was brought
to bed of a son. She was interred at Kingglassy the 1 7 of
Agust."
The laird of Finmount died in October 1639, and his widow in Sep-
tember 1667. " The old Lady Finmont in Fyffe, being about 78 yeirs of
age, depairted owt of this life att Finmont, and was interred att the
church of Kinglassie, the 13 of Sept. 1667, in the day tyme." 1
1 Lamont's Diary.