Frotoft branch of the Orkney Traills

TRAILL.
family will not be dealt with at present, further than that
tradition says she was a cousin of the Earl of Cassiles, and
that is thought to be correct/ 1 '
Jean Kennedy was the first wife of George Traill, in
Westness, (he has been known as " George Traill, in West-
ness ") and from this marriage the Holland Branch/ 2 ' which
is the oldest Branch of the Orkney Traills, the Frotoft
Branch and the Tirlet Branch are descended. All the Tirlet
Traills are dead, but several of their descendants are alive,
among others, the Omonds. Robert Omond married Mary
Eliza Traill, youngest daughter of Thomas Stewart Traill,
of Tirlet, Professor of Medical Jurisprudence, Edinburgh,
he was the last Traill of Tirlet and died in 1862.
Isobel Craigie was the second wife of George Traill, in
Westness ; there was a tradition that she was the mother of
Marion Craigie, who married Thomas Traill (s > first of Holland,
if so, Craigie may not have been Isobel's maiden name, it has
also been stated lhat she was Marion Craigie's sister, if so,
she was a daughter of Magnus Craigie ; (probably the Craigies
were in Orkney before 1500) whoever she was, she changed
her name twice after George Traill left her a widow in 1634,
with thirteen children, and was quite capable of looking
after her own interest, and evidently preferred married life
to single blessedness. The Traills of Westove, Elsness and
Sabay, Ratter and Hobbister (formerly Quendal and Hob-
bister) and of Westness and Woodwick are the branches
which are descended from George Traill, in Westness, in the
(1) It has been suggested that Jean Kennedy was a near relation of
Hew, Master of Cassiles, and also that she was a near relative of Kennedy,
Laird of Bargany, who was killed about the end of the Sixteenth Century.
Possibly the Dalrymple documents may contain some information on the
subject.
( 2 ) If the old deeds and documents dating say back to 1500 and 1600
were examined, much interesting information would be obtained, and also
probably prove that the Holland Branch of the Traills was entitled to use
the supporters, and also show to what extent the Traills and Balfours were
related or connected previous to the two families being settled in Orkney.
(S) Known by the sobriquet of Germany Thomas.