Genealogy of the families of Douglas of Mulderg and Robertson of Kindeace

THE DOUGLASSES OF MULDERG.
The exact date at which the Douglasses settled in Ross-shire
cannot now with accuracy be ascertained. But the traditions of
the family uniformly assert that they came from Lanarkshire
to the North about the time of the Reformation.
It appears from reliable evidence that they were located
about the Abbey of Fearn, in Easter Ross, at the latter part of
the sixteenth century, and possessed landed property in the
seventeenth and early part of the eighteenth century, in the
parishes of Fearn and of Kiltearn.
In the Valuation Roll, 1644, of the Sheriffdom of Inverness,
including Ross, Hector Douglas I. of Mulderg is styled "of
Mulderg;" his rental in Fearn parish is marked £1540 Scots, and
in Kiltearn parish £533 6s 8d Scots. In 1646 he was one of
those selected to make a loan, his name and the amount appear-
ing in a list discerned at Aberdeen thus — ■" Hector Douglas,
Elder of Mulderg, £1333 6s 8d Scots."
Hector Douglas IV. of Mulderg was appointed one of the
Commissioners of Supply for the Sheriffdom of Ross in 1661.
In 1662 he was fined £2400 for non-conformity to Scottish
Episcopacy, the highest fine being that of Mackenzie, Kilcoy, .
£6000, who is said to have been a pious man. The second
largest was that of the excellent Sir Robert Munro, Baronet of
Fowlis, £3600. The third highest was that of Hector Douglas,
Mulderg. He was in good company, for Wodrow, the historian,
testifies relative to those who were fined, "that so far as he
could learn anything about them, generally speaking, they were
persons of the best morals and most shining piety in the places
where they lived, and chargeable with nothing but being Pres-