Barons Reid-Robertson of Straloch

THE FAMILY OF STRALOCH. 3 1
ful youth, but was in the year 1700 enticed by
Lord Mungo Murray, son to the Marquis of
Athole, to go along with him in the expedi-
tion to Darien in America, where he and many
others of our friends and countrymen were
lost.
Margaret, the eldest daughter, was born in
Lair, in 1665, was well educated, and was a
pious, grave young woman, but died in the
flower of her youth.
Grissel died young. The only daughter that
lived to be a woman was Christian, born in
Dalcharinnich and afterwards married to
George Rattray of Dalridlan [or Dalrulzean],
who lived many years with her, and had full
plenty of the necessaries of this life, and is
lately dead. She bare to him Andrew,
David, Alexander, William, and Henry.
David and William are dead, and the other
three are yet unmarried. They had one
daughter, Katrine, married to Robert Robert-
son of Bleaton, who brought him sons and
daughters.
This John VIII., Robertson alias Reid of
Straloch, when married (as was said before),
was put in feu of the whole estate, but in
possession only of Lair and Cray. They lived
for the first year with the father, then a