History of the Fife Pitcairns

THE LINDSAYS OF THE BYRES. 33
second Lord Cranston. Lord Lindsay died 5th November
1601.
The Byres line of the Lindsays was broken in 1808, on
the death of George, twenty-second Earl of Crawford, who
was great-grandson of a Janet Pitcairn of Dreghorn.
The Pitcairn connections with the House of Lindsay are
as follows : —
Patrick, fourth Lord Lindsay of the Byres, married, be-
fore 1480, Isabella, daughter of Henry Pitcarne of Pit-
carne and Forthar, descended from John de Pitcarne,
who had a grant of the lands of Innernethy from Sir
Hugh de Abernethy in 1250. The Lindsays were heirs
of Sir Hugh, a Lindsay having married an heiress, daughter
of Alexander de Abernethy, and granddaughter of Sir
Hugh.
" Patrick, Lord Lindsay, and his wife Isabella Pitcarne
were granted by John, third Lord Lindsay, the lands of
Byres on the 28th Oct. 1497, which charter was con-
firmed in the Register of the Great Seal, Dec. 1508. 1
John also gave them other lands, 29th Sept. 1497. They
had three sons.
" 1. Their eldest son, Sir John Lindsay of Pitcruvie,
married, 1498, Elizabeth Lundey, but he did not succeed
to the title, having died before his father, in 1525.
"2. Sir William, their second son, married Isabel Logan.
He was living in 1539. Sir William was called ' of Piot-
stone,' and was the ancestor of the Lindsays of Piotstone
and Wormistone."
After the death of the eighth Earl of Lindsay (seven-
teenth Lord Lindsay of the Byres) the title devolved upon
the descendant of Sir William Lindsay of Pyetstone or
Piotstone, Sir Henry Bethune Lindsay. He succeeded
as ninth Earl of Lindsay and eighteenth Lord Lindsay
of the Byres.
3. Patrick's third son was David of Kirkforthar, who
was killed at Flodden Field 1513, and left no children.
Lord Patrick also had Isabel, who married Sir William
1 Communicated by Mr W. Lindsay, K.C.
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