History of the Fife Pitcairns

70 THE FIFE PITCAIRNS.
grandfather of Barbara Pitcairn, so probably the relationship
ought to have been stated as 5th and 4th, not 4th and 4th.
In 1552, 22nd Oct., Robert Pitcairn, brother to Barbara,
Lady Murray, Master William Murray, Treasurer of Dub-
layn, and Majestro John Petcairn of Forthar, signed a
deed. In folio 56, Cartulary of Dunfermline, there is a
charter confirming the Lord of Tullibardine, jun., in the
lands of Limekilns ; but later on, in folio 280, there is a
charter stating that Majestro John Pitcairn got the lands
of Limekilns and Morphiesfold ; but it does not state how
they came into John Pitcairn's hands.
Extracts from the deeds are as follows : —
Dunfermling, 22 October 1552. Deed witnesses: "Testibus
Roberto Petcarne, Mgro Willmo Murray thesaurio de Dublayn,
&c. Mgro Jone Petecarne, &c." 1
Carta confirmationis domini de Tullibardin junioris de terris
de Lymkillis et allis. 2
Carta Magistro Joannis pitcairne terrarum de lymkill et
morpheisfauld. 3
Carta Willielmj Murray, the lands "de Stonehous, Moyhous, et
Orrock." 4
Assedatio Gulielmj Murray et barbare pitcarne de terris de
Blairnebothy. 5
Sir William Murray 6 and Barbara Pitcairn his wife got the lands
of Blairnebothy from her brother, Robert Pitcairn, as a marriage
portion, and from her other brothers, John and Henry, under a
charter by Queen Mary to William Murray of Letterbanachty and
Barbara Pitcairn his spouse, " of the West Shadow quarter of the
lands of Drumphingalle, in the Stewartry of Strathearn, which were
resigned by John and Henry, sons of David Pitcairn of Forthar, in
favour of the said William, dated at Edinburgh, 1564, 4th of
March." 7
The last we hear about them is in a deed dated at
Edinburgh, 1st November 1573, when William Murray and
Barbara Pitcairn bought back Pitcairns, Perthshire, from Lord
Ruthven ; and in 1580, 14th January, they had a charter of South
Kinkell in Perthshire. 8
1 Register of Dunfermline. 2 Ibid., fol. 56.
3 Ibid., fol. 280. 4 Ibid.
5 Ibid., fol. 27. 6 Reg. Mag. Sig., lib. xxxiii. No. 195.
7 Ibid., lib. xxxii. No. 424. s Ibid., lib. xxxiv. No. 136.