History of the Fife Pitcairns

470 THE FIFE PITCAIRNS.
Brougham ; James Cunningham, Esq., 50 Queen Street ; Alex.
James Russell, C.S., Shandwick Place; John Richardson of The
Kirklands ; the Misses Robertson Macdonald, &c.
The property of the interesting tomb in question, the most
interesting by far of any rural monument in this county, belongs
to the estate of Dreghorn. 1
When David Pitcairn died, Patrick, his eldest son,
succeeded to Dreghorn on the 6th of April 1709. He is
mentioned in the Retours, 2 vol. i., as being heir special in
Dreghorn, and several sums of money secured thereon.
His sister, Janet, married, firstly, William Walwood of
Touch, and had a son, Henry Walwood (or Welwood) of
Touch. She married, secondly, George Home of Kello, who
bought Dreghorn from his brother-in-law, Patrick Pitcairn
of Dreghorn, in 1715. On April 1, 1719, there was a
Charter by the Provost and Bailies of Edinburgh to George Home
of Kello and Janet Pitcairn his spouse, of a tenement in the City
of Edinburgh, which belonged before to various persons in succes-
sion, and among others, to William Walwood of Touch and Janet
Pitcairn, then his spouse, by a decree of the Lords of Session,
dated 23rd November 1705, at the instance of Henry Walwood,
heir of the said late William Walwood and others, against Mr David
Pitcairn of Dreghorn, Mary Anderson his spouse, Patrick Pitcairn,
younger of Dreghorn, and the said Janet Pitcairn, then widow of
William Walwood, &c. 3
Janet Pitcairn and her husband, Mr Home, settled at
Dreghorn, and had two children, — one son, William, and
a daughter, Mary or Margaret, who became the wife of
Patrick, first Viscount Garnock, of the Lindsay family.
Their son George became twenty-first Earl of Crawford.
Mr Home's children had a tutor called David Malloch or
Mallet, who was with them for some years at Dreghorn. In
1723 he wrote a pretty and well-known ballad at Dreghorn
called " William and Margaret."
The next owner of Dreghorn Castle was Robert Dal-
rymple, W.S., of Arnsfield, Dumfriesshire. He owned it
from 1735 to 1754. His daughter, Elizabeth, married Major
John Pitcairn, a cadet of the Pitcairns of Forthar.
1 Edinburgh Courant, July 2, 1864. 2 Canon Pitcairn's papers.
8 Laing Charters, No. 1591, box 41.