History of the family of Seton during eight centuries > Volume 2

ARMORIAL BEARINGS
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Drummond of Corskelpy, 1 of the family of Perth,' by whom he had three ;
daughters : —
1. Margaret, married to George
Seton, fourth Baron of Cariston (see No.
xvi. supra).
2. , married to Major Keith,
Sheriff of the Mearns. James Keith of
Aforsk was Sheriff-depute of Kincardine
(or Mearns) in 1704.
3. Grissell, married to James Inglis,
' in Edinburgh,' who was born in 1630.
The marriage appears to have taken
place at Tranent in 1655 ; and two years
afterwards (1657) a daughter, Isabel Inglis,
was born in Seton Palace, who married
Alexander Reid, goldsmith in Edinburgh.
Their great-grandson and representative
was Charles- William Reid of the Audit
Office, Somerset House, who married
Catharine- Sophia, daughter and co-heiress of Benjamin Duncombe of
Penlyne Castle, Jamaica, by whom he had a daughter,
Ellen-Elizabeth Reid of Oxmantoun Hill, co. Dublin, now residing
at Leyton, Essex, who, in 1867, assumed the surname of Seton, as is
duly set forth in a blazon of her arms in the Lyon Register. In a com-
paratively recent issue of Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, we find the
following statement under ' Eglinton ' : — ' Thomas (Sir), ancestor of the
Setons of Olivestob, now represented by Miss Reid-Seton of Leyton,
Essex.' The author of this work claims to be the representative of Sir
Thomas Seton of Olivestob, as the direct descendant of Margaret, Sir
Thomas's eldest daughter.
It is supposed that Olivestob was purchased from the Setons by John
Hamilton of Muirhouse, in the parish of Cramond, who is said to have
resided at Olivestob in the year 1624. 3
Armorial Bearings.
No special arms appear to have been borne by Sir Thomas Seton of
Olivestob, who probably carried the coat of Winton with the mark
of difference (a martlet) pertaining to the fourth son.
1 The first Drummond of Corskelpy appears
to have been Thomas, fourth son of Malcolm
Drummond of Deanston, who was great-grand-
son of Sir Malcolm Drummond, ' eleventh chiefe
of the Familie.'
'Som thinks these of this sirname to have
been Campbell, and to be descended of one
Duncan, called Dromock, because he was the
first cam over the cairn Drum upon which are
three cairns or hills of stone betwixt Argyle and
Pearthes shyres, and these say that the barrs wav£
(of the Drummond coat) are these three hills ;
but the more generall tradition is that they
cam from Hungary w 4 Q. MargV — Sir George
Mackenzie's Account of Scottish Families — MS.
12,464, British Musenm.
2 In the MS. account of the Setons of Caris-
ton already referred to, a fourth daughter of
Sir Thomas Seton is said to have married Gray
of Skibo.
3 An interesting account of the Hamiltons of
Olivestob, by the Rev. Arthur Wentworth
Hamilton Eaton, B.A., was privately printed at
New York in 1893.