Grampian Club > Memorials of the Strachans, baronets of Thornton, Kincardineshire, and of the family of Wise of Hillbank, formerly Wyse of Lunan, in the County of Forfar

lo j\Ic})i07'ials of the Faiiiilics of StracJian and JFzse.
ship being unstated. Eanulpus was succeeded by John,
his son. This person, in the year 1278, conveyed to the
abbot and monks of Dunfermline the hinds of Beth
Waldef, in the following terms :—
"Omnibus hoc scriptum visuris vel audituris, Johannes
de Strathechyn filius et heres quondam domini Ranulphi
de Strathechyn salutem in domino ; noveritis universitas
vestra, me die Sabati proxima post festum sancti Dunstani
archiepiscopi in mense Maio anno Gracie 1298, apud
castrum puellarum de Edinburgh, in camera domini
regis," etc.
The charter j^roceeds to relate the resignation of
Beth Waldef into the hands of the King.
About this period, the male line of the House seems
to have failed, for the territory of Strachan was conveyed
by marriage to Sir Alexander Frazer, Thane of Cowie,
chamberlain to King Robert the Bruce. This knight was
twice married. His first or second wife was the sister of
the King. In 1310, he received a royal charter " de
omnibus et singulis terris de Strachethyne de Essely et
Achenerooks, faciendo nobis et heredibus nostris dictus
Alexander et heredes sui, forinsecum servitium, quantum
pertinet ad predictam baroniam."