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

34 A/cmorials of the Faiuilies of Sh'ac/ian and IVisc.
1494-5, Adam Wise is mentioned as resident in or about
Stirling.
Of the Scottish branch of the Wyse family, one or
more scions established themselves in the northern counties,
where some members of the House joreferred Wiseman as
a surname.
During the reign of King Robert the Bruce, Gilbert
Wysman " obtained a royal charter to the lands of
Rothayis, Auchinbothe, Molben, Cardeny," etc., in the
county of Inverness.^ From David II., AYilliam Wise-
man received a charter to the barony of Dun, in the
county of Forfar.- This barony Avas alienated in the
subsequent reign, but the family continued to reside in the
counties of Forfcir and Kincardine, maintaining a position
of considerable opulence. A descendant of the name, who
retained the old fomily patronymic, appears in the middle
of the seventeenth century as " Alexander Wysse of Mains
of Thornton," in the parish of Laurencekirk, Kincardine-
shire.^ This gentleman had two sons. Alexander, the
younger son, married Catherine Beattie of Laurcncel^irk,
1 Robertson's Index, p. 2. = lliid. p. 33.
3 On tlie side of Stratlifield Hill, in Ford<nin parish, about two miles nortli nf
Tlitirnton, is a larni ealled Wysemorton, but wliich in old jiajicrs and in the
retoiirs is desi'^natcd Wiscinaiistuun.