New Spalding Club > Records of Invercauld MDXLVII - MDCCCXXVIII [1547- 1828]

112 RECORDS OF INVERCAULD.
In the Poll Book (1696) Ludowick Farquharson is styled of
Tullochcoy, and his valued rental is stated at fyo ; the rate on which
payable by his six tenants is 18 shillings.
Next follows, on the same property, his younger brother, who is
entered as already stated : — " James Farquharson of Tullochcoy, for
heretor & general poll — jT^a, O O."
He is said in the Poll Book to have a wife and three sons, James,
David, and John. His wife was Agnes Ochterlony, daughter of the
minister of Fordoun ; but there is some mistake about the name of the
third son, who in the family chart is called Alexander. He became a
surgeon and died abroad. David married a daughter of Thomas Gordon
of Crathie or Crathienard, and had issue.^
James ist of Tullochcoy was the fourth son of James ist of Inverey,
there having been two sons, William and John, by his first wife, Catherine
Gordon, a daughter of the laird of Abergeldie.
James of Tullochcoy was succeeded by his eldest son, also James,
who married May or Marjory Farquharson, daughter of Charles of
Monaltrie, and had with her a large family. This is the James mentioned
in the Charter of June 1755, and is also the "Old Tullochcoy" referred
to in the above Rent roll.
The description of the property given above was, as it indicates, with
the view of exposing it for sale. It was purchased by Mr. Farquharson
of Invercauld, who, as appears from other documents, held some bonds
on it. It is not quite clear what was the full amount paid for it. The
balance due at settlement — if it was not also the full price — is shown by
a bill granted by the purchaser to the disposer. As it casts some
interesting light on the manner of transacting such business at the period
to which it refers, it is here recorded in due form. It bears no stamp : —
I Their nephew, Thomas Gordon, born in 1 743, succeeded his father in the property of Crathie-
nard, but qualified for the ministrj'. He graduated at Marischal College and University in 1761 ;
was licensed by the Presbytery of Kincardine O'Neil as Missionary in Crathie (Braemar) 1767 ;
he removed afterwards to Glenniuick (Glengairn), and was presented to the Parish of Aboyne by
Charles, Earl of Aboyne, as colleague and successor, in April 17S4. He married Elizabeth
Michie, and died in 1826, in the 83rd year of his age and 42nd of his ministry in Aboyne, leaving
a son, John, who went to Jamaica, and several daughters.