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

FAMILY PAPERS : FINDLA MOR. 229
The events in the life of FiNDLA for which there is good authority,
are not numerous, but are of some importance. Born in, or about, the
year 1484, he married for his first wife a daughter of Stewart cf
Kincardine on Spey, and had with her a family, according to a
genealogical table preserved at Invercauld, of at least four sons, all of
whom were settled in the south country. He married for his second wife
Beatrix, daughter of George Garden of Banchory, and had by her the
five sons mentioned in the Genealogy. Burke confuses these two families
by erroneously stating that Beatrix Garden was his first wife, which she
could not have been, seeing, according to his own and the generally
received account, she married John Robertson of Lude after Findla's
death.
The date of this second marriage, has not been ascertained, nor is
any other circumstance in his life recorded till that which led to his
death at the battle of Pinkie in 1547, as already noticed in the Genealogy
(p. 6). According to the same account he was succeeded by his son,
William, who died without issue — date not recorded.
Robert I. succeeded his brother.
A relative, Donald Farquharson, styled of Tillygarmunth,' is the
first descendant of Findla Mor of whom we have any documentary
account. The paper regarding him is fully recorded in the " Records of
Aboyne,"//. ijg-iSi, and need not be inserted here. It is in substance
a mutual bond of maintenance between George, Earl of Huntiy, and
Donald Farquharson of Tillygarmunth, dated 14th October, 1559.
Tillygarmunth was then a small property near Finzean, in the parish
of Birse.
The events in Robert I. of Invercauld's life are briefly noticed in the
Genealogy. There are no family papers regarding them, nor any of that
period till the following : —
I Mr. C. F. Mackintosh says, on the authority of a bond entered into " at Invercauld the
last day of March in the year of God 1595," that Donald Farquharson of Tilligermont was brother
to John of Invercauld, and even ventures the assertion that he was his elder brother, for which he
gives no authority. That he was his brother is very probable, though his name as such does not
appear in any of the Genealogies — Minor Septs of Clan Chattan, p. i4g.