New Spalding Club > Thanage of Fermartyn including the district commonly called Formartine

432 Tlie Tlianage of Feniiartyn.
Scotland in 1742. He executed an entail of the various estates in 1784, which was
recorded in the register of entails, 13 November, 1789. He married, 25 December,
1768, Margaret, only child of William Duff of Braco, widow of Patrick Duff of Culter
and Premnay. This lady possessed the estate of Eden, and was known as Mrs. Udny
Duff. She claimed the great estates of her father, William Duff of Braco, on the plea
that the entail was invalid, but the suit was compromised in 1724, she receiving ;^io,ooo
in addition to _;^3ooo given by her father, William Duff.' Mrs. Udny Duff left a
bursary to the University of Aberdeen, and the bulk of her remaining means to her
cousin, James, Earl of Fife.
This Alexander Udny effected great improvements on the estate of Udny. The
avenues, commonly called the " walks of Udny," were laid out by him, which still re-
main, though the inner rows of trees have long ago been cut down. He had a plan for
irrigating the meadows, the remains of the works for which may still be seen in the mill-
dam of the mill of Udny. Alexander Udny, commonly called " Commissioner Udny,"
d. s. p. in 1789, and was succeeded by his nephew,
XV. William Fraser Udny of Udny and Inverallochy.
He was served heir-general to his uncle, 15 January, 1790, and heir of entail and
provision general of his uncle, 2 December, 1789."
He died 13 December, 1792, when the succession opened to the Auchterellon
branch. We now return to Robert Udny of Auchterellon (No. X. above), the second
son of John Udny of Udny, Belhelvie, and the Newburgh.
He had a crown charter of Auchterellon, 22 July, 1661. He matriculated his arms
as second son of Udny with a crescent for difference. He married Elizabeth, only
daughter of Colonel John Fullerton of Dudwick, and died in January, 1708, having had
three sons : —
I. Alexander, d. s. p., 17 12.
n. John, who, on March i, 1689, was served heir of entail and provision to
his grandfather. Colonel Fullerton, in the barony of Dudwick, Birness, &c.
In 1 71 2, he was served heir general of his father in Auchterellon, which
he sold. He executed a deed of entail of Dudwick in 1729 ; married
Mary, daughter of Sir David Falconer of Newton, Lord President of the
Court of Session, sister of David, fifth Lord Falconer of Halkerton,^ and
had issue : — ■
\. John Fullerton of Dudwick, out in 1 745 ; was especially exempted
from the general amnesty, and it is said travelled the country
disguised as a packman. He married Mary, daughter of Sir
John Guthrie of King-Edward, Bart., d. s. p., 1 April, 1768.
1 Baird's Duff Pedigree. 3 Stodart in Genealogist, 1877.
2 Decen. Retours, 1790, i7Sg.