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TURNBULL’S DIARY
up and scattered. From the Register of the Privy Council it
appears that about this time three of the name—Adam,
George, and Andrew—were fugitives, and found caution for
their good behaviour. It is not at all unlikely that the last
named came north, as other borderers did, and settled in the
west of Fife; for from the Register of the Great Seal we learn
that in 1598 a man of this name was a tenant at Wester
Gellet, on the estate of Broomhall, in the parish of Dunferm¬
line, the property of the celebrated Sir George Bruce of
Carnock, the ancestor of the Earls of Elgin and Kincardine.
And in 1601 either he or his son of the same name, who is
designated ‘Andrew Turnbull in Broomhall,’ found caution
in the sum of 500 merks not to injure a neighbour in the
adjacent parish of Torryburn (Reg. Priv. Coun.). A Patrick
Turnbull was treasurer of the Burgh of Dunfermline in 1610,1
and there were others of the same surname in the locality at
this period, all of whom belonged probably to the same
family.
The first of our author’s family, however, of whom we have
any certain knowledge, is his grandfather, George, who was,
in all probability, the son of this last-mentioned Andrew
Turnbull ‘ in Broomhall,’ and who is designated in the same
way when he was witness to his grandson George’s baptism
in 1657 (Edin. Bap. Reg.). His wife’s name was Helen
Grinlay, and they appear to have had two sons, Andrew—
whose birth is not entered in the Dunfermline Register, but
who is styled the ‘ son of George Turnbull in Broomhall,’ in
the entry of his son George’s baptism in that of Edinburgh,—
and George, who was born in February 1636.2
This George Turnbull, the author’s grandfather, appears to
have followed the occupation of a baxter or baker in Edin-
1 Henderson’s Annals of Dunfermline, p. 268.
2 The following is the entry of his baptism in the Dunfermline Baptismal
Register-.—‘1636. Feb. 16. George, son of George Turnbull in Broomhall, and
Helene Grinlay. Wit"- Mr. Jas. , Andrew Turnbull in Broomhall, David
Mitchell in Pitliver, Adame Turnbull in Getinge, and Patrick Grinlay.’