Series 1 > Miscellany of the Scottish History Society (First volume)

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dyed at falkland ye 20 oct. ; Vm. Paton, skipper in Alloa, his
wyfe mary Erskine dyd 6 novr.
Earle of Kincardine dyed 10 novr. ;1 Jo11 Fergus in Resel-
loch dyed 14 novr; Jo11 Reid, Clackm., servt., dyd 24 novr.
1706. Tillibodys 2 2d daughter dyd 11 Jar.; Ms. Elphing-
ston in Craighead dyed 12 Jar. ; Ro*. Bruce in Linmiln, his
relict dyd 19 Jar. ; Vm. Clerk daughter in perkmiln dyd
21 Jar.; patrick nuccoll in birkhillend dyd 6 febr. ; Mary
Lindsay, Jo11 bachops wyfe, my cuss, german, dyed 17 febr.
our mukell corn kill was brunt wl 7 bols of our oats 25 febr.
The Laird of Stramree, Rob Douglass, neir Leslie, my cussing,
dyd ye begining Apr; Bay lie Jervey in Sterling dyd sudenly
by a fall fra his horse in Torwood; Mr. Robin, minister at
Ava,3 his wyfe dyed in childbirth 14 Apr. ; Rot. Moriss in
Bowhouse his daughter dyd 23 Apr. ; provost Vatson of
dumbartoun ; Lady M8. Kathrin Bruce, aged 81 years, dyed
at Clackm. 7 may 1706. The Laird of Sawchie dyd at Stling
ye 13 may, and was buried in his own Isle at Clackmanan.
My daughter Kathrin brought furth her 4 child ye 13 may be
on in ye morning, and was christind francis in Alloa church
17 may. My cussing Margaret May, relict of Ja. Morisone,
merd in pearth, dyed 6 June; John Sawers in Alloa dyed
8 July; Jon Hadden of Myrtown dyd 21 July; Earle of
Hoom dyed 22 July at Edr.4
Vln. Tait, carpentar in Alloa, dyd 20 Sepr. My Lady
Elphinston5 dyd 6 oct. ; John dempterston, Townhead in
Alloa, dyed 12 oct. My Lady Mar brought furth hir 2d
son, my Lord Erskine, at Edr. ye 3d novr. Sunday, betwixt
10 and 11 in ye day, and immediatly christned Thomas.6
John Anderson, vrighter, dyd at Alloa ye 21 der. ; The Laird
of Herbershire7 dyd at Powhouse 22 der.
1 Alexander Bruce, third Earl of Kincardine, died unmarried, November
1705.—Sharpe’s Peerage. 2 See above, 29th June 1699.
3 Henry Robin.—Scott’s Fasti. 1 Charles, sixth Earl of Home.
5" Anne Burnet, daughter of Alexander Burnet, Archbishop of Glasgow,
married, first, Alexander, seventh Lord Elphinstone, but had no issue by him ;
she married, second, Patrick, third Lord Elibank, and was mother of Alexander,
fourth Lord Elibank.
6 Thomas, Lord Erskine, son of John, sixth Earl of Mar, and Lady Margaret
Hay, was deprived of the family titles by his father’s attainder.
7 George Stirling of Herbertshire.
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1705