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CALENDAR OF FEARN
Elizabeth Rose (CC8/8/20, 5 August 1589). Elizabeth Rose held the
two-and-a-half bovates of Balkeith as part of her terce (PS1/73, 134r,
16 December 1602).
1614
264 The 29 1614 [sic] of October departitt Rore McCenze off Ardufalie
1614.
Son of Kenneth Mackenzie of Kintail (d. 1574). Brother of Katherine
Lady Balnagown (207). Uncle of Kenneth, Lord Kintail (245). Also
known as Roderick of Redcastle, he had a feu-ferme grant of the
kirklands of the chaplainry of Ardafail (Killernan par.) from sir David
Barchan, chaplain (PS1/55, 221v; Barchan was dead by 16 November
1569 [CC8/8/1, 341v-342v]). For a confused account of the family see
Mackenzie, Mackenzies, 536-43.
265 15 huius [December] 1614 obiit Donaldus Ros de Ballintraid.
Son of William of Priesthill/Easter Fearn (286), whom he predeceased.
Husband of Agnes Innes, one of the co-heiresses of Calrossie (see 262),
with whom he had a grant of Balintraid and Wester Polio (Kilmuir
Easter par.) from his father, 1601 (Macgill, nos. 196, 906 [two notices of
the same charter]). Recorded between 28 October 1595 (RD1/54,
154v-155r) and 27 May 1613 (GD297/226/8). He left no testament, the
procurator-fiscal being decerned executor-dative (CC19/1/1, 73v, 6
January 1615).
Donald Ross’s widow subsequently married William Ross of
Balkeith (331). She was summoned with him to the Ross consistory
court on 4July 1623 to hear an act of 6 February 1588 (by which her late
husband’s father, William of Priesthill, astricted himself and his tenants
to the milns of Meddat and Milton) transferred to George Munro of
Milton (GD305/1/76/107). She was still alive on 2 August 1639
(RS37/6, 223v-224v), and her new husband had valued rent of 400
merks in Kilmuir Easter parish in 1644 (Fraser-Mackintosh, 367).
Thomas Ross, servitor of Mr Adam Hepburn, son of her first husband,
apprised Easter Fearn from his cousin Hugh, son of Hugh Ross, 14
December 1637 (see 286; RMS, ix, 842).
1615
266 14 of Februar 1615 George Ros off Balnagoinn departitt at
Balnagoin and bureitt at Nig ye 8 off Marche.