Series 1 > Book of record -- a diary written by Patrick, First Earl of Strathmore, and other documents relating to Glamis Castle, 1684-1689

126
GLAMIS PAPERS
Ballindean referred to in the text. He died in 1686, and his
next brother, James, succeeded him, but only kept the estate
for one year. The third brother, George Fotheringham, was
served heir on 31st August 1687. The estate of Ballindean
came afterwards into the possession of the Wedderbums of
Blackness, and now gives the title to Sir William Wedderburn,
Bart., of Ballindean.
30 Auchterlownie of Guynd. Page 14.
John Ochterlony, who was Collector of Supply for the Shire
of Forfar, was the representative of the ancient family of
Ochterlony of that Ilk. He succeeded his father on 12th
April 1676, and was Commissioner of Supply for Forfarshire
from 1678 till 1690. In literature he is known from the
‘ Account of the Shyre of Forfar,’ which he wrote for Sir Robert
Sibbald of Kipps, and which is now amongst the Macfarlane
Manuscripts in the Advocates’ Library, Edinburgh. In 1689,
when William and Mary issued the order for new elections of
magistrates in all the burghs of Scotland, John Ochterlony
was appointed to superintend the election in Montrose. In
his own account of his paternal mansion he claims to be ‘ the
lineal successor, chief, and representative of the ancient familie
of Ouchterlony of that Ilk.’ In concluding his ‘ Account,’ he
thus refers to his ancestors :—41 will add no more for our
Familie of Ouchterlony of that Ilk but what I have said in the
generall description of some places we have and had concern
in, but that I have ane accompt of the marriages of the Familie
these fifteen generations, viz.—1st, Stewart of Rosyth, in Fyffe ;
2d, Maull of Panmure ; 3d, Ogilvy of Lentrathene, predecessor
to the Lords of Ogilvy; 4th, Gray, of the Lord Gray; 5th,
Drummond of Stobhall, now Perth ; 6th, Keith, Lord Mari-
shall; 7th, Lyon, Lord Glames ; 8th, Cunninghame of Barnes;
9th, Stewart of Innermeath ; 10th, Olyphant, of the Lord
Olyphant; 11th, Scrimgeour of Dudope; 12th, Beatoun of
Westhall; 13th, Peirsone of Lochlands ; 14th, Carnegy of
Newgait; 15th, Maull, cousine-germane to the deceist Patrick,
Earl of Panmure. All these are daughters of the above written
families. The familie is very ancient, and very great, having