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abercrombie
COMPLETE PEERAGE
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£53,000 a year. Principal Seats.—Baronscourt, near Newtown Stewart, Co. Tyrone, and Duddingston House, co. Edinburgh. |
ABERCROMBIE
| BARONY [S.] I. 1647 |
1. Sir James Sandilands,[1] of Abercrombie, otherwise St. Monance, co. Fife, s. and h. of Sir James S., the younger (who d. v.p.), by Agnes[2], 2nd da. of David (Carnegie), 1st Earl of Southesk [S.], suc. his grandfather, Sir James Sandilands, the elder, in Oct. 1644, and, being then of full age, was served heir to him, 5 and 16 July 1645. On 10 July 1646 he obtained a charter of the Barony of Abercrombie, &c., and by patent, dat. at Carisbroke Castle, 12 Dec. 1647, he was cr. LORD OF ABERCROMBIE [S.].[3] In five years' time, "being a riotous youth"[4], he had wasted all his property, and, having in 1649 sold his Castle of Newark and other estates, co. Fife, for 67,000 marks, to Lieut. Gen. David Leslie, he embarked at Kirkcaldy, in 1650, for the Continent, whence he returned in 1658. He m., 1stly, (contract 4 Aug. 1643) Jean Crichton,[5] da. of Patrick Lichtoun, of Dunninald, co. Forfar. He m., 2ndly, in 1663, Christian Fletcher, widow of James Grainger, Minister of Kinneff (who d. between 14 Jan. and 20 May 1663). He was living 27 Feb. 1666/7. His widow was living 21 Aug. 1686.[6] |
| II. 1670? to 1681 | 2. James (Sandilands), Lord Abercrombie [S.], only s. and h. by 1st wife, b. 1645, but owing to his father's misconduct, not bap. till 30 Apr. 1650, at Abercrombie. He d. unm. in poverty and obscurity at Kinneff, co. Fife,[7] in 1681, when the peerage became extinct.[8] |
- ↑ This account of the family, which differs very much from that given in Wood's Douglas, is taken from the History of the Carnegies, Earls of Southesk, by [Sir] W. Fraser. Edinburgh, 2 vols, 4to, 1867.
- ↑ Her marriage contract, with £10,000 "tocher," is dat. Aug. 1610.
- ↑ To him and the heirs male of his body, and that they "indignitabuntur et nominabuntur Domini de Abercrombie omni tempore futuro." In the return of the Lords of Session [S.], 12 June 1739, it is stated that "it does not appear that either the patentee, or any successor of his in that right, ever sat or voted in Parl."—See Robertson, pp. 214 and 218.
- ↑ See Lamont.
- ↑ A letter from her husband was read 25 Sep. 1649 at the Provincial Synod of Fife, withdrawing a charge against her of incontinence. He confessed to drunkenness, keeping bad company, etc. (with which he had been charged), and was publicly censured by the Presbytery for having scandalised his wife. V.G.
- ↑ It was she who "carried away the crown of Scotland in her lap, when Dunnottar Castle was about to be surrendered to the English." (Scots Peerage). For this service she had a grant from the Estates, in 1661, of 1000 marks, i.e. £100. V.G.
- ↑ See Wood's East Neuk of Fife.
- ↑ "Lord Abercrombie" indeed appears on the Union Roll [S.], 1 May 1707,
