McMILLAN, Annabella ⁴

Annabella married.

Annabella next married before 31 May 1556.¹

  Marriage Notes:

"William Lundie died shortly after the marriage, and she (Helen Carnegie) was married, secondly, to Robert Turing of Foveran. She received, on 28 July 1580, a Crown confirmation of a charter of the lands of Blackhillock in liferent, granted by her husband in 1569. He is described in the confirmation as 'quondam Robertus de Foverne."

from Scots Peerage (vol 8) ²

Annabella next married Sarah MAXWELL, daughter of Thomas MAXWELL and Margaret QUIGLEY.^{2 3} (Sarah MAXWELL was born on 25 Jun 1883 in Bellshill, Lanarkshire, Scotland.)

  Marriage Notes:

"9. Helen, married to William Lundie of Benholm .... and she was married, secondly, to Robert Turing of Foveran .... She was married, thirdly, to John Gordon of Glenbucket."

from Scots Peerage (vol 8)




"On the property of Easter Bucket, Gordon - who appears to have been in affluent circumstances - erected, in 1590, the strong castle of Glenbucket. On the lintel stone of the door he caused his own name with that of his second wife to be inscribed. Only the following words and letters are now legible -

. . . . NE . HELEN . CARNEG AR. . . .EMANIS . BOT

At the time, however (1845-52), that Mr R. W. Billings made his sketch of the castle for his Baronial and Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Scotland, the whole inscription was intact

- IOHN . GORDONS . HELEN CARNEGIE: 1590. NO . THING . ON . EARTH . REMANIS . BOT . FAIME.

Mr Billings in his description remarks that the word 'faime' in this case 'is not intended to mean celebrity but the humbler attribute of good repute.'

The castle occupies an elevated and picturesque situation on a declivity of Ben Newe. It commands the passage up Glendon, as also the comparatively narrow inlet to Glenbucket. Messrs Macgibbon and Ross (Castellated and Domestic Architecture of Scotland) describe it as a fine specimen of the house or castle with square towers at diagonally opposite angles ....

Helen Carnegie was the widow of Turing of Foveran, and John Gordon having purchased the estate of Benholm, she is designed in the preceding extract as 'the Ladyy Benum and Lady Foveran'."

from Epitaphs and Inscriptions ^{2 3}