INNES, William of Crombie (Crommey) ^{1 2}

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  General Notes:

"William Innes of Crommey, eldest son of Sir James's second marriage, evidently received, a feu charter of the lands of Cromey to be held under his elder brother, Alexander Innes 13th of tha t ilk. Under the designation 'of Crommey,' he appears as witness to the Kilmalemnock Charter of 30 March 1499. On 8 January 1501, he is again styled 'Wilhelmo Innes de Crommey' when witnessing a sasine of Ogston. (Leuchars Charter-Chest.) In 1505 he as comorantis in Crommy, received a remission for seizing the goods of Gilbert Turtries and stealing 2 oxen from Thomas Geddes. (Privy Seal, 1134.)

It appears to have been eventually resolved to transfer Crommey to his half-brother, and it is possible that William subsequently became kindly tenant of St Andrews-Kirkton, anyhow a William Innes in St Andrews Kirkton was member of the assize which retoured Andrew Hay of Kilmalemnock 17 May 1513. (Familie of Innes, 93.)

William had a son who, as Barraldo Innes filio Wilhelmo Innes de Crommy, was witness 8 January 1501, to a sasine of Elizabeth Ogston, upon Ogston and Plewlands (Leuchars Charter Chest), and if the connection with St Andrews Kirkt n could be established, it would seem probable that this Berowald was father of Alexander Innes in St Andrews Kirkton who, along with Berowald his son, witnessed the Will of Lady Barbara Sinclair, wife of Alexander, 16th Laird of Innes in May 1575. The seal used by this William Innes of Crommey in 1499, displays a shield; Quarterly 1st and 4th, two boars' heads erased in pale; 2nd and 3rd, two stars in fess. (Macdonald, Scottish Armorial Seals, No. 1421.)"

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