HAY, Francis 13th of Delgaty (nominally) 1
- Born: About 1614
- Died: 25 May 1676 1
Another name for Francis was HAY, Francis Baron of Delgaty.1
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General Notes:
"Francis, who succeeded to the 'reversion' of Delgaty, and so became 13th of Delgaty."
"Francis Hay of Delgaty, who succeeded nominally at least - as 13th Baron. He first appears as second son of Sir Alexander, in a deed consenting along with his mother, to Sir Alexander's charter of Teuchar 16 July 1632, in favour of Gilbert Hay, Sir Alexander's brother-german (Aberdeen Sas. VIII., 45). On 18th Feb. 1655 Dr David Hay, M.D., as assignee of John Hay, burgess of Aberdeen, charged Francis to enter heir to Sir William, his brother, and Sir Alexander, his father, and thereupon led an adjudication against the estate, on which the Doctor had sasine 22 August 1657 (Aberdeen Sas. XIX., 355). It is to be feared that Francis was never de facto laird, and he would seem to have lived abroad and died at Douai, 25 May 1676, his death being recorded as that of 'Francis Hay, Baron of Delgaty' (Rec. of Scots Colleges, New Spalding Club, p. 277). The succession - and, perhaps, right of reversion - thereupon seems to have passed to his cousin, William Hay, Bishop of Moray, already mentioned.
The efforts of the cadets of the house to save the estate seem to have proved beyond their owner, and soon afterwards - at anyrate in 1700 - it passed to John, 12th Earl of Erroll (A. & H. Tayler, Aberdeenshire Valuation Roll, 1667, p. 286), and by his sister the Countess it was bestowed on Alexander Falconer, he, who was born 1682, and admitted Advocate 23 Nov. 1705, is said to have 'assumed the name of Hay on succeeding to the estate of Delgaty' (Scots Peerage, V., 247), though Miss Tayler says the name and title was conferred on him by his wife. He married Mary, Countess of Erroll, but they had no issue. They still held Delgaty or 'used the title thereof' in 1722 (Trans. of Buchan Field Club, X., p. 226), but soon afterwards the barony of Delgaty passed from the family of Hay, its purchaser being Peter Garden, third son of the Laird of Troup, whose son, Francis Garden-Campbell of Delgaty, Troup, and Glenlyon, sold Delgaty to the Earl of Fife, and part of the estate, along with the old castle, eventually became the property of a younger branch of the house of Duff, the family of Grant-Duff of Delgaty. The portrait of Sir William Hay of Delgaty, the Cavalier, showing him as a fair, reddish-haired man, is in the possession of Miss Bruce, Great King Street,, Edinburgh."
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