BAILLIE, William 6th of Dunain, Provost of Inverness ^{1 2}

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William married Catherine MUNRO, daughter of Robert 'Mor' MUNRO 15th Baron of Foulis and Margaret OGILVY.^{1 2 3} (Catherine MUNRO was born about 1551.)

  Marriage Notes:

"By Margaret Ogilvie Robert (Munro) had

Catherine, who married William, second son of David Baille of Dunean, by his wife Margaret, daughter of Hugh Rose of Kilravock. William Baillie was Provost of Inverness. In 1591 he is met with as one of the witnesses to a charter. In the Parliament held at Edinburgh in 1581 he was Commissioner for the Burgh of Inverness. By Catherine Munro he had issue -

1, Alexander; 2, James; 3, John."

from Baillie of Dunain




"6. Catherine (Munro), who married William, second son of David Baillie of Dunean, by his wife Margaret, daughter of Hugh Rose of Kilravock. William Baillie was Provost of Inverness. In 1591 he is met with as one of the witnesses to a charter. In the Parliament held at Edinburgh in 1581 he was Commissioner for the Burgh of Inverness. By Catherine Munro he had issue - 1, Alexander; 2, James; 3, John. Alexander married Catherine, daughter of George Munro, VI. of Milntown, by whom he had at least two sons and a daughter"

from Munros of Fowlis




"6. William Baillie, who gets a Precept of Clare Constat from George, Earl of Huntly, with consent of his curators, dated Inverness, 10th January, 1577. One of the witnesses is described, 'Mr John Gordon, Rector of Petty'.

William Baillie, 6th of Dunain, was Provost of Inverness, and in 1583 he grants a Letter of Reversion, as son of umquhile David Baillie, Constable of Inverness, and Margaret Rose of Kilravock, his father and mother, and as heir of Conquest of umquhile Alexander Baillie, 5th of Dunain, his brother, in favour of George, Earl of Huntly, of the lands of Dunain Mor and Dunain Croy, on the narrative that his (William's) rights were of the nature of a wadset only to David Baillie, and that David and his wife gave their letter to that effect, dated 27th August, 1550.

Following upon this Deed of Reversion, matters were put upon a secure foundation, by George, Earl of Huntly, granting a new charter to William Baillie, of Dunain Mor and Dunain Croy, with their sheillings in the Caiploch, the lands of Tor-breok and Balrobert, with their sheillings in Killievorskie (really Coillie-mor-na-Skiach). Upon this charter Provost William Baillie was infeft. His sasine is dated 15th June, 1590, the witnesses being Alexander Gordon, Dunain's servant; Allan, mac Allister vie Iain dhu in Lagnalian; James Denoon, Dunam s servant; Donald dhu mac Conchie in Dunaincroy; Finlay mac Vurich mor; and Adam Dunbar, nottar.

Provost William Baillie married Katherine Munro, daughter of Munro of Milntown (see Note below), Ross. After Dunains death, she married John MacCallum mor Macpherson in Breackachie."

from electricscotland.com

Note:

This author mistakenly identifies the origins of the Catherine Munro of the older generation with the wife of the same name of the younger. William Baillie's wife was of the Foulis family of Munro, and his son Alexander's wife was of the Milntown Munros. The dates bear this out. ^{1 2 3}