DINGWALL, William of Brucklay ²

  General Notes:

'"Dingwall (William) of Brucklay, the first owner of that property of the name of Dingwall, was the eldest son of Arthur Dingwall of Brownhill, in the Parish of Monwhitter, andLucretia Irvine his wife. He was probably born in 1676, but his baptism is not found in the Parish Register, which contains the names of others of the family, the next of whom was born in 1677. He was educated at Marischal College, Aberdeen, and in 1696 was in the employment of Mr., afterwards Sir, Samuel Forbes of Foveran, receiving for his services a yearly fee of £60 Scots, and acting with him in taking up a list of "pollable persons in the Parish of Foveran." The designation of Mr. shows that he had taken the degree of A.M. before that time. How the interval was spent does not appear, but in 1706, his father and mother having settled their whole heritable and personal property on the subject of this notice and his brother Arthur, the proportion the former received was two-thirds. By mutual agreement the brothers relieved each other of their respective proportions of 5,000 merks owing to Alexander Irvine of Drum on his granting a charter to William on the lands of Brucklay and Ironside, the superiority of which had been vested in him, and by another agreement the brothers made over to each other the shares of Brucklay and Brownhill they had become entitled to by their parents' deed of settlement, William becoming sole proprietor of Brucklay in consequence, while his younger brother had Brownhill. The subject of this notice, as recorded on his tombstone, was in his character of Justice of the Peace, "a zealous protector of his neighbours and the poor from every species of fraud and oppression." He was married on the 25th October, 171 1, to Anna Gordon, daughter of John Gordon of Nethermuir, in the Parish of New Deer. Of this marriage there appear to have been six sons and three daughters. Of one of the sons we have no account. The whole had soon to push their way by their own exertions. The circumstances in which they were left orphans are thus noticed on the gravestone in the churchyard of New Deer, already referred to: "William Dingwall of Brucklay, Esq., and his lady, Anna Gordon of Nethermuir, died in one week in May, 1733, leaving six sons and three daughters, all under age."'

from Family Record
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William married Anna GORDON, daughter of John GORDON 5th of Nethermuir and Elizabeth GORDON, on 25 October 1711.¹ (Anna GORDON was baptised on 29 May 1689 in New Deer parish, Aberdeenshire, Scotland ⁴ and died in May 1733.)

  Marriage Notes:

"2. Anna Gordon, baptised May 28, 1689. Anna, Countess of Aberdeen (who was a daughter of George Lockhart of Tarbrax), and Lady Christy Grant being godmothers. ('Name of Dingwall Fordyce,' 1885, p. 153). She married October 25, 1711 William Dingwall, the first laird of Brucklay (born in 1676?), who was the son of Arthur Dingwall, of Brownhill, in the parish of Monquhitter (Ibid., p. 66). A gravestone in the churchyard of New Deer records that 'William Dingwall of Brucklay, Esq., also his lady, Ann Gordon of Nethermuir, died in one week in May, 1733, leaving six sons and three daughters all under age. As a Justice of the Peace he was a zealous Protector of his Neighbours and the Poor from every specious [sic] of Fraud and Oppression' (Henderson's 'Aberdeenshire Epitaphs,' i., 407)"

from Dingwall Fordyce ¹

William next married Jane FORDYCE of Culsh, daughter of John FORDYCE and Isobell LINDSAY, on 13 April 1744 in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. (Jane FORDYCE of Culsh was baptised on 8 March 1704 in Turriff parish, Aberdeenshire, Scotland and died on 4 March 1778.)