DONALDSON, James 4th, and last, of Kinnairdy ^{1 2}

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  General Notes:

"I am afraid Anne's husband was an undesireable fellow, and on 11 March 1775, Lord Fife writes from Whitehall concerning him, to Rose : -

'I am really sorry for Kinnairdy. His son is as imprudent and incorrigible a young man as lives' [....]

..and soon after his succession, the ne'er-do-well put the estate in the market and it was ultimately sold for £11,500 - (the rental was then £315, equivalent to about £3000 nowadays) - to Patrick Duff of Hatton, who transferred it to Lord Fife 16 May 1795."

from Kinnairdy Castle ¹

James married Anne INNES, daughter of Sir James INNES 7th of Coxton, 4th Baronet, Jacobite 1745 and Margaret BRODIE, on 7 October 1777 in Marnoch parish, Banffshire, Scotland.^{1 2} (Anne INNES was born about 1750.)

  Marriage Notes:

"DONALDSON
JAMES
ANNE INNES/
02/10/1777
161 20 / 45
MARNOCH"

from Index of Marriages




"Their (Alexander Donaldson's and Jean Gordon's) son, James Donaldson, 4th of Kinnairdy, married Anne, third daughter and eventual co-heiress of Sir James Innes, 4th. Baronet of Coxton, and their portraits are also in the entrance hall at Kinnairdy."

from Kinnairdy Castle




"Now, cross Lossie Wynd (in Elgin), and, still keeping the north side of the High Street, at the corner, stood a fine old House with a double roof and a bartizan. The property of old extended from the High Street to the back of the burgh at the north, the northern part being a fine garden. Very early, it belonged to Annand of Morriston; then, before 1600, to Alexander Innes of Coxton. Near a century later (1669) Sir Alexander Innes of Coxton, with consent of George Innes, minister of Premnay, disponed it to James Donaldson, merchant, ancestor of the respectable family who took their style from the pretty little Estate of Kinnairdy on the Dovern. The last laird of that family married Anne Innes, daughter of Sir James of Coxton (1777),who lived to be old, and is yet remembered as a perfect specimen of a stately lady of the old school."

from History of the Province of Moray ^{1 2 3}