John Broun of Fordell

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John Brown of Fordell first married Catherine (relict of sir John Lindsay of Balinscho, Woodware and Woodhead, County Forfar, who died January 6,1609, younger David, ninth Earl of Crawford), eldest daughter of Mr. John Lindsay of Balcarres, County Fife, Secretary of State and a Senator of the College of Justice 1581-1598, under the style of lord Menmuir, Lord Privy Seal and Secretary of State Ambassador to France 1597. By this lady, who sister of the first Lord Balcarres

John Brown of Fordell married secondly, contract April 1627, his kinswomen Margaret, eldest daughter of Mr. Willam Adamson of Craigcrook, ( by Dorothy Galloway, his first wife) who in 1619, acquired some lands from John Gaw of Maw, and appears at a later period as a party or witness to several deeds of the families of Gaw and Brown.