Katherine Brown

Katherine Broun

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• Married: Alexander Mastertourn in Beath, County Fife

Alexander is noted in the Moray Charters (b), dated 1601, in a taxation roll for Inchcolm lands in which the sum of 53 shillings and 4 pence is ascribed to ..."Alexander Maistertoun for the landis of Kirktoun and Mureton of Beath..."...At very much this same period, he is also in the Dunfermline property of Mastertons Beath with his wife Catherine: i.e. obtaining a feu-charter of "the lands of Beath, called Masterton-Beath and of 4/7th of the lands of Grange". His wife was, in fact, Catherine Brown, and they were in occupation at Mastertons Beath around 1580 (m). This Alexander was dead before 1607 and was replaced by his sons Andrew and William, who , in turn, gave way in the 1630s to grandsons Robert and Alexander.