Lady Jean Douglas

Biography

Northern Notes & Queries, Volumes 1-4 Page 169. GoogleBooks

Ross OF KINDEACE (first family of Ross so styled). — Donald Ross, a younger son of Nicholas Ross, Abbot of Ferne (see Morangie), was styled 'of Litill Kinteis'; there is no document to prove it, but very probably he was father of

1. Walter Ross'in Mekle Kindeace,' who appears as witness to a deed, 28th August 1565; on 4th June 1594 he purchased these lands, with a clause of reversion, from James Dunbar of Tarbart and Marjory Ogilvie, his wife (Kindeace Writs). Walter signs the deed of purchase,

wt my hand at ye pen led be ye notar . . . at my speciale coñand Because my self can not wrytt.' He married - - and had a son,

2. Hugh Ross of Kindeace, ‘son and heir-apparent of Walter,' 28th August 1565. In 1607 he is styled 'portioner of Little Kindeis.' He obtained a charter under the Great Seal of the lands of Easter Kindeace, 20th July 1615, to hold of the Crown. He died 5th August 1622 (Kal. of Ferne), having married Margaret Gordon, 'relict of Hugh Ross of Kindeace, and now spouse to Thomas Ross of Risollis' (Renunciation of Easter Kindeace in favour of Gilbert Robertson, 17th April 1650). By her first husband she had,
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Hugh's father, Hasse suggests, was a Walter Ross of Kindeace, who died in 1569. He was married to Jean Douglas. The documents suggest that a Walter Ross of Kindeace, a generation earlier, was required to pay a lot of money to the Ross clan chief because of properties his wife had inherited. She, too, was a member of the Dunbar family, and the farm referred to was the same one as Hugh's wife a generation later had been involved. The clan Mclead was inportant northern clan, but not resident generally in Easter Ross, and the clan Douglas was a southern group. It is possible that clansmen especially clan chiefs could take their wives from further afield, but the Rosses of Kindeace were not in that category. The Dunbars had been important property owners in Easter Ross in the 16th century, but their properties, too, appear to have been lessening in importance about the same time those of the Rosses of Kindeace were.