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- Culdees Castle was purchased by Robert Napier Spier, a layman in connection with the Episcopal Church in Scotland, and then later passed to his son.
The Speir family fortune was derived from Groves, Speir and Company.
- (Research): Lineage? Robert Speir, of Burnbrae, Renfrewshire, b. 1680, m. 1718, Mary, dau of Thomas Fyffe, and had issue, three sons and two daus., of whom the eldest son,
William Speir, of Burnbrae, b. 1725, m. 1750, Mary, dau. of John Robertson, of Easter Walkinshaw, and d. 1810 leaving issue, with four daus., one son.
Robert Speir, of Burnbrae, b. 1752, m. 1787, Isabella, dau. of John Robertson, and d. 1841, having had issue, four sons and seven daus., of whom the third son,
Robert Speir, of Burnbrae, Renfrewshire and Culdees, Perthshire, J.P., b. 1 Jan. 1801, m. 6 June, 1839, Mary, dau. of Sir William Milliken Napier, 8th Bt., of Napier, Renfrewshire (see Burke's Peerage, Napier of Merchistoun, Bt.), and d. 18 Feb. 1853, leaving issue,
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