a. In the days when the Dean knew that Water-side the fortalice
was
uninhabited, and I think not habitable for gentlefolks; but down on the
haugh below, and close to the river in a pretty garden-cottage, dwelt
the old Lady Tilquhillie, with her son the sheriff of the county, George
Douglas, whom a few Edinburgh men may yet remember as the man of wit and
pleasure about town, the _beau_ of the Parliament House--at home a kind
hospitable gentleman, looking down a little upon the rough humours that
pleased his neighbours. The old lady--I think she was a Dutch woman, or
from the Cape of Good Hope--and her old servant, Sandy M'Canch,
furnished the Dean with many a bit of Deeside life and humour; and are
they not written in the _Reminiscences!_
b. Also spelt:
Tillwhilly
c.
Sir Henry Douglas of Lochleven (d
01.1476) m. (?) Elizabeth Erskine (dau of Sir Robert Erskine of Erskine)
and had a son David Douglas (a 1494, who was an ancestor of Douglas of
Tilquhillie)
d. Robert
Erskine, 6th of Dun (d 27.12.1590) m. (1543) Katharine Grahame (dau of
Robert Grahame of Morphie whose daughter Egidia/Giles Erskine married a
Douglas of Tilquhillie.
e.
Sir
Robert Douglas of Tilquhillie married Elizabeth Burnett, (b bef 1653)
daughter of Sir Thomas Burnett of Leys, 1st Bt. and Jane Moncreiffe.
f. George
Crichton of Cluny, a cadet of the Frendraught family, married in 1665
the only daughter of
Sir Robert Douglas, of Tilquhillie, whose seat, Tilquhillie Castle, is
situated
four miles south-east of Clounie Crichton.
arried
whose
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