Sir John Carnegie

Abt 1628 - 1662  (34 years)

• Name	John Carnegie
  Prefix	Sir
  Birth	Abt 1628	Balnamoon, Forfarshire, Scotland
  Gender	Male
  Death	Sep 1662
  Person ID	I152838	First tree
  Last Modified	30 Sep 2023

  
  

• Notes

  John born about 1610, the 2nd of Balnamoon is the son of Alexander Carnegie of Vayne and Balnamoon and Giles Blair. John Carnegie, second of Balnamoon, succeeded his father in Balnamoon in October 1657, and also his elder brother David, fiar of Balnamoon, to whom he was served heir-male on 15th December1658. He was a man of expensive habits, and was obliged to sell Careston. The purchaser was Sir John Stewart of Grandtully. Sir John Carnegie received a Crown charter of the lands of Nether Killiallie on 7th February- 1662, and another to him and his son James of the barony of Balnamoon, erected of new on 21st February 1662. He married, first (contract dated 23d November 1642), Lady Elizabeth Ogilvy, daughter of James Earl of Airlie, by whom he had a son, James , and a daughter Margaret Carnegie and, secondly. Miss Graham, daughter of Graham of Claverhouse, by whom he had a son, Alexander, and two daughters.