. The history of the Fife Pitcairns : with transcripts from old charters . everal years on the Duke of Wellingtons staff inIndia: the Duke thought highly of him. He died at Hope Street, Edinburgh, on the 20th April 1851. A fourth sister of Dr Robertson married a Mr married Archibald Hope, Secretary to the Bank ofScotland. The youngest sister, Eleanor, died unmarriedin 1816. Such were the numerous and distinguished descendantsof Mr David Pitcairn of Dreghorn and of Mary Ander-son, his wife. Dr Murray, the author of the Annals ofColinton, says:— Perhaps no private gentleman (
. The history of the Fife Pitcairns : with transcripts from old charters . everal years on the Duke of Wellingtons staff inIndia: the Duke thought highly of him. He died at Hope Street, Edinburgh, on the 20th April 1851. A fourth sister of Dr Robertson married a Mr married Archibald Hope, Secretary to the Bank ofScotland. The youngest sister, Eleanor, died unmarriedin 1816. Such were the numerous and distinguished descendantsof Mr David Pitcairn of Dreghorn and of Mary Ander-son, his wife. Dr Murray, the author of the Annals ofColinton, says:— Perhaps no private gentleman (though of aristocraticdescent, and not a large landowner) was ever the progenitorof so many persons remarkable in themselves, or who, byintermarriages, formed such high connections as to rank,intellectual abilities, and acknowledged public services. Themonument to the memory of Mr and Mrs Pitcairn, in thechurchyard of Colinton, should ever be regarded as a justground of virtuous pride to the inhabitants of the parish. BRANCH VI. THE PITCAIRNS OF PITCULLO CASTLE, ARMS OF PITCAIRN OF PITCULLO. Shield, Argent. Three lozenges, two and one, Gules. Crest. The Sun. Motto. Spes Lucis Eternse. CHAPTER XXXVIII. PITCAIRNS OF PITCULLO. The Pitcairns of Pitcullo are, it is believed, a branch of thehouse of Pitcairns of that Ilk and Forthar-Ramsay in Fife,their ancestors having probably settled on the PitcairnForfarshire estates as early as the beginning of the six-teenth century. Henry, tenth laird of Pitcairn and Forthar-Ramsay in 1453, had four daughters: (1) Elizabeth, marriedto Sir John Ramsay of Dounfield; (2) Isobelle, married toPatrick, fourth Lord Lindsay of the Byres; (3) Margaret,wife of David Moray of Ochtertyre ; and (4) Catherine, whomarried Ballingall of that Ilk. 504 THE FIFE PITCAIRNS. Henry Pitcairns eldest son, Henry, succeeded to thefamily estates in Fife and Perthshire in 1489. David, hissecond son, became Archdean of Brechin; he succeeded tothe Kincardine estat
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