. The history of the Fife Pitcairns : with transcripts from old charters . y Walwood,heir of the said late William Walwood and others, against Mr DavidPitcairn of Dreghorn, Mary Anderson his spouse, Patrick Pitcairn,younger of Dreghorn, and the said Janet Pitcairn, then widow ofWilliam Walwood, & Janet Pitcairn and her husband, Mr Home, settled atDreghorn, and had two children,—one son, William, anda daughter, Mary or Margaret, who became the wife ofPatrick, first Viscount Garnock, of the Lindsay son George became twenty-first Earl of Homes children had a tutor call
. The history of the Fife Pitcairns : with transcripts from old charters . y Walwood,heir of the said late William Walwood and others, against Mr DavidPitcairn of Dreghorn, Mary Anderson his spouse, Patrick Pitcairn,younger of Dreghorn, and the said Janet Pitcairn, then widow ofWilliam Walwood, & Janet Pitcairn and her husband, Mr Home, settled atDreghorn, and had two children,—one son, William, anda daughter, Mary or Margaret, who became the wife ofPatrick, first Viscount Garnock, of the Lindsay son George became twenty-first Earl of Homes children had a tutor called David Malloch orMallet, who was with them for some years at Dreghorn. In1723 he wrote a pretty and well-known ballad at Dreghorncalled William and Margaret. The next owner of Dreghorn Castle was Robert Dal-rymple, , of Arnsfield, Dumfriesshire. He owned itfrom 1735 to 1754. His daughter, Elizabeth, married MajorJohn Pitcairn, a cadet of the Pitcairns of Forthar. 1 Edinburgh Courant, July 2, 1864. 2 Canon Pitcairns papers. 8 Laing Charters, No. 1591, box Tomb of David Pitcairn, of Dreghorn Castle,1709. THE DREGHORN PITCAIRNS. 471 The Dreghorn estate changed hands very often. Thefollowing is a list of the various owners:— 1. David Pitcairn, who died 1709. 2. Patrick Pitcairn, his son, disposed of Dreghorn, in 1715, to George Home of Kello. 3. Robert Dalrymple, , from 1735 to 1754. 4. Dr Andrew St Clair, from 1754 to 1760. 5. George Dempster of Dunnichen and Skibo, from the latter date to 1763-64. 6. John Maclaurin, Lord Dreghorn, from 1763 to 1796. His son, Colin, an Advocate, sold it in the yearfollowing to 7. Alexander Trotter, Paymaster of the Navy, who was suc- ceeded (1847) by his son Archibald, and whose grand-son, Mr Coutts Trotter, disposed of it in 1862 to 8. R. A. Macfie, Esq., merchant in Liverpool, now of Dreghorn. David Pitcairn had seven daughters and five sons,—(1)Patrick, his heir, who died childless; (1) Christine, born in1682; (2) Eleanor,
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