Robert Gordon; of Jamaica / James Marr of Alderston
James Dunn of Alderston was laird in 1795, and at 5th October 1799, when Isabella Dunn, his second daughter, was married to Robert Gordon of Jamaica. In the year 1802 Mr Dunn is described as of Acriot Row, Edinburgh, and the title of the lands and barony of Alderston vested at that period in his brother-in-law, Richard Dickson of Logic-green, the brother of Mary Dickson his wife. This gentleman died before 11th November 1803, and the property was, by disposition dated 15th June 1807, conveyed by his trustees to Miss Elizabeth Bruce, eldest daughter of David Bruce of Kinnaird, county Stirling, and sister of James Bruce of Kinnaird, the celebrated African traveller, and explorer of the sources of the Nile. The family which now became proprietors of Alderston, could thus claim to be lineal descendants of the hero of Bannockburn, although in the male line they were not Bruces but Hays, David Bruce of Kinnaird before alluded to, being a son of David Hay of Woodcockdalc, in Linlithgowshire, who took the surname of Bruce on his marriage with Helen Bruce, the heiress of Kinnaird. She was succeeded by William Bruce of Alderston, who had seisin of the estate on 17th May 1827, upon an assignation by Miss Bruce's trustees, under burden of annuities to each of his sisters, Elizabeth, Agnes and Margaret Bruce ; and he continued laird of Alderston for a period of upwards of thirty years.
Dying unmarried, Mr Bruce bequeathed the property to Mrs Janet Bathgate Colquhoun, wife of Dr James Marr, a physician in Edinburgh, by whom it was again conveyed, on the 14th May 1873, to John Wilson of Alderston, the present proprietor.
From: Hardy Bertram McCall - The history and antiquities of the parish of Mid-Calder; p.95 NETHER ALDERSTON.
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