David Carnegie of Colluthie
David Carnegie of Colluthie (1559-1598) was a Scottish landowner and administrator.
He joined the government finance committee known as the Octavians in 1596.[1]
David Carnegie was the younger son of Sir Robert Carnegie of Kinnaird (d. 1565) and Margaret Guthrie (d. 1571).
Colluthie is near Leuchars in the parish of Moonzie.[2] David Carnegie had lands at Panbride in Forfarshire. When his older brother John Carnegie died in 1595 he became laird of Kinnaird.[3]
He took down the old kirk of Cookstoun to build a new church at Kinnaird.[4]
His niece Catherine Carnegie (d. 1597) was abducted with a view to a forced marriage with James Gray, a son of Patrick Gray, 5th Lord Gray, in Edinburgh in 1593. She was taken from the house of the merchant Robert Jousie by the courtiers John Wemyss of Logie and Sir James Sandilands of Slamannan.[5]
He died on 19 April 1598.[6]
Marriages and family
David Carnegie married (1) Elizabeth Ramsay, the heir of Henry Ramsay of Colluthie and Leuchars who was killed at the battle of Pinkie in 1547, (2) Euphame Wemyss (d. 1593), daughter of John Wemyss of Wemyss, (3) Janet Henrison.[7] His children included:
- David Carnegie of Kinnaird, Lord Carnegie, and Earl of Southesk
- John Carnegie, Earl of Northesk
- Elizabeth Carnegie, daughter of Elizabeth Ramsay, who married John Inglis younger of Inglistarvit in 1579
- Margaret Carnegie (d. 1589), younger daughter of Elizabeth Ramsay, who married William Dundas of Fingask in 1582
- Agnes Carnegie, who married Alexander Falconer of Halkertoun, and was the mother of Sir Alexander Falconer, 1st Lord Falconer of Halkerton
- Katherine Carnegie, who married John Aytoun of Kinnaldie, brother of the poet Robert Aytoun
- Euphame Carnegie, who married Robert Graham, younger of Morphie
References
- William Fraser, History of the Carnegies, Earls of Southesk, vol. 1 (Edinburgh, 1867), p. 59.
- William Fraser, History of the Carnegies, Earls of Southesk, vol. 1 (Edinburgh, 1867), p. lxii.
- William Fraser, History of the Carnegies, Earls of Southesk, vol. 1 (Edinburgh, 1867), p. 57.
- William Fraser, History of the Carnegies, Earls of Southesk, vol. 1 (Edinburgh, 1867), p. 68-9.
- William Fraser, History of the Carnegies, Earls of Southesk, vol. 1 (Edinburgh, 1867), pp. 49-50: David Masson, Register of the Privy Council of Scotland, vol. 4 (Edinburgh, 1881), p. 704: Register of the Privy Council of Scotland: 1592-1599, vol. 5 (Edinburgh, 1882), pp. 84-6: David Calderwood, History of the Kirk of Scotland, vol. 5 (Edinburgh, 1844), p. 252.
- William Fraser, History of the Carnegies, Earls of Southesk, vol. 1 (Edinburgh, 1867), p. 59.
- William Fraser, History of the Carnegies, Earls of Southesk, vol. 1 (Edinburgh, 1867), p. cv.