T H E OGHTERLO N EY PAM LY O F C T L A N D S O , W E N L A N D A N D B O ST O N , IN N E G . WA L T E R KE N DA L L WA T KIN S . P R I VA TE L Y P R IN T E D . BO ST O N , U . S . A . 1 9 0 2 . P ri n ted by B A R T L E TT P R E SS . T h e O c hterl o n Famil y y. L Scotl an d s o William the ion , K ing of , called from his adopting the as r 1 1 7 8 lion the a morial bearing of Scotland , founded in the Abbey A berbroth ock b e r of , w hich dedicated to his murde ed friend , St . a . 1 0 . 1 2 1 4 h is w as Thomas Becket of Canterbury On Dec , , body m r r brought fro Stirling, whe e he d ied , and was bu ied in fron t of the . s H igh Altar The blue shelly marble block , curiou ly carved , which h is covered his tomb , is one of the relics still shown , as is also heart . 1 2 The abbey was unfinished then and not completed till 3 3 . s h is r h is William w as ucceeded in eign by son , Alexander I I . , who G 1 2 3 3 r made good h is rule in alloway in , and ar anged a satisfactory peace with England i n 1 2 44 . 1 2 2 6 1 2 3 9 r Between and Walte , son of Turpin , exchanged the lands O thirl on f or of y, which h ad belonged in heritage to their ancestors , r s those of Kenny, in t he parish of Kingoldrum , Fo far hire , possessed by the Abbey of A berb roth ock . Kenn y had been bestowed on the b b . s s w b a be y y its founder , King William Th i is ho n y the charter bb R ffi 1 2 2 6 of Ken n y by the fourth a ot , alph , w ho held that o ce in 2 b D u n n ec hin 1 3 9 . The a bey lands of being adj oin ing to those of irl on th . O y, by the good counsel of friends the exch ange was m ade R e i s f er o A éerbr ol /z oaé 6 71 51 e N o. ( g f , r r K irr mu ir. Kingoldrum is a pa is h in Forfar, four miles f om e I ts lands were bes towed on the Abbey of A berbroth ock by a cha rter of L . b William the ion , and were confirmed by Alexander I I I , and again y M el u m s s King R obert Bru ce . The river g forms a erie of beautiful L s . r waterfalls here , called the oup of Kenn y I n this paris h the fa m 1 89 3 of Meikle Kenny was occupied by J ohn Hunter, farmer, in , w b while the farm of Kirkton as held y Charles Findlay . 2 4 1 2 1 9 . r On the th of July , , Alexander I I I , at t he age of eig ht yea s , 1 2 85 succeeded his father, Alexan der I I . On his death in he was to h is r have been succeeded by granddaugh te , M argaret , the M aiden of w a . T r Norway, but she died on her y to Scotland hen the re appea ed rs twelve competito to the t hrone , the prin cipal of whom were Jo hn R r s s Baliol , obe t Bruce and John de H a ting , w ho agreed to submit to r . Edward I . of England as a bitrator He decided in favor of Baliol , 1 2 9 2 r B who did homage to him in at No ham Castle , near erwick on 1 2 9 6 Tweed ; and in , after the battle of Dunbar, at Berwick , the nobility , landholders , burgesses an d clergy of Scotland to a large ex tent swore feal ty to Edward and s igned an d afli xed their seals to the ’ R R s s s agman s oll , so called from t he trips with seal appendant to ome -five s thirty parchment kins , resembling a game of the period in which a bundle of strips o f paper was used to draw f rom by the playe rs . I n t his R oll appears the name of Walter Dougterl on y ( O ch terl on ey ) of ’ m u f e n d n R a mz s R ol l P b. R ec. O c L o o . Fifeshire . ( g , fi , ) 4 R I t is possible that Fife then in cluded lands north of the Tay iver, but it is more probable that the early home of the O ch terl on y family was south of the Tay . During the reign of John Baliol , Sir William Wallace appears and h rl n becomes prominen t. A tradition of the O c te o y family in the middle of the seven teen th century relates the existence at one time of L a letter from Wallace to his trusty and assured friend , the aird of O u c h terl on e y, requiring him to repair to Wallace , with his friends and “ servants , for its lyke we will have use fo r you and ot her honest men ” cou n tre t me in the y within a short y , as the letter read , and shortly after t he B arn s of Ayr were burn t, as the tradition relates . This aff air of the Barns of Ayr is described by Sir Walter Scot t in his Tales of a G ran dfather. 1 3 5 1 thir I n , William , abbot of the abbey , confirmed to Joh n de O lowney t he charter of Ken ny granted by R alp h ( 1 2 2 6 ( R egi s ter o A bbe . 3 3 4 f y , pp , This confirmation also refers to a perambulation of the time of G il R bert third abbot , who preceded alph , and mentions also the k n lands of K yr to in Kingoldrum . O ch terl on Joh n y, to whom were confirmed the lands of Kenny in 1 3 5 1 f Forf ar 1 3 42 . E x e/ze u er R ol l s o Seal /and & , was sheri f of in ( g f , , Ken n m k l 1 4 0 9 By an inquisition taken of the lands of y y y in April, , O u ch terl ow n O u ch terl ow n William de y, brother of Alexander de y, z Ken n m k l died sei ed and vested in t he lands of y y y , in the s hire of A berbrothock K ingoldrum , regality of ; the land being held of the “ m h m n l ii serv iciu o a et re ev . abbey in capite by g warde , etc ; and ’ . A bb R e z s f er . 4 7 Alexander was heir of William ( ey g , pp , 4 1 444 s A t Stirling, Nov . , , J ames I I . confirmed the gift and gran t th at were made by several persons to Willelmo de O u c h terl own y of Kelly of lands in barony of Kelly, Forfar, in exchange for other lands which were to the said persons , to be held by said William and h is heirs by R i st r o G r at S al N o. the said ch arter . ( eg e f e e , A few m iles from the Abbey of A berbroth ock is the village of Ar birl ot , in which is Kelly Castle , a fine specimen of the old Scottish r baronial towe , situated on a rocky eminen ce on the west bank of t he water, about a mile below the church and village of Arbirlot . - Sir James Stewart, who was killed at the battle of Halidon hill in 1 3 3 3 , had a son , Sir John Stewart, w ho got a charter of the lands of Kelly in Angus Forf ar ) but died without m ale issue . 1 3 3 1 — 1 3 0 I n King David I I . ( 7 ) Joh n Stewart h ad the barony of Kellie by resign ation of James Stewart , wh ich Wal ter Stewart had — — 1 3 2 0 1 3 2 6 R . 1 3 0 5 1 3 2 0 R between , and previously in obert I ( ) obert R Stewart had the barony of Kellie, Forfar, oger Mowbray had for — — f eited. In d x E ar l Cbarters 1 0 1 4 2 1 23 55 ( e y , , , Sir J ohn Stewart was succeeded by Sir R obert Stewart of Shan 1 3 86 . H is bothy , w ho carried on the line of the family , and died in R R os th e second son was obert , an cestor of the Stewarts of y , and through a female of this branch Kellie is said to have come to th e O ch terl on ey family .