Looking north at Tornagawn.
Invernettie beyond trees, Rhinstock behind in green field
Invernettie
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Looking north at Tornagawn. Invernettie beyond trees, Rhinstock behind in green field |
Torrancroy far left Invernettie far right |
After John Forbes of Invernettie, Ledmacay and Belnabodach died in 1684, Invernettie passed to his eldest son Alexander. Alexander had married in 1682 Isobel daughter of Donald Catanach of Tolduquhill to whom Alexander disponed the lands of Invernettie in about 1685 as security for a debt of 3000 merks (HoF page 449). Invernettie passed soon after to Alexander's first cousin William Forbes of Edinglassie (HoF). Alexander married again in 1689 Elspeth Anderson 'of Tomaclen' (Cess Roll of 1667) and died in 1694 leaving an only daughter Elspeth (HoF).
John Forbes, son of the above William Forbes of Edinglassie, was served heir in the lands of Invernettie in 1692 (HoF). This John Forbes married his cousin Rachel or Rebecca, youngest daughter of John Forbes above who died in 1684 (HoF). He is believed to have led 60 men from Strathdon in the rising of 1715 (after Sheriffmuir) ('Jacobites in the Fifteen') and to have been shot by Lord Forbes' men at Dalhandy in Strathdon (Cess Roll of 1715).
The Poll Book of 1696 shows
John Forbes of Invernettie, his valuation £323-3-8 {of which £200 appears to be for
Ledmacay], his wife and his son William Forbes, servants Charles Riach (fee
£10 per annum), Arthur Forbes (fee £8 per annum) and Jannet Grant (fee £4 per
annum) and also the tenants of
Newtoun
Thomas McCadie and his wife, John Callam and his wife, John Watsone and his
wife, Alexander Kellos and his wife, William Ogg and his wife
Rindstock
William Mullier and his wife and one son
aged over 16
[The Poll Book
between Invernettie and Newtoun shows Lynmore, Torrenbui,
Knocklea and Alefork
(Culfork) which are locateded in Glen Conrie, and Corriebreck
is listed under Belnaboddach].
The Bond of 1699 for Peaceable
Behaviour under John fforbes of Invernettie lists Arthur fforbes in Newtoun,
Al Kelles there, Wm. Bain in Tomcroy, Pa. Bain his son & Rot. Simpson and
Alaster MckChristan, Invernettie's servants.
After 1715 A & H Tayler are silent on Invernettie, but it seems that John Forbes' son William Forbes who appeared in the Poll Book must have died young (born 1694 and out in 1715 according to 'Jacobites in the Fifteen').. In 1737 reference is made to George Forbes, eldest lawful son to the deceased John Forbes of Invernettie, to his brother Hary Forbes, second son, and to Mary Grant, the deceased John Forbes' second spouse (Aberdeen University MS 3175/M/A42 Missives of the purchase of Invernettie by the Earl of Fife). The same bundle refers to Hary Forbes at Banff in 1738, to Mary Grant his mother, to his three sisters Elizabeth or Bettie, Rachel (who married John Stewart ex soldier in Earl of Rothie's Regt) and Clemie, and to the death of Henry Forbes at Carthagona in 1741. According to A & H Tayler (Cess Roll 1715), Marie Grant was second wife of John Forbes of Ledmacay but this may be their mistake.
In 1738 the lands of Invernettie (comprising Mains of Invernetty, Clashnoir, Newtown and Torrancroy, and also 'Aldahowy' and Corriebreck) were sold by Hary Forbes to Lord Braco (later Earl of Fife) [Aberdeen Univ MS 3175 Bundle LXV K27]
Andersons in Invernettie
The University of Aberdeen Duff House papers at MS 3175/1472/1 include a letter from William Anderson in Invernettie seeking a rent reduction for what he regarded as the poor tenancy of his predecessor, William McRobert. He appears in the OPR from 1780 onwards as 'Mr William Anderson in Invernettie' - 'Mr' because he was son in 1743 to Charles Anderson, Laird of Candacraig, albeit illegitimate with one Mary McHardy, and 'in' because he was tenant in rather than heritor of Invernettie. William Anderson and his wife Helen Lumsden had ten children baptised between 1780 and 1797 and he also appears in the Horse Tax Records of 1798.
William's second son Alexander took over the tenancy of Invernettie and he and his wife Jean Anderson had eleven children baptised there between 1805 and 1827. Jean was her husband's half cousin, being the daughter of William Anderson's half brother Alexander Anderson, another of Charles Anderson's seven illegitimate children. This Alexander had been designated to follow Charles as ninth Laird of Candacraig, and so Jean's elder brother John became tenth laird. By an odd twist of fate, neither John nor their brother Robert (who became eleventh laird) were survived by legitimate children, and so Alexander Anderson formerly in Invernettie became the twelfth laird of Candacraig in about 1840 - but after he with most of his family had emigrated to Canada before 1834.
Alexander in 1814 was the Earl of Fife's tenant in Invernettie (not including Torrancroy etc) at a rental of £30 a year [MS 3175/1677]. He emigrated to Canada before his cousin John's death, and after the return from India of his cousin Robert, and so it seems that Robert Anderson became tenant of Invernettie from about 1834 until the roup of Invernettie in 1839 - after Robert had succeeded to Candacraig, presumably on John Anderson's death in 1835.
Torrancroy
The web site of Marie Robb used to show a delightful watercolour of Torrancroy as it was before it was re-inhabited in the 1990s (but this web site seems to have closed).