'Nairne2'Index links to: Lead / Letter
Families covered: Nairne of Dunsinane (Nairn of Dunsinan), Nairn of Greenyards, Nairn of Mukkersy, Nairn of Strathurd
[The upper section of this page was originally uploaded as Nairne3. It was renamed on 15.03.15.]

                               
John Nairn of Mukkersy (d before 08.02.1540-1)
m. (before 12.1511) Margaret Olpihant
1. George Nairn of Mukkersy (a 07.1553)
  A. George Nairn of Mukkersy (d 02.1592-3)
  m1. ?? assumed all to be by George's first wife were ...
  i. John Nairn of Mukkersy
  a. George Nairn (dsp)
b. Thomas Nairn of Mukkersy (d after 1612)
  m. Elizabeth Fyfe
  (1) George Nairn (dvp)
  (2) Robert Nairn of Mukkersy, Garden, Strathurd, etc (d 02.1652)
  m. Catherine Preston (dau of Sir John Preston of Penicuik, Lord President)
  (A) Sir Robert Nairn of Strathurd, 1st Lord Nairn (d 30.05.1683)
  m. (by 1669) Margaret Graeme (bur 03.05.1704, dau of Patrick Graeme, 5th of Inchbrakie)
  (i) child (b 16.12.1669, bur 24.03.1670)
  (ii) Margaret Nairn (b c1673, d 14.11.174)
  m. William Murray, 2nd Lord Nairn (b c1664, d 03.02.1726)
(B) John Nairn of Mukkersy
  m. (25.02.1647) Barbara Cant (dau of John Cant of Morton)
  (i) Margaret Nairn
  m. (c1690) Alexander Carnegie (later Blair) of Kinfauns (b c1650, d 14.11.1691)
  (ii) Jean Nairn (d before 11.05.1683)
  (C) Alexander Nairn of Greenyards (b 10.09.1630, d 01.1684)
  m. Euphame Easton (d 05.1686)
  (i) Alexander Nairn of Greenyards
  (D) James Nairn (b 06.12.1631)
  (E) William Nairn (d Worcester 1651)
  (F) Agnes Nairn
  m. William Blair of Tarsappic
  (G) Elizabeth Nairn (b 06.04.1635, bur 20.01.1676)
  m. Sir David Falconer of Newton (b c1639, d 15.12.1685, Lord of Session as Lord Newton)
  (H) Catherine Nairn probably of this generation
  m. (mcrt 1653) James Ogilvy of Muirtown & Cluny
  c. Archibald Nairn (d before 02.04.1627)
  m. Katherine Ramsay
  (1) John Nairn
  d. Alexander Nairn (a 10.1599)
  e. Helen Nairn
  f. Margaret Nairn
  m. (mcrt 28.08.1578) William Gray of Lynedoch
  ii.+ other issue (George, William, Robert, Alexander, James, Thomas, Isobel)
  m2. (mcrt 29.04.1558) Elizabeth / Isobel Adamson (d before 03.11.1564)

 

 

BEB1841 suggests thaht the following family "descended from Michael de Nairne" (a temp Robert III who r. 1390-1406).
William Nairne of Kirkhill, Perthshire
m. Margaret Arnott
1. Sir Thomas Nairne of Dunsinane (Colace, Perthshire), 1st Bart (d by 1721) named William by BEB1841
  m. Elizabeth Murray (dau of Sir Andrew Murray of Murrayshall)
  A. Sir William Nairne of Dunsinane, 2nd Bart (d 26.06.1754)
  BEB1841 shows that William m. Emilia Graham (d 14.12.1767), identifying her as mother of his children. TCB shows that he had first married ...
  m1. (01.1704) Bethia Hope (dau of Sir Archibald Hope of Rankeillur (Senator of the Court of Justice), widow of Ninian Lewis of Merchiston)
  m2. Emilia Graham (d 14.12.1767, dau of David Graham of Fintry, widow of ?? Hunter of Burnside)
  i. Sir Thomas Nairne of Dunsinane, 3rd Bart (d 14.12.1760)
  m. (by 1744) ?? (b c1701, d 17.09.1782)
  a. Sir William Nairne of Dunsinane, 4th Bart (dsp 12.01.1790)
  m. (17.11.1769) Alexandrina Scot (dau of Robert Scot of Dunninald)
  b. Charles Nairne (d unm 13.01.1771 in India)
  c. Anne Nairne
  m. (1761) Walter Barclay of Pittachop
(1) Janet Barclay (coheir)
  m. James Mellis of Newhall, Fife
  (A) James Mellis, later Mellis-Nairne, later Mellis-Nairne-Drummond of Dunsinane (dspm 1848)
  m. (1816) ?? Drummond??
  (B) John Mellis, later Mellis-Nairne of Dunsinane
  d. Catharine Nairne (b c1745)
  m. (30.01.1765) Thomas Ogilvie of East Mall (d 05.06.1765)
  ii. Sir William Nairne of Dunsinane, 5th Bart (d unm 25.03.1811, Lord of Session as 'Lord Dunsinane')
  iii. (Emilia) Nairne
  m. Henry Smith of London
  iv. daughter (d 1708)

Main source(s):
(1) For upper section (uploaded 02.07.03) : TSP ('Nairn')
(2) For lower section (uploaded 28.03.25) : TCB (vol 3, 'Nairne of Dunsinane', p425+), BEB1841 ('Nairn of Dunsinan')
[The original lower section of this page, which was uploaded on 15.03.15, has been moved to Nairne3.]
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