INNES, Thomas of Muiryfold, Factor of Earl Fife ^{1 2 3}

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  General Notes:

"169). INNES, Thomas, of Muiryfold, Factor on Forfeited Estates in Aberdeen-shire and Banff-shire. Born 1681, son of John Innes of Edingight. Was Baillie of Regality of Strathisla for William Duff, Lord Braco, later 1st Earl Fife [Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, Innes of Balvenie]. His petition of 8 February 1748 to be appointed Factor on Forfeited Estates in Aberdeen-shire and Banff-shire was approved 19 February 1748 by the Barons of Exchequer [E.776/11/1], and factory was granted 6 August 1748 [E.776/11/6; E.779/13/1]. On 29 March 1748 Andrew Hay of Mountblairy explained that because of gout and other infirmities Innes could not take the oath to qualify himself for office at Edinburgh [E.776/11/2] The estates were those of Alexander Forbes, Lord Pitsligo, John Gordon, elder of Glenbucket, Francis Farquharson of Monaltry, John Hamilton, late Factor to Duke of Gordon, Adam Hay of Asleid, Charles Gordon of Terpersie, Lord Lewis Gordon, Sir William Gordon of Park and George Abernethy, gentleman. He died 12 September 1754 [Burke, Peerage, as above]. Father of John Innes of Muiryfold (q.v.)."

from Estate Managers Connected With North-Eastern Scotland

Note:

The secondary sources differ in identifying the parents of Thomas Innes of Muiryfold. This one here seems the most probable placement, after other possibilities are excluded for various reasons. It has the advantage of providing Thomas with a later year of birth than if he were the son of John Innes by his first wife. If Thomas were the child of the first wife he would have married and fathered children very late and died in his 90s. This is not impossible, but if, as this text states above, he was born in 1681 to this father. then he would have been the child of the second marriage. The documents of the Wills and Testaments tabled below have not been examined textually.




"Innes
Thomas
3 / 11 / 1755
of Muiryfold
testament dative & inventory
Moray Commissary Court"

"Innes
Thomas
26 / 6 / 1776
of Muiryfold
eik
Moray Commissary Court
CC16/4/6"

from Wills and Testaments ^{4 5}

Thomas married Mary GORDON 'of Drumfoinle' on 14 June 1722 in Grange parish, Banffshire, Scotland.¹ (Mary GORDON 'of Drumfoinle' was born about 1695.)

  Marriage Notes:

"GORDON
MARY
THOMAS INNES/
14/06/1722
156/ 30 66
Grange"

from Index of Marriages




"This youngest brother Thomas appears to have been an able man of business and is said to have been employed as factor for the Earl of Fife. He left two sons ; the eldest John succeeded him in the factorship for the Earl of Fife, and became proprietor of Muiryfold. His second son Alexander had a son known as Thomas Innes, W.S., of Monellie, who married his cousin Elizabeth Innes of Edingight, and from this marriage came the Rose Innes's of Netherdale - but the circumstances attending it belong to the records of the next generation."

from Innes of Edingight

Note:

The chronology suggests Thomas and Alexander were brothers, not father and son. ¹