William Lindsay of Pitcarity of Forfar RN (of Woodend)

10.4.2023 We have found to a link Find a Grave Rev James Lindsays parents and there is mentioned that Rev James Lindsays father has been Capitain William Lindsay of Forfar and his wife Isabelle Mare
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/206448154/james-lindsay
Irma and Markus Ekman

information 8.6.2022
Saints in Scottish Place-Names /Funded by a Leverhulme Trust Project Grant
https://saintsplaces.gla.ac.uk/place.php?id=1083
PARISH TLA / KRR COUNTY / Angus / MEDIEVAL DIOCESE / St Andrews / PARISH NOTES

Granted to Arbroath by Gilchrist earl of Angus 1201x7 the church was confirmed to the uses of the abbey by William bp. of St As 1202x4, while by an agreement of 1204x11 vicars perpetual were to be presented (Arb. Lib. I nos. 1, 44, 164, 167). The parsonage thereafter remained with the abbey, while the cure was as stipulated, a vic. perpetual (Ass. 330v, 358v). Cowan 1967, 125th KRR had a detached part in Glenprosen. In 1891 it was transferred to Cortachy & Clova COC. It consisted of Balnaboth, Buckhood, Craig, Cramie & Glenlogie, Curmure, Dalairn, Easter & Wester Dalinch, Glentarrie, Inchmill, Kilbo, Kirkhaugh, Mayar (moor), Pitcarity (houses), Runtalive, Spot, Glenprosen church etc., Ballochburn (moor), Glenning, Lednathie, Wester Lednathie, Millhall, Shawfield (land). Shennan 1892, 193. Kirriemuir – Forbes, 1872, 306-7 [NOT in Reeves] – so not in Ó Muraíle 1997. Redford 1988, 159 has ‘capella Sancti Colmoci’ 1700 Retours (Forfarshire) no.557 + St Colmes Close next to Police Station. Taylor 2000 (Innes Review).
We have official sasins stating that William and Isobell have owned places together in Kirriemuir in Cortachy and Clova lands. The sasins refer to the following places :
Woodend and Spott farms in Kirriemuir - lands of Woodend with all other freedom privilege and communities belonging to the said lands of

Balnaboth chapel and Balnaboth greens,
Right of Centre Spott and Pitcarity.
West of Spott Wester Dalinch
South of Spott Easter Dalinch
North West of Spott Dalairn
Bottom right-hand corner Dodavoe (Dundavoes)
Top left hand corner Shielings of Kilbo
The sasins proof that these pieces of land have been in the possession of the family for centuries. Sir James of Lothian of Spott is one, who has inherited part of these lands.

CAPT. WILLIAM LINDSAY OF PITCARITY OF FORFAR of Woodend.
(Dna-line Ekman- Lindsay- Crawford-Murray)

About land ownership :
https://www.geni.com/documents/view?doc_id=6000000178738999013/For this he had a grant of the lands of Clova from Crawford, who was then possessor of them, and thus founded the Clova branch of the Ogilwys, who continued for many generations, in a direct line from the first Thomas.
https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/research/research-guides/ Very Few people have sasines at that time. This record is essentially about the "haves" of Scottish society rather than the "have nots" Until the 20th century, when owner-occupation became more common, only a tiny proportion of Scots owned the house they lived in or the land that they farmed. Most rented their property and Will not appear in registers of sasines.
This Confirmation and Precept of Clare Constat of the date of and containing the Precept of sasine after insert made and granted by Archibald Douglas of Douglas Esquire whereby for the causes therein specified he thereby Ratified and approved and for him his heirs and successors perpetually confirmed a Disposition etc...
Darryl Lundy's Peerage
William Lindsay, here treated, held land at Pitcarity in the parish of Kirriemuir and sheriffdom of Forfar. His land holding included "the privileges of sheillings and pasturage in the Glen of Kilbo with the freedom to cast and lead peats from the Hill of Dallairn". Pitcarity was part of the lands of Woodend. [National Records of Scotland, Particular Register of Sasines for the Sheriffdom of Forfar] Transcript of Sasines dated 19 June 1782 and 13 May 1805
Marriage
William Lindsay of Pitcarity, here treated married Isobel / Isabelle Mair / Mare [National Records of Scotland, Particular Register of Sasines for the Sheriffdom of Forfar] Transcript of Sasine dated 13 July 1805
Children
Rev. Doctor of Divinity James Lindsay
Alexander Lindsay of Pitcarity
Robert Lindsay
His son James Lindsay
According to the Monthly Repository of Theology, The Reverend Doctor James Lindsay: "was the son of Mr. Wm. Lindsay, of Pitcarity, in the county of Forfar, he was born in the month of November or the beginning of December in the year 1753 in the parish of Kirrimuir in that county". The Monthly Repository of Theology. Volume XVI: 236

His son Alexander
[National Records of Scotland, Particular Register of Sasines for the Sheriffdom of Forfar] Transcript of Sasines dated 19 June 1782 and 13 May 1805

His son Robert Lindsay
Legacies of British Slave Ownership
Biographical Summaries for the Reverend Doctor James Lindsay
1

Biographical Summary in the Monthly Repository of Theology

The Monthly Repository of Theology and General Literature. Volume 16, pp. 236-8
2

Biographical Summary in James Mill, A Biography

James Mill: A Biography
3

Biographical Summary in The Monthly Magazine

The Monthly Magazine, or British Register. Volume 51, pp. 238-40