1923 Sale of Killiechassie

By the executors of Mrs Hannah Charlotte Scott Douglas to Frances Willey, Baron Barnby

(Transcript of Sasine 1161.38 – refer to the images included at the end of this page of the original text.)

The right of sepulture is maintained

SASINE 1161.38 7^th September 1923

AT EDINBURGH, the seventh day of September in the year One thousand nine hundred and Twenty Three between the hours of Three and Four afternoon the Disposition underwritten with Warrant of Registration thereon was Presented by Alex. Stewart, writer, Edinburgh, and is with said Warrant of Registration recorded as follows vizt:-

WE, SIR GEORGE BRISBANE DOUGLAS of Springwood Park, Baronet, and WILLIAM DUNCAN LOWE, Writer to the Signet, Edinburgh, the surviving Trustees of the deceased Mrs Hannah Charlotte Scott Douglas of Killiechassie in the County of Perth, Widow of Edward Octavius Douglas Esquire who resided at Killiechassie aforesaid acting under her Trust the Disposition and Settlement dated the twenty fourth day of August Nineteen hundred and six and along with relative Deed of Directions dated the twenty ninth day of May Eighteen hundred and ninety five and eight relative Codicils dated respectively the twenty sixth day of May Nineteen hundred and eleven, the third day of June Nineteen hundred and thirteen, the sixth day of April Nineteen hundred and fourteen, the fifteenth day of September Nineteen hundred and fourteen, the eleventh day of June Nineteen hundred and fifteen, the first day of March Nineteen hundred and sixteen, the seventeenth day of January Nineteen hundred and nineteen and the seventeenth day of April Nineteen hundred and twenty registered in the Books of Council and Session the eighteenth day of May Nineteen hundred and twenty one and as such Trustees heritable proprietors of the subjects hereinafter disponed IN CONSIDERATION of the sum of SIXTEEN THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED POUNDS STERLING instantly paid to us as Trustees foresaid by the RIGHT HONOURABLE FRANCIS WILLEY BARON BARNBY of Blyth Hall, Rotherham, Nottinghamshire as the price thereof of which sum we :- hereby acknowledge the receipt and discharge the said Francis Willey Baron Barnby Do hereby SELL and DISPONE to the said francis Willey Baron Barnby and his heirs and assignees whomsoever heritably and irredeemably ALL and WHOLE the eight pound land of the Barony of Killiechassie Videlicet:- the one pound six shilling land of Balnacraig; the one pound six shilling eight penny land of Balnachappell the two merk land of the Mains of Ballinloan; the half merk land of Croft of Mains; the one pound forty penny land of Tomachellie; the twenty four shilling land of Borlick and the one pound ten shilling land of Cuil lying within the Parish of Logierait, late Regality of Athole and Shire of Perth by ALL and HAILL the Meiths and Marches of the same as they lie in length and breadth with houses, biggings, yards, mosses, muirs, meadows, marshes, pasturages, shealings, woods as well of oak as other woods, fishings as well of Salmon as other fishings dove,s dovecots, cunnies, cunningaries, herezelds, common pasturages, with free ish and entry, brewseats, outsets, insets, annexis connexis parts, pendicles and other pertinents of the same whatsoever, teinds parsonage and vicarage of the said Lands, but reserving always to the descendants of the late Reverend Robert Stewart of Killiechassie the sole and exclusive right of sepulture in all time coming within the Family Burying Ground or Chapel situated within the foresaid lands and now enclosed by a stone wall and surrounded by trees with free ish and uninterrupted access thereto at all times for the purposes of sepulture or for visiting the same and that in the term specified in the Titles of the said Lands and in an Agreement as to said right of sepulture entered into between Harry George Gordon Esquire sometime proprietor of the said Lands and Others and James Stewart Robertson of Edradynate one of the descendants of the said Reverend Robert Stewart dated the ninth and fifteenth days of December Eighteen hundred and fifty eight and recorded in the Books of Council and Session………………………….Document continues….