Family Card - Person Sheet
Family Card - Person Sheet
NameRobert Irvine
Birth1620, Drum Castle, Aberdeen, Scotland
Death4 Feb 1646, Tolbooth at Canongate Prison, Edinburgh, Scotland
Misc. Notes
in 1644, Alexander Irvine of Drum, and his brother, Robert Irvine, who were keen Royalists, to avoid falling into the hands of the Covenanters, fled by sea to Caithness.  As Lady Mary Gordon, the wife of Alexander Irvine, was a near relative of the Countess-Dowager of Caithness, the two brothers naturally expected to find a safe asylum in the county, but in this they were bitterly disappointed. Having landed at Staxigoe, where at the time a Committee of Estates happened to be sitting, they were immediately seized, and “put in ward” in the castle of Keiss. They were thence conveyed to Edinburgh, under a strong guard, by Francis Sinclair, son of the late Earl, and lodged in the Tolbooth, where, among other persons of rank, they had Lord Reay as a fellow prisoner.  Robert Irvine died in prison; and his brother, the laird of Drum, who was under sentence of death, was liberated by Montrose immediately after his victory at Kilsyth.
Spouses
Birthabt 1625, Scotland
Marriageabt 1643, Aberdeen, Scotland
ChildrenDavid (~1646-)
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