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BRODIE OF BRODIE.
about the year 1100, when ne transplanted tue .
the family were mostly carried away or HIS name
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wards (3rd) Marquis of Huntly, burnt Brodie Ho
of Brodie, living temp. King Alexander III., de
" (says Shaw in his " History of Moray ") " is manifestly local, taken from
the lands of Brodie. I incline to think that they were originally of the ancient
Moravienses, and were one of those loyal tribes to whom Malcolm IV. gave lands
about the year 1160, when he transplanted the Moray rebels." The old writings of
ed when Lord Lewis Gordon, after-
:ouse in 1645. From Malcolm, Thane
descended Alexander Brodie of Brodie,
styled Lord Brodie as a senator of the College of Justice, born 25th July 1617, whose
son and successor, James Brodie of Brodie, born 15th September 1637, married in
1659 Lady Mary Ker, daughter of William, third Earl of Lothian. He left nine
daughters, but no son, and was succeeded by his cousin George Brodie, son of Joseph
Brodie of Aslisk, and grandson of David Brodie of Brodie, brother of Lord Brodie.
He married, in 1692, Emily, fifth daughter of his predecessor, and died in 1716. He left three sons
and two daughters. James Brodie the eldest son and heir, died young, 1720, and was succeeded by
hU brother Alexander, born Nth August 1697. He was appointed Lord Lyon of Scotland 1727, and
died 17.".4. By his wife Mary Sleigh, he had a son Alexander, his heir, and one daughter, Emilia.
Alexander Brodie of Brodie, born 29th May 1741, died in 1750, and was succeeded by his second
cousin James Brodie, son of James Brodie of Spynie. This gentleman, Lord-Lieutenant of the
County of Nairn, was born 31st August 1744, and married Lady Margaret Duff, youngest daughter
of William, first Earl of Fife. This lady was burnt to death at Brodie House, 24th April 1786, and
he died 17th January 1824, leaving two sons and three daughters. Their son James was drowned
in his father's lifetime, leaving by Ann, his wife, daughter of Colonel Story of Ascot, two sons and
five daughters. Their eldest son, William Brodie, Esq., of Brodie, in Morayshire, Lieutenant of
Nainuhire, was born 2nd July 1799, succeeded his grandfather, January 1824, married, November
27, 1838, Elizabeth, third daughter of the late Colonel Hugh Baillie, M.P., of Red Castle, and had
iMne: Hugh Fife Aahley, B.A., born 8th September 1840, and died 1S89, leaving Ian Ashley, now
of Brodie.
The other branchea of the clan are Brodie of Lethen, and Brodie of Eastbourne, Sussex, and a
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