| Description | William Birnie may have previously been the tenant at Mains of Slains. According to the 1861 census, he was born in Bourtie, Aberdeenshire, in 1808, and his wife May was born in either Ruthven or Portsoy, Banffshire, in 1807. They had at least three daughters, Clementina, born 1841, who married his successor, Ranald Macdonald; May, born in 1843, and Elizabeth or Isabella, born in 1848.. |