| Administrative History | Kinmundy Estate history:
1795 - 1858 (Arbuthnot of Innervidie)
Thomas Arbuthnot of Innervidie (1739 - 1808) was the eldest son of James Arbuthnot, 'The Young Bailie'. He was the only surviving child of his father's first marriage to Elizabeth Gordon. In partnership with his cousin, James Arbuthnot of Dens (1741-1823) he worked as a merchant in Peterhead. He married Jane ('Jean') Buchan in Logie, Buchan in December 1786. They had two daughters, Nicola and Elizabeth, and four sons. The first son, James (1790-1873) was of unsound mind so Thomas Arbuthnot jnr. (1792-1868) was heir presumptive to his brother's lands and was appointed to a curatorship of the Kinmundy estate. He became a shipowner and provost of Peterhead (1834-1843). He also purchased part of Invernettie, as well as Meethill, and died unmarried. Thomas Arbuthnot's daughter Elizabeth Arbuthnot married Duff Cordiner, a surgeon with the East India Company, with whom she had one daughter, Jane Cordiner.
1859 - 1872 (Trustees of Arbuthnot)
This trust was managed by James Arbuthnot of Invernettie, son of George Arbuthnot of Invernettie (1777-1847), first provost of Peterhead and the second son of James Arbuthnot of Dens, business partner to Thomas Arbuthnot Senior. George was appointed as one of the trustees.
1873 - 1920s (Arbuthnot/Cordiner)
Jane Cordiner and Robert Arbuthnot (daughter and son of Thomas Arbuthnot Senior) inherited the right to James Arbuthnot estate upon his death in 1873. Jane Cordiner/ Arbuthnot (1819 - 1907) married James Arbuthnot of Dens (1816-1861) and emigrated with him to Port Natal, South Africa in 1850. Her son William Thomas Arbuthnot was factor of the estate at this time. The estate then went through many years as leased property before being sold off in the 1920s.
1920s- (Taylor family)
Bought by the Taylor family in the 1920s. |
| Custodial History | Grandfather of depositor bought Mains of Kinmundy in 1926. The papers were held by a local firm of solicitors (Gray & Gray) who later returned the papers to the family. |