The Blairs and Carnegies, the first Baroness of Kinfauns, and a lady who took her lord to court.
February 1654. Sir Alexander Blair of Balthayock and his wife, Dame Elizabeth Fotheringham, disponed the lands and lordship to their kinsman William Blair. The deed spells out what went with the title: the office of Baillie of the Tay, the teind sheaves and the salmon fishings on the river.7 August 1671. Sir William Blair, made a baronet in 1666 but with two daughters and no son, resigned the barony to his daughter Ann and her bridegroom, Alexander Carnegie, under their marriage contract, for £40,000. The crown charter followed in 1673, and Ann Blair became the 10th Baroness of Kinfauns, the first woman on the list.19 July 1711. Lady Kinfauns v. Lord Kinfauns. Jean Carnegie’s family had lent her 2,000 merks to take the warm baths in England for an illness, and her husband, Alexander Blair Carnegie, refused to pay. The Lords of Session held that a husband must pay for his wife’s cure if his means allow.
