A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society

OF CELESTIAL FIGURES, fcfr. 237
He was succeeded by his son William Seaton, designed of Mounie, and served
heir to his father in those lands, 1597. He married first Helen, daughter and
heir of Woodney of that Ilk, for which he wa> designed Seaton of Woodney ; by
her he had sons, William and Alexander of kinlocL; and, by his second v,
Marjory, a daughter of Innes of Coats, three sons, Jaino, David, and Thomas.
William, the eldest, son and successor, married Mtrguet, daughter of Sir Robert
Graham of Morphy: It was this William that was disappointed of the estate
of Meldrum, by his cousin William Seaton, the last of the name of Seaton of
Meldrum, by breaking
the tailzie as abovementioned. He had with his wire two
sons, who died without issue, and William, whose only son James, died also without
issue, ia France, of the wounds he received in the French service at the siege
of Lisle, 1707 ; so that the representation of the Scutum of Meldrum fell to the
heirs of Alexander Seaton of Kinloch, second son of William Seaton of Woodney,
and Helen Woodney, his spouse.
Which Alexander Seaton married Margaret Body, heiress of Pitfour, by whom
he had only six daughters ; and to his second wife, he married Mary Murray, one
of the maids of honour to King Charles I.'s Queen, daughter of Sir Mungo Murray
of Craigie, by Margaret Halket, a daughter of Pitferran, and which Sir Mungo
was third son to Sir Robert Murray of Abercairny, by Catharine, daughter of
Sir William Murray of Tullibardin ; by her he had two sons,. Alexander, who died
abroad in his travels, and Robert, now living. This Alexander, during the rebel-
lion against King Charles L raised a troop of the horse which he kept up upon his
own expences for two years and more ; after which, dismounting his men, with
them he kept the castle of Ravenscraig nine months for the king, for which he
\vas fined, and obliged to pay to the then prevailing powers. 69000 merks for his
loyal services, which proved the ruin of the family. He died at Kinloch, in
October 1672, and was succeeded by his only surviving son.
Which Robert Seaton, who, by the death of the above James Seaton of Mounie,
grandson to William Seaton, his father's eldest brother, to whom he is served and
restored heir, became the true and immediate heir-male and representative of the
Seatons of Meldrum he married ; Katharine, daughter of James Fall, Gentleman
in -Dun-bar, and his wife Elizabeth, a daughter of Cockburn of Cedra, by whom
he has issue, four sons, Robert, George, William, and James ; Robert, sometime
Captain in the third Regiment of Guards, and late Lieutenant-Governor of Blackness
Castle, married to Mary Long, daughter of Richard Long of Brinzey, Esq.
in Somersetshire, and Francis Bransby, his wife. George Seaton was also an Officer
in the Scots Guards ; William, a Writer to the Signet, and the fourth son
James.
Robert Seaton, as Representer of the family of the Seatons of Meldrum, carries
the entire arms of that family,
the Plate of Achievements.
as above blazoned, with the crest and motto, as in
The other branch of the family of Meldrum is SEATON of ]?itmedden, the first
of which was, James Seaton of Burtie, abovementioned ; because, being son of
William Seaton of Meldrum, and his wife, Margaret Innes, daughter of Innes of
Leuchars, who was born by her in the year 1553. He married Margaret Holland,
grand-daughter to William Holland; Master of the Mint of Aberdeen, in the 1
reign of King James
V. She bore, to him Alexander his successor in the lands of
Burtie, Pitmedden, &c. and James ; in case of his son's decease, he tail/.ied his
estate to his nephew, John Seaton of Meldrum, as appears from a charter of the
date 1603, which I have seen in the custody of the present Sir William Seaton of
Pitmedden, with the other evidences which instruct the following descent of the
fam:ly. This James of Pitmedden carried the arms of Seaton, with a mullet for
difference, as they stand this day on his house in the city of Aberdeen, in the year
1591, and in the church of Udny, 1605. He was a person of great merit, as appars
by his epitaph, composed by Dr Arthur Johnston, and published by all the
editions of his Epigrams, thus,
Tumulus JACOBI SETONI PETMEDDEM.
Ouem tegit hie cespes,
f.istu SETONUS honores,
Divitias luxu, posse carere docet.
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