Berriedale Castle (4)
Berriedale (which seems to have been mostly spelt Berridale previously) has had a number of different owners and occupiers - the two not always being one and the same!  Before the castle was built, the lands were owned by Sir Reginald le Cheyne of Duffus and Inverugie.  The poor man only produced daughters, one of whom, Mary (aka Marjorie) married Nicholas Sutherland of Duffus, son of Kenneth de Moravia, 4th Earl of Sutherland and Marjorie of Mar, and when Reggie died in 1345, Berriedale passed to her.  

Nick Sutherland was a Big Kahuna, and Duffus being a far more important property than Berriedale, he consequently used Duffus as his appellation (which is not a mountain chain in America!).  His great-grandson William (living 1474) was the first of the family recorded as being &quot;of Berridale&quot;, presumably because he died before his father, Alexander 3rd of Duffus, and never got to be &quot;of Duffus&quot; himself.  

William's son, Alexander Sutherland of Strabrock, also died (c.1478) before his grandfather Alexander of Duffus, and Berriedale passed to his daughter Christina and her husband William Oliphant.  This marriage took place c.1489, by which date Christina's father and grandfather were both dead, but her great grandfather (Alexander 3rd of Duffus), was still alive and must have granted Berriedale to the new Mr &amp; Mrs Oliphant, as her dowry.
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