Murthly Castle (7)
The ownership of Grantully and Murthill are inextricably mixed.  As I stated under Grantully, the Stewart connection comes down from Alexander, 4th High Steward of Scotland, by a younger son, Sir John Stewart of Bonkyl - from whom also descend the houses of Lennox, D'Aubigny and Darnley - and therefore King James VI and the later Stewart kings.

Shortly after the Stewarts of Grantully inherited Murthly at the beginning of the 17th century, Thomas Stewart thereof was made a baronet.  His male line ended with the death in 1890 of Sir Archibald Douglas Stewart of Grandtully, 8th and last Bart.  Sir Thomas however, also had a daughter, Marjory Stewart, and although the baronetcy couldn't pass down the female line to her descendants, the property could.  She married David Fothringham, 13th of Pourie, and their descendant, Walter Thomas James Scrymsoure Steuart Fothringham, 20th laird of Pourie, inherited Grantully when (by my calculations) his 3rd cousin 4 times removed, the 8th baronet, died in 1890.

The Grantully and Murthill estates must have got separated at some time, because WTJSS Fotheringham's grandson, Robert Steuart Fothringham, 22nd of Pourie-Fothringham (1937 - 2012), &quot;inherited Murthly in 1983 from an uncle&quot;, becoming 13th laird thereof.  His son, Thomas Steuart Fothringham, is the current laird.
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