Drysdale connections to Robert the Bruce - Bruce of Lynn Mill, Clackmannanshire

[Ronald Drysdale]

Robert the Bruce (11 July 1274 – 7 June 1329) - King of Scotland

There is no confirmed number for the exact number of living descendants of Robert the Bruce, but statisticians and genealogists estimate there are likely hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people alive today who can trace their ancestry back to him.

Given that he died nearly 700 years ago, the number of potential descendants across approximately 28 generations is vast. This number is so large that many people with deep ancestral roots in the British Isles are likely related in some way, even if they are unaware of it.

Obviously you don't have to be called Bruce to be a descendant

Drysdale connections

In other pages on this website, a number of connections between the Bruces of Annandale and the Drysdales from Dryfesdale, in the period 1200-1450, are noted, and, although there are no specific records of family ties surviving from those times, it is probable that intermarriage between members of the Drysdale, Jardine, Bois and Bruce families occured. The Drysdale family arms display/incorporate the arms of the Bruce Clan like many other of the prominent Annandale families of that era.  

When parish Churches started keeping BMD records, around the end of 1500s, it became possible to trace lines back to family members with Bruce ancestry.

The earliest formal records of a Drysdale/Bruce connection occur in Clackmannanshire where a family of Drysdales seem to have had close ties with the Bruce family of Lyn Mill.

Margaret Drysdall born 1597 to John Drysdale & Margaret Bruce a...

In the 1599 Will below, for David Dryisdail in Gartfynnane, Clackmannanshire, his son, Johne Dryisdail, is mentioned [see above - married to Margaret Bruce, daughter of Robert Bruce elder of Lynmill] together with 2 Members of the Bruce family:
- Thomas Bruce in Linn Mill became cautioner.
- Debts owed to the deceased by Jhone Bruce, miller in the Lynmyln [Linn Mill], 20 pounds

David Dryisdaill of Gartfynnane Clackmannanshire & family - Wil...

Ref: Collections towards a history of the county of Clackmannan By W. Downing Bruce

Ref: https://www.brucefamily.com/lineage.htm

[Genealogy of Bruce of Lyn mill]

Sir David Bruce, 7th Baron of Clackmannan, who married Janet Blackadder daughter of Sir Patrick Blackadder of Tulliallan.
They had 5 sons: John, Edward, Robert, David, Patrick; 4 daughters: Elizabeth, Mariot, Agnes, and Allison.
John, predeceased his father, leaving a son - Sir Robert, 8th Baron of Clackmannan
Edward, of Blairhall and Easter Kennet (1505 - 1565). He married Allison/Cristina Reid and had 4 sons and two daughters.
Patrick, of Green and Valleyfield in Perthshire in 1542 m. Margaret Falconer.
Robert, of Lynmiln. He had a son, Robert and a daughter, Marjorie.

David, of Green. Had a son, Archibald, ancestor of the Bruces of Kennet.
Alison, m. Sir James Colville of Easter Wemyss.
Elizabeth, m. 1st Alexander Dundas of Fingask and 2nd to Robert Collace of Balnamoon.
Mariot, m. 1st sir Robert Bruce of Airth and 2nd to Marcus Sinclair of Carberry.
Agnes, m. Sir James Cunningham of Polmaise.

More to come........

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