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Humo adjacenti conditur quod morti concesserunt Alexander
Duncan de Lundie, qui fato fundus est Aprilis die A. AE. C.
1696
aetat. 44 ; ejusque dilecta conjux Anna Drummond, unica filia
Mri Joannis
Drummond de Megginch, quae decessit Aprilis die 1695, aet. 42.
Nencon
eorundem liberi Gulielmus, Patricium, Christiana, et Anna,
quibits parentes
superstitis erant. Idem alter Gulielmus, qui matri non vero
pater
vixit, et Joannes, filuis natus secundus, qui mortem, obiit
Julii die 1696, aetat. 20.
"Mausoleum. extruendum curavit Mr Alexander Duncan de Lundie,
A. AE.C. 1718."
[In the adjacent ground is laid the mortal part of Alexander
Duncan of Lundie, who died the day of April, in the year of the Christian Era,
1696, aged 44; and his beloved wife Anna Drummond, only daughter of Magister
John Drummond of Megginch, who died the day of April, 1695, aged 42. Also their
children, William, Patrick, Christian, and Anna, whom their parents survived.
Also another William, who survived his mother but not his father; and John,
their second son, who died the day of July, 1696, aged 20.
Mr Alexander Duncan of Lundie caused this monument to be erected in the year
of the Christian Era, 1718.
Claimed by the Earl of Camperdown a descendent of Alexander
Duncan. (Source R.T.)
The family to which ALEXANDER DUNCAN belonged, and which is
now represented by the EARL OF CAMPERDOWN, can be traced in connection with
Dundee from the beginning of the sixteenth century. Reference has been made to
some of the earlier members of the family in the note to the entry of FINLAY
DUNCAN, surgeon, in 1550. From that date onwards the name appears frequently in
the records of the Burgh. In 1590, WILLIAM DUNCAN, surgeon, was Dean of Guild,
and in the following year was Bailie in Dundee, which office he filled till his
death in 1608. From him descended that ALEXANDER DUNCAN, Laird of Lundie, whose
name is entered here as claiming burgess ship through his father's privileges.
He was the son of WILLIAM DUNCAN of Seasyde, a Bailie of Dundee in 1656, and was
born in 1652. At an early age he took part in the municipal affairs of the
Burgh, and having amassed and inherited a considerable fortune, he acquired the
estate of Lundie from COLIN CAMPBELL, a scion of the family of ARGYLL. The exact
date of this purchase is not known, but as CAMPBELL was retoured in Lundie on
23rd April, 1674, and DUNCAN was in possession of the estate in 1681, it must
have been between these dates. After the Revolution, when WILLIAM III. was
securely seated on the throne, ALEXANDER DUNCAN was sent to London by the
Council, in company with PROVOST FLETCHER, to ask aid from the KING to defray
the cost of placing Dundee in a state of defence, and repairing the bulwarks. In
the "Accompt of Expenses be the Town in ffortifying the same," the following
item occurs:
"For the Provost and Baillie Duncan, yr expences in goeing to
London in January, 1689, for present¬ing the grievances of the burgh to his
Majestie, 1,626 lib."
His name may have been specially enrolled in the Lockit Book after his
return, as a reward for his services on this occasion. Though long a public
official, ALEXANDER DUNCAN died at a comparatively early age.
The name of ALEXANDER DUNCAN appears frequently both as
principal and witness in the Register of Baptisms in Dundee. The following may
be quoted, as it supplies the name of one of his sons who survived him, but
whose name is not included in the published genealogy of the family:-
"1682, March 21st George, son to Alexr Duncan of Lundie and
Anna Drummond. Witnesses George Broune, lait Provost, Adam Drummond of Megginch."
GEORGE DUNCAN was appointed Town Clerk of Dundee, after the deposition of SIR
ALEXANDER WEDDERBURN, in 1716. Several of the descendants of ALEXANDER DUNCAN
were enrolled as Burgesses at a later date.
Source 3.
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