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CASTLE OF WATERTON Castle of Waterton
Castle of Waterton
Castle of Waterton
Alexander Gordon, Esq. Ellon Castle
Mr. Jamieson. Factor.
Mr. John Rae, Ellon.
038 "Crossing the brook near the south approach to Auchmacoy, we enter the parish of Ellon; and at about a mile further, we come opposite to the site of the Old Castle or House of Waterton, the ancient seat of the Forbeses, just below the granaries of Messrs Rae & Mitchell. There now remains nothing beyond the mere indications of this once proud mansion. It occupied a prominent situation on a rocky eminence immediately over the river. The building of the structure was begun, after the Reformation by the Bannermans of Elsick, and finished about the middle of the following century, by Forbes, a son of Tolquhon, the first of the name who possessed the estate. Soon afterwards, on obtaining the lands of Kenmuick, he became Constable of Aberdeen, an office heritably attached to those lands. The Castle and lands of Waterton continued in the possession of the Forbeses for upwards of a century, when they became, by purchase (1770), the property of the late Earl of Aberdeen. The estates of Waterton and Kenmuick now belong to Alexander Gordon, Esq. of Ellon, who succeeded to them on the death of the Hon. [Honourable] William Gordon". Extract from Pratts history of Buchan, page 234. Waterton Castle, in its palmy days, was a favourite resort of Jamie Fleeman, the Laird of Udny's Fool, from whence many of his singular sayings and doings emanated. - See Life and Death of Jamie Fleeman. Lewis Smith, Aberdeen.

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Aberdeenshire -- Parish of Ellon

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