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Carnegie in Carmyllie
Land of the Lindsays – pages 193-4

We have already seen that the Lindsays were succeeded in the
barony of Ferne by the Carnegies towards the close of the 16th
century. The surname of this noble family was originall de
Balinhard, and is commonly said to have been assumed
from a small property in the parish of Arbirlot. Martin
of Clermont says that the first of them was constable of the Castle of
Kincardine, in William the Lion's time; but the
earliest genuine notice respecting them occurs about the
year 1230, when Gocelynus de Balinhard witnesses several
deeds betwixt the Abbeys of Arbroath and Balmerino. From
the fact of Gocelynus witnessing charters relating to Fifeshire
only (for, so far as known, he does not occur in any as an
Angus-shire baron), it might be inferred that he was
settled in Fife at the date of those deeds, and instead of
Balinhard in Arbirlot giving the surname to the family,
a descendant of Jocelynus may have conferred the name
on the lands.
As Jocelynus is a common Norman name, it is probable that his
progenitors had been among the Norman settlers in David's
time; but, the real ancestor of the Southesk branch was
John de Balinhard, who died about 1280, and his first
known property of Balinhard, wh. [which] lay in the middle of the
lordship of Panmure, was exchanged, or otherwise
parted with, by his great grandson for the lands
of Carnegie, in the ph. [parish] of Carmyllie, which
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