John Rennie-Strachan-Carnegie

Second son of Sir David Carnegie, 4th Bart., and Agnes Murray Elliot. Born John Carnegie but changed his surname to Rennie-Strachan-Carnegie when he inherited the estates of Thomas Renny Strachan (q.v.).

1. Born 09/06/1802, second son of Sir David Carnegie, 4th Bart., and his wife Agnes Murray Elliot. Attended Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge. Married Elizabeth Susan Grey 07/09/1848. One son, Claud Cathcart Rennie-Strachan-Carnegie. Living at Seaton House, Angus, in the census of 1871. Died at Seaton House, St Vigeans, Forfar, Scotland, 22/02/1879.

2. "JOHN RENNY-STRACHAN-CARNEGIE, Esq. of Tarrie, Angus, second son of the late Sir David Carnegie of Kinnaird, Bart., succeeded to the estates of Tarrie and Seaton, on the demise of the life-renter Mrs. Renny-Strachan, by testamentary deed of gift of Thomas Renny-Strachan, Esq., who died 20th October, 1823, without issue."

T71/988 St David claim nos. 104 (Swamps) and 122 (Norris).

1. http://thepeerage.com/p29549.htm#i295485 [accessed 12/06/2012]. Ancestry.com, Cambridge University Alumni, 1261-1900 [database online]. 1871 census online. General Register Office for Scotland, Deaths 1879 319 007 St Vigeans.

2. David Macgregor Peter, The baronage of Angus and Mearns, comprising the genealogy of three hundred and sixty families ... being a guide to the tourist and heraldic artist (Edinburgh, Oliver and Boyd, 1856) pp. 331-332.