[2] A house that was built in Craigluscar possibly around 1520 has a stone bearing the initials of George Durie and his wife Margaret Bruce.

[2] George Durie reached high offices in church and state, becoming Commendator and the last Abbot of Dunfermline before the Reformation.

[2] The Queen and her mother, the Queen-Dowager wrote several letters to George Durie while in distress and sent him on diplomatic missions to the court of France.

[2] Meanwhile, Robert Durie, minister of Anstruther, was exiled for attending a proscribed General Assembly of the Church.

[2] There is little doubt that John was the Jesuit Durie who was implicated in a conspiracy to release Mary, Queen of Scots and depose Elizabeth I of England.

[2] Another of George's sons was Henry Durie who held the lands of Craigluscar and from whom the main line of the family runs.

[2] In the late 17th century another George Durie was a Captain in King Louis XIV of France's Scots Guards and also a provost of Dunfermline.