[2] The farmstead stood at the junction of Grange Road and Primrose Lane in what is now a housing estate in the town of Rosyth.

The name itself may come from the Pictish words *pren, "tree", and *ros, "moor", or the first element may be *prim, "first".

[3] The earliest recorded ancestor of the Earls of Rosebery is Henry Primrose, born sometime prior to 1490, who lived in the neighbourhood of Culross Abbey.

[5] James Primrose died in 1641 and was succeeded in the office of Clerk to the Privy Council of Scotland by his son, Archibald Primrose, Lord Carrington who supported the royalist James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose.

[2] He was tried and found guilty of treason, and although his life was spared, he was held in prison until Montrose was ordered by Charles I to disband his army and leave the kingdom.

[2] In 1648 he joined in the Engagers, a scheme to rescue Charles I from the English Parliamentarians, and although the plan was a failure, he survived to join Charles II of England on his march into England in 1651 and fought at the Battle of Worcester.

[2] Later he acquired the barony of Barnbougle and Dalmeny which remains the seat of the family to this day.

[2] The seat of the Chief of Clan Primrose is at Dalmeny House in West Lothian on the Firth of Forth in Scotland.