Douglases of Grangemuir

[citation needed] The heir, Walter Douglas Irvine married Anne Frances Lloyd, the daughter of an Anglo-Irish doctor from County Roscommon in 1870.

Some of these were known by the surname "Irvine", others "Douglas", rather than "Douglas-Irvine": The 1905 Valuation Rolls show that after Walter died in 1901, almost all of the 64 listed properties were put under tenancy, including Grangemuir House, Farm and surrounding buildings which was rented by a Col. Erskine from May 1902 onwards (he eventually purchased the property in 1920).

In 1912, 1913, 1914, 1915 and 1916 a Mrs Douglas Irvine rented five different properties in the nearby village of Pittenweem, changing house each year.

Henry Archibald Douglas-Irvine, a parson, married Beatrice Alice Mabel Gratix (died 1976) in 1913, producing a son and heir, Walter Francis Edward Douglas who was born in 1917.

Henry's son, Walter Francis Edward Douglas (1917 – 2013), moved to Lincolnshire to become an art teacher at Stamford School.

The family resumed its connection with the area in the 1990s and 2000s when two members attended the nearby St Andrews University.

Records relating to the Grangemuir estates, along with a small number of other family papers, can be found in the Special Collections Archive of St Andrews University Library.

[6] According to an article in the Dundee Courier,[7] in 1818 Grangemuir (house and estate) was valued at around £40,000, which is equivalent to about £38 million today.

A few years before he died in 1859, he built Dunino church and rebuilt the school into a much larger new building suitable for 90 children.