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Clerk Family Line - and Pittencrieff House, Scotland

Clerk Family Line - and Pittencrieff House (near Dunfermline Abbey), Scotland

Sir Alexander Clerk, 1st of Pittencrieff, Provost of Edinburgh (d.c.1643) purchased Pittencrieff House and Gardens in 1610 and remodeled and enlarged Pittencrieff House (added two stories plus an attic). Sir Alexander Clerk married Marion Primrose, daughter of Gilbert Primrose, Surgeon to King James VI of Scotland and I of England (d.1616). Pittencrieff House and Gardens are now (2025) a public park.


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