Talk:Keith Marischal

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I've bolding some things below- I'd appreciate it if the meaning could be clarified? Thanks Gustav von Humpelschmumpel 21:56, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Its sale in the late seventeenth century to the Earls of Hopetoun, was to see much structural alteration to the building. The Hopes were originally an Edinburgh family with strong links to the law. Following the ennoblement of swho were eventually to amass massive estates in the Lothians over the course of the eighteenth century, it is they who carried out the conversion (of what into what?) and extension to form a courtyard form house (what's a form house?') incorporating the original tower.

Transfer of ownership to the Hopes[edit]

Sir James Hope of Hopetoun married Lady Mary Keith, the daughter and co-heir of William Keith, 7th Earl Marischal so perhaps their son John Hope (father of Charles Hope, 1st Earl of Hopetoun) inherited the house rather than it being bought? If the transfer did occur in the late seventeenth century I think it's probably unlikely that Sir Thomas Hope, 1st Baronet had anything to do with it as he died in 1646. Gustav von Humpelschmumpel 10:47, 7 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]