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templar lands of (Little) Warthill, and two plough-gates of Harlow directly from Alexander Glaster of Glack, or through John Gordon of Auchlenchry. Adam Cruickshank's family had been the tenants of Tillymorgan, under the Abbots of Lindores, and were proprietors (owners) after the Reformation (mid 1500's) down to Covenanting times (mid 1600's).

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Adam Cruickshank's son, John, had a daughter, Janet Cruickshank, who married William Leslie in 1518. William Leslie was the second son of John Leslie, second Baron of Wardes. (This was the second marriage of William Leslie.) Janet was heiress of Warthill, so after marriage the inheritance went to the Leslie family.

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William Leslie and Janet Cruickshank had a son named William Leslie. This William died in 1640 in his 80th year. He bought the other half of the said templar lands of (Little) Warthill from heirs of a former wadsetter (mortgager or mortgagee), Tullidaff, the representative of William Tullidaff, who fell at the battle of Harlow (July 24, 1411).

 

William Leslie and Janet Cruickshank had 21 children, of whom 16 married. Their 3rd daughter, Janet, married Alexander Cruickshank, son of Tillymorgan (her uncle, perhaps). Their 6th daughter, Isabel married James Cruickshank, son of Tillymorgan (another uncle, perhaps).

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Coats of arms were granted by the monarchy and this time period was within the Stewart line of Scottish kings (1371 to 1651) and within the Stewart Earls of Atholl (1398 to 1625), thereby reinforcing the connection between Cruickshanks and Stewarts.

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​References for this section include "Inverurie and the Earldom of the Garioch", by The Rev. John Davidson, DD, published in 1878.