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In 1854, when suffering from galloping consumption, Richard Leslie Dundas
and his sister, Margaret Dundas were residing in furnished lodgings at 7, Forth
Street, Edinburgh. Here he made a trust disposition dated the 18/3/1854 and
signed by a notary. He shortly afterwards moved or rather was carried by sedan
chair to lodgings at 16, Albany Street where he died on the 19/4/1854.
The purpose of the trust deed and settlement after payments and legacies,
were for the benefit of his sisters, Frances Bruce Dundas and Margaret Dundas
and of Lieutenant Adam Alexander Dundas R.N., second son of James Dundas XXV1th
of Dundas, in fee, whom failing, to other members of the family of Dundas of
Dundas.
In an action of reduction brought against Archibald Gibson, accountant in
Edinburgh, sole accepting trustee and Lieutenant Adam Alexander Dundas, the
sisters, successfully proved that Lt. Col Richard Leslie Dundas was at the time
of his death, labouring under the disease of which he died within the ensuing
sixty days, without his having been either "at kirk or market" and that the deed
was reducible ex capite lecti.
Frances Bruce Dundas died unmarried on the 30th September 1856 and her
sister Margaret Elphinstone Dundas died unmarried on the 27th January 1858. They
were both buried in Culross Abbey church grounds. |
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Richard Leslie Dundas' estate consisted of the lands and castle
of Blair, lands of Pottisfollis, the salt pan of Culross, burial place at
Culross Abbey Church, lands called Windmill Cross, lands called Brodie's Acre. |
