About 50 years later in 1906, a light appeared in the abandoned Lord’s Tower. Marc ApBlanc, the great-grandsohn of the Young Minstrel, a man of about 30 years, had laid claim to the heritage of the ApBlanc clan of Forfar.
Papers showed that he was the grandson of Bragain ApBlanc (one of the sons of the Young Minstrel), who disappeared in 1839.
He added a grand hall and a guest tower and eventually walls, transforming the castle into a fortress, much to the distress of the still ruling ApFitch clan. They send a squad of soldiers up to the castle to halt the construction, but Marc ApBlanc’s men slaughtered them all and their blood ended up in the mortar.
The ApFitch’s had little resources to put up against that and in 1920 Marc ApBlanc called for an end of their rule over Forfar. Civil war ensured years later the surviving members of the ApFitch’s were marched off to the dungeon of Castle ApBlanc.