BETTIE, Jean ¹

   Other names for Jean were BELLIE, Jane ³ and BELLIE, Jean.³

  Research Notes:

SURNAME

Jean or Jane "Bettie" rather than Bellie. The modern Scottish eqivalent is "Beattie". "Bellie" is the spelling indexed by Ancestry, owing to a mistaken reading of the original parish register where a double "tt" - uncrossed - was read as "ll". Other names and words in the document show clearly that this is the case. Scotland's People, that is GRO Scotland online, has it indexed correctly as Bettie. ^{1 3}

Jean married James SCLANDERS on 24 Mar 1748 in Dunbar parish, East Lothian, Scotland.¹ (James SCLANDERS was born about 1720.)

  Marriage Notes:

Old Parish Registers
Dunbar Parish East Lothian
Marriages

"1748 Marriages
March 24. James Slanders in par: of Bothkinner and Jean Bettie in ys - 18 - "

Note: The bride's name has been transcribed as Bellie, but it is clear from the original document's handwriting that the letter 't' is made consistently without the crossbar, as in this name, whereas the letter 'l' is consistently looped, which it is not in the surname above. ¹

Jean next married Charles STEWART on 7 Nov 1775 in Rayne Parish, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.² (Charles STEWART was born about 1745.)

  Marriage Notes:

"ROSS
MARTHA
ALEXANDER LEITH/
07/11/1775
236/ 20 177
Rayne"

from Index of Marriages




"John Ross of Arnage .... married .... Elizabeth, second daughter of Robert Turner of Turnerhall .... and had issue a large family, who all died young, except Christina and Martha, the latter of whom became the wife of Alexander Leith of Freefield and Glenkindy, and had issue a son, John Leith. John Ross of Arnage died 4 May, 1789, and was succeeded by his grandson .... John Leith Ross of Arnage."

from Thanage of Fermartyn




" 'Aberdeen Journal' Obituary (1777).

9th October. Died at Freefield of this date, Mrs Martha Ross, daughter to John Ross, Esq. of Arnage, and spouse to Alexander Leith, Esq. of Freefield."

from Notes and Queries ^{2 4 5}