QUIGLEY, William

  General Notes:

The 1871 census for Bothwell parish recorded William living in the family home and aged 17 years. He was single, a coal miner, and had been born in Lanarkshire.

William married Margaret Cook QUIGLEY, daughter of Samuel QUIGLEY and Sarah McDOWELL, on 25 Oct 1633 in Arbuthnott parish, Kincardineshire, Scotland.¹ (Margaret Cook QUIGLEY was born on 3 Feb 1868 in Whifflet, Old Monkland, Lanarkshire, Scotland.)

  Marriage Notes:

"BURNET
ALEXANDER
JEANE ARBUTHNOT/
25/10/1633
250/ 10 22
Arbuthnott"

from Index of Marriages




"Alexander, Younger of Leys, admitted an honorary burgess of Aberdeen in 1633, and in the same year married Jean, eldest daughter of Sir Robert Arbuthnot of that Ilk, and sister of the 1st Viscount Arbuthnot Her tocher was 20,000 marks, and her father-in-law gave her the life-rent of Pittenkeirie, Brathinche and Invercanny, of Tillihaikie and Brigend, and of Wester Slowie, Borrowstoun and Cowcardie. We have found him in May, 1639, a petitioner against Montrose's proposal to block up the harbour of Aberdeen in order to oppose the landing of a Royalist force, and his name appears on the Committees of War for Kincardineshire in 1644 and 1646. He died in June, 1648 ; and his widow, in 1651, married Patrick Gordon of Glenbucket The issue of Alexander Burnett and Jean Arbuthnot were three sons and two daughters, each (except the eldest son) provided for by their grandfather. Sir Thomas, to the extent of 40,000 marks"

from Family of Burnett of Leys




"Jean, married, first, prior to 23 November 1633, to Alexander Burnett, eldest son of Sir Thomas Burnett, first Baronet of Leys, who predeceased her in 1648, leaving issue ...."

from Scots Peerage (vol 1) ^{1 2}

William next married Margaret BREMNER in 1651.^{2 3 4} (Margaret BREMNER was born about 1690.)

  Marriage Notes:

"Alexander, Younger of Leys .... married Jean, eldest daughter of Sir Robert Arbuthnot of that Ilk .... He died in June, 1648 ; and his widow, in 1651, married Patrick Gordon of Glenbucket"

from Family of Burnett of Leys




"Jean, married .... secondly, in 1651, to Patrick Gordon of Glenbucket, by whom she had Adam and John ...."

from Scots Peerage (vol 1)




"Patrick Gordon, the succeeding laird, was a noted free-booter. He levied blackmail over many parishes, and did not hesitate to annex property according to his erratic will. He believed that might was right, and followed -

The good old rule, the simple plan,
That they should take who have the power,
And they should keep who can.

The parish of Cushnie received considerable attention at his hands and those of his followers. In 1647, before the Commissioners of the General Assembly, he and a confederate 'acknowledged their accession to the rebellion, humbly upon their knees.' In 1651, he married Jean, eldest daughter of Sir Robert Arbuthnott of that Ilk, and widow of Alexander Burnett, younger of Leys. He died in Aberdeen, 'of sore disease,' on 16th January, 1666 (Row's Diary), 'and was buried in the Gordon's Isle in the Cathedral Kirk of Oldmacher, being Laid down by my Lord Gordon's side who was killed at Alford being both of them very Intimate in their life, and brave men as the age produced, and now no doubt are more ardent in Love and affection in heaven.' (Balbithan MS.)"

from Epitaphs and Inscriptions ^{2 3 4}