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McCREATH, John
(About 1800-)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. Unknown

2. HARRIS, Jean

McCREATH, John 2

  • Born: About 1800
  • Marriage (1): Unknown
  • Marriage (2): HARRIS, Jean on 16 Feb 1664 in Leochel and Cushnie parish, Aberdeenshire, Scotland 1

  General Notes:

John was a journeyman blacksmith according to the death certificate of his daughter Margaret in 1901. No wife's name was given. 2


John married.


John next married Jean HARRIS, daughter of Charles HARRIS and Jeanie BOYD, on 16 Feb 1664 in Leochel and Cushnie parish, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.1 (Jean HARRIS was born on 14 Feb 1914 in Glasgow, Scotland 3 and died in 1995 3.)


  Marriage Notes:

"FORBES
ISSOBELL
JOHN MAIR/FR368 (FR368)
16/02/1664
214 10 / 368
LEOCHEL AND CUSHNIE"

from Index of Marriages




(at Tough in 1663)

"John Mair, born 1635; educated at King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (1651); licen. by Presb. of Fordyce 1662 ; ord. by George, Bishop of Edinburgh ; coll. by James, Archbishop of St Andrews ; inst. 22nd March 1663; died in 1694 or 1695. He marr. 16th Feb. 1664, Isobel, daugh. of Patrick Forbes of Blackhall, and had issue William, min. of Kincardine O Neil; James. [Scot. Presb. Eloquence.]"

from Fasti Ecclesiae 1 4

Sources


1 GRO Scotland, OPR Index of Marriages.

2 GRO Scotland, Death certificate RDS 597 No 595 Kilmarnock 1901-daughter Margaret.

3 ancestry.co.uk, Family Trees: brechin.

4 e-books, Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae vol. 6 Aberdeen & Moray by Hew Scott.

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