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RALPH, Elspet
(About 1710-)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. Unknown
2. GORDON, John in Corncatrach

RALPH, Elspet 3

  • Born: About 1710
  • Marriage (1): Unknown 1
  • Marriage (2): GORDON, John in Corncatrach on 12 Nov 1731 in Fyvie Parish, Aberdeenshire, Scotland 2

Elspet married.1


  Marriage Notes:

"There is no doubt... that the laird of Glenkindie at that time was Duncan. He married Margaret Lundy, and in 1511, he granted a charter, confirmed by King James, 20th July, 1511, to William Strachan, his son and heir, reserving a life interest to the said Duncan, and to Margaret Lundy, his wife, her widow's tierce."

from The Strachans of Glenkindie




"On the 20th July 1510, William Strachan, son and apparent heir of Duncan Strachan of Glenkindv, received a precept for a charter of the lands of Glenkindy, reserving the liferent thereof to the said Duncan and a reasonable terce to Margaret Lundy, his spouse..."

from Memorials of the Families of Strachan and Wise (1877) 1 4

Elspet next married John GORDON in Corncatrach, son of Assorted GORDONS in Gartly parish, Banffshire and Unknown, on 12 Nov 1731 in Fyvie Parish, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.2 (John GORDON in Corncatrach was born about 1705.)


Sources


1 e-books, Memorials of the Scottish Families of Strachan and Wise by Charles Rogers (1877).

2 LDS, IGI.

3 Old Parish Registers, Gartly Parish Aberdeenshire Baptisms.

4 James Allardyce, The Strachans of Glenkindie 1357-1726 (1899), page 6.

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