McGURK, Susanna 1Susanna married.2 Marriage Notes: "Thomas Forbes of Clova, who is a witness (to a legal charter), was son of Alexander Forbes in Finask. He married Isobel, daughter to Thomas Burnet of Cluny, who is another witness. In 1597, the 'Gud wyfe' of Clova and her daughter, Elspet, were by their 'unfriendis delaitit of witchcraft.' They protested their innocence of a 'cryme maist diuillsche and damnable,' and procured an exemption from King James VI., dated at Holyrood, 14th April 1597 (Miscellany of Spalding Club, i., 163)." |
1 GRO Scotland, St Andrew district Dundee Deaths 1876.
2 e-books, The Records of Aboyne 1230-1681 edited by Charles XI Marquis of Huntly (1894).
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