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LAVERY, John
(About 1760-Before 1855)
QUIGLEY, Annie
(About 1769-008/1855)
LAVERY, John
(1806-1888)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. DOCHERTY, Sarah
2. Unknown

LAVERY, John

  • Born: 1806 4
  • Marriage (1): DOCHERTY, Sarah on 6 May 1613 in Saint Nicholas Parish, Aberdeen, Scotland 1 2
  • Marriage (2): Unknown before 12 Feb 1652 3
  • Died: 1888 5

John married Sarah DOCHERTY on 6 May 1613 in Saint Nicholas Parish, Aberdeen, Scotland.1 2 (Sarah DOCHERTY was born about 1775.)


  Marriage Notes:

"STRACHEN
WILLIAME
GIRSALL SMYTH/
06/05/1613
168/A 120 298
Aberdeen"

from Index of Marriages




(at Daviot in 1613)


"William Strachan, probably brother of Andrew and Alexander S., mins. of Chapel of Garioch (error, see note); educated at Marischal College, Aberdeen; M.A. (1605); adm. before 14th April 1613; refused to take the Covenant in 1640, and was arrested by a party of its supporters; was suspended by the Synod in 1649 and had an Act of Parliament passed in his favour 26th June that year. He marr. Grizel Smith, and had issue William, a student at Marischal College 1630-8."

from Fasti Ecclesiae (vol 6)

Note:

In volume 6 of
Fasti Ecclesiae, this William Strachan was wrongly identified. He was not the son of William Strachan, Minister of Dun in Angus, but was related to the family through marriage. 1 2

John next married before 12 Feb 1652.3


  Marriage Notes:

(at Daviot in 1613)

"William Strachan, along with his first wife, Grizel Smith, he acquired Leweck, Bayne [sic] (Luesk, Rayne), from John Leith of Harthill, 8th June 1631. Marr. (2) before 12th Feb. 1652 Elizabeth, daugh. of Alexander Strachan, min. of Chapel-of-Garioch; died after 26th July 1654; his son, William, M.A., marr. (1) 26th Nov. to 22nd Dec. 1637 Mabel, daugh. of George Garioch of Little Endownie, and (2) before 4th July 1654 Elizabeth Abercrombie. [Aberdeen Sas., vii, 359, (1631), xi, 559, (1637), xv, 214, (1652), xvii, 252, (1654).]

from Fasti Ecclesiae (vol 8) 3

Sources


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

2 GRO Scotland, OPR Index of Marriages.

3 e-books, Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae vol. 8 Addenda and Corrigenda by Hew Scott (1950).

4 Roman Catholic Church, Linwood 1855/ mother Mrs J Lavery ms Quigley.

5 ancestry.co.uk, Bauer Family Tree.

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