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FRASER, Thomas of Knockie, then 1st of Strichen (2nd house)
(About 1546-1612) |
FRASER, Thomas of Knockie, then 1st of Strichen (2nd house) 2 3
User ID: W451. General Notes: "Thomas Fraser of Knockie and Strichen, who was the second son of Alexander, fourth Lord Fraser of Lovat, by Janet, daughter of Sir John Campbell of Calder. On 24 September 1557 his father granted him a charter of Meikle Ballycharynach and Knockie. He had also charters of Inchany, Fairlie, Kinmyles, and other lands. On 25 January 1590-91 he had a charter of the barony of Strichen, which he acquired from Katherine and Violet Fraser, the daughters and heiresses of the late Thomas Fraser of Strichen, a son of the Laird of Philorth, who was killed by John Gordon, younger of Gight, in a quarrel. He was tutor to his nephew Simon, Lord Lovat, on the death of his brother Hugh in 1576." Thomas married Isobel FORBES, daughter of John FORBES of Balfluig and Janet FORBES, after 1576.1 (Isobel FORBES was born about 1542 and died on 30 November 1611 3.) Marriage Notes: "He (Thomas Fraser of Knockie) married Isobel or Elizabeth Forbes, a daughter of John Forbes of Corsindae, and widow successively of William Chalmer of Strichen, and secondly, of Thomas Fraser, son of Alexander, seventh Laird of Philorth ..." |
1 e-books, The Frasers of Philorth vol.2 by Alexander Fraser (1879).
2 e-books, The Scots Peerage ed. Sir James Balfour Paul vol. 7 (1910).
3 e-books, The Scots Peerage ed. Sir James Balfour Paul vol. 5 (1908).
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