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LESLIE, William
(About 1580-)
DUNCAN, Unknown
(About 1590-)
WALKER, Unknown
(About 1600-)
LESLIE, George Provost of Aberdeen
(About 1615-1692)
WALKER, Christan
(About 1629-)
LESLIE, Sarah
(1651-1716)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. CRUICKSHANK, Robert of Banchory, Provost of Aberdeen

LESLIE, Sarah 2 3

  • Baptised: 20 March 1651, Saint Nicholas parish, Aberdeen, Scotland 3 4
  • Marriage (1): CRUICKSHANK, Robert of Banchory, Provost of Aberdeen 1
  • Died: 1 January 1716 1

   Another name for Sarah was LESLIE, Sara.4 5

   User ID: A441.

  General Notes:

"LESLIE
SARA
GEORGE LESLIE/CRISTIAN WALKER
F
20/03/1651
168 / A 40 / 103
Aberdeen"

from Births and Baptisms 3


Sarah married Robert CRUICKSHANK of Banchory, Provost of Aberdeen.1 (Robert CRUICKSHANK of Banchory, Provost of Aberdeen was baptised on 10 November 1623 in Saint Nicholas parish, Aberdeen, Scotland,3 died on 3 May 1717 1 and was buried in 1717 in Saint Nicholas Churchyard, Aberdeen, Scotland 1.)


  Marriage Notes:

"Robert Cruickshank, born in 1623, is believed to have been one of a large family of George Cruickshank by his wife Mattie Gray. Provost Cruickshank married Sarah Leslie, the third daughter of Provost George Leslie (84) by his wife, Christian Walker. The issue of the marriage was five sons and six daughters, of whom five were living in family in 1694, when the Provost made the following return for the poll taken in that year : -

'Robert Cruickshank of Banchorie, Provost of Aber. is not poleable within this brugh because his greatest fortune layes in the Countrie, but geves up his familie within the brugh of Aber. as follows, viz. : - He hath ane wife and five children in familie, two servant lasses, each of which gets sexteen marks of yeirly fie, and ane man servant, who gets 24 lib per annum.'

The poll taken two years later discloses the names of five of the family - George, who was admitted a burgess in 1687, and qualified as an advocate in Aberdeen, married, 1699, Elizabeth, a daughter of John Gordon ; James, admitted burgess in 1692, was afterwards designed as chirurgeon in Kent county, in Maryland ; Christian, baptised 4th August, 1677 ; Mary, baptised 21st August, 1681 ; and Jean, married to Alexander Watson, merchant in Aberdeen. The other members of the family not mentioned in the Poll Book were Robert (See Note below), baptised 12th June, 1673, died in infancy; Robert, baptised 6th July, 1674, who became a merchant in London ; Helen, who married the Rev. John Whyte, minister of Coylton, in Ayrshire ; Elspet, who married John Johnston, afterwards provost ; John, baptised 12th March, 1676 ; and Isobel, baptised 11th August, 1679. Cruickshank bought the estate of Banchory from John Forbes of Banchory in 1682." [....]

"His grandson, Robert Cruickshank, a son of George Cruickshank, advocate, sold the estate of Banchory to James Gordon, Ardmellie, by disposition, dated 16th September, 1724"

from Aldermen and Provosts

Note:

The name for that baptismal date on the GRO Index is
'George Cruickshank'. 1

Sources


1 e-books, Memorials of the Aldermen, Provosts, Lord Provosts of Aberdeen 1272-1895 by A. M. Munro (1897).

2 e-books, Historical Records of the Family of Leslie 1067-1869 by Col. Leslie of Balquhain (1869).

3 GRO Scotland, OPR Index of Births and Baptisms.

4 Old Parish Registers of the Church of Scotland, Saint Nicholas parish Aberdeen Baptisms.

5 e-books, OPR Index of Births and Baptisms.

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