CRUICKSHANK, Robert of Banchory, Provost of Aberdeen ^{1 2 3}

   Another name for Robert was CRUIKSHANK, Robert.⁴

   User ID: A440.

  General Notes:

"CRUIKSHANK
ROBERT
GEORGE CRUIKSHANK/METTIE GRAY FR729 (FR729)
M
10/11/1623
168 / A 20 / 415
Aberdeen"

from Births and Baptisms ⁴

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Served as: Provost, 1696-1693, Aberdeen, Scotland. ¹

Robert married Sarah LESLIE, daughter of George LESLIE Provost of Aberdeen and Christan WALKER.¹ (Sarah LESLIE was baptised on 20 March 1651 in Saint Nicholas parish, Aberdeen, Scotland ^{4 5} and died on 1 January 1716 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