BARCLAY, George of that Ilk, 19th and last of Gartly, Sir ¹

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George married Margaret OGILVY, daughter of Sir Walter OGILVY 3rd of Boyne, Provost of Banff and Christian KEITH.¹ (Margaret OGILVY was born about 1532 and died after 1549 ³.)

  Marriage Notes:

"George Barclay succeeded his father, Walter Barclay of that Ilk, in 1543. He married, first, Margaret Ogilvy, daughter of Sir Walter Ogilvy of Boyne, widow of John, Master of Buchane, and second, Catherine, daughter of the seventh Lord Forbes......

By a charter signed at Craigbogie on December 16th, 1549, and confirmed in the name of the Queen (Mary) at Edinburgh on June 27th, 1551, 'George Barclay de eodem' with the consent of his curators, Mr. James Barclay of Kynnarroquhy and Mr. Alexander Barclay, Burgess of Aberdeen, 'for his special love' and 'especially for favours done and sums of money paid to him by Sir Walter Ogilvy of Boyne, granted to Margaret Ogilvy, relict of John Stewart, Master of Boquhane, in her pure widowhood, in liferent only, the lands and mains of Grantuly with the Tower, fortalice and messuages of the same,' etc., etc. John, Master of Buchan had fallen at the battle of Pinkie on September 19th, 1547, and his widow, who received a life interest in Gartley, became the wife of George Barclay before October 14th, 1556, when we find the Bishop and Chapter of Moray granting a 'tack of the teind sheaves of the parishes of Grantuly and Drumdelgie' to George Barclay de eodem and Margaret Ogilvy his spouse."

from Family of Barclay ¹

George next married Catherine FORBES, daughter of William FORBES 7th Lord Forbes and Elizabeth KEITH co-heiress of Inverugie.^{1 2} (Catherine FORBES was born on 7 July 1554 ².)

  Marriage Notes:

"George Barclay .... married .... second, Catherine, daughter of the seventh Lord Forbes."

from Family of Barclay




"Catherine (Forbes), born 7 July 1554, married to Barclay of Gartly."

from Scots Peerage (vol 4) ^{1 2}