ARBUTHNOTT, Andrew of Fiddes ¹

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Andrew married Helen LINDSAY, daughter of Alexander LINDSAY of Canterland and Jean MURRAY, about 1650.¹ (Helen LINDSAY was born about 1612.)

  Marriage Notes:

"Andrew, of Fiddes. He had a charter from John Udny of that Ilk, of the lands of Torlairtoun in Aberdeenshire, dated 2 December 1642, confirmed 1 March 1650. He purchased the estate of Fiddes from his cousin, Robert Arbuthnott, and was infeft therein on 18 August 1651. He married Helen Lindsay, daughter of Sir David Lindsay of Edzell, and relict of Melville of Baldovie, and 'died in the flower of his age of that disease his father died and in likelihood had propagated to him.' He is said to have had many children" (page 302)

from Scots Peerage (vol 1)

Note:

The Scots Peerage, volume 9 Addenda et Corrigenda adds a correction to the above paragraph:

"p. 302, 1. 6 from foot, before 'Melville,' insert 'Richard.' "

However this cannot be correct, in fact, because the 1637 contract, though signed by Richard Melville and John Lindsay, Helen's brother, grants the lands of Baldovie to Richard's son, Andrew Melville, and John's sister, Helen Lindsay, upon their proposed marriage.

The Scots Peerage, volume 1, page 514, also confirms that Andrew Melville, not Richard, was Helen's spouse. ^{1 2}