ANDERSON, Euphemia ^{1 2}

   Other names for Euphemia were ANDERSON, Euphie ³ and ANDERSONE, Effie.⁴

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Euphemia married Alexander DAVIDSON of Carnbrogie, Advocate, son of Thomas DAVIDSON Commissary Clerk, Burgess of Aberdeen and Janet GORDON.^{1 2} (Alexander DAVIDSON of Carnbrogie, Advocate was born about 1598 ¹ and died on 26 April 1666 ^{2 5}.)

  Marriage Notes:

"Davidson (or Davidsone), Alexander. 1616.

M.A. Son of Thomas Davidson, burgess of Aberdeen. Procurator Fiscal of Aberdeenshire, 1631-60. Honorary burgess of Aberdeen, admitted, along with his servant, George Scot, 7th May, 1635. One of the Assessors to the Rector of King's Coll. in 1663. Proprietor of Cairnbrogie. Married Euphemia, younger dau. of John Anderson, painter, Aberdeen, with issue: 1. Alexander, advocate (1661). Died, 26th April, 1666."

from History of the Society of Advocates




"A tablestone in the nave of the West Church, Aberdeen, bears a Latin inscription that Alexander Davidson of Carnbrogie, advocate, died 26th April, 1666, and also that Alexander Davidson of Newton, advocate, his son, died 2nd April, 1685. [For notes see New Spalding Club's Sheriff Court Records, and House of Gordon, II., p. 467; Temple's Thanage, pp. 76 and 404; and Scottish Notes and Queries for October, 1887, p. 69.]

It is known that the former was admitted a member of the Society of Advocates in Aberdeen in 1616, and that he held the office of Procurator-Fiscal from 1631 to 1660, as also that the latter was admitted a member of the same Society in 1661. The. late Mr Andrew Jervise suggests [Walker's Deans of Guild of Aberdeen, p. 136] that the family may have been descended from Robert Davidson, the 'Provost of braif Aberdene,' who fell at Harlaw in 1411.

Neither the inscription nor any printed record mentions who the wife, of the first and mother of the second-mentioned Alexander Davidson was. Investigation on my part proved fruitless till the other day, when an examination of family papers - courteously loaned me from Birkwood, Banchory - disclosed that the lady was 'Euphen' (otherwise Euphemia) Anderson, younger daughter of John Anderson, who, as a painter, attained a high reputation, his 'fine painting yet (1642) remaining in Gordon Castle' being specially acknowledged."

from Notes and Queries ^{1 2}