LEASK, Sarah ¹

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Sarah married Thomas SKENE in Potterton, then of Overhill and Overtown, and in Milnden, son of David SKENE Burgess of Posen, then at Mylne of Potterton and Daughter UDNY.¹ (Thomas SKENE in Potterton, then of Overhill and Overtown, and in Milnden was born about 1598.)

  Marriage Notes:

"Thomas Skene, mentioned in Potterton, in 1623, with a house. He was an elder of the Church of Belhelvie from 1623 to to 1632, and again from 1643 to 1645, when he was returned as ruling elder to the Presbytery. In 1629, on the failure of the sons of Gilbert Skene in Overhill, he succeeded to the possessions of Overhill and Overtown, and in 1638 we find him in Milnden.

He married Sara Leask, a daughter of William Leask of Leask and Isabell Ogilvy, his wife, by whom he had -

1. Robert Skene, born in Potterton, in 1621. He was ancestor of the Skenes of Rubislaw.

2. John Skene, born there in 1628.

3. Hew Skene, born in Overhill in 1631.

4. A son, born in Old Overton in 1632.

5. Alexander Skene, born in Old Overton in 1636.

6. Anna Skene, married in 1639 to Alexander Forbes in Foveran, Thomas Skene, in Milnden, her father."

from Skene of Skene ¹