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SKENE, James 6th of that Ilk
(About 1390-About 1461)
WIFE, Unnamed later, 'widow Fraser of Cornton'
(About 1395-1458)
KINNAIRD, Thomas 4th of that Ilk
(About 1401-1438)
MURRAY, Egidia heiress of Culbin
(About 1410-)
SKENE, Alexander 7th of that Ilk
(About 1428-1470)
KINNAIRD, Mariota
(About 1430-)
SKENE, Gilbert 8th of that Ilk
(About 1445-1485)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. MERCER, Christian

SKENE, Gilbert 8th of that Ilk 1

  • Born: About 1445
  • Marriage (1): MERCER, Christian by 23 May 1481(charter) 1
  • Died: by 19 March 1485 1

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Gilbert married Christian MERCER, daughter of Robert MERCER of Ballief, Provost of Perth and Unknown, by 23 May 1481(charter).1 (Christian MERCER was born about 1445.)


  Marriage Notes:

"In May, 1470, Gilbert Skene is infeft as heir, served and retoured, to Alexander Skene, his father, in the lands and barony of Skene.

In 1481 he married Cristina Mercer, and settled two farms in Wester Skene as her jointure lands, as appears from a Crown charter granted in 23rd May, 1481

'Gilberto Skene de eodem et Cristine Mersare sponse sue in conjuncta infeodatione et post eorum decessum legitimis et propinquioribus heredibus dicti Gilberti quibuscunque de terris de Adloche et Tulivale cum pertinentiis Jacentibus infra vicecomitatum de Aberdene super resignationem dicti Gilberti. Tenendas de Rege. Reddendo jura et servitia debita et consueta.' "

from Skene of Skene 1

Sources


1 e-books, Memorials of the Family of Skene of Skene ed. William Forbes Skene (1887).

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