ROSE, John of Drakies and Pittendreich ¹

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John married Daughter LINDSAY.¹ (Daughter LINDSAY was born about 1585.)

  Marriage Notes:

"Mr. John Rose of Wester Drakies and of Pittenriech was twice married. His first wife was a daughter of Lindsay, Bishop of Ross, bv whom he had only one daughter."

from Family of Rose ¹

John next married Margaret DOUGLAS, daughter of Archibald DOUGLAS of Pittendreich and Unknown.¹ (Margaret DOUGLAS was born about 1595 and died after 1689.)

  Marriage Notes:

"His (John Rose's) second wife was Margaret Douglas, daughter and heiress of Douglas of Pittenriech, in the parish of Elgin. By her he had only a daughter Katharine, married to Sir .James Strachan of Thorntoun. The temptation of the fertile barony of Pittenriech led Mr. John Rose into this marriage ; but the debts affecting it exhausted both it aud his paternal lands of Wester Drakies ; and in him the direct male succession failed"

from Family of Rose ¹