KNIGHT ERSKINE, Henry of Pittodrie, Colonel ¹

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Henry married Mary ERSKINE heiress of Pittodrie, daughter of Thomas ERSKINE of Pittodrie, Jacobite 1715 and Anne FORBES.¹ (Mary ERSKINE heiress of Pittodrie was born about 1748.)

  Marriage Notes:

"Anne (Forbes), married .... Thomas Erskine, of Pittodrie ; died there 30 October 1750, in her twenty-seventh year, leaving one daughter, Mary Erskine, heiress of Pittodrie, married to Colonel Henry Knight, who took the name of Erskine of Pittodrie."

from Scots Peerage (vol 4)




"The family came, in the end of the eighteenth century, to be represented by an heiress. She married Colonel Henry Knight ; and their descendants now inherit Pittodrie, bearing the name of Knight Erskine."

from Inverurie and the Earldom of the Garioch ^{1 2}