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AUCHINLECK, William
(About 1455-After 1511)
AUCHINLECK, Andrew of Pennyland, and in Pitdreichie, Notary and Burgess
(About 1485-1584)
DOUGLAS, Jane
(About 1495-Before 1592)
AUCHINLECK, George of Balmanno, jure uxoris
(About 1516-1596)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. DOUGLAS, Daughter

2. ERSKINE, Jean

AUCHINLECK, George of Balmanno, jure uxoris 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

  • Born: About 1516
  • Marriage (1): DOUGLAS, Daughter 1
  • Marriage (2): ERSKINE, Jean 2
  • Died: 3 November 1596 2 6

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  General Notes:

"At Aberdeen, 2nd August (1574)

The King etc., has granted to George Auchinleck of Balmanno a third part of the lands and barony of Polygony (Balgownie), with the tenants, etc. etc., mills and multures of the same, and a third part of the lands of Schethin, Little Meldrum, Fingask, a third part of the fishing of one boat, the fish in the sea harbour of Pittendrum, incorporated together, also another third part of the said lands and barony viz. Balgownie, Murcar, Westfield, with the calling of a chaplainry at the altar of St Dominic founded within the cathedral of Aberdeen at alternate times, a third part of the second part of the lands and barony of Dunlop, with their mills, multures, tenants etc., the patronage of the church of Dunlop, in the county of Forfar; which William Auchinleck of Schethin has personally resigned: to be held by the said George and his heirs male legitimately begotten of his body, failing which, by Archibald Auchinleck his brother and the heirs etc, failing which, by John Auchinleck his brother and the heirs etc., failing which, by Adam Auchinleck his brother and his heirs etc., failing which, by James Auchinleck his brother and the heirs etc., failing which, by the nearer and legitimate male heirs of the said George Auchinleck whomsoever, bearing the arms and name of Auchinleck, failing which, by the nearer and legitimate heirs or assignees of the said George Auchinleck whomsoever. In return for the laws, service owed and customs: - reserving to the said William the life tenement and to Eliz Cheyne his spouse, the liferent of the towns and lands of Polygowny, Murcar, Westfield, the corn mills and fulling mills and the Ailhous-croft of the same, Fingask, Chapelhill and the mills of the same, with the reasonable terce of the remainder, when it should happen. (rough translation from the Latin)

from Great Seal of Scotland




(at Kilbucho in 1571)
GEORGE AUCHINLECK of BALMANNO, parson 1571-86. [Comps. Gen. Coll. of Thirds , Comps. Sub Coll. of Thirds, Roxburgh, etc.]

from Fasti Ecclesiae




"5 March 1574

Instrument of intimation made by George Auchinleck of Balmanno procurator of James, Earl of Mortoun, Lord of Dalkeith, regent of the King his kingdom and leiges to Hugh, Earl of Eglinton that the foresaid lands and annualrent had been disponed to him by Lady Jane Hamilton reserving her liferent and that she had also made him her assignee to the earlier contract
Witnesses: Malcolm Dowglas of Maynes and others
James Millar, notary"

from GD3/1/10/71/12




"22 August 1574

Charter of Resignation by Andrew, Earl of Errol, to George Auchinleck [Affleck] of Balmanno of two third parts of the lands of Rawkstone [Raxton] and Craigie, with Mill thereof, lying in the barony of Slains and Sheriffdom of Aberdeen, which lands formerly pertained heritably to William Auchinleck of Shethin."

from GD33/41/2




"31 August 1574

Sasine in favour of George Auchinleck [Affleck] following on Charter GD33/41/2."

from GD33/41/3



"Auchinleck
George
18/12/1596
of Balmanno, parish of Abernethy, sheriffdom of Perth
Testament Dative and Inventory
Edinburgh Commissary Court
CC8/8/29"

from Wills and Testaments 4 5 6 8 10


George married Daughter DOUGLAS, daughter of Sir George DOUGLAS of Pittendreigh, Master of Angus and Unknown.1 (Daughter DOUGLAS was born about 1517.)


  Marriage Notes:

"The four natural daughters of Sir George Douglas of Pittendriech were

1. Elizabeth, whose mother was the Lady Dundas, and who married James Richardson, laird of Smeaton, and had issue.

2. Margaret, whose mother was Fowler, in Edinburgh. Margaret married Sir John Carmichael of that Ilk, and had issue.

3. Douglas, who married Sir George Auchinleck of Balmanno.

4. Douglas, whose mother was the wife of the 'Laird of Barraes.' She married Sir John Selby of Twizel in Northumberland, and had issue."

from The Douglas Book 1

George next married Jean ERSKINE, daughter of Sir Alexander ERSKINE Baron of Gogar and Margaret HOME.2 (Jean ERSKINE was born about 1571.)


  Marriage Notes:

"Jean, married, first, to George Auchinleck of Balmanno. She had a charter from him, as his future spouse, of the lands of Fingask, co. Aberdeen, in liferent, 21 February 1592-93. He died 3 November 1596, and she was married, secondly, as third wife, before 6 July 1598, when a certificate was granted by Mr. John Lindsay, minister of Lethnot, that he had celebrated the marriage, to John Leslie of Balquhan."

from Scots Peerage (vol 5) 2

Sources


1 e-books, The Douglas Book vol. 2 by William Fraser (1885).

2 e-books, The Scots Peerage ed. Sir James Balfour Paul vol. 5 (1908).

3 e-books, The Scots Peerage ed. Sir James Balfour Paul vol. 1 (1904).

4 e-books, The Register of the Great Seal of Scotland, A.D. 1306-1668 (1888) AD 1574 2288 (Apud Abirdene 2 August).

5 National Records of Scotland, https://catalogue.nrscotland.gov.uk/nrsonlinecatalogue GD33 Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair. 1382-1821.

6 National Records of Scotland, https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/ Legal records - Wills and testaments.

7 e-books, The Scots Peerage ed. Sir James Balfour Paul vol. 6 (1909).

8 e-books.

9 e-books, An Historical Account of the Senators of the College of Justice, from Its Institution in MDXXXII by George Brunton and David Haig (1832).

10 National Records of Scotland, https://catalogue.nrscotland.gov.uk/nrsonlinecatalogue GD3/1 Montgomerie Family, Earls of Eglinton: Titles 12th-19th century GD3/1/10 Lands Formerly Belonging to the Earls of Eglinton and Sold by Them from Time to Time 1376-1857 GD3/1/10/71 Bundle 71: B.

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