WISHART, Catherine 'of Pittarrow' ¹

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Catherine married Alexander BARCLAY 6th of Mathers, son of George BARCLAY 5th of Mathers and Unknown.¹ (Alexander BARCLAY 6th of Mathers was born about 1446 and died about 1493.)

  Marriage Notes:

"Alexander Barclay of the Mearns and Mathers was the first of the family whose name is found 'both by old evidents, and his own subscriptions spelled as now, viz., Barclay.'

He married Catherine, daughter of Wishart of Pittarrow, and had a son David, who predeceased him. He is reputed to have been a scholar and a poet, and to have lived to a ripe old age."

from History of the Barclay Family ¹