WEMYSS, Jean ¹

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Jean married Right Reverend Mr Patrick SCOUGAL Bishop of Aberdeen before 1654.¹ (Right Reverend Mr Patrick SCOUGAL Bishop of Aberdeen was born in 1607, died on 16 February 1682 and was buried in 1682 in St Machar Cathedral, Aberdeen, Scotland ².). The cause of his death was asthma.

  Marriage Notes:

"Patrick Scougal, born 1607, son of Sir John S. of Scougal, Haddingtonshire ; educated at Univ. of Edinburgh ; M.A. (1624); ord. to Dairsie in 1636 ; trans, to Leuchars March 1645 ; to Saltoun 29th Jan. 1659 ; app. to this See by Charles II. 25th Feb. and consecrated (at St Andrews) on Easter Monday 11th April 1664 ; Chancellor of King's College same year ; died of asthma, in the Chanonry, Old Aberdeen, 16th Feb. 1682. An Aberdeenshire tradition describes him as 'big eyed, grey haired, tall, and stooping, and of a very fearful aspect.' He made benefactions to St Machar's Cathedral, the library of King's College, and the Public Hospital of Old Aberdeen. He marr. (1) before 1654, Jean Wemyss : (2) 6th Jan. 1660, Anne Congalton (afterwards Lady Gunsgreen, died Dec. 1696), and had issue - John, Commissary and Provost of Old Aberdeen ; Henry, Professor of Divinity, King's College, born June 1650; James, Lord (Whitehill) of Session, died 23rd Dec. 1702; Katherine (marr. (1) 10th Nov. 1665, William Scrogie, Bishop of Argyll : (2) Patrick Forbes, Bishop of Caithness : (3) Roderick Mackenzie of Kinchullardrum) ; Joanna or Jane (marr. Patrick Sibbald, D.D., Professor of Divinity in Marischal College).\'97 [Dowden's Bishops, 402 ; Monteith's Theatre of Mortality, 128 ; Lauderdale Papers, i., 198 ; Dict. Nat. Biog.. ; Tombst.]"

from Fasti Ecclesiae (vol 7) ¹