ARBUTHNOTT, Alexander in Rora ¹

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  General Notes:

"Moir tells us that this Alexander was younger brother of the first Laird of Cairngall, and we can corroborate him so far as to say that the first Laird certainly had a brother Alexander. Of him few traces can be found, but we find that in 1602 he witnessed a deed at Cairngall. In 1608 he was in trouble (in company with George Leslie of Old Craig) for the murder of George Leith, son of John Leith of Harthill. At the petition of the widow, Helen Leith, her two sons and father-in-law, Alexander Arbuthnot, 'son of the late James Arbuthnot of Lentusche,' was, with George Leslie, put to the horn for the crime of 'invading . . . and slaying the said Mr. George with hagbuts and thereafter stripping him of his habihments, together with his sword, steel-bonnet and purse containing £ioo of gold and £10 in white silver,' etc.

In 1609 several people found caution not to 'reset' the two delinquents, who, we find, were still at the horn in 1616 for the same offence. Nothing further is definitely known of Alexander. Moir says : 'Alexander Arbuthnot, a son or descendant of the third brother who first settled in Buchan, entered into the service of the Earl Marischal,'' and accompanied that powerful nobleman to Denmark in 1589, when he went to espouse the Princess Anne for James VI. The Earl, perhaps the most opulent of the Scottish nobility, appeared at the Danish Court with all the lustre and magnificance with which the wealth of Scotland could adorn him. Alexander Arbuthnot settled, on his return from Denmark, first at Auchlee, then at Rora, both in the parish of Longside."

from Memories of the Arbuthnots ¹

Alexander married Janet STUART.¹ (Janet STUART was born about 1577.)

  Marriage Notes:

"This Alexander, who, if not a son, might easily be identical with the foregoing one, is said to have married Janet Stuart, maid-of-honour to Anne of Denmark,' and by her to have had issue a son, Alexander, in Rora."

from Memories of the Arbuthnots ¹