STRACHAN, Hugh SJ, Reverend Mr
- Born: 1670
- Died: 1745, Douai, France
General Notes:
"James Ramsay of Thornton, alias Sir James Strachan, Episcopal minister at Keith, ejected at the Revolution had a son Hugh Ramsay or Strachan, born in 1672, who was converted in 1693 by Dr Jamieson, then a priest at Aberdeen. He was sent to Rome; but, in passing through Douay became a Jesuit. He returned a missionary to his native country in 1701, and died at Douay in 1745."
Hugh Strachan entered Douai College on 31 January 1693. He returned as a Catholic missionary to Scotland "commonly know under the name of Ramsay". He worked in Crathie, Kindrochit, Glemmuick and Glencarden or Glencairn in 1713 and was declared fugitive by the Lords Justiciary at Aberdeen.
"The remarkable Braemar register begun in 1703 by an earlier Jesuit, Fr Hugh Strachan...."
"Mr Hugh Strachan, a Jesuit, resides in Ardoch, Glengairn, which belongs to Callum Grierson alias McGregor of Dalfad who has built a house for him and a garden and furnishes him with all necessities."
from Epitaphs and Inscriptions
Research Notes:
OTHER JESUITS
"It may be added that, in addition to Hugh Strachan, or Ramsay, Dr Oliver gives the names of other five of this race who be- came Jesuits. Among these is Alexander, eldest son of the sixth baronet of Thornton, who " succeeded to the title and its slender income, 'and died at Liege in 1793. He was for some time Tutor in a private family, and was succeeded by his brother Robert, who was long a mercantile clerk, and died at Exeter in 1826, aged about 90.
There were other two brothers. One went to America, and the other is said to have taken the title on the death of Sir Robert Strachan, after which it was assumed by his nephew, who died
at Cliffden, Teignmouth. It is added that Sir Alexander, the Jesuit, was offered £5000 to give
up his family papers to Admiral Sir Richard Strachan, and that, poor as he was, he refused the bribe. The Thornton papers are said to be in the possession of a family in Devonshire, to whom Sir Robert left any little that he died possessed of.
The property of Thornton now belongs to Alexander Crombie, Esq. of Pittarrow"
from Epitaphs and Inscriptions
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