SKENE, Andrew in Auchorie, bailie of Skene barony 1
- Born: About 1569
- Marriage (1): CALDER, Bessie 1
- Died: 1619 1
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Andrew married Bessie CALDER, daughter of Alexander CALDER of Asloune and Barbara GORDON.1 (Bessie CALDER was born about 1582.)
Marriage Notes:
"He (Andrew Skene) appears, in 1598, as burgess of Aberdeen ; and in 1599 Andrew Skene in Aberdeen (the brother), and John Forbes of Camphill (the brother-in-law), appear as executors to umquhile Alexander Skene, sometime fiar of that ilk ; and again, in the same year, on 3rd November, as executors, lawfully confirmed, to umquhile Alexander Skene, fiar of that ilk.
He appears, after his father's death in 1605, to have obtained possession of the Tanistry lands of Auchorie, as we find him so designed in a service in 1610 ; and, in 1613, Andrew Skene in Auchorie is baillie of the barony of Skene.
He married Bessie Cadell or Calder, daughter of the laird of Asloun, by whom he begat three sons
I. Sir Andrew Skene, thereafter laird of Halyards, in Fife.
II. Patrick Skene [ancestor of the Skenes in Austria].
III. William Skene, died unmarried.
IV. Jean Skene, married Mr. Robert --------- , Professor of Divinity at St. Andrews.
V. Isobell Skene, died unmarried."
from Skene of Skene 1
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