ARBUTHNOTT, Robert of Scotsmill and Inglismill ¹

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Robert married Beatrix GORDON, daughter of John GORDON younger, of Corriedown and Margaret ARBUTHNOTT.¹ (Beatrix GORDON was born in 1606,¹ died in 1682 ¹ and was buried in 1682 in St Fergus Churchyard, Aberdeenshire, Scotland ¹.)

  Marriage Notes:

"Robert Arbuthnot of Scotsmill died in 1682, having married Beatrix Gordon, daughter of John Gordon of Sheills, who must have been his cousin, for her mother was an Arbuthnot, as we have seen. They are buried in the old Churchyard of St. Fergus, near Peterhead, where a tablet to their memory bears the following inscription :

'Here lye the bodies of Robert Arbuthnot and Beatrix Gordon, his spouse. He died aged 72 and she 76 years and both in the Year of our Lord MDCLXXXII.'

In Peter Buchan's Annals of Peterhead, and in several other old books on the neighbourhood, the stone is described and is stated to have borne the Arbuthnot arms quartered with those of Gordon. The shield is now so obliterated - although the stone is said to have been restored in the time of the first Sir William Arbuthnot, by his direction - that nothing can be gleaned from it. As, however, it is impossible for a man to quarter his wife's arms under any circumstances, the arms of Gordon would have been either impaled or charged in pretence - if the latter, then all Arbuthnots descending from this marriage would appear to have the right to quarter the arms of Gordon with the paternal coat. Oddly enough, the arms are surmounted by an angel's head, which is in a fair state of preservation."

from Memories of the Arbuthnots ¹