STRATON, Christian ^{1 2}

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Christian married Right Reverend Mr Alexander FORBES Bishop of Aberdeen, son of John FORBES of Ardmurdo and Helen GRAHAM.¹ (Right Reverend Mr Alexander FORBES Bishop of Aberdeen was born in 1564 ¹ and died on 24 November 1617 in Leith, Midlothian, Scotland ³.)

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(consecrated at Brechin in 1616)

"Alexander Forbes, born 1564, son of John F. of Ardmurdo, parish of Kinkell (of the Brux branch of that family), by his second wife, Helen Graham of Morphie ; educated at Univ. of St Andrews; M.A. (1585) ; min. of Fettercairn in 1588 ; app. Bishop of Caithness (but retaining his parochial charge) 12th Nov. 1606 ; was one of the bishops who 'clothed in silk and velvet' rode in the procession of peers at the opening of the Parliament that year [his predecessor Blackburn 'thought it not becoming the simfjlicity of a minister to ride that way in pomp,' and went on foot, thus offending the other prelates] ; app. Constant Moderator of Presb. of Caithness in 1607 ; was a member of Assembly, 1608 and 1610 [when Episcopacy was fully ratified] ; member of the Court of High Commission, 1610 and 1615 ; consecrated (at Brechin, April 1616) ; trans, to this See 16th July, and installed (at St Andrews) 23rd Feb. 1617; Chancellor of King's College that year ; died at Leith 24th Nov. same year.

He marr. Christian Straton of Crigie, and had issue - William, served heir, 14th July 1623 Colonel Alexander; John, parson of Auchterless ; Robert ; Captain Arthur ; George ; Bernard ; Margaret or Marjory (marr. Andrew Straton of Warburton ; Isobel (marr, George Forbes of Allathan); Jean (marr. Robert Leighton, son to L. of Usan). Publication - Seven Letters (Orig. Letts.). - [G. R. Sas., xlviii., 384 ; Macfarlane's Gen. Coll., ii., 242 ; Records of Old Aberdeen, 197 ; Aberdeen Journal Notes and Queries, vi., 68 ; Lumsden's Fam. of Forbes ; Keith's Scot. Bishops, 131 ; Calderwood's Hist., v., 609 ; Dic. Nat. Biog.]"

from Fasti Ecclesiae ³