STRACHAN, Robert heir apparent of Thornton ^{2 4}

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Robert married Sarah DOUGLAS, daughter of Sir William DOUGLAS 9th Earl of Angus and Giles GRAHAM, 4 and 5 April 1586(contract).^{1 2 3} (Sarah DOUGLAS was born about 1568.)

  Marriage Notes:

"Sarah, married, first (contract dated 4 and 5 April 1586), to Robert, eldest son of Alexander Strachan, fiar of Thornton ... "

from Scots Peerage (vol 1)




"Robert Strachan, eldest son of Alexander Strachan of Thornton, predeceased his father. He married, on the 4th April 1586, Sara, daughter of Sir William Douglas of Glenbervie, afterwards ninth Earl of Angus, who after his death espoused as her second husband Sir George Auchinleck of Balmanno (Withie's Pedigrees, Harleian MSS., 1423)."

from memoirs of Strachan and Wise (1877) ^{2 4}