MELDRUM, Jean heiress of Crombie (Crommey) 1Jean married James DUFF of Crombie (Crommey), son of William DUFF Provost of Banff, then of Inverness and Jane LOCKART, about 1696-1697.1 (James DUFF of Crombie (Crommey) was born about 1672 and died in 1709 1.) Marriage Notes: "About 1696 or 1697 he [James Duff] married his first cousin once removed (who was also his second cousin), Jean Meldrum, heiress of Crombie in Banffshire. She was the eldest granddaughter of Margaret Duff, Clunybeg's sister, who married John Meldrum of Laithers. This John Meldrum had two sons; the eldest, Peter Meldrum, succeeded him in Laithers, and the second, George Meldrum, was minister of Glass, and afterwards purchased the estate of Crombie. George Meldrum had also married his cousin once removed, Jean Duff, second daughter of Alexander Duff of Keithmore. He was very much older than his wife, being then sixty years of age, and had baptised her." |