MILNE, James of Blairton, Dean of Guild in Aberdeen ¹

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BLAIRTON

"The ownership of Blairton can be established with some certainty from the late 16th century. Thomas Gardyn was named of Blairton in 1572, and it remained with his family. John Leith, an Aberdeen commissioner, and his wife Catherine Gardyn had the rights to the lands of Blairton with all pertaining mills and ecclesiastical lands confirmed by James VI in 1615. Sometime after this date, the Innes family took over. Alexander Innes was noted as 'of Blairtown' in 1672, and Innes of Blairton was certainly a freeholder of the shire in 1690. However, in 1667, James Milne, burgess of Aberdeen, apparently bought Blairton which had previously belonged to Walter Stewart, and Milne was listed as proprietor in the Poll Book of 1696. In 1668 Reverend George Innes, who had previously served as the parish schoolmaster, and then the minister of Dipple and of Kinnornie, returned to Belhelvie as its minister. He bought Blairton, which provided a feu-duty for the minister, and he served there until his death in 1697."

from Landownership in Belhelvie ³

James married.