STEWART, Margaret 'of Ardbrake' ¹

  Research Notes:

ARDBREAKE

This may be Ardbrack or Ardbrach in Botriphnie parish. ³

Margaret married John LESLIE of Caldwells, son of Alexander LESLIE of Kininvie and Marian CALDER.^{1 2} (John LESLIE of Caldwells was born about 1517.)

  Marriage Notes:

"John Lesley Sixth Son to Alexander Lesley First Laird of Kinninvie was the First of Galdwell. He married Margaret Stewart Daughter to Stewart of Ardbreake."

from MacFarlane's Genealogical Collections




"VI. John (Leslie) of Caldwells, who married, first, Margaret Stewart of Ardbrake, and, secondly, Helen Munro of Foulis, and had issue I. ALEXANDER, who died young. IL JOHN, his successor, called the Vicar, who was an industrious man, and acquired a considerable fortune. He married Miss Hay, daughter of the Laird of Mains or Meine, and had an only daughter, who sold the property of Caldwells to Ferquhard Leslie, third son of William Leslie of Rudderie."

from Family of Leslie ^{1 2}