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LEITH, John 3rd of Harthill
(About 1575-1642)
FRASER, Beatrix
(About 1576-)
GORDON, John of Newton
(About 1550-)
UDNY, Margaret
(About 1565-)
LEITH, John 4th of Harthill, 'the violent laird'
(About 1593-)
GORDON, Margaret
(About 1598-)
LEITH, George of Newrayne
(About 1619-1643)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. ABERCROMBY, Daughter

LEITH, George of Newrayne 1

  • Born: About 1619
  • Marriage (1): ABERCROMBY, Daughter 1
  • Died: 1643 1

   Cause of his death was murdered.1

   User ID: W755.


George married Daughter ABERCROMBY, daughter of Adam ABERCROMBY of Auld Rayne and Janet GORDON.1 (Daughter ABERCROMBY was born about 1619.)


  Marriage Notes:

"One of these (daughters of Adam Abercromby), however, became the wife of Alexander's brother George, who was killed by the man who was both his father-in-law and stepfather. 'Upone the -- day of July (1643), Adam Abircrummy killit his wyfe's sone, callit George Leith, brother german (actually half-brother) to the goodman of Harthill, and who also wes mareit to the said Adames owne dochter ... (Spalding ii, 258) " (footnote, page 46)

from Leiths of Harthill 1

Sources


1 e-books, The Leiths of Harthill : the story of some turbulent lairds and a royalist martyr by F.L. Bickley (1937).

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