INNES, Hugh Minister of Mortlach parish, Reverend Mr ^{1 2}

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  General Notes:

"Col. John Innes was succeeded in Lightnet by his son James ; and another son was Mr Hugh Innes, minister of Mortlach, who died in 1733, aged 68. It was to this Hugh that the Rev. Alexander Gordon of Rathfriland left his books."

from The Gordons of Salterhill ²

Hugh married Elizabeth ABERNETHY, daughter of Alexander ABERNETHY of Auchencloich, then of Mayen and Isobel HACKETT, in 1702.¹ (Elizabeth ABERNETHY was born about 1673, died after 1732 ³ and was buried after 1732 in Banff, Banffshire, Scotland ³.)

  Marriage Notes:

(at Mortlach in 1698)

"Hugh Innes, born 1665, son of John I. of Feichnet [sic](Leichnet?), Gamrie; was tutor to Alexander, Lord Pitsligo, 1696; called by the Presb. jure devoluto, 20th April, and ord. 31st Aug. 1698; died 18th March 1733. He marr. Nov. (or Dec.) 1702, Elizabeth (died 11th April 1751), daugh. of John Abernethy of Mayen, and had issue Alexander, student at King's College, 1726; Isobel (marr. John Ramsay, min. of Cairney). [Tombst. ; Aberdeenshire Poll-Book, ii., 77.]

from Fasti Ecclesiae

Note:

The dating suggests John Abernethy was Elizabeth's brother, not her father.




"II Another marble tablet near the Keithmore monument bears : -

'M.O.V.S. : Mr Hugonis Innes, filij honorabilis viri Joannis Innes de Leichnet, qui, cum annos triginta quatuor sacra in hoc templo peregisset obijt anno Christi MDCCCXXXII, natus annos LXVIII. Posuit hoc monumentum pia ac dilectissima conjux Eliz. Abernethie, filia domini de Mayen.'

Translation. Sacred to the memory of Mr. Hugh Innes, son of an honourable man, John Innes of Leichnet, who was minister of this church for 34 years, and died in 1732, aged 68 years. His pious and dearly beloved wife, Elizabeth Abernethy, daughter of the Laird of Mayen, erected this monument. Anecdotes are narrated of the superior bodily strength of the above shepherd, often exhibited in herding his flock. Mrs. Innes, of Mayen in Rothiemay, is buried at Banff.'

from History of Moray ^{1 3}