JOHNSTON, Isabel ^{1 2 3}

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Isabel married Right Reverend Mr Peter BLACKBURN Bishop of Aberdeen 13 October 1586(proclamation).¹ (Right Reverend Mr Peter BLACKBURN Bishop of Aberdeen was born about 1552 and died about 1615.)

  Marriage Notes:

"2d. Isobel (Johnston), who married the Right Reverend Peter (Blackburn) Bishop of Aberdeen, and had issue two sons and six daughters. (H. App.)"

from Family of Johnston




(at St Nicholas parish West Charge in 1582)

"Peter Blackburn, Regent in the Univ. of Glasgow; adm. 14th Sept., and entered on his duties 22nd Nov. 1582; trans, to New or East Kirk in 1596."

(at St Nicholas parish East Charge in 1596)

"Peter Blackburn, trans, from West or First Charge 14th Sept. 1596; elected Moderator of the General Assembly 7th March 1597; promoted to the bishopric of Aberdeen in 1601 (g.v.).

from Fasti Ecclesiae (vol 6)




"BISHOPS

ABERDEEN

Peter Blackburn, held the lands and barony of Dyce, and also part of the lands of Endowie, Alford; proclamation of marriage with Isabel Johnston 13th Oct. 1586; his son, Peter, served heir to his father 17th July 1616, in lands and barony of Dyce and in Meikle Endowie and died in (buried in 'auld kirk' Aberdeen) 9th Oct. 1619; his son, William, M.A., burgess of Aberdeen, was served heir to his brother Peter, in part of Endowie, 30th Nov. 1619; his daugh., Isabel, apparently identical with Isabel Blackburn, wife of James Rait, min. of Aberlethnot; if Archibald Blackburn, min. of St Nicolas , Aberdeen, was a son, he was born of an earlier marriage. [Aberdeen Reg.; Retours, vi, 115, 140, vii, 183; Aberdeen Sas., i, 164 (1601), ii, 168 (1620), v, 231 (1626), ix, 180 (1635); Kincardine Sas., i, 133 (1603).]"

from Fasti Ecclesiae (vol 8) ^{1 3 4}