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BLACKBURN, Peter Bishop of Aberdeen, Right Reverend Mr
(About 1552-About 1615)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. WIFE, First?

2. JOHNSTON, Isabel

BLACKBURN, Peter Bishop of Aberdeen, Right Reverend Mr 2 3 4

  • Born: About 1552
  • Marriage (1): WIFE, First? 1
  • Marriage (2): JOHNSTON, Isabel 13 October 1586(proclamation) 2
  • Died: About 1615

   User ID: N407.

  General Notes:

"RECTORS AND DEANS OF FACULTY.

1 1598. Peter Blackburn, the elder, minister of Aberdeen, Dean of Faculty. Signs feu charter of date 5th Sept., 1598 (Vol. I., p. 76)."

from Marischal College 5

  Research Notes:

RELATIONSHIP

Fasti Ecclesiae put forward this man as brother of the Bishop of Aberdeen, Peter Blackburn, but Archibald Blackburn's dates do not allow him to be the son of the marriage of Peter Blackburn and Isabel Johnston. He may be a natural son, a son of an earlier marriage, or a brother or half-brother of the bishop. Moreover, if he had been his son, Peter and William would have been older brothers since they were served heir, the first to his father in 1616, the second to his brother in 1619, and Archibald was alive, according to Fasti, in 1623.


Peter married First? WIFE.1 (First? WIFE was born about 1554.)


  Marriage Notes:

"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

Peter next married Isabel JOHNSTON, daughter of George JOHNSTON of that Ilk and Christian FORBES, 13 October 1586(proclamation).2 (Isabel JOHNSTON was born about 1568.)


  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 2 4

Sources


1 e-books, Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae vol. 8 Addenda and Corrigenda by Hew Scott (1950) Bishops page 709.

2 e-books, Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae vol. 6 Aberdeen & Moray by Hew Scott.

3 e-books, Inverurie and the Earldom of the Garioch by John Davidson (1878).

4 e-books, Genealogical Account of the Family of Johnston of that Ilk, formerly of Caskieben by Alexander Johnston (1832).

5 e-books, Officers of the Marischal College and University of Aberdeen, 1593-1860 (1897).

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