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ABERNETHY, Alexander of Auchencloich, then of Mayen
(About 1630-)
HACKETT, Isobel
(About 1645-After 1693)
MOIR, James 2nd of Stoneywood, MP, Jacobite 1715
(1659-1739)
SCROGIE, Marie
(1667-)
ABERNETHY, John 2nd of Mayen, Jacobite 1715
(About 1670-)
MOIR, Jean
(About 1684-)
ABERNETHY, James 3rd of Mayen
(1710-1771)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. DUFF, Jean

ABERNETHY, James 3rd of Mayen 2 3

  • Baptised: 22 June 1710, Rothiemay parish, Banffshire, Scotland 2
  • Marriage (1): DUFF, Jean 1
  • Died: 1771, Dunkirk, France 4

   User ID: Y166.

  General Notes:

"ABERNETHIE
JAMES
JOHN ABERNETHIE/JEAN MOIR FR143 (FR143)
M
22/06/1710
165/ 10 137
Rothiemay"

from Births and Baptisms 2


James married Jean DUFF, daughter of Alexander DUFF of Hatton and Catherine DUFF.1 (Jean DUFF was baptised on 18 February 1724 in Auchterless parish, Aberdeenshire, Scotland 5.)


  Marriage Notes:

"James Abemethy, III. of Mayen, married Jane, daughter of Alexander Duff, I. of Hatton."

from Families of Moir and Byres




"Jane (Duff), who married James Abernethy, third of Mayen." (page 232)

"1 'James Abernethy quarrelled at an election dinner in Aberdeen with John Leith of Leithhall, and shot him dead in the street. He eflected his escape, but was outlawed and died abroad (at Dunkirk, 1771). Lord Fife obtained a gift of his life-rent of Mayen for the benefit of Jean Duff and her children.' (Frasers of Philorth)." (page 232, footnote 1)

from Book of the Duffs 1 4

Sources


1 e-books, The Families of Moir and Byres by Andrew J. Mitchell Gill (1885).

2 GRO Scotland, OPR Index of Births and Baptisms.

3 e-books, Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 North East Scotland by Frances McDonnell (in paper Clearfield 1996).

4 e-books, The Book of the Duffs vol. 1 compiled by A and H Tayler (1914).

5 e-books, OPR Index of Births and Baptisms.

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