ELPHINSTONE, Nicholas ancestor of the Elphinstones of Glack ^{1 2}

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  General Notes:

"Nicholas Elphinstone, who received in 1499 the lands of Glack, Abedleenshire, from his brother Andrew, and was ancestor of the Elphinstones of Glack, etc."

from Family of Elphinstone

"The Glasters of Lumgair, in the Mearns, by a marriage with Alice Pilmor, who was heiress of Glack, in Daviot parish, in 1381, came into possession of that church feoff in 1418, upon her death, and continued until 1492, when Andrew Elphinstone of Selmys possessed Glack, except a tenement sold to John Gordon of Lumgair, apparently the purchaser of most of the Glaster property. Andrew Elphnstone, in 1499, disponed Clack to his younger brother, Nicholas, whose descendants were lairds of Glack for 250 years."

from Inverurie and the Earldom ^{1 2}

  Research Notes:

GLACK BEFORE THE ELPHINSTONES

"GLACK was held by the father of Ade of Pilmor before 1294, when Henry, Bishop of Aberdeen, confirmed it to him. In 1381, Alice of Pilmor was proprietor; and in 1418, Murdoch Glaster was served heir to Alice Pilmor, his mother, in that estate. The family of Glaster, who were lairds of Dunnottar in the Mearns, held Glack until the end of the fifteenth century ; when it appears in the hands of a long continuing Elphinstone family."

from Inverurie and the Earldom

Nicholas married Elizabeth ABERCROMBY, daughter of Alexander ABERCROMBY of Pitmedden and Jonet OGILVY. (Elizabeth ABERCROMBY was born about 1482.)