ORCHARDTON, James 1
- Born: About 1500
- Marriage (1): STRACHAN, Jean 1
User ID: H987.
James married Jean STRACHAN, daughter of Sir William STRACHAN of Monboddo and Unknown.1 (Jean STRACHAN was born about 1508.)
Marriage Notes:
"Jean, daughter of Sir William Strachan of Monboddo, married Sir John Orchardton of Orchardton, parish of Udny, Aberdeenshire, as is attested in the following birth-brief, dated at Edinburgh, 6th August 1663 : (the Latin version of the-birth brief follows) Translated into English the birth-brief proceeds thus :
"Charles. - Since, therefore, our well-beloved subject. Sir John Orchardton, captain of the guards in the army of his Serene Highness the King of Sweden, has asked and petitioned us to make a diploma certified by public testimony as to what is known of his birth and lineage, either from memory of man, or the most ancient records of the kingdom of Scotland : we being well inclined to so honourable a petition, and a search having been made into the whole matter, by the assistance and fidelity of William, Earl of Glencairn, Chancellor of our kingdom, give this public testimonial regarding his birth and ancestry. The foresaid Sir John Orchardton, captain of the guards, was born in lawful wedlock of parents and ancestors on both sides in the first rank for nobility and worth in this kingdom - his father being Sir Andrew Orchardtoune, laird of Orchardtoune in the sheriffdom of Aberdeen, his mother Lady Elizabeth Robertson, the latter's lawful spouse. And Andrew Orchardtoun, laird of Orchardtoun, was lawful son of Sir John Orchardtoun, laird of Orchardtoun, by his spouse, Elizabeth Auchinleck, who was lawful daughter to Sir John Auchinleck of Pitrichie, knight, descended of the very ancient family of the barons of Balmain, in the sheriffdom of Perth, a very distinguished senator in the Supreme Court of Scotland, by his spouse, Lady Anna Rait, lawful daughter of Sir James Rait of Hallgreen, knight. Also this Sir John Orchardtoun, laird of Orchardtoun, grandfather of Sir John Orchardtoun, captain of the guards, was lawful son to Sir James Orchardtoun, laird of Orchardtoun, by Lady Jean Strachan, whose father was Sir William Strachan, laird of Monboddo, descended in a direct line of the most ancient family of the Strachans, barons of Thorntoun, in the shire of Kincardine, especially eminent for wealth, honour, power, and ancestral glory.' "
from Memorials of Strachan and Wise (1877) 1
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