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ORCHARDTOUN, James
(About 1500-)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. STRACHAN, Jean

ORCHARDTOUN, James 1

  • Born: About 1500
  • Marriage (1): STRACHAN, Jean 1

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James married Jean STRACHAN, daughter of Sir William STRACHAN of Monboddo and Unknown.1 (Jean STRACHAN was born about 1508.)


  Marriage Notes:

"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." (page 52, birth-brief of Andrew Orchardtoun's son John Orchardtoun, captain of the guards in the Swedish army))


from memorials of Strachan and Wise (1877) 1

Sources

1 e-books, Memorials of the Scottish Families of Strachan and Wise by Charles Rogers (1877).

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