GARTSHORE, James of Alderston, WS ²

   Other names for James were GARTHSHORE, James of Alderston, WS ³ and GARTSHORE, James.¹

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James married Jean SCOTT, daughter of Sir Patrick SCOTT 2nd Baronet of Ancrum and Margaret HARDEN, after June 1724. (Jean SCOTT was born about 1701 and died before 1753 ⁴.)

  Marriage Notes:

"James Gartshore of Alderston was a writer to the Signet in very extensive practice in Edinburgh, if we may judge by the frequency of the occurrence of his name in the records relating to that period. He was a son of Mr James Gartshore, minister of Carmichael, and was admitted to the society of Writers to His Majesty's Signet on 6th October 1729. He had a charter from the Crown on his own resignation of the lands and barony of Alderston, with manor place, etc., comprehending, as formerly specified, to him and to James Gartshore his only son, the child of the deceased Mistress Jean Scott, his spouse, dated at Edinburgh 23rd February 1753. His first wife was Jean Scott, third daughter of Sir Patrick Scott of Ancrum, Bart., and widow of David Muirhead, younger of Linhouse, with whom he had James, before-mentioned, and a daughter, Jane, who married in 1755 Thomas Tod of Drygrange, W.S."

from History of Mid-Calder ²

James next married Helen SPOTTISWOOD, daughter of John SPOTTISWOOD of that Ilk, Advocate and Helen ARBUTHNOTT, on 13 June 1756 in Edinburgh, Scotland.¹ (Helen SPOTTISWOOD was born about 1720.)

  Marriage Notes:

"Jean Scott died before 1753, and the laird of Alderston espoused secondly, in the month of June 1756, Helen, daughter of John Spottiswoode, advocate, to whom he gave a liferent annuity of £150 sterling out of the lands and barony of Alderston in terms of the contract of marriage between them."

from History of Mid-Calder ²