WOOD, Elezebeth (DNA Linked) ^{1 2}

   Another name for Elezebeth was Elizabeth.³

   User ID: I16.

Elezebeth married John GARTSHORE of Middle Blairlinn, DNA linked, son of John GARTSHORE of that Ilk and Jean MUIRHEAD, on 4 July 1673 in Kirkintilloch parish, Dunbartonshire, Scotland.¹ (John GARTSHORE of Middle Blairlinn, DNA linked was born about 1642 and died on 1 January 1714 in Blairlinn farm, New Monkland parish, Lanarkshire, Scotland ⁴.)

  Marriage Notes:

"GARTSHORE
JOHN
ELEZEBETH WOOD/FR279 (FR279)
04/07/1673
498
10 / 523
Kirkintilloch"

from Index of Marriages


Old Parish Registers
Kirkintilloch parish Dunbartonshire
Marriages

"(at top 1673)
18 day of Juny
A proclamation being lawfullie post betwixt Joⁿ Gartshore portioner on new munkland & Elezebeth wood in this parish & nothing being objected were married the 4^h of July"




"John Gartshore married Elizabeth Wood 4 July 1673, Kirkintilloch. They moved from Kirkintilloch to New Monkland after the marriage. There is a sasine whereby John Gartshore (Elizabeth Wood) borrowed money from Alexander Gartshore in December 1688, bought Middle Blairlin a week later and had paid back Alexander Gartshore by 1694."

from Rootschat

Note:

1

There is uncertainty about where this John Gartshore belongs in the family line.

The actual sasine referred to above (1688) has not been seen by this researcher. The reference to it raises the question of who exactly the 'Alexander' was from whom money was borrowed. Were there two Alexanders - one who was the father of Agnes baptised 1652 in Kilsyth parish and another Alexander, the merchant who later became the laird of Gartshore on the death of his brother - or was there was only one? The suggestion has been put that the Alexander who was the father of Agnes was also the father of this John Gartshore, though no baptism record is available to offer evidence of that. Or was the Alexander Gartshore from whom John borrowed his brother? Without more evidence pointing one way or another we can only guess.

2

The same Rootschat entry talks of John and Elizabeth moving from Kirkintilloch after marriage, whereas the text of the marriage record refers to John as a portioner of New Monkland. Again, without further evidence we cannot say what exactly this refers to. ^{1 4 5}