WALKER, Isobell ¹

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Isobell married George FORDYCE of Broadford, merchant, Provost of Aberdeen, son of George FORDYCE in Haughs of Ashogle and Barbara THOMSON.¹ (George FORDYCE of Broadford, merchant, Provost of Aberdeen was born in 1663 ¹ and died on 13 May 1733 ¹.)

  Marriage Notes:

"349. Fordyce (George) of Broadford, merchant and Provost of Aberdeen, was born in 1663. He was a younger son of George Fordyce in Haughs of Ashogle, Parish of Turriff, Aberdeenshire, and Barbara Thomson his wife. He was eighteen years of age when his father died (1681) and from his name appearing in 1690 as 'George Fordyce in Haughs of Ashogle' at the baptism of a relative's child in Aberdeen, it may be supposed that he carried on his father's farm, perhaps till his mother's death. He must have been married while there to Isobell Walker his first wife, as in 1696 when the Poll Tax Bool: shows that he was residing at Mill of Bruxie, in the Parish of Old Deer, and carrying on a mercantile business on a stock of 5,000 merks, he had 'a wife and fyve children' He was still there in the end of 1699, but before his wife's death in 1705, he had moved to Aberdeen, where she was buried, and where two of their daughters were already married. On coming to Aberdeen he commenced business, and his name soon occurs as a member of the Town Council. In 1710 he was one of the Baillies ; and between 1718 and 1728, he was chosen Provost six times.....

...... Besides the five children of his first marriage, sixteen of the second will be found on these pages, several of whom became distinguished."

from Family Record ¹