SUTHERLAND, Alexander 3rd of Duffus, Sir ^{1 2}

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Alexander married Muriel CHISHOLM, daughter of John DE CHISHOLME 'of the Aird' and Catherine BISSET, before March 1434.¹ (Muriel CHISHOLM was born about 1397.)

  Marriage Notes:

"He (Alexander Sutherland) married, before 19 March 1433-34, Muriel, daughter of John Chisholm of Chisholm, with whom he obtained the lands of Quarrelwood, Greschip, and others near Elgin. At the date named she, with her husband's consent, resigned in the hands of the Prior of Coldingham the lands of Paxton and Aldencraw, in Berwickshire."

from Scots Peerage



"He (John de Chisholme) married Catherine Bisset, daughter of Bisset of that Ilk, in right of whom he succeeded, on the death of her father, to a portion of the Bisset lands in the Aird. By this lady he had issue - an only child, Morella, who married Alexander Sutherland, Baron of Duffus, grandson of Nicolas Sutherland, second son of Kenneth Earl of Sutherland, who was killed at the battle of Halidonhill in 1333. In right of Morella Chisholme, Alexander Sutherland obtained the following lands of Chisholme - Quarrelwood, Clunie, and Clova, in Moray ; Paxtoun in Tweedale, Kinsterrie in Nairnshire, and other extensive possessions. She is on record in 1424. From this marriage the house of Duffus is said to carry the addition to their armorial coat armour, azure a boar's head erazed, or."

from History of the Chisholmes ^{1 2}