BARCLAY, Catharine ¹

   Other names for Catharine were BARCLAY, Cathrene ² and BARCLAY, Katherine.¹

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Catharine married Alexander FRASER 7th of Philorth, son of Sir William FRASER 6th of Philorth and Elizabeth KEITH, about 1516.¹ (Alexander FRASER 7th of Philorth was born about 1494 ¹ and died about 8 November 1569 ¹.)

  Marriage Notes:

"Alexander Fraser died on or soon after 8 November 1569, at the age of seventy. He married, first, about the year 1516 (Sheriff Court Records, Aberdeen, i. 321.), Catharine, daughter of Patrick Barclay of Gartly; secondly, before July 1532, Catherine, daughter of Gilbert Menzies of Findoun, Provost of Aberdeen, relict of Alexander Straton of that Ilk."

from Scots Peerage (vol 7)




".....(Elizabeth Keith, Countess of Huntly) and umquhill Beatrix Keyth mother to the said Alexr persewar war sisteris germane and sua secund and third in consanguinity lyik as the said George Gordoun our Shref deputis and the said Alexr persewar ar thirds and feirds in affinitie viz umquhill Cathrene Barclay guddame to this laird of Phillorthe on the fathers syid was lauchtfull sister to umquhill George Barclay sumtyme young laird of Gartlie ... Geven under our Signet at Edinburgh the xxij day of Julij and of our regne the xvij yeir 1584 yeirs"

from Sheriff Court Records, Aberdeen (i. 320 and 321)

Note:

The Scots word 'guddame' is 'grandmother'.




"Crawfurd, upon the authority of a MS. account of the family no longer extant, but written, according to him, by Thomas Fraser, a great-grandson of this Laird of Philorth, says that Katherine Barclay of Gairntully was his wife, and the mother of his children (Lives of Officers of State, p. 282.); and the author of Douglas' Peerage has followed Crawfurd as to this, but adds that Katherine Menzies was his second wife, though he had no issue by her.(Douglas Peerage, vol. ii. p. 474.) Thomas Fraser ought to have known the name of his great-grandmother ; but still, as Katherine Barclay's name never appears in any document connected with Alexander Fraser, seventh of Philorth, while Katherine Menzies will be seen to have been the first on the list of executors in his will of date 1532, and to have been his wife in 1556, there is reason to believe that in this statement Thomas was in error, and that Katherine Menzies was the only wife of this Alexander Fraser."

from Frasers of Philorth

Note:

The above quote is included here for interest. The Aberdeen Sheriff Court reference sugests she was the mother of Alexander Fraser, at least.< ^{1 2 3 4}