DE THORNTON, Agatha or Agneta ¹

   Another name for Agatha was QUAGIE, Agneta DE THORNTON.²

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  Research Notes:

AGNETA QUAGIE DE THORNTON

The surname Quagie is hardly a common one, even in the Middle Ages. It may be an alternative form of Gugy or Gogy, even gagie. there is a place name 'Gagie' in the parish of Murroes, Angus, Scotland. It lies about eleven miles south west of Carmyllie and under five miles north of Claypotts Castle.

"The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of William Gogy, provost of Inverkethyn, which was dated 1330, in the "Exchequer Rolls of Scotland", during the reign of King David 11 of Scotland, 1329 - 1371."

from http://www.surnamedb.com/Surname/Gagie#ixzz1J9YX4qaY ³

Agatha married Sir James STRACHAN of Monboddo, then of Thornton, son of John DE STRATHACHYN and Unknown.¹ (Sir James STRACHAN of Monboddo, then of Thornton was born possibly about 1290.)

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"In 1309, Valentine of Thornton had a charter from King Robert the Bruce of the lands of Thornton in the Mearns; and as this is the first, so is it the last, record of the family being possessed of that estate.

It is said that the male line of the Thorntons failed in the reign of King David II., and that a daughter, Agatha, or Agneta, carried the property by marriage to Sir James Strachan of Monboddo, by whom she had two sons, Duncan, or Donald, and John. It is further asserted that the younger son received Thornton, and, subsequently succeeding his brother in Monboddo, was knighted by King Robert II."

from Memorials of Angus and the Mearns

NOTE: the full picture is more complex than this, but it does indicate
i] there were diferent strands of Strachans
ii] they were probably interrelated
iii] some absorbed the others in a variety of ways historically ¹