STRACHAN, Mary ^{1 2}

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Mary married Patrick GRANT of Pitchaise, son of John GRANT 6th of Ballindalloch and Margaret LESLIE.¹ (Patrick GRANT of Pitchaise was born about 1665 and died on 13 May 1709 ¹.)

  Marriage Notes:

"He (Patrick Grant) married Mary Strachan who survived him. He died on 13th May 1709, leaving a son and daughter.The son went abroad, and was then thought to be dead, but it is stated in a memorial that he was alive in Maryland. The daughter was retoured heir to her father on 12th February 1736. She married James Lumsden of Corichie, minister of Strathdon." (page 520)

from Chiefs of Grant




"The Grants of Rippachie on Donside were alluded to in notice of Mary Grant, wife of the Rev. James Lumsden, of Corrachrie, minister of Towie. She is understood to have been a niece of Grant, of Ballindalloch, and to have inherited the lands of Rippachie and Deskrieside. Her mother, Mary Strachan, is known to have been a daughter of Mr. James Strachan, minister of Oyne, but Scott, in his 'Fasti,' says that the minister of Oyne's daughter, Mary, married Mr. John McInnes, minister of Crathie ; and agreeably with this we find that on 15 Feb., 1740, Mr. John Mclnnes, minister at Crathie, and Mary Strachan, his spouse were infeft in the lands of Kinbattoch in security of £2,000 Scots. The apparent discrepancy might be removed if it could be ascertained that Mary Strachan was Mr. Grant's widow when she married Mr. Mclnnes. Mary Grant was born in 1701, but unfortunately the Baptismal Register for the united parishes of Migvie and Tarland is incomplete in the beginning of the 18th century, otherwise the names of both her parents might possibly have been found there. In 1735 she (Mary Grant) was infeft in Rippachie, to which the next reference we have is in 1752, when her husband, the Rev. James Lumsden, granted a lease of the land and mill of Rippachie to John Gordon, of Crathienaird for their joint lives."

from Family Record of the Name of Dingwall Fordyce
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Mary next married Reverend Mr John McINNES Minister of Crathie in April 1717 in Old Machar parish, Aberdeen, Scotland.^{2 3} (Reverend Mr John McINNES Minister of Crathie was born about 1690 in Inverness-shire, Scotland and died on 21 October 1777 ².)

  Marriage Notes:

"He (John McInnes) marr. (1) Mary, daugh. of James Strachan, min. of Oyne: (2) Feb. 1742, Helen (died 26th Dec. 1774, aged 70), daugh. of William Forbes, min. of Tarves, and had issue ..."

from Fasti Ecclesiae


"MCINNES
JOHN
MARY STRACHAN/
00/04/1717
168/B 60 415
Old Machar"

from Index of Marriages




"219. Strachan (Mary), mother of Mary Grant or Lumsden, was married to Grant of Rippachie, on Donside, a brother of the Laird of Ballindalloch. Her father, Mr. James Strachan, minister of Oyne and Wadsetter, of Ardoyne and Newlands in that parish, was born in 1633, and died 7th January, 1696. From the Poll Tax Book, (latter year), we find that his wife's name was Elizabeth Leith, and the same authority mentions two sons William and Alexander, and two daughters Mary and Jean. Scott in his 'Fasti,' says, that the minister of Oyne's daughter, Mary Strachan, married Mr. John Mclnnes, minister of Crathie. If this is correct there must be some explanation we are ignorant of, to account for the discrepancy in the statements."

from Family Record of the Name of Dingwall Fordyce ^{2 3 4}