STRACHAN, Katherine ²

   Other names for Katherine were STRACHAN, Catharine,¹ STRATHAUCHIN, Catharine ¹ and STRATHAUCHIN, Katherine.³

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Katherine married John MIDDLETON of Netherseat and Kilhill, son of Gilbert MIDDLETON of that Ilk, Sheriff of Forfar and Agnes LAUDER, by 1557.^{1 2} (John MIDDLETON of Netherseat and Kilhill was born about 1520 and died in July 1588.)

  Marriage Notes:

"In 1557, a second wife of his is mentioned - Catharine Strathauchin, or Strachan. He had two sons, John and Alexander.

To his elder son, John Middleton resigned in 1564 the lands of Nethersailt and two-thirds of the lands of Bent, reserving, however, the life-rent and freehold of the same lands during his own lifetime, and the lifetime of his spouse, Catharine Strachan."

from The Earls of Middleton




"Strathauchin
Katherine
14/7/1582
sometime spouse to John Middilton of Kylhill in the Mearns
Testament Dative and Inventory
Edinburgh Commissary Court
CC8/8/11"

from Wills and Testaments




"He (John Middleton) died in July 1588, having married, first, Isabella, daughter of David Falconer of Halkerton .... secondly .... Katherine, said to have been the daughter of Strachan of Thornton"

from Scots Peerage (vol 6)

Note:

If the Katherine Strachan who married John Middleton was indeed a daughter of the laird of Thornton, then, chronologically, it would be this one.

Memorials of the Scottish Families of Strachan and Wise by Charles Rogers (1877), on page 36, has the wife of John Middleton, ("John Middleton of Killhill, Kincardineshire"), as the daughter of Alexander Strachan, laird of Thornton, and his first wife Isabel Keith. This last-named wife died in 1595. Their daughter, Catherine, also sometimes named as Helen, would have been born too late to be the wife of this John Middleton; she was married to John's grandson, Robert Middleton.

This Katherine Strachan may not have been the daughter of the laird of Thornton, but possibly 'of the family of Thornton'. ^{1 2 3 4}