BARCLAY, Thomas ^{1 2}

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Thomas married Catherine STRATON, daughter of Alexander STRATON of that Ilk and Agnes ARBUTHNOTT, 3 February 1578(charter) married 15 October 1578.¹ (Catherine STRATON was born about 1563.)

  Marriage Notes:

"Title deeds of Mathers. {The Stratons of Lauriston Reference Material, Vol. II, 1501-1600, by Charles Henry Straton, 1939, p. 157 reads as follows:

1578 October 15

Thomas Barclay of Mathers married Katherine Stratoun at Aberluthnot on this date. The marriage settlement in the form of a charter by George Barclay of Mathers in favour of his son and daughter-in-law was signed at Lauriston 3 February 1578, John Straton of Redfurd was a witness. Sasine was given on May 5 1581.

Original Charter is in the possession of D. Porteus Esq. [who was in 1931 owner of] Lauriston Castle.}"

from Stratons of Lauriston




"He (George Barclay) was twice married. His first wife was Mary Erskine .... By this marriage George Barclay had one son, Thomas, who married Janet Straiton of Lauriston in the Mearns, 'a family eminent both for its antiquity and greatness, extinguished only in this present age.' He (the son, Thomas Barclay) died during the lifetime of his father, leaving two sons: David, styled in the records 'the fiar' of Mathers (Mathers XI), and Robert."

from History of the Barclay Family ^{1 2}