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ERSKINE, John of Balhagartie
(About 1530-)
DOUGLAS, Margaret
(About 1536-)
GORDON, John of Cluny (of the First House)
(About 1532-1586)
GORDON, Margaret
(About 1534-)
ERSKINE, John of Pittodrie
(About 1560-)
GORDON, Marjorie
(About 1563-)
ERSKINE, Magdalene
(About 1590-1640)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. JAFFRAY, Alexander of Kingswells, Provost of Aberdeen

ERSKINE, Magdalene 3

  • Born: About 1590
  • Marriage (1): JAFFRAY, Alexander of Kingswells, Provost of Aberdeen on 23 November 1611 in Saint Nicholas parish, Aberdeen, Scotland 1 2
  • Died: September 1640 2
  • Buried: 1640, Saint Nicholas Churchyard, Aberdeen, Scotland 2

   Other names for Magdalene were AISKYNE, Magdelane,3 ASKINE, Magdelene,3 ASKYNE, Magdelene,3 DARSKIN, Magdelene,3 ERSKENE,,3 ERSKIN, Magdalein,1 ERSKINE, Magdalen,2 ERSKYNE, Magdalan,3 ESKEIN, Magdalen,3 ESKEN, Magdalen 3 and ESSKEINE, Magdelene.3

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Magdalene married Alexander JAFFRAY of Kingswells, Provost of Aberdeen, son of Alexander JAFFRAY of Kingswells, Magistrate and Christian BURNET, on 23 November 1611 in Saint Nicholas parish, Aberdeen, Scotland.1 2 (Alexander JAFFRAY of Kingswells, Provost of Aberdeen was baptised on 11 October 1584 in Saint Nicholas parish, Aberdeen, Scotland,1 died in January 1645 in Aberdeen, Scotland 2 4 and was buried on 12 January 1645 in Saint Nicholas Churchyard, Aberdeen, Scotland 2.)


  Marriage Notes:

"JOFFRAY
ALEXANDER
MAGDALEIN ERSKIN/FR3957 (FR3957)
23/11/1611
168/A 120 292
Aberdeen"

from Index of Marriages

"Provost Jaffray was baptised on 11th October, 1584, and married, in 1611, Magdalen Erskine, a daughter of the laird of Pittodrie, by whom he had fifteen of a family, prominent among whom were his eldest sons Alexander and John, both afterwards occupants of the civic chair."

from Aldermen and Provosts 1 2

Sources


1 GRO Scotland, OPR Index of Marriages.

2 e-books, Memorials of the Aldermen, Provosts and Lord Provosts of Aberdeen 1272-1895 by A. M. Munro (1897).

3 GRO Scotland, OPR Index of Births and Baptisms.

4 e-books, The Family of Burnett of Leys by George Burnett, ed. James Allardyce (1901) pages 28 and 29.

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