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PRATT, Bessie
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PRATT, Bessie 1
Other names for Bessie were PRAITT, Bessie 2 and PRAT, Elizabeth.3 User ID: X378. General Notes: "Sir William Coupar, who held the chapel between 1520 and 1526/27, named among those to benefit from the celebration of his anniversary Elizabeth Prat, patroness of his chaplainry of SS Thomas and George in the parish church, and Margaret Chalmer, lady of Findlater." Research Notes: DEATH DATE and THE CHRONICLE OF ABERDEEN Bessie married Walter CULLEN Magistrate in Aberdeen, son of Andrew CULLEN Merchant, Provost of Aberdeen and Unknown. (Walter CULLEN Magistrate in Aberdeen was born about 1492 and died on 28 October 1561 1.) Marriage Notes: "The elder son, Walter (died 28th October, 1561), became one of the magistrates in 1531, and by his wife, Bessie Prat, had two sons: Robert, who fell at the battle of Pinkie, and Walter, who was for some time Reader of the Kirk of S. Nicholas, and author of 'The Chronicle of Aberdeen." |
1 e-books, Memorials of the Aldermen, Provosts and Lord Provosts of Aberdeen 1272-1895 by A. M. Munro (1897).
2 GRO Scotland, https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/files//research/list-of-oprs/list-of-oprs-168-249.pdf List of the Old Parish Registers Aberdeenshire.
3 e-books, The Late Medieval Burgh Kirk of St Nicholas Aberdeen by Iain Fraser (PhD Edinburgh 1989) citing numerous sources.
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