KEITH, Alexander of Clackriach ^{1 2}

   Another name for Alexander was KEITH, Alexander of Glackreoch.³

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  General Notes:

"70 Antiquities of Aberdeen & Banff, Vol 4, p620 footnote
Register of the Great Seal, Vol 3 (1513-1546), #3011
28 Apr 1544
Legitimisation
William Keith of Inverugie (deceased).
Alexander (bastard son of William Keith). "

from Keiths of Inverugie




"Robert Keith, second son of William, fourth Earl Marischal, and then only fifteen years of age, but who in 1554 granted a feu-charter of the lands of Glackreoch and others, to Alexander Keith, to be held of the Abbot and convent of Deer, one of the conditions of the feu-right being that the vassal should maintain * orthodoxam seu catholicam fidem.' "

from Scots Peerage (vol 1)




"In February 1554 Eldar witnessed a charter within the Abbey of Deer, a grant of land by the commendator to his kinsman Alexander Keith of Clackriach."

from Politics and protestant Lordship in North East ^{1 2 3}

  Research Notes:

CLACKRIACH

This is likely from a gaelic name, and appears to be the modern form of Glackreoch, in Buchan, in which spelling it appears in volume one, page 156, of The Scots Peerage which deals with the two 16th century commendators of Deer Abbey, uncle and nephew, who were each named Roberth Keith.

In the form Clackriach it appears as a place name in the parish of Old Deer Aberdeenshire. ^{4 5}

Alexander married Wife UNKNOWN.¹ (Wife UNKNOWN was born about 1525.)