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ABERCROMBY, Alexander of Towie and Galcors, 'younger of Pitmeddan'
(About 1552-1586) |
ABERCROMBY, Alexander of Towie and Galcors, 'younger of Pitmeddan' 2 3
User ID: W782. General Notes: "ALEXANDER, the elder son, ultimately got the lands of Pitmeddan, but was previously designated of Towie and of Galcors. As Alexander Abercromby of Towie, he had a charter on 17 April 1571 of the lands of Galcors, co. Banff. He was dead before 9 December 1586-87 when his son Alexander got a charter of Pitmeddan on the resignation of his grandfather Alexander." Alexander married Marjory OGILVY 'Lady Birkenbog', daughter of Alexander OGILVY younger, of Cardell and Barbara OGILVY.1 (Marjory OGILVY 'Lady Birkenbog' was born about 1558.) Marriage Notes: "Leichestoun's third wife (he married her before 1592) was Marjory Ogilvy .... Alexander Abercromby, who was murdered in 1594, describes her (1592) as his 'dochter-in-law'. She may have been the widow of Abercromby's eldest son, Alexander, of Galcors, 'who may be Alexander Abercromby of Ley, slain through the witchcraft of Jonet Grant before 1590" (Tragic History of the Abercrombies, p. 16)." |
1 e-books, The House of Gordon vol. 2 ed. John Malcolm Bulloch (1907) Cadets of Lesmoir: Leichestoun by J.M. Bulloch assisted by D. Wimberley.
2 e-books, The Scots Peerage ed. Sir James Balfour Paul vol. 4 (1907).
3 National Records of Scotland, GD185 Papers of the Abercromby Family of Forglen and Birkenbog 1323-1963.
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