BRUCE, Robert of Broomhall, Fife, Lord Broomhall, Sir ^{1 2 3}

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Robert married Helene SKENE, daughter of Sir James SKENE of Curriehill and Janet JOHNSTON.^{1 2} (Helene SKENE was baptised on 24 October 1619 in Edinburgh parish, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland ³ and died in 1691 ¹.)

  Marriage Notes:

"Helen Skene, baptised 24th October, 1619; married, first, Sir Robert Bruce of Broomhall, Lord of Session (and by him was mother of Sir Alexander Bruce, who succeeded as 4th Earl of Kincardine)"

from Family of Skene




"Robert Bruce, third son of Sir George Bruce, first of Carnock, was the first of the family of Broomhall, Fife. He was retoured heir to Alexander Bruce of Alva, 'his next elder brother,' 29 June 1638. He was a distinguished member of the Scottish Bar, to which he was admitted 4 February 1631, and was appointed one of the Senators of the College of Justice as Lord Broomhall 2 June 1649. He died 25 June 1652, and was buried at Culross, having married Helen, daughter of Sir James Skene of Curriehill, Lord President of the College of Justice in the reign of Charles I. She married, secondly, Hon. Sir Charles Erskine of Alva, and thirdly, in 1666, Sir James Dundas of Arniston, one of the Senators of the College of Justice ; died 1691, and was buried at Culross ; by her Lord Broomhall had issue"

from Scots Peerage (vol 3) ^{1 2}