STRACHAN, Elspet ¹

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Elspet married Thomas JOHNSTON of Craig, Sheriff-Depute of Aberdeenshire, son of John JOHNSTON of that Ilk and Katherine LUNDIE.¹ (Thomas JOHNSTON of Craig, Sheriff-Depute of Aberdeenshire was born about 1602, died in August 1656 and was buried in 1656 in Dyce parish, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.)

  Marriage Notes:

"Thomas Johnston of Craig, Sheriff-Depute of Aberdeenshire under his brother in 1630-1, married twice. By his first wife, Elspet Strachan, he had, besides some sons who died young, 1, Margaret, wife of John Johnston of Newplace, and mother of Sir John Johnston, 4th baronet ; 2, Elizabeth, married, in 1652, to Alexander Leith of Bucharne, nicknamed Hardhead ; 3, Isobel, married, in 1654, to Robert, son of Mr. John Cheyne, parson of Kintore."

from Inverurie ¹