DUFF, Jean ²

   Another name for Jean was DUFF, Jane.^{1 2}

   User ID: H919.

  General Notes:

"DUFF
JEAN
ALEXANDER DUFF/
F
18/02/1724
173 10 / 138
AUCHTERLESS"

from Births and Baptisms



Old Parish Registers
Auchterless parish Aberdeenshire
Baptisms

"(1724)
Duff
February 18th
Alexander Duff Esq. of Hatton had a child baptised named Jean after the Ladies Bracco Dipple and Cromby, witnesses Walter Hackit of Cairntown George Ellies in Knocklieth" ^{2 3}

Jean married James ABERNETHY 3rd of Mayen, son of John ABERNETHY 2nd of Mayen, Jacobite 1715 and Jean MOIR.¹ (James ABERNETHY 3rd of Mayen was baptised on 22 June 1710 in Rothiemay parish, Banffshire, Scotland ⁴ and died in 1771 in Dunkirk, France ⁵.)

  Marriage Notes:

"James Abemethy, III. of Mayen, married Jane, daughter of Alexander Duff, I. of Hatton."

from Families of Moir and Byres




"Jane (Duff), who married James Abernethy, third of Mayen." (page 232)

"¹ 'James Abernethy quarrelled at an election dinner in Aberdeen with John Leith of Leithhall, and shot him dead in the street. He eflected his escape, but was outlawed and died abroad (at Dunkirk, 1771). Lord Fife obtained a gift of his life-rent of Mayen for the benefit of Jean Duff and her children.' (Frasers of Philorth)." (page 232, footnote 1)

from Book of the Duffs ^{1 5}