MURRAY, Barbara ²

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Barbara married Patrick GRAY Braikie, 8th Lord Gray, son of William GRAY of Braikie, Master of Gray and Anne GRAY, 22 January 1664(contract).^{1 2} (Patrick GRAY Braikie, 8th Lord Gray was born about 1640 and died in January 1711 ².)

  Marriage Notes:

"Patrick, eighth Lord Gray, succeeded his grandfather in 1663, and died in January 1711. He, after the death of his only son, with consent of his only surviving brother Charles Gray, made a resignation of the honours, dated December 1690, into the hands of Queen Anne on 20 February 1707, from whom he obtained a new patent of the same, with the former precedence, in favour of John Gray of Crichie, husband of his deceased daughter Marjorie Gray, for life, and after his decease to John Gray, their eldest son and the heirs of his body ; whom failing, to the other eldest sons and heirs-male of the said marriage, and the heirs of their bodies; whom failing, to the eldest heir-female without division procreated betwixt the said John Gray of Crichie and Marjorie Gray and the heirs of the body of such female, the eldest daughter succeeding without division; whom failing to the nearest heir-male of Patrick, Lord Gray, dated at St. James's 27 February 1707. The patent was thereafter read in Parliament, and ordered to be recorded 11 March 1707. He married (contract dated 22 January 1664) Barbara, sister of David, fourth Viscount Stormont, and second daughter of Andrew, Lord Balvaird, by his wife Elizabeth, fifth daughter of David, first Earl of Southesk, and had issue"

from Scots Peerage (vol 4)




"Barbara (Murray), married to Patrick eighth Lord Gray, and had an only daughter Marjory, who married her cousin John Gray of Crichie, afterwards ninth Lord Gray, postnuptial contract dated 26 February 1683."

from Scots Peerage (vol 8) ^{1 2}