STRATON, Margaret

   Another name for Margaret was STRAITON, Margaret.¹

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Margaret married John STRACHAN of Thornton, son of Alexander STRACHAN younger, of Thornton and Margaret ROSE.¹ (John STRACHAN of Thornton was born about 1423 and died on 5 March 1487.)

  Marriage Notes:

"This Alexr Strachan afterwards designed of Thornton Married Margaret Ross Daughter of Ross of Kilravock and had John Strachan his Son and heir who had a Charter of his Estate Under the Great Seall of King James the 3d. He Married Margaret Daughter of Straiton of Lauriston An Antient family in the County of Kincairden and had by her David his heir and John the Second Son who Carried on the Line of Succession of the House of Thornton."

from MacFarlane's Genealogical Collections




"Probably Margaret Strachan was his (John Strachan's) first wife; for it would appear that the wife of John Strachan of Thornton in 1503 was Janet Ross to whom is reserved in that year (Playfair's Baronetage) 'a reasonable third part' of the lands of Thornton. He had five sons-David, his successor ; John, who married Margaret, daughter of Sir William Durham of Grange ; William, who founded the family of Strachan of Monboddo, in the parish of Fordoun, Kincardineshire ; Andrew and George."

from Families of Strachan and Wise (1877) ¹