BARCLAY, George of that Ilk, Advocate and Burgess in Aberdeen ¹

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George married Marjorie CHEYNE.¹ (Marjorie CHEYNE was born about 1545.)

  Marriage Notes:

"Walter Barclay of Bathnagoak was succeeded by his son, George Barclay, who was retoured heir to him as 'de eodem' (of that Ilk) in 1602.

He was an advocate in Aberdeen and a burgess of that city. He also appears as Sheriff's clerk of Banff in the year 1590. His name is found in many deeds in the Register of the Great Seal, Volume V, where he is always called 'George Barclay Advocate' or 'Burgess of Aberdeen.' In 1581 Alexander Cheyne, Canon of King's College, Aberdeen, Prebendary of Snaw, with consent of the Principal and others, granted a charter by which he demitted in feu ferme to Mr. George Barclay, Burgess of Aberdeen, and Marjorie Cheyne, his spouse, the tenement, place and manse of Snaw, etc., lying to the west of old Aberdeen, beyond the Powis Burne, between the cemetery of Snaw Kirk and the lands held by Walter Barclay of Kynnarroquhy. Confirmed at Edin¬ burgh 19th August, 1585.

Included in the same confirmation is a further acquisition by George Barclay and his wife, Marjorie Cheyne, of another tenement, place and manse, granted by John Elphinstone, Rector of Invernochty. As the precept of sasine in both cases is given to Walter Barclay of Kynnarroquhy, it would seem that the purchases were a marriage settlement on George Barclay and Marjorie Cheyne.

Marjorie Cheyne was the daughter of Thomas Cheyne (see Note below), ninth of Esslemont. By her George Barclay of Newtoun had at least two sons."

from Family of Barclay

Note:

Thomas Cheyne was 7th of Esslemont. No other secondary sources have been found who name him as Marjorie's father.

It may be that Alexander Cheyne, mentioned above, was a relative, a brother or father perhaps, of Marjorie, although the settlement, in 1581, may not have been a marriage settlement since Marjorie's son, William, was admitted to the Society of Advocates in 1595. Marjorie's other son was named Alexander, that is to say, there was no son called Thomas.

Fasti Ecclesiae lists an Alexander Cheyne, who died in 1587, as incumbent at the parish of Our Lady of the Snow - the 'Snaw church' - in 1580:

"Alexander Cheyne, M.A., son of 1580 Laurence C, commissary of Aber deen, and Margaret, daugh. of William Troup of that ilk, was prebendary and parson 15th March 1580-1. On 13th Oct. 1581 he conveyed to Mr George Barclay, burgess of Aberdeen, and Marjory Cheyne his wife, the 'tenement, place and lugeing of the Snaw now ruinous' ; Canon of King's College and Commissary of Aberdeen; died 1587. He marr. Katherine, daugh. of Patrick Bruce of Pitcullo, and had issue John. [Coll. Shires of Aberdeen and Banff, 304; Aberdeen Sas., ii, 206, 21st May 1620; Reg. Mag. Sig., v, 19th Aug. 1585; Cal. of Charters, xi, 2585; Reg. Abbrev. Feu Charters of Church Lands, ii, 319; Officers and Graduates, King's College, 30.]" ^{1 2}