ROSS, Jean 2
- Born: About 1590
- Marriage (1): SCROGIE, Alexander Minister of First Charge, St Machar's parish, Reverend Dr on 17 November 1607 in Saint Nicholas parish, Aberdeen, Scotland 1
Another name for Jean was ROS, Jean.1
User ID: Y227.
Jean married Reverend Dr Alexander SCROGIE Minister of First Charge, St Machar's parish on 17 November 1607 in Saint Nicholas parish, Aberdeen, Scotland.1 (Reverend Dr Alexander SCROGIE Minister of First Charge, St Machar's parish was born in 1565 2 and died in 1659 in Rathven parish, Banffshire, Scotland 2.)
Marriage Notes:
"ROS
JEAN
ALEXR. SCROGIE/FR3946 (FR3946)
17/11/1607
168/A 120 281
Aberdeen"
from Index of Marriages
(at Moneymusk in 1605)
"Alexander Scrogie, M.A., pres.to vicarage and parsonage 20th May 1605 on depriv. of James Johnston. [Reg. Sec. Sig., Ixxvi, 310; Gordonston Papers.]"
(at Drumoak in 1606)
"Alexander Scrogie trans, from Skene; pres. by John, Earl of Mar, in May; coll. and adm. after 12th Dec. 1606, and inst. 26th Jan. 1607; ordered, 7th March 1608, to reside at his church, and on 13th March 1609 to leave the college at Aberdeen at Lammas; trans, to Old Machar after 6th June 1621."
(at first charge Old Machar, Old Aberdeen, in 1621)
"Alexander Scrogie (primus), born 1565; educated at King's College, Aberdeen; M.A.; became a regent in Marischal College; assistant at Skene 9th Sept. 1603; ord. (assistant there) 16th Aug. 1605; attended the meeting of the Assembly at Aberdeen 2nd July that year, for which he was summoned before the Privy Council, but admitting it was not a lawful Assembly he was released; trans, to Drumoak 26th Jan. 1606. He was ordered, 7th March 1608, to reside in his parish, but on 13th March 1609 he was charged with nonresidence. He answered that his family did reside and he himself too on every Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, being occupied at the College the rest of the week.
He was ordered to leave the College at Lammas and reside with his wife and family; trans, and adm. in 1621; D.D. (King's College, 31st July 1627); joined with the other Doctors of Aberdeen in opposing the Covenant, and was app. rector of King's College 24th June 1636. He gave further offence by celebrating the Communion on Christmas 1638, after that had been forbidden by the. previous Assembly. His house was seized by a party of soldiers of the Earl Marischal's Regiment on 15th July, but he compounded for a protection next day with 600 merks until the meeting of Assembly, when he was dep. by a committee, 1st Aug. 1640, for his opposition to the Covenant. He petitioned the Assembly in July 1641, offered to subscribe the Covenant, and to make a full recantation before the Presb. 26th May 1642. By this means he obtained a gift from the Bishop of Ross of eight chalders victual, after he had been deprived of his benefice; died at Rathven 1659. He has been represented as 'of good parts for good literature, judgment, and understanding';
He marr. Jean, daugh. of James Ross, min. of Second Charge, Aberdeen, and had issue William, min. of Rathven and Bishop of Argyll; Alexander, min. of this parish; James; Patrick; a daugh. (marr. William Douglas, min. of Forgue); Marjorie (marr. Alexander Innes, min. of Mortlach). Publications A Funeral Speech in Commemoration of Bishop Forbes (Forbes's Funeral Sermons); also contributed to the Replies and Duplies against the Covenant. [Aberdeen Sheriff-Court Records, ii., 373; P. R. Sas. Aberdeen, iv. 73, vi. 5, 182, 529; The Aberdeen Doctors, 248-54 ; Baillie's Letters, i., 248; Gordon's Scots Affairs, iii., 22, 226.]"
from Fasti Ecclesiae< 1
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