BUTLER, Margaret ¹

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Margaret married Walter COCHRANE of Dumbreck, Provost of Aberdeen, son of Walter COCHRANE Merchant Burgess of Aberdeen and Janet GORDON.¹ (Walter COCHRANE of Dumbreck, Provost of Aberdeen was born about 1630 and died about 15 December 1694 ¹.)

  Marriage Notes:

On Sandilands' removal from the provostship, the result of
the new election was that Cochran was elected by a plurality
of votes. Provost Cochran was the eldest son of Baillie Walter
Cochran of Drumbreck, by his spouse Janet Gordon, whose Provost Cochran was
married to Margaret Butler, and there is in the interment books
of S. Nicholas Churchyard evidence of several of their children
having died young. His family, so far as known, were Anna,
baptised 30tli October, 1675 ; Janet, baptised 21st October,
1676 ; Elizabeth, baptised 30th June, 1678 ; Walter, baptised
15th November, 1679 ; Margaret, baptised 19th December, 1680;
and Margaret, baptised 30tli April, 1682. His son, Walter,
succeeded him in the estate of
Drumbreck, in the parish of
Udny, while his grandson, also /J V f(/q y ft \\/^(7yi\\.
called Walter, was appointed
Depute Town-Clerk in 1728. ¹