INNES, James of Blackhills in Dallas ¹

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James married Daughter LESLIE, daughter of William LESLIE 2nd of Aikenway and Isabel DUNBAR.¹ (Daughter LESLIE was born about 1545.)

  Marriage Notes:

"II. William Leslie succeeded his father as second Laird of Aikenway. He married, first, Margaret Winton, heiress of Cocklarachie, and had issue

I. George, his successor, and two daughters, married respectively to James Hay, Netherboat of Spey, and James Innes, son of Innis of Dranie."

from Family of Leslie




"15.2.James of Blackhills in Dallas probably m daughter of William Leslie of Aikenway, father or grandfather of -

16.1.James wadsetter of Drumgask on Deeside"

from Innes of Drainie

Note:

This section on the Leslies of Aikenway presents a number of problems with dates based on the statements about parentage and marriage partners.

If the daughter who married James Innes, as noted above, was the daughter of George Leslie, 3rd of Aikenway, she would have been born about 20 years or so before the husband, James Innes of Blackhills, a husband that secondary sources normally assign to her.

Of course, he may not have been her husband; she may have married his father, also named James Innes, who appears to have been of her generation, but that is not found in the sources.

It may be then that she was either not a daughter of George's two wives, and instead was born outside of marriage, or she was a daughter born within marriage, but of his second marriage, not his first. ^{1 2}