MERCER, Agnes ¹

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Agnes married William LINDSAY of Culsh, writer (solicitor) in Edinburgh about 1677.¹ (William LINDSAY of Culsh, writer (solicitor) in Edinburgh was born about 1635 and died in November 1694.)

  Marriage Notes:

"662. Lindsay (William) of Culsh in the Parish of New Deer, Aberdeenshire .... died in November, 1694, having been three times married : first to Barbara Leith, then about 1677 to Agnes Mercer, and then in 1693 to Barbara Guthrie.....The parentage of Barbara Leith is not known, nor that of Agnes Mercer, although a conjecture is hazarded in the Appendix (Mercer) regarding it. She was the widow of Mr. Alexander Youngson, son of the minister of Durris, when she was married to William Lindsay. She died 1st March, 1690 or 1691. They had a son, William Lindsay, who succeeded to Culsh, and three daughters, Christian, Margaret and Lilias, who in 1696 resided with their sister Isobell in Turriff. Christian married John Byth in Glassley, and at one time resided with her nephew, Mr. William Mair, Secession minister at Muckhart, near Kinross. Margaret was married 18th April, 1723, to Mr. George Mair, minister of New Deer, and had one son, of whom and other relatives some particulars will be found in the Appendix. Lilias Lindsay, the youngest, died unmarried 13th April, 1740. Her well-worn, oil-stained folio Bible is in the possession of the compiler of this Record. By her last will, failing other legatees, she destined one thousand merks to the Society for Propagating Christian Knowledge."

from Family Record ¹