RITCHY, Jerome ¹

   Other names for Jerome were RITCHIE, Germ,² RITCHIE, Jerom,¹ RITCHIE, Jerome ³ and RITCHY, Jerom.¹

  General Notes:

Old Parish Register
Kildrummy Parish Aberdeenshire
Baptisms
1705

"Ritchy
Septr 23rd
William Ritchy in Midclova had a male child baptized named Jerome before the congregation"

"(William Farquharson's) eldest son was the above Alexander Farquharson, who married Janet Ritchie, eldest daughter of Jerome Ritchie. [Ritchie then occupied several holdings in the Strathdon district, and also Belnaglack, in Glenbucket, which he vacated in 1770 in favour of his daughter and her husband, Alexander Farquharson.]"

from Epitaphs and Inscriptions

" In Duff House Papers ( Aberdeen University MS 3175/ 1472/1) James Stuart reports to the Earl of Fife in 1788 that 'Belnaglack being eight oxgates land and possessed by Germ Ritchie and his two sons in law Alexr Farquharson & William Brodie, William Brodie possesses three oxgates and Germ Ritchie the fourth. William Brodie was [designed] at the setting of the tack in [Whit] 1782 to get Germ's oxgate at his death and then they would both possess alike. I believe their abilities are much the same, they are both due rent 1787, if any difference Alexander Farquharson is the most substantial.' In the margin the Earl responds that what was designed should be implemented - once rents for 1787 have been paid"
from http://www.dlwalker.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Farquharsons.htm#Table 2 note 1
NOTE: No marriage between a William Brodie or Brody and a Ritchie has yet been found.

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  Research Notes:

JEROME

This is an uncommon name for this place and time. There was a fair of St Jerome in Banff, which lasted for six days. The name may have some connection with that town.

Jerome married Mary GILES on 26 April 1737 in Auchindoir and Kearn parish, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.¹ (Mary GILES was born about 1710.)