MELDRUM, Isabel 1
- Born: About 1555
- Marriage (1): REID, James Minister of Banchory Ternan, Reverend Mr 1
- Died: June 1621 1
User ID: N437.
Isabel married Reverend Mr James REID Minister of Banchory Ternan.1 (Reverend Mr James REID Minister of Banchory Ternan was born about 1545 and died before 16 July 1602 1.)
Marriage Notes:
(at Banchory-Ternan in 1567)
"James Reid, a younger son of James R. of Pitfoddels; min. in 1567, with Strachan also in the charge; trans, to Colstone in 1573, but re-trans, from Birse; pres. to the vicarage by James VI. 2nd March 1582; adm. burgess of Aberdeen Oct. 1598; died before 16th July 1602. He 'was a man of a notable head-piece for witte, and most of his children were men of extraordinary qualifications.' He marr. Isabel Meldrum, who died in June 1621, and had issue Robert, his suc cessor; Thomas, M.A. (Marischal College, 1600), M.A. (Oxon, 1620), Latin secretary to James VI., metaphysician and Latin poet, founder of the first public reference library in Scotland, died 1624; Alexander, physician to Charles I., a prolific writer on medical subjects, whose writings were standard works till the end of the seventeenth century, died Oct. 1641; James ; Peter; Adam, min. of Methlick; Catherine (marr. William Burnett, min. of Kinairney); Elspeth (marr. Alexander Youngson, min. of Durris. [Stewart's Life of Reid; Tombst. ; Scots Mag., Ixv. ; Inq. Reg. de Tut., 498, 499 ; Aberdeen Journal Notes and Queries, iii., 329 Scot. Notes and Queries, x., 73, for list of Alexander R.'s Works.]"
from Fasti Ecclesiae 1
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