BLACK, Elizabeth
- Born: About 1495
- Marriage (1): SKENE, Alexander 10th of that Ilk by 20 May 1516(charter) 1
- Died: 1573 1
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Elizabeth married Alexander SKENE 10th of that Ilk, son of Alexander SKENE 9th of that Ilk and Agnes FORBES, by 20 May 1516(charter).1 (Alexander SKENE 10th of that Ilk was born about 1493 and died in 1517.)
Marriage Notes:
"With this laird Mr. Alexander Skene begins his genealogical account of the family. He says -
'After many generations succeeded Alexander Skene of yat ilke. At that tyme the family being weak and under burdens, he married Elizabeth Black, daughter to a burgess of Aberdeen, with whom he got in dott and tocher good all that tract of land called the round table' and MS.D adds - 'being that part of the town of Aberdeen bounded on the east with the Castle Street or present Exchange, on the south with the Exchequer Row, and on the west with the Rotten Row, and on the north with the Narrow Wynd. Besides these houses, he got a considerable sum of money with her.' [....]
Alexander Skene was, as we have seen, in pupillarity when his father died in 1507, and attained majority in 1514 [....]
On 17th July, in the same year (1514), he is infeft as heir, served and retoured, to Alexander Skene, his father, in the lands and barony of Skene.
In 1516 he married Elizabeth Black, as on 20th May in that year he receives a Crown charter to himself and Elizabeth Black, his spouse, of the lands of Newton in Skein and Letter, in Baronia de Skene, by his own resignation, as her jointure lands. He seems to have died in 1517."
from Skene of Skene 1
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