COUTS, James Merchant in Poland ¹

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  General Notes:

"Among the birth brieves preserved in the Burgh Registers of Aberdeen, 1637-1705, is the following:

'23d July 1646, in presens of George Cullen, baillie. James Coutts. The said day it wes verified and provin be the witnessis vnderwreitin, viz., Doctor William Guild, principall of King's Colledge in Old Aberdein, and Gilbert Skein of Dyce, that James Couts, sometyme merchant in Crosna, in the kingdom of Poll, now resident at Dansik, is lauchfull sone to vniquhill Robert Couts of Auchtercoull, procreat betuixt him and vmquhill Jeane Gordon, his lauchfull spous, in the holie band of matrimony ; and that the said vmquhill Robert Couts of Auchtercoull his mother wes Issobell Forbes, lauchfull dochter to vmquhill Alex. Forbes
of New ; and the said Robert Couts his father wes Robert Couts of Auchtercoull, whose mother wes Gordon, dochter to the Laird of Craig ; and that the said Issobell Forbes hir mother wes Jeane Lumisdane, dochter to the Laird of Cushny ; and that the said vmquhill Jeane Gordon, mother to the said James Couts, was dochter to John Gordon of Carneborrow ; and that the said Jon's mother wes Drumond, dochter to the Lord of Madertie ; and that the said Jeane Gordon hir mother wes dochter to Alexr Bannerman of Watertoun. Quhairvpon the baillie foirsaid ordanit ane testimoniall to be drawin vp vnder the toun's secreit seall, in forme as effeirs.'
Auchtercoul remained in the family of Coutts till 1729, when it was acquired at a judicial sale by William, second Earl of Aberdeen, for the sum of £65,937."

from Families of Colt and Coutts ¹