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LINDSAY, Isobell
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LINDSAY, Isobell 1
User ID: P330. Isobell married John FORDYCE of Gask, Merchant in Turriff, son of George FORDYCE in Haughs of Ashogle and Barbara THOMSON, on 7 March 1693.1 (John FORDYCE of Gask, Merchant in Turriff was born about 1660 and died by 1730 1.) Marriage Notes: "368. Fordyce (John), eldest son of George Fordyce in Haughs of Ashogle and Barbara Thomson his wife, was a merchant in Turriff, Aberdeenshire. He was married 7th March, 1693, Isobell Lindsay, daughter of William Lindsay of Culsh, in the Parish of New Deer, and Barbara Leith his first wife, and on the 28th of January, 1712, is designed of Craigietocher. On the 25th March, 1714, he was infeft in the whole estate of Gask in the Parish of Turriff (of which Craigietocher formed a part), and died in 1729 or 1730, having settled Gask in his lifetime on his son John, and Culsh in New Deer (which he had also purchased) on his younger son William. The Poll Tax Book of Aberdeenshire, 1696, gives his assessment : ' John Fordyce, tennant, merchant in Turriff, woodsetter ; of stock 5,000 merks ; valuation of his half of lands of Gask, £150. Isobell Lindsay his spouse, his son and three sisters to the said Isobell in familia.' John Fordyce and Isobell Lindsay had three sons and three daughters." |
1 e-books, Family Record of the Name of Dingwall Fordyce in Aberdeenshire vol.1 compiled by Alexander Dingwall Fordyce (1885).
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