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ELPHINSTONE, Alexander 1
- Born: About 1560
- Marriage (1): Unknown
User ID: Y364.
Research Notes:
EVIDENCE?
A number of secondary sources list Alexander as the linking generation between the two lairds, James Elphinstone of Glack, though very little detail is available from even the secondary sources apart from the 'fact' that he had a son and died before his father died. No wife is listed. From the point of view of dates, Alexander is a useful link, but where is the evidence for his existence?.
Davidson, however, says:
"James was a favourite name for sons in the Glack family, and Marjorie for daughters, two of which name the wives of Walter Innes of Ardtannies, and of Mr. James Mill, minister of Inverurie were contemporaries. The former was probably a daughter of James Elphinstone who married, in 1559, Marjorie Leslie of Pitcaple. Marjorie Elphinstone, the miller's widow, died in 1622. Her brother James, infeft in Glack in 1586, was, it is likely, the
father of Marjorie, wife of Mr. James Mill Robert Elphinstone of Glack is mentioned in Colonel Leslie's 'Records of the Family of Leslie,' as appearing in a lawsuit at the instance of the Earl of Rothes in. 1620. James Elphinstone of Glack, by marriage contract 13th August, 1641, wedded Jean Leslie, daughter of the 11th baron of Balquhain ; his own sister, Jean, about the same time marrying Jean Leslie's brother, Alexander, afterwards 14th baron of Balquhain." (Inverurie and the Earldom)
In this paragraph, no mention of an Alexander, nor of an intervening generation. 2
Alexander married.
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