STRACHAN, Jean ^{1 2 3}

   User ID: F92.

  General Notes:

"STRACHAN
JEAN
JOHN STRACHAN/MARGARET MAIR FR2131 (FR2131)
F
22/01/1704
168/A 60 446
Aberdeen"

from Births and Baptisms ³

Jean married Alexander ROBERTSON of Glasgowego, Provost of Aberdeen, son of James ROBERTSON Merchant Bailie in Aberdeen and Isabell IRVINE, on 23 August 1726 in Saint Nicholas parish, Aberdeen, Scotland.^{1 2} (Alexander ROBERTSON of Glasgowego, Provost of Aberdeen was baptised on 16 February 1702 in Saint Nicholas parish, Aberdeen, Scotland ^{3 4} and died on 26 November 1775 ¹.)

  Marriage Notes:

"ROBERTSON
ALEXANDER
JEAN STRACHAN/FR4259 4260 (FR4259)
23/08/1726
168 / A 130 / 242
ABERDEEN"

from Index of Marriages




"Provost Robertson was born in 1702, and married for his first wife Jean Strachan, by whom he had nine of a family. Six of these died in infancy - four, viz., John, Helen, Margaret, and James, having died within the months of November and December, 1736. The children who reached maturity were - Elizabeth, born 1727, married Dr. Robert Pollock, Principal and Professor of Divinity in Marischal College, died 28th November, 1753; Alexander, born in 1732, described as of Blackchambers, who died 27th September, 1793 ; and Jean, born in 1736, married Alexander Lumsden, advocate, and died 10th May, 1773."

from Aldermen and Provosts ^{1 2}