STRACHAN, Catherine ¹

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Catherine married Patrick ANDERSON of Uras.¹ (Patrick ANDERSON of Uras was born about 1585.)

  Marriage Notes:

"James Anderson of Uras, Ogilvy 's stepbrother, was the son of Patrick Anderson of Uras, whose widow, Catherine Strachan, sub-sequently married William Ogilvy of Lumgair."

from In Defence of the Regalia ¹

Catherine next married William OGILVY of Balnagarrow, then of Lumgair, son of John OGILVY of Balnagarrow and Christian OGILVY.¹ (William OGILVY of Balnagarrow, then of Lumgair was born about 1578 and died in 1659 ².)

  Marriage Notes:

"The immediate progenitor (of Ogilvys of Barras) was William, second son of John Ogilvy of Balnagarrow, in Forfarshire, whose wife was the only daughter of James Ogilvy of Balfour. This William came to Dunnottar as a boy in the train of his kinswoman Dame Margaret, daughter of the fifth Lord Ogilvy of Airlie, and second wife of George, fifth Earl Marischal. From the seventh Earl, William, in 1643, acquired in wadset the lands of Lumgair, a purchase which may be said to have secured the permanent settlement of the family in the Mearns. He married Catherine, daughter of Strachan of Bridgeton, and widow of Patrick Anderson of Uras."

from In Defence of the Regalia ¹