FORDYCE, George of Broadford, merchant, Provost of Aberdeen ¹

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George married Isobell WALKER.¹ (Isobell WALKER was born about 1675, died on 24 March 1705 ¹ and was buried in 1705 in Aberdeen, Scotland ¹.)

  Marriage Notes:

"349. Fordyce (George) of Broadford, merchant and Provost of Aberdeen, was born in 1663. He was a younger son of George Fordyce in Haughs of Ashogle, Parish of Turriff, Aberdeenshire, and Barbara Thomson his wife. He was eighteen years of age when his father died (1681) and from his name appearing in 1690 as 'George Fordyce in Haughs of Ashogle' at the baptism of a relative's child in Aberdeen, it may be supposed that he carried on his father's farm, perhaps till his mother's death. He must have been married while there to Isobell Walker his first wife, as in 1696 when the Poll Tax Bool: shows that he was residing at Mill of Bruxie, in the Parish of Old Deer, and carrying on a mercantile business on a stock of 5,000 merks, he had 'a wife and fyve children' He was still there in the end of 1699, but before his wife's death in 1705, he had moved to Aberdeen, where she was buried, and where two of their daughters were already married. On coming to Aberdeen he commenced business, and his name soon occurs as a member of the Town Council. In 1710 he was one of the Baillies ; and between 1718 and 1728, he was chosen Provost six times.....

...... Besides the five children of his first marriage, sixteen of the second will be found on these pages, several of whom became distinguished."

from Family Record ¹

George next married Elizabeth BROWN on 5 June 1707 in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland.^{1 2} (Elizabeth BROWN was born on 23 July 1688 in Neilston parish, Renfrewshire, Glasgow ¹, baptised on 23 July 1688 in Neilston parish, Renfrewshire, Glasgow ³ and died on 30 May 1760 ¹.)

  Marriage Notes:

"BROWN
ELISABETH
GEORGE FORDYCE/
05/06/1707
644 / 1
240 / 131
Glasgow"

from Index of Marriages




"108. Brown (Elizabeth), daughter of the Rev. David Brown, minister of the Parish of Neilston, near Paisley, was born there 23rd July, 1688. Her father was translated to Glasgow in 1700. About the year 1707, when scarcely twenty years of age, she became the second wife of George Fordyce, merchant, and afterwards Provost of Aberdeen, a widower, two of whose daughters were already married. Her mother's name was Blackwell. She was nearly related to the Rev. Thomas Blackwell, who in 1700 had come from Paisley to Aberdeen as minister of St. Nicholas Church. It is not unHkely that his doing so, led to his young relation's marriage to Provost Fordyce. Her married life extended to twenty-seven years, and for as many more she was a widow, the wise and faithful guide of a large family. She died 30th May, 1760"

from Family Record ^{1 2}