STRACHAN, Helen 1
- Baptised: 18 February 1610, Saint Nicholas parish, Aberdeen, Scotland 2
- Marriage (1): MIDDLETON, John Minister of Rayne parish, Reverend Mr 1
- Marriage (2): GORDON, John of Rothney after 4 August 1653 1
Another name for Helen was STRACHEN, Helen.2
User ID: H395.
General Notes:
"STRACHEN
HELEN
JOHNNE STRACHEN/MARIORIE MAKKY FR494 (FR494)
F
18/02/1610
168 / A 20 / 118
ABERDEEN"
from Births and Baptisms
Old Parish Registers
Saint Nicholas parish Aberdeen
Baptisms
"18 February 1610
Strachen
Johnne Strachen and mariorie makky ane daughter named Helen williame chalmer robert crwkshank(?) andro mellin witnesses" 2 3
Helen married Reverend Mr John MIDDLETON Minister of Rayne parish.1 (Reverend Mr John MIDDLETON Minister of Rayne parish was born in 1610 1 and died on 4 August 1653 1.)
Marriage Notes:
(at Leslie in 1640)
"John Middleton, M.A., min. about 1640; trans, to Rayne after 17th Oct. 1643."
(at Rayne in 1643)
"John Middleton, born 1610; educated at King's College, Aberdeen; M.A. (1629); became min. of Leslie; trans, and adm. after 17th Oct. 1643; appealed to Parliament, 9th May 1648, craving satisfaction for his service as chaplain to General Middleton and the army in the north for ten months from March to July and Oct. to Dec. 1646 and March and April 1647, with some reparation for his losses and sufferings sustained from rebels and enemies of the kingdom, occasioned by his fidelity and constancy in adhering to the Covenant and country, eleven merks Scots were allowed him. He joined the Protestors in 1651; died 4th Aug. 1653. This quaint epitaph was inscribed on his tombstone:
'Whereas I stood in pulpit round,
And now I ly alow the ground,
When as you corse my corpse so cold
Remember the words that I you told.';
He marr. Helen Strachan (who marr. (2) John Gordon of Rothnies), and had issue Adam; Janet (marr. Robert Forbes, min. of Alva). [Acts of Parl., vi., part ii., 58; Aberdeen Inhib., 26th Jan. 1676; Tombst.]"
from Fasti Ecclesiae 1
Helen next married John GORDON of Rothney, son of Alexander GORDON of Rothney and Unknown, after 4 August 1653.1 (John GORDON of Rothney was born about 1605.)
Marriage Notes:
"John Middleton .... marr. Helen Strachan (who marr. (2) John Gordon of Rothnies)"
from Fasti Ecclesiae 1
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