BLACKHALL, Robert Portioner of Fola, Burgess of Guild of Aberdeen 1
- Born: About 1490
- Marriage (1): JOHNSTON, Margaret 1
User ID: K474.
Research Notes:
BURGESSES
"It appears that there were three classes of burgesses, viz., burgesses of Guild, with fuller trading privileges, who claimed the right to rule the city; 'simple burgesses,' who traded in home productions, but not with foreign countries, either as exporters or importers ; and burgesses of trade who merely had licences to manufacture and sell their wares in the city. The privileged class were the burgesses of Guild, frequently recruited by the admission of the sons and relatives of the county gentry, and very chary of allowing their fellow -burgesses in other classes to interfere either in the government of the town or in the larger commercial undertakings of the period. Even in the annual procession or masquerade of craftsmen to St. Nicholas Kirk on Candlemas day, the brethren of the Guild supplied the knights in harness with their esquires. The city in small thus reproduced the feudal system outside its walls, and the burgess of Guild frequently considered himself, and sometimes was, gentilhomme et bourgeois."
from Blackhalls of That Ilk
Noted events in his life were:
1. Elected: Burgess of Guild, 1528, Aberdeen.
Robert married Margaret JOHNSTON, daughter of William JOHNSTON of that Ilk and Margaret MELDRUM.1 (Margaret JOHNSTON was born about 1485.)
Marriage Notes:
"He (William Johnston) married, first, Margaret, daughter of Meldrum of Fyvie, 'the greatest barron for the tyme in the north pairt of Scotlande. This gentlewoman buire to William ane son, called Jeames, and ane daughter, callit Margret, who was maried to ane son of Blackhall of that Ilk', in the Garioch, in Aberdeenshire. (E. App.)"
from Family of Johnston 1
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