STRACHAN, Christian ^{1 3}

   Another name for Christian was STRACHAN, Cristiana.²

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Christian married Sir Malcolm FLEMING of Biggar, son of Sir Patrick FLEMING of Biggar and Joan FRASER co-heiress of Oliver Castle.^{1 2 3} (Sir Malcolm FLEMING of Biggar was born about 1320 and died after 20 September 1382 ¹.)

  Marriage Notes:

"From William Boyd he (Malcolm Fleming) had an assignation to him and Christian his spouse of the impignoration which Thomas Fleming of Foulwood, formerly Earl of Wigtown, had made to him of the barony of Lenzie for £80 sterling, dated at Cumbernauld the feast of St. Martin 1372. He had a charter of a tenement in Crawmond resigned by Marjorie Fleming 16 January 1380-81, and another charter by King Robert II. of the barony of Lenzie resigned by Thomas Fleming 20 September 1382. As Sheriff of Edinburgh he received boards for the repair of the Castle of Edinburgh in 1374. He had issue"

from Scots Peerage (vol 8)




"Donald Strachan and his wife Annabell had an only daughter, Christian, who married Sir Malcolm Fleming of Biggar, ancestor of the noble House of Wigton (Playfair's Baronetage)."

from Memorials of the Families of Strachan and Wise (1877)

Note:

There is a lack of information, leading to confusion, about the names of the wives of Sir Malcolm Fleming of Biggar and his son Sir David Fleming of Biggar.

Both Scots Peerage, volume 8, and Memorials of the Families of Strachan and Wise (followng MacFarlane's Genealogical Collections) say that the wife of Sir Malcolm was named Christian. The latter authority also claims that she was the daughter of Donald/Duncan Strachan of Thornton and his wife Annabell:

"This Sir James Strachan the first of this Antient and Honourable Race who had the Barony of Thornton had Two Sons Duncan the Eldest who had the Lands of Meniecabo &c. in the County of Kincairden and a part of the Lands of Keir in the Shyre of Perth who left only one Daughter Cristiana Strachan who was Married to Sir Malcom Fleeming of Biggar ¹ Ancester to the present Earl of Wigton with whom r/ll,., 106.) he got the Estate of Meniecubo &c. which Continued long in that family."

Note ¹ references Note ⁴ of the previous page:

"Charter I have Seen in the hands of the Lord Salton and Confirmed by an Antient Manuscript of the family of Thornton transmitted to me in 1705 by a very aged Gentleman one Mr Strachan" ^{1 2 3}