LESLIE, Alexander of Tullos, 14th Baron of Balquhain 2
- Born: About 1600
- Marriage (1): ELPHINSTONE, Jean by 20 May 1630 1
- Died: 3 March 1677
User ID: Y317.
General Notes:
"ALEXANDER LESLIE of Tullos, third son of John Leslie, tenth Baron of Balquhain, by his third wife, Jean Erskine, sister of Thomas, first Earl of Kellie, succeeded as fourteenth Baron of Balquhain on the death of his brother, William Leslie, thirteenth baron, in 1671. He had held the estates of Balquhain since 1659, when William Leslie resigned them in his favour, but he did not assume the title of Baron of Balquhain during his brother's lifetime, but was styled Alexander Leslie of Tullos."
from Family of Leslie 1
Alexander married Jean ELPHINSTONE, daughter of James ELPHINSTONE of Glack and Elizabeth WOOD, by 20 May 1630.1 (Jean ELPHINSTONE was born about 1612.)
Marriage Notes:
"Gilbert Farquhar, having acquired the lands of Tullos, with the teind-sheaves of the same, from Gordon of Braco, who held them by wadsett from John Leslie, eleventh Baron of Balquhain, alienated the said lands and teind-sheaves in favour of Alexander Leslie, and Jean Elphinstone his spouse, 20th May 1630, and granted a charter of the same on the same day; sasine followed thereon 31st July 1630, and was registered at Aberdeen 6th August 1630.(Balquhain Charters)"
"Alexander, Count Leslie, fourteenth Baron of Balquhain, married, about 1634, Jean Elphinstone, daughter of James Elphinstone of Glack, descended from a brother of the celebrated Bishop Elphinstone of Aberdeen, who was of Lord Elphinstone's
family."
from Family of Leslie
Note: The date of 1634 in the second excerpt contradicts what we are told in the first. 2
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