ELPHINSTONE, Jean ²

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Jean married Alexander LESLIE of Tullos, 14th Baron of Balquhain, son of John LESLIE 10th of Balquhain and Jean ERSKINE, by 20 May 1630.¹ (Alexander LESLIE of Tullos, 14th Baron of Balquhain was born about 1600 and died on 3 March 1677.)

  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