ABERNETHY, Daughter 1
- Born: About 1437
- Marriage (1): OGSTON, John of the Craigs, Sheriff-depute of Aberdeenshire 1
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Daughter married John OGSTON of the Craigs, Sheriff-depute of Aberdeenshire, son of Alexander OGSTON of that Ilk and of the Craigs and Unknown.1 (John OGSTON of the Craigs, Sheriff-depute of Aberdeenshire was born about 1430 and died after 24 January 1473(1474) 2.)
Marriage Notes:
"We find both these estates ('Crags and Glenylefe') in the hands of Walter, son of John of the Crags, and from him they passed on to his two daughters, Elizabeth and Janet, the former receiving mostly the Aberdeenshire estates, the latter mostly those in Forfarshire.
Our authorities are further now sufficient to enable us to judge, with considerable probability, that John of the Crags had married a wife of the name of Abernethy, who was likely a daughter of Lawrence, first Lord Saltoun, for the extracts from the Acta Dominorum Concilii given at pages 47 to 49 of the History, of which it says, 'it is not clear what connection existed between the Abernethys and Ogstons,' are intelligible only on this supposition, and it is strengthened by the evidences now available" (pages 45 and 46)
"It will be observed that the dates at which we know John of the Crags flourished, the fact that he died almost immediately after succeeding his father, and the short period during which his son Walter lived, as well as the inferences deducible from the papers regarding the Abernethy lawsuit, combine to favour the supposition that John's wife was an Abernethy." (page 47)
from Supplement to the History of the Families of Ogston
Note:
The identity of the father of this Abernethy daughter, as with her sister, appears to be uncertain and disputed by various secondary sources, mainly since the biographical dates of all parties in both families are so vague. eg, according to pages 46 and 47 of the Supplement:
"The Frasers of Philorth, by Alexander Fraser of Philorth, seventeenth Lord Saltoun, Edinburgh, 1879, vol. ii. pages 47, 48 :
'For some years prior to 1498 he (James Abernethy, third Lord Saltoun) and his son and heir, Alexander, were engaged in litigation against Adam Hepburn of the Craigs, and his wife, Elizabeth Ogstoune, together with Sir John Wemyss of Strathardill and his spouse, Christiana Abernethy, who claimed some right of inheritance in the movable property and in some of the landed estates of the deceased William, second Lord (Act Dom. Concil., pp. 326, 332). The claim on the part of Christiana Abernethy and her husband is intelligible enough, as she was a daughter of Lawrance the first Lord, and therefore sister to the second and third Lords, against the latter of whom she brought her action; but that of Elizabeth Ogstoune is more obscure, though she may have been the child of another daughter of the first Lord. [1 This is not possible, her mother's name being Jane Scrymgeour, but her grandmother, as here argued, was probably an Abernethy.] She was the co-heiress of Walter, Laird of Ogstoune, or Ogistoune, who also held the lands of Craigs or Cragy, in the east of Aberdeenshire (Antiquities of Aberdeenshire, vol. iii. p. 170) ; but if any such alliance took place between his family and the Abernethies, all record of it has been lost. This lawsuit was, however, terminated on the 1st of July 1498, by a reference to a court of arbitration consisting of Robert, Archbishop of Glasgow, Andrew, Bishop of Moray, John, Prior of St. Andrews, George, Earl of Huntly, Patrick, Earl of Bothwell, Lord Hailes, Patrick Home of Fastcastle, and Master Richard Lawrence, clerk of Justiciary, by whom it was settled, and the sums due to the ladies - probably daughters' portions - were appointed to be paid to them, which, in the case of Adam Hepburn and Elizabeth Ogstoune, amounted to nine hundred marks, for which they granted a receipt on the 28th of August of the same year." 1
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