SKENE, Alexander of Newtyle, 'Bailie Skene', Treasurer in Aberdeen, Quaker, Mr
- Baptised: 27 October 1621, Saint Nicholas parish, Aberdeen, Scotland
- Marriage (1): GILLESPIE, Lilias Quaker on 21 September 1646 in Kirkcaldy parish, Fife, Scotland
- Died: January 1694, Aberdeen, Scotland
- Buried: 1694, Quaker burial ground, Kingswells, Aberdeen, Scotland
Other names for Alexander were SKEINE, Alexander,1 SKEYN, Alexander and SKEYNE, Alexr..1
User ID: R419
General Notes:
"SKEYN
ALEXANDER
ROBERT SKEYN/MERIORIE FORBES FR693 (FR693)
M
27/10/1621
168 / A
20 / 375
Aberdeen"
from Births and Baptisms
"Skene's connections to the radical cause in church and state worked against him when moderates returned to public life after 1657. He purchased the estate of Newtyle (near Foveran, about 12 miles north of Aberdeen) that year, and was usually referred to thereafter as 'Newtyle'. Though not yet forty he virtually retired from public life. In March 1670 he paid to rebuild Aberdeen's medicinal Well of Spa for the public good, and republished Dr William Barclay's 1615 treatise on the well, to which he appended (under the pseudonym Philopolis) some celebratory verse and an 'Epistle Dedicatory' addressed to the town council. This public-spiritedness may have expedited his political comeback (and counteracted the effects of his wife's avowal of Quakerism the year before), because six months later he was again elected baillie and elder. His term ended in September 1671 and with it his career in public office, because shortly after he converted to Quakerism himself\emdash not long, he tells us, after suffering painful spasms upon saying of a prominent Quaker, 'It wer well to tak that Villain Georg Keith and hang him up at the [Market] Cross of Aberdeen' (Brieff historicall account, 31)."
from Oxford DNB article
Alexander married Lilias GILLESPIE Quaker on 21 September 1646 in Kirkcaldy parish, Fife, Scotland. (Lilias GILLESPIE Quaker was baptised on 8 November 1626 in Kirkcaldy parish, Fife, Scotland, died in 1697 and was buried in 1697 in Quaker burial ground, Kingswells, Aberdeen, Scotland.)
Marriage Notes:
"GILESPIE
LILIAS
ALEXANDER SKEINE/FR310 (FR310)
21/09/1646
442
10 / 298
Kirkcaldy"
from Index of Marriages
"On 15th January, 1625, Alexander Skene, eldest son of Robert Skene, burgess of Aberdeen, is admitted burgess 'jure paternitatis et dispens. cum jure jurando quia pupillus est et infra aetatem'; and, on 20th June, 1648, he served heir to his father, Robert Skene, and is infeft in the tenement 'in vico lemurum.'
On 26th August, 1646, he was married at Kirkaldie to Lilias Gillespie, daughter of Mr. John Gillespie, minister of Kirkaldie who died soon after. In 1656 we find him one of the magistrates of Aberdeen ; and in 1657 he acquired, from Sir Alexander Forbes of Foveran, the lands of Newtyle, in the Parish of Foveran. In 1669 Alexander Skene, a magistrate in Aberdeen, his wife Lilian became a quaker, also Alexander Skene himself."
from Memorials of the Family of Skene
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