GILLESPIE, Lilias Quaker

   Another name for Lilias was GILESPIE, Lilias.¹

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  General Notes:

"GILESPIE
LILIAS
JOHN GILESPIE/LILIAS SYMESONE FR54 (FR54)
F
08/11/1626
442
10 / 45
Kirkcaldy"

from Births and Baptisms

Lilias married Mr Alexander SKENE of Newtyle, 'Bailie Skene', Treasurer in Aberdeen, Quaker, son of Robert SKENE younger, Merchant Burgess, Treasurer of Aberdeen Council and Marjory FORBES, on 21 September 1646 in Kirkcaldy parish, Fife, Scotland. (Mr Alexander SKENE of Newtyle, 'Bailie Skene', Treasurer in Aberdeen, Quaker was baptised on 27 October 1621 in Saint Nicholas parish, Aberdeen, Scotland, died in January 1694 in Aberdeen, Scotland and was buried in 1694 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