GRAY, Patrick Braikie, 8th Lord Gray ^{1 2 3}

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  General Notes:

"The Durhams had not retained Kinnell long after the date of that retour (21 July 1643), as Patrick Gray acquired it a short time thereafter. On 26th May, 1660, Patrick Gray, the son of the purchaser of the barony, was retoured (No. 422) in them as heir of his father. The lands were those of Braikie, Newbigging, Linmill, and Boghall, Hatton with the mill, Mains and Mainsbank, and Balnaves, all united in the barony of Kinnell, A.E. £20, N.E. £30."

from Angus of Forfarshire ³

Patrick married Barbara MURRAY, daughter of Sir Andrew MURRAY Lord Balvaird, Minister of Abdie parish and Elizabeth CARNEGIE, 22 January 1664(contract).^{1 2} (Barbara MURRAY was born about 1640.)

  Marriage Notes:

"Patrick, eighth Lord Gray, succeeded his grandfather in 1663, and died in January 1711. He, after the death of his only son, with consent of his only surviving brother Charles Gray, made a resignation of the honours, dated December 1690, into the hands of Queen Anne on 20 February 1707, from whom he obtained a new patent of the same, with the former precedence, in favour of John Gray of Crichie, husband of his deceased daughter Marjorie Gray, for life, and after his decease to John Gray, their eldest son and the heirs of his body ; whom failing, to the other eldest sons and heirs-male of the said marriage, and the heirs of their bodies; whom failing, to the eldest heir-female without division procreated betwixt the said John Gray of Crichie and Marjorie Gray and the heirs of the body of such female, the eldest daughter succeeding without division; whom failing to the nearest heir-male of Patrick, Lord Gray, dated at St. James's 27 February 1707. The patent was thereafter read in Parliament, and ordered to be recorded 11 March 1707. He married (contract dated 22 January 1664) Barbara, sister of David, fourth Viscount Stormont, and second daughter of Andrew, Lord Balvaird, by his wife Elizabeth, fifth daughter of David, first Earl of Southesk, and had issue"

from Scots Peerage (vol 4)




"Barbara (Murray), married to Patrick eighth Lord Gray, and had an only daughter Marjory, who married her cousin John Gray of Crichie, afterwards ninth Lord Gray, postnuptial contract dated 26 February 1683."

from Scots Peerage (vol 8) ^{1 2}