STRATON, Andrew ¹

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  General Notes:

"Patrick Gray of Buttergask, the eldest son (of Gilbert Gray), had a charter to himself and the heirs-male of his body, whom failing, to Robert Gray his brother-german, of the lands and baronies of Foulis, Blacklaw, Langforgun, and Castle Huntly in Perthshire, the third part of the barony of Dundee, the lands and crag of Brochty, Balgillo, Gothrastoun, Petcarrow, and Kingslaw in Forfarshire with the office of Sheriff of that county and an annualrent out of the customs of Dundee, on the resignation of Andrew Stratoun of Lauriston, one of the two heirs and successors of Patrick, second Lord Gray, which lands were erected into a free barony with novodamus 28 April 1542."

from Scots Peerage (vol 4) ²

Andrew married Daughter LINDSAY, daughter of Sir David LINDSAY of Beaufort and Edzell and Katherine FOTHERINGHAM.¹ (Daughter LINDSAY was born about 1483.)

  Marriage Notes:

"Andrew Straton = Margaret, daughter of Sir David Lindsey, who was eighth in descent from Robert Bruce, King of Scotland."

Brother of the last Baron of Lauriston, who was eldest nephew and co-heir with Patrick, Lord Grey, 1541."

from A Book of Strattons ¹