STRACHAN, James fiar of Thornton 1 2
- Born: About 1655
- Marriage (1): FORBES, Barbara 9 June 1669(contract) 1
- Died: 1686 2
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General Notes:
"The arrangement provided by this charter (of 31 October 1681) did not long subsist, for by a decreet of the Lords of Council and Session on the 28th March 1683, the lands of Thornton were, for £13,924, 14s. 8d., adjudged from Sir James Strachan, Bart., James Strachan, his eldest son, and Barbara Forbes, his spouse, in favour of Robert Forbes, styled ' of Ludquharn.' By Robert Forbes, the lands were, on the 5th August 1685, disponed to his son William, ' reserving to Mary Ramsay the usufruct of the said lands for her lifetime, and also reserving to James Strachan, junior, and Barbara Forbes, his spouse, the heritable right of the lands of New Thornton and other portions of the said estate.' With consent of Sir James Strachan, James, his son, and Barbara Forbes, spouse of the latter, the lands of Thornton were, in 1685-6, conveyed to James Forbes of Saach, to whom, on the 2d April 1694, they were confirmed by charter (Reg. Mag. Sig., lib. Ixx., 65 ; lib. Ix.xiii., 78 ; Waterton Family Papers)."
from Memorials of the Scottish Families of Strachan and Wise (1877) 1
James married Barbara FORBES, daughter of Sir Robert FORBES of Newton and Margaret LINDSAY, 9 June 1669(contract).1 (Barbara FORBES was born about 1656.)
Marriage Notes:
"In the Register of the Privy Seal .... is contained (a charter dated 1662) confirming to James Strachan, only lawful son of the said Sir James, begotten betwixt him and the late Elizabeth Forbes, his first spouse, the barony of Thornton.
James Strachan, described in the charter of June 1662 as ' only lawful son of Sir James Strachan of Thornton, and his wife Elizabeth Forbes,' entered the University of King's College, Aberdeen, in 1670 ; he is designated in the Matriculation Register of the University as ' James Straquhan, junior, de Thornton.'
On the 9th June 1669, a contract was entered into between Sir James Strachan of Thornton, as ' tutor and administrator-at-law for James Strachan, his eldest lawful son, on the one part, and Robert Forbes of Newtoun, and Barbara Forbes, his third daughter, on the other part, for the marriage of the said James and Barbara.' Her dowry is named as 8000 merks. The parties to be married are infeft in the lands and barony of Thornton, reserving liferent of a portion thereof to Sir James Strachan, and his mother, Mary Ramsay, Lady Auchmacoy (Deeds in Durie Office, General register House, vol. xxiv.). When this contract was executed, James Strachan - described as ' eldest,' but in reality the only son of Sir James Strachan, third baronet of Thornton - was about fourteen years old; but as the contract is registered on the 16th November 1670, it is probable that the marriage was delayed till that year.
Doubtless the union was arranged between the families with the view of preserving the Thornton estates, which seem to have been wasted through the improvidence of the third baronet. Having further involved himself, Sir James, with consent of Robert Forbes of Newtoun, who had advanced large sums on the estates, resigned them for re-conveyance. Accordingly the lands were, by a charter under the Great Seal, dated at Whitehall, 31st October 1681, conveyed to James Strachan, only son of Sir James, ' fiar of Thornton,' and ' Barbara Forbes, his spouse, and the longest liver of them in liferent.' "
from Memorials of the Scottish Families of Strachan and Wise (1877) 1
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