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LESLIE, Alexander 5th of Kininvie
(About 1603-)
INNES, Anne
(About 1605-)
GRANT, Archibald elder, of Ballintomb in Knockando
(About 1599-1651)
GORDON, Isobel
(About 1598-After 1651)
LESLIE, John 6th of Kininvie
(About 1625-)
GRANT, Helen
(About 1631-1712)
LESLIE, Janet
(About 1665-1703)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. HARPER, Adam Minister of Boharm parish, Reverend Mr

LESLIE, Janet 1

  • Born: About 1665
  • Marriage (1): HARPER, Adam Minister of Boharm parish, Reverend Mr on 2 October 1687 in Boharm parish, Banffshire, Scotland 1 2
  • Buried: 2 January 1703 1

   Another name for Janet was LESLIE, Elizabeth.3

   User ID: L960


Janet married Reverend Mr Adam HARPER Minister of Boharm parish, son of Reverend Mr William HARPER Minister of Boharm parish and Elizabeth INNES, on 2 October 1687 in Boharm parish, Banffshire, Scotland.1 2 (Reverend Mr Adam HARPER Minister of Boharm parish was baptised on 9 August 1660 in Boharm parish, Banffshire, Scotland 4 and died on 14 May 1726 in Cairnwhelp, Cairnie parish, Aberdeenshire, Scotland 1.)


  Marriage Notes:

"HARPER
ADAM
JANET LESLIE/
02/10/1687
128 / A 10 / 280
BOHARM"

from Index of Marriages




(at Boharm in 1686)

"Adam Harper, son of preceding (incumbent); born 9th Aug. 1660; educated at King's College, Aberdeen; M.A. (3rd July 1679); schoolmaster of this parish in 1679; passed trials before the Presb. and was recommended to the bishop for licence 3rd Oct. 1682; assistant at Duffus in 1683; pres. by Arthur Forbes of Balvenie before 17th March, ord. (at Elgin) 15th Sept., and adm. 16th Sept. 1686; dem. 12th June 1716; retired to Cairnwhelp in Cairney, where he continued to officiate; died there 14th May 1726. He marr. (1) 2nd Oct. 1687, Janet (buried 2nd Jan. 1703), daugh. of John Leslie of Kininvie in Mortlach, and had issue John; William, Episcopal min. in Edinburgh, born 2nd March 1693, died 19th Dec. 1765; Thomas; Alexander; Margaret (marr. Alexander Robertson, Mill of Keith); Helen; Janet: (2) 31st Aug. 1703, Margaret (died at Ringorum in Knockando before 14th May 1753), daugh. of Alexander Gordon of Arradoul in Rathven, and had issue Peter; Cecilia; Adam; Elizabeth; Katherine ; Anna. [Case of Greenshields ; Moray Tests.]"

from Fasti Ecclesiae




"Elizabeth (Leslie), married to Adam Harper, minister at Boharn."

from Family of Leslie

Note: The baptismal registers of Boharm name Adam Harper's wife as Janet Leslie.
1 2 3 5

Sources


1 e-books, Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae vol. 6 Aberdeen & Moray by Hew Scott.

2 GRO Scotland, OPR Index of Marriages.

3 e-books, Historical Records of the Family of Leslie 1067-1869 vol. 3 by Col. Leslie of Balquhain (1869).

4 GRO Scotland, OPR Index of Births and Baptisms.

5 GRO Scotland, Boharm parish Banffshire Baptisms.

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