Grizel (Leslie) Arbuthnot (abt. 1540)

Ancestors

Biography

Isobel Leslie ... ^[1]

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At some time in his career he was married to Isobel, daughter of William Leslie of Balquhaine. We can only guess at the date of this marriage, but it will doubtless have taken place some time after 1566-7, when his first wife, Christian Collace, is last mentioned, and very probably about the year 1568, when we find James Arbuthnot feuing land in Logydurno from William Leslie of Balquhaine. Isobel Leslie's mother was Joanna, daughter of John, sixth Lord Forbes, and widow of John, third Earl of Athol of the Stewart

line.

Isobel was certainly dead before 1587, the year in which James Arbuthnot's third wife is first mentioned. We have seen that in 1600 William Leslie (Isobel's brother) claimed some money and goods falling to him as " executor dative to the deceased Isobel Leslie, his sister, spouse in her time to James Arbuthnot of Leddintushe."

From 1587 onwards we find mention of James Arbuthnot's third wife, Grizel Leslie, who survived him and was living in 1611, as we learn by a bond registered in 1613 " by Normand Arbuthnot, son of the deceased James Arbuthnot of Len- tush in favour of Grizel Leslie, widow of the said James Arbuthnot, dated nth October, 1611." Grizel Leslie was the daughter of William Leslie of Wardis, Falconer to James VI.^[2]

Footnotes

1. ↑ Entered by Sir William Arbuthnot, Saturday, August 24, 2013.
2. ↑ http://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/ada-jane-evelyn-arbuthnot/memories-of-the-arbuthnots-of-kincardineshire-and-aberdeenshire-ubr.shtml

Acknowledgments

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