John Erskine (abt. 1550 - bef. 1626)

Born about 1550 in Scotland

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John was born about 1550, the son of John Erskine of Balhagardy and Margaret Douglas.

He married Marjorie, a daughter of John Gordon of Cluny and Margaret Gordon.

In 1604 John Erskine, junior, gave a charter of Conglass, Drurndurnoch, and Porlaithcn to his wife, Marjorie Gordon, in security, following a marriage contract made with consent of John Erskine, his father, and the deceased John Gordon of Cluny. In 1609 John Erskine of Balhaggardy obtained sasine on the lands of Ward of Kinmundy, to be held of James Ilarvie, eldest son of Andrew Harvie of Danestone. In 1615, in a sasine obtained by Mr. Alexander Jaffray of Kingswells on the Chalmerley Croft, pertaining to the Chaplainry of Conglass, Thomas Erskine of Balhaggardy, patron, consents. In the same year Thomas Erskine, fiar of Balhaggardy, as procurator for John Erskine of Balhaggardy, obtained sasine in the same for John Erskine, proceeding upon charter by Alexander Jaffray. In 1625 John Erskine of Balhaggardy resigned some lands in Inverurie.^[1]

He died before November 1626. ^[2]

Notes

Succession re Pittodrie (Inverurie and the Earldom of the Garioch) -

• Thomas Erskine of Pittodrie who succeeded in 1625. He married Isabel, daughter of Alexander Seton of Meldrum, and had a son, Thomas, and a daughter, Isabel, wife of George Leith of Treefield.

• Thomas Erskine of Pittodrie, married (1643) Helen, daughter of Sir William Auchinleck of Balmanno. They had, besides William, the heir, two sons, who studied at King's College, Aberdeen, in 1666. A son, John, appears in 1677 (pp. 340, 364).

• William Erskine of Pittodrie, founder of the Hospital (p. 147), appears, in 1675; he took the oaths of allegiance to William and Mary in 1689. By his wife, Mary, daughter of Patrick Grant of Ballindalloch, he had, besides his heir, a daughter, Jean, married to James Moir of Stoneywood, the Jacobite Colonel of 1745.

• Thomas Erskine of Pittodrie married (1st) in 1705, Margaret, daughter of Sir Alexander Burnet of Craigmyle, by whom he had a son, William, who died, unmarried, at the age of forty; and (2nd) in 1746, the Honourable Anne Forbes, daughter of James, fifteenth Lord Forbes. By her he had an only daughter, his successor.

• Mary Erskine of Pittodrie, heiress of settlement of 1754, married Colonel Henry Knight, and by him had, besides a daughter, Mary Ann, who died in 1862, a son, his mother's heir.

• Colonel William Knight Erskine of Pittodrie, who married Grace, daughter of Captain James Norwood, and had two sons, the elder of whom succeeded.

• Colonel Henry Knight Erskine of Pittodrie, married Mary Ann, daughter of George Moir, Esq. of Denmore, Aberdeenshire, and had a son, the present proprietor, and a daughter, wife of Rev. Mr. Flower.

Sources

1. ↑ Inverurie and the earldom of the Garioch; a topographical and historical account of the Garioch, from the earliest times to the Revolution settlement. Edinburgh, U.K.: D. Douglas [1]
2. ↑ Red Book of Scotland Volume 4 p 324.

• Erskine of Pittodrie - Inverurie and the earldom of the Garioch; a topographical and historical account of the Garioch from the earliest times to the revolution settlement. With a genealogical appendix of Garioch families flourishing at the period of the revolution settlement and still represented by Davidson, John, 1816-1892[2]

• Alexander Jaffray of Kingswell - Memorials of the aldermen, provosts, and Lord provosts of Aberdeen, 1272-1895 by Munro, Alexander Macdonald [3]

• Diary of Alexander Jaffray: to which are added particulars of his subsequent life, given in connexion with memoirs of the rise, progress, and persecutions, of the people called Quakers, in the north of Scotland; among whom he became one of the earliest members. 2nd. ed. London : Darton & Harvey, 1834. Barclay, John, 1797-1838, ed. Jaffray, Alexander, 1614-1673 [4]