Annabella Erskine

ANNABELL ERSKINE (aka ANNABELLAM ERSKYNE)

Annabella Erskine, here treated, is the daughter of Adam Erskine, Commendator of Cambuskenneth RMS 1620-1633: charter number 398 It cannot be regarded as being certain but it seems quite likely, probable even, that her mother was Margaret Drummond RMS 1609-1620: charter number 236

Marriage

Annabella Erskine, here treated, married Sir John Buchanan, 17th of that Ilk RMS 1620-1633: charter number 398

Evidence from the National Records of Scotland

28 July 1604: Charter by which John Buchanan of that Ilk confirms, following upon a marriage contract dated 5 May 1602, that he has given a liferent from various lands to his wife, Annabellam Erskyne, daughter of Adam, Commendator of Cambuskenneth. Her father was alive on 5 May 1602, the date upon which he signed the marriage contract, but he probably died before 28 July 1604, the date upon which the Laird of Buchanan issued his charter. Annabella Erskyne obtained a charter of confirmation under the Great Seal of Scotland on 24 December 1622. RMS 1620-1633: charter number 398

Printed Evidence

Registrum Magni Sigilli Regum Scotorum. The register of the Great Seal of Scotland. A. D. 1620-1633. Edited by John Maitland Thomson, MA., Advocate. (H. M. General Register House, Edinburgh, 1894), 1096 pp. including idices and errata

EVIDENCE FROM THE BUCHANAN BOOK

Sir John Buchanan, who married Annabel Erskine daughter of Adam, Commendator of Cambuskenneth, son of the Master of Mar, had, (1) George, his successor, and (2) Walter Buchanan. This Sir John Buchanan was, says Auchmar, accounted the worst, if not the only bad one of all the Lairds of Buchanan, and by his frequent travels into foreign nations and other extravagances had involved his estate in such an immense debt that his grandson at first found it inconvenient to enter as heir.

EVIDENCE FROM STRATHENDERICK

JOHN BUCHANAN of Buchanan had gift of the ward and non-entry of all his estates since the death of his father, Sir George, dated, Perth, 28th March 1599. On 26th October 1602 he is retoured heir of his father Sir George Buchanan in Buchanan, and other lands, and in the same year he had a thirty-eight years tack of the whole teinds of Kilmaronock from his father-in-law, Adam, Commendator of Cambuskenneth, to him and his wife Annabel Erskine. By Annabel Erskine he had at least two sons: (1) George; and (2) Walter, who was at Glasgow College 7th March 1620.

Genealogy

1. Stirnet: Buchanan 02
2. The Buchanan Book. The life of Alexander Buchanan, Q.C., of Montreal, followed by an account of the family of Buchanan
3. Strathendrick and its inhabitants from early times; an account of the parishes of Fintry, Balfron, Killearn, Drymen, Buchanan, and Kilmaronock (1896), p..288