Elizabeth Moodie

ELIZABETH MOODIE

Elizabeth Moodie is not noticed in The Moodie Book but she is undoubtedly the daughter of William Moodie of Melsetter. NRS: CS228/M/2/47/2 The name of her mother is not certainly known but it seems quite likely, probable even, given her dispute with John Stewart of Brugh in 1722, that she is a daughter of Barbara Stewart. If this is correct then she would have been born after 23 November 1670, the date upon which her father was booked to marry Barbara Stewart.

Evidence from the National Records of Scotland

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1722: Elizabeth Moodie, daughter of the deceased William Moodie of Melsetter v John Stewart of Brugh, eldest son of a second marriage of the deceased Robert Stewart of Brough, and Captain James Moodie of Melsetter: Reduction National Records of Scotland, Court of Session: Unextracted processes, 1st arrangement, Adams-Dalrymple office, reference CS228/M/2/47/2

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14 August 1734: Disposition by Harry Liddell, collector of Customs at Thurso, to Robert Scollay of Odness, of the lands of Trundershall in island of Stronsay, and all other lands in said island which formerly belonged to Jean Colvill, mother of Robert Stewart, apparent heir to the deceased Robert Stewart of Brugh, and adjudged from him by Elizabeth Moodie, daughter of the deceased William Moodie of Melsetter, and by her disponed on 18 April 1734, to the said Harry National Records of Scotland, Papers of the family of Fea of Clestrain, Orkney, reference GD31/224

Published Accounts of the Family

1. The Moodie Book