John Reid of Aikenhead

JOHN REID OF AIKENHEAD

John Red in the Atkinhed (1492)

John Reid of Akinheid, here treated, was the heritable proprietor of Aikenheid in Clackmannanshire, a small estate which is located on the north bank of the River Black Devon, about two miles south-east of Clackmannan in Clackmannanshire, Scotland. He is reported to have married Bessetta Shanwell, with whom he is said to have had six children, three sons and three daughters. [A Flame in the Shadows: 16-17]

Death

John Reid of Aikenhead, here treated, is reported to have been killed in action on 9 September 1513, at Flodden Field, near Branxton in the English County of Northumberland, fighting under the Standard of James IV, King of Scots. [A Flame in the Shadows: 16-17]

Evidence from the National Records of Scotland

26 September 1492: Notification (in Scots) by Alexander Erskyne [Erskine] of that ilk, lord of regality of Alloway [Alloa], that in justice ayre of said regality held in tolbooth of Couper [Cupar] before said Alexander, and John, Lord Glammis [Glamis], and Robert, Lord Lille [Lyle], King's justices on north half of water of Forth, there compeared JOHN RED [Reid] IN THE ATKINHED [Aikenhead], indicted of art and part of slaughter of Robert of Methwene [Methven], committed in town of Tulycultre [Tillicoultry], and of art and part of forethought felony done to Joke of Drivisdaill [Drysdale], that said John alleged said slaughter to be committed in his extreme and lawful defence, and that an assise declared him to be innocent of said crimes. National Records of Scotland, Papers of the Erskine Family, Earls of Mar and Kellie, reference GD124/6/5

Genealogy

1. The Scots Peerage : founded on Wood's ed. of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland; containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that kingdom. Edited by Sir James Balfour Paul, Lord Lyon King of Arms. Volume III. (David Douglas, Edinburgh, 1906), 618 pp.
2. The Peerage of Scotland etc. By Robert Douglas (R. Fleming, Edinburgh, M,DCC,LXIV), 718 pp. including addenda and corrigenda, plus plates
3. A Flame in the Shadows. Robert Reid Bishop of Orkney 1541-1558. By Olaf D Cuthbert (The Orkney Press, Kirkwall, 1998) 188 pp. including index