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COLVILLE, Helen
(About 1597-)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. PAPLAY, Robert, Captain
2. BRODIE, John Minister of Auldearn parish, Dean of Moray, Reverend Mr

COLVILLE, Helen 1

  • Born: About 1597
  • Marriage (1): PAPLAY, Robert, Captain 1
  • Marriage (2): BRODIE, John Minister of Auldearn parish, Dean of Moray, Reverend Mr in 1621 1

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Helen married Captain Robert PAPLAY.1 (Captain Robert PAPLAY was born about 1590 and died by 1621 1.)


  Marriage Notes:

"John Brodie .... marr. (1) 1621, Helen Colville, widow of Captain Robert Paplay"

from Fasti Ecclesiae 1

Helen next married Reverend Mr John BRODIE Minister of Auldearn parish, Dean of Moray, son of David BRODIE 13th of that Ilk and Janet HAY, in 1621.1 (Reverend Mr John BRODIE Minister of Auldearn parish, Dean of Moray was born about 1594 1 and died in January 1655 1 2.)


  Marriage Notes:

(at Auldearn in 1622)

"John Brodie, born about 1594, third son of David B. of Brodie; educated at King's College, Aberdeen, 1606-10; min. in 1622; was a member of Assembly in 1639; died 11th Jan. 1655. He marr. (1) 1621, Helen Colville, widow of Captain Robert Paplay : (2) Katherine Dunbar, and had issue William of Whitewreath in Elgin, served heir 4th Nov. 1656; John (posthumous), born 1st Aug. 1655; Beatrix (marr., cont. 12th Aug. 1642, William Leslie of Aikenway); Janet (marr. 1660, Sir William Dunbar of Durn). - [lnq. Ret. Nairn, 22 ; Brodie's Diary ; Burke's Commoners, iii., 595 ; Family of Leslie, ii., 147 ; G. R. Inhib., 25th Aug. 1621 ; Elgin Sas., 1653.]"

from Fasti Ecclesiae 1

Sources


1 e-books, Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae vol. 6 Aberdeen & Moray by Hew Scott.

2 e-books, The Diary of Alexander Brodie of Brodie and of his son James Brodie of Brodie (The Spalding Club 1863).

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