SKENE, Gilbert 8th of that Ilk ¹

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Gilbert married Christian MERCER, daughter of Andrew MERCER of Meikleour and Aldie and Margaret DRUMMOND, by 23 May 1481(charter).¹ (Christian MERCER was born about 1447.)

  Marriage Notes:

"In May, 1470, Gilbert Skene is infeft as heir, served and retoured, to Alexander Skene, his father, in the lands and barony of Skene.

In 1481 he married Cristina Mercer, and settled two farms in Wester Skene as her jointure lands, as appears from a Crown charter granted in 23rd May, 1481

'Gilberto Skene de eodem et Cristine Mersare sponse sue in conjuncta infeodatione et post eorum decessum legitimis et propinquioribus heredibus dicti Gilberti quibuscunque de terris de Adloche et Tulivale cum pertinentiis Jacentibus infra vicecomitatum de Aberdene super resignationem dicti Gilberti. Tenendas de Rege. Reddendo jura et servitia debita et consueta.' "

from Skene of Skene

Note:

The Scots Peerage, vol. 4, states that there was one Christian Mercer, daughter of the provost of Perth, married to both Gilbert Skene of Skene and Duncan Forbes of Corsindae. Other sources differ. This site follows stirnet. com here, which lists two women named Christian Mercer, of two different fathers, each woman married to one husband. ^{1 2 3}