ROSE, John of Drakies and Pittendreich 1User ID: G486 John married Daughter LINDSAY, daughter of Right Reverend Mr David LINDSAY of Pittorlie, Bishop of Ross and Unknown.1 (Daughter LINDSAY was born about 1585.) Marriage Notes: "Mr. John Rose of Wester Drakies and of Pittenriech was twice married. His first wife was a daughter of Lindsay, Bishop of Ross, bv whom he had only one daughter." John next married Margaret DOUGLAS, daughter of Archibald DOUGLAS of Pittendreich and Elizabeth SUTHERLAND.1 (Margaret DOUGLAS was born about 1602 and died after 1689.) Marriage Notes: "His (John Rose's) second wife was Margaret Douglas, daughter and heiress of Douglas of Pittenriech, in the parish of Elgin. By her he had only a daughter Katharine, married to Sir .James Strachan of Thorntoun. The temptation of the fertile barony of Pittenriech led Mr. John Rose into this marriage ; but the debts affecting it exhausted both it aud his paternal lands of Wester Drakies ; and in him the direct male succession failed" |