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WALKER,
(About 1600-)
WALKER, Grissell
(About 1633-After 1696)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. GORDON, Alexander Merchant, Provost of Aberdeen, MP in Scottish Parliament

WALKER, Grissell 2 3

  • Born: About 1633
  • Marriage (1): GORDON, Alexander Merchant, Provost of Aberdeen, MP in Scottish Parliament 1 2
  • Died: After 1696 4

   Other names for Grissell were WALKER, Girsell 3 5 and WALKER, Grasser.3

   User ID: D17.

  General Notes:

"[ Alexander] Gordon, Provost, deceast; Grissell Walker, his relict, Aberdeen; James and Anna, her grandchildren. II. 613."

from List of Pollable Persons 1696 4


Grissell married Alexander GORDON Merchant, Provost of Aberdeen, MP in Scottish Parliament, son of John GORDON Merchant in Aberdeen and Unknown.1 2 (Alexander GORDON Merchant, Provost of Aberdeen, MP in Scottish Parliament was born about 1626,2 5 died on 24 March 1692 2 5 and was buried in 1692 in Saint Nicholas Churchyard, Aberdeen, Scotland 2.)


  Marriage Notes:

"Here lyes under the hope of a blessed resurrection Alexander Gordon lait Provest of Aberdeen who departed this lyfe the 24 of March 1692 of age 66. As also Girsell Walker his spouse..."(Epitaphs and Inscriptions in St Nicholas Church and Churchyard (Churchyards Section D)

from Scottish Notes and Queries




"Alexander Gordon was the son of John Gordon, merchant in Aberdeen, and was born in 1626. He married Grissel Walker, and supposed to be a sister of Provost Alexander Walker..."

from Aldermen and Provosts 1 2

Sources


1 e-books, Aberdeen Journal Scottish Notes and Queries May 1889.

2 e-books, Memorials of the Aldermen, Provosts, Lord Provosts of Aberdeen 1272-1895 by A. M. Munro (1897).

3 GRO Scotland, OPR Index of Births and Baptisms.

4 e-books, The House of Gordon vol. 1 ed. John Malcolm Bulloch (1903) Appendix II Gordons mentioned in the List of Pollable Persons within the Shire of Aberdeen 1696.

5 Newspaper, Magazine or Journal, Aberdeen Journal Scottish Notes and Queries May 1889.

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