ELPHINSTONE, Marjorie ¹

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Marjorie married Walter INNES at Mill of Ardtannes.¹ (Walter INNES at Mill of Ardtannes was born about 1570 and died in 1616 ¹.)

  Marriage Notes:

"The tombstone of this Walter Innes is still in the kirkyard of Inverurie, recording his death in 1616, as well as that of his wife, Mariorie Elphinstone, in 1622 ... His wife had apparently been one of the Glack Elphinstones."

from Inverurie and the Earldom ¹

Marjorie next married Norman LESLIE, son of John LESLIE 5th of Wardis and Jane CRICHTON, after 1616.¹ (Norman LESLIE was born about 1582.)

  Marriage Notes:

"James Elphinstone of Glack, in 1559, married Marjory Leslie, daughter of Alexander Leslie, fourth Baron of Pitcaple. Their daughter, Marjory, married Walter Innes, Miller, and for a time Laird, of Ardtannies, in Inverurie, and died in 1622, leaving a large family."

"In her widowhood she married Norman Leslie, a brother of the unfortunate laird of Wardes, who lost Ardtannies. Marjorie Elphinstone removed with Norman Leslie to Whitehaugh, on Fetternear, where she died. On being buried, she was said to have been awakened from the death-sleep by the gravedigger trying to cut the wedding ring off her finger, and to have gone back to her first home at Ardtannies. The legend has, fittingly, corrupted her name into 'Mary Eerie Orie (Meriorie) Elphinstone'. Norman, by a second wife, was ancestor of the more recent baronets of Wardes."

from Inverurie and the Earldom ¹