Grampian Club > Memorials of the Strachans, baronets of Thornton, Kincardineshire, and of the family of Wise of Hillbank, formerly Wyse of Lunan, in the County of Forfar

Memorials of the Families of Strachaji and J Vise.
The Bi.sli(3p married, secondly, Anna, daughter of Captain
James Barchiy/
Of the Bishop's two sons, James the younger became
Commissary of Brechin. He married his cousin, Barbara
Henderson, and had a son, Charles, baptized 25th Sep-
tember 1683 ;- he died .«?.;?.
David, elder son of Bishop Strachan, studied at tlio
University of St Andrews, and in 1G62 was ordained
minister of the first charge, Montrose. He died 2d July
1672, aged thirty-three, leaving a son, James, and a
daughter, Margaret.
James Strachan, only surviving son of the Rev. David
Strachan, w^as styled of Woodside ; he married,^ and left a
son, James, and a daughter, Margaret. James entered the
Royal Navy, and became a lieutenant ; he died, s.j).
Margaret, about the year 1727, became second wife of
Alexander Wyse of Lunan, and ancestress of the present
heir-of-line to the House of Strachan."
' In his Fasti (vol. iii. pp. 866 and 890), Dr Scott supplies a siiort sketch of
Bishop Strachan. He descrilies him as "descended from the family of Inchtalls
(Inchtuthill), a hranch of the House of Tliorntoun."
^ Baptismal llcj^nster of Brechin.
' " July 15th, 1704. — James Strachan in this parish, and Jean Newe in the parisli
of Fourdoun, were contracted.'" — Baptismal Register of Lunan.
* Alidiit twelve years after lliede;itli nf Admiral Sir Hirliard Stracliau, Mr Jolm