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

Mcjnorials of the Faiiiilics of Strachaii and Wise. 35
aunt of the celebrated Dr James Beattie, Professor
of Moral Philosophy at Aberdeen, and author of " The
Minstrel." Of this marriage were born four daughters.
Mary married James Don ; Jean married William Jamie-
son ; Isabella married David Low. Their eldest son, James,
possessed the estate of Laws, Berwickshire, and was
father of the late David Low, Esq., Professor of Agricul-
ture in the University of Edinburgh. Helen, the eldest
daughter (born 1707, died 1783), married, 24th July 1726,
James Penny, and was mother of nine sons and four
daughters. Henry, the third son, born 24th August 1738,
married, first, Isabella Pobinson, 14th September 1773, and
secondly, in 1781, Mary Henderson ; Jane, his second
daughter, married, 18th April 1814, John Aberdein, Esq.,
and their eldest son is the present Francis Aberdein, Esq.
of Keithock.
David, eldest son of Alexander Wysse of Mains of
Thornton, married Margaret, eldest daughter of Alexander
Nairne, Esq. of Pitbuddo ; their marriage contract is
dated at Montrose, 9th November 1681. Of this
marriage were born two sons and three daughters.
Margaret, the eldest daughter married, first, James
Lawson, Esq. of Whitesaugh, in the parish of St Cyrus ;