David Leslay (Lesly) (b1675-1694)

Dates

Birth: Before 1675
Father: Unknown
Mother: Unknown

Christening: Unknown

Marriage: 21 January 1690 Kettins, Angus, Scotland, UK
Wife: Janet Dick 1665-a1692

Death: January 1694 Kettins, Angus, Scotland, UK
Burial: 4 January 1694 Kettins, Angus, Scotland, UK

Children

Agnes Lesly 1691
David Leslay (Leslie, Lesly) 1692-1771

Notes

There is a submitted entry in the IGI for the birth of David Leslay in about 1670 in Kettins, Scotland.

Marriage of David Leslay and Janet Dick in the IGI on 21 January 1690 in Kettins, Angus. A submitted entry gives the marriage of David Leslay to Janet Dick on 21 January 1690 in Kettins. The same information is in Ancestry Scotland, Select Marriages, 1561-1910.

Entry in Scotlands People Old Parish Records - Marriages for David Leslay and Janet Dick on 21 January 1690 in Kettins (50/ 16). "January 21 1690 David Leslay and Janet Dick both in this parish are married".

Both children were baptised in Kettins at Loan-Head of Kilour on 8 January 1691 and 17 June 1692, surnames Lesly and Leslay.

Entry in Scotlands People Old Parish Records - Burials for David Leslay on 4 January 1694 in Kettins ((50/ 160). "January 4 1694 David Leslay sometime ? hill of Ballums was buried". Note there is a Hill of Baldowrie near Ballunie on the NW of the Hill of Keillor 1 mile east of Kettins. It is not clear whether it refers to this David (which would account there being only two children) or his father/grandfather.

Entry in Geneanet Community Trees Index for David Leslay.

Kettins is just off the A923 about 11 miles NW of Dundee, and is now in Perth and Kinross, the boundary between Perthshire and Angus changing in 1891.

Relationship

David Leslay was Felicity's sixth great grandfather.

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