Thomas Geddes 1726-1789 and Earlier Geddes
Geddes of Floods etc Ancestry tree
1754. John Geddes was baptised on 26/7/1754 to Thomas & Catherine Keith, Banffshire
Thomas Geddes Keith 1726-1789 Orbliston married 1753, Botriphnie, Catherine Milne 1734-1821
George Geddes Bellie 1684-1746 Keith married, 1707, Burnsyde, Margaret Innes 1684-1751, her mother Elizabeth Gordon - underlined surnames later used as mid.names
The merk was a Scottish silver coin. Originally the same word as a money mark of silver, the merk was in circulation at the end of the 16th century and in the 17th century. It was originally valued at 13s. 4d. (exactly 2⁄3 of a pound Scots, or about one English shilling), later raised to 14s. Scots.
Alexander Geddes Bellie 1653-1742 Bellie married Jean Mudie 1654-1705
Archibald Geddes Eshell 1624-1704 Eshell married Lilias Dunbar (probate exists)
Andrew Geddes Essil 1595-1643 married Isobel Cumming
Cannot locate Eshell/Esill but one record implied it around Fochabars, another Inverness