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Name |
James (1st of Tankerness) Baikie |
Gender |
Male |
Death |
1675 [2] |
Person ID |
I130709 |
My Genealogy |
Last Modified |
5 Dec 2014 |
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Notes |
- BAIKIE - This name has long been identified with the Orcadian mainland, and is considered to be the diminutive of beck - a stream. The earliest notice of the surname is to be found in the Rental of Merwick (for the King) 1595, where Henry Baky is noted as having excambed land in Ysbustar, Marwick, for ob terre in Tronston. In 1623 James Baikie purchased the first part of the estate of Tankerness. In 1686 James Baikie of Tankerness received a Grant of Arms, and in 1780 Robert Baikie of Tankerness was elected to represent Orkney and Shetland as a Member of Parliament for the United Kingdom, but was unseated on petition.
Tankerness House, Kirkwall was acquired by James Baikie of Tankerness in 1641. Baikie was a successful Kirkwall merchant and a descendant of Paul Baikie, navigator to King H?kon IV of Norway.
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Sources |
- [S3540] Hamish Maclaren.
- [S3503] Peter Barns-Graham, Stirnet Genealogy, bzmisc13 (Reliability: 3).
- [S3503] Peter Barns-Graham, Stirnet Genealogy, Balfour02 (Reliability: 3).
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