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|document_date=8 July 1681
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|description=Sasine in which Balblair was granted to David Ross and Margaret Stronach by George Stronach of Balblair
|nrs_collection=Particular Register of Sasines Etc for Inverness, Ross, Sutherland and Cromarty: Second Series
|nrs_repository=National Records of Scotland
|nrs_reference=RS38/5
|nrs_folio=120
|nrs_title=Particular Register of Sasines etc for Inverness, Ross, Sutherland and Cromarty: Second Series
|nrs_date_text=15 Jul 1679-26 Nov 1694
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|notes=This document is mentioned in {{David of Balblair}}'s entry in ''[[Source:Rossiana (Branch of Balblair)|Rossiana]]''. 
::“married Margaret Stronach, "his spouse" (Sasine 8th July, 1681)”{{sfn|Read|Reid|1908|p=[https://archive.org/details/rossianapapersdo01read/page/44/mode/1up 44]}}</blockquote>

What this entry is saying is that Margaret Stronach is referred to as the spouse of David Ross of Balblair in a sasine dated 8th July, 1681. A [[sasine]], is simply a document, or sometimes an actual event, that ratifies the agreements made in a previous document. We find in many trees on the internet, however, this date, 8 July 1681, as the marriage date of David & Margaret and/or the birth date of their son [[Hugh Ross (1680s-1710s)|Hugh Ross]]. 

This is actually sasine on a [[Precept of sasine|precept]] dated one month earlier in which Margaret's father, [[George Stronach of Balblair (-aft1690)|George Stronach of Balblair]], grants to David and Margaret [[liferent]] of [[Balblair, Fearn Parish, Ross-shire|Easter Oxgait of Balblair]].

This date of the 8th of July, 1681, therefore, is not their marriage date and is in no way related to the birth of their son Hugh.

David & Margaret's marriage contract is dated {{date|8 August 1667|dmy}}.{{NRS|GD71/280}} The contract requires that the marriage take place before 31 December 1667. Therefore, they had been married for over 13 years at the time of this sasine.

Hugh was their 3rd son, born after his older brother [[George Ross of New Castle (1679-1753)|George]]. We know, then, only that Hugh was born sometime in 1680 or later. There is no evidence of his exact birth date. Birth records were not kept in [[Parish of Fearn, Ross-shire|Fearn Parish]] until 1749.{{sfn|Great Britain|1872|p=[https://archive.org/details/detailed-list-of-old-parochial-registers-of-scotland/page/8/mode/1up 8]}}
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|person_page=George Stronach of Balblair (-aft1690);David Ross, 1st of Balblair (c1642-1710);Margaret Stronach (fl1667-1710);Ross of Balblair;Stronach of Balblair
|place_page=Balblair, Fearn Parish, Ross-shire
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|related_topic=Hugh Ross of Martin County (1680-1740);Source:Rossiana (Branch of Balblair)
|timeline={{date|8 July 1681|dmy}} - [[File:RS003800005-00120-.jpg|thumb|right|240px|David Ross & Margaret Stronach sasine dated 8 July 1681.]]At [[Fortrose, Rosemarkie Parish, Ross-shire|Fortrose]], sasine registered for [[David Ross, 1st of Balblair (c1642-1710)|David Ross]] and [[Margaret Stronach (fl1667-1710)|Margaret Stronach, his spouse]], produced by Thomas Gair, notary public, recording that on 15 June 1681, in the presence of a notary pubic and witnesses, David Ross of Balblair was granted right and disposition, for himself and as attorney for Margaret Stronach, in conjunct fie and [[liferent]], the [[Balblair, Fearn Parish, Ross-shire|Easter Oxgait of Balblair]]
|citation=[[#CITEREFRS38/5|RS38/5]], f. 120.
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|person_page=George Stronach of Balblair (-aft1690);Ross of Balblair;David Ross, 1st of Balblair (c1642-1710);Margaret Stronach (fl1667-1710);Stronach of Balblair;John McKenzie of Inverlaell;Alexander Ross, Commissar Depute of Ross;Alexander Ross, servant to David Ross
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|timeline=15 June 1681 - Andrew Fraser in Fearne appointed as bailie by [[George Stronach of Balblair (-aft1690)|George Stronach of Balblair]], to deliver a precept of sasine to a notary public for registration. The precept of sasine granted to [[David Ross, 1st of Balblair (c1642-1710)|David Ross]] and [[Margaret Stronach (fl1667-1710)|Margaret Stronach]], and the longest living of them, in conjunct fie and [[liferent]], the [[Balblair, Fearn Parish, Ross-shire|Easter Oxgait of Balblair]], consisting of the toun of Balblair, extending to one quarter or two [[oxgang|oxgaits]] of land, with the alehouse, alehouse croft, houses buildings, yards, kilns, bars, byres etc. After their deaths, the right would pass to the heirs male begotten between David Ross and Margaret Stronach, failing which to David Ross’s nearest male heirs, failing which to his heirs and assignees, without reversion, regress or redemption. Written by Donald Simsone, writer in Tayne. Witnesses: Master [[John McKenzie of Inverlaell]]; [[Alexander Ross, Commissar Depute of Ross]]; Andrew Fraser in Fearne; [[Alexander Ross, servant to David Ross]].
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