Forfarian...I see you are researching LESLIE in Mortlach. Any connection to a Jane Leslie who married James Young ~ 1830? They lived in Aberchirder in 1834. Thats not too far from Mortlach. Jane may have had a father or a brother named Peter Leslie. Take care!
I don't think so.
My great-great-grandmother was Jane Leslie, born 1 June 1814 at Newley, Mortlach, married John Burgess in Botriphnie on 1 April 1848, and died on 10 December 1885 at 31 Baker Street, Aberdeen. She had a brother William, very well-documented with a large legitimate family and one illegitimate daughter who had an even larger one, and a brother James, for whom I have a baptism on 20 January 1816, a sighting in the surviving fragment of the 1821 census in Mortlach, and then nothing more.
Jane's parents were Thomas Leslie and Mary Stuart. Thomas was the son of James Leslie and Jean Spence, born about 1773/1774, died 16 January 1856 at South Toll House, Keith, where his son-in-law John Burgess was tollkeeper.
Thomas' baptism is not in the parish record, but seven siblings are, all born at Pittyvaich, Dufftown, Mortlach. His sister Dorothy, born 1771, died unmarried between 1841 and 1851. Sister Margaret, born 1776, died unmarried on 13 February 1865 at Newley, Mortlach. Brother John, born 1778, is believed to be the John Leslie who married Ann Grant in Mortlach on 6 December 1800 and probably died before 1854. I have nothing further on Alexander (1766), Elizabeth (1769), William (1779) or Helen (1781) after their baptisms. It is possible that one of them could have had a daughter Jane of an age to marry in about 1830.
I have only one Peter Leslie in my tree, from a different lot of Leslies, and born in 1825. He had a sister Jean, born 1813 in Rothes, about whom I have nothing after her baptism. She could be the one who married James Young, though I won't hold my breath - there are too many Leslies about.
I see that James Young and Jane Leslie had a son James, baptised in Marnoch on 2 March 1834, but have yet to find him in 1841, unless he is the six-year-old living in Gamrie with Peter Mitchel and his wife Margaret Young. He may be the 17-year-old farm servant at Culbuchly, Banff in 1851, but I have failed to find James sr or Jane in either census. Nor can I find Peter and Margaret in 1851.
What more do you know about James Young and Jane Leslie, and about their son James jr b 1834?