Hi,

After a brief study I believe "this young boy" to be Alexander Brodie (Lord Brodie) who at the age of 17 married on 28th October, 1635, Elizabeth Innes, widow of John Urquhart, of Craigston, tutor of Cromarty, who d. 30th November, 1634. Alexander also had a debt of 40,000 pounds (see above). His wife was two or three years older.

John Urquhart and Elizabeth Innes had a son, Sir John Urquhart b. 1633, d. 1678, who she would have raised after her husband's death (he died when his son was one).

The ballad and John Spalding have mixed the facts.

Richie