James Brebner

James Brebner
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Born	1793
Died	1874
Residence	20 Albyn Place, Aberdeen [1863, 66, 67, 69] 1 Albyn Place, Aberdeen [1864] 6 Albyn Place, Aberdeen [A6:2]and[1872]
Occupation	legal
Society Membership membership ASL, AI ordinary fellow ASL Foundation Fellow left 1872.03 last listed elected_AI 1863 elected_ASL 1863 clubs Spalding Club societies Aberdeen Horticultural Society

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James Brebner #800, b. c 1793/99 in Aberdeen, ABD, SCT,30 baptized 02 JUN 1799 in Aberdeen St. Nicholas, ABD, SCT,3 d. 23 AUG 1874 in Mayfield House, Cults, KCD, SCT,31 buried in St. Nicholas Churchyard, Aberdeen, occupation Advocate in practice.
1824: 30 Dee St., 1830 (Aberdeen Directory);.
1830 : Offices 7 Queen Street, Aberdeen
1834-41: Office at 44 Marischal St, Aberdeen; City Directory ;
this was an interesting coincidence inasmuch as George BREBNER and Elizabeth MCKENZIE ( my Brebner ancestors) lived in the same
building after 1912...
1841: Census lists family at 44 Marischal Street; Agent, Friendly Insurance Company.
1851: Lived at 9 Albyn Place, Aberdeen.
1858-59: Office in Advocate's Building; City Directory
1845-65: Lived at 20 Albyn Place, Aberdeen.
James was also an avid gardener, and took many prizes in the Aberdeen Horticultural Society for his greenhouse specimens.

James Brebner, Advocate of Aberdeen and Inverness, Swindling
The Scotsman, 27th September 1854, page 3.
ARREST OF A SCOTCH SOLICITOR IN LONDON. - James Brebner, who has variously described
himself as a solicitor of Aberdeen and of Inverness, has been remanded by Sir Robert Carden on a charge
of obtaining money under false pretences. He told a Mrs. McLellan and her son, whom he met at
Edinburgh, that they were entitled to a large property in Jamaica; and on pretence of proving their claim he
obtained many advances of money.
The Scotsman, 30th September 1854, page 3.
CHARGE OF SWINDLING. – At the Guildhall, London, on Tuesday, James Brebner, a solicitor of
Aberdeen, was placed at the bar on remand before Sir R.W. Carden, charged with obtaining various sums
of money, amounting to nearly £20 (sic), under the false pretence of being able to recover for Kenneth
McLenan, an engineer, and Anne McLenan, his mother, property to the value of £36,000, which he
alleged to be due to the mother from the estate of the late Mr. Macrae of Jamaica. Inspector Hamilton
said there was no fresh evidence in this case, but from information he had received he believed there was a
warrant lodged in the hands of the procurator-fiscal of Inverness for the apprehension of the prisoner on
other charges of fraud. Sir R.W. Carden said as the greatest part of the money in this case had been
obtained in Scotland, he thought it would be advisable to sent the prisoner there to meet the other charges
rather than bring all the witnesses such a distance to give their evidence in this case. He should therefore
remand the or prisoner for a week to give the procurator-fiscal an opportunity of coming up and executing
his warrant; but if the Scotch authorities should evince and reluctance to prosecute the prisoner, he could
then be dealt with in London. The prisoner was accordingly remanded for a week.
I believe this is James Brebner son of William Brebner and Mary McKenzie. He married Ann Cook in
1852, but appears to have been a drifter; he was in the Fraserburgh Poor House in 1869 from which he
absconded. His death certificate gives his occupation as Tailor…