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Broadsea is a community situated inAberdeenshire in the north east ofScotland.[1][2] It is a long-standing fishing community at the north edge ofFraserburgh.
Christian Watt, author ofThe Christian Watt Papers, was born and raised in Broadsea. Hermemoirs give an insight into the lives in the community during the latter part of the 19th century.[3]
Much of the history of the small village of Broadsea in written widely about in Christian Watts' memoirs. Perhaps the most famous group the Broadsea village were the Noble families. They were of great influence in the village in the 17th century. As such, to buy favour with the family, Alexander Fraser, 11th Lord Saltoun, created a title for the head of the Nobles – the 'Constable of Broadsea'. The constableship passed from the Nobles to the Lascelles family in a series of marriages until the 1740s, when the title was revoked by the Hanoverian state. William Lascelles, the last constable, had been against both the Act of Union and Hanoverian succession. The title continued for at least two more generations as a hereditary pretendership. It has been claimed that later Noble families descend from both the 11th and 12th Lord Saltouns of Abernethy.
The community's 17th-century school was demolished before 1990.[4]
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