Margaret Sinclair - Lady Home

• Preferred Name: Margaret Sinclair - Lady Home^{[1] [2]}
  
• Gender: F
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Lady
  
• Birth: 2 OCT 1436 in Polwarth, Berwickshire, Scotland at LATI: N5.7732 LONG: E2.3551 with note: Twin girls, Margaret and Mariot St. Clair/Sinclair both who married brothers. Margaret, Heiress of Polwarth married to Sir Patrick Hume, upon their marriage Patrick became Sir Patrick Hume, Laird of Polwarth since the twins did not have any surviving brothers to assume the title and heritage. Mariot married Sir George Hume, 2nd Barron of Wedderburn.
  
• FSID: L6K1-F4V
  
• Death: 1496 in Wedderburn Castle, Berwick, Scotland at LATI: N5.75 LONG: E2.5
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  geni.com
  Mariota Sinclair
  Also Known As: "Mariota Sinclair", "Marion St. Clair"
  Birthdate: circa 1425
  Birthplace: Herdmanston, East Lothian, Scotland, (Present UK)
  Death: 1496 (67-75)
  Wedderburn Castle, Berwickshire, Scotland, (Present UK)
  Immediate Family:
  Daughter of Sir John St. Clair of Herdmanston and Polwarth and Katherine Home
  Wife of Sir George Ker of Samuelstown and George Home, 2nd of Wedderburn
  Mother of Nichole Ker and David Home, 3rd Baron Wedderburn
  Sister of Margaret Sinclair, Heiress Of Polwarth; Sir William St. Clair of Herdmanston and Lady Mary Agnes Hume/Home, Heiress of Polworth
  
  Margaret, youngest daughter and co-heir of John Sinclair, of Herdmanstoun, Polwarth and Kimmerghame, sister of Mariota, who maried [Sir Patrick's] brother. [From History of Dunbar Hume and Dundas from Drummond's Noble British Families, William Pickering, London 1846] There is a remarkable story connected with the marriage of these two sisters (Sinclair) which has given celebrity to a thorn, that has been the subject of many a poetic effusion. In this age, there were dreadful contentions for heiresses, and few were married without having been the occasion of one or more broken heads, and it generally happened that the most powerful gained the prize. But of all their lovers Mariota and Margaret Sinclair preferred the sons of their powerful neighbours and their cousins; but after the death of their father they fell into the hands of an uncle, who, anxious to prevent their marriage, that he might succeed to the estate, immured them in his castle in Lothian. By means of an old beggarwoman they got a letter transmitted to their lovers, and the two youths soon appeared at the castle gate at the head of a strong body of Merse men. The uncle made all possible resistence, but could not prevent his nieces being carried off before his face in triumph to Polwarth. The marriage was immediately celebrated, and part of the nuptial rejoicings consisted in a dance round a thorn, which grew in the center of the village. In commemoration of that affair, all marriage parties thenceforth danced around the thorn, for which purpose an air was composed, called "Polwarth on the Green," to this air many words have been adapted. [From History of Dunbar Hume and Dundas from Drummond's Noble British Families, William Pickering, London 1846]
  
  === This lady brought with her to the marri ===
  This lady brought with her to the marriage the lands of Kimmerghame in Berwickshire.
  
  === Mariot's mother is also listed as Cather ===
  Mariot's mother is also listed as Catherine Home but it is probably in Error. Her birth place is also listed as Midlothian, Scotland.
  All of George Hume's and Mariott's children are listed at family search as being born the same year.
  
  Mariot died at Wedderburn Castle. This was the estate of her husband George Hume. I have assumed that he was her second husband rather than her first as some sources list because of this.
  
  Almost all sources at family search list Mariot's parents as John Sinclair and her mother as Isobel her birth abt 1435. However she was probably was the oldest child and born abt 1425 at Herdmanston, East Lothian, Scotland. Only one source lists her parents as William Sinclair and Elizabeth Douglas and born abt 1425. The submitter of this info is Ronald Ramsey of Las Vegas, Nevada.
  
  The Scots Perrage lists Mariota as daughter of John of Hermandston.
  
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  === FHL Caithness Family History 941.13 D2h ===
  FHL Caithness Family History 941.13 D2h pg 2

1. David HUME Third Lord of Wedderburn, b. ABT 1470 in Wedderburn Castle, Duns, Berwickshire, Scotland     d. 9 SEP 1513 in Branxton, Northumberland, England (In battle)

1. Title: Genealogy of the descendants of John Walker of Wigton, Scotland, with records of a few allied families : also war records and s
   Publication: Name: https://search.ancestry.com/collections/15227/records/123;
   
2. Title: North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000
   Author: Book Title: Genealogy of the MacClaughry family : a Scoto-Irish family originally from Galloway, Scotland; appe
   Publication: Name: https://search.ancestry.com/collections/61157/records/456582;