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Margaret Scrymgeour
- Preferred Name: Margaret Scrymgeour[1] [2]
- Gender: F
- FSID: LZW7-2RN
- Death: 16 AUG 1572 in Dundee, Forfarshire, Scotland at LATI: N6.462 LONG: E2.9706
- Birth: 1503 in Dundee, Forfarshire, Scotland at LATI: N6.462 LONG: E2.9706
- Notes:
=== Life Sketch ===
JOHN STEWART was born about 1498 of Buchanan, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, to Earl Alexander Stewart (1470-1505) and Countess Margaret Ruthven (1483-1540.) He married Margaret Scrymgeour about 1520 of Dudhope, Angus, Scotland.
His Title of Nobility was Earl of Buchan.
John Stewart died about 1551 of Aberdeenshire, Scotland, age 53.
Wikitree:
John Stewart, 3rd Earl of Buchan, son and heir of Alexander, succeeded to the Earldom in 1505. He was retoured heir to his father in the Earldom and Earlshill in 1519; until then he retained the style of Master of Buchan which he had held in his father's lifetime. On his own resignation, a charter of all his lands, baronies, lordships, and heritable offices, and of the Earlshill, was granted 4 August 1547 to his son John Stewart and his heirs, reserving the Earl's liferent.
He married Margaret, daughter of James Scrymgeour of Dudhope, Constable of Dundee, by whom he had:
John Stewart, Master of Buchan, who married, first, Mary, only child of James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray, an illegitimate son of King James IV and Janet Kennedy; secondly, Margaret, daughter of Walter Ogilvy of the Boyne, who survived her husband by two years at least. He was killed in the Battle of Pinkie Cleugh, 10 September 1547, leaving an only child by Margaret Ogilvy, Christina Stewart, later to become Countess of Buchan. James Stewart, Master of Buchan in 1547, after his brother's death. He married Christian, daughter of John Strang of Balcaskie, by whom he had: James Stewart, served as heir to his father, 13 October 1604, and to his grandfather, great-grandfather, and great-great-grandfather 26 March 1618. Alexander Stewart. Margaret Stewart, married to Sir Hadrian Damon of Birtewelte in Denmark. Isobel Stewart. John Stewart is spoken of as recently dead in 1551. However his first son and heir had predeceased him, so title of the Earldom devolved to his granddaughter Christina.
MARGARET SCRYMGEOUR was born about 1500 of Scotland, to Sir James Scrymgeour (1455-1504) and Isobel Gray (1465-1551.) She married (1) *John Stewart about 1520 of Dudhope, Angus, Scotland; (2) John Campbell about 1549, Dunhope, Dundee, Scotland.
Margaret Scrymgeour passed away of Scotland at unknown date.
Children of John Stewart and Margaret Scrymgeour:
1. Earl John Stewart (1500-1547)
2. JAMES STEWART (1523-1604)
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=== !#21-v2-p379; `title> Countess of Buchan ===
!#21-v2-p379; `title> Countess of Buchan;
Preferred Parents:
Father: James Scrymgeour of Dudhope Constable of Dundee, b. BEF 1465 in Glassary, Argyll, Scotland d. 4 APR 1504 in Dudhope Castle, Dundee City, Scotland
Mother: Isobel Gray, b. 29 OCT 1483 in Lawers, Perthshire, Scotland d. 2 MAY 1551 in West Lothian, Scotland
Family 1: John Stewart 3rd Earl of Buchan, b. 1498 in Buchanan, Stirlingshire, Scotland d. AFT 14 JUL 1551
- m. ABT 1520 in Dudhope, Angus, Scotland
- James Stewart Master of Buchan, b. 1520 in Buchan, Aberdeenshire, Scotland d. 1604 in Haddingtonshire, Scotland
Family 2: John Campbell, b. ABT 1514 in Of Cawdor, Nairnshire, Scotland d. BEF 1572
- m. ABT 1549 in of Dunhope,Dundee,Angusshire,Scotland
Sources:
- Title: Birth of son John: Volume III, Book IX, “Strange of Balcaskie and Clans Outlandish Strang and Stronge” by John Mayer, Arapacana Press, page 33
Author: Birth of son John: Volume III, Book IX, “Strange of Balcaskie and Clans Outlandish Strang and Stronge” by John Mayer, Arapacana Press, page 33
- Title: Birth of son James: Volume III, Book IX, “Strange of Balcaskie and Clans Outlandish Strang and Stronge” by John Mayer, Arapacana Press, page 33
Author: Birth of son James: Volume III, Book IX, “Strange of Balcaskie and Clans Outlandish Strang and Stronge” by John Mayer, Arapacana Press, page 33
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