SEMPLE, John ³

  General Notes:

1920 Jun
Age: 31 signed for Luton in 1920. had previously played football for Kirkintilloch Rob Roy and then Ayr United in May 1914 ¹

John married Elizabeth GILLON on 29 Jan 1909 in Baillieston, Lanarkshire, Scotland.¹ (Elizabeth GILLON was born on 20 Sep 1888 in Baillieston, Lanarkshire, Scotland ¹ and died in 1960 in Stonehouse, Lanarkshire, Scotland ¹.)

John next married Letitia QUIGLEY, daughter of James QUIGLEY and Isabella McLEAN.² (Letitia QUIGLEY was born about 1828 in County Derry, Ireland ⁴ and died 9 March 1907 about 5 pm in 12 Buttery Square, Airdrie, Lanarkshire, Scotland.). The cause of her death was natural causes, probably heart failure.

  Marriage Notes:

"He (Gilbert de Umfraville) was not her first husband, who was John Comyn, said to be Richard, the son of a Comyn...He also had the title of Earl of Angus when he died in France in 1242, but nothing else is recorded regarding him, save that he is said to
have had by the Countess a son Bertold, who died an infant."

from Scots Peerage

Note: It is not at all clear what Scots Peerage means by the phrase

"who was John Comyn, said to be Richard, the son of a Comyn".

There was a John Comyn, son of Richard Comyn and Hextilda, but he is likely to have been born in the middle third of the 12th century and was, according to the poms website "Buried at Kelso Abbey before 1160". Richard and Hextilda had at least two other sons apart from John and William: Simon and Odinel. One of these may have been the father of the man who died in France in 1242. ^{2 5 6}