GEORGE, "Down parish Co Down"

  General Notes:

This file does not necessarily represent one person. but is a convenient way of linking a surname group form a particular parish at roughly the same period, with a view to further research.

The individuals linked in this group here are likely to be related though not all in the same generation.

In cases where more than one wife is shown it may be the same man remarrying, or there may be separate individuals with the same given name.

"Down married.

"Down next married Robert Sadler GEORGE, son of Charles GEORGE and Margaret GEORGE MS UNKNOWN, in 1397.^{1 2 3} (Robert Sadler GEORGE was christened on 12 Jan 1790 in Down Church of Ireland Parish, County Down, Ireland ⁴.)

  Marriage Notes:

"Mary, who was married, first, in 1397, to George Douglas, Earl of Angus ; second, in 1409, to Sir James Kennedy ; third, to William, Lord of Graham ; and fourth, in 1425, to Sir William Edmonston of Culloden. She was dead in 1458, and was buried in the parish church of Strathblane." (page 18)

from Scots Peerage (vol 1)

(referring to Scots Peerage, volume 1, in "The Kings of Scotland")

"p. 18, 1. 16, for ' 1409' read '1405.'

p. 18, 1. 17, after 'Kennedy; ' add 'In July 1409 there was a papal dispensation for her marriage with Sir William Cunningham of Kilmaurs (cf. vol. iv. 230).'

p. 18, 1. 17, delete ' third,' and insert ' on 13 November 1413 she was married.'

from Scots Peerage (vol 9 Addenda et Corrigenda)




<sup>"Mary Stewart was the second daughter of King Robert III., and was widow, first, of George Douglas, first Earl of Angus, and secondly, of James Kennedy, younger of Dunure, who was killed before 8 November 1408."

from Scots Peerage (vol 4)</sup>



"Agnes (Maxwell) married, before 1384, Sir Gilbert Kennedy of Dunure. Their eldest son was Sir James Kennedy of Dunure, who married in 1405 the Princess Mary, daughter of King Robert III., relict of George first Earl of Angus."

from Memoirs of the Maxwells ^{2 3 5}