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PORTER, Margaret
(About 1810-)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. QUIGLEY, John

2. GOULD, Elizabeth Russell

PORTER, Margaret

  • Born: About 1810, Ireland 2
  • Marriage (1): QUIGLEY, John
  • Marriage (2): GOULD, Elizabeth Russell 1

   Another name for Margaret was QUIGLEY, Margaret.

  General Notes:

The 1851 census recorded Margaret Quigley as 40 years old.

The 1861 census recorded Margaret Quigley as 58 years old and born in Ireland. 2 3


Margaret married John QUIGLEY, son of John QUIGLEY and Margaret O'DONNELL. (John QUIGLEY was born about 1808 in Ireland 2 4 and died 28 May 1862 at 7 pm in Longwell Close, Greenock, Renfrewshire, Scotland 4.). The cause of his death was heart disease of a sudden nature.


Margaret next married Elizabeth Russell GOULD, daughter of James GOULD and Elisabeth RUSSELL.1 (Elizabeth Russell GOULD was born on 30 Jun 1861 in Central District, Glasgow, Scotland 5 6 and died on 7 Oct 1950 in Glasgow, Scotland 5 7.)


  Marriage Notes:

Elizabeth (Douglas), married (contract dated 13 September 1627) to John Campbell, fiar (see Note below) of Cawdor, and had issue. She was dead in 1640."

from Scots Peerage (vol 1)

Note:

Elizabeth Douglas was the second wife of the thane of Cawdor, Sir John Campbell, not of his son.





"Between 1627-1636, Sir John Campbell took a 2nd wife, Dame Elizabeth Douglas, daughter of William, Earl of Angus whose brother was created 1st Marqis of Douglas - she was granted a contract for maintenance in 1636, money for her and two daughters. She was still alive in 1641, but dead before the end fo 1642."

from The Book of the Thanes of Cawdor 1 8

Sources


1 e-books, The Scots Peerage ed. Sir James Balfour Paul vol. 1 (1904).

2 GRO, Greenock Middle Renfrewshire Longwell Close Muirs Land.

3 1851 UK census, Greenock Renfrewshire 7 West Breast.

4 GRO Scotland, Death Greenock New 564/1 no 165 1862.

5 digital images, "Johnson/Stanley Family Tree".

6 LDS, IGI.

7 ancestry.co.uk, Johnson/Stanley Family Tree.

8 e-books, The Book of the Thanes of Cawdor by Cosmos Innes and John Frederich Vaughn Campbell 1st Earl of Cawdor (1859).

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