WORKMAN, Mary ⁵

   Other names for Mary were LENNES, Mary, LYNAS, Mary and NORTHMAN, Mary.⁵

  General Notes:

In 1851 Mary was aged 42 years. She lived in Calton with her husband and five children aged 12 to 2 years.

In 1881 Mary was recorded living with her husband, Joshua, at 71 Abercromby Street Glasgow. Her age was given as 74 years and she had been born in Ireland. ^{6 7}

Mary married Joshua LYNAS on 7 Mar 1837 in Ballymoney Parish, County Antrim, Ireland.¹ (Joshua LYNAS was born about 1810 in Ireland.)

Mary next married James MENZIES, son of James MENZIES and Agnes THOMSON.^{2 3 4} The marriage ended in annulled 24 july 1471. (James MENZIES was born 20 January 1888 at 10.00 am in Greenside, Leslie, Airdrie, Lanarkshire, Scotland,.)

  Marriage Notes:

"The divorce of Elizabeth Dunbar from Lord Gordon, Master of Huntly, must have taken place before the 10th of March 1459, when Annabella, daughter of King James the First, appears in a charter as his wife. That Princess also was solemnly divorced from him on the 24th of July 1471; and it is from her divorce that we learn the fact that he had obtained a divorce from Elizabeth of Dunbar. Annabella was divorced from him, not because of any misconduct on her part, but merely because she and the Master of Huntly were held to be related to each other in the third and
fourth degrees of consanguinity, in consequence of Annabella's having been related in the like third and fourth degrees of consanguinity to Elizabeth Dunbar, the Master of Huntly's former wife, from whom, as the deed states, he 'had been lawfully divorced and separated by the judgment of the church.' On this ground the marriage of the Princess with the Master of Huntly was pronounced to be illegal."

from The Chiefs of Colquhoun




"Annabella (Stewart), married first, 14 December 1447, at Stirling, to Louis, Count of Geneva, son of Louis, Duke of Savoy. From him she was divorced owing to the intrigues of the King of France, and sent home with a solatium of 25,000 crowns in 1458. Before 10 March 1459 she was married, secondly, to George Gordon, second Earl of Huntly, from whom she was divorced 24 July 1471. No reference to any issue is made in the divorce. Her later history is very obscure."

from Scots Peerage (vol 1)




"The Master's second wife was the Princess Annabella Stewart, youngest daughter of King James I., whom he married before 10 March 1459-60, when he and she had a grant from her brother, King James II., of two hundred merks of land of the lordship of Aboyne, resigned by the Earl of Huntly. The Princess appears to have had no male issue, and six years after the marriage the Master
was again a-wooing......"

"He then seems to have instituted a process of divorce, on the ground that he had married Elizabeth Dunbar, from whom he was lawfully divorced, and that she was related in the third and fourth degrees of consanguinity to the Lady Annabella, to whom he himself was related in the same degrees of affinity. On this ground and the evidence adduced a divorce was solemnly pronounced at Aberdeen on 24 July
1471"

from Scots Peerage (vol 4) ^{2 3 4}