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WEBSTER, John
(1738-)
FORTUNE, Helen
(1756-)
HAY, William
(1767-1799)
KNOX, Janet
(1767-1799)
WEBSTER, Richard
(1787-001/1856)
HAY, Helen
(1786-)
WEBSTER, Mary
(1825-)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. WEBSTER, Janet

WEBSTER, Mary

  • Christened: 2 May 1825, Spott, East Lothian, Scotland
  • Marriage (1): WEBSTER, Janet on 17 Mar 1653 in Edinburgh parish, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland 1 2

  General Notes:

The 1851 census for Whittinghame East Lothian recorded Mary Webster aged 24 years living with her parents and brother at Muircockhall. She worked as an agricultural labourer. She had been born in Spot, Haddingtonshire. 3


Mary married Janet WEBSTER, daughter of Richard WEBSTER and Helen HAY, on 17 Mar 1653 in Edinburgh parish, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland.1 2 (Janet WEBSTER was christened on 8 May 1814 in Innerwick, East Lothian, Scotland.)


  Marriage Notes:

"HAMMILTOUN
ROBERT
MARIONE DENHAM/FR926 (FR926)
17/03/1653
685/1 440 16
Edinburgh"

from Index of Marriages




"Robert Hamilton of Presmennan, third son of James Hamilton of Barncleuch, admitted Writer to the Signet 24 March 1648 ; advocate 13 January 1677 ; one of the principal clerks of Session 1661-76 ; a Senator of the College of Justice, under the title of Lord Presmennan, 1 November 1689. He was knighted after the Revolution, and died at Edinburgh, 10 November 1695. Married Marion, eldest daughter of John Denholm of Muirhouse, and had issue"

from Scots Peerage (vol 2) 2 4

Sources


1 e-books, The Scots Peerage ed. Sir James Balfour Paul vol. 9 (1914).

2 GRO Scotland, OPR Index of Marriages.

3 1851 UK census, Whittinghame East Lothian 724 en d 5 page 1.

4 e-books, The Scots Peerage ed. Sir James Balfour Paul vol. 2 (1905).

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