OGILVY, Alexander 4th of Boyne, Sir ^{1 2}

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Alexander married Mary BETON one of the 'Four Maries', daughter of Robert BETON (BETHUNE) 4th of Creich and Jeanne GRESONER, 3 May 1566(contract).¹ (Mary BETON one of the 'Four Maries' was born about 1546 and died before 1599 ¹.)

  Marriage Notes:

"The name of the early castle on the rock was transferred to its successor, which was probably built by Alexander Ogilvie shortly after his marriage in 1566, to Mary Beaton, one of the Queen's ladies. The original contract of marriage is in the Register House, Edinburgh, dated 'the third day of May the year of God 1566, and is signed by Marie R. Henry R. Huntly, Bothwell, Atholl, James Stewart, Angus. Boyne. M. Bethune.' "

"By his wife, Mary Beton, Alexander Ogilvie had three sons: - (1) James, who succeeded to Boyne. (2) Andrew of Raggall. (3) Robert"

from Paper by Alistair Tayler ¹

Alexander next married Jane GORDON, daughter of George GORDON 4th Earl of Huntly and Elizabeth KEITH Countess of Huntly, 10 December 1599(contract) in Elgin, Moray, Scotland.^{1 2 3} (Jane GORDON was born about 1547, died on 14 May 1629 in Dunrobin Castle, Sutherland, Scotland ^{1 2} and was buried in 1629 in Dornoch cathedral, Sutherland, Scotland ².)

  Marriage Notes:

"The widow (Jane Gordon) was married Thirdly, contract dated at Elgin 10 December 1599, to Alexander Ogilvie of Boyne, who did not survive the marriage many years. She died at Dunrobin 14 May 1629 in her eighty-fourth year, and was buried in the Cathedral Church of Dornoch."

from Scots Peerage (vol 2)




"Jean, married .... thirdly (contract 10 December 1599), to Alexander Ogilvy of Boyne. She died 14 May 1629, in her eighty-fourth year."

from Scots Peerage (vol 4)




"It has been impossible to find the date of Mary Beton's death, but several books are wrong in stating that Alexander Ogilvie and his wife, Mary Beton, were both alive in 1606. Mary Beton certainly died before 1599, as in that year Alexander Ogilvie married, secondly, Lady Jane Gordon, daughter of George, 4th Earl of Huntly, who had, in 1566, married James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell. Lady Jane Gordon married, secondly, in 1573, Alexander, 12th Earl of Sutherland, by whom he had five sons and two daughters. The Earl died in 1594 and Lady Jane married thirdly (contract dated at Elgin 10th December 1599), Alexander Ogilvie of Boyne, who, according to the Scots Peerage, 'did not survive the marriage many years.' "

from Paper by Alistair Tayler ^{1 2 3}