BETON, Ann ¹

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Ann married Sir Alexander ERSKINE 12th (13th) of Dun, son of David ERSKINE and Jeane MAULE.¹ (Sir Alexander ERSKINE 12th (13th) of Dun was born in 1600 ² and died about 1660.)

  Marriage Notes:

In finding the identity of this second wife there has been some difficulty, but it seems certain that she was Ann Beaton, great-niece of the sprightly Mary Beaton of the Queen's Maries; though, looking at the sepulchral beldame who hangs above a staircase in the house of Dun,, it is nearly impossible to believe that. Her great-grandfather Robert, head of the ancient house of Creich in the kingdom of Fife, had been a page of honour to Mary Stuart when she went to France, and was later made Master of her Household, Heritable Steward of Fife and Keeper of Falkland.....

.....Having removed Ann from her fictitious place by the son, it is easy to transfer her to the unfilled niche by the father; and what helps to establish her there is the letter written to him by the contemporary Beaton of Creich, in which the writer addresses him as 'Much honoured Brother,' and signs himself 'Your affectionatt Brother till Death.' "

from Lairds of Dun ¹