BELLENDEN, Elizabeth 'of Lasswade' ¹

   Another name for Elizabeth was BELLENDEN, Jean.¹

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Elizabeth married William LAUDER in Cauldscheills, Burgess of Lauder, son of Richard LAUDER of that Ilk, Senator of the Collegae of Justice and Eupheme MACDOUGAL. (William LAUDER in Cauldscheills, Burgess of Lauder was born about 1558, died on 10 May 1598 in Tolbooth, Lauder, Berwickshire, Scotland ^{2 3} and was buried in 1598 in Lauder Vault, Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh, Scotland ².). The cause of his death was murder.

  Marriage Notes:

"William (Lauder) married twice, firstly Elizabeth (or Jean), daughter of John Bellenden of Lasswade (cadets of Auchnole & Broughton), by whom he had three known sons.

William was interred with his first wife in the Lauder burial vault inside Greyfriars Church, Edinburgh."

from Ancestry & Family of Lauder of Fountainhall




"William Lauder, called 'of the Dails,' erroneously named Robert by Nisbet, - as is pointed out by Burke, - burgess of Lauder, had a charter of some lands in 1542, from Sir Robert Lauder of the Bass, who styles him dilectus consanguineus. He married Jean or Elizabeth Bellenden, daughter of Bellenden of Lasswade, by whom he had three sons : Robert, who died without issue ; William, called 'Will of the West Port,' who is referred to in a document entitled 'Remission in favour of the pannell, the Earl of Home, &c, dated 17th November, 1607, as Willielmo Lauder, Balliui burgi nostri de Lauder, vocat. Williame at the West-Poirt ; he was stabbed on the bench by the Earl of Home and a party of Humes and Cranstouns, who, after setting fire to the Tolbooth, broke in upon him while sitting in the courthouse of Lauder as hereditary bailie."

from Family of Lauder ¹