MURRAY, James 2nd Earl of Annandale, 3rd Viscount of Stormont ¹

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James married Jean CARNEGIE, daughter of James CARNEGIE 2nd Earl of Southesk, 'the Black Earl' and Mary KER, 26 June 1647(contract).¹ (Jean CARNEGIE was born about 1633, died in March 1671 in Auchtermuchty, Fife, Scotland ^{1 2} and was buried in 1671 in Scone Abbey, Perthshire, Scotland ¹.)

  Marriage Notes:

"James (Murray), Earl of Annandale, married Jean Carnegie, eldest daughter of James, second Earl of Southesk. Six months after her first husband's death, 14 July 1659, this lady married David, fourth Viscount of Stormont. She died in March 1671. Lord Annandale's titles of Earl of Annandale, Viscount Annan, and Lord Murray of Lochmaben became extinct upon his death, whilst those of Viscount of Stormont, Lord Scone, and Lord St. John of Torphichen in the County of Perth, devolved upon David, second Lord Balvaird."

from Scots Peerage (vol 1)




"Jean (Carnegie), married, first (contract 26 June 1647), to James Murray, second Earl of Annandale. There was no issue of this marriage." (page 70)

"James Murray, second Earl of Annandale, who as son and heir of the deceased Earl of Annandale, formerly John Murray of Reidkirk, succeeded as third Viscount Stormont. He died in London 28 December 1658, and was buried at Ruthwell (will dated 28 November 1658), having married (contract dated at Leuchars 14 June 1647) Jean Carnegie, daughter of James, Lord Carnegie, afterwards Earl of Southesk, but by her, who married, secondly, David, Lord Balvaird, Annandale's successor in the titles of Stormont and Scone, he had no issue. The title passed to a descendant of William Murray of Letter Bannachty, a younger son of Sir David of Balvaird and Arngask" (pages 197 and 198)

from Scots Peerage (vol 8) ^{1 2}