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LINDSAY, David of Edzell, Lord of Session, Sir
(About 1551-1610)
LINDSAY, Helen
(About 1553-1579)
WISHART, John 9th of Pittarrow
(About 1545-1607)
DOUGLAS, Jean
(About 1553-)
LINDSAY, David of Edzell, Sir
(About 1574-)
WISHART, Margaret
(About 1582-)
LINDSAY, Alexander
(About 1600-Before 1639)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. WEMYSS, Anna

LINDSAY, Alexander 1 2

  • Born: About 1600
  • Marriage (1): WEMYSS, Anna 30 December 1631(contract) in Perth, Scotland 1
  • Died: Before 18 October 1639 2

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Alexander married Anna WEMYSS, daughter of Sir John WEMYSS of that Ilk, Earl of Wemyss, Lord Elcho and Methil and Jean GRAY, 30 December 1631(contract) in Perth, Scotland.1 (Anna WEMYSS was born about 1614 and died on 20 September 1643 in Wemyss, Fife, Scotland 1 2.)


  Marriage Notes:

"Lady Anna, who married Alexander Lindsay, son and heir-apparent of David Lindsay of Edzell, and his wife, Margaret Wishart. Their contract is dated at Perth, 30th December 1631, and in terms of it the bridegroom's parents were to receive the young couple into household with themselves, and entertain them and their children in a manner befitting their estate, otherwise they were to have the house of Auchmull as a dwelling-place. The tocher given with the bride was 16,000 merks.* They had issue a daughter, who married Walter, Lord Torphichen, and as Dame Jean Lindsay, Lady Torphichen, she was afterwards served heir to her mother. The first husband of Lady Anna Wemyss, however, did not long survive, and she married as her second husband Mungo Murray, second Viscount of Stormont, Lord Scone, being also his second wife."

from Family of Wemyss 1

Sources


1 e-books, Memorials of the Family of Wemyss of Wemyss vol.1 by William Fraser (1888).

2 e-books, The Scots Peerage ed. Sir James Balfour Paul vol. 8 (1911).

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