LINDSAY, Alexander 1 2
User ID: E24. 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." |