WALLACE, Margaret ¹

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Margaret married Alexander KNELAND OR CLELAND of that Ilk.¹ (Alexander KNELAND OR CLELAND of that Ilk was born about 1235.)

  Marriage Notes:

"Alexander Cleland - 1st Cleland of that ilk. The first of the family of which there is record is Alexander Cleland, or Kneland, of that ilk, in the County of Lanark, who married Margaret, daughter of Adam Wallace of Riccarton, and sister of Sir Malcolm Wallace, i.e., she was Sir William Wallace's aunt. (Document and Grossart's 'History of the Parish of Shotts') This Alexander is not mentioned by Nisbet. Probably born about 1230-1240."

from Family of Cleland ¹