ROSS, Margaret 'of Braelangwell' ^{1 2}

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  Research Notes:

BRAELANGWELL

Also Brealangwell. It lies in Sutherland five or six miles west of Ardgay on the Dornoch Firth.

Rossiana states that Hugh Ross was the first of the Brealangwell branch. He was a younger son of William Ross, fifth of Invercharron, and brother to deceased William, seventh of Invercharron (Sasine 25th February 1693). He married Helen, daughter of David Dunbar of Dumphail.

Margaret Ross, who married Ludovick Dunbar, may have been a sister of Hugh, or a niece. ³

Margaret married Ludovick DUNBAR 17th of Westfield, Sheriff of Moray, son of Alexander DUNBAR of Moy and Lucie GORDON 'Ladie Altyr', on 15 November 1716 in Dyke parish, Moray, Scotland.^{1 2} (Ludovick DUNBAR 17th of Westfield, Sheriff of Moray was born about 1685 and died in 1744 ¹.)

  Marriage Notes:

"DUNBAR
LODOVICK
MARGARET ROSS/
15/11/1716
133 20 / 327
DYKE"

from Index of Marriages




"From the above Sir James Dunbar, eldest son of Sir Alexander, first of Westfield, the estate descended in the male line to Ludovick Dunbar, who succeeded in 1721. He married Margaret, daughter of Ross of Braelangwell. He sold the heritable Sheriffship of Moray, which had been nearly 300 years in the family, to Charles Earl of Moray, and conveyed the estate to Elizabeth, daughter of Alexander Dunbar, fifteenth laird of Westfield, by his wife, Margaret Calder, daughter of Sir James Calder of Muirton. He himself died without issue in the year 1744, and in him ended the whole male line of Sir James Dunbar of Westfield, eldest son of the first Sir Alexander Dunbar, Sheriff of Moray, who was only son of James Dunbar, fifth and last Earl of Moray of the name of Dunbar."

from The Parish of Spynie ^{1 2}