BAILLIE, Marion ^{2 3 4}

   Other names for Marion were BAILLIE, Marietta ⁴ and BAILLIE, Mariota.¹

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Marion married John SOMERVILLE 3rd (2nd) Lord Somerville, son of William SOMERVILLE 2nd Lord Somerville (1st) and Janet MOWAT of Stenhouse, March 1455(1456).¹ (John SOMERVILLE 3rd (2nd) Lord Somerville was born about 1411, died in November 1491 ¹ and was buried in 1491 in College Aisle, Carnwath Church, Lanarkshire, Scotland ¹.)

  Marriage Notes:

"The second Lord (John Somerville) married, secondly, in March 1455-56, Mariota, daughter of Sir William Baillie of Lamington..... By her he had issue." (page 12)

"On 29 April 1477 he had, on his own resignation, a charter of Cambusnethan and half of Stenhouse to himself and his second wife." (page 11)

from Scots Peerage (vol 8)



"Marietta or Marion, married John, third Lord Somerville, who in 1456 was served heir to his father, William, second Lord Somerville, in that lordship, which had been created on 15th December 1430, in the person of Thomas Somerville of Linton and Carnwath. Marion Baillie was Lord Somerville's second wife ..... "

from Lives of the Baillies ^{1 5}

Marion next married Sir Humphrey COLQUHOUN 10th of Colquhoun and 12th of Luss, son of Sir John COLQUHOUN 9th of Colquhoun and 11th of Luss and Daughter BOYD, after November 1491.² (Sir Humphrey COLQUHOUN 10th of Colquhoun and 12th of Luss was born about 1442 and died about 19 August 1493 ².)

  Marriage Notes:

"Marion Baillie became a widow in the year 1491, John Lord Somerville having died in November that year. The date of her marriage with Humphrey Colquhoun of Luss is uncertain. To him she had no issue, and she soon became a widow a second time."

from The Chiefs of Colquhoun ²

Marion next married Sir John ROSS Lord Ross of Halkhead, Sheriff of Linlithgow after 19 August 1493.^{1 2 3} The marriage ended in divorce. (Sir John ROSS Lord Ross of Halkhead, Sheriff of Linlithgow was born about 1425 and died by 16 October 1501 ³.)

  Marriage Notes:

"After 1491 he (Sir John Ross) married Marion Baillie, widow of John, third Lord Somerville, from whom he obtained a divorce."

from Scots Peerage (vol 7)



"She (Mariota Baillie) survived him, and married, secondly. Sir John Ross, first Lord Ross of Halkhead, who divorced her."

from Scots Peerage (vol 8) ^{1 3}