CRICHTON, Margaret ²

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Margaret married Sir Robert DALZELL of Dalzell and Eliock, Earl of Carnwath, son of Robert DALZELL of Dalzell and Eliock and Janet HAMILTON, 28 March 1580(contract).^{1 2} (Sir Robert DALZELL of Dalzell and Eliock, Earl of Carnwath was born about 1560 and died in 1639 ².)

  Marriage Notes:

"Sir Robert Dalzell of Dalzell and Elliok was given a charter of the lands of Elliok by his father, subject to the latter's liferent and the terce of his mother and his grandmother, Cristine Dundas, on 12 June 1574, and, in implement of his marriage-contract, got a charter of the lands of Dalzell and the mill of Lanark, under the same reservations, from his father on 9 May 1580. Some more of the Elliok estate and the lands of Euchane were acquired by him in 1595 from his brother-in-law, Robert Crichton of Cluny, eldest surviving son of the King's Advocate, and younger brother of the Admirable Crichton.

On 18 September 1628 he was created a Peer, under the title of Lord Dalzell, and sat as such in Parliament in 1633. He gave 300 merks to the building of the college and library of Glasgow University in 1632. In June 1638 he was admitted to the King's Council, and subscribed the Covenant and Bond of Maintenance at Holyrood, on 22 September of that year. Sir Robert was advanced to the dignity of Earl of Carnwath, Baron Dalzell and Liberton, on 21 April 1639, at York, with limitation to heirs-male of his body. Died 1639. He married (contract 28 March 1580) Margaret, eldest daughter of Sir Robert Crichton of Cluny, the King's Advocate, and by her had issue"

from Scots Peerage (vol 2) ²