KINCAID, John of Warriston ¹

   Cause of his death was murder.¹

   User ID: D488.

John married Jean LIVINGSTON, daughter of Sir John LIVINGSTON 4th of Dunipace and Margaret COLVILL, about 1594.¹ (Jean LIVINGSTON was born in 1579 ¹ and died on 5 July 1600 in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland ¹.). The cause of her death was execution by beheading.¹

  Marriage Notes:

"Jean Livingstone, was born in 1579. She was married about the age of fifteen to John Kincaid of Warristoun. He seems to have treated her in a most brutal manner, and at last brought upon himself the terrible retribution of 'love turned to hate.' Listening to the suggestions of her nurse. Lady Warristoun sanctioned the murder of her husband. He was done to death while in bed by the nurse and a groom on the 2nd of July, 1600. Lady Warristoun is said to have been very beautiful, and only twenty one years of age when the murder was committed. The reason for the murder was stated to be 'deidlie rancor, haitred and malice against umquhile Johnne Kincaid of Warristoun, for the allegit byting of her in the arme and streking her dyvers times.' Lady Warristoun was executed in Edinburgh on 5th July, 1600, at four o'clock in the morning."

from Lands and Lairds ¹