BAILLIE, William of Lamington, Sir ¹

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William married Janet HAMILTON, daughter of James HAMILTON 2nd Lord Hamilton, Earl of Arran and Mary BOYD, about 29 January 1532.¹ (Janet HAMILTON was born about 1510 and died after 1585 ¹.)

  Marriage Notes:

"WILLIAM BAILLIE married Janet, natural daughter of James, third Lord Hamilton and first Earl of Arran, and a daughter of Lord Boyd. Miss Janet Hamilton was sister by her father to James Duke of Chatelherault, tutor to Mary Queen of Scots. This William Baillie obtained a dispensation from the Archbishop of Glasgow, Pope's Legate and Judge constituted to that effect, in which he is called a laick, allowing him to marry Janet Hamilton, though they were within the forbidden degrees of relationship, on 29th January 1532." (page 28)


" ..... in 1585 Janet Hamilton, Lady Lamington, presented a petition to Parliament, in which she complains of innumerable oppressions committed against herself, children, family, servants, tenants, goods, and gear, for many years previous, by Jardine of Applegirth and his accomplices, viz. - burning their houses, slaying, houghing, sticking, and shooting their cattle, mowing their corn while green, assaulting their children, tenants, and servants." (page 31)

from Lives of the Baillies

Note
Mary Boyd's parentage is disputed. ¹