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OTTERBURN, Adam of Redhall, Advocate to King James V and Provost of Edinburgh, Sir
(About 1475-)
OTTERBURN, Margaret
(About 1515-)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. WEMYSS, John of that Ilk, Sir

OTTERBURN, Margaret 1

  • Born: About 1515
  • Marriage (1): WEMYSS, John of that Ilk, Sir before 20 October 1534 1 2

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Margaret married Sir John WEMYSS of that Ilk, son of Sir David WEMYSS of that Ilk and Katharine SINCLAIR, before 20 October 1534.1 2 The marriage ended in divorced 1556. (Sir John WEMYSS of that Ilk was born about 1513 1 and died January 1571(1572) 1.)


  Marriage Notes:

"During his father's lifetime he married Margaret, eldest daughter of Sir Adam Otterburn of Redhall, a statesman of some note in the reign of King James the Fifth, and provost of the city of Edinburgh in the year 1534, when Sir David Wemyss and Sir Adam Otterburn arranged the marriage in order to cement more closely the love and friendship which had existed between their families. John Wemyss and Margaret Otterburn were married-before 20th October of the same year .... By his first marriage Sir John had issue"

from Family of Wemyss 1

Sources


1 e-books, Memorials of the Family of Wemyss of Wemyss vol.1 by William Fraser (1888).

2 e-books, The Scots Peerage ed. Sir James Balfour Paul vol. 8 (1911).

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