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KER, Robert of Woodheid and Ancram.
(About 1514-1588)
KER, William of Woodheid, apparent of Ancram
(About 1548-1590)
KER, Robert 1st Earl of Ancram, Sir
(About 1578-1654)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. MURRAY, Elizabeth

2. STANLEY, Anne

KER, Robert 1st Earl of Ancram, Sir 1

  • Born: About 1578 1
  • Marriage (1): MURRAY, Elizabeth before 24 January 1607 1
  • Marriage (2): STANLEY, Anne in 1621 1
  • Died: December 1654, Amsterdam, Holland 1

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Robert married Elizabeth MURRAY before 24 January 1607.1 (Elizabeth MURRAY was born about 1585 and died before 1620 1.)


  Marriage Notes:

"He (Robert Ker) married, first, before 24 January 1607, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Murray of Blackbarony. She died before 1620."

from Scots Peerage (vol 5) 1

Robert next married Anne STANLEY, daughter of William STANLEY 6th Earl of Derby and Elizabeth DE VERE, in 1621.1 (Anne STANLEY was born in 1600,2 died 1655(1656) and was buried 15 February 1656(1657) in St Nicholas Chapel, Westminster Abbey, London, England 1 3.)


  Marriage Notes:

"Lord Ancram married, secondly, in 1621, Anne, only daughter of William Stanley, sixth Earl of Derby, by Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Edward Vere, seventeenth Earl of Oxford.... She survived Lord Ancram only a short time, being buried in Westminster Abbey 15 February 1656-57."

from Scots Peerage (vol 5) 1

Sources


1 e-books, The Scots Peerage ed. Sir James Balfour Paul vol. 5 (1908).

2 Internet Site, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/82821769/elizabeth-stanley.

3 e-mail, M. Wade 31/1/2022 The Kers of Ancrum and Lothian from Westminster Abbey Register on Archive.org.

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