BOYD, Robert 7th Lord Boyd 1 2
User ID: M761. Robert married Margaret MONTGOMERIE, daughter of Robert MONTGOMERIE of Giffen and Unknown, before 24 March 1615.1 (Margaret MONTGOMERIE was born about 1590 and died by 1616 1.) Marriage Notes: " .... Margaret, born about 1590, was married .... secondly .... to Robert, Lord Boyd. She died without issue to either husband in 1615 or 1616." Robert next married Christian HAMILTON, daughter of Thomas HAMILTON Earl of Haddington and Margaret BORTHWICK, 9 December 1617(contract).2 (Christian HAMILTON was born about 1595, died in 1646 2 and was buried on 6 February 1646 in Elie, Fife, Scotland 2.) Marriage Notes: "He (Robert Boyd) married, secondly (contract dated 9 December 1617), Christian, widow (with issue) of Robert (Lindsay), tenth Lord Lindsay of the Byres (who died 9 July 1616), eldest daughter of Thomas (Hamilton), first Earl of Haddington. She was an ardent Presbyterian, and brought her children up as such. Mr. John Livingstone, in his autobiography, speaks of residing for some time during the course of his ministry in the house of Kilmarnock 'with worthy Lady Boyd,' and mentions her as one of the four ladies of rank from whom he got on several occasions supplies of money. Many of Rutherford's letters are addressed to her. She, who must have been born between 1588 and 1594, died 'very comfortably' at the house of her daughter, Lady Ardross, in the parish of Elie, and was buried 6 February 1646, the members of the Parliament which had been sitting at St. Andrews attending her funeral. They had issue one son and six daughters, who on the death of their brother became co-heirs of their father." |
1 e-books, The Scots Peerage ed. Sir James Balfour Paul vol. 3 (1906).
2 e-books, The Scots Peerage ed. Sir James Balfour Paul vol. 5 (1908).
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