JOHNSTONE, James fiar of Johnstone ^{1 2 3}

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  General Notes:

"James Johnstone, the eldest son of John Johnstone, was still under age in 1545, and there is no certainty as to the date of his birth."

from Scots Peerage (vol 1) ¹

James married Margaret HAMILTON, daughter of Sir John HAMILTON of Samuelston, jure uxoris and Janet HOME.¹ (Margaret HAMILTON was born about 1533.)

  Marriage Notes:

"David, seventh Earl of Angus, married (contract dated 8 May 1552) Margaret Hamilton, daughter of John Hamilton of Samuelston, a natural brother of James, Duke of Chatelherault. She was the widow of James Johnstone, younger of Johnstone." (page 193)




" .... he (James Johnston) married, at a date which has not been ascertained, Margaret Hamilton, a niece of the Regent Arran and of Archbishop Hamilton, and daughter of John Hamilton of Samuelston, a natural son of the first Earl of Arran. The last mention of the young laird, who predeceased his father, is on 1 August 1551, in the marriage contract of his daughter, but he may then have been dead. He certainly died not long after, as his widow, Margaret Hamilton, was married again (marriage-contract dated 8 May 1552) to David Douglas of Cockburnspath, and her third husband, after June 1557, was Sir Patrick Whitelaw of that Ilk, who died before 1571." (page 248)

from Scots Peerage (vol 1) ¹