MAXWELL, Elizabeth 1
User ID: A493. Elizabeth married John MAXWELL 6th Lord Herries of Terregles, son of William MAXWELL 5th Lord Herries of Teeregles and Katherine KER.1 (John MAXWELL 6th Lord Herries of Terregles was born about 1578 and died before Whitsun 1631 1.) Marriage Notes: "His (John Maxwell's) wife Elizabeth, daughter of John, Lord Maxwell (sometime Earl of Morton), was excommunicated as a Papist by Mr. Melville, minister of Terregles, in 1628, but took no heed of this 'fearful sentence,' and remained 'proudlie and contempnandlie at the processe of excommunication.' By her, who was living, a good deal over threescore, in December 1639, Herries had issue" |