OLIPHANT, Ann Heiress ¹

Ann married Sir James DOUGLAS 1st Lord Mordington, son of Sir William DOUGLAS of Glenbervie, 10th Earl of Angus and Elizabeth OLIPHANT, in 1624.¹ (Sir James DOUGLAS 1st Lord Mordington was born in 1591 ¹ and died on 11 February 1656 ¹.)

  Marriage Notes:

"Sir William (see below) Douglas having married his cousin Ann, only daughter and heiress of Laurence, Lord Oliphant, he claimed, in right of his wife as heir-general of her father, who had died in 1630, the Peerage of Oliphant, of which Lord Oliphant had by a procuratory of resignation denuded himself, so as to favour the collateral heir-male, but of which no regrant had been made at the date of Lord Oliphant's death ........ (page 332)

........ Some years afterwards, on 13 March 1640, a Patent was issued stating that ' the stile and title of Lord Oliphant ' should be established in the person of the daughter of the last lord, and in that of her spouse and the heirs procreated between them, whom failing, to the heirs-male of her body, but that the designation hereof should be changed to Mordingtoun. It would appear, therefore, that Sir William Douglas (see below) and his wife were created Lord and Lady Mordingtoun, with the precedency of the ancient Oliphant creation." (page 333)

"Lord Mordingtoun died 11 February 1656, having married, first, in 1624, as above stated, Anne, only child of Laurence, fifth Lord Oliphant. By her he had issue"

from Scots Peerage (vol 6)


"MORDINGTOUN

p. 332, 1. 10 from foot, for 'Sir William' read ' Sir James.'

p. 333, 1. 15, for ' Sir William' read ' Sir James.'

from (Scots Peerage vol 9 Addenda et Corrigenda) ^{1 2}