COLVILLE, Elizabeth 1
User ID: A565. General Notes: "Elisabeth, the issue of Elizabeth Kennedy, as her legitimacy was challenged by her uncle David on the ground that her parents were related in the fourth and fourth degrees of consanguinity and second and third degrees of affinity, but the Official of St. Andrews declared her to be lawfully born. She was married to Robert Colville, son and apparent heir of William Colville of Ravenscraig. Very soon after her succession, she and her husband resigned her share of the baronies of Ochiltree and Oxnam, Heiton and Maxton, to Robert Colville of Hiltoun, the Director of Chancery. She married, secondly, Patrick Colquhoun of Pemont and Drumskeath, by whom she had issue, one daughter, Francesca, married, first, to Robert Colville of Cleish, natural son of Sir James Colville of East Wemyss." |