WEMYSS, John of Leuchars and Kilncaldrum, Sir ¹

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  General Notes:

"John (Wemyss), who has been stated to be the son of the Sir Michael who succeeded in 1332, but Crawfurd makes him the brother of that Sir Michael and son of tlie last Sir David, which is more in harmony with facts. He received from King Robert a charter of one third of the barony of Leuchars, and from Sir Alexander Abernethy the lands of Kincaldrum in Forfarshire. He appears to have received the rank of knighthood, but the family writs are so few at that date that little is known of him, and there is no evidence as to his death or children, though it is certain that he was succeeded in his lands of Leuchars and Kincaldrum by his grandson John, afterwards Sir John Wemyss of Leuchars, Kincaldrum,and Reres, who carried on the line of the family."

from Scots Peerage (vol 8)

Note:

The lineage as shown in Memorials of the Family of Wemyss of Wemyss vol.1 by William Fraser (1888) points to the Wemyss estate passing in the male line from Sir Michael Wemyss through the family of this brother, Sir John Wemyss. ¹

John married.