DE GOURLAY, William ¹

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  General Notes:

"Sir William Lindsay, youngest son of Sir David, Lord of Crawford, had a charter of the lands and barony of Byres, in East Lothian, on the resignation of his brother, Sir Alexander Lindsay of Glenesk, on 17 January 1365-66. He had charters under the Great Seal of the lands of Borthwykschelys, in the barony of Chamberlayne Newton in Roxburghshire, which had been forfeited by Laurence de Abernethy, and of all the lands in the tenement of Drem, Haddingtonshire, which belonged to Johanna de Erth of Walchton, and were resigned by William de Gourlay, her son, to him and his spouse, dated 27 December 1374. He is celebrated by Froissart as one of
the Enfants de Lindsay, and is said to have knighted the son of Saint Bridget of Sweden at the Holy Sepulchre."

from Scots Peerage (vol 5)

William married Janet MURE, daughter of Sir William MURE of Abercorn and Unknown.¹ (Janet MURE was born about 1342.)

  Marriage Notes:

"A further prolonged search resulted in thg finding of a two-line charter, rather obscurely indexed through a misspelling in The Great Seal Register, which records the gift by William Muir of his lands of Lochhouse, Linlithgow, with his daughters, to William son of Robert, and John of Reidheuch. There can be little doubt, therefore, that this charter supplies the evidence that Sir William Lindsay's second wife was the granddaughter of Sir William Mure." (page 9)


"A notarial instrument dated 21 July 1395 narrates the resignation by John of Lamertoun, burgess of Innerkethyne, of the lands of North and South Hailes and Beniston, into the hands of Dame Jonet of Erth, lady of Waulchton, superior of said lands, who duly received the same and delivered them to John of Jedworth, to be held of her and her heirs. It seems probable that this Dame Jonet of Erth, lady of Waulchton, was Jonet or Janet Mure, the wife of William de Gourlay, and the mother of the Dame Christian, lady of Waulchton, to whom John of Jedworth resigned the lands when he sold them to Sir Patrick Hepburn of Waulchton ; mention is made of a gift from the King to Janet Mure in 1402." (page 27)

from Hepburn Family ¹