HOME, John of Cowdenknowes, Sir 1
- Born: About 1565
- Marriage (1): SINCLAIR, Marie 1 July 1601(confirmation charter) 1
- Marriage (2): RUTHVEN, Beatrice 'Lady Cousland' 29 October 1608(contract and antenuptial charter) 1
- Died: Before 1629 1
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John married Marie SINCLAIR, daughter of John SINCLAIR Master of Caithness and Jean HEPBURN, 1 July 1601(confirmation charter).1 (Marie SINCLAIR was born about 1570.)
Marriage Notes:
"Sir John Home died before 1629. He married, first, Marie Sinclair, daughter of John, Master of Caithness, and sister of George, fifth Earl of Caithness. She had a confirmation charter 1 July 1601, in conjunct fee and liferent with her husband of the lands of Whitrig, terce being reserved to John Home's grandmother, Margaret Ker. The King also assigned to them the 'Eist Raik' of the lands of Ousbyr in the regality of Melrose and the lands of Park and Sorrowliesfield, and the lands of Smalhame Spittel."
from Scots Peerage (vol 4) 1
John next married Beatrice RUTHVEN 'Lady Cousland', daughter of William RUTHVEN 4th Lord Ruthven, Earl of Gowrie and Dorothea STEWART, 29 October 1608(contract and antenuptial charter).1 (Beatrice RUTHVEN 'Lady Cousland' was born about 1578 and died 1629 or later 1.)
Marriage Notes:
"Beatrix. She with her sister Lilias, both ' virginis undefameit and of lauchful age to marie,' was offered as bride to Alexander, sixth Lord Home, in 1584, by their father, who was his curator, but he did not marry either of them. She was, with two other sisters, a Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Anne of Denmark, and was married (contract dated 29 October 1608) to Sir John Home of Cowdenknowes, whom she survived, and was known as 'Lady Cousland.' " (page 266)
"Sir John Home married, secondly, Beatrice Ruthven, daughter of William, first Earl of Gowrie. She had from Sir John an antenuptial charter dated 29 October 1608, in which she is designed Lady Beatrice Ruthven, Lady of Cousland, granting her the mains of Cowdenknows, with the manor and fortalice, and the town and lands of Ersiltoun." (page 475)
from Scots Peerage (vol 4) 1
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