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Elizabeth married Sir Robert CRICHTON 3rd of Sanquhar, Sheriff of Dumfries, son of Edward CRICHTON 2nd of Sanquhar and Unknown.¹ (Sir Robert CRICHTON 3rd of Sanquhar, Sheriff of Dumfries was born about 1393 and died after 17 October 1478 ¹.)

  Marriage Notes:

"Sir Robert Crichton of Sanquhar, who is first named in a charter of 13 March 1433-34, when he received from Alexander Sutherland of Duffus twenty-one oxgangs of lands in the east part of Strathbrock, co. Linlithgow, and he seems to have held the other half of Strathbrock from Keith of Inverugy. He had attained the rank of Knight before 1440, when he is so styled as a witness to royal charters, and when he and Sir William Crichton of that Ilk, afterwards Chancellor, granted what may be called mutual entails of certain lands. On 31 March 1450 he had a charter of some lands near Moffat in Annandale. He was appointed Sheriff of Dumfries on 6 November 1452, and the office became hereditary in his family." [...]

"Various other transactions in land are recorded, and he appears to have held, besides his original barony of Sanquhar, the lands of Longniddry, East Lothian, which he exchanged for Eliock in Dumfries and Barmuckity and other lands in Morayshire. He is referred to on 17 October 1478, and was then alive, but died not long after, as in 1479 his successor had infeftment in the lands of Sanquhar. He married a lady named Elizabeth, but her surname has not been ascertained. He had issue"

from Scots Peerage (vol 3) ¹