CARLYLE, Margaret 'of Torthorwald' ¹

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Margaret married William DOUGLAS 3rd of Drumlanrig, son of Sir William DOUGLAS 2nd of Drumlanrig and Janet MAXWELL.¹ (William DOUGLAS 3rd of Drumlanrig was born about 1415 ¹ and died after 1470 ¹.)

  Marriage Notes:

"William Douglas, 3rd of Drumlanrig was born about 1415 and died in 1464.

He distinguished himself at the seige of Roxburgh in 1460 and subsequently at the battle of Alnwick in 1462.

He married Margaret Carlyle, daughter of Sir William Carlyle of Torthorwald (other sources state she was daughter of Sir John Carlyle)

William Douglas, third of Drumlanrig, succeeded his father in 1444, and it may have been he who fought at the battle of Sark. He was retoured heir to his father in the barony of Hawick, valued at 300 merks yearly, on 6 October 1450."

"He is usually said to have died in 1464, and to have been succeeded by his son, but it is apparently he who is named in November 1466 in a writ by Sir William Douglas of Morton. Little or nothing further is recorded of him except his arrangement for the marriage of his eldest son in 1470."

from The Douglas Archives ¹