INNES, Margaret ^{3 4}

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  Noted events in her life were:

1. Divorce: from Robert Innes 3rd of Innermarkie, 19 November 1574. ²

Margaret married Robert INNES 3rd of Innermarkie, son of Robert INNES of Monycabok and Marioun OGILVY, June 1553 (divorced 1574).^{1 2} The marriage ended in divorced 1574. (Robert INNES 3rd of Innermarkie was born about 1535 and died in September 1584 ^{1 5}.). The cause of his death was murder by Alexander Innes of Cotts.

  Marriage Notes:

"Margaret Innes is the daughter of Alexander Innes, 14th of that Ilk and Elizabeth Forbes. She married Robert Innes, 3rd of Invermarkie, son of Robert Innes of Monycabok and Marioun Ogilvy, in June 1553. She and Robert Innes, 3rd of Invermarkie were divorced on 19 November 1574."

from thepeerage.com ^{1 2}

Margaret next married William SINCLAIR 2nd of Dunbeath, son of Alexander SINCLAIR of Dunbeath and Elizabeth INNES 'Lady of Dunbeath', after 1574.^{3 4} (William SINCLAIR 2nd of Dunbeath was born about 1535 and died in 1608 in Moray, Scotland ⁴.)

  Marriage Notes:

"But of this marriage betwixt the Laird Innes and Elizabeth Forbes, I find no children out liveing Innes himself but one daughter called Margaret, who was marryed to William Sinclair brother to the Earle of Caithnes. The Earle had sent over his brother to vow the lady for him, but she preferred William to the Earle, bringing with her for a tocher the lands of Dunbaith and paroch of Ray, which the housfe of Innes had keept while then. By this woman, the Sinclair got also the lands of Monbeens, Lewcharis, Inche, and others about Elgin. See the instrument of seasine, marked 26, C, given to Wilham Sinclair of Stamesterr, eldest son and air to William Sinclair of Dunbeath and Margaret Innes, upon these lands about Elgin, anno 1575."

from Familie of Innes

Note:

William's brother was not the Earl of Caithness.The story of the 'Earl sending his brother' may be a conflation of William Sinclair's marriage to an Innes, and his father Alexander Sinclair, who was the brother of the Earl of Caithness and who also married an Innes lady.




"William Sinclair was twice married ... His second wife was Margaret, only child of Alexander Innes of Innes, and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of John, fifth Lord Forbes. After her father's death in 1553, Margaret Innes obtained a Crown charter of the lands of Ogston and others in Morayshire."

from Sinclairs of Stemster and Dunbeath ^{3 4}