BOSWELL, Jean ¹

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Jean married William SANDILANDS of St Monans, son of James SANDILANDS and Isabel STRANG of Balcaskie, before June 1593.¹ (William SANDILANDS of St Monans was born about 1572 ¹ and died in October 1644 ¹.)

  Marriage Notes:

"William Sandilands was served heir to his grandfather James in the barony of Pet!air and other lands in Fife,16 March 1602, and in the ecclesiastical lands and the vicarage of Easter Kinghorn, 14 September 1619. On 31 July 1596 he had a charter from the king of the lands of St. Monans, the town of which was erected into a burgh of barony with a free port : he had also the right of collecting harbour dues in consideration of the expenses he had been at in the construction of the haven, and on 6 April 1609 he had a charter to the same effect from the Bishop of St. Andrews on the restoration of episcopacy. On 1 August 1601 he had a grant in feu-farm of the lands of Houston, county Haddington, and on 29 May 1601 he had a charter from David Carnegy of Kinnaird to himself and his wife Jean Bothwell of half the lands of Scheillis, county Fife. He died in October 1644, aged 72. He married before June 1593 Jean Bothwell, daughter of Adam, Bishop of Orkney. She died 10 February 1625."

from Scots Peerage (vol 1) ¹