DE ELPHINSTON, John ¹

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John married Marjorie ERTH heiress of Little Airth.¹ (Marjorie ERTH heiress of Little Airth was born about 1270.)

  Marriage Notes:

"Although there are several persons called John de Elphinstone, who appear in the records at periods subsequent to 1250, the earliest authentic ancestor of the families of that name is to be found in that John de Elphinston who swore fealty to Edward I. on 11 July and 28 August 1296. He witnessed a charter by James, Lord of Douglas, to Roger of Moray of the lands of Fala, 1 September 1321, and another of a grant to the church of Newbotle, 4 June 1338. He married Marjorie Erth, the heiress of Erthbeg, or Little Airth, in Stirlingshire, and died about 1340, leaving a son, Alexander de Elphinston"

from Scots Peerage (vol 3) ¹