HENDERSON, Janet 'of Fordell' ¹

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Janet married William ELPHINSTONE Sheriff-depute of Orkney, son of Alexander ELPHINSTONE 2nd Lord Elphinstone and Catherine ERSKINE.¹ (William ELPHINSTONE Sheriff-depute of Orkney was born on 26 September 1544 ¹ and died on 26 July 1602 ¹.)

  Marriage Notes:

"William (Elphinstone), a twin with the foregoing (Michael), witnessed a contract in 1568, was Sheriff-depute of Orkney in 1576. He had a charter, 7 April 1589, of the lands of Trosnes in Orkney. He married Janet, daughter of James Henderson of Fordell, with issue. He was the ancestor of the Elphinstones of Calderhall, one of whom ultimately married Jessie Bruce, the heiress of Airth, and purchased the barony of Elphinstone. William Elphinstone died 26 July 1602, and the following year his widow married Thomas Livingstone of Hayning."

from Scots Peerage (vol 3) ¹