CUNNINGHAM, Margaret ¹

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Margaret married Sir James MUIRHEAD elder, 7th of Lauchope, son of James MUIRHEAD 6th of Lauchope and Janet BAILLIE, after 1586.¹ (Sir James MUIRHEAD elder, 7th of Lauchope was born about 1535 and died before 15 March 1623 ².)

  Marriage Notes:

"Although not included in the genealogical record published by Alexander Nisbet, it is believed by some (e.g. it was included in the book, The Morehead Family Of North Carolina And Virginia, by John M. Morehead) that James Muirhead of Lauchope married Margaret Cunninghame. That idea is confirmed by a record entered in the Register of Deeds for the year 1587.(1.43) The marriage between James Muirhead and Margaret Cunninghame would have had to have been following the death of his first wife, Janet; since the entry in the Register of Deeds is dated 25 January, 1587, it might be assumed that Janet (Hamilton) died circa 1586. The entry noted that Robert Hamilton of Bathgate had obliged himself to infeft Margaret Cunningham and James Muirhead of Lachop, her spouse in an annualrent of 20 pounds yearly out of the lands of Bathgate in the Sheriffdom of Linlithgow. Robert Bathgate was heir to the deceased James Cochrane of Barbacklaw, Margaret Cunningham's first husband. Margaret had never received the payment due to her."

from Mother Bedford website ¹