DE CHISHOLME, John

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  General Notes:

"The first of the name of whom any record is found in Scotland had his seat in the western district of the county of Roxburgh, formerly included in the Old Deanery of Teviotdale and Diocese of Glasgow. Malcolm, the historian, says that the Chisholms 'came soon after the Conquest, A.D. 1066, from Tindale in England. The original name,' he proceeds, 'is said to have been "De Chese," to which the Saxon termination "holme" was added on the marriage of the Norman ancestor with a Saxon heiress, whose lands, from situation, were so-called.' In the early records the name is written de Cheseholme, later de Chesehelme vel Chesholme, and eventually Chisholm as we now have it. The earliest document extant in which mention is made of the name, and relating to the family, is a bull of Pope Alexander IV., in which John de Chisholme is named in the year 1254."

from History of the Chisholms

John married Emma DE VETEREPONTE (VIPONT) 'of Bolton'. (Emma DE VETEREPONTE (VIPONT) 'of Bolton' was born about 1218.)

  Marriage Notes:

"John de Chisholme married Emma de Vetereponte or Vipont, daughter of William de Vetereponte, Lord of Bolton, who grants him as a marriage portion a charter of the lands of Paxtoun, with the fishing of Brade-la-Tweed, in the county of Berwick, along with the pendicles in the village of Paxtoun and the fishings and pertinents thereunto belonging. In this charter the parties are described as John de Cheseholme and Emma de Vetereponte, his spouse. The Viponts or Vetrepontes are now quite unknown even in the traditions of Tweedside, although, like the Vesis, the Moreviles, the Normanviles, and several other prominent families of that age, their forefathers ruled there as Princes. By his wife, Emma de Vetereponte, John had issue: Richard de Chesholme."

from History of the Chisholms