LAWSON, James of Humbie ^{1 2}

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James married Elizabeth BELLENDEN, daughter of Sir John BELLENDEN of Auchnoull and Janet SETON.¹ (Elizabeth BELLENDEN was born about 1564 and died after 1623 ¹.)

  Marriage Notes:

"Elizabeth (Bellenden). She is mentioned in her father's will. She married first, James Lawson of Humble, and is described as his widow in certain charters of 1605, proceeding on the marriage-contract between James Fawside, younger of that ilk, and her daughter Janet, who afterwards married Sir John Edmonstone of that ilk, with issue to both husbands. By that time she had married as her second husband Sir John Cockburn of Ormiston, Lord Justice-Clerk. On 15 March 1614 she had a charter to herself as Lady Ormiston, of the lands of Kirktonhill and others, co. Berwick, and one on 26 July 1615 of tlie lands of Harthead, in the constabulary of Haddington. Her husband died in 1623, at which time she was still alive."

from Scots Peerage (vol 2) ¹