LAUDER, Oliver of that Ilk
- Born: About 1418
- Marriage (1): HUNTER, Margaret
- Died: by May 1489
User ID: Q924
Oliver married Margaret HUNTER. (Margaret HUNTER was born about 1430 and died after 1498.)
Marriage Notes:
"Alan's eldest son was:
Oliver Lauder of that Ilk (d. between January 23, 1487 - May 1489). In 1476 Oliver Lauder of Lauder was deputy to Patrick Hepburn, Lord Hailes, Sheriff of Berwickshire (he regularly performed this duty over the years) and presided or witnessed many Retours of Service of Heirs. He is mentioned in several Acts of Parliament in 1476 & 1483. He married Margaret Hunter (it is possible she was a second marriage) still living, remarried, in 1498. ('Acts of the Lords of Council in Civil Causes' 1496 - 1501, edited by Messrs Neilson & Paton, Edinburgh, 1918, vol.II, p.234.) Oliver's known sons:
George Lauder, Burgess & Baillie of Lauder (living 1504), younger son, married in 1493 Margaret, daughter of Sir John Swinton, 16th of that Ilk from whom the present Berwickshire family descend. (Refer: 'The Swintons of that Ilk and Their Cadets', Edinburgh 1883, appendix lxviii.)
Andrew Lauder 'brother-german of Robert Lauder of that Ilk' (Refer: 'The Great Seal' no.344, signed 11th January and confirmed the following day at Edinburgh, 1526.)
Oliver's eldest son, Robert, who held the Muircleuch estate with a Pele Tower above the Royal Burgh of Lauder in his father's lifetime, became: Robert Lauder of that Ilk, &c."
from Ancestry & Family of Lauder of Fountainhall
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