HUNTER, Margaret
- Born: About 1430
- Marriage (1): LAUDER, Oliver of that Ilk
- Marriage (2): KER, Robert
- Died: After 1498
User ID: Q925
Margaret married Oliver LAUDER of that Ilk, son of Alan LAUDER of that Ilk and Unknown. (Oliver LAUDER of that Ilk was born about 1418 and died by May 1489.)
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
Margaret next married Robert KER. (Robert KER was born about 1425.)
Marriage Notes:
"He (Robert Lauder) and Marione Hoppringle [sometimes given as Mariotta], his spouse, raised an action, heard on 21st and 23rd June 1498, against Robert Ker in Lyndenebernis and Margaret Hunter, his spouse, the relict of Oliver Lauder of that Ilk, for the wrongful occupation etc, for a year and a half, of a third of the 5 merk lands of Sunderlandhall in Selkirkshire, which Oliver had awarded to Robert and Marion in liferent, by charter under Oliver's seal dated 26th May,1486."
from Ancestry & Family of Lauder of Fountainhall
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