DE LA HAY, Thomas of Locherworth, Sheriff of Peebles, Sir 1
- Born: About 1330
- Marriage (1): GIFFORD, Joanna co-heiress of Yester 1
- Died: not later than 1397 2
User ID: C647.
Thomas married Joanna GIFFORD co-heiress of Yester.1 (Joanna GIFFORD co-heiress of Yester was born about 1335 and died after January 1400(1401) 1.)
Marriage Notes:
"He (Thomas de la Hay) appears to have died shortly after 1392, and certainly before 1 December 1399, when his wife was living, a widow .... He certainly married Joanna, eldest of the four daughters and coheirs of Hugh Gifford, of Yester, who, 1 December 1399, as Joanna Hay, Lady Yester, spouse of the deceased Sir Thomas Hay, of Louchquerwart, confirmed to John Maitland the lands of Lethington originally granted to his grandfather Sir Robert Maitland by Hugh Gifford of Yester. She was still alive in January 1400-1. With her Sir Thomas acquired a fourth part of the lands and barony of Yester, Morham, and Duncanlaw, and the lands of Giffordsgate in Haddington, and henceforth Yester became the principal seat of the family, and finally their territorial designation, and in right of their descent from her they took and quartered the arms of Giflord. He had issue"
from Scots Peerage (vol 8) 1
|
