GIFFORD, Joanna co-heiress of Yester ¹

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Joanna married Sir Thomas DE LA HAY of Locherworth, Sheriff of Peebles, son of Sir William DE LA HAY of Locherworth, Sheriff of Peebles and Daughter DOUGLAS.¹ (Sir Thomas DE LA HAY of Locherworth, Sheriff of Peebles was born about 1330 and died not later than 1397 ².)

  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