FRASER, Janet ^{1 2}

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Janet married John CRICHTON 4th of Ruthven, son of James CRICHTON 3rd of Ruthven and Janet OGSTON, about 2 October 1527.^{1 2} (John CRICHTON 4th of Ruthven was born about 1506 and died before 23 October 1548 ².)

  Marriage Notes:

"Janet (Fraser), married, about 1527, to John Crichton of Ruthven, son of James Crichton of Ruthven, and Janet Ogston his wife."

from Scots Peerage (vol 5) ¹

Janet next married Thomas OGILVY of Westercraig, son of James OGILVY 4th Lord Ogilvy of Airlie and Helen SINCLAIR.^{2 3} (Thomas OGILVY of Westercraig was born about 1518 and died before 1577 ³.)

  Marriage Notes:

"He (Thomas Ogilvy) married, first, previous to the Reformation, Janet Fraser, daughter of Thomas, Lord Lovat, and relict of John Crichton of Ruthven. Thirteen years afterwards, during the lifetime of his first wife, by banns proclaimed in the Kirk of Glenlyon where she was a parishioner, he married Beatrix Chisholm, sister of James Chisholm of Cromlix, but the marriage was annulled by the commissaries at the instance of the Procurator-Fiscal in 1573-74. He had issue by his first wife among 'divers bairns ' : (1) Archibald, styled heir-apparent in 1553. and by Beatrix Chisholm with other issue" (page 117)

from Scots Peerage (vol 1)


"p. 117, 1. 19, delete 'previous to the Reformation,' and insert 'before 15 May 1556' (See writ in Protocol Book of James Harlaw, f. 114)."

from Scots Peerage (vol 9 Addenda et Corrigenda) ³