MOWAT, Margaret heiress of Stanehouse ²

   Another name for Margaret was MOUAT, Margaret.¹

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  General Notes:

A.D. 1536.] [24 Jac. V

1626. Apud Edinburgh, 28 Oct

REX confirmavit cartam Jacobi Hammiltoun, filii et heredis quondam Margarete Mowat de Stanhouse, - [qua, - cum consensu Alexandri Lokkart do Clegborne et Thome Hammiltoun de Roplo, curatorum suorum, - pro summa pecunie sibi persoluta, vendidit GILBERTO DIKESOUN de Malvinnislandis, et ejus heredibus, - terras de Burrofeild, vic. Peblis : - Tenend. de rege : - Test. Jacobo Hammiltoun de Stanhouse patre dicti Jac, M. Johanne Hay de Smeithfeild, Johanne Young, Tho. Mabane notario publico : - Apud Edinburgh, 24 Oct. 1536] : - Test ut in aliia cartis &c.

x.xvi. 2."

from Register of the Great Seall ²

Margaret married James HAMILTON of Stanehouse, son of James HAMILTON 3rd of Raploch and Isabel WEIR 'of Blackwood'.¹ (James HAMILTON of Stanehouse was born about 1498 and died in 1548 ³.)

  Marriage Notes:

"James (Hamilton), the eldest son, having married Margaret, daughter (See Note below) and sole heiress of Alexander Mouat of Stanehouse, resigned the fee of the lands of Raploch, with consent of his father, into the hands of the superior, James, Earl of Arran, in favour of his brothers, Thomas, Archibald, and Gawin, and the heirs-male of their bodies respectively ; upon which a charter was granted to them, of date 27th November 1521. On the death of James Hamilton of Raploch, he was, according to this settlement, succeeded in the estate by his second son, Thomas Hamilton of Raploch"

from Memoirs of the House of Hamilton

Note:

Margaret was Alexander's heiress but not necessarily his daughter. The scenario may have been that her father died around the time of her grandfather's death, possibly in 1513 at the Battle of Flodden, and Margaret inherited from her grandfather. This may have given rise to the notion that she was Alexander's daughter. ¹