STRACHAN, Margaret ¹

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Margaret married William RAMSAY of Balmain, son of Sir John RAMSAY Lord Bothwell (forfeited) and Isabella LIVINGSTON.¹ (William RAMSAY of Balmain was born by 1515 ².)

  Marriage Notes:

"Margaret married, first, William Ramsay of Balmain"

from Memorials of the Families of Strachan and Wise (1877) ¹

Margaret next married Alexander OGSTON of Fettercairn, son of John OGSTON of Kirklands of Fettercairn and Daughter BARCLAY 'of Mathers'.¹ (Alexander OGSTON of Fettercairn was born about 1503.)

  Marriage Notes:

"Margaret married, first, William Ramsay of Balmain, and, secondly, Ogston of Ogston"

from Memorials of the Families of Strachan and Wise (1877)




"By his (John Ogston of Fettercairn's) wife, a daughter of Barclay of Mathers, he had a son : - 3. Alexander Ogstoun, 'who married Margaret Strachan who had been wife befor to William Ramsay of Balmain' (History, page 83). We now ascertain that his wife was a daughter of Alexander Strachan of Thornton (Memorials of Strachan and Wise, by Chas. Rogers, 1877, privately printed), and by her he had, besides his heir Walter, two other sons, Alexander and David."

from Supplement to the History of the Families of Ogston ^{1 3}