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MURE, John of Caldwell
(About 1505-1570)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. MONTGOMERY, Isobel
2. ROSS, Christian
3. KENNEDY, Janet

MURE, John of Caldwell 2 3

  • Born: About 1505
  • Marriage (1): MONTGOMERY, Isobel 1 2
  • Marriage (2): ROSS, Christian 10 July 1538(dispensation) married 1543 2 3
  • Marriage (3): KENNEDY, Janet by 16 August 1559(charter)
  • Died: 10 September 1570

   Cause of his death was killed by William Cunningham of Aiket.

   User ID: C359


John married Isobel MONTGOMERY, daughter of Sir Hugh MONTGOMERIE 2nd Lord Montgomerie, 1st Earl of Eglintoun and Helen CAMPBELL.1 2 (Isobel MONTGOMERY was born about 1505.)


  Marriage Notes:

"Isobel, who had a grant from her father of the ward and marriage of Robert, son of the late Patrick Montgomerie of Giffen. She was married to John Mure of Caldwell, and had issue."

from Scots Peerage (vol 3) 2

John next married Christian ROSS, daughter of Ninian ROSS 3rd Lord Ross of Halkhead and Elizabeth RUTHVEN, 10 July 1538(dispensation) married 1543.2 3 The marriage ended in divorce. (Christian ROSS was born about 1524 and died before February 1556(1557).)


  Marriage Notes:

"He (Nicolas Ramsay) married, secondly, on or about 5 November 1552, Christian, daughter of Ninian, Lord Ross of Hawkhead, some time wife to John Mure of Caldwell."

from Scots Peerage (vol 3)




"Christian, married, in 1543 (dispensation 10 July 1538), to John Mure of Caldwell, but was divorced from him...."

from Scots Peerage (vol 7) 2 3

John next married Janet KENNEDY, daughter of Alexander KENNEDY 4th of Bargany, and of Ardstinchar and Mariote DUNBAR, by 16 August 1559(charter). (Janet KENNEDY was born about 1512.)


  Marriage Notes:

"Janet Kennedy, m. by 16 August 1559, to John Mure of Caldwell, (he had previously been married to Christian, daughter of Ninian, 3rd Lord Ross, but from whom he was divorced, and was killed by William Cunningham of Aiket on 10 September 1570), when she had a charter for the lands of Thornton from her brother Thomas Kennedy of Bargany."

from The Red Book of Scotland

Sources


1 e-books, A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland vol.2 by bernard Burke (1847).

2 e-books, The Scots Peerage ed. Sir James Balfour Paul vol. 3 (1906).

3 e-books, The Scots Peerage ed. Sir James Balfour Paul vol. 7 (1910).

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