KER, Mary ¹

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Mary married James DOUGLAS Commendator of Melrose Abbey, son of Sir William DOUGLAS of Lochleven, then 6th Earl of Morton and Agnes LESLIE, 6 November 1587(contract).^{1 2} (James DOUGLAS Commendator of Melrose Abbey was born about 1570 and died before 15 October 1620 ².)

  Marriage Notes:

"Mary (Ker), married to James Douglas, Commendator of Melrose, second son of William, Earl of Morton, and had issue. Mentioned in a discharge by her husband, dated at Oxnam Craig, one of her father's houses, 8 January 1587, for part payment of her marriage portion. She is elsewhere designed as sister of the Ladies Haddington and Balmerino."

from Scots Peerage (vol 5)




"James (Douglas) ; appointed Commendator of the Abbey of Melrose in 1568. He was dead before 15 October 1620, having married, first (contract 6 November 1587), Mary, daughter of Sir Thomas Ker of Ferniehirst, by whom he had a son Archibald"

from Scots Peerage (vol 6) ^{1 2}