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CAMPBELL, Archibald 2nd of Cawdor (Calder)
(About 1518-1551)
GRANT, Isabel
(About 1522-)
KEITH, William 3rd Earl Marischal
(1506-1581)
KEITH, Margaret co-heiress of Inverugie
(About 1517-)
CAMPBELL, John 3rd of Cawdor (Calder)
(About 1543-1591)
KEITH, Mary
(About 1541-)
CAMPBELL, John 4th of Cawdor (Calder), Sir
(About 1576-1653)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. CAMPBELL, Jean

2. DOUGLAS, Elizabeth

CAMPBELL, John 4th of Cawdor (Calder), Sir 1 3

  • Born: About 1576
  • Marriage (1): CAMPBELL, Jean 4 December 1601(contract) 1
  • Marriage (2): DOUGLAS, Elizabeth 13 September 1627(contract) 2
  • Died: 1653 4

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John married Jean CAMPBELL, daughter of Sir Duncan CAMPBELL 7th of Glenorchy, Baronet and Jean STEWART, 4 December 1601(contract).1 (Jean CAMPBELL was born about 1584 and died before 9 August 1622 2.)


  Marriage Notes:

"Jean, married, as his first wife, to John, afterwards Sir John, Campbell of Cawdor, contract 4 December 1601, with issue. She died prior to 9 August 1622."

from Scots Peerage (vol 2) 1

John next married Elizabeth DOUGLAS, daughter of Sir William DOUGLAS of Glenbervie, 10th Earl of Angus and Elizabeth OLIPHANT, 13 September 1627(contract).2 (Elizabeth DOUGLAS was born about 1602 and died before 1642 2 4.)


  Marriage Notes:

Elizabeth (Douglas), married (contract dated 13 September 1627) to John Campbell, fiar (see Note below) of Cawdor, and had issue. She was dead in 1640."

from Scots Peerage (vol 1)

Note:

Elizabeth Douglas was the second wife of the thane of Cawdor, Sir John Campbell, not of his son.





"Between 1627-1636, Sir John Campbell took a 2nd wife, Dame Elizabeth Douglas, daughter of William, Earl of Angus whose brother was created 1st Marqis of Douglas - she was granted a contract for maintenance in 1636, money for her and two daughters. She was still alive in 1641, but dead before the end fo 1642."

from The Book of the Thanes of Cawdor 2 4

Sources


1 e-books, The Scots Peerage ed. Sir James Balfour Paul vol. 2 (1905).

2 e-books, The Scots Peerage ed. Sir James Balfour Paul vol. 1 (1904).

3 e-books, The Diary of Alexander Brodie of Brodie and of his son James Brodie of Brodie (The Spalding Club 1863).

4 e-books, The Book of the Thanes of Cawdor by Cosmos Innes and John Frederich Vaughn Campbell 1st Earl of Cawdor (1859).

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