LESLIE, Elizabeth 1
User ID: F712. Elizabeth married Sir James SINCLAIR 4th of Mey, Baronet, son of Sir William SINCLAIR 3rd of Mey and Katherine ROSS, 14 and 26 July 1628(contract).1 (Sir James SINCLAIR 4th of Mey, Baronet was born about 1601 and died by 1662 1.) Marriage Notes: "Sir James Sinclair of Mey, who in his father's lifetime was designed of Cannisbay. He was created a Baronet 2 June 1631. On 17 February 1636 there was a charter from the Crown to Sir William Sinclair of Catboll, Knight, in liferent, and to Sir James Sinclair of Cannisbay, Knight Baronet, his son, in fee, and the heirs-male procreate betwixt him and Dame Elizabeth Leslie, his spouse, whom failing to Sir James's heirs-male and assignees whomsoever, of the lands and barony of Plaidis and other lands, which Sir William resigned, in implement of a contract of marriage between the said Sir William and the said James (therein designed James Sinclair of Barrogill) on the one part, and Dame Jean Stewart, lady of Lindores, and the said Elizabeth, her lawful daughter, on the other part, dated 14 and 26 July 1628 ; all which lands were united by the Crown in the free barony of Cannisbay. |
1 e-books, The Scots Peerage ed. Sir James Balfour Paul vol. 2 (1905).
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