Margaret Cranstoun

Margaret Cranstoun

Female 1654 - Abt 1687  (33 years)

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  • Name Margaret Cranstoun 
    Birth 1654  Dumfries, Dumfriesshire, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Death Abt 1687  Westerkirk, Dumfriesshire, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I6907  Whisperspast | Ancients
    Last Modified 27 Jan 2024 

    Father William Cranstoun,   b. 16 Dec 1611, Inveresk With Musselburgh, Midlothian, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 29 Jul 1664, Crailing, Roxburghshire, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location (Age > 53 years) 
    Mother Mary Leslie,   b. 1615, Balgonie, Fife, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 27 Sep 1663, Crailing, Roxburghshire, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 48 years) 
    Marriage 10 Jul 1643 
    Family ID F2724  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Adam Thomson,   b. 14 Mar 1652, Langholm, Dumfrieshire, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 30 Jun 1710, Westerkirk, Dumfriesshire, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 58 years) 
    Marriage 1675 
    Children 
     1. William Thomson,   b. 14 Mar 1679, Langholm, Dumfriesshire, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1720, Westerkirk, Dumfriesshire, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 40 years)
     2. David Thomson,   b. 27 Jun 1675, Westerkirk, Dumfrieshire, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Abt 1720 (Age 44 years)
     3. Grissil Thomson,   b. 1687, Westerkirk, Dumfrieshire, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 27 Oct 1722, Netherknock, Westerkirk,Dumfrieshire Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 35 years)
    Family ID F2201  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 17 Jul 2023 

  • Notes 
    • The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct, or Dormant (1910), Cokayne, George Edward (main author) and Vicary Gibbs (added author), (New edition. 13 volumes in 14. London: St. Catherine Press,1910-), vol. 3 p. 496.
      The Scots Peerage: Founded on Wood's Edition of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland, Containing an Historical and Genealogical Account of the Nobility of that Kingdom, with Armorial Illustrations (1904-1914), Paul , Sir James Balfour, (9 volumes. Edinburgh: D. Douglas, 1904-1914), FHL book 941 D22p; FHL microfilms104,157-104,161., vol. 2 p. 597.
      Margaret (1st wife) in the England, Select Deaths and Burials, 1538-1991, FHL Film Number:1472070, Reference ID: item 5



      Her father William 3rd and grandfather James were descendants of Lord William Cranstoun, a prominent actor in the summary executions of lawless Borderers from 1605 to 1607, very often without trial.
      Through her grandmother, the Cranstoun family are descendants of Scottish and English royalty.

      Ancestry of Elizabeth (Stewart) Cranstoun, mother of William 3rd: (Source: Wikitree)
      1563 Francis Stewart, 5th Earl of Bothwell
      1531 John Stewart, 1st Lord Darnley, Prior of Coldingham, an illegitimate half-brother of Queen Mary
      sp. Jean Hepburn, Lady Darnley, Mistress of Caithness, Lady Morham. Her brother was James Hepburn, Earl of
      Bothwell, the third husband of Mary, Queen of Scots.
      1512 James (James V) Stewart, Duke of Rothesay: 15 Apr 1512; King of Scotland: 9 Sep 1513
      Son of Margaret Tudor (1489-1541), daughter of Henry VII, King of England (1485-1509)
      1473 James (James IV) "King of Scotland" Stewart
      1451 James (James III) "King of Scotland" Stewart
      sp. Margaret Oldenburg, Princess of Denmark 1456. was the daughter of Christian I Oldenburg, King of Denmark
      and Norway and Dorothea von Hohenzollern.
      1430 James (James II) "Fiery Face, King of Scotland" Stewart
      1394 James (James I) "King of Scotland" Stewart
      1337 John (Robert III) "King of Scotland" Stewart aka Earl of Carrick, Earl of Atholl
      1316 Robert (Robert II) "King of Scotland" Stewart
      1292 Sir Walter Stewart aka High Steward of Scotland
      1243 James Stewart aka High Steward of Scotland
      1214 Alexander "High Steward of Scotland" Stewart
      1179 Walter "3rd High Steward of Scotland" Stewart aka of Dundonald,
      1150 Alan "2nd High Steward of Scotland" FitzWalter
      1105 Walter "1st High Steward of Scotland" FitzAlan
      1055 Sir Alan FitzFlaald aka fitz Flathald. Emigrated from Brittany, France
      1011 Flaald "Fledaldus" de Dol, Bretagne, France
      990 Hato de Dol, Bretagne, France


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