John Fleming, 2nd Earl of Wigton, 7th Lord Fleming

from Burke's:

The earl died 1619. His oldest son, John Fleming, 2nd Earl of Wigton, m. Lady Margaret Livingston, 2nd dau of Alexander, let Earl of Linlithgow, and had issue, including

• i. John, 3rd Earl of Wigton.

notes

"John had a charter from his father to him and Lady Margaret Livingstone his wife, of the lands of Easter and Wester Castlerankine and others in the barony of Harbertshire and county of Stirling, and other lands in the counties of Perth, Lanark, and Peebles, reserving his father's liferent on 2 September 1609; another charter from his father to him and his wife and his heirs-male, of the lordship of Cumbernauld 25 August 1614, He succeeded his father 1619, and had charters of the lands of Kingledoors and others in Peeblesshire under the Great Seal on 17 July 1621, of the lands of Castlerankines and others in barony of Harbertshire on the resignation of Sir William Sinclair of Roslin on 16 June 1632; of the lands of Catscleuch in Stirlingshire on the resignation of James, Lord Livingston of Almond, on 24 December 1634, and of Drumgryne on 30 January 1637." [4]

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• 4. [S1924] #189 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. 8 p. 549.
• A Genealogical History of the Dormant: Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct ... By Sir Bernard Burke, page 218 "Fleming - Earl of Wigton"
• The Scots Peerage Vol 8 page 55.
• http://thepeerage.com/p3138.htm#i31373
• More information re: the Earldom of Wigton http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_of_Wigtown
• https://histfam.familysearch.org//getperson.php?personID=I200144&tr...

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GEDCOM Note

John's name from Georgia Munro letter--her source: «i»"The Fleming Family" «/i»by Publius Lawson «i»"Royal Letters and Instructions of Earls of Wigton"«/i»; Pedigree of Flemyng, Earl of Wigton. Another source,«i» "Fleming Family Records" «/i»by Seaver.