Margaret Hume, Lady Wedderburn

Margaret was the eldest daughter of Sir Patrick Home of Lumsden, Bart. Her daughters, Isabel and Jean, had from their brother, her son, a joint bond of provision for 5000 marks, (about 270 pounds) which was to come to them on the death of Ninian Home. They had no fortune but the prospect of this bond; and Jean livd with her mother for twenty years after the date of it; as soon as Ninian died, the mother brought an action at law against her daughter Jean, and claimed to be paid for having fed her penniless child during that period!!! Morison's Decisions, i. 412. [From History of Dunbar Hume and Dundas from Drummond's Noble British Families, William Pickering, London 1846]

Married

1. Sir George Home 10th Baron of Wedderburn, son of Sir George Home 9th Baron of Wedderburn and Isabel Liddell Of Reedhouse, on 4 Oct 1695 in Liberton, Midlothian, Scotland. (Sir George Home 10th Baron of Wedderburn was born in 1667 in Wedderburn Castle, Berwickshire, Scotland and died in 1720.)

Children

1. David 11th Baron of Wedderburn
2. George+ 30 May 1698 in Wedderburn Castle, Berwickshire, Scotland
3. Patrick 12th Baron of Wedderburn
4. Margaret+
5. John (Capt. )
6. Francis
7. Isabell
8. Jean+
9. James (Capt. )

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Disambiguation

• Not the same as Margrat Home Christened Feb 5 1671 Athelstaneford, East Lothian, Scotland Father Robert Home
• Not the same as Margaret Home Christened August 23, 1711 Edinburgh Parish, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland Father Robert Home (a different one from the 1671 father)

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Pedigree

Stirnet -‘Home5’

• i. Sir John Home of Renton (d 07.1671, Lord of Session) m1. (mcrt 15.02.1621-2) Janet Home (dau of Sir George Home of Manderston) @@ above m2. Jean Stewart (dau of John Stewart, Commendator of Coldingham)
  • a. Sir Alexander Home, 1st Bart of Renton (d 28.05.1698) m. (mcrt 27.04.1678, div) Margaret Scott (dau of Sir William Scott of Clerkington)
    • (1) Sir Robert Home, 2nd Bart of Renton (d before 03.1733) m. Jean Dalmahoy (dau of Sir William ll Dalmahoy of Ravelrig)
      • (A) Sir Alexander Home, 3rd Bart of Renton (dsp 17.02.1737)
      • (B) Sir John Home, 4th Bart of Renton (dsp 01.01.1788)
  • b. Sir Patrick Home, 1st Bart of Lumsden (b c1650, d 02.1723) m. Jean Dalmahoy (dau of Sir William Dalmahoy of Ravelrig by Helen Martin)
    • (1) Sir John Home, 2nd Bart of Lumsden and Manderston (d 21.12.1756) m. Margaret Baird (d 12.02.1746, dau of Sir Robert Baird, 1st Bart of Saughton Hall)
    • (2) Margaret Home (d 13.04.1765) m. (04.10.1695) Sir George Home, 3rd Bart of Wedderburn (d 1720)
    • (3) Elizabeth Hume (d 1716) m. Francis Home of Quixwood (d 1719)

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References

• "Scotland Marriages, 1561-1910", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XY9D-M4V : 11 February 2020), Margarit Hume in entry for George Hume, 1695. Marriage: Oct 1695 - Liberton, Midlothian, Scotland Husband: George Hume
• Clan MacFarlane genealogy cites
  • [S6] Stirnet Genealogy, Peter Barns-Graham, Home03 (Reliability: 3). Stirnet - ‘Home3’
  • [S6] Stirnet Genealogy, Peter Barns-Graham, Home05 (Reliability: 3). Stirnet - ‘Home05’
• J.C. Hodgson's Pedigrees: Margaret Home, dau. of Sir Patrick Home, Bt., of Lumsdean. Had issue 9 children & her sister Elizabeth became wife of her husband's brother, Francis Home of Quixwood.
• THE MAGNA CHARTA SURETIES, 1215, by F. L. Weis, 4th Ed., pg. 47 #20: d. 13 Apr 1765, eldest dau. of Sir Patrick Home of Lumsden. (Ross & Grant, loc. cit.;
• Cokayne, op. cit., 442, note f;
• Sir Robt. Douglas, THE PEERAGE OF SCOTLAND (London, 1813), II, 175; VMHB, XXXVIII: 102-7, 336).
• The Scottish Nation - Home The eldest son, Sir George Home of Wedderburn, was appointed warden of the east marches in 1578, and comptroller of Scotland in 1597. He died 24th November 1616. He had an only son, Sir David Home of Wedderburn, slain at the battle of Dunbar in 1650, with his son, George Home, whose son, also named George, inherited the estate, and died before 1715. With a daughter, he had two sons, George, his heir, and Francis Home of Quixwood, from whom the claimant of the Marchmont peerage derives his descent. The elder son, George, was put in possession of the family estate in 1695, and engaging in the rebellion of 1715, was taken at the battle of Preston, tried and condemned, but obtained a pardon, and died at Wedderburn in 1720. By his wife, Margaret, eldest daughter of Sir Patrick Home, baronet, of Lumsdean, he had nine children. …
• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/76936727/margaret-home
• Margaret Home, Home, in Weis, Frederick Lewis, and Walter Lee Sheppard. The Magna Charta sureties, 1215: the barons named in the Magna Charta, 1215 and some of their descendants who settled in America. (Baltimore [Maryland]: Genealogical Pub. Co., Unknown edition (1955-1999)) 55. SIR GEORGE HOME, BT...m...Margaret, d. 13 Apr. 1765, eldest dau. of Sir Patrick Home of Lumsden.
• Hume, Edgar Erskine. “A Colonial Scottish Jacobite Family: Establishment in Virginia of a Branch of the Humes of Wedderburn.” The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 38, no. 1, 1930, pp. 1–37. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/4244310. Accessed 2 Jan. 2023.
• Hume, Edgar Erskine. “A Colonial Scottish Jacobite Family: Establishment in Virginia of a Branch of the Humes of Wedderburn (Continued).” The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 38, no. 2, 1930, pp. 97–124. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/4244318. Accessed 2 Jan. 2023.