Mary Johnstone, Countess of Crawford

Lady Mary Johnstone was born on 31 January 1651/52.2 She was the daughter of James Johnstone, 1st Earl of Annandale and Hartfell and Lady Henrietta Douglas.1 She married William Lindsay, 18th Earl of Crawford, son of John Lindsay, 17th Earl of Crawford and Lady Margaret Hamilton, on 8 March 1670.2 She died on 8 April 1681 at age 29.2

After her marriage, Lady Mary Johnstone was styled as Countess of Crawford in 1678.

Family

From The Scots Peerage Archive.Org

XVIII. WILLIAM, eighteenth Earl of Crawford, second Earl of Lindsay, and eleventh Lord Lindsay of the Byres, 8 who was born in April 1644. He was infeft in the Stewardship of the regality of St. Andrews before 27 April 1671. 7 After the Revolution he was appointed a Commissioner of the Treasury, and in 1689 President of Parliament. 8 He was a strong supporter of the Presby- terian interest, and of King William's Government.

He married, first, 8 March 1670, at Leith, Mary Johnstone, daughter of James, Earl of Annandale and Hartfell, who died circa 1681, by whom he had issue :

• 1. JOHN, nineteenth Earl.
• 2. Colonel James, killed at the battle of Almanza 1707. His nephew was retoured his heir-general 4 Sep- tember 1723.
• 3. Patrick, baptized at Ceres 29 August 1678. 9
• 4. Henrietta, baptized at Ceres January 1671, married,
• 16 October 1691, 10 to William Baillie of Lamington, with issue.
• 5. Margaret, baptized at Ceres 10 July 1677.

Earl William married, secondly, after 1681, Henrietta Seton, daughter of Charles, Earl of Dunfermline, widow of William, Earl of Wigtoun. They had issue : ...

References

1. http://thepeerage.com/p2124.htm#i21237

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