Ann Scot

DAME ANNA SCOTT

Dame Anna Scott is the daughter of Sir John Scottod Scotstarvit.She married Colonel Robert Cunningham and they had two children. The Scots Peerage IV: p. 246

Children

1. William Cunningham
2. Anne Cuninghame

Evidence from the National Records of Scotland

                   1

11 September 1679: Extract Registered Assignation by Colonel Robert Cunninghame, brother to deceased William, Earl of Glencairn, in favour of Quintin McIlvaine, elder, of Grimet, of (1) bond, dated 9 & 23 June and 10 Nov. 1675, by John, Earl of Tweeddale, John, Lord Yester, his eldest son, as principals and Sir James Hay of Linplum, as cautioner, in favour of said Robert Cunninghame, Anna Scott, his spouse, and William Cunninghame their only son, for 3,000 merks; (2) bond, dated 22 Nov. 1676, by Sir John Cheislie of Kerswell, deceased, and William Demholm of Westsheill, as principals, and Thomas Stewart of Coltness, as cautioner, in favour of said Robert Cunninghame, and Anna Cunninghame, his only daughter, for 3,000 merks; (3) bond, dated 27 Mar. 1678, by Sir John Cunninghame of Lambrughton, in favour of said Robert Cunninghame, and Anna, his daughter, for 2,000 merks; and (4) bond, dated 2 Aug. 1679, by George Home and William Johnston, merchants in Edinburgh, and Mr David Home, tutor to Sir John Home of Blackadder, in favour of said Robert Cunninghame and Anna Cunninghame, his daughter, for 2,000 merks which bonds were assigned by said Robert Cunninghame in satisfaction of £6,000 tocher given to John McIlvaine, son of said Quintin, with said Anna Cunninghame, his daughter. Registered Burgh Court Books, Edinburgh, 1 Feb. 1681. National Records of Scotland, Earls of Glencairn, reference GD39/5/152

                   2

7 June 1705: Discharge and Renunciation by John Cunningham of Woodhall, heir of provision served and retoured to the deceased John Cunningham of Enterkin his father, to William Earl of Glencairn proceeding upon a narrative that the deceased John Earl Glencairn by his heritable Bond dated 25 June 1675, granted him to have received at Whitsunday then last from Colonel Robert Cunningham (uncle of the said deceased John Cunningham of Enterkin) for himself and in name of Dame Anna Scot his wife and William Cunningham, their only son of the sum of 2700 merks scots, for which the said John Earl of Glencairn obliged him his heirs and successors to infeft the said Colonel Robert Cunningham and Dame Anna Scot his wife in liferent, and the said William Cunningham their son his heirs and assignees in fee in an annual rent of £180 money foresaid to be uplifted at Whitsunday and Martinmas yearly by equal portions furth of the baronies of Finlayston and Caprington lying in the bailiary of Kyle Stewart and county of Ayr and barony of Ballindalloch lying in the county of Stirling And that the said Colonel Robert Cunningham by his disposition dated 4 January 1686, disponed to said deceased John Cunningham of Erskine the foresaid annual rent of £108, [sic] and assigned to him his heirs and assignees the said principal sum of 2700 merks and £108 as the annual rent thereof And subsuming that the said William Earl of Glencairn son and heir of the said John Earl of Glencairn had made payment to the said John Cunningham of Woodhall of the said principal sum and bygone annual rents thereof unpaid since Whitsunday 1675. Therefore discharges the said William Earl of Glencairn his heirs etc. of the said principal sum, annual rents etc. Witnesses Mr John Cunningham, advocate, David Stewart younger of Physgil and Hugh Somerville Writer to the Signet. Edinburgh. National Records of Scotland, Earls of Glencairn, reference GD39/4/1

Genealogical Account

1. The Scots Peerage IV: p. 246
2. Darryl Lundy's Peerage

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