Anna Stewart, Lady Saltoun

ANNA STEWART Lady Saltoun

Anna Stewart, here treated, is the daughter of Walter Stewart, Lord Blantyre and his wife Dame Nicola Somerville, Lady Blantyre The Scots Peerage II: 85

Marriage

Anna Stewart, here treated: 'called senior filia, married (marriage-contract 30 December 1608) to John, eighth Lord Abernethy of Saltoun. He died in 1612, and his widow had subsequently, by James. Marquess of Hamilton, a natural daughter, Margaret, who was married to James Hamilton, first Lord Belhaven.' The Scots Peerage II: 85

Evidence from the National Records of Scotland

30 April [1642]: Anna Stewart to the earl of Lanrike [Lanark], asking his support for the petition of her son, Lord Saltoun, who seeks a grant of certain escheats. National Records of Scotland, Papers of the Douglas Hamilton Family, Dukes of Hamilton and Brandon, reference GD406/1/1619

Genealogy

The Scots Peerage : founded on Wood's ed. of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland; containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that kingdom. Edited by Sir James Balfour Paul, Lord Lyon King of Arms. Volume II. (David Douglas, Edinburgh, 1905), 602 pp.