John Maxwell of Barncleugh

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Colonel John Maxwell

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Birthplace: Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland
Death: September 03, 1650 (38-39)
Dunbar, East Lothian, Kingdom of Scotland (not yet part of the United Kingdom) (Killed in action at the Battle of Dunbar)
Immediate Family:

Son of Sir James Maxwell of Calderwood, knight; Thomas Maxwell 1st Baron of Kirkconnell; Margaret Cunningham and Isabel Maxwell
Husband of Agnes Maxwell and Elizabeth Elphinstone
Father of John Maxwell of Barncleugh; Issobill Maxwell; Johnne Maxwell; Sir William Maxwell Sr,, Baronet of Calderwood and Anna Maxwell
Brother of Sir Alexander Maxwell of Calderwood; Anne Maxwell; Susanna Maxwell; Margaret Maxwell and Catherine Maxwell
Half brother of John Arnot; Jean Hamilton; Mary Hamilton; Margaret Maxwell; Isobel Maxwell and 6 others

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About John Maxwell of Barncleugh

COLONEL JOHN MAXWELL

Colonel John Maxwell is the eldest son of Sir James Maxwell of Calderwood's third Marriage to Lady Margaret Cunningham. He was born about the year 1611 and fell at the battle of Dunbar on 3 September 1650. George Monk, Duke of Albermarle, afterwards had this to say of him: "These are to certify all whome these may concerne, that Col. John Maxwell served as a Lietent-Colonell and Colonell in the warres of Ireland from the first begining untill the year 1650, when he came over into Scotland, and was killed in the engagement att Dunbarre, in his Majesties service". Memoirs of the Maxwells of Pollock I: p. 474

Genealogy

Fasti of the Church of Scotland III; 9

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John Maxwell of Barncleugh's Timeline

1611
1611
Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland
1635
June 12, 1635
Canongate, Midlothian, Kingdom of Scotland (not yet part of the United Kingdom)
1636
November 15, 1636
Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
1638
1638
Barncleuch, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, United Kingdom
1650
September 3, 1650
Age 39
Dunbar, East Lothian, Kingdom of Scotland (not yet part of the United Kingdom)
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