Cuthbert Ramsay, Burgess of Edinburgh

CUTHBERT RAMSAY

Burgess of Edinburgh; Bailie of Edinburgh; Captain of Crichton Castle

The Scots Peerage III: 94

Evidence from the National Records of Scotland

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3 October 1554: Notarial instrument narrating assignation by Brother Thomas Reid, a monk of Newbottle, to George Ramsay of Dalhousy of £10 scots due by deceased Nicholas Ramsay of Dalhowsy. (The executors of said Nicholas are named as Cuthbert Ramsay, captain of Creyentoun, James Ramsay, William Ramsay and Alexander Ramsay, rector of Fuldene, his sons) National Records of Scotland, Papers of the Maule Family, Earls of Dalhousie, reference GD45/17/13

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10 May 1559: Instrument of renunciation by Cuthbert Ramsay, brother of George Ramsay of Dalhoussy, in favour of the said George of 3 husbandlands called Hallands in the barony of Keringtoun. National Records of Scotland, Papers of the Maule Family, Earls of Dalhousie, reference GD45/16/318

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29 May 1554: Assignation by Andrew Cardinar to Cuthbert Ramsay, burgess of Edinburgh, of letters of reversion by Dionysius Pentland, son of deceased Alexander Pentland in Keringtoun, and Elizabeth Ramsay, his spouse, in respect of the 40 shilling lands of Weitlandis in the barony of Mordingtoun, a markland in Mordingtoun, two marklands in the east end thereof and three marklands of Baxter's Landis with a cotland in the barony of Foulden. National Records of Scotland, Papers of the Maule Family, Earls of Dalhousie, reference GD45/16/2756

Biographical Summary

Cuthbert Ramsay, Captain of Crichton, Burgess & Magistrate of Edinburgh married Agnes Stewart, daughter of Sir James Stewart, 1st Earl of Buchan, Lord Auchterhouse, Sheriff of Angus, Banff, & Forfarshire, High Chamberlain of Scotland, Ambassador to France and Margaret, before 13 December 1549.[2]

Cuthbert Ramsay, Captain of Crichton, Burgess & Magistrate of Edinburgh died after 1 February 1582.[3]

Family

Wife:

1. Agnes Stewart d. Feb 1557 Daughter of James Stewart of Buchan
2. Janet Fleming, widow of William Craik

Son:

• Richard[4]

Sources

• The Scots Peerage, Vol. III, edited by Sir James Balfour Paul, p. 93.
• The Scots Peerage, Vol. III, edited by Sir James Balfour Paul, p. 94 Archive.Org
• Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. I, p. 671.
• http://www.our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p5161....
• http://thepeerage.com/p14712.htm#i147111 Cuthbert Ramsay married Agnes Stewart, daughter of James Stewart, 1st Earl of Buchan and Margaret Murray, before 13 December 1549.1 He died after 1557.1
• [S6] G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume II, page 238. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage