Frances Pierrepont, Countess of Mar

FRANCES PIERREPONT

Countess of Mar

Evidence from the National Records of Scotland

1716-28: Forfeited Estates: Mar: Papers relating to annuity of £1000 stg. granted to Frances [Pierrepont], second wife of John, earl of Mar, for her life, and thereafter to Frances Erskine, their daughter, later wife of James Erskine, third son of James Erskine of Grange. National Records of Scotland, Exchequer Records: Forfeited Estates Papers 1715: Particular Estates: Mar, reference E646/68

By his second wife, Frances, he had:

Frances Erskine, born about 1715, who would inherit the estates from her brother, Thomas.

John Erskine, Earl of Mar, first married Lady Margaret Hay in 6 April 1703. She bore him a son, Thomas, in 1705. Lady Margaret died four years later on 26 April 1707.

Mar married for his second wife Lady Frances Pierrepont, daughter of the 1st Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull. The match was excellent, as it provided Mar with the funds to finally begin to clear his inherited debts. Lady Frances went mad in 1728 due to the stress of his exile in France. She outlived Mar by 35 years, dying on 4 March 1767.

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