Henry Cranstoun

Biographical Summary

"Henry. He was decerned, 29 July 1617, to marry Isobel, daughter of Patrick Symson, minister of Stirling, whom he had promised to marry, and who had a 'maiden bairn' by him, but the decreet was reduced 31 July 1618. He was appointed a colonel of horse for Roxburghshire in 1644, and was also one of the commissioners of war for the county. He married Margaret Wauchope, who survived him, and was alive in 1653."

SOURCE: The Scots peerage, Vol. II, page 594