Isobel Maxwell

ISOBEL MAXWELL

Isobel Maxwell is the daughter of Sir James Maxwell of Calderwood and his wife Helen Porterfield. According to the Maxwell Memoirs: "Isobel, sister-german of Jean, is referred to in the marriage contract of the latter as getting right to the marriage of Robert Lindsay, son of the late Elizabeth Lindsay of Lynbank. These two daughters, Jean and Isobel Maxwell, are mentioned in their mother's will, which was confirmed by the Commissaries of Edinburgh on 23rd February 1600. In the account of Sir James Maxwell's family by his grandson, Andrew Kerr of Kippielaw, which is subjoined to thw present account of Sir James, his second daughter is called Lady Dunrod, which coupled with her acquiring right to the marriage of Robert Lindsay, shows that she was married to one of the Lindsays of Dunrod." Maxwell Memoirs I; p. 475

Genealogical Accounts

1. William Fraser, Memoirs of the Maxwells of Pollock, Vol. I. Memoirs & Charters (1863), 497 pp.
2. William Fraser, Memoirs of the Maxwells of Pollock, Vol. II. Correspondence (1863), 453 pp.