James Bethune

biography

From The Scottish Nation: Or the Surnames, Families, Literature, Honours, and Biographical History of the People of Scotland, Volume 1 (Google eBook) William Anderson Fullarton, 1867. Page 288. "Bethune of Creich."

David Bethune, the eldest son of Robert, succeeded him as fifth proprietor of Creich. He married Euphan P. B. Leslie, daughter of the earl of Rothes, by whom he had an only daughter, but being desirous that the estate of Creich should continue to be possessed only by those of the nsme of Bethune, he diaponed it to his brother, James, parson of Roxburgh, who married, first, Helen Leslie, heiress of Kinnnird, and after her death, Margaret Wemyss, eldest daughter of David Wemyss of that ilk, from whom it is said the earls of Wemyss are descended. Their eldest son and grandson succeeded to the estate as the seventh and eighth proprietors.

Sources

1. Memorials of the family of Wemyss of Wemyss, by Sir William Frasier.  Published 1888 by [s.n.] in Edinburgh . Written in English.  Volume l.  "David Wemyss of Wemyss, 1572-1597." Page 188. "Their daughters were 1. Margaret, who married, contract dated 5th April 1578, James Betoun of Creich. She survived her husband, dying at Dunbog in September 1636, leaving issue."

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