James Ruthven

JAMES RUTHVEN

James Ruthven is not the same person as James Ruthven

James Ruthven, here treated, is the son of Patrick, Lord Ruthven, and his wife Lady Janet Douglas. The Scots Peerage IV: 262

Evidence from the National Records of Scotland

9 January - 1 March 1666: Renunciation and discharge by Cecile Ruthven, daughter and heir served and retoured to her father, Alexander Ruthven, brother german to William, Earl of Gowrie, in favour of James, Marquess of Montrose and George Hay of Boussie of an annualrent of 40 bolls victual payable yearly out of the land of Halyland, to which James Ruthven, brother to the said Alexander, had right from the Earl of Gowrie, redeemable by payment of 1000 merks and which he disponed to his brother, Alexander; dated at Edinburgh, 9 Jan and registered at Perth, 1 Mar 1666. National Records of Scotland, Papers of the Graham Family, Dukes of Montrose (Montrose Muniments), reference GD220/1/B/8/9/1

Genealogy

The Scots Peerage IV: 262