Janet Rankin

JANET RANKIN (aka JANET RANKENE)

Second Marriage

Janet Rankin, widow of the deceased John Bell, married John Dickson of Busbie, merchant in Glasgow. In her right, her second husband was enrolled as a burgess and freeman of that city on 29 August 1589. Burgesses and Guild Brethren of Glasgow, 1573-1750, p. 19

Evidence from Glasgow Protocols

10 May 1598: Quintigern Wilsone, merchant, citizen, and Jonet Pollok, spouses (vested in the great tenement, houses, close, yard, and pertinents, described in No. 3445), granted in feu-farm to John Diksone, merchant, citizen, and Jonet Rankeyne, spouses, and l.l., a piece of their back tenement and houses, then occupied by David Adam and William Bell, under and above, lying on the west side of the back close, with the privilege of the half of the south gavil adjacent, and also a piece of waste land, situated on the north side of the said houses, between the same on the south, and the hedge at the head of the yard on the north ; and with the privilege of the half of the close opposite the said houses and piece of waste land, and with free passage, ingress and egress, by the whole close ; and that for the payment of £10 yearly in name of feu-farm. Sasine given by John Andersone, bailie. Witnesses : James Hammiltoun of Torrens, James Hammiltoun, his son, W^illiam Symsoun, citizen, Mr. John Allansoun, Robert Herbertsoun, notaries, John Fouler and Andrew Andersoun, officers. Glasgow Protocols XI: 3446

Genealogy

Analecta Scotica, pp. 56-59