Janet Sempill

JANNET SEMPILL

According to "Mr. Crawfoord Historiographer and Antiquarie" Uchter Knox of Ranfurly: "was Allied to a very Noble Family viz Jannet Daughter to the Lord Semple a near Neighbour to the Laird of Ranfurlie." It is sometimes supposed that her father was the first Lord Sempill but Crawfoord did not identify the forename of her father MacFarlane, p. 278 and Jannet Sempill is not noticed in Sir James Balfour Paul's account of the Sempill family. The Scots Peerage, viii, pp. 526-68 forSempill, Lord Sempill

Death

A date and place of death has not been identified for Jannet Semple. She was alive on 30 July 1553, the date upon which the tesstament dative of her deceased husband was registered. She and her daughter Janet Knox were confirmed as executors dative. [National Records of Scotland, Commissary Records of Dunblane, the testament of Wcherdus Knox, Lord of Ranfurly, parish of Kippen, reference CC6/5/2 pp. 65-6]