Jean Dunlop

JEAN DUNLOP

DUNLOP
JEAN JAMES DUNLOP/ELIZABETH ROBERTOUN F
09/02/1665 644/1 50 266 Glasgow

Death

Jean Dunlop died in 1693, leaving £133.6s.8d. to the Merchants House of Glasgow. Her second husband died the following year, aged 47 years, leaving £133.6.8d. to the Merchants House of Glasgow. [Newsletter of the Glasgow and West of Scotland Family History Society, No. 47 Autumn 1996, p. 12]

First Marriage

Jean Dunlop married Robert Campbell of North Woodside, as his second wife (contract dated 21 December 1680). [Newsletter of the Glasgow and West of Scotland Family History Society, No. 47 Autumn 1996, p. 12]

Children of First Marriage

Their daughter Janet Campbell married Thomas Haliburton of Dryburgh Abbey and New Mains. Their daughter Barbara Haliburton married Robert Scott of Sandyknowe, grandfather of Sir Walter Scott, Baronet, the celebrated novelist and poet.

Second Marriage

Jean Dunlop married Patrick Coutts, merchant. [Newsletter of the Glasgow and West of Scotland Family History Society, No. 47 Autumn 1996, p. 12]

Children of Second Marriage

Their eldest son John Coutts, born 1699, was a banker and Lord Provost of Edinburgh in 1741/ Their son Thomas Coutts, founded the famous London firm of Coutts and Co. Thus Jean Dunlop was the great-great-grandmother of Georgina Angela Burdett, Baroness Burdett-Coutts.

== Genealogy ==

1. Newsletter of the Glasgow and West of Scotland Family History Society, No. 47 Autumn 1996, pp. 11-16 for the first part of Donald Whyte's scholarly account of the family of Dunlop of Garnkirk
2. Newsletter of the Glasgow and West of Scotland Family History Society, No. 48 Spring 1997, pp. 9-1 for the second part of Donald Whyte's scholarly account of the family of Dunlop of Garnkirk
3. Darryl Lundy's Peerage
4. Clan MacFarlane