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Janet Scott

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Birthplace: Branxholm, Roxburgh, Scotland
Death: Roxburgh, Scotland
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Walter 'Wicked Wat' Scott, 3rd Lord of Buccleuch; Janet Bethune and Janet Kerr
Wife of John Cranston; Robert Scott, of Hannly and John Cranstoun of that Ilk
Mother of Sir William Cranstoun of that Ilk
Sister of Walter Scott; Margaret Scott; Grissel Borthwick; Mary Scott and Dorothy Scott
Half sister of Hugh Scott; Sir William Scott, Kt., of Kirkurd and Buccleuch the Younger; David Scott; Sir Thomas Turnbull and James Crichton of Cranston-Riddell

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About Janet Scott

JANET SCOTT (aka JONET SCOTT)

Evidence from the National Records of Scotland

18 March 1552-53: Tack by John, commendator of abbey of Dryburgh, and convent thereof, to dame Jonet Betoun, relict of Walter Scott of Branxholm, kt, and to Grizel, Dorothy, Jonet and Margaret Scotts, their daughters, of teinds of town and lands of Lessuden in sheriffdom of Roxburgh, excepting teind peas and beans thereof, for 19 years. Tag, seal gone. Signed by granters. National Records of Scotland, Papers of the Montague-Douglas-Scott Family, Dukes of Buccleuch, reference GD224/930/43

Genealogy

The Scots Peerage : founded on Wood's ed. of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland; containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that kingdom. Edited by Sir James Balfour Paul, Lord Lyon King of Arms. Volume II. (David Douglas, Edinburgh, 1905), 602 pp.

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1550
1550
Branxholm, Roxburgh, Scotland
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Roxburgh, Scotland