John Ballenden of Broughton

BELLENDEN, LORD BELLENDEN OF BROUGHTON

BELLENDEN is a name which is found in a variety of forms: Bellentyne, Ballantyne, Ballindean, and Bannatyne, are all variations of the same name. In 1361 John de Bennachtyne de Oorrokis resigned the lands of Niddry in the county of Edinburgh:1 but the first known ancestor of the family with which we have now to deal is JOHN BELLENTYNE, probably a near relation of Robert Bellentyne, Abbot of Holyrood (1484-1500) ; died before 1486, leaving issue : —
1. PATRICK.
2. Walter, Canon of Holyrood Abbey. He died before 8 July 1490, when his brother Patrick had sasine as his heir.2
3. Margaret, married to Gilbert Forrester of Drylaw.3
4. Christian, married to Matthew Forrester of Barnton.4

References

1. 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 Volume II. Page 61. < Archive.Org >
2. http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=lcompagna...
3. http://www.clanmacfarlanegenealogy.info/genealogy/TNGWebsite/getper...