Katherine Halliday, heiress of Moffat

KATHERINE HALLIDAY heiress of Moffat

Katherine Halliday, here treated, is said to be the heiress of Moffat, The Scots Peerage VIII: 6 otherwise the heiress of Mophit. Memorie: 93

Spurious Pedigree

The marital status of Katherine Halliday is uncertain. For example, James, eleventh Lord Somerville, claimed that she married Sir Walter Somerville, fifth baron of Linton, and second of Carnwath, Memorie: 93 and George William Campbell, the author of the Scots Peerage account of the family, suggested that she was probably the first wife of Sir William Somerville of Linton and Carnwath. The Scots Peerage VIII: 6

The Question of Identity

William of Somerville of Linton and Carnwath did have a wife name Katerine but her family name has not been identified. On 27 June 1531 she and her husband had a charter for one half of the barony in Stirlingshire. RMS: 416

Evidence from the National Records of Scotland

27 June 1371: Charter by which Robert II, King of Scots, confirms that he has given one half of the barony of Manuel in Stirlingshire to William of Somerville, to be held by William and his wife Katerine and their heirs, who failing by William's heirs. This land had previously been held by Cristiane Crousure, who resigned the same into the king's hands. RMS: 416

Note: See also RMS: 543

Genealogy

1. Memorie of the Somervilles; being a history of the baronial house of Somerville. By James, eleventh Lord Somerville. Edited by Sir Walter Scott. In Two Volumes. Vol. I. (Archibald Constable and Co., Edinburgh, 1815), 495 pp.
2. Memorie of the Somervilles; being a history of the baronial house of Somerville. By James, eleventh Lord Somerville. Edited by Sir Walter Scott. In Two Volumes. Vol II. (Archibald Constable and Co., Edinburgh, 1815), 487 pp. plus Errata
3. 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, CVO., LLD., Lord Lyon King of Arms, Volume III (David Douglas, Edinburgh, 1911), 606 pp. For Somerville, Lord Somerville, see pp. 1-45