Lady Jean Ruthven

LADY JEAN RUTHVEN (aka JANET RUTHVEN)

Lady Jean Ruthven (1647) Jeane Ruthven (1661) Janet Ruthven (1661) Jean Ruthven (1672) Lady Jean Ruthven (1672)

Janet Ruthven, her treated, is the daughter of Patrick Ruthven, first Earl of Forth and Brentford, and his second wife Joanna Henderson. The Scots Peerage IV: 106

Marriage

Janet Ruthven, here treated, married James Baillie, second Lord Forrester, and had issue, two sons, who took the name Ruthven. The Scots Peerage IV: 106 The Scots Peerage IV: 93

Children

1. Charles Ruthven
2. Edward Ruthven, Master of Forrester

Evidence from the National Records of Scotland

                   1

1647: Petition to Parliament by Lady Forth and Lady Jean Ruthven, her daughter, seeking some provision from the forfeited estates of Gen. Ruthven, Lord Forth. In dorso: decision of the Committee of Estates signed by Chancellor Loudoun. National Records of Scotland, Records of Gillespie, Macandrew and Co., WS (incorporating Hope, Todd and Kirk, WS), lawyers, Edinburgh, reference GD246/26/5

                   2

16 March 1672: Double of Disposition and Assignation by James, Lord Forrester of Corstorphine and Jean Ruthven, his spouse, in favour of Alexander Robertsone [Robertson] of Strowan, of part of the sums of £40,000 Scots and 23,000 merks Scots owed to said James by James, Earl of Callendar and Sir Alexander Hope of Carss [Carse] respectively, as payment for the rents and duties of the lands and barony of Corstorphine for the years 1670 and 1671 due to the said Alexander Robertsone. National Records of Scotland, Dundas of Fingask, reference GD65/84

                   3

July - September 1672: Petition of Lady Jean Ruthven, Lady Forrester and the Master of Forrester their son against Lady Brainford with Execution of Citation and Minutes of Process. National Records of Scotland, Supplementary Warrants and Parliamentary Papers, reference PA7/10