Lady Mary Lindsay

LADY MARY LINDSAY

Lady Mary Lindsay is the daughter of John Lindsay, Earl of Crawford and his wife Lady Emilia Stuart. Scots Peerage She was born before 24 September 1706, the date upon which her baptism was registered at Ceres in Fife, Scotland. [National Records of Scotland, Ceres Baptisms, reference OPR.415/2]

Heirs of Line

Lady Mary Lindsay and her elder sister Lady Catherine Lindsay were the heirs of line of the deceased brother, John, twentieth Earl of Crawford, who died on 24 December 1749. NRS: GD20/1/887 Heirs of line are people who succeed by force of law to the property of a deceased person. Dictionaries of the Scots Language

Marriage

Lady Mary Lindsay married Dugald Campbell of Glensaddell. Scots Peerage III: 39

Children

1. Lieutenant John Campbell of Glensaddell
2. Emilia Campbell

Evidence from the National Records of Scotland

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31 January 1737: Inventory: the real and personal estate belonging to John Campbell of Glensaddell, son of the deceased Dugald Campbell of Glensaddell and Lady Mary Lindsay. National Records of Scotland, Inveraray Sheriff Court, Curatory and Tutory - edicts, claims and processes, reference SC54/6/1/7/6

                    2

12 February 1752: Decree of adjudication at the instance of Patrick Lindsay junior and William Douglas, merchants in Edinburgh, against Lady Katharine Lindsay, eldest sister of deceased John, Earl of Crawfurd, and spouse of Lieutenant John Wemyss of General Oglethrop's late Regt, and Lady Mary Lindsay, sister of the said deceased earl and spouse of [ Dugald ] Campbell of Glensaddell, in respect of the lands of Cassindillie and many others in the sheriffdom of Fife, dated 12 February 1752, with 18 documents preceding or following thereon. National Records of Scotland, Papers of the Earls of Glasgow (Crawford Priory), reference GD20/1/828

                   3

1752-1824: Miscellaneous printed papers mainly relating to action between George, Earl of Crawford, and Lady Mary Campbell, sister of John, Earl of Crawford. National Records of Scotland, Papers of the Earls of Glasgow (Crawford Priory), reference GD20/4/28

                   4

17 March 1762: Copy of letter from R Mackintosh to the Earl of Craufurd concerning the claims of Lady Catherine Wemyss and Lady Mary Campbell as heirs of line to deceased John, Earl of Craufurd. National Records of Scotland, Papers of the Earls of Glasgow (Crawford Priory), reference GD20/1/887

Evidence from the Sheriff Court Books of Argyll

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21 May 1752: Heritable Bond by Lieutenant John Campbell of Glensaddell to John Campbell of Askamill, Esq., for £2617 sterling, with .security and an annual rent from the lands and mains of Saddell, etc., with consent of Lady Mary Lindsay alias Campbell, mother of the said Lieutenant John Campbell ; dated at Campbeltown 7th April 1752. The Clan Campbell Abstracts of Entries relating to Campbells in the Sheriff Court Books of Argyll at Inverary, p. 230

                   2

22 July 1744: Heritable Bond by John Campbell of Glensaddell to Captain Archibald Campbell of Daill in Craignish for £2617 sterling, dated at Ayr 28th May 1754, also subscribed by Lady Mary Lindsay, alias Campbell, the granter's mother. Ibidem, p.233

Lady Mary Campbell v George Earl of Crawford

The estate of Crawford, when disponed by William Earl of Crawford in the year 1678, to trustees for his creditors, stood devised to heirs-male by investitures completed in 1648.

Casemine: Lady Mary Campbell v George Earl of Crawford

Genealogy

1. The Scots Peerage. Founded on Wood's edition 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 III (David Douglas, Edinburgh, 1906), 617 pp. plus errata
2. Stirnet: Lindsay 05