Margaret Cunningham

LADY MARGARET CUNNINGHAM

Lady Margaret Cunningham is the daughter of James Cunningham, 7th Earl of Glencairn and his wife Margaret Ann Cunningham The Scots Peerage IV: 245

According to the late Reverend John Anderson, writing in his account of the Earls of Glencairn for the Scots Peerage, Margaret Cunningham: "As the future spouse ' of James Hamilton of Evandale, son and heir of James Hamilton of Liberton, she had a charter of the liferent of the lands of Crawford John and others 23 December 15977 She must have been divorced from her husband, who was alive in 1611 as in a charter of 28 August 1610 she is described as the 'future spouse' of Sir James Maxwell of Calderwood. She had certainly led a very unhappy life with her first husband, as she speaks in her will of the 'crosse of an unloving husband who proved most unnatural to me.' She was therefore no doubt glad to marry, as his third wife, on 8 September 1610, Sir James Maxwell. She had issue by both marriages, and it is a curious fact that her eldest daughter by her first husband, Jean Hamilton, was married to James Maxwell, afterwards the first baronet of Calderwood, the second son by his second wife of Margaret Cunningham's second husband." The Scots Peerage IV: 245

Her Last Will and Testament

CUNNINGHAME
MARGARET
9 / 12 / 1623
DAME, LADY CALDERWOOD, PARISH OF CARLUKE
TESTAMENT TESTAMENTAR & INVENTORY
LANARK COMMISSARY COURT
CC14/5/2

The last will and testament of Dame Margaret Cunningham, Lady Calderwood, dated 2 October 1622, is printed in full in volume one of Memoirs of the Maxwells of Pollock. Memoirs of the Maxwells of Pollock I: 477-80

Evidence from the National Records of Scotland

Register of the Great Seal of Scotland, A. D. 1609-1620, charter number 375 on p. 140

Genealogy

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. Edited by Sir James Balfour Paul, Lord Lyon King of Arms. Volume IV. (David Douglas, Edinburgh, 1907), 597 pp.
2. Stirnet: Cunningham 02
3. Darryl Lundy's Peerage
4. The Cunynghame Family of Glencairn
5. Stirnet: Hamilton 18

Notes

Child of Lady Margaret Cuninghame and Sir James Hamilton of Evandale

1. Jean Hamilton

Child of Lady Margaret Cuninghame and Sir James Maxwell of Calderwood (as his 3rd wife)

1. Colonel John Maxwell d. 1650
2. also another son and four daughters

Citations

1. [S37] Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), volume 1, page 994. Hereinafter cited as Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 107th edition.
2. [S37] Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 107th edition, volume 1, page 1391.