Margaret Drummond

MARGARET DRUMMOND

Margaret Drummond, here treated, is the wife of Adam Erskine, Commendator of Cambuskenneth She is noticed as his wife on 7 March 1576, NRS: GD124/1/630 and again on 3 April 1608. RMS 1609-1620: charter number 236

Children

1. Annabella Erskine

Evidence from the National Records of Scotland

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7 March 1575-76: Charter by Robert Forester [Forrester] of Boquhan, provost of Sterling [Stirling], and Isobel Schaw [Shaw], his spouse, to Adam Erskyne [Erskine], commendator of Cambuskynneth [Cambuskenneth], and Margaret Drumond [Drummond], his spouse, of annualrent of £100 Scots from lands of Eister Row, in stewartry of Menteith, sheriffdom of Perth, and from 10 acres in the Borrowmuir and 4 acres in the Parkfeild, in territory of burgh of Striviling. National Records of Scotland, Papers of the Erskine Family, Earls of Mar and Kellie, reference GD124/1/630

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3 April 1608: Charter by which John, Earl of Marr, Lord Erskine, confirms that he has given a liferent from the barony of Brechin and certain other lands to his wife, Dame Marie Stewart, Countess of Marr. The lands of Cardross which belonged to his cousins, David and Margaret Halden, were exempt, as were the lands of Cambuskenneth which belonged to his cousin, Adam, Commendator of Cambuskenneth, and his wife Margaret Drummond: "Adamo commendatario de Cambuskynneth consanguineo dicto Jo; et Margarete Drummound sponse dicti Adami liberum tenemeutum terrarum in quibus infeodata est". The Earl of Marr's charter in favour of his wife was confirmed under the Great Seal of Scotland on 1 February 1610. RMS 1609-1620: charter number 236

Printed Evidence

Registrum Magni Sigilli Regum Scotorum. The register of the Great seal of Scotland. A. D. 1609-1620. Edited by John Maitland Thomson, MA., Advocate. (H. M. General Register House, Edinburgh, 1892), 1152 pp. including indices and errata