Margaret Forrester

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Margaret Forrester

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Birthplace: Torwood, Stirlingshire, Scotland, Scotland, United Kingdom
Death: before May 16, 1562
Immediate Family:

Daughter of James Forrester and Elizabeth Erskine
Wife of Sir James Colville of Easter Wemyss and Henry Livingston, of Falkirk
Mother of Alexander Colville, Abbot of Culross; Margaret Forrester; James Livingston; David Livingston; Helen Livingston and 1 other
Sister of Sir David Forrester, of Garden
Half sister of Elizabeth Forrester and Duncan Forrester In Kepmad, (probably) in Kepmad 1556

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About Margaret Forrester

https://archive.org/details/scotspeeragefoun02pauluoft/scotspeerage... p547

"In 1562 Henry and his wife Margaret Forrester received two acres of land in Stirling, and in 1574 and his wife Dame Margaret Forrester borrowed money from the Duncanson sisters' grandfather, John Duncanson, minister of Stirling."[3]

Children of Henry Livingston by second wife Margaret Forrester:

  1. James (c. 1546-aft. Apr. 1565).
  2. David (c. 1548-aft. 1581).
  3. Helen (c. 1556-aft. 1579).
  4. (Mr.) Henry (c. 1560-1624), m. Agnes Gray.

Notes

Margaret Forrester was the widow of Sir James Colville of East \V"emyss,9 and as such the daughter of Sir James Forrester of Torwood and Garden by the latter's first wife, Elizabeth Erskine, opening the door to a legitimate descent from Robert III, King of Scots, who died in 1406.

References

  • The Scots peerage, Vol. II, page 547-548
  • https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Livingston-3192
  • https://www.researchgate.net/publication/261286089_Recent_Literatur... Mary Loockermans, Anne Powell, Margaret Telller, and Katherine Glen were sisters. They were daughters of the Reverend James Duncanson, minister of Alloa and Tullibody, Clackmannanshire, Scotland, by his wife Helen Livingston. Grand daughters of the Reverend John Duncanson, minister and to the household of King James VI,probably (now known to be certainly) by John's first wife, Janet Watson. Helen Livingston was a daughter of the Rev. Helen Livingston, minister of St. Ninian’s, Stirlingshire, by his wife Agnes Gray, and a granddaughter of Henry Livingston of Falkirk and Margaret Forrester ...
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Margaret Forrester's Timeline

1536
1536
East Wemyss, Fifeshire, Scotland (United Kingdom)
1546
1546
1548
1548
1556
1556
1559
1559
Falkirk, Stirlingshire, Scotland
1562
May 16, 1562
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Torwood, Stirlingshire, Scotland, Scotland, United Kingdom
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