Margaret Leslie

Married Sir John Innes of Innes

Note by Ed Wyse on Feb 10, 2011: The following citation is found in "The Historical Records of Leslie from 1067 to 1868-69, Vol. I, by Charles Joseph Leslie. If you find it to be true, then this Margaret Leslie, is the daughter of Sir Norman de Leslie, Fifth Dominus Ejusdem and sister of Sir Andrew de Leslie, Sixth Dominus Ejusdem.

I will try to make that change.

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Note B. — "Laurus Leslæana " Account of Sir Andrew de Leslie's Marriage and Issue.

The Laurus Leslæana states that Sir Andrew de Leslie, VI. Dominus Ejusdem, married Elizabeth Douglas, daughter of Lord Douglas, whose successors became Marquises of Douglas, and with whom he got as her dowry the lands of Woodfield, now called Bomain, which in those days were reserved for hunting, as lying near the royal castles of Fettercairn and Kincairn, and that he had by her —

     I. John, who succeeded him ; 

     II. George, to whom he gave the baronies of Syde and Balquhain, and who became the founder of that branch of the family of Leslie ; 

     III. Margaret, married to Sir John Innes of Innes ; 

     IV. Ann, married to Sir Alexander Dunbar of Westfield. 

It has been shown that these two ladies were the sisters, not the daughters, of Sir Andrew, being the daughters of Sir Norman de Leslie, V. Dominus Ejusdem. The Laurus is also decidedly wrong in giving the name of Sir Andrew's wife as Elizabeth Douglas instead of Mary Abernethy. That Sir Andrew de Leslie had a son John, who succeeded him, and who, according to the Laurus, married Lady Margaret Hay, daughter of Sir Thomas Hay of Errol, by whom he had a son, David, who succeeded him, and another son Norman, who became the founder of the Rothes family, is unquestionably a mistake, there being no mention of a John Leslie, Dominus Ejusdem, in any of the public records or Peerages, and these details, as given by the Laurus, do not agree with the records of the time, and with known historical facts. A John Leslie is certainly mentioned in some Peerages as having married a daughter of Sir Thomas Hay of Errol in 1376, but he, as has been shown, was not the son, but the great-grandson of Sir Andrew de Leslie, VI. Dominus Ejusdem.