Margaret Muirhead

MARGARET MUIRHEAD

Death

Margaret Muirhead, here treated, is reported to have died before May 1655. Stirnet: Muirhead 1

Evidence Published by the National Records of Scotland

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1608: EXTRACT OF CONTRACT of SALE by John Hammiltoun [Hamilton] of Uddistoun [Udston], freetenant of the subjects infra, with consent of Margaret Mwreheid [Muirhead], his wife and John Hammiltoun, his son, and apparent heir, fiar of the said subjects, with consent of Helen Quhytfurd [Whiteford], his wife, to Alexander Mwre [Muir], merchant burgess of Hammiltoun [Hamilton], and Janet Machane, his spouse, of part of the said John Hammiltoun of Uddistoun's and his said wife's tenement called "the tenement of the Hall", otherwise "Litstares tenement", lying on the north side of the "Hie Gait" of the said burgh of Hammiltoun, namely the high hall and two low booths thereunder in the "Foirgait", the high chamber and low house thereunder, adjacent thereto, on the north part thereof, and seven feet from the fore-wall of the said low house in the close of the said tenement; together with the third part of the orchard or yard of the said tenement, on the east side thereof, with free access from the "Foirgait" of the said burgh to the said chamber and house under the same and to the said east third of the said orchard and yard, and under stipulation that the passage through the houses to be built on the yard-head in the back of the said close in the "west rowme" be of equal breadth with the fore-entry. 27th October & 24th November 1608. Registered, Books of Council, 1st February 1611. National Records of Scotland, Papers of the Nasmith family of Hamilton, Lanark, reference GD85/87

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1608: CHARTER by John Hammiltoune [Hamilton], son and heir apparent of John Hammyltoune of Udstoune [Udston], with consent of his said father as liferenter, and with consent of Margaret Muirheid [Muirhead], wife of his said father and of Helen Quhytfurd [Whiteford], his own wife, to Alexr. Muir, merchant burgess of Hammyltoune [Hamilton], and Janet Machane, his wife, of the subjects contained in contract of sale of date hereof, 27th October & 24th November 1608 [as in GD85/87]; containing precept of sasine addressed to Mr. John Rae, burgess of Hamiltoun, as bailie. 27th October & 24th November 1608. [Seal of John Hamilton of Udston attached; very good impression]. National Records of Scotland, Papers of the Nasmith family of Hamilton, Lanark, reference GD85/88

Genealogy

1. Mother Bedford: Muirhead of Lauchope
2. Historical and Genealogical Memoirs of the House of Hamilton