Margaret Ogilvy

MARGARET OGILVY

Fake Genealogy

The Scots Peerage identifies Margaret Ogilvie, here treated, as the daughter of Sir John Ogilvy, Laird of Lintrathen & Airlie This is wrong. See below. The Scots Peerage I: 124

The question of Identity

Margaret Ogilvie, here treated, is the daughter of James Ogilvy, 1st Lord Ogilvy of Airlie The name of her mother is not known. National Records of Scotland, Papers of the Ramsay Family of Bamff, Perthshire, reference GD83/13 Bamff Charters: charter number 13

Marriage

Margaret Ogilvy, here treated, married Gilbert Ramsay of Bamff The Scots Peerage I: 124

Evidence from the National Records of Scotland

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10 April 1482: Contract of Marriage between Gilbert Ramsay, son of Alexander Ramsay of Woodwrae, and Margaret Ogilvy, daughter of Sir James Ogilvy of Airlie. National Records of Scotland, Papers of the Ramsay Family of Bamff, Perthshire, reference GD83/13

Note: This document is printed in Sir James H Ramsay, bart., (ed.) 'Bamff Charters A.D. 1232-1703', (Oxford, 1915), pp. 31-33. Bamff Charters: charter number 13

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10 April 1483: Precept by Finlay Ramsay of Bamff for infefting his grandson Gilbert Ramsay and his wife [Margaret] in the lands of Mawes and Petdrey (Pitdray). National Records of Scotland, Papers of the Ramsay Family of Bamff, Perthshire, reference GD83/14

Note: This document is printed in Sir James H Ramsay, bart., (ed.) 'Bamff Charters A.D. 1232-1703', (Oxford, 1915), p. 33. Bamff Charters: charter number 14

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8 July 1483: Instrument of sasine which confirms possession of the lands of Mawis and Peddrey to Gilbert Ramsay and his wife Margaret Ogilvy. Gilbert Ramsay is identified as the son and apparent heir Alexander Ramsay, who is identified as the son and heir of Finlay Ramsay. Margaret Ogilvy is identified as the daughter of Sir James Ogilvy of Airlie. Her brother Thomas Ogilvy acted as bailie and gave sasine to Gilbert and Margaret, and her brothers Archibald Ogilvy and John Ogilvy were the witnesses present. Bamff Charters: charter number 15

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 I. (David Douglas, Edinburgh, 1904), 575 pp.
2. Stirnet: Ogilvy 1
3. Stirnet: Ramsay 06