Mary De Montgomery, of Stair-Montgomery & Cassillis

Data OF Miriam Bertelson, Fremont, CA

Scots Peerage, 1904, BY J.B. Paul, Pgs. 446,447

She Was A Cousin And Heiress OF Christian Montgomery OF The Lands OF Castlys (Cassillis)

Compiled and Edited by John and Vernabelle Hollowell, Fort Benton, MT.

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The lands of Castlys, or Cassillis, were first owned by the Montgomery family and it may be they who built the first castle at Cassillis as a Neil de Montgomerie is said to have been born there around 1276. It is thought that there may have been a castle at Cassillis as early as the 12th century. Around 1360 the then owner of the lands, Sir John Montgomery de Castlys, died, and Cassillis seems to have passed jointly to his daughter, Marjory de Montgomery, and his cousin, also Marjory de Montgomery. In 1373, upon the marriage of the younger Marjory to Sir John Kennedy of Dunure, Cassillis passed into the Kennedy family. The ancestors of the Kennedys had lived in the area since at least the mid-12th century, the first of the family to be mentioned in a charter being a Duncan de Carrick. - See more at: http://www.stravaiging.com/history/castle/cassillis-house#sthash.Tj...

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