Dame Nicola Somerville, Lady Blantyre

DAME NICOLA SOMERVILLE Lady Blantyre

Marriage

Nicolas Somerville, here treated, married Walter, Lord Blantyre. Glasgow Protocols X: 3303

Evidence from the Protocol Books of the Town Clerks of Glasgow

14 February 1587-88: Walter, commendator of Blantyre, gave sasine to Patrick Somervell of the King's bedchamber, as attorney and in name of Nicola Somervill, spouse of the said Walter, of the liferent of the lands and property mentioned in No. 3299 [Note] ; and that was done by the commendator, with his own hands, delivering to Patrick Somervill earth and stone of the ground and clap and hopper of the mill. Same witnesses as in No. 3299, with exception of Patrick Somervell, but with the addition of Robert Sinclair, writer and co-notary. Glasgow Protocols X: 3303

Note: The demesne lands (terris dominicalihus) commonly called the Maynes of Calderhall, with the mills, mill lands, multures, woods, annexes, connexes, tenants, tenandries and services of free tenants, and all the pertinents Iying in the shire of Edinburgh. Glasgow Protocols X: 2999

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When Nichola Somerville was born about 1553, in Cambusnethan, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, her father, Sir James Somerville 6th Lord Somerville, was 34 and her mother, Lady Katherine Murray of Falahall Somerville, was 22. She married Walter Stewart on 31 December 1581, in Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. She died on 30 August 1614, in Blantyre, Lanarkshire, Scotland, at the age of 62.

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