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    Alice de la Haye (c.1382 - c.1451)
    Alicia Hay (daughter of Thomas Hay and Elizabeth Stewart) was born 1382 in ,,Perth, Scotland, and died 1451 in ,,,Scotland. She married William Hay on 1399 in Yester, Haddington, East Mid Loth, Scotlan...
  • Alice Gifford of Yester, Lady Kilmarnock (aft.1346 - 1384)
    Alicia Giffard was the second oldest of the daughters of Hugh Giffard of Yester. She married Thomas Boyd, who was the Lord of Kilmarnock in Ayrshire. Thomas Boyd was living in 1409 (Wood's Peerage), an...
  • Eupheme de Morham (1287 - d.)
    The final charter of this generation is found in Yester writ #24. It is produced by the widowed Euphemia Morham, in which she grants a half carucate of land in her tenement of Barrow to Richard de Dale...
  • Sir Hugh Giffard of Yester, Knight (c.1322 - 1365)
    1. Hugh Giffard III (circa 1322-1365). Son and heir and the next Lord of Yester. Married to Jonet (Joanna) Douglas circa 1345, he will be the last Giffard who would be Lord of Yester. The line will end...
  • Hugh "the Wizard" Giffard of Yester, Laird of Yester (c.1225 - c.1267)
    In coming to Sir Hugh Giffard II, we discuss the best-known and most famous of the Lords of Yester. Hugh Giffard is described and known in Scottish lore as a wizard, a necromancer, and a magician. Furt...

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