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Joan ("heiress of Sir Simon Fraser") Fraser

b. circa 1288

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Oliver Castle mound

Birth

Joan ("heiress of Sir Simon Fraser") Fraser was born circa 1288.

Parents

Father	Simon Fraser, filius, 3rd of Oliver Castle and Neidpath (b. circa 1270, d. 8 September 1306)
Mother	Maria

Family life

Patrick ("Sheriff of Peebles") Fleming, 7th of Biggar, and Joan ("heiress of Sir Simon Fraser") Fraser were married circa 1312.^{1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9}

Child with Patrick ("Sheriff of Peebles") Fleming, 7th of Biggar (b. circa 1297, d. before 26 January 1360)

Son	Malcolm ("the Reliable") Fleming, 8th of Biggar+ (b. circa 1312, d. after 1395)

Property

Joan ("heiress of Sir Simon Fraser") Fraser possessed forfeited ten merks of Aldynstone in 1337 in Aldynstone.⁸

Citations

[S23] Peter Barns-Graham, "Families Database," pedigrees, Stirnet Limited, Families Database (https://www.stirnet.com/: downloaded 2000), Fleming of Boghall and Wigtown at https://www.stirnet.com/genie/data/british/ff/fleming01.php.
[S3] Sir Robert Douglas, The peerage of Scotland: Containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that kingdom (N.p.: n.p., 1764), Fleming Earl of Wigtown VI.
[S28] Sir James Balfour Paul, The Scots Peerage: founded on Wood's edition of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland (Edinburgh: T and A Constable, 1911), vol viii, Fleming Earl of Wigtown pages 519 - 558.
[S50] James Taylor, The great historic families of Scotland (London: JS Virtue & Co, 1889), vol ii, p 272; online image, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/greathistoricfam02tayluoft/page/n5/mode/2up?q=fleming&view=theater : accessed.
[S21] George Crawford, The Peerage of Scotland: Containing an Historical and Genealogical account of the Nobility of that Kingdom (Edinburgh: George Stewart, 1716), p 491-499, Fleming, Earl of Wigtown.
[S5] William Hunter, Biggar and the House of Fleming: an account of the Biggar District, Archeological, Historical and Biographical, second edition (Edinburgh: William Paterson, 1867), p 470.
[S138] George Crawford, The Lives and Characters of the Officers of the Crown and of the State in Scotland: from the reign of David I to the Union of the Two Kingdoms (Edinburgh: Robert Fleming and Company, 1726), vol i, p 272; online image, Google Books (https://books.googleusercontent.com/books/content?req=AKW5QaeF7OOoPX_jz_rpIWmVw98CS9aSWZ-X-NPouUwyreK7NNj4y5Y8MKARfg9uxTMfSC-dRJGmfjrQQn71_T-tFexW7f0KdrmGXfIgtkw5160BgkniHLzAlZzH3rGcfgSN0qzQ8QENYaqyEL7r1MQqq7cxiCO4iKBt2n24OCTWgESzuKciowmNz-BXkjbfzJR56xWb6jUwBa2zMdo_TqqntjBCijW0ft3AOB8HTq64IvfmUyVXu3tOKvJkZuHtoFSlXalqkNXb7C3Lp6H0qeDp-TU0mTcpKGOyhd5hHs0E6fI-Vc8m6GY : accessed.
[S28] Sir James Balfour Paul, The Scots Peerage: founded on Wood's edition of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland (Edinburgh: T and A Constable, 1911), vol 7, p 417-423.
[S161] Alexander Fraser, 17th Lord Saltoun, The Frasers of Philorth, 3 vols (Edinburgh: Privately printed, between 1879 and 1880), I, xiii; online image, Internet Archive ( : accessed.

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