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William Fleming, of Bord
b. circa 1510
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Birth
William Fleming, of Bord, was born circa 1510.1
Parents
| Father | James Fleming, of Bord (b. circa 1489, d. September 1531) |
Family life
William Fleming, of Bord, and Agnes Livingstone, of Manerstoun, were married circa 1536. Balfour Paul notes "for which marriage a dispensation was granted by John Thornton, apostolic protonotary in 1536, they being in the fourth degree of consanguinity". This means that they must have been first cousins or one was the other's great niece or nephew.1,2
Children with Agnes Livingstone, of Manerstoun, (b. circa 1515)
| Son | Captain William Fleming, of Bord (b. circa 1540, d. before 2 April 1571) |
| Son | James Fleming, of Bord (b. circa 1545, d. after 2 April 1571) |
| Son | John ("presumably a younger son of William Fleming of Bord") Fleming, of Bord+ (b. circa 1547, d. before 27 October 1597) |
Working life
- William Fleming, of Bord, served in the military as was exempted by the Privy Council for service in England in order to stregthen the forces protecting the queen at Stirling on 10 July 1545 in Stirling Castle.3
Property1
William Fleming, of Bord, possessed George Colquhoun judicially confessed that he had given to William Fleming, senior, a reversion of the lands of Smythfield for the sum of 120 merks on 4 November 1535.141
Death
Citations
- [S28] Sir James Balfour Paul, The Scots Peerage, vol viii, Fleming Earl of Wigtown pages 519 - 558
- [S17] Francis J Grant (Ed), Charter Chest of the Earldom of Wigtown, Charter 76
- [S148] editor John Hill Burton, "Stirling Castle," The Register of the Privy Council of Scotland, vol i, 1545-1569 (1894), online image (https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=msu.31293106399409&seq=138 : viewed 19 Aug 2025), p 12.
- [S17] Francis J Grant (Ed), Charter Chest of the Earldom of Wigtown, Charter 84
| Last Edited | 19 August 2025 |