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Elizabeth Ross, sole heiress of Ross

Birth

Parents

Family life

Working life

• Before 10 May 1562 Elizabeth Ross, sole heiress of Ross, was occupied as lady-in-waiting to Mary Queen of Scots.⁵
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Death

Citations

1. [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.
2. [S111] Joseph Robertson, Editor, Inventaires de la Royne Descosse Douairiere de France: Catalogues of the Jewels, Dresses, Furniture, Books and Paintings (Edinburgh: The Bannatyne Club, 1863), p xliii, note 4; online image, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/inventairesdela00robegoog/page/n8/mode/2up?q=fleming : viewed 12 May 2025.
3. [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 529.
4. [S132] Thomas Watson, Kirkintilloch: Town and Parish (Glasgow: John Smith and Son, 1894), p 23.
5. [S2] Various contributors, "Wikipaedia," database, Commons, Wikipaedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/: online 11 November 2023), John Fleming, 5th Lord Fleming at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Fleming,_5th_Lord_Fleming.
6. [S51] Raphael Holinshed, Holinshed's Chronicle, 1587 edition edited by Abraham Fleming (London: Henry Denham, 1587), Scotland, vol v, p 649, https://archive.org/details/chroniclesofengl05holiuoft/page/649/mode/2up; online image, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/firstsecondvolum00holi/page/n1/mode/2up?q=fleming : accessed 18 February 2025.
7. [S83] George Vere Irving, The upper ward of Lanarkshire described and delineated (Glasgow: Thomas Murray and Son, 1864), vol i, p 322; online image, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/upperwardoflanar02irvi/page/n9/mode/2up : accessed 28 March 2025.
8. [S102] E Patricia Dennison and Russel Coleman, Editors, Historic Dumbarton: the archeological implications of development (Trowbridge: Historic Scotland, 1999), p 22; online pdf, Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland, RCAHMS Archives (https://i.rcahms.gov.uk/canmore-pdf/WP00004568.pdf : accessed.
9. [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 541.
10. [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.
11. [S137] William Fraser, The Chiefs of Colquhoun: and their Country (Edinburgh: Sir James Colquhoun of Colquhoun and Luss, 1869), vol i, p 92; online image, Electric Scotland (https://electricscotland.com/webclans/atoc/chiefsofcolquhoun1.pdf : viewed.
12. [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 542.
13. [S17] Francis J Grant (Ed), Charter Chest of the Earldom of Wigtown: 1214-1681 (Edinburgh: James Skinner & Company for the Scottish Record Society, 1910), Charter 122-5.
14. [S17] Francis J Grant (Ed), Charter Chest of the Earldom of Wigtown: 1214-1681 (Edinburgh: James Skinner & Company for the Scottish Record Society, 1910), Charter 120.
15. [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 544.
16. [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 617.