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Catherine Fraser, Lady Fruid

b. circa 1500

Birth

Catherine Fraser, Lady Fruid, was born circa 1500.

Family life

Reverend Malcolm Fleming, Prior of Whithorn, and Catherine Fraser, Lady Fruid, were engaged circa 1524.¹ Brother of John Tweedie and she were married circa 1525.

Partner with Reverend Malcolm Fleming, Prior of Whithorn (b. circa 1490, d. circa 30 March 1569)

Child with Brother of John Tweedie (b. circa 1480)

Son	James Tweedie, of Frude (b. circa 1500, d. December 1562)

Property

Catherine Fraser, Lady Fruid, possessed held title before 1524 in Fruid, Peebleshire.¹²^3,4,5,6⁷^8,4

Death

Citations

[S29] Various, "WikiTree," pedigree, Commons, WikiTree (https://www.wikitree.com/wiki: online 9 November 2023), Malcolm Fleming (abt. 1505 - 1568) at https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Fleming-3863.
[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 479–480.
[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.
[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 507.
[S58] Edinburgh, National Records of Scotland, "Online Catalogue," National Records of Scotland (https://catalogue.nrscotland.gov.uk/nrsonlinecatalogue: viewed 25 September 2025), GD18 17/3, 26 Mar 1531, Charter from Catherine Fraser of Frude and her husband, James Tweedie, in favour of Malcolm, Lord Fleming, anent the lands of 'Urrisland' in Glenholm.
[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 483–485.
[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 481–482.
[S43] Scotland Court of Exchequer, editor, Registrum Magni Sigilli Regum Scotorum: The Register of the Great Seal of Scotland (Edinburgh: General Register House, 1912), vol iii, ch 1079, p. 236; online image, Internet Archive, archive.org (https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101038096846&seq=7&q1=flemyng : accessed 12 April 2025.

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Last Edited

9 November 2023