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Margaret Fleming

b. circa 1517

Birth

Margaret Fleming was born circa 1517.

Parents

FatherVice-admiral John ("the Ambassador") Fleming, 2nd Lord Fleming, 12th of Biggar, Cumbernauld (b. circa 1465, d. 1 November 1524)
MotherAgnes Somerville (b. circa 1470, d. after 29 January 1530)

Family life

John Cunningham, of Glengarnock, and Margaret Fleming were married on 12 December 1540.1,2

Partner with John Cunningham, of Glengarnock (b. circa 1515, d. after 12 December 1540)

Property3,4

Margaret Fleming possessed had a charter of confirmation from the king and queen to her and her husband John Cunningham of Glengarnock for the barony of Auchtyrmachanye that he had resigned on 16 March 1559 at Perthshire in Barony of Auchtyrmachanye.5

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. [S17] Francis J Grant (Ed), Charter Chest of the Earldom of Wigtown: 1214-1681 (Edinburgh: James Skinner & Company for the Scottish Record Society, 1910), Charters 321–322.
  3. [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.
  4. [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 85.
  5. [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 iv, ch 1345, p 299; online image, Internet Archive, archive.org (https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101038096846&seq=7&q1=flemyng : accessed 13 April 2025.
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Last Edited 13 April 2025