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William ("onetime Commendator of Whithorn and Provost of Biggar Collegiate Church") Fleming, of Persillands

b. circa 1550

William ("onetime Commendator of Whithorn and Provost of Biggar Collegiate Church") Fleming, of Persillands, was born circa 1550.

Father	John Fleming, of Glenheid, Persellands and Carwood (b. circa 1520, d. 22 August 1592)
Mother	Janet Carwood, co-heiress of Carwood with Margaret her sister, Queen Mary's favourite

Son	William Fleming, of Persilands+ (b. circa 1570)

On 10 March 1572 William ("onetime Commendator of Whithorn and Provost of Biggar Collegiate Church") Fleming, of Persillands, was occupied as commendator in Whithorn Priory.¹
On 1 January 1573 William ("onetime Commendator of Whithorn and Provost of Biggar Collegiate Church") Fleming, of Persillands, was occupied as Provost at Biggar Church in Biggar.^2,3

[S148] editor P Hume Brown, "Caution for William Fleming," The Register of the Privy Council of Scotland, vol ii, 1569-1578 (1877), online image (https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112089254764&seq=324 : viewed 11 August 2025), p 206.
[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.
[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 562.

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Last Edited

15 August 2025