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Margaret Fleming

b. circa 1566

Birth

Margaret Fleming was born circa 1566.

Parents

FatherSir John ("the Defiant") Fleming, 5th Lord Fleming (b. circa 1528, d. 6 September 1572)
MotherElizabeth Ross, sole heiress of Ross (b. circa 1542, d. after 14 April 1578)

Family life

Sir James Forrester, of Carden, and Margaret Fleming were married on 13 April 1588.1

Property213

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. [S148] editor P Hume Brown, "Complaint by Jean Fleming," The Register of the Privy Council of Scotland, vol iii, 1578-1585 (1877), online image (https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112079780356&seq=347 : viewed 11 August 2025), p 253.
  3. [S58] Edinburgh, National Records of Scotland, "Online Catalogue," National Records of Scotland (https://catalogue.nrscotland.gov.uk/nrsonlinecatalogue: viewed 15 September 2025), GD17/350, 16 Jun 1612, Procuratory of resignation by James Edmonstoun of Newtoun, of the Place of Garden.
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Last Edited 16 May 2025