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Jean Fleming
b. circa 1565, d. October 1630
Birth
Jean Fleming was born circa 1565.
Parents
| Father | Sir John ("the Defiant") Fleming, 5th Lord Fleming (b. circa 1528, d. 6 September 1572) |
| Mother | Elizabeth Ross, sole heiress of Ross (b. circa 1542, d. after 14 April 1578) |
Family life
William Bruce, of Airth, 9G grandson of Robert I, and Jean Fleming were married in 1583.1
Property21
Jean Fleming possessed was due 56/10/7 from Thankerton and 49/12/- from Biggar as well as produce as her sixth part of her late father's estate and she undertook to refund any surplus to be divided equally amongst her father's bairns on 24 September 1579.3 She possessed retained a liferent in the lands Newtown in the barony of Bothkennar granted in a royal charter to Patrick Bruce and his future wife Jonette Jackson on 5 July 1627 in Newtown in the barony of Bothkennar.4
Death
Jean Fleming died in October 1630 at age ~65.1 She had her estate probated on 24 November 1630 at Stirling in Commissary Court.5
Citations
- [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.
- [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.
- [S148] editor P Hume Brown, "Caution by Sir James Maxwell," 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=134 : viewed 11 August 2025), p 220-221.
- [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 viii, 1620-1633, ch 1101, p 387; online image, Internet Archive, archive.org (https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101038096846&seq=7&q1=flemyng : viewed 7 September 2026.
- [S71] Scotland, National Records of Scotland, "Wills and Testaments 1513-1925," Scotland's People (https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/: accessed), CC2 54, Jeane Fleming, Lady Airth, parish of Bothkenner.
| Last Edited | 7 September 2025 |