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Margaret Livingstone, Countess of Wigtown

d. after 1634

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Margaret Livingstone

Parents

FatherAlexander Livingstone, 1st Earl of Linlithgow (d. 24 December 1621)
MotherLady Helen eldest daughter of Andrew Hay, 8th Earl of Erroll and his first wife (and cousin), Lady Jean Hay Hay (b. circa 1552, d. 1627)

Family life

Margaret Livingstone, Countess of Wigtown, and John ("the Covenanter") Fleming, 2nd Earl of Wigtown, 7th Lord Fleming, entered into a marriage contract on 20 February 1609.1,2,3,4,5

Children with John ("the Covenanter") Fleming, 2nd Earl of Wigtown, 7th Lord Fleming (b. before 5 December 1589, d. 7 May 1650)

SonColonel John ("the Soldier") Fleming, 3rd Earl of Wigtown, 8th Lord Fleming+ (b. circa 1608, d. February 1665)
SonAlexander Fleming+ (b. circa 1610, d. before 13 April 1661)
SonSir William Fleming, His Majesty's Gentleman Usher (b. circa 1611, d. before 26 June 1672)
DaughterJean Fleming (b. circa 1614, d. before 1646)
DaughterEleanor ("Helenor") Fleming (b. circa 1615, d. 20 April 1652)
DaughterAnn Fleming (b. circa 1619, d. 20 April 1661)
DaughterLilias Fleming (b. circa 1621)

Property2,6,7

Margaret Livingstone, Countess of Wigtown, possessed was to receive a liferent infeftment in part of the lordship of Cumbernauld, under the procuratory of resignation granted by John 1st Earl of Wigtown in implement of her marriage contract, the fee going to her husband on 2 September 1609 in Cumbernauld and pertinents.8,91011 She possessed was to be infeft in liferent in part of the lordship of Cumbernauld, following the Earl's resignation of the lordship in Exchequer on 24 August 1614.1213141516

Death

Margaret Livingstone, Countess of Wigtown, died after 1634.

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), Charter 177.
  3. [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 vii, 1609-1620, ch 1110, p 405-406; online image, Internet Archive, archive.org (https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101038096846&seq=7&q1=flemyng : viewed 27 August 2026.
  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 331.
  5. [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 600.
  6. [S58] Edinburgh, National Records of Scotland, "Online Catalogue," National Records of Scotland (https://catalogue.nrscotland.gov.uk/nrsonlinecatalogue: viewed 11 September 2025), GD2 11070, 1643-1684, nventories of writs of the lands of Drips and others, then in sheriffdom of Perth.
  7. [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 700.
  8. [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 178.
  9. [S83] George Vere Irving, The upper ward of Lanarkshire described and delineated (Glasgow: Thomas Murray and Son, 1864), vol i, p 325; online image, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/upperwardoflanar02irvi/page/n9/mode/2up : accessed 28 March 2025.
  10. [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 806–808.
  11. [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 701–702.
  12. [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 179.
  13. [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 vii, 1609-1620, ch 1634, p 592; online image, Internet Archive, archive.org (https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101038096846&seq=7&q1=flemyng : viewed 27 August 2026.
  14. [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 186.
  15. [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 774–775.
  16. [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 344.
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