FlemingClans.com - Person Page 479

David Wemyss, 2nd Earl of Wemyss

b. 6 September 1610, d. July 1679

David Wemyss, 2nd Earl of Wemyss, was born on 6 September 1610.

David Wemyss, 2nd Earl of Wemyss, and Eleanor ("Helenor") Fleming entered into a marriage contract on 4 April 1650.^1,2,3

David Wemyss, 2nd Earl of Wemyss, died in July 1679 at age 68 in Wemyss Castle.

[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.
[S60] Bernard Burke, A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire (London: Harrison, 1866), Fleming, Earl of Wigton, p 218-19; online image, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_K3MaAAAAYAAJ/page/n7/mode/2up?q=fleming : accessed 27 February 2025.
[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 346–347.

Click on any citation number above to view details of the source document and, possibly, access an image of the source.

Last Edited

14 November 2023