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Jean Fleming

b. circa 1614, d. before 1646

Birth

Jean Fleming was born circa 1614 in Cumbernauld and pertinents.

Parents

Father	John ("the Covenanter") Fleming, 2nd Earl of Wigtown, 7th Lord Fleming (b. before 5 December 1589, d. 7 May 1650)
Mother	Margaret Livingstone, Countess of Wigtown (d. after 1634)

Family life

Jean Fleming and Sir John Grierson, of Lag, entered into a marriage contract on 19 October 1641.^1,2

Partner with Sir John Grierson, of Lag (b. circa 1623, d. 1658)

Property

Jean Fleming possessed with her sister Anna had sasine of two annualrents out of the baronies of Lenzie, Biggar and Auchtermony on 30 April 1636 in Lenzie, Biggar and Auchtermony.³ She possessed had a royal charter of liferent in the Mains of Rockhall and lands of Collyne resigned by Robert Grierson on 2 January 1643 in Mains of Rockhall and lands of Collyne.⁴

Death

Jean Fleming died before 1646.

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.
[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 343.
[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 873.
[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 ix, 1634-1651, ch 1285, p 481-482; online image, Internet Archive, archive.org (https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101038096846&seq=7&q1=flemyng : viewed 9 September 2026.

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Last Edited

9 September 2025