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HOUSTON, Patrick, Sir
(About 1395-1450)
COLQUHOUN, Margaret
(About 1404-1456)
SINCLAIR, William 3rd Earl of Orkney, Earl of Caithness, 2nd Lord Sinclair
(About 1408-1482)
SUTHERLAND, Marjory
(About 1437-)
HOUSTON, John of that Ilk, Sir
(About 1440-)
SINCLAIR, Elizabeth
(About 1455-)
HOUSTON, Peter of that Ilk, Sir
(About 1467-1513)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. SEMPILL, Margaret 'of Elliotston'

2. SHAW, Helen

HOUSTON, Peter of that Ilk, Sir 1

  • Born: About 1467
  • Marriage (1): SEMPILL, Margaret 'of Elliotston' by 10 March 1483/4(legal action) 1
  • Marriage (2): SHAW, Helen 2
  • Died: 9 September 1513, Battle of Flodden Field, Northumberland, England 1

   Another name for Peter was HOUSTON, Patrick of that Ilk, Sir.2

   User ID: C191.


Peter married Margaret SEMPILL 'of Elliotston' by 10 March 1483/4(legal action).1 (Margaret SEMPILL 'of Elliotston' was born about 1470.)


  Marriage Notes:

"Sir Peter Houston of that Ilk ... married by 10 March 1483/4, to Margaret, daughter to Thomas Sempill of Elliotston, when his mother, Elizabeth Sinclair, raised an action against them for uplifting mails belonging to her in liferent"

from The Red Book of Scotland 1

Peter next married Helen SHAW, daughter of Sir James SHAW of Sauchie, Captain of Stirling Castle and Isobel.2 (Helen SHAW was born about 1460 and died after 1541 2.)


  Marriage Notes:

"He (Patrick Home) married .... secondly Ellen, daughter of Sir James Shaw of Sauchie.... She survived him, and was married, thirdly, to Sir Patrick Houston of that Ilk" (page 3)

from Scots Peerage (vol 6) 2

Sources


1 Gordon MacGregor, The Red Book of Scotland, Vol. 5 Houston of that Ilk.

2 e-books, The Scots Peerage ed. Sir James Balfour Paul vol. 6 (1909).

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