FORRESTER, Marion ¹

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Marion married William LIVINGSTON apparent of Kilsyth, son of William LIVINGSTON 4th of Kilsyth and Jonet BRUCE 'of Airth'.¹ (William LIVINGSTON apparent of Kilsyth was born about 1500 and died by 17 February 1539(dvp) ¹.)

  Marriage Notes:

"William (Livingston), who married Marion¹⁰, daughter of Sir Duncan Forrester of Garden, Comptroller of the Household in the reign of James IV., and died v.p. leaving a son and heir : William, who succeeded his grandfather.

^(Note)10The name of the wife of William Livingston, younger, of Kilsyth, is supplied by the following entry in the Protocol Book of John Graham, Notary, Stirling, 1543-1575 : 21 July 1545. Thomas Forrester of Arngibbon, for his mother and in her name, delivers to William Livingston of Kilsyth, her oye, a charter made to the deceased William Livingston, his father, and Marion Forrester, his mother, by William Livingston of Kilsyth, of the lands of Over Garwalis, with the manor-place of Wester Kilsyth, etc., together with the infeftment of seisin thereupon. The date of the charter 7 September 1525. The statement in The Bruces and Comyns (320) that Janet, second daughter of Sir John Bruce of Stenhouse and Airth, who was slain circa 1483, married William Livingston, younger, of Kilsyth, and that both he and his father were killed at Flodden, is obviously incorrect."

from Scots Peerage (vol 5)

Note:

Marion Forrester may be a child of Sir Duncan Forrester by a wife unnamed, rather than by Margaret Forsyth. The chronology is very tight. ¹