JOHNSTONE, Mary ^{1 2}

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Mary married William LINDSAY 18th (15th) Earl of Crawford, son of John LINDSAY 10th Lord Lindsay of the Byres, then 17th (14th) Earl of Crawford and Margaret HAMILTON, on 8 March 1670.^{1 2} (William LINDSAY 18th (15th) Earl of Crawford was born in April 1644 ¹.)

  Marriage Notes:

"William (Lindsay), eighteenth Earl of Crawford, second Earl of Lindsay, and eleventh Lord Lindsay of the Byres, who was born in April 1644. He was infeft in the Stewardship of the regality of St. Andrews before 27 April 1671. After the Revolution he was appointed a Commissioner of the Treasury, and in 1689 President of Parliament. He was a strong supporter of the Presbyterian interest, and of King William's Government. He married, first, 8 March 1670, at Leith, Mary Johnstone, daughter of James, Earl of Annandale and Hartfell, who died circa 1681, by whom he had issue"

from Scots Peerage (vol 3)




"Mary (Johnstone, daughter of James, 2nd Earl of Hartfell), born 31 January 1652 ; married, 8 March 1670, to William, fifteenth (See note below) Earl of Crawford, and had issue."

from Scots Peerage (vol 8)

Note:

William is also known as the 18th Earl:

"The title descended to the first Earl's descendants without much incident, until the death of David Lindsay, 8th Earl of Crawford, in 1542. The eighth Earl had a son, Alexander, commonly called the Wicked Master, who frequently quarrelled with his father and even tried to murder him. The Wicked Master was sentenced to death for his crime, and the eighth Earl conveyed his title to a cousin, also called David Lindsay, a descendant of the third Earl of Crawford, and excluded from the succession all of the Wicked Master's descendants. However, the ninth earl, although he had his own sons, named the Wicked Master's son David as his heir; thus, in 1558, at the ninth Earl's death, the earldom returned to the main branch of the family. The ninth Earl is frequently referred to as an interpolated Earl, as are the 17th-22nd Earls." (Wikipedia) ^{1 2 3}