JOHNSTONE, James Earl of Annandale and 2nd Earl of Hartfell 2
- Born: 1625 2
- Marriage (1): DOUGLAS, Henrietta 29 May 1645(contract) 1
- Died: 17 July 1672, Leith, Midlothian, Scotland 1
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General Notes:
"Like his father, he (James Johnstone) suffered imprisonment as an adherent of Montrose, but he was not proceeded against with the same severity. He succeeded to his father in April 1653, was served heir on 25 October, and completed his title by the usual sasines on 8, 9, and 10 November of the same year."
from Scots Peerage (vol 8) 1
James married Henrietta DOUGLAS, daughter of William DOUGLAS Marquess of Douglas and Mary GORDON, 29 May 1645(contract).1 (Henrietta DOUGLAS was born about 1633 and died on 1 June 1673 1.)
Marriage Notes:
"The Earl of Annandale and Hartfell (James Johnstone) married (contract dated 29 May 1645) Henrietta Douglas, eldest daughter (by his second wife, Mary Gordon, third daughter of George, first Marquess of Huntly) of William, first Marquess of Douglas. She was very young, only 13, when the marriage took place, as she was born in 1633, and so was but 40 at her death. She survived her husband eleven months, dying on Sunday, 1 June 1673."
from Scots Peerage (vol 1) 1
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