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LINDSAY, David of Edzell, 9th Earl of Crawford
(About 1503-1558)
CAMPBELL, Katherine
(About 1516-1574)
GUTHRIE, Alexander Burgess, Town Clerk of Edinburgh
(About 1520-)
HENRISON, Janet
(About 1538-After 1598)
LINDSAY, John Lord Menmuir, Lord of Exchequer and Keeper of the Signet
(About 1552-1598)
GUTHRIE, Marion
(About 1555-1592)
LINDSAY, Janet
(1589-1655)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. AUCHMOUTIE, David of Easter Fernie and of that Ilk, Sir

LINDSAY, Janet 1

  • Baptised: 17 August 1589, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland 1
  • Marriage (1): AUCHMOUTIE, David of Easter Fernie and of that Ilk, Sir February/March 1615(1616) (contract) 1
  • Died: 2 August 1655, Newburgh parish, Fife, Scotland
  • Buried: 3 August 1655

   Another name for Janet was LYNDESAY, Jeane.

   User ID: Q161

  General Notes:

"LINDSAY
JEANE
AUCHMUTIE / DAVID AUCHMUTIE
F
04/08/1655
451
10 / 52
Newburn"

from Deaths and Burials

Old Parish Registers
Newburn parish Fife
Deaths and Burials

"Jeane Lyndesay spouse to David Auchmowtie portioner of Drumeldrie departed from this mortal life upon Thuiresday the second of Aguste 1655 betwix aught and nyne of the clok in the morning And was buryed. And was buryed on friday about six(seven? unclear) of clock at night"

Note:

The date(s) of this death iabove are somewhat confusing, in that the index records it as the 4 August 1655, whereas the narrative text of the record reads
"second" overwritten with a crossing out beneath possibly perceived as numeral 4. The weekday mentioned is "Thuiresday". 2


Janet married Sir David AUCHMOUTIE of Easter Fernie and of that Ilk, son of John AUCHMOUTIE of Easter Fernie and of that Ilk and Isabel WEMYSS, February/March 1615(1616) (contract).1 (Sir David AUCHMOUTIE of Easter Fernie and of that Ilk was born about 1590 and died on 9 January 1650 in Hallhill (Lawhill), Fife, Scotland.)


  Marriage Notes:

"Janet (Lindsay), baptized at Edinburgh 17 August 1589, married (contract dated February-March 1615) to David Auchmutie of Easter Fernie."

from Scots Peerage (vol 1)




"David Auchmoutie of Easter Fernie and of that Ilk succeeded his father and was served heir to him in the lands of Auchmouthie on 18 January 1615, then in those of Easter Fernie on 18 March following. He m. Janet, daughter of John Lindsay of Balcarres, (c/m February & March 1616. She was bap. at Edinburgh, on 17 August 1589), and dying at Hallhill, on 9 January 1650, he was interred at the kirk of Newburn on the 15th following."

from The Red Book of Scotland 1

Sources


1 e-books, The Scots Peerage ed. Sir James Balfour Paul vol. 1 (1904).

2 GRO Scotland, OPR Index of Deaths and Burials.

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