LINDSAY, John 8th Lord of the Byres 2
User ID: N772. John married Anna OLIPHANT, daughter of Laurence OLIPHANT Master of Oliphant and Christian DOUGLAS, 4 July 1599(contract).1 (Anna OLIPHANT was born about 1584.) Marriage Notes: "John (Lindsay), eighth Lord Lindsay of the Byres, was served heir to his father in the lands and barony of Pitcruvy, Markinch, Pyotston, etc., on 13 April 1602, had charters of the lands of Carnock in Fife on the resignation of Sir George Ramsay of Dalhousie on 16 March 1602, of the lands of Auchterstruther 5 April 1603, and of Duddingston and the barony of Abercorn 28 January 1603, which lands of Abercorn he resigned in favour of James, Master of Paisley, who had a charter thereon 5 April 1603. He was a Privy Councillor in 1605, and to Sir Thomas Hamilton, afterwards Earl of Haddington, in 1608, he sold the lands of Byres for £33,333, 6s. 8d. Scots....He married (contract dated at Dalkeith 4 July 1599) Anna, daughter of Laurence, Master of Oliphant, and had issue : |