COCHRANE, Margaret ^{1 2}

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Margaret married Alexander MONTGOMERY Lord Montgomery, 9th Earl of Eglinton, son of Alexander MONTGOMERY Lord Montgomery, 8th Earl of Eglinton and Elizabeth CRICHTON, on 11 December 1676 in Dundonald parish, Ayrshire, Scotland.^{1 2} (Alexander MONTGOMERY Lord Montgomery, 9th Earl of Eglinton was born about 1660,¹ died on 18 February 1729 in Place of Eglinton, Kilwinning, Ayrshire, Scotland ¹ and was buried on 20 March 1729 ¹.)

  Marriage Notes:

"MONTGOMERIE
ALEXANDER EARL
MARGARET COCHRANE/FR331 (FR331)
11/12/1676
590 20 / 4
DUNDONALD"

from Index of Marriages




"The Earl (Alexander Montgomerie) was three times married. First (contract dated 7 and 16 December 1676), to Margaret, eldest daughter of William, Lord Cochrane, and grand-daughter of the first Earl of Dundonald. There is a story of how Lord Dundonald and all his attendants, on their way to the marriage, were arrested by witch power at a certain spot,from which the horses would not move, and the whole cavalcade was obliged to go home again .... The Earl had issue, by his three wives, twenty children."

from Scots Peerage (vol 3) ^{1 2}