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Janet Wemyss 1590–1655 – Genealogical Records

Birth Date: 1590

Birth Location: Wemyss, Fifeshire, Scotland, United Kingdom

Death Date: April 1655

Death Location: Cleish, Scotland, United Kingdom

Father: Sir Wemyss

Mother: Lady Buttergask

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Janet Wemyss was born in 1590 in Wemyss, Fifeshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, the child of Sir John Stewart Earl Of Wemyss And Lady Marie Mary Stewart Lady Of Kirkwall Baroness Gray Of Buttergask. Janet Wemyss passed away in 1655 in Cleish, Scotland, United Kingdom.

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Biography

  • Janet Wemyss was born in 1590 in Wemyss, Fifeshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, the child of Sir John Stewart Earl Of Wemyss And Lady Marie Mary Stewart Lady Of Kirkwall Baroness Gray Of Buttergask.
  • Janet Wemyss passed away in 1655 in Cleish, Scotland, United Kingdom.

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Janet Wemyss's Ancestors

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Janet Wemyss
1590–1655
Birth Place: Wemyss, Fifeshire, Scotland, United Kingdom
Parents
Sir John Stewart, Earl of Wemyss
1557–1624
Wemyss Castle, Fife, Scotland
Lady (Marie "Mary" Stewart, Lady of Kirkwall, Baroness Gray of) Buttergask
1565–1624
Orknay Island Scotland
Grandparents
Sir (John VII Wemyss, Knight of Wemyss, Laird of Wemyss, 1st Earl of) Wemyss
1513–1571
Wemyss Hall, Fifeshire, Scotland, United Kingdom
Lady (Margaret) Erskine
1515–1572
Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
Lord (James Stuart. 1st Lord of Doune and Earl of) Moray
1533–1590
Beath, Fife, Scotland
Johanna Kennedy
1540–1598
Great-Grandparents
David Wemyss
1761–
Janet Rhynd
1500–1543
Sir Moray
1495–1547
Margaret Lindsay
1495–
2nd-Great-Grandparents
Sir Stewart
1506–1547
Lady Innermeath
1490–1577

Janet Wemyss's Timeline

2 Records

1590
1590
Birth of Janet Wemyss in Wemyss, Fifeshire, Scotland, United Kingdom
Wemyss, Fifeshire, Scotland, United Kingdom
1655
April 1655
Age 65
Death of Janet Wemyss in Cleish, Scotland, United Kingdom
Cleish, Scotland, United Kingdom

Sources

    Genealogy Event 1
    Event Type: Birth
    Event Date: 1590
    Event Place: Wemyss, Fifeshire, Scotland, United Kingdom
    Record Source: Geneanet Community Trees Index

    Genealogy Event 2
    Event Type: Death
    Event Date: April 1655
    Event Place: Cleish, Scotland, United Kingdom
    Record Source: Geneanet Community Trees Index

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