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John Bethune 1440 – 1507 – Genealogical Records

Birth Date: 1440

Birth Location: Raith House, Fife, Scotland

Death Date: 1507

Death Location: Holkettle, Fifeshire, Scotland

Father: Johanni Beaton

Mother: Margaret Stirling

Spouse(s): Marjory Boswell, Johanne Reyneville

Children(s): Archibald Bethune, Robert Bethune, David Bethune, John Bethune, Margaret Bethune, John Balfour, Elizabeth Bethune, Isabel Bethune, James Bethune, Henry Bethune, Andrew Bethune, Grissel Bethune, Janet Bethune, James Beaton, John Beaton, John Beaton

In 1440, John Bethune entered the world in Raith House, Fife, Scotland, born to Johanni IV Beaton and Margaret Stirling. John Bethune married Marjory Boswell, Johanne de la Reyneville, and had children including Archibald Bethune, Robert Bethune, David Bethune, John Bethune, Margaret Bethune, John Van Bethune Laird van Balfour, Elizabeth Bethune, Isabel Bethune, James Bethune, Henry Bethune, Andrew Bethune, Grissel Bethune, Janet Bethune, James Beaton, John Beaton, John Beaton. John Bethune passed away in 1507 in Holkettle, Fifeshire, Scotland.

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Biography

  • In 1440, John Bethune entered the world in Raith House, Fife, Scotland, born to Johanni IV Beaton and Margaret Stirling.
  • John Bethune married Marjory Boswell, Johanne de la Reyneville, and had children including Archibald Bethune, Robert Bethune, David Bethune, John Bethune, Margaret Bethune, John Van Bethune Laird van Balfour, Elizabeth Bethune, Isabel Bethune, James Bethune, Henry Bethune, Andrew Bethune, Grissel Bethune, Janet Bethune, James Beaton, John Beaton, John Beaton.
  • John Bethune passed away in 1507 in Holkettle, Fifeshire, Scotland.

Immediate Family

Parents

Johanni Beaton
1418 – 1499
Birth Location: Fife, Scotland
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Margaret Stirling
1419 –
Birth Location: Lecropt, Perthshire, Scotland
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Spouses(s)

Marjory Boswell
1440 – 1530
Birth Location: Balmuto, Scotland
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Johanne Reyneville
1520 – 1573
Birth Location: Renneville, Ardennes, Champagne-Ardenne, France
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Children(s)

Archibald Bethune
1460 – 1520
Birth Location: Raith, Fife, Scotland
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Robert Bethune
1462 – 1524
Birth Location: Raith, Fife, Scotland
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David Bethune
1465 – 1505
Birth Location: Creich, Fife, Scotland
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John Bethune
1465 – 1532
Birth Location: Raith Park, Fife, Scotland
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Margaret Bethune
1466 –
Birth Location: Raith, Fife, Scotland
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John Balfour
1470 – 1532
Birth Location: –
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Elizabeth Bethune
1471 –
Birth Location: Raith, Fife, Scotland
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Isabel Bethune
1472 –
Birth Location: Raith, Fife, Scotland
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James Bethune
1473 – 1539
Birth Location: Raith, Fife, Scotland
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Henry Bethune
1475 –
Birth Location: Raith, Fife, Scotland
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Andrew Bethune
1479 –
Birth Location: Raith, Fife, Scotland
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Grissel Bethune
1479 –
Birth Location: Raith, Fife, Scotland
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Janet Bethune
1479 – 1537
Birth Location: , , Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom
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James Beaton
1480 – 1522
Birth Location: Kingsbarns, Fife, Scotland
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John Beaton
1485 – 1534
Birth Location: Dalby House, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom
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John Beaton
1499 – 1522
Birth Location: Kingsbarns, Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom
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John Bethune's Ancestors

Self
John Bethune
1440 – 1507
Birth Place: Raith House, Fife, Scotland
Parents
Johanni IV Beaton
1418 – 1499
Fife, Scotland
Margaret Stirling
1419 –
Lecropt, Perthshire, Scotland
Grandparents
Jaques (De) Baethune
1402 – 1475
Normandie, France
Janet (De) Balfour
1399 –
Balfour, Fife, Scotland
William Stirling
1399 – 1471
Keith, Morayshire, Scotland
Great-Grandparents
Jean Bethune
1359 – 1415
Isabeau Estoutville
1375 – 1438
Michael DeBalfour
1360 – 1396
Michelle Balfour
1374 –
Lucas Strivelyn
1370 – 1449
Marjorie Dunbar
1387 – 1429
2nd-Great-Grandparents
jean BETHUNE
1307 – 1378
Jeanna Coucy
1330 – 1363
Robert d'Estouteville
1328 – 1395
Marguerite NEVELLE
1343 – 1406
DeBalfour
John Strivelyn
1320 –
Mary MacDougall
1339 –
George Dunbar
1370 – 1443
Beatrix Hay
1362 – 1421

John Bethune's Descendants

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John Bethune (1440 – 1507) m. Marjory Boswell (1440 – 1530) m. Johanne (de la) Reyneville (Abt 1520 – Aft 1573)
  1. 1. Archibald Bethune (1460 – 1520) m. Janet Duddingston (1467 – 1541)
  2. 2. Robert Bethune (1462 – 1524)
  3. 3. David Bethune (1465 – 1505) m. Janet Duddingston (1467 – 1541)
    1. 1. Elizabeth Bethune (1480 – 1518) m. James (V) Stewart (10 Apr 1512 – 14 Dec 1542)
    2. 2. Elizabeth Bethune (1480 – 1540) m. John Wardlaw (1473 – 20 Apr 1552) m. Wardlaw (Abt 1494 – )
    3. 3. David (John) Bethune (1485 – 29 May 1546) m. Janet Hay (1487 – 1534)
    4. 4. Janet Bethune (1486 – 1522) m. Robert Livingstone (1465 – 9 Sep 1513)
      1. 1. Margaret Livingston (Abt 1500 – 1573) m. James Hamilton (1495 – 16 Aug 1540) m. James Hamilton (1495 – 1540) m. Sir (James) Hamilton
        1. 1. James Hamilton (1520 – Dec 1597) m. Marie Hepburn (Abt 1525 – Jul 1571)
        2. 2. Agnes Hamilton (1522 – 25 May 1596) m. James Somerville (1520 – 24 Apr 1596)
        3. 3. Janet Hamilton (Abt 1523 – )
        4. 4. Margaret Hamilton (1525 – 25 May 1596) m. Mungo (Baron of Cleghorn) Lockhart (1520 – 1585) m. Patrick Whitelaw (Abt 1528 – Bef 1571)
        5. 5. Andrew Hamilton (Abt 1528 – )
        6. 6. Marion Hamilton (1529 – ) m. George Campbell (Abt 1531 – )
        7. 7. Grizel Hamilton (1531 – 4 Jun 1575) m. Andrew Leslie (2 Jun 1534 – 1611)
        8. 8. James Hamilton (1537 – 1609) m. Helen Cunninghame (1523 – 17 Nov 1596) m. Helen Cunninghame (Abt 1525 – 17 Nov 1596)
        9. 9. Alexander Hamilton (1538 – )
        10. 10. Jean Hamilton (1540 – 1580)
      2. 2. Isabel Livingston (1505 – 12 Dec 1552) m. John Ramsay (1464 – 9 Sep 1513) m. Oliver Sinclair (Abt 1500 – Jul 1577)
      3. 3. Elizabeth Livingston (1510 – Deceased)
    5. 5. Mary Bethune (1486 – 1522)
    6. 6. Jevan (David) Betoun (1486 – Deceased) m. Jevan (David) Betoun (1491 – )
    7. 7. Peter Bethune (1487 – 1506) m. Mary MacDonald (1491 – )
    8. 8. Matilda Beaton (1489 – )
    9. 9. Angus Beaton (1491 – 1511) m. Isabel MacDonald (Abt 1490 – 1540)
    10. 10. Jean Bethune (1493 – 1540) m. Robert Clerk (1480 – 1540)
    11. 11. Grizel Bethune (1493 – 1541) m. John Lyle (Abt 1490 – 1551)
    12. 12. Margaret Bethune (1494 – 1579) m. Angus Cameron (1495 – 14 Feb 1569)
    13. 13. James Bethune (1502 – 1506)
    14. 14. Grizel Bethune (1521 – 18 Aug 1579) m. John Lyle (Abt 1490 – 1551) m. William Scott (7 Jan 1517 – 19 May 1552) m. Andrew (John) Murray (1 Sep 1510 – 1 Sep 1572) m. William Scott (1440 – 1520) m. William Scott (1523 – 19 May 1552)
    15. 15. Janet BEATON m. James Boyd (1469 – Jan 1484)
  4. 4. John Bethune (1465 – Nov 1532) m. Elizabeth Moneypenny (1465 – 1541)
    1. 1. John Bethune (1491 – 29 May 1546) m. Christian Stewart (Abt 1503 – 20 Aug 1580)
    2. 2. James (Bethune) (Beaton) (1492 – 1586) m. Helen Melville
    3. 3. David Beaton (Abt 1494 – 29 May 1546) m. Marion Ogilvy (Abt 1495 – 16 Nov 1573)
      1. 1. Archibald Bethune (1524 – ) m. Bethune (1540 – )
      2. 2. Margaret Bethune (Abt 1525 – 4 Feb 1577) m. David Lindsay (Abt 1527 – )
      3. 3. Elisabeth Beaton (Abt 1529 – 1574) m. Alexander Lindsay
      4. 4. Alexander Bethune (Abt 1532 – Bef Oct 1605) m. Margaret Allardyce (Abt 1560 – Bef Aug 1610)
      5. 5. George Beaton (Abt 1532 – )
      6. 6. David Beaton (Abt 1534 – )
      7. 7. John Beaton (Abt 1539 – )
      8. 8. Mary Bethune (Abt 1540 – ) m. Alexander Gordon (Abt 1540 – 1580) m. Patrick Gordon (Abt 1538 – 3 Oct 1594)
        1. 1. Archibald Gordon (Abt 1556 – 1616) m. Kattrin Cheyne (1580 – )
        2. 2. Catherine Gordon (Abt 1567 – 19 Aug 1633)
        3. 3. Margaret Gordon (1571 – )
        4. 4. Elizabeth Gordon (1575 – ) m. George Home (1556 – 30 Jan 1611)
        5. 5. Alexander Gordon (Abt 1575 – )
        6. 6. Mary Gordon (1576 – ) m. Guthrie (1548 – )
        7. 7. Agnes Gordon (Abt 1578 – )
      9. 9. Alexander Beaton (1550 – )
      10. 10. James Beaton m. Margaret Lindsay
    4. 4. Beatrix Beaton (1496 – )
    5. 5. Janet Beaton (1502 – )
    6. 6. Katherine Bethune (1504 – ) m. William Graham (Abt 1505 – 1600)
    7. 7. Margaret Bethume (1508 – ) m. John Graham. (1495 – Apr 1548)
  5. 5. Margaret Bethune (1 Jan 1466 – ) m. Andrew Sibbald
  6. 6. John (Van Bethune Laird van) Balfour (1470 – 1532)
  7. 7. Elizabeth Bethune (1471 – ) m. Alexander Kid (Abt 1473 – Deceased)
  8. 8. Isabel Bethune (1472 – ) m. John Ferret
  9. 9. James Bethune (1473 – 1539) m. Helen Melville (1471 – )
  10. 10. Henry Bethune (1475 – )
  11. 11. Andrew Bethune (1479 – )
  12. 12. Grissel Bethune (1479 – ) m. James Hay
  13. 13. Janet Bethune (1 Jan 1479 – 1537) m. John Durie (1479 – 1538)
  14. 14. James Beaton (1480 – 1522)
  15. 15. John Beaton (1485 – 1534)
  16. 16. John Beaton (1499 – 1522)

John Bethune's Timeline

2 Records

1440
1440
Birth of John Bethune in Raith House, Fife, Scotland
Raith House, Fife, Scotland
1507
1507
Age 67
Death of John Bethune in Holkettle, Fifeshire, Scotland
Holkettle, Fifeshire, Scotland

Sources

    Genealogy Event 1
    Event Type: Birth
    Event Date: 1440
    Event Place: Raith House, Fife, Scotland

    Genealogy Event 2
    Event Type: Death
    Event Date: 1507
    Event Place: Holkettle, Fifeshire, Scotland
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