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Lady Janet Beaton Bethune, Lady of Creich & Hamilton, Baroness of Torrance, 5th Baroness of Hamilton, 6th Baroness of Raploch, 4th Countess of Arran, Countess of Abercrom, 1st Countess of Beaton, Duchess of Beaton 1500–1529 – Genealogical Records

Birth Date: 1500

Birth Location: Balfour, Fifeshire, Scotland, United Kingdom

Death Date: 21 July 1529

Death Location: Bo'ness, West Lothian, Lothian, Scotland, United Kingdom

Father: Sir Bethune

Mother: Janet Duddingston

Spouse(s): Sir Chatellerault, Robert Wemyss

Children(s): Lady Campbell

The story of Lady Janet Beaton Bethune, Lady of Creich & Hamilton, Baroness of Torrance, 5th Baroness of Hamilton, 6th Baroness of Raploch, 4th Countess of Arran, Countess of Abercrom, 1st Countess of Beaton, Duchess of Beaton began in 1500 in Balfour, Fifeshire, Scotland, United Kingdom. Lady Janet Beaton Bethune, Lady of Creich & Hamilton, Baroness of Torrance, 5th Baroness of Hamilton, 6th Baroness of Raploch, 4th Countess of Arran, Countess of Abercrom, 1st Countess of Beaton, Duchess of Beaton married Robert Livingstone Laird Van Easter Wemyss, Sir Earl James Ii Hamilton Van Arran 1St Earl Of Arran 2Nd Lord Of Hamilton Duke Of Chatellerault, and had children including Lady Helen Hamilton Countess Argyll Campbell. Lady Janet Beaton Bethune, Lady of Creich & Hamilton, Baroness of Torrance, 5th Baroness of Hamilton, 6th Baroness of Raploch, 4th Countess of Arran, Countess of Abercrom, 1st Countess of Beaton, Duchess of Beaton passed away in 1529 in Bo'ness, West Lothian, Lothian, Scotland, United Kingdom.

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  • The story of Lady Janet Beaton Bethune, Lady of Creich & Hamilton, Baroness of Torrance, 5th Baroness of Hamilton, 6th Baroness of Raploch, 4th Countess of Arran, Countess of Abercrom, 1st Countess of Beaton, Duchess of Beaton began in 1500 in Balfour, Fifeshire, Scotland, United Kingdom.
  • Lady Janet Beaton Bethune, Lady of Creich & Hamilton, Baroness of Torrance, 5th Baroness of Hamilton, 6th Baroness of Raploch, 4th Countess of Arran, Countess of Abercrom, 1st Countess of Beaton, Duchess of Beaton married Robert Livingstone Laird Van Easter Wemyss, Sir Earl James Ii Hamilton Van Arran 1St Earl Of Arran 2Nd Lord Of Hamilton Duke Of Chatellerault, and had children including Lady Helen Hamilton Countess Argyll Campbell.
  • Lady Janet Beaton Bethune, Lady of Creich & Hamilton, Baroness of Torrance, 5th Baroness of Hamilton, 6th Baroness of Raploch, 4th Countess of Arran, Countess of Abercrom, 1st Countess of Beaton, Duchess of Beaton passed away in 1529 in Bo'ness, West Lothian, Lothian, Scotland, United Kingdom.

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Lady Beaton's Ancestors

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Lady Beaton
1500–1529
Birth Place: Balfour, Fifeshire, Scotland, United Kingdom
Parents
Sir David 1st of Creich Bethune
1490–
Janet Duddingston
1502–1541
Grandparents
Stephen (Duddingston, 1st Lord of) Sandfurd
1473–1504
of Sandford, Fife, Scotland
Janet Stewart
1475–
Blairhall, Fife, Scotland
Great-Grandparents
2nd-Great-Grandparents

Lady Beaton's Descendants

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Lady (Janet Beaton Bethune, Lady of Creich & Hamilton, Baroness of Torrance, 5th Baroness of Hamilton, 6th Baroness of Raploch, 4th Countess of Arran, Countess of Abercrom, 1st Countess of Beaton, Duchess of) Beaton (1500–21 July 1529) m. Sir (Earl James II Hamilton-van Arran, 1st Earl of Arran, 2nd Lord of Hamilton, Duke of) Chatellerault (1 June 1500–26 March 1529) m. Robert (Livingstone Laird van Easter) Wemyss (1475–9 September 1513)
  1. 1. Lady (Helen Hamilton, Countess Argyll,) Campbell 1515–1590
    1. 1. Lady (Janet of Argyll (MacLean) Campbell of) Duart 1540–1577 m. Eachuinn (or Eachann "Hector" Roy Oig, 9th Laird of Duart, 13th Clan Chief) Maclean 1530–1575
      1. 1. 10**Sir (Lachlan More Maclean *of Dowart 14th Clan) Chief 1558–1598 m. Lady (Margaretha Margaret Cunningham MacLean of Glencairn) (Sutherland-Mull) 1565–1598 m. Margaretha Cunningham 1565–1604
        1. 1. Sir (Lachlan Mor "The Great", 10th of Duart, 14th Clan Chief,) MacLean 1578–1623 m. Lady (Margaretha of Glencairn) Cunyngham\Cuningham\Cunninghame 1576–1660 m. Janet (of Kintail Mackenzie * of Colin Cam 'One Eyed' MacKenzie, 11th of Kintail and Barbara Grant; 1st wife of Hector Og MacLean, 15th MacLean Clan) Chief 1576–1630

Lady Beaton's Timeline

2 Records

1500
1500
Birth of Lady Janet Beaton Bethune, Lady of Creich & Hamilton, Baroness of Torrance, 5th Baroness of Hamilton, 6th Baroness of Raploch, 4th Countess of Arran, Countess of Abercrom, 1st Countess of Beaton, Duchess of Beaton in Balfour, Fifeshire, Scotland, United Kingdom
Balfour, Fifeshire, Scotland, United Kingdom
1529
21 July 1529
Age 29
Death of Lady Janet Beaton Bethune, Lady of Creich & Hamilton, Baroness of Torrance, 5th Baroness of Hamilton, 6th Baroness of Raploch, 4th Countess of Arran, Countess of Abercrom, 1st Countess of Beaton, Duchess of Beaton in Bo'ness, West Lothian, Lothian, Scotland, United Kingdom
Bo'ness, West Lothian, Lothian, Scotland, United Kingdom

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    Genealogy Event 1
    Event Type: Birth
    Event Date: 1500
    Event Place: Balfour, Fifeshire, Scotland, United Kingdom

    Genealogy Event 2
    Event Type: Marriage
    Event Place: Kinross-shire, Scotland

    Genealogy Event 3
    Event Type: Death
    Event Date: 21 July 1529
    Event Place: Bo'ness, West Lothian, Lothian, Scotland, United Kingdom

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