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Robert Livingstone Laird van Easter Wemyss 1475–1516 – Genealogical Records

Birth Date: 1475

Birth Location: Wemyss, Fife, Scotland

Death Date: 1516

Death Location: Wemyss, Fife, Scotland

Father: Robert Wemyss

Mother: Mary McRae

Spouse(s): Jeanette\Janet Beaton

Children(s): Janet Drumlanrig, Margaretha Livingstone, Isabel Livingston, Isabel Livingston, Margaret Drumry, Lady Hamilton

Robert Livingstone Laird van Easter Wemyss was born in 1475 in Wemyss, Fife, Scotland, the child of Robert Gilbert Livingstone Laird Van Easter Wemyss And Mary S Mcrae. Robert Livingstone Laird van Easter Wemyss married Jeanette Janet Van Bethune Or Beaton, and had children including Isabel Lady Of Kincardineshire Scotland Livingston, Isabel Livingston, Janet Douglas Of Drumlanrig, Lady Janet Home Hamilton, Margaret Livingston Of Drumry, Margaretha Livingstone. Robert Livingstone Laird van Easter Wemyss passed away in 1516 in Wemyss, Fife, Scotland.

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Biography

  • Robert Livingstone Laird van Easter Wemyss was born in 1475 in Wemyss, Fife, Scotland, the child of Robert Gilbert Livingstone Laird Van Easter Wemyss And Mary S Mcrae.
  • Robert Livingstone Laird van Easter Wemyss married Jeanette Janet Van Bethune Or Beaton, and had children including Isabel Lady Of Kincardineshire Scotland Livingston, Isabel Livingston, Janet Douglas Of Drumlanrig, Lady Janet Home Hamilton, Margaret Livingston Of Drumry, Margaretha Livingstone.
  • Robert Livingstone Laird van Easter Wemyss passed away in 1516 in Wemyss, Fife, Scotland.

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Robert Wemyss's Ancestors

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Robert Wemyss
1475–1516
Birth Place: Wemyss, Fife, Scotland
Parents
Robert Gilbert Livingstone Laird van Easter Wemyss
1440–1494
Dumbarton, Dunbartonshire, Scotland
Mary (S) McRae
1434–1494
Wemyss, Fife, Scotland
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Robert Wemyss's Descendants

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Robert (Livingstone Laird van Easter) Wemyss (1475–1516) m. Jeanette\Janet (van Bethune or) Beaton (1482–1522)
  1. 1. Janet (Douglas of) Drumlanrig 1502–1551
    1. 1. Sir (John Maxwell 4th Baron Herries Masters of Sandwich and Maxwell Merchant and Brewer, Mayor of Sandwich, Member of Parliament, Auditor, Treasurer, Jurat Bailiff to) Yarmouth 1512–1583 m. Lady (Agnes Herries Baroness Herries royal) blood 1530–1594
      1. 1. Margaret Maxwell 1558–1617 m. Mark (Kerr Earl van Lothian) * 1558–1609
        1. 1. Anne Douglas 1574–1648 m. William (First Earl) Douglas 1584–1648
        2. 2. Robert (Kerr, 2nd Earl of) Lothian 1583–1624
  2. 2. Margaretha Livingstone 1510–
  3. 3. Isabel Livingston 1505–1575
  4. 4. Isabel (Lady of Kincardineshire, Scotland) Livingston 1505–1552
  5. 5. Margaret (Livingston of) Drumry 1500–1573
  6. 6. Lady (Janet Home) Hamilton 1496–1573

Robert Wemyss's Timeline

2 Records

1475
1475
Birth of Robert Livingstone Laird van Easter Wemyss in Wemyss, Fife, Scotland
Wemyss, Fife, Scotland
1516
1516
Age 41
Death of Robert Livingstone Laird van Easter Wemyss in Wemyss, Fife, Scotland
Wemyss, Fife, Scotland

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    Genealogy Event 1
    Event Type: Birth
    Event Date: 1475
    Event Place: Wemyss, Fife, Scotland

    Genealogy Event 2
    Event Type: Death
    Event Date: 1516
    Event Place: Wemyss, Fife, Scotland

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