Janet
Fleming
Born about in Boghall castle, Biggar, Lanarkshire, Scotland
Ancestors 
Sister of
William Fleming, John Fleming [half], Johanna (Fleming) Crawford, James (Fleming) Fleming Fourth Lord Fleming, Elizabeth Fleming, Margaret (Fleming) Fleming Countess of Atholl, John (Fleming) Fleming Fifth Lord Fleming, Agnes (Fleming) Fleming Lady Livingston, Mary (Fleming) Meldrum and Henri (de Valois) Valois [half]
Wife of
Richard Brown
— married
before 23 Sep 1536 [location unknown]
Descendants 
Mother of
Christian (Brown) Stewart
Died [date unknown]
in Scotland
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Biography
Janet Fleming was born a daughter to Malcolm Fleming, 3rd Lord Fleming. [1]
Although Balfour Paul suggests she was legitimate it is highly improbable. She is known to have married Richard Brown, son and heir-apparent of Andrew Brown of Hartree, an estate in Peebleshire and likely a subordinate laird to Lord Fleming. He had a precept of sasine from his father-in-law, Lord Fleming, of the 5 pound lands of East Hartree on 23 September 1536. Thus they were married before of in September 1536. While it could reasonably be assumed she was young it must also be assumed she is older than 10, her father marrying in 1525. It seems more reasonable that she was born c. 1520 and thus illegitimate. William Hunter, family historian, also notes that Lord Fleming had two sons and five daughters by his wife Janet Stewart, and also several illegitimate children, this Janet must have been one of those.[2]
References
Sources
- Source S-1 Balfour Paul. The Scots peerage : founded on Wood's ed. of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland; containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that kingdom. Vol. 8. Edinburgh: Douglas, 1904. archive.org
- Source S-2 William Hunter. Biggar and the House of Fleming: an account of the Biggar district, archaeological, historical, and biographical. Edinburgh: Paterson, 1867. archive.org
Acknowledgements
- WikiTree profile Fleming-776 created through the import of MOORMAN FAMILY.GED on May 31, 2011 by Mary Elizabeth Stewart.
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Kay (Johnson) Wilson
Jennifer Bowen
here's something I did find on them I'm also related to this same family. hope it may help out http://www.stravaiging.com/history/castle/hartree-tower/
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Kay (Johnson) Wilson
It is highly unlikely that the children attached to this Janet Fleming are her children. William, Mary Ann, and Samuel were all born more than a century after her 1520 birth date.
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Rejected matches › Janet (Fleming) Livingston (abt.1650-abt.1718)
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