Barbara (Stewart) Menzies
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Barbara (Stewart) Menzies (1525 - 1586)

Lady Barbara Menzies formerly Stewart
Born in Castle Atholl, Perthshire, Scotlandmap
Ancestors ancestors
Wife of — married 20 May 1536 in Scotlandmap
Descendants descendants
Died at about age 61 in Perthshire, Scotlandmap
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Biography

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Barbara (Stewart) Menzies is a member of Clan Menzies.
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Barbara (Stewart) Menzies was born in Scotland.

The Honourable Barbara Stewart was born in 1525.[1][2][3][4] She was the daughter of John Stewart and Grizel Rattray.

A Contract of Marriage was entered into in 1540 for Chief Robert 'Sir James' Menzies to marry the Honourable Barbara Stewart. This Contract of Marriage was still within the Charter Room at Castle Menzies in 1894.

Dowager Lady Barbara (Stewart) Menzies died on 26 May 1586 and was buried in the Auld Kirk O'Weem, Weem, Perthshire, Scotland, where there is an inscription on the back of the Menzies Monument to her memory in latin.[5]

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Sources

  1. Stewart. The Honourable Barbara. Birth. Nisbet, P. 244, vol ii.
  2. Stewart. The Honourable Barbara. The 'Red and White' Book of Menzies, page 191.[1].
  3. Stewart. The Honourable Barbara. The 'Red and White' Book of Menzies, page 235.[2].
  4. Stewart. The Honourable Barbara. [3]
  5. A. H. Millar. Notes on a Mural Monument in the Auld Kirk O' Weem. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 19 (1884-1885): 147-155 at 150.




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