Marie (Dundas) Lockhart (abt. 1660)

Born about 1660 in Scotland

Wife of William Lockhart — married about 1679 in Scotland

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Biography

Parentage

Father: Walter Dundas 20th of Dundas

Son of: George Dundas and: Elizabeth Hamilton born: died: 1689

Colonel Walter Dundas was the Governor of Edinburgh Castle and responsible for defending the castle and Edinburgh against Cromwell. Suggestions have been made that Walter Dundas did not use all the means in his power to hold the stronghold. In 1651, a Parliamentary process in the form of a summons for treason was instituted against him, the offence being that he had delivered the castle to the enemy. The trial however ended in an aquittal, though there was a repercussion so late as 1661, when one of the charges against Dundas of Magdalens was that certain letters he had sent to Walter Dundas, the Governor, caused the capitulation of Edinburgh Castle

Mother: x 1639 1639 Lady Christian Leslie, died 1689, daughter of Alexander Leslie, 1st Earl of Leven, who was one of the leaders of the Covenanters in the 1st war of the Bishop's. In an attempt to win Leslie's allegiance, King Charles created him Earl of Leven and Lord Balgonie and also Captain of Edinburgh Castle in October 1641. He oversaw the disbanding of the Covenant army in 1641 and then led a Covenanting expeditionary force against the Irish Catholic rebels in 1642 until 1644. The Scottish Parliament then appointed him to lead a Covenanting army into England in support of Parliament under the Solemn League and Covenant (1643) of which he was by now a supporter. The execution of Charles the 1st in 1649 was considered too extreme by many Scots including the Earl of Leven and he was one of many of the Scots who then changed their allegiance to Charles the 2nd against Cromwell.

Siblings

1st Earl of Leven the following children were born of this union:

• Alexander Dundas. Shown in the Glasgow University matriculations in 1660. Died 1664 in Edinburgh (Diary of Mr. John Lamont of Newton)
• Ralph Dundas
• Walter Dundas christened 3/4/1644, married 30/7/1685 at Dalmeny Jean Houston daughter of Sir Patrick Houston, 1st Baronet of Houston
• Agnes or Ann Dundas married 4/9/1690 Sir John Foulis and had one daughter (died 1693) and died 1696.
• Mary Dundas married Sir William Lockhart
• Barbara Dundas married Alexander, Lord Raith and died 23/2/1719 ^[1]

Marriage

Married about 1679, Marie DUNDAS. [Dora H. Eliott Lockhart’s 1800’s notebook, courtesy of Stephen Eliott Lockhart, 2001]

Known Children with Sir William Lockhart

• Children of Sir William Lockhart (b. 11 Sep 1655) and Marie Dundas:

• Christian Lockhart (b. 1680), m. Rev. Presitoune. [Dora Eliott-Lockhart’s Notebook]

• Anne Lockhart (b. 1681), m. James Weems, of Bogie, Scotland. [Dora E-L’s Notebook]

Sources

1. ↑ Catherine Elliott nee Dundas - Dunbar, John Dundas 14th of Dundas http://dundasfamily.co.uk/dundas%20of%20dundas.htm © www.dundasfamily.co.uk Accessed 25 June 2015. NOTE: Sources not listed

• Bill Mundell, longtine Lockhart researcher of Scotland, http://www.ourfamtree.org/browse.cfm?pid=34320, see the notes section. Also various emails sent to Nae X 2013-2014.