Elizabeth (Hepburn) Ramsay (1519 - 1571)

Born 1519 in Whitsome, Midlothian, Scotland

Ancestors

Wife of George (Ramsay) Ramsay of Dalhousie — married 8 May 1536 in Midlothian, Scotland

Descendants

Died Dec 1571 at about age 52 in Cockpen, Midlothian, Scotland

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Biography

Elizabeth Hepburn was the daughter of the Laird of Waughton.^[1]

She married George Ramsay of Dalhousie on or before 8 May 1536.^[2]

George and Elizabeth had ten children:^[1]

1. John Ramsay who succeeded him
2. James Ramsay (died Nov 1580)
3. Alexander Ramsay
4. William Ramsay
5. Margaret Ramsay m Sir John Cranstoun of Cranstoun
6. Agnes Ramsay m Andrew Riddell of Riddell
7. Elizabeth Ramsay m Patrick Broun of Colstoun
8. Helen Ramsay died before 1598
9. Marion Ramsay m James Weir, then William Bannatyne
10. Jean Ramsay m John Kincaid of Warriston

Elizabeth died in December 1571 and her estate was confirmed over five years later on 25 May 1576 in Edinburgh Commissary Court.^[1][3]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} The Scots Peerage; Balfour Paul; Vol 3; pages 94-96
2. ↑ National Records of Scotland; Papers of the Maule Family, Earls of Dalhousie; Instrument of resignation by George Ramsay, as fiar, and Nicholas Ramsay, his father, as liferenter, in the hands of the King, of the lands of Est Manis of Dalhousse, Dalhousse Schelis and two husbandlands, all in the barony thereof, in favour of the said George, Elizabeth Hepburn, his spouse, and heirs of taillie; 8 May 1536; GD45/16/308
3. ↑ National Records of Scotland; Index of Wills and Testaments; HEPBURNE, ELIZABETH; 25 / 5 / 1576; SOMETIME SPOUSE TO GEORGE RAMSAY OF DALHOUSSY; TESTAMENT DATIVE AND INVENTORY; EDINBURGH COMMISSARY COURT; CC8/8/4; from www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk

See also:

• http://www.thepeerage.com/p24003.htm#i240023 citing Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003.
• http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=ukprobate&h=744484&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt

Acknowledgments

• Alexander Sives, Friday, December 27, 2013.