Sir William Scott married Jean Skene, daughter of Sir John Skene of Curriehill and Helen Somerville.[1] They had issue:
Eupheme Scott
Helen Scott
Janet Scott
Jean Skene was the third wife of William Scott of Eley (Elie), this William, son of a wealthy maltman at the Westport of Edinburgh (who's widow married Robert Scot , director of the Chancery) married first[2]:
Elizabeth Hamilton daughter of Hamilton of Priestfield issue one son John Scott a Latin poet and professor at Rochelle where he died of the plague.[2]
Isobel Durie daughter of Durie of Durie begore October 1591and issue one son William Scott who died April 1613[2]
Jean Skene whose name occurs in the record of the Great Seal between August 1595 and December 1602 issue ?[2]
↑Cokayne, George Edward, "The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom", London: St. Catherine Press, 1916, Ed. 2 Vol IV, Archive.org,
p. 526
↑ 2.02.12.22.3 S
ource: Collections upon the lives of the reformers and most eminent ministers of the Church of Scotland, by William James Duncan 1845
Volume 2;Volume 32
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Scott-17669 and Scott-17649 appear to represent the same person because: First or all the 1680 date is 100 years wrong, same name, same spouse, same children, in 1590's, same location, should be same time frame.