Margaret (FitzWilliam) Robertson (abt. 1540 - aft. 1571)

Ancestors

Wife of Brian Robertson — married 20 Jan 1563 in Boston, Lincolnshire, England

Descendants

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Biography

Margaret Fitzwilliam was the daughter of Richard Fitzwilliam Esq (younger brother of William Fitzwilliam of Gains Park and Milton, ancestor of the Earls Fitzwilliam) and his wife Elizabeth Knyvet, who both had Magna Carta ancestry.

She married Brian Robertson, gent, on 20 Jan 1563 (ambiguous date) at Boston, Lincs.

They had 2 sons (John, and Thomas) and 1 daughter (Anne, wife of Charles Touteville).

Margaret was living in 1571.

Sources

• Marlyn Lewis. (Citing Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. II, and Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. II)
• Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study In Colonial And Medieval Families, 2nd Edition, 2011, pg 113 [1]
• Foster, Joseph. Yorkshire Visitations (1875), p. 510, "Estoutevile, of Hunmanby", citing Sir Richard St George, 1612 (Harl. MS 1487). (Calls her father "of Sprotborough", which he was not.)

Acknowledgements

Magna Carta Project

Margaret (FitzWilliam) Robertson appears in Magna Carta Ancestry in a Richardson-documented trail from Gateway Ancestor Margaret Toutville to Magna Carta Surety Baron Robert FitzWalter (vol. I, pages 215-224 FITZ WILLIAM) that has not yet been developed by the Magna Carta project. The trail is outlined in the Magna Carta Trails section of Anne Robertson's profile.

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