Nichole Ker (abt. 1468 - bef. 1528)

Born about 1468 in Samuelton, Haddingtonshire, Scotland

Ancestors

Wife of Alexander (Ramsey Dalhousie) Ramsey of Dalhousie — married 1508 (to 1513) in Scotland

Descendants

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Biography

• Nichole Ker is the daughter of Sir George Ker of Samuelstown. She married, firstly, Alexander Home, 2nd Lord Home, son of Alexander Home, Master of Home and Agnes Hepburn, before 22 March 1492/93.

• She married, secondly, Sir Alexander Ramsay of Dalhousie, son of Alexander Ramsay of Dalhousie and Lady Elizabeth Douglas, circa 1508. She and Sir Alexander Ramsay of Dalhousie were divorced.

• She was also known as Nicola.From before 22 March 1492/93, her married name became Home. From circa 1508, her married name became Ramsay.

Children of Nichole Ker and Sir Alexander Ramsay of Dalhousie

• Nicolas Ramsay of Dalhousie, Carnock, Foulden and Kerington b 9 May 1555
• George Ramsay3

Children of Nichole Ker and Alexander Home, 2nd Lord Home

• Mariot Home
• George Home, 4th Lord Home d. c 15 Apr 1549
• Alexander Home, 3rd Lord Home d. 8 Oct 1516
• David Home
• William Home d. 8 Oct 1516
• Andrew Home
• Nicholas Home
• John Home b. a 1470
• Elizabeth Home b. c 1477, d. 1544

Sources

• http://www.thepeerage.com/p10939.htm#i109381

• This person was created through the import of Jim Walker gedcom 4 Wikitree may 22 2011.ged on 24 May 2011.

Acknowledgments

• Thanks to John Hunter for starting this profile.

Citations

• G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume I, page 221. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.
• Peter W. Hammond, editor, The Complete Peerage or a History of the House of Lords and All its Members From the Earliest Times, Volume XIV: Addenda & Corrigenda (Stroud, Gloucestershire, U.K.: Sutton Publishing, 1998), page 218. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage, Volume XIV.
• BP2003 volume 1, page 1019. See link for full details for this source. Hereinafter cited as. [S37]
• BP2003. [S37]
• Sir James Balfour Paul, The Scots Peerage: founded on Wood's edition of Sir Robert Douglas's The Peerage of Scotland (Edinburgh, Scotland: David Douglas, 1904), volume II, page 154. Hereinafter cited as The Scots Peerage.