Andrew Haig (1518 - 1583)

Born 8 Jan 1518 in Bemersyde, Berwick, Scotland

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Died 3 Aug 1583 at age 65 in Bemersyde, Berwick, Scotland

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Biography

Andrew was born in 1518. He passed away in 1583.

He was the son of Robert Haig and Barbara Spottiswood. Andrew married three times, the first being in 1543. Married Susan Renton, Janet Nisbet, Elizabeth McDougal.

Andrew was known for the restoration of Bemersyde Towering Roxbugshire, Scotland after its destruction by the earl of Hartford in 1545.

Research notes

No proof as to who he married and there was more than one place called Nisbet so Nisbet of Nisbet is not necessarily Nisbet of that Ilk

Mylne states that Andrew Haig married—^[1]

• (i) Janet, daughter to Nisbet of Nisbet ;
• (2) Susana, daughter to Home of Renton ; and
• (3) Marion, daughter to Cockburn of Langton.

The two last are certainly inaccurate. In Carr's History of Coldingham Priory (p. 147), it is stated that in 1543, Andrew Haig of Bemersyde married Susan, daughter of David Renton of Billie, Berwickshire, a descendant of the ancient foresters of Coldingham. From the date here given, this was most probably Haig's first marriage, not his second, as Mylne has it.

He had two children, Robert Haig, Andrew Haig

Douglas also differs from Mylne in giving as the name of the third wife, Elizabeth, daughter of M'Dougall of Makerstoun, and in this Douglas is no doubt accurate (see ante, p. 112).

Susan Renton daughter of David Renton of Billie.

Janet Nisbet daughter of Nisbet of Nisbet

Elizabeth M'Dougall daughter go William M’Dougall of

The Haig’s of Bemersyde pp111-112 states his third wife, Elizabeth M’Dougall is undoubted from the circumstances that her initials and family arms appear along with his on a stone which still exists at Bemersyde. The stone which is now built into an archway adjoining the house bears the initials AH and EM with the arms of the Haigs and the M’Dougalls.

Property

Bemersyde, Berwickshire, Scotland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bemersyde_House

Sources

1. ↑ The Haigs of Bemersyde, a family history page 438

See also:

• http://www.thepeerage.com/p30530.htm#i305293
• http://www.thehennesseefamily.com/register.php?personID=I44889&tree=hennessee&generations=
• Burke's Landed Gentry (1894), Vol. I, Sir Bernard Burke, Ulter King of Arms, (London, England: Harrison and Sons, 1894), http://books.google.com/books?id=93M-AQAAIAAJ., Haig of Blairhill, page 853
• https://www.electricscotland.com/webclans/htol/haig4.html
• Bemersyde Castle http://www.stravaiging.com/history/castle/bemersyde-castle
• Annals and Antiquities of Dryburgh and Other Places in the Tweed https://books.google.co.nz/books?id=o-TOkBIR7qEC&pg=PA98&lpg=PA98&dq=15th+baron+of+Bemersyde&source=bl&ots=7RBm93x9zT&sig=Kt82kPoa-ifjjNIN-m_H6UinGT4&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj9yZDE9OTfAhVabn0KHbDrAgMQ6AEwEnoECAYQAQ#v=onepage&q=15th%20baron%20of%20Bemersyde&f=false
• Hogg’s amd More http://ncdevilgrl.wixsite.com/hogg/de-la-hage
• The Peerage http://thepeerage.com/p30530.htm#i30529
• BP2003 volume 2, page 1718 Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003.