Margaret (Home) Keith (bef. 1565 - 1598)

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Died May 1598 after age 32 in Donnottar, Aberdeenshire, Scotland

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Margaret Home was a member of the aristocracy in British Isles.

Biography

Margaret Home was the daughter of Alexander Home and his first wife, Margaret Ker, da. of Sir Walter Ker. She 4 Feb 1582/3 George Keith, 5th Earl Marischal.

From Find a Grave : She was the daughter of Alexander HOME, 5th Lord of Home and Margaret KERR. Wife of George KEITH, 4th Earl Marischal Mother of: William Keith, 5th Earl Marischal; Anne Keith; Margaret Keith; Lady Mary Campbell (Keith); John Keith; Alexander Keith; Robert Keith and Jean Keith; And, a half sister of Alexander Home, 1st Earl of Home and Isabel Home. Burial info: believed by her husband at his burial here: St. Bridgets Church of Dunnottar, Kincardineshire, Scotland; located near/at Dunnottar Castle, Stonehaven, Scotland, Chapel Ruins .... west of the town of Stonehaven in Kincardineshire.

Margaret Home, born before 5 December 1565, was the daughter of Alexander Home, 5th Lord Home and Margaret Ker. A contract for her marriage to George Keith, 4th Earl Marischal was signed on 4 February 1580/81. She died in May 1598. Home/Keith children: 1.Lady Anne Keith+ d. 30 May 1648 2.William Keith, 5th Earl Marischal+3 b. c 1585, d. 28 Oct 1635 Citations 1.[S37] Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), volume 2, page 1949 (Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 107th edition). 2.[S6] 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 VIII, page 480 The Complete Peerage. 3.[S37] Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 107th edition, volume 2, page 2195.(geni dot com info)

Sources

• 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 VIII, page 480

• The Complete Peerage. 3.[S37] Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 107th edition, volume 2, page 2195

• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/185089709/margaret-keith

• https://archive.org/stream/scotspeeragefoun04paul#page/462/mode/2up

Acknowledgments

• Thank you to Sir William Arbuthnot for creating Home-100 on 26 Aug 13.