James Maxwell (abt. 1550 - 1622)

Born about 1550 in Calderwood, Renfrewshire, Scotland

Ancestors

Husband of Helen (Porterfield) Maxwell — married before 1572 in Renfrewshire, Scotland

Husband of Margaret (Cunningham) Maxwell — married 6 Sep 1610 in Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland

Died 1622 at about age 72 in Calderwood, Renfrewshire, Scotland

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Biography

James Maxwell is a member of Clan Maxwell.

Sir James Maxwell of Calderwood was the son of John Maxwell and Elizabeth Hamilton.

He passed away in 1622.^[1]

Family

He married Helen Porterfield, daughter of John Porterfield of Porterfield.^[2] They had two daughters. Given names are not known.^[1]

1. first daughter
2. second daughter

He married his second wife Isabel Hamilton on 12 Feb 1579. They had three son and six daughters.^[1] Their children included:

1. Sir James Maxwell, 1st Baronet of Calderwood, d. Abt 1670
2. Sir Alexander Maxwell, of Saughton
3. Nichola Maxwell, d. Jan 1643
4. Agnes Maxwell

He married his third wife Margaret Cunningham, daughter of the James, 6th Earl of Glencairn, on 6 Sep 1610. She died about 1622. They had two sons and four daughters.^[1] They included:

1. Col. John Maxwell, d. 1650, Dunbar, England
2. Catherine Maxwell

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} Bernard Burke, Ashworth P Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage, 76th edition (London: Harrison and Sons, 1914), p. 761, digital images, https://books.google.com/books?id=RVggAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA761 (http://books.google.com : accessed 31 August 5 2016).
2. ↑ Frank Burke Porterfield, The Porterfields (Roanoke, Virginia: Multiprint Inc, 1947), p. 8, digital images, http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=1227. Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 5 August 2016).

See also:

• Sir James Maxwell, of Calderwood d. 1622: MacFarlane Clan & Families Genealogy, http://www.clanmacfarlanegenealogy.info/genealogy/TNGWebsite/getperson.php?personID=I3611&tree=CC