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James Edmonstone

James Edmonstone

Male - Bef 1493    Has more than 100 ancestors and more than 100 descendants in this family tree.

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  • Name James Edmonstone 
    Gender Male 
    Death Bef 1493 
    Person ID I286982  Geneagraphie
    Last Modified 5 Mar 2010 

    Father David Edmonstone   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Mother Agnes Maitland   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Family ID F135523  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Isabel Forrester   d. Aft 4 Feb 1457 
    Children 
    +1. John Edmonstone   d. Yes, date unknown
    Family ID F130941  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 5 Mar 2010 

    Family 2 Janet Napier,   b. Abt 1435, Merchiston, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 1482 (Age 48 years) 
    Marriage Abt Jan 1457 
    Children 
     1. Elizabeth Edmonstone   d. Yes, date unknown
    +2. Margaret Edmonstone,   b. Abt 1466   d. Yes, date unknown
    Family ID F135502  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 21 May 2008 

  • Notes 
    • of That Ilk

      In 1430 James Edmonstone, while still a boy, was amongst the sons of the nobility who were knighted by James I of Scotland at Holyrood during the celebrations which followed the christening of the King's twin infant sons.
      Sir James married firstly Isabella, daughter of Sir John Forester (ancestor of the Lords Forester of Corstorphine) by whom he had a son named John. Secondly he married Janet, daughter of Sir Alexander Napier (ancestor of the Lords Napier) by whom he had two daughters, Elizabeth and Margaret. The estates of Tillyallan, and of Boyne, in Banffshire where divided between them thus went out of the family.

      Sir James was succeeded in the patrimonial estates of Edmonstone and Ednam by his son John. Subsequently the Edmonstones, styled of "that ilk" and of Edenham" continued to use Edmonstone in Midlothian as their main residence until it was sold in 1624.
      The family then moved to Edenham, or Ednam, in Roxburghshire, but this estate was sold by James Edmondstoune, last male heir of the senior line of the family, who died unmarried in 1772. It then changed hands several times until bought in 1827 by the 1st Earl of Dudley who took Ednam as his second title.
      Sir James Edmondstoune, prior to selling Ednam, had purchased the estate of Cora on the Clyde. His sisters lived there until the death of the of the last in 1826, when she was reputedly over a hundred years old.



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