Margaret Forrester

1520 - Aft 1580  (~ 62 years)

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• Name	Margaret Forrester  [1]
  Born	Between 1518 and 1520	Scotland   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Reference Number	9782
  Died	Aft 22 Jan 1579/80  [1]
  Person ID	I9782	FelsingFam
  Last Modified	16 Feb 2024

  
  

  Father	Sir James Forrester,   b. 17 Sep 1489, Scotland ,   d. Between 1532 and 1536, Scotland  (Age 42 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Elizabeth Erskine,   b. Abt 1492, Scotland ,   d. Between 1532 and 1536  (Age ~ 40 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Married	Abt 1510  [1]
  Family ID	F3337	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Henry Livingston,   b. Abt 1495, Scotland ,   d. 22 Jan 1579/80, Scotland  (Age ~ 85 years)
  Children	+ 1. Henry Livingston,   b. Abt 1560, Scotland ,   d. Between 14 Jun and 26 Aug 1624  [natural]
  Last Modified	16 Feb 2024
  Family ID	F3336	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - Between 1518 and 1520 - Scotland  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  From https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Forrester-1420 "Sir James Colville, 1st laird of East Wemyss, married seccond, by congract dated at Edinburgh 21 May 1536 Margaret Forrester, sister german of David Forrester of Garden, by whom he had a daughter Margaret Colville and a son Mr. Alexander Colville, Commendator of Culross.... After Sir James Colville's death in England, on 10 January 1540/1 his widow Margaret and eldest son and heir James received a summons to appear before Parliament. On 14 March 1540/1, Margaret and her step-son witnessed the sentence of forfeiture against her late husband read aloud--proclaiming him guilty of the crime of...high treason.... the forfeiture was rescinded by parliament on 12 December 1543 and on 17 March 1543/4 the Lords of Council restored Colville's estate."[1] "The precise date of Margaret Forrester's marriage to Henry Livingston of Falkirk has not been determined... In his Scots Peerage article, Wood cites a record registered 22 May 1550 of a dispute over a contract between Henry Livingston, here styled "in Falkirk," and Margaret Forrester, and Commendator William Colville, Sir James Colville, 2nd laird of East Wemyss, Robert Colville of Cleish, and others...."[2] "It seems that in his youth Mr. Henry Livingston [son of Henry Livingston and Margaret Forrester] was placed with his elder half-brother Mr. Alexander Colville. As an apprentice in Mr. Alexander's household, Henry would have learned reading, writing and social protocol. And apparently Henry helped his half-brother with family business.... And finally, on 26 July 1586, at Edinburgh, 'Mr. Henry Lewingston, brother of the Iconimus [emphasis added], witnessed a charter to John Kennedy of Pennyglen. The fact that Mr. Henry Livingston is described as the brother of Mr. Alexander Colville, Iconomus of Melrose, can only mean they were uterine brothers, i.e., their mother was Margaret Forrester, widow of Sir James Colville of East Wemyss. Robert Milne the younger's manuscript pedigree is thus proved correct: Sir James Colville's widow married Henry Livingston of Falkirk and was the mother of Mr. Henry Livingston, Minister of St. Ninian's.[3] Sources ↑ Adrian Benjamin Burke, The Livingston Ancestry of the Duncanson Sisters of New Netherland, Part II: Identifyng their maternal great-grandmother Margaret Forrester," in The Genealogist, 2013, pp. 165-67. ↑ Adrian Benjamin Burke, The Livingston Ancestry of the Duncanson Sisters of New Netherland, Part II: Identifyng their maternal great-grandmother Margaret Forrester," in The Genealogist, 2013, p. 167. ↑ Adrian Benjamin Burke, The Livingston Ancestry of the Duncanson Sisters of New Netherland, Part II: Identifyng their maternal great-grandmother Margaret Forrester," in The Genealogist, 2013, pp. 172-74. *Adrian Benjamin Burke, The Livingston Ancestry of the Duncanson Sisters of New Netherland, Part II: Identifyng their maternal great-grandmother Margaret Forrester," in The Genealogist, 2013, 162-181.

  
  

• Sources

  [S784] The Genealogist, Journal of the American Society of Genealogists, (Name: American Society of Genealogists;), Adrian Benjamin Burke, "The Livingston Ancestry of the Duncanson Sisters of New Netherland", The Genealogist 27 (2013): 28-50, 162-181 and 28 (2014): 58-89. Also available on AmericanAncestors.org.