Johnson / Bryans Families

Tracing the ancestry of Pamela Murdoch Bryans and Maurice Alan Johnson

4th Lord Livingston William Livingstone

Male Abt 1480 - 1514  (~ 34 years)

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  • Name William Livingstone 
    Relationshipwith Marion Murdoch Johnson
    Gender Male 
    Birth Abt 1480 
    Death 1514  [1
    Last Modified 27 Apr 2022 

    Father 3rd Lord Livingston Sir James Livingstone, of Larbert
              b. Abt 1450  
              d. Abt 1503 (Age ~ 53 years) 
    Mother Agnes Houston
              b. Abt 1455 

    Wife Agnes Hepburn 
    Marriage Abt 1501 
    Age at Marriage William was ~ 21 years old - Agnes was ?? old. 
    Marriage Contract 2 Apr 1501  [2
    Children 
     1. 5th Lord Livingston Alexander Livingstone
              b. Abt 1502  
              d. Bef 4 Jan 1551 (Age ~ 49 years)
    Last Modified 27 Apr 2022 

  • Notes 

    • Succeded his father in 1503.

      From TSP1
      received a charter of the family estates in 1503, and on 20 September 1504 granted a charter as superior of Pettyntoskane (now Bantaskine) in the barony of Callendar, in favour of Patrick Hepburn, his wife's uncle. For a debt of 250 merks he was obliged to submit to a distraint upon part of his lands in favour of Sir James Schaw of Sauchy, 4 November 1507. A charter of confirmation, dated 21 January 1509-10, of part of Callander in Menteith, Culter in Lanarkshire, and Cragston in Stirlingshire, in favour of himself and Agnes Hepburn, his spouse, was granted to Lord Livingston on his own resignation for conjunct infeftment, and a month later he resigned the whole of his estates in favour of Alexander, his son and heir-apparent, reserving his liferent and a reasonable terce to his wife.

      His domestic affairs appear to have become disordered about 1512, when his son took forcible possession of Callendar House, while in the following year his wife obtained decree of divorce against him for adultery with Mariota Taylor, and having issue by her


      Footnotes
      [1] The Scot's Peerage by James Balfour Paul; Livingston, Earl of Linlithgow; Volume 5, 1906, Pages 421-451


  • Sources 
    1. [S0496] Gordon MacGregor, Red Book of Scotland, The, (Scotland (2016)), Livingston, Earl of Linlithgow; Vol. 6, pages 12-29.

    2. [S0381] Ed. Sir James Balfour Paul, Scots Peerage, The, (Edinburgh: David Douglas), Livingston, Earl of Linlithgow; pages 421-451.