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Sara Grierson Elder

Birth
Dumfries, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland
Death
1707 (aged 16–17)
Scotland
Burial
Dunscore, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland Add to Map
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Sara Grierson, born c1690, Scotland (illegitimate child) - 1707 - CC22/3/1 - WIGTOWN COMMISSARY WARRANTS: Testament dative - of SARA GRIERSON, spouse of (the Reverend) Mr. THOMAS ELDER, (Minister) of Whithorn. No date of Death. - given up by MR. HOMER GRIERSONE ‘chirurgeon appothicary’ (sic) in Dumfries, her brother. ‘She had 2,000 merks as her patrimony qlk by disolutione of her marriage within a year and day, without a living child, did return to the said SARA, her next of kin.’

Her will reference: Griersone Sara 21/05/1707 spouse of Mr. Thomas Elder, minister of Whithorn Testament Dative and Inventory Wigtown Commissary Court CC22/3/1A.

Sara Grierson was born abt. 1690, the illegitimate daughter of (Sir) Robert Grierson of Lag, Auld Lagg in Dumfries, Scotland, she is not the daughter of Dame Henrietta Douglas ; she married the Rev. Thomas Elder of Whithorn.

Sources: (1) The Peerage, dated 16 April 2007, by Grierson, David Alan, 1960 - (aka Lyon) ; see Lundy, Darryl, in his online thepeerage.com for the original reference and authorship. All other references are copied from this work.
Sara Grierson, born c1690, Scotland (illegitimate child) - 1707 - CC22/3/1 - WIGTOWN COMMISSARY WARRANTS: Testament dative - of SARA GRIERSON, spouse of (the Reverend) Mr. THOMAS ELDER, (Minister) of Whithorn. No date of Death. - given up by MR. HOMER GRIERSONE ‘chirurgeon appothicary’ (sic) in Dumfries, her brother. ‘She had 2,000 merks as her patrimony qlk by disolutione of her marriage within a year and day, without a living child, did return to the said SARA, her next of kin.’

Her will reference: Griersone Sara 21/05/1707 spouse of Mr. Thomas Elder, minister of Whithorn Testament Dative and Inventory Wigtown Commissary Court CC22/3/1A.

Sara Grierson was born abt. 1690, the illegitimate daughter of (Sir) Robert Grierson of Lag, Auld Lagg in Dumfries, Scotland, she is not the daughter of Dame Henrietta Douglas ; she married the Rev. Thomas Elder of Whithorn.

Sources: (1) The Peerage, dated 16 April 2007, by Grierson, David Alan, 1960 - (aka Lyon) ; see Lundy, Darryl, in his online thepeerage.com for the original reference and authorship. All other references are copied from this work.


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