Margaret Balfour of Burleigh (-)

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Parents
Father:1Michael Balfour of Burleigh (-29 November 1577)
Mother:2Christian Beaton (-)
Spouses and relationship events
Married:3Sir James Balfour of Pittendreich (-1583)
Children
Children with Sir James Balfour of Pittendreich:
Michael Balfour of Burleigh (-15 March 1619), 1. Lord Balfour of Burleigh4
Sir James Balfour of Pitcullo (-1634), Lord Balfour, Baron Glenawley5
William Balfour (-)6
Henry Balfour (-before 4 August 1615)7
David Balfour (-before 6 December 1638)8
John Balfour (-)9
Marie Balfour (-)10
Helen Balfour (-)11
Agnes Balfour (-)12
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In January 1583-84 Dame Margaret Balfour and her children petitioned the Privy Council for a remission of the forfeiture of her husband, so that his children and posterity might succeed to his lands. This was granted, and the Act of Council received subsequent ratification from Parliament. Lady Burleigh also got in 1587 the monopoly for seven years of making refined salt, or 'salt upon salt' as it was called, at Pittenweem. She died 1590; it is stated in the Peerage Case that she had married as her second husband Sir Robert Melville of Murdocairnie, the King's Secretary of State, but it is almost impossible that this can have been the case, as Melville's first wife, Katherine Adamson, was alive at all events as late as December 1586.13
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1 Sir James Balfour Paul, Lord Lyon King of Arms, The Scots Peerage Founded on Wood's Edition of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland Containing an Historical and Genealogical Account of the Nobility of that Kingdom, Volume I: (: David Douglas, 1904), Balfour of Burleigh, p. 533, Michael Balfour.
2 Ibid
3 Sir James Balfour Paul, Lord Lyon King of Arms, The Scots Peerage Founded on Wood's Edition of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland Containing an Historical and Genealogical Account of the Nobility of that Kingdom, Volume I: (: David Douglas, 1904), Balfour of Burleigh, p. 533-37, Margaret Balfour.
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