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Families covered: Bethune of Balfour, Bethune of Bandon

Robert Bethune, 10th of Balfour
m. (c1564) Agnes Trail (b 1536, dau of John Trail of Blebo)
1. David Bethune, 11th of Balfour (b 1574)
  m. Margaret Wardlaw (dau of ?? Wardlaw of Torrie)
  A. John Bethune, 12th of Balfour
  m. Katharine Halyburton
  i.

James Bethune, 13th of Balfour (b 1620)

  m. Anne Moncrief (dau of Sir John Moncrief of that ilk)
a. David Bethune, 14th of Balfour (b 1657, d by 1709)
  m. (03.1669) Rachel Hope (bpt 16.03.1653, dau of Sir John Hope of Hopetoun)
  (1) James Bethune, 15th of Balfour (dsp 1719)
  m. Anne Hamilton (dau of Maj.Gen. ?? Hamilton of Rood House)
  (2) Charles Bethune (d 1708)
  (3) Katharine Bethune
  m. David Campbell of Keithilk
  (4) Anne Bethune
  m. (1709) David Bethune, 16th of Balfour @@ below
  (5) Helen Bethune
  m. John Landale
  B. Robert Bethune, 1st of Bandon
  m. Marian Inglis of Athenry
  i. Robert Bethune of Bandon
  a. ?? Bethune of Bandon
(1) Henry Bethune of Bandon, 17th of Balfour (b c1679, dsp 1760)
  m. Isabella Maxwell of Edinburgh
  (2) David Bethune, 16th of Balfour (d 1731)
  m. (1709) Anne Bethune (dau of David Bethune, 14th of Balfour) @@ above
  (A) Anne Bethune, 18th of Balfour (dsp 1785)
  m. David Bethune of Kilconquhar (d 1781-2)
  (B) Mary Bethune
  m. William Congleton of that ilk
  (i) Charles Congleton
  m. Anne Elliott (b 1734, dau of Sir Gilbert Elliott, Bart of Minto)
  (a) William Bethune, 19th of Balfour (dsp 1798)
  (b) Gilbert Bethune, 20th of Balfour (b 1765, dsp)
  (c) Eleanor Congleton (d 1848)
  m. (1799) John Drinkwater
((1)) John Elliot Bethune-Drinkwater of Balfour (b 12.07.1801, dsp 1851)
  ((2)) Charles Ramsay Bethune-Drinkwater of Balfour (b 1802, d 1884) had issue
  m. (1846) Frances Cecilia Staples (dau of Henry E. Staples of Clapham)
  b. Catherine Bethune (d 06.03.1730) assumed to be of this generation
  m. (18.06.1657) Patrick Lindsay of Wolmerston (d 13.03.1689)
  C. Andrew Bethune, 1st of Blebo ancestor of Bethunes of Blebo
  D. Janet Bethune
  m. _ Campbell of Keithilk
  E. Margaret Bethune
  m. (1617) Sir Henry Wardlaw of Petrivie (d 02.03.1653)
  F. Agnes Bethune
  m. (mcrt 06.07.1630) David Colville, Lord Colville (d 11.1647)
2. Elizabeth Bethune (d 01.02.1666)
  m. (03.1609) David Lindsay, younger of Kirkforthar (dvp before 04.1631)
3.+ 3 sons and 3 daughters

Main sources: BLG1888 (Bethune of Balfour)
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