'Lindsay07'Index links to: Lead / Letter
Families covered: Lindsay in Cupar, Lindsay of Feddinch, Lindsay of Pyotston (Pyotstone), Lindsay of Wolmerston (Wormestone or Wormiston), Lindsay-Bethune of Kilconquhar

                               
William Lindsay of Pyotston (Pyotstone) (d before 03.1546-7)
m. Isabel Logan (d before 16.12.1562)
1. David Lindsay of Pyotston (d 1599)
  m1. (div 06.1550) Elizabeth Barclay (dau of Sir David Barclay of Collairney)
  m2. Alison Dundas
  A. Patrick Lindsay (dvp 26.02.1589-90)
  m. Margaret Traill
  i. William Lindsay of Pyotston (d before 23.06.1640)
  m. Agnes Ballingall (dau of William Ballingall of that ilk)
  a. William Lindsay of Pyotston (d after 17.04.1670)
  m. Margaret Seton (of Parbroath)
  (1)+ issue - George (dvpsp), David (dsp before 30.11.1669)
  B. James Lindsay
  C. Juda Lindsay
  m3. Grizell Melville
2. Patrick Lindsay in Crail (dsp 1577)
3. Harry Lindsay (dsp after 01.07.1584)
4. John Lindsay in Cupar (d before 12.07.1580)
  m. Janet Williamson (d before 27.05.1604)
  A. Patrick Lindsay in Cupar, 1st of Wolmerston (b 1571, d 06.1651)
  m1. (c1615) Margaret Lundie of Lundie (dau of John Lundie of that ilk)
  i. John Lindsay of Wolmerston (bur 20.02.1665/6)
  m. Elizabeth Lentran (d 30.09.1687, dau of David Lentran of Newgrange)
  a. Patrick Lindsay of Wolmerston (d 13.03.1689)
  m. (18.06.1657) Catherine Bethune (d 06.03.1730, dau of Robert Bethune of Bandon)
(1) John Lindsay of Wolmerston or Wormiston (b 14.01.1659, d 23.09.1715)
  m. (22.06.1686) Margaret Haliburton (b 02.01.1665, d 27.02.1751, dau of George Haliburton of Denhead, Bishop of Aberdeen)
  (A) Patrick Lindsay (b/d 07.1688)
  (B) George Lindsay of Wormiston (b 04.07.1691, d 10.02.1764)
  m. (12.09.1721) Margaret Bethune (d 14.10.1782, dau of Thomas Bethune of Kilconquhar)
  (i) John Lindsay of Wormiston, later Bethune of Kilconquhar (b 27.11.1731, d unm 25.05.1789, 3rd son)
  (ii) Henry Lindsay-Bethune of Kilconquhar (b 16.11.1735, d 11.03.1819, 6th son)
  m1. Elizabeth Kyd (dau of Thomas Kyd)
(a) Rachel Lindsay-Bethune
  m. (08.09.1787) James Dickson (Lt. General)
  m2. (11.1761) Margaret Eccles (d 07.01.1823, dau of Martin Eccles of Edinburgh)
  (b) Martin Eccles Lindsay-Bethune of Kilconquhar (dvp 22.07.1813, Major)
  m. Margaret Augusta Tovey (dau of General James Tovey)
  ((1)) Sir Henry Lindsay-Bethune, 1st Bart of Kilconquhar, de jure 9th Earl of Lindsay, 8th Viscount Garnock, 18th Lord Lindsay of the Byres (b 12.04.1787, d 19.02.1851) had issue
  Henry was found to be successor to his kinsman Sir Patrick Lindsay. His eldest son proved his claim and was accepted as 10th Earl of Lindsay, etc., but dsp. The titles were inherited by his cousin David Clark Lindsay below.
  m. (09.07.1822) Coutts Trotter (d 31.12.1877, dau of John Trotter of Dyrham Park)
  ((2)) Margaret Caroline Lindsay-Bethune
  m. Patrick Orr
  ((3)) Harriet Lindsay-Bethune
  m. W. Hastings Sands
  ((4))+ other issue - George (dsp), John Scott (dsp), David Alexander (dsp), Anne
  (c) George Lindsay-Bethune (3rd son)
m. (28.02.1807) _ Forster (dau of Forster Hill Forster of Forrest)
  (d)+ other issue - John Scott (a 1790), David Bethune (d 20.10.1806, Captain), Elizabeth Balcarres (d 17.11.1793), Margaret (d 19.08.1792), Jane (b c1768, d 28.06.1860)
  (iii) Patrick Lindsay of Coats, later of Wormiston (b 12.09.1745, d 1823, 8th son)
  m. (06.01.1790) Mary Monypenny (d 08.11.1809, dau of James Aytone Monypenny)
  (e) David Ayton Lindsay of Wormiston (b 31.12.1798, d 05.05.1872, 5th son) had issue
  m. (1824) Jane Emilia Ayton (d 22.11.1872, dau of John Ayton of Kippo)
  Their son David Clark Lindsay became 11th Earl of Lindsay and had issue.
  (f) Henry Bethune Lindsay (b 27.10.1809, 22.06.1856, Major, 7th son) had issue
  m. (009.03.1837) Elizabeth Campbell (dau of Colin Campbell MD)
  (g) Margaret Lindsay (b 08.01.1795, d 1863)
  m. (18.10.1839) James Moncreiff Melville of Hanley (b 28.09.1793, d 28.09.1872)
  (h)+ other issue - George (b 06.02.1792), James (b 28.06.1793), Patrick (b 08.08.1496), Alexander (b 26.09.1797, d 15.05.1799), Stuart (b 14.07.1804), Elizabeth (b 06.10.1790), Mary Anne Leslie (b 19.11.1800), Anne Alice (b 27.05.1802)
(iv)+ other issue - John (b 05.08.1722, d 15.09.1723), Thomas (b 07.10.1728, d young), David (b 28.02.1733), William (b 05.09.1734, Captain), George (b 06.02.1737, d unm 09.09.1762), Anne (b 09.09.1723), Margaret (b 10.09.1724, d 29.01.1725), Catherine (b 17.10.1725, d 13.11.1727), Alison (b 12.04.1727), Elizabeth (b 05.06.1730), Agnes (b 11.06.1739, d 19.05.1741), Bethune (b 01.04.1742, d 1770, Major)
  (C) John Lindsay in Craill (b 02.07.1694, d 12.10.1751) had issue
  (D) Patrick Lindsay (b 18.03.1699, d 21.10.1746) ancestor of Lindsays of Leith
  (E) Agnes Lindsay (b 10.05.1687, d 28.10.1770)
  m. (13.06.1706) John Makgill of Kemback and Fingask (b 13.06.1676, d 19.04.1762)
  (F) Catherine Lindsay (b 22.11.1689, d unm before 1706)
(2) William Lindsay of Feddinch
  m. (1723) Margaret Wemyss (dau of Ronald Wemyss of Lathocker)
  (A) William Lindsay of Feddinch
  (ii) William Lindsay of Feddinch
  (a) William Lindsay of Feddinch (dsp)
  (B)+ 3 daughers
  (3) Elizabeth Lindsay
  m. (29.10.1685) Christopher Seton, 5th of Cariston (b c1645, d 1713)
  (4) Helen Lindsay (bpt 12.08.1663)
  m. (14.07.1687) John Wood (minister of St. Andrews)
  (5) Mary Lindsay (bpt 28.10.1670)
  m. (14.08.1694) John Craigie of Dunbarnie
  (6) Catherine Lindsay (bpt 09.08.1672, d before 1705)
  m. (14.09.1691) William Hardie (minister at Crail, later St. Andrews)
  (7) Ann Lindsay (b 1680, d 06.1704)
  m. (23.01.1702) Robert Fairweath (minister at Crail)
  (8)+ other issue - James (bpt 19.01.1666), Robert (bpt 12.08.1667), George (bpt 09.09.1673), Patrick (bpt 04.9.1674), David (bpt 12.09.1678), Alexander (bpt 26.04.1681), Margaret, Euphan (bpt 22.05.1677)
  b. George Lindsay (4th son)
  m. Eupham Arnot (dau of John Arnot of St. Andrews, relict of Martin Corstorphin)
  c. Elizabeth Lindsay
  m. (07.09.1660) James Corstorphine of Nydie
  d.+ other issue - John (dsp Worcester 1651), David, James, William
ii. Robert Lindsay
  iii. Catherine Lindsay
  m. John Douglas (minister of Crail)
  iv. Alison Lindsay
  m. Joseph Douglas of Edrington
  m2. (after 06.1648) Elizabeth Arnot (dau of Peter Arnot of Balcormo)
  B. Alison Lindsay
  m1. (mcrt 12.1591) David Lindsay in Cupar (dsp 05.03.1616)
  m2. Arthur Gordon in Cupar (d 08.1641)
  C. Janet Lindsay
5. Alexander Lindsay (a 1584)
6. Jean Lindsay (a 1574)
  m. John Melville of Carbee (d by 1572)

Main source(s): TSP (Lindsay), BP1934 (Lindsay) with support from Wood's 'East Neuk of Fife' (p454+)
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