Person:Rebecca Semple (1)

Rebecca Semple

• The Scots Peerage by Paul, James

Page 563 – Rebecca, who died, unmarried, at Edinburgh 16 September 1811, aged seventy-trhee years, and was interred in the Chapel Royal at Holyrood Palace, Holyrood Abbey on the 21 September 1811.

1. ↑ Paul, James Balfour. 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, with armorial illustrations. (Edinburgh: D. Douglas, 1904-1914)
   Vol. 7, Page 563.

   Page 563 – Rebecca, who died, unmarried, at Edinburgh 16 September 1811, aged seventy-three years, and was interred in the Chapel Royal of Holyrood House on the 21 September 1811.

2.   Maxwell, Herbert. Official Guide To The Abbey-Church, Palace, and Environs of Holyroodhouse: With A Historical Sketch. (Edinburgh, Scotland: William Blackwood and Sons, 1908)
   Page 54.

   Francis, 10th Lord Sempill, was interred 4th August 1716, and lies 8 feet from wall of 4th window N.E. end of Chapel, betwist 3rd and 4th Pillars.
   
   John, 11th Lord Sempill, interred on the South side of his brother, 20th January 1727.
   
   Beneath this stone lie the remains of the Honourable Marion Sempill, daughter of Major-General the Right Honourable Hugh, 12th Lord Sempill, and of Sarah Gaskell his wife who died 14th and interred 19th May 1796.
   
   The Honourable Jane Sempill, died 6th, and was buried on the South side of her sister, the above Marion Sempill, the 10th of July 1800.
   
   The Honourable Rebecca Sempill, died 16th, and was buried between the broken pillars in the centre of the Chapel Southward of Her two Sisters, the aforesaid Marion and Jane, on the 21st Sept. 1811.
   
   Hon. Sarah Sempill, daughter of Hugh, fourteenth Lord Sempill, died 1866.