Person:Jannet Sempill (1)

Jannet Semple

• Rogers, Charles. Genealogical memoirs of John Knox and of the family of Knox. Printed For The Grampian Club. (1879). Page 10, 11.^S1

Uchter Knox, portioner of Ranfurlie, married Janet, daughter to the Lord Semple. By this lady he had two sons, Uchter, his successor, and William, progenitor of the House of Silvieland; also two daughters, Hewissa, who married John Buntine of Ardoch, Dumbartonshire, and Janet, who married, first, Alexander, son of William Cunninghame of Craigend, and second, John Porterfield of that Ilk. Page 10, 11^S1

Uchter Knox, portioner of Ranfurlie, died at Kippen on the 30th July 1553. His inventory includes four cows, thirty hogs, and a quantity of victual. The executors to his will are “Janet Sempill, his spouse, Janet Knox, his younger daughter, and William Fleming of Barrochan;” while among the witnesses are named “John Knox [portioner] of Ranfurlie, and William Buntine of Ardoch.”… Page 11^S1

• Lodge, John, and Mervyn Archdall. The peerage of Ireland, or, A genealogical history of the present nobility of that kingdom: with engravings of their paternal coats of armes... (Dublin [Ireland]: J. Moore, 1789), Vol. 7, Page 196.^S2

Uchter, the eldest son, married Janet, daughter of William, Lord Semple, by whom he had issue Uchter, his heir, William, progenitor to the Knox's of Silvyland; and two daughters, the elder of whom, Janet, married first Alexander Conyngham of the family of Craigends, and secondly, (John) Porterfield of Porterfield; and the second daughter married John Buntine of Ardoch, an ancient family yet existing in the shire of Dumbarton.^S2

1.   Rogers, Charles. Genealogical memoirs of John Knox : and of the family of Knox. (London, England: Printed For The Grampian Club, 1879)
   Page 10, 11.
2.   Lodge, John, and Mervyn Archdall. The peerage of Ireland, or, A genealogical history of the present nobility of that kingdom: with engravings of their paternal coats of armes... (Dublin [Ireland]: J. Moore, 1789)
   Vol. 7, Page 196.