Person:Michael Nasmyth (1)

Sir Michael Naesmyth

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m. 1544

Facts and Events

Name^[1]^[2]^[3]	Sir Michael Naesmyth
Gender	Male
Property^[2]	1544	Posso, Peebleshire, Scotland, United KingdomObtained half the lands of Posso and Glenrathnes, by right of his wife, the elder daughter of Gilbert Baird and in the absence of male descendants
Marriage	1544	Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotlandto Elizabeth Baird
Military^[2]	1568	Langside, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdomfought for Mary Queen of Scots, banished and property confiscated after losing (and later recovered after restoration of peace)
Occupation^[2]^[3]		Chamberlain to John Hamilton Archbishop of St. Andrews
Death^[1]	Bet 1603 and 1609	Posso, Peebleshire, Scotland, United Kingdom

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Text, in Davis, Nell. Nathaniel DeHass McClure and Emeline Oglevee, ancestors and descendants: prepared for McClure reunion to be held at Bellingrath Hall, Central Presbyterian Church, Mobile, Alabama, August 18, 1984, 9:00 A.M. (Laurel, Mississippi: N. Davis, 1984).

Sir Michael Nasmyth was living in 1603, died between 1603 and 1609, married in or before 1554, Elizabeth Baird, daughter of John Baird of Passo, who died 1527. John was son of Sir Gilbert Baird, killed at Flodden Field 1513.
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 ^2.3 Bairds of Peebleshire, in Baird, Mary. bairdnet.com.

http://www.bairdnet.com/borders/article3.html
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 Chambers, William. A history of Peeblesshire. (Edinburgh: W. and R. Chambers, 1864)
418.

The family of Naesmyth, through intermarriage with the Bairds, is an old, but not the oldest, family in the county.

The first of the name in Peeblesshire was Sir Michael Naesmyth, chamberlain to the Archbishop of St Andrews...