Re: George Home of Virginia

[Louise Gibson]

Patrick Home married Margaret Baird on the 20 April 1676 in Edinburgh Parish (SRO Register
of Marriages, Parish of Edinburgh, & on Scotland's People: 1676/Edinburgh 685-1/440/#167)

Patrick Home, second son of Sir John Home of Renton, was granted the estates of Lumsden,
but managed to with hold the Renton estates from his older brother Alexander, and almost
bankrupted him. Alexander accused his younger brother of forgery in 1685, and eventually
received his entitlements of the estates of Renton. During this time, Patrick was often
referred to as being "of Rentoun".

Jean Dalmahoy married Robert Home, 2nd Bt of Renton, and only son of the above Sir
Alexander Home of Renton. Robert Home, 2nd Bt was born about 1681, and had died by the 9
March 1733/34 (Retours and CB Vol 4,1665 - 1707: pp 302, 302; HOME or HUME).
It is most likely, (but not as yet provable) that the Jean Dalmahoy, who was definitely
baptised on the 19th April 1688 to William Dalmahoy of Ravelrig and his spouse Helen
Martin (Dalmahoy of Dalmahoy by Falconer, has an image of the baptism from the Canongate
Registers) is the woman who married Robert Home, 2nd Bt of Renton and that this is where
confusion has arisen.
It is most definitely impossible for Jean Dalmahoy, born in 1688, to be the mother of the
eldest surviving son of Sir Patrick Home of Lumsden as that son John was admitted as an
advocate on the 10 February 1709 (CB Vol 4, 1665 - 1707: p 375, Home or Hume) ; not enough
years for her to grow up, have a child, and that child to grow, and serve an
apprenticeship all in 21 years !

Looking more like Patrick Home of Lumsden, and (illegally) of Renton, only had the one
wife, Margaret Baird.
Robert Home, 2nd Bt of Renton married the Jean Dalmahoy, born 1688

Louise Gibson
Burnie
Tasmania in OZ

On 22/04/2012 4:54 PM, gen-mediev...@rootsweb.com wrote:

>Subject: Re: Help with the royal and noble ancestry of George Home/Hume of Virginia
>(1698 - 1760)
>From:Alex Maxwell Findlater <maxwellf...@hotmail.com>
>Date:21/04/2012 5:45 PM
>To:gen-me...@rootsweb.com

>It seems that Margaret Baird died after Sir Patrick, as she was suing
>the estate factor in 1741-44 (NAS search) and her Testament dative was
>registered 16/01/1747, when she was described as DAME MARGARET BAIRD,
>RELICT OF SIR PATRICK HOME, OF RENTOUN, ADVOCATE. This would suggest
>that Sir Patrick did not marry Jean Dalmahoy - I have found no record
>of the marriage, although that is far from conclusive! The
>alternative is that she was his first wife, married only briefly and
>not the mother of his heir. Although he was not strictly of Renton,
>if he was acting a Tutor to his nephew, he would probably have adopted
>the 'senior' name.

[Alex Maxwell Findlater]

I agree. If you look under Home of Renton in the Complete Baronetage,
it shows Margaret Baird married to a Home of Renton, not Sir Patrick
of Lumsden, but the OPR marriage record is defiintely for a Patrick
and the baptismal record of their eldest son John shows both names
Patrick Home and Margaret Baird. Similarly Jean Dalmahoy is shown as
wife of Robert of Renton, under Renton, and of Patrick of Lumsden,
under Lumsden. I think that this obvious confusion comes from the
Lumsdens using Renton as their TD, so Margaret Baird is called the
relict of Sir Patrick of Renton.

I think that there may be some confusion in the Funeral Escutcheon
quoted - these records are often wrong in detail, even if the drift is
broadly okay. Alternatively R R Stodart, who is the source of the
pedigree, just got it wrong in error.