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Family:
Marriage: Children:
  1. Elizabeth KER Death: 19 Oct 1548 in Catslack
  2. Margaret KER
  3. Sir Robert KER Birth: 1 Death: Before 6 Nov 1500
  4. Mark KER Birth: 2 Death: After 16 Jul 1551
  5. Ralph KER Birth: 3 Death: After 1494

Marriage:
Bibliography
  1. Burke, Sir John Bernard, Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage Baronetage and Knightage. 99th edition. London: Burke's Peerage, 1949. Available at http://archive.org/details/burkesgenealogic1949unse. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Burke Peerage [cx0-9]*].
  2. Cokayne, George Edward, Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant, vol 05 E-Goojerat. London: St Catherine Press, 1926. Reprinted (4 per page) Gloucester: A Sutton, 1982. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/271412 Information from this source tagged as [Ref: CP V [Ap][p0-9].*].
  3. Paul, Sir James Balfour, 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. Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1904. NYPL ARO (Scots Peerage) (too fragile to copy). Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/216265. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: SP II p[0-9]*].
  4. Paul, Sir James Balfour, 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. Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1904. NYPL ARO (Scots Peerage) (too fragile to copy). Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/216265. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: SP V p[0-9]*].
  5. Paul, Sir James Balfour, 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. Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1904. NYPL ARO (Scots Peerage) (too fragile to copy). Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/216265. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: SP VII p[0-9]*].
  6. Paul, Sir James Balfour, 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. Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1904. NYPL ARO (Scots Peerage) (too fragile to copy). Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/216265. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: SP VIII p[0-9]*].

Sources for birth and parent Information
date:
second son [Ref: Burke Peerage p1257, Burke Peerage p1736, SP V p50, SP VII p324],
parents:
Andrew KER & dau William DOUGLAS [Ref: Burke Peerage p1736, SP VII p324],
father:
[Ref: Burke Peerage p1257, SP V p50]
Sources for death Information
date:
[Ref: Burke Peerage p1257, CP V p657, SP VII p329]
abt 25 Nov 1501 [Ref: Burke Peerage p1736]
Sources with Information about marriage to Isabel HAY
date:
first marriage of Walter [Ref: Burke Peerage p1257],
child:
[Ref: SP II p228, SP VII p329, SP VII p330, SP VII p331, SP VII p332, SP VII p368]
Sources with Information about marriage to Agnes CRICHTON
date:
after 1487 [Ref: CP V p657]
after 1487, as second marriage of both [Ref: SP VII p329]
after 20 Oct 1487 [Ref: SP VIII p274]
second marriage of Agnes [Ref: Burke Peerage p1924]
second marriage of Walter [Ref: Burke Peerage p1257, Burke Peerage p1736]
Research Notes:
of Cessford [Ref: Burke Peerage p1257, Burke Peerage p285, CP V p657, SP II p228, SP VII p324, SP VII p368, SP VIII p274]
of Cessford and Altonburn [Ref: SP V p50]



Pedigree of Walter KER
                            /-----Henry KER
                   /-----Robert KER
          /-----Andrew KER
 /-----Andrew KER
Walter KER
|                                                               /-----Sir William DOUGLAS
|                                                      /-----Sir William DOUGLAS
|                                                     |         \-----Constance
|                                             /-----Archibald DOUGLAS, Regent Of Scotland
|                                            |        |         /-----Matthew De LOUVAINE, Baron Of Little Easton
|                                            |         \-----Eleanor LOVAINE
|                                            |                  \-----Helisant
|                                    /-----William DOUGLAS, Earl Of Douglas
|                                   |        |                  /-----Sir David De LINDSAY
|                                   |        |         /-----Sir Alexander LINDSAY
|                                   |        |        |         \-----Margaret De LINDSAY
|                                   |         \-----Beatrice LINDSAY
|                                   |                  \-----(Unk) STEWART
|                                   |                           \-----(Unk) STEWART
|                           /-----James DOUGLAS, Earl Of Douglas
|                          |        |                           /-----Sir Donald Earl Of Mar
|                          |        |                  /-----Gratney Earl Of Mar
|                          |        |                 |         \-----Helen
|                          |        |         /-----Donald Earl Of Mar
|                          |        |        |        |         /-----Sir Robert De BRUS, Earl Of Carrick, Lord Of Annand
|                          |        |        |         \-----Christian BRUCE
|                          |        |        |                  \-----Margaret Of Carrick, Countess Of Carrick
|                          |         \-----Margaret Countess Of Mar
|                          |                 |                  /-----Sir John STEWART
|                          |                 |         /-----Sir Alexander STEWART
|                          |                 |        |         \-----Margaret De Bonkyl
|                          |                  \-----Isabel STEWART
|                          |                          |         /-----Sir Thomas RANDOLPH
|                          |                           \-----(Unk) RANDOLPH
|                          |                                    \-----Isabella De KILCONQUHAR
|                  /-----Archibald DOUGLAS
|         /-----William DOUGLAS
 \-----(Unk) DOUGLAS



Descendants of Walter KER
1. Walter KER m1. Isabel HAY m2. Agnes CRICHTON
m. Isabel HAY father: Sir John HAY, Lord Hay Of Yester mother: Elizabeth CRICHTON
m. Agnes CRICHTON father: William CRICHTON, Lord Crichton mother: Agnes

2nd generation

2. Elizabeth KER m1. Philip RUTHERFORD m2. Sir Walter SCOTT
m. Philip RUTHERFORD father: James RUTHERFORD mother: Margaret ERSKINE
m. Sir Walter SCOTT father: David SCOTT mother: Janet DOUGLAS
4. Sir Robert KER m. Christian RUTHERFURD
m. Christian RUTHERFURD father: James RUTHERFORD mother: Margaret ERSKINE
5. Mark KER m. Marjorie AINSLIE
m. Marjorie AINSLIE father: John AINSLIE

3rd generation

10. Sir Walter SCOTT m1. Elizabeth CARMICHAEL m2. Janet KERR m3. Janet BETOUN
m. Elizabeth CARMICHAEL
m. Janet KERR father: Andrew KERR
m. Janet BETOUN father: John BETOUN

4th generation

15. Sir William SCOTT m. Grisel BETOUN
m. Grisel BETOUN father: John BETOUN

5th generation

16. Sir Walter SCOTT m. Margaret DOUGLAS
m. Margaret DOUGLAS father: David DOUGLAS, Earl Of Angus mother: Margaret HAMILTON