Helen Colquhoun

- 1596

• Name	Helen Colquhoun  [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Gender	Female
  Death	Between 13 Jun 1594 and 13 Mar 1596	Aiket, Ayrshire, Scotland   [5]
  Person ID	I26543	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TWK
  Last Modified	28 Mar 2020

  
  

  Father	Humphrey Colquhoun,   b. of Luss, Argyll, Scotland d. Jan 1538
  Mother	Helen Graham
  Marriage	Abt 13 Jul 1509  [5, 6]
  Family ID	F15431	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	William Cunningham,   b. of Aiket, Ayrshire, Scotland
  Marriage	Bef 24 Oct 1564  [5, 7]
  Children	+ 1. Marion Cunningham   d. Jan 1623, Ayr, Ayrshire, Scotland
  Family ID	F15868	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	23 Mar 2020

  
  

• Notes

  Lady Aikitt, elder, sheriffdom of Ayr. "In 1578-79, another of [the Colquhoun] clan, Helen Colquhoun, was accused of the 'treasonable administering of poysoun' to her spouse, William Cunninghame of Aiket; but the fragmentary records give us little information about these trials…" ["Poisoning in Scotland", citation details below] The will of Helene Colquhoun, Lady Aikitt, elder, sheriffdom of Ayr, was proved in the Edinburgh commissary court on 13 Mar 1596. The 1877 Colquhoun pedigree ("Colquhoun of Luss", citation details below) shows Helen Colquhoun, daughter of Humphrey, marrying a "James" Cunningham of Aiket; it also gives her mother's name as "Katherine", rather than Helen, a mistake that also appears in many Burke's Pedigrees products. In a pair of posts to soc.genealogy.medieval on 10 Oct 2019, John Brandon points out that the papal dispensation of 1509 clearly identifies Humphrey Colquhoun's wife as Helen. As to whether Humphrey Colquhoun's and Helen Graham's daughter Helen was indeed, the Helen who married Cunningham of Aiket, Brandon points to the marriage of Robert Graham of Knockdolian, who was known to have been involved in dealings with William and Helen (Colquhoun) Cunningham, to Christian Graham, daughter of the second William Graham, 2nd earl of Montrose — further evidence of Graham-Colquhoun prosopographical adjancency.

  
  

• Sources

  [S3859] The Chiefs of Colquhoun and Their Country by William Fraser. Edinburgh, 1869. [S3858] James Colquhoun, "Colquhoun of Luss." Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica Volume II, new series, 1877, p. 533. [S3863] Ayr and Its People, from 1428 to the Time Of Burns by Joseph D. Shearer. 2004. [S3864] A. Francis Steuart, "Poisoning in Scotland, To the Year 1625." Edinburgh Medical Journal 17:468, 1905. [S376] Janet and Robert Wolfe Genealogy. [S800] 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. Ed. James Balfour Paul. Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1904-1914. [S3863] Ayr and Its People, from 1428 to the Time Of Burns by Joseph D. Shearer. 2004., says "by 1550".