Heiress Janet Jean Gifford Of Yester 
Janet Jean was born about 1344 in Yester Castle,Gifford,East Lothian,Scotland. Janet Jean's father was Laird Hugh Gifford Of Yester and her mother was Joanna Douglas. She had a sister named Alice. She was the older of the two children.General Notes
Yester Castle
Located 1½ miles (2½ km) SE of Gifford in East Lothian, Yester Castle was built in 1297 by Hugo de Gifford, the so-called Wizard of Yester. Beneath is the sizeable Goblin Ha', where Gifford is said to have made magic. This name is echoed in a small hotel in the village of Gifford and the goblins were immortalised in Sir Walter Scott's Marmion.
The castle passed to the Hay family through marriage in the 14th C. and in a similar fashion to so many others, it was abandoned after the Hays moved to the more comfortable surroundings of a new home on the site of the present Yester House. Today the castle lies a ruin on the margins of the Yester Estate owned by the italian composer Gian Carlo Menotti.
They had a son and a daughter, named William and Heiress De Hay Of Lochorwart.
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Children
Heiress De Hay Of Lochorwart
Heiress De Hay Of Lochorwart was born in 1372 in Lochorwart Castle,Gorebridge,Midlothian,Scotland.
Larid William De Hay Of Yester
William was born about 1375 in Lochorwart Castle,Gorebridge,Midlothian,Scotland. He died in 1421 in Yester Castle,Gifford,East Lothian,Scotland.1
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