• General Notes

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  TITL University of Hull Royal Database (England)       AUTH Brian Tompsett, Dept of Compute r Science
  PUBL copyright 1994, 1995, 1996
  usually reliable but sometimes includes hypothetical lines, mythological figures, etc
  WWW, University of Hull, Hull, UK HU6 7RX  bct@@tardis.ed.ac.uk         MEDI Electronic
  TEXT Fergus of Galloway
  TITL Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America bef 1760
  AUTH Frederick Lewis Weis       PUBL 7th ed Genealogical Publishing, Baltimore 1992
  Same ref source as earlier ed, "Ancestral Roots of 60 Colonists who Came to New England 1623- 1650" ed 1-6
  good to very good
  J.H. Garner
  MEDI Book       PAGE line 38 pp 41-42
  TEXT no place
  _FA1 PLAC Died as a Monk at Holyrood Abbey.
  _FA2  DATE 7 Jul 1136
           PLAC Witness to a charter of David I of Scotland.Per Weis' "Ancestral Roots. . ." (1 2A:26), he is trteated in SP IV 135-137.     SP says that Fergus is the first lord or princ e of Galloway on record (p.135). SP knows of no ancestry for Fergus. He is first mentioned o n 7 July 1136 as a witness to a charter of David I. He died  in 1161 at Holyrood Abbey as a m onk (p.136).

Details of Fergus' family with Elizabeth of Gloucester