George Abernethy 
George was born in April 1340 in Saltoun, East Lothian, Scotland. George's father was George Abernethy and his mother is Alicia Wishart. His paternal grandfather was William Abernethy; his maternal grandfather is William Wishart. He had a sister named Helen. He was the younger of the two children. He died at the age of 48 on August 14th, 1388 in Otterburn, Redesdale, Northumberland, England.General Notes
REFN: 7970AN
The Battle of Otterburn is remembered as the fight where ‘a dead man won
the field’.
A Scottish attack was made in Northumberland on Henry Percy and his
estates, led by James Douglas, 2nd Earl of Douglas, on the 5 August 1388.
Dur ing the fighting, Douglas was very badly wounded.
He told his officers to hiDe him in a bush so that news of his mortal
injuries would not sway the battle. The fighting continued brutally all
through the night until Percy eventually recognised defeat and asked a
Scots knight to whom he should surrender.
The anonymously-written ‘Ballad of Otterburn’ romantically relates the
knight’s reply:-
Thou shalt not yield to lord nor loon,
Nor yet shalt thou to me,
But yield thee to the bracken bush
Grows on yonder lilye-lee.
The battle was won by the Scots, though Douglas was dead. Henry Percy was
to be the source for Shakespeare’s ‘Hotspur’.
Killed in the Battle of Otterburn.
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.~ 1284 in Saltoun, East Lothian, Scotland d.19 Jul 1333 in Halidon Hill, Berwick-on-Tweed, Northumberland, England
- b.~ 1309 in Saltoun, East Lothian, Scotland d.>Jan 1368 in Saltoun, East Lothian, Scotland
- b.Apr 1340 in Saltoun, East Lothian, Scotland d.14 Aug 1388 in Otterburn, Redesdale, Northumberland, England
- b.~ 1225 in Scotland
- b.~ 1255 in Scotland
- b.1285 in Plenderleith, Berwickshire, Scotland
- b.~ 1309 in Plenderleith, Berwickshire, Scotland
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He had a biological son named William.
Family Notes
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Children
William Abernethy
William was born in April 1360 in Saltoun, East Lothian, Scotland. He died at the age of 60 in 1420 in Saltoun, East Lothian, Scotland.
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