Ada Dunbar 
Ada was born about 1190 in Dunbar Castle, East Lothian, Scotland. Ada's father was Patrick Dunbar and her mother was Ada of Huntingdon. Her paternal grandparents were Waldeve Dunbar and UNKNOWN Aline; her maternal grandparents were I William and Isabel Avenal. She had a brother and a sister, named Patrick and Agnes. She is the youngest of the three children.General Notes
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Daughter of Patrick Earl of Dunbar, and widow of ....... Courtney, having
obtained from her father the lands of Home, and having no children by her
first husband, she carried her estate to her second husband and kinsman,
who thenceforth is called of Home. Another tradition of the way by which
t he lands and the name of Hume were gained, is given by Hume of
Godscroft, who says, "it is reported that a sone of the Earl of March,
who had overcome a c ertain French champion, was rewarded by his father
with the grant of the land s of Home, where the castle now stands."
Another tradition which Godscroft pr efers is, that a certain man named
Phillip, holding both the King and the law at defiance, headed a numerous
troop of robbers, who, lurking in woods and s olitudes, could not be taken
but by a regular army. He possessed two strongho lds, from which he
harrassed the Earl of March, the one on the top of the bac k of Home, the
other a few miles distant, which was fortified with a triple w all and
ditch, and still goes by the name of Phillipstane. William, a son of the
Earl, having one day met this robber, slew him, and carried his head to
the Earl; and the King for this action gave him the lands of Home. She
made over, before 1240, a part of them, however, to the monks of Kelso,
pro salute anime meae, patris et matris meae, et maritorum meorum; and of
another deed the words are, Ada De Curtnay filia Patricii Comitis de
Dunbar salutem. Votum facio me pro animabus maritorum meorum dediss, etc.
which shews that she sur vived both her husbands.
[From History of Dunbar Hume and Dundas from Drummond 's Noble British
Families, William Pickering, London 1846]
Ada received the lands of Home as part of her dowry. Her descendants
would become the earls o f Home and she is the ancestor for the Home/Hume
family in Scotland.
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)
- b.~ 1040 in Dunbar, East Lothian, Scotland d.1081 in Ubbanford, Midlothian, Soctland
- b.1073 in Dunbar, East Lothian, Scotland d.22 Aug 1138 in Battle of the Standard
- b.~ 1040 in Wessex
- b.~ 1090 in Dunbar Castle, East Lothian, Scotland d.1166 in Scotland
- b.1055 in Bearly, Dunbar, East Lothian, Scotland d.1095 in Argyll, Scotland
- b.1074 in Bearly, Dunbar, East Lothian, Scotland
- b.1122 in Dunbar Castle, East Lothian, Scotland d.1182
- b.~ 1094 in Dunbar, East Lorthian, Scotland
- b.1152 in Dunbar Castle, East Lothian, Scotland d.31 Dec 1232 in Scotland
- b.1129 in Scotland d.20 Aug 1179 in Dunbar Castle, East Lorthian, Scotland
- b.~ 1190 in Dunbar Castle, East Lothian, Scotland
- b.~ 1031 in Atholl, Perthshire, Scotland d.13 Nov 1093 in Alnwick Castle, Berwickshire, Scotland
- b.1080 in Scotland d.24 May 1153 in Carlisle, Cumberland, England
- b.1045 in Hungary d.16 Nov 1093 in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
- b.~ 1115 in Scotland d.12 Jun 1152 in Scotland
- b.~ 1046 in Northumbria d.31 May 1076 in Winchester, Hampshire, England
- b.1072 in Huntingdon, Northumberland, England d.23 Apr 1131 in Scotland
- b.1054 in Lens, Artois, France d.> 1086
- b.1148 in Scotland d.04 Dec 1214 in Sterling, Stirlingshire, Scotland
- b.~ 1040 d.24 Jun 1088 in Pevensey, Sussex, England
- b.~ 1065 in Lewes, Sussex, England d.11 May 1138 in Sussex, England
- b.~ 1045 d.27 May 1085 in Castle Acre, Norfolk, England
- b.~ 1114 in Huntingdon, England d.1178
- b.1053 in France d.18 Oct 1101 in Tarsus
- b.1085 in Valois, Bretagne, France d.13 Feb 1131 in Sussex, England
- b.1065 in France d.1120
- b.1164 in Huntingdon, Northumberland, England d.1200 in Dunbar Castle, East Lothian, Scotland
- b.~ 1037 in Avranches, Manche, Normandy, France d.1087 in Oakampton, Devonshire, England
- b.~ 1069 in Oakampton, Devonshire, England d.~ 1129 in Austria-Hungary
- b.~ 1039 in Brionne, Eure, Normandy
- b.~ 1098 in Exeter, Devonshire, England d.> 1167 in Sandhurst, Gloucestershire, England
- b.1035 in Brionne, Eure, Normandy d.1090 in Exeter, Devonshire, England
- b.~ 1072 in Muelles, Calvados, Normandy France d.24 Aug 1142 in Exeter, Devonshire, England
- b.~ 1040 in Avranches, Manche, Normandy, France
- b.~ 1140 in Sandhurst, Gloucestershire, England d.~ 1185
- b.1035 in Pitres, France
- b.1074 in Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England
- b.1050 in Baalun, Maine, Normandy, France
- b.~ 1108 in Sandhurst, Gloucestershire, England
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Family Notes
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They had a son named Galfridus.
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Children
Galfridus De Home
Galfridus was born in 1238 in Home, Berwickshire, Scotland. He died at the age of 62 in 1300.
Family Notes
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