Janet Giffard 
Janet was born about 1344 in Yester Castle, Haddintonshire, Scotland. Janet's father was Hugh Giffard and her mother is Joanna Douglas. Her paternal grandparents are John Giffard and Eupheme Morham; her maternal grandfather was James Douglas and her maternal grandmother is UNKNOWN Joan. She has a sister named Alice. She is the younger of the two children.General Notes
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Located 1½ miles (2½ km) SE of Giffard in East Lothian, Yester Cas tle was
built in 1297 by Hugo De Giffard, the so-called Wizard of Yester. Ben eath
is the sizeable Goblin Ha', where Giffard is said to have made magic.
This name is echoed in a small hotel in the village of Giffard and the
goblin s were immortalised in Sir Walter Scott's Marmion.
The castle passed to the Ha y 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 surroun dings 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 compose r Gian Carlo Menotti.
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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.1204 in Yester Castle, East Lothian, Scotland
- b.~ 1237 in Yester Castle, East Lothian, Scotland
- b.1255 in Yester Castle, East Lothian, Scotland d.1310 in Yester Castle, East Lothian, Scotland
- b.1281 in Yester Castle, Giffard, East Lothian, Scotland
- b.1306 in Yester Castle, Giffard, East Lothian, Scotland d.<11 Mar 1409 in Yester Castle, Giffard, East Lothian, Scotland
- b.1263 in Morham, East Lothian, Scotland
- b.1287 in Morham, East Lothian, Scotland
- b.~ 1344 in Yester Castle, Haddintonshire, Scotland
- b.~ 1179 in Morayshire, Scotland d.1240 in Scotland
- b.1200 in Morayshire, Scotland d.1276
- b.~ 1187 in Crawford, Ayrshire, Scotland d.< 1225 in Scotland
- b.1225 in Douglas Castle, Douglas, Lanarkshire, Scotland d.1302 in Tower of York
- b.< 1183 in Scotland
- b.~ 1203 in Carrick, Galloway, Argyll, Scotland
- b.< 1300 in Douglas Castle, Lanarkshire, Scotland d.25 Aug 1330 in Santiago De Compostela, Spain
- b.~ 1160 in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland d.1241 in Dundonald Castle, Ayrshire, Scotland
- b.1214 in Dundonald, Kyle, Ayrshire, Scotland d.1283 in Dundonald Castle, Ayrshire, Scotland
- b.~ 1174 in Forfar, Angus-shire, Scotland
- b.~ 1246 in Dundonald, Ayrshire, Scotland d.<24 Jan 1296 in London, Middlesex, England
- b.~ 1190 in Bute, Scotland
- b.1215 in Isle of Bute, Scotland
- b.1195 in Isle of Man
- b.1314 in Douglas Castle, Lanarkshire, Scotland
- b.~ 1286 in Douglas, Lanarkshire, Scotland
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Janet and Thomas were married in a religious ceremony about 1362. They had a daughter named Rachael.
Family Notes
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