General Notes

REFN: 4967AN
Elizabeth St. Michael, in her free widowhood, resigns her lands of
Whitcheste r, in the parish of Hawick and County of Roxburgh, into the
hands of her supe rior, Archibald, Earl of Douglas,in 1399, and he
immediately afterwards grant s a charter of the same lands to her and her
husband, Sir John Maxwell of Pol lok.
The family she represented was one of considerable note and antiquity.
R obert St. Michael is witness to a charter to Helias, son of Uchtred de
Dundas ante 1153. In 1183, Henry Lovel,lord of Hawick, grants to the
Chapter of St. Andrew's two oxengangs of land in Branxholm, formerly held
by Walter De St. Michael. William De St. Michael witnesses charters 1185
and 1200. Robert De S t Michael left a son, Elmeras, who, about the year
1240, resigns Ylistoun (at this period the Kers already hold a part of
Ylistoun) to the abbot of Drybur gh; 1249, John De St. Michael is one of
the witnesses of a charter of Agnes d e Ilifistun to the abbey of Melrose;
and Sir John De St.Michael and John De S t.Michael, both of the county of
Roxburgh, swore fealty to Edward I, at Berwi ck-upon-Tweed.
[from Notes on the Family of Kerr in Scotland- Herald and Genea logist]