Can anone identify the parents of Marion Boyd, the putative mother of James Hamilton of Finnart?
The Scots Peerage says this about her putative son, James Hamilton of Finnart: "He is said to have been the son of a lady named Boyd". https://archive.org/stream/scotspeeragefoun04pauluoft#page/361/mode... Memorie of the Somervills goes further: "James Hamilton naturall sone to James, the second Lord Hamilton, and first Earle of Arrane, begotten on a daughter of the Lord Boydes," although which Lord Boyd is being referred to is not clear. https://archive.org/stream/memorieofsomerv11815some#page/315/mode/1up The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography identifies the mother of James Hamilton of Finnart as Marion Boyd of Bonshaw but upon what authority is not clear. http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.00...