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See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphemia_de_Ross.
https://www.historyscotland.com/history/the-stewart-queens-of-scotland-1371-1513-euphemia-ross-the-surprise offers:
Dr Amy Hayes explores the life and legacy of Euphemia Ross, the first Stewart queen of Scots as wife of Robert II, and discovers an enigmatic but fascinating character who deserved to be more widely known.
Euphemia Ross was the first queen consort of the new Stewart dynasty, which began with the ascension of Robert II in 1371 and which would dominate the Scottish kingdom for centuries to come. Yet surprisingly little is known about her. Generally Euphemia merits one or two lines in political histories of the Stewarts, and she is often thrown together with Annabella Drummond (wife of Robert III) as an early Stewart queen.
Such a comparison does Euphemia no favours, as she did not leave the dramatic impression on chronicle sources that Annabella did, and unlike Annabella none of her letters or complaints to parliament survive. Nonetheless, Euphemia was a queen consort in her own right, and she deserves to be brought out from under Annabellas shadow. She may not have left heavy traces in the historical record, but those traces she has left offer a fascinating glimpse into the lifestyle of a 14th-century Scottish queen.
Early life
Euphemia was the daughter of Hugh Ross and his second wife, Margaret Graham. Her date of birth is unknown, but must pre-date 1333 given her fathers death, fighting for David II at the battle of Haldon Hill that year. Indeed, she may well have been born before November 1329, when her parents received a papal dispensation for their marriage, which also included any children already born of the marriage.
There can have been no expectation that Euphemia would rise to the position of queen, and her first marriage was to John Randolph, earl of Moray. It is unclear exactly when Euphemia and Moray married, but it was probably around 1343, when the earl returned to Scotland after imprisonment in England and a spell abroad in France. If this date is correct then the marriage was short-lived, as Moray died at the battle of Nevilles Cross in 1346. Euphemia remained a widow for nearly a decade, until he marriage to Robert Stewart.
Marriage to the Steward
In 1355 a dispensation was granted for the marriage of Euphemia, styled countess of Moray, and Robert Stewart. Officially this marriage was intended to ease the discord between Stewart and Euphemias brother, William, 5thearl of Ross. As well as kinship to the earl of Ross, Euphemia had one-third of the property rights of her deceased husband, John Randolph. It is most likely Euphemias rights that allowed Stewart to claim the former Randolph lordship of Badenoch. Although Euphemia was probably in her late twenties or early thirties and had never borne any children, this was not a problem for Stewart, who had a large family by his first wife, Elizabeth Mure.
For Stewart and Ross this was ultimately a marriage of practicality, but it is almost impossible to know anything of Euphemias opinions after she had been a widow for almost a decade. Euphemia may well have known Stewart through her first marriage to Moray as both men acted as co-guardians for the young David II. It has been whimsically suggested that she was probably concerned for the young children of Robert Stewart by Elizabeth Mure, who had been left motherless on the latters death. Of course this can only be conjecture, but given that her marriage made her step-mother to the nine legitimate children of the Steward we can at least presume that Euphemia was not adverse to the idea of family life.
Although Euphemia had been childless with her first husband, she went on to have at least four children with Stewart, bringing the total of his legitimate children to thirteen. David, the future earl of Strathearn, was born in 1357, two years after his parents marriage. His younger brother, Walter, earl of Atholl and future instigator in the death of James I, was born in 1360. Two daughters followed, Elizabeth and Egidia.
We have no date of birth on record for these daughters, but they were probably born in the 1360s, and no later than the mid-1370s, when Euphemia would have been in her forties. A dispensation for Elizabeths marriage to David Lindsay of Glen Esk was granted in 1375, and Egidia married William Douglas of Nithsdale in 1388, suggesting that Elizabeth was the older daughter.Rumours abounded that Egidia was a great beauty, with Charles VI of France reputedly sending a painter to create a portrait of her.
Euphemia the queen
Even after her marriage to Stewart, Euphemia can hardly have expected to become queen. Although David II - Robert Stewarts childless, much younger uncle - appeared to have accepted the possibility of a Stewart succession, it was Stewarts son, John (later Robert III) who was in favour with the Bruce king, being granted a marriage to Annabella Drummond, the niece of David IIs then-queen, Margaret Logie.
David II himself seems to have held out hope for a Bruce heir, and just before his death he was contemplating a new marriage, to Agnes Dunbar. Euphemia may have been married to the heir-presumptive, but she was by no means a queen in waiting. The death of the 47-year-old David II on 22 February 1371 may well have taken the now Robert II and Euphemia by surprise. Euphemia was now queen consort of the Scottish kingdom, and indeed the first queen of a new royal dynasty.
Yet even though Euphemia was styled queen from the point of her husbands ascension, she was not crowned alongside him in March 1371. Instead the new queen had to wait almost two years, and seems to have been crowned at some point between December 1372 and March 1373. This delay was undoubtedly controversial, and we can only imagine Euphemias opinion over her lack of formal status.
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[46441] See Find A Grave memorial 174516340.
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[10148] "The Akron Beacon Journal, 7 November 2007," p. B012: "Eleanor E. Heckman concluded her journey in this life on November 4, 2007, two days after the festival of her 97th birthday. She was born in Graysville, Ohio in 1910. Eleanor was preceded in death by her husband of 48 years, Lloyd K Heckman. She is survived by her daughter and son-in-law, Janis L. and Thomas L. Watson of Allison Park, Pa.; granddaughter, Karen L. Watson of Allison Park, Pa.; grandson, Stephen T. Watson of Syracuse, N.Y.; three great grandchildren, David, Michael and Beth Watson, all of Syracuse, N.Y.; and niece, Leah Rae Steger of Shelby Twp., Mich. Eleanor was a long time resident of the Ellet section of Akron, Ohio where she founded and operated Eleanor's Beauty Shop for 15 years until 1968. Eleanor and Lloyd Heckman relocated to Margate, Florida in 1969 where she remained until 2003 when she moved to Allison Park, Pa. Eleanor was small in stature, but possessed a large loving heart and a zest for life. She was an avid reader and was always aware of world and local news. Even after her vision became limited she still listened and discussed nightly news. Eleanor was content with books on tape provided by the blind. She loved and lived life to its fullest. She contained a passion for animals and in her last days talked of her former pets. Eleanor was a member of North Springfield Presbyterian Church and later Oak Hill Presbyterian Church in Akron. She was an active member of Cokesbury United Methodist Church in Margate, Florida, where she participated actively in attending and teaching Sunday school, as well as other activities with the ladies of Cokesbury." Eleanor is daughter of Howard E. Lovell (1882-1912) and Winifred Brister (1890-1912). Ancestry.com offers: "Lovell Name Meaning - English: nickname from Anglo-Norman French lo(u)ve 'female wolf' (feminine form of lou, from Latin lupus) + the diminutive suffix -el."
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Find A Grave memorial 6238510 offers: "John Prescott, founder of Lancaster, MA. John Prescott, Sr. was born about 1605 in England and died in Lancaster, MA in 1683. He married Mary Gawkroger (alias Platt) (1607-1718) on April 11, 1629 in Sowerby, Yorkshire, England. The first 5 of their children were born in England except for the fifth child Hannah who was probably born in Barbados, West Indies in 1639. Their children included: Mary (Thomas Sawyer), Martha (John Rugg), John, Jr. (Sarah), Sarah (1 Richard Wheeler, 2 Joseph Rice), Hannah (John Rugg widower of Martha), Lydia (1 Jonas Fairbanks, 2 Elias Barron, Jr.), Capt. Jonathan (1 Dorothy Heald, 2 Elizabeth Hoar, 3 Rebecca Wheeler, 4 Ruth Brown), Joseph (probable that there was no son Joseph and that his existence at all is due to a clerks error in an early history of Concord, MA), Capt. Jonas, Sr. (Mary Loker). John and Mary were in Watertown, MA in 1640 and moved from there to the Nashaway Plantation in 1643 which was later to become Lancaster. Jonas was born here before Lancaster was incorporated so his birth was registered in Groton. There may have been two other children who died in infancy in England. Mary's alias 'Platts' appears to come from English lands by that name that passed down through the Gawkroger family. The main source of this information is William Prescott's 1870 'Prescott Memorial.'"
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The unverified McIntyre Family Tree in Ancestry.com in 2015 offers: "John Prescott was born in May 1604 in Standish, Lancashire, the child of Ralph. He married Mary Platt on April 11, 1629, in Halifax, Yorkshire. . . . He died on December 20, 1681, in Lancaster, Massachusetts, having lived a long life of 77 years. . . . Mary Platt was born in 1607. . . . She died in 1688 in Massachusetts, having lived a long life of 81 years." Ancestry.com offers: "Prescott Name Meaning - English: habitational name from any of the places so called, in southwestern Lancashire (now Merseyside), Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, Shropshire, and Devon, all of which are named from Old English preost priest + cot cottage, dwelling. The surname is most common in Lancashire, and so it seems likely that the first of these places is the most frequent source. It is also present in Ireland, being recorded there first in the 15th century."
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"Edwald Rawson came to New England in the year 1636 or 1637, and became an inhabitant of the town of Newbury, in the Colony of Massassachusetts Bay. There, many other English people settled, who were from Hants and Wilts (counties adjoining Dorset), and perhaps knew by reputation, if not personally, our progenitor or his father's family in Old England, their resi dence being located near the bounds of those two counties, in Gillingham, county of Dorset. This may account for the confidence reposed in him so soon after his arrival. He was a grantee of that town; the second Town Clerk (Public Notary and Register for the towne of Newbury), chosen April 19, 1638 (and was annually re-elected until 1647). To this oifice was added, the same year, that of a Selectman, and also that of Commissioner and Attorney for the trial of small causes in Newbury. He was besides member of each of the various committees to lay out the commons, and also one of the Deputies to represent the town at the May and September sessions of the General Court. Thus speedily, in a few months, was Edward Rawson elevated to civil office. Undoubtedly he must have possessed more than ordinary talent for business, as well as a large share of public spirit, to he so soon honored by his fellow-townsmen, and to have taken his seat, at the age of three-and-twenty, among the legislators of the Colony. His various public acts and employments while he resided there are more fully narrated in Coffin's History of Newbury. A few items taken from the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, published in 1849, may be of interest to those who ahve not alread seen them, and which, no doubt, are perfectly authentic.
"'In 1639, he again represented the town of Newbury in the General Court, at its three sessions, and at the may session the Colony records inform us that he "is granted 500 acres at Pecoit, so as he go on with the business of powder if the salt Peter come." In 1642, he again appears as a Deputy in the General Court; also in May, 1644, and at the October session, "In answer to a petition p^rferd by Mr. Rawson, for land in refference to his journey to the eastward, this Court grants him 200 acres upon Cochituate River, above Dover bounds, not graunted to any others, p^rvided that Capt. Pendleton be joyned wth Peter Commin in laying out the same." In 1645, he was returned to the General Court, which had a very long session, extending from May 14th until saturday, July 5th. During the last week of this session, the deputies passed the following vote, "Edward Rawson is chosen & appointed Clark to the house of Depu^ts for one whole yeere, to Enter all votes passed in both houses, & those also y^t passe only by them into the book of Records." In 1646, he retained his seat as Deputy and his office as Clerk of the House, and at the November session it was ordered by the Deputies, "y^t Edward Rawson shall have twenty markes allowed him for his paines, out of y^3 next levy, as Secr^t to ye House of Depu^ts for two yeeres past." This vote of the Deputies was passed by "both houses," and the Court, subsequently to its passage, entered the following declaration in their records: "Mr. Edward Rawson having been employed to signe and transcribe all bills that passe in a book, yet being sensible of the greate expenses and charge which this Court is at; and difficulty to raise small matters; not doubting of his being sensible with us, therefore; to meet, in that respect, what was allowed him by us for one year's service, viz.: twenty marks, shall be all that shall be allowed him, and paid him out of the next levy for his services done; and he shall do to the end of this Court; conceiving it to be but just in some measure to recompense labours of this kind; which we would not be backward in."'
"In 1647 and 1648 he continued to represent Newbury in the General Court. In the latter year, he received tow grants of land. The first at the May session, of 1,500 acres, jointly with Rev. John Wilson of Boston, 'next adjoining to the 3,000 acres granted to Mr. John Winthrop at Paquatuck, near the Narraganset country; but in case Mr. John Winthrop perform not the condition with respect to the time limited, that then the 1,500 acres of the said Mr. Wilson and Mr. Edward Rawson shall be of the said 3,000 acres granted to the said Mr. Winthrop.' The second grant is the subject of the following vote of the Court, passed at the October session:
"'In answer to the petition of Mr. Edward Rawson, for satisfaction in regard of charges he hath been at & damages which he hath sustayned about pvisions to make gunpowder: It is ord^red that in Regard of his great forwardnes & Readines to advance so hopeful a designe as the amkinge of saltpeter within this Jurisdiction, who for that end & purpose hath disbursed certayne moneyes, to his great Loss & Damage, prsented to us at Large in his petition, Delivered into the present Court, have therefore, in consideration of the p^rmises & answer to his s^d petition, given and graunted unto him & his heires for ever, 500 acres of land, at Pequot, to be Layd out by the appoytment of this Court, as also five pounds, to be payed him out of the treasury.' Edward Rawson was also one of two persons (Mr. Joseph Hills of Malden being the other), who were that same year desired by the Court 'to compose the amendments of the book of laws passed and make them as one; one copy to remain in the hands of the committee for the speedy committing them to the press, and the other to remain in the hands of the Secretary, sealed up, till the next Court.' In 1649, he represented Newbury and was re-elected Clerk of the House of Deputies; and at the next annual election, on the 22nd of May, 1650, Edward Rawson was raised to the office which Increase Newell had filled without interruption since the year 1636; and he opened the first page of his new volume of Colonial Records with the following: 'At a General Court Eleccons, held at Boston 22^th of May, 1650, Edward Rawson, gent., was chosen Secretary.'
"Johnson, in his 'Wonder Working Providence,' published in London, 1654, uses this language respecting him: 'Mr. Edward Rawson, a young man, yet employed in Commonwealth affairs a long time, being well beloved by the inhabitants of Newbury, having had a large hand in her foundation, but of late, he being of a ripe capacity, a good yeoman (penman) and eloquent inditer, hath been chosen Secretary of the Colony.'
"In 1649, by the records of Newbury, 'at a meeting generall of the freemen, March 6th,' Edward Rawson was appointed, with others, 'to bee a committee about Plum Island,' From 1650 he was annually re-ellected secretary until the usurpation of the government by Sir Edmund Andross, 1686, when Randolph succeeded him. Elliot remarks of him, that, 'he was of respectable character, as we may judge from his having this office so long, while there was an annual election.'
"In 1849, Mr. Josua Pilsbury lived on the farm which was owned and occupied by Edward Rawson, in Newbury, and which was purchased of the latter by William Pilsbury, the ancestor of the former. It is said he also owned and cultivated another farm in Newbury, near what is called Turkey Hill, so named from its having been the favorite resort of wild turkeys in the early settlement of the town. The meadow, near the hill, still [1875] bears the name of 'Rawson Meadow.' After his removal to Boston, his residence was on 'Rawson's Lane,' and here he is supposed to have died. This lane bor his name until near 1800, when it was changed to Bromfield Street. Here he owned some acres of land, which bordered on the Common or Training field, out of which he sold a number of home lots.
"He and his wife were members of what was called the First Church, over which the Rev. John Wilson was pastor. [Wilson's daughter Susannah later married their son Grindall.] After the death of Mr. Wilson, a new pastor was to be chosen, and the Synod of 1662 was divided on the question, 'Who are subjects of Baptism?' and this division called forth still another in the First Church, out of which grew the Old South Society of Boston; so popularly known. The record says he was one of twenty-eight disaffected persons of the First Church of Boston, who dissolved connection with that society and form the 3d or Old South Church, in May, 1669. Thomas Thatcher, their first pastor, was installed February 16th, 1670.
"The corporation in England for the propagation of the gospel among the Indians in New England chose Edward Rawson steward or agent 'for the receiveing and disposing of such goods and commodities' as should be sent to the 'United Colonies,' and the Commissioners of the Colonies confirmed the choice at a meeting held at New Haven in September, 1651, and appointed him to that trust. It seems that a charge of negligence in the performance of his duties in that capacity, was preferred against him. 'The praying Indiands complained to Ratcliff and Randolph that the could not get the clothes which were allowed them.' The charge is believed to have benn groundless, as Andross, who removed him from office, and Randolph who succeeded him, had sufficient motives to induce them to excite prejudice agaist him among the Indians. Soon after this, Andross was seized by the Colonists, and sent to England in irons.
"The warrant which was sent to Boston by King Charles II for the aprehension of the Regicides, Goff, Whalley and Dixwell, was countersigned by Secretary Rawson. His correspondence with Gov. Leete, of connecticut, shows that zealous efforts were made to apprehend them, but, as is well known, they were unsuccessful. He is believed to be the auther of a book published in 1691, entitled, 'The Revolution in New England Justified;' also another, entitled, 'The General Laws and Liberties concering the Inhabitants of the Ms. &c., fol., 1660.'
"It is regretted that one, whose character was otherwise so irreproachable as that of the Secretary, should have been led to particpate in the persecution of the Quakers. But there is too much proof on record to leave room for doubt, that he was influenced by the fanaticism of the day. This is the only blemish upon his fair fame, and we may hope that his conduct during this excitement - chargeable, perhaps, in a great measure, to his peculiar position - may be counterbalanced by the virtuous deeds of an apparently otherwise irreproachable life."
Edward came to New England about 1637. He resided first in Newbury, MA. In Mar 1638 was freeman. He was the first clerk of the town, representative seven years from 1638 through 1649, and Secretary 1650 to 1686. He moved to Boston in 1650; was long registrar of deeds for Suffolk Co. as well as Secretary for the Colony for, as Savage says, 'which office the volumes of records exhibit strange evidence in many places of his incompetency or more wonderful neglect.'
Edward married Rachel Perne, daughter of Richard Perne (ca 1583-11 Apr 1636) & Rachel Greene (ca 1591-13 Nov 1656), at England. Born ca 1619 at Gillingham, Dorset. Rachel died at Boston, MA, on 11 Oct 1677.
Edward and Rachel were distantly related - they were third cousins. Their maternal great grand mothers were both sisters of Archbishop Edmund Grindall.
Also see article about children of Edward in "The Register: The Journal of American Genealogy, Vol. 173 - Winter 2019" New England Historic Genealogical Society (Boston, MA), pp. 26-36.
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