SCA Name:
Margaret Hepburn of Ardrossan

Location:
Shire of Scorpions Hollow, Outlands (Clovis, New Mexico)

Arms:
Currently pending at Kingdom (Drachenwald)
'Azure within a tressure acorned, a greyhound collared gules couchant regardant, argent'

Awards:
AoA (Ansteorra), Order of the Harp Argent (Costuming, Caid), Pleasant Company of
Soujourners (Drachenwald)

Persona Information:
Margaret was born late in the Year of Our Lord 1545 at Nunraw Abbey, near Garvald, East Lothian. Her mother, Madeleine Guinefort de Joinville, came to Scotland as a sempstress in the retinue of Marie de Guise, from an impoverished gentry family who had long worked in the de Guise household. Her father, Andrew, was a lawyer employed by the Lord Lyon King of Arms, known for his skill as a scribe. At 12 Margaret was fostered out to the Seton household, Lady Seton being the former Marie Pierres, a French lady in waiting to Marie de Guise. After Marie de Guise's death, Margaret and her mother travelled to France to spend time with family. Andrew brought them back to Scotland when Madeleine attempted to contract a marriage for Margaret with a French cousin. Soon after, Margaret returned to France to the strict household of Antoinette de Guise, after an indiscretion with a Hepburn cousin. Her father contracted a marriage for her with a son of the Montgomerie family, Simon Fraser Montgomerie, who had been educated in Paris at the Scots College. They wed in Paris and lived there until 1572. They returned to the east coast of Scotland, to the Ayrshire town of Ardrossan, in the Valley of the Clyde. After the birth of their son, Jacob, they moved to a small manor on a farm in the Ayrshire countryside. Redstanes House at Westermarch farm is now also home to Kitty and Bet, two Fraser cousins who act as nursemaid to young Jacob and
personal maid to Margaret, respectively, and young William Montgomerie, the son of Simon's second eldest brother, who has been fostered to their household.

SCA Interests:
Costuming, Research, embroidery, archery, persona research, hatmaking, greyhounds, research, things heraldic, research

Other Interests:
a housewife, mother and sporadic writer, voracious reader and bibliophile (would eat books if she found a palatable one ....), very amateur genealogist

Modern Name:
Julie McMahon Stackable

Email:
malvoisine@yahoo.com

Web Page:
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