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1st s. of Sir Andrew Ker of Greenhead and Alison, da. of Gilbert Wauchope of Niddrie, Edinburgh Shire.Young, Parliaments of Scot. i. 392. m. (1) 18 Apr. 1634, Elizabeth (d. c.June 1663),Greyfriars Interments ed. H. Paton (Edinburgh, 1902), 357. da. of Sir William Scott of Harden, Roxburghshire, 3s.; (2) 16 Aug. 1664, Catharine (d. 24 Feb. 1668),CB. da. of John Wemyss, 1st earl of Wemyss, wid. of David Carnegie of Craig, s.p. suc. fa. 18 Dec. 1615. cr. bt. 31 July 1637. d. May 1665.Young, Parliaments of Scot. i. 392; Herald and Genealogist, vi. 233-5.
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Local: j.p. Roxburghshire 1637, 1656. Commr. signing covenant, 1638. Member, cttee. of war, 1643, 1646, 1648–9. Commr. revaluation, 1649;Young, Parliaments of Scot. i. 392. approbation of ministers, Lothian province 8 Aug. 1654;J. Nicoll, Diary of Public Transactions (Edinburgh, 1836), 166. assessment, Roxburghshire 31 Dec. 1655, 26 June 1657, 26 Jan. 1660.Acts Parl. Scot. vi. pt. 2, p. 841; A. and O. Sheriff, c.Mar. 1656–7.Scot. and Protectorate ed. Firth, 316.

Scottish: commr. preserving peace on borders, 1641.Herald and Genealogist, vi. 235. Member, cttee. of estates, 1649.Young, Parliaments of Scot. i. 392. Commr. security of protector, Scotland 27 Nov. 1656.A. and O.

Military: col. of ft. and horse, Roxburghshire 1649.Government of Scot. under the Covenanters ed. D. Stevenson (Edinburgh, 1982), 96; Young, Parliaments of Scot. i. 392.

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KER, Sir Andrew (d. 1665), of Greenhead, Roxburghshire.
: of Greenhead, Roxburghshire.
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Commons 1640-1660
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KER, Sir Andrew (d. 1665), of Greenhead, Roxburghshire.

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main estate at Greenhead, near Jedburgh. Served heir to Hietoun, Softlaw, Wooden and Maxwellhaugh, Roxburghshire, 1615; received crown charter of Thirlestane, sold in 1661; granted charter of lands, barony and regality of Greenhead, Nova Scotia, 31 July 1637.Herald and Genealogist, vi. 234-5; CB.
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