Lady Jane Murray (1730-1747)
Born circa 1730
Died 10 October 1747 Aix-la-Chapelle
Married 3 March 1747 Belford
John Lindsay, 20th Earl of Crawford, 4th Earl of Lindsay,
son of John Lindsay, 19th Earl of Crawford, 3rd Earl of
Lindsay and Hon. Emilia Stuart
Born 4 October 1702
Died 25 December 1749 London
In the family interest she was ordered to marry her first cousin, the
future 3rd Duke of Atholl. However, she refused, and aged seventeen she
eloped with the forty-five-year-old Earl of Crawford. On her honeymoon
she caught the plague and died; followed by her husband two
years later but he died of an old battle-wound.
Source: Leo van de Pas
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