Ancestry of
Johnny Mercer

Songwriter and Co-Founder of Capitol Records

John Bethune

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• • 13th Great-grandfather of Johnny Mercer — 16th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 32912 
  • Father:
  • John Bethune 
  • Mother:
  • Catherine Stirling   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1440 
  • Birth Location:
  • Raith, Fife, Scotland 
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  • Death Date:
  • 1507 
  • Death Location:
  • Balfour, Fifle Scotland 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Marjory Boswell
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1458 
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  • Children:
  
  

  Archibald Bethune

  John Bethune (Ahnentafel No:16456 )

  • Notes: 

  • 5th Laird of Balfour

• Additional marriages for John Bethune

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  • Spouse:
  • Elizabeth Melville

• Sources for John Bethune

  • ¹ Carter, Jeff, Ancestors of Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter, Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland and Company, Inc. (2012), 170.
  • ² MacInnes, Lt-Col John, The Brave Sons of Skye, London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, Government, Legal, and General Publishers (1899), 165.
  • ³ Whyte, Thomas and Alfred Armitage Bethune-Baker, An Historical and Genealogical Account of the Bethunes of the Island of Sky, London: A. Chilver (1893), 7.
  • ⁴ Wood, Rev. Walter, The East Neuk of Fife: Its History and Antiquities, Geology, Botany, and Natural History in General, Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, and John Menzies (1862), 261.