Ada

  General Notes:

Daughter of Patrick Earl of Dunbar, and widow of ....... Courtney, having obtained from her father the lands of Home, and having no children by her first husband, she carried her estate to her second husband and kinsman, who thenceforth is called of Home. Another tradition of the way by which the lands and the name of Hume were gained, is given by Hume of Godscroft, who says, "it is reported that a sone of the Earl of March, who had overcome a certain French champion, was rewarded by his father with the grant of the lands of Home, where the castle now stands." Another tradition which Godscroft prefers is, that a certain man named Phillip, holding both the King and the law at defiance, headed a numerous troop of robbers, who, lurking in woods and solitudes, could not be taken but by a regular army. He possessed two strongholds, from which he harrassed the Earl of March, the one on the top of the back of Home, the other a few miles distant, which was fortified with a triple wall and ditch, and still goes by the name of Phillipstane. William, a son of the Earl, having one day met this robber, slew him, and carried his head to the Earl; and the King for this action gave him the lands of Home. She made over, before 1240, a part of them, however, to the monks of Kelso, pro salute anime meae, patris et matris meae, et maritorum meorum; and of another deed the words are, Ada de Curtnay filia Patricii Comitis de Dunbar salutem. Votum facio me pro animabus maritorum meorum dediss, etc. which shews that she survived both her husbands.
[Drummond's Histories of Noble British Families, William Pickering, London, 1844, Part VI., Dunbar, Hume and Dundas Families]

Ada married William Courtenay.

Ada next married Theobald de Lascelles. (Theobald de Lascelles died about 1225.)

Ada next married Sir William Home, son of Sir Patrick and Cecelia Frazier.⁷³ (Sir William Home was born in 1208 and died in 1266.)