Birth: 1679 Glamis, Angus, Scotland, UK
Father: Andrew Wandless b1664-a1679
Mother: Unknown
Christening: 8 July 1679 in Glamis, Angus, Scotland, UK
Marriage: 6/7 June 1702 Rattray, Blairgowrie, Perth, Scotland, UK
Husband: John Baxter 1667-1744
Death: 1752 Blairgowrie, Perth, Scotland, UK
William Baxter 1703
John Baxter 1704
Isobell Baxter 1709
Alexander Baxter 1711-a1755
Andrew Baxter 1711
George Baxter 1718
Patrick Baxter 1720
Entry in Ancestry Scotland, Select Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950 for Margaret Wandless baptised 28 July 1679 in Glamis, Angus, father Andrew Wandless.
Entry in Scotlands People Old Parish Registers for Margaret Wandless father Andrew Wandless on 28 July 1679 in Glamis (289 10 / 19). "July 28 1679 All day Margaret Wandlefs, daughter Lawll to Andrew Wanlefs at the bridgend was baptized".
There are three entries in the IGI for the marriage of John Baxter - to Margreat Walls on 6 June 1702 in Blairgowrie, Perth, and to Margaret Wandless on 7 June 1702 in Rattray and in Perth. The same information is in Scotlands People
Entry in Ancestry All Scotland, Select Marriages, 1561-1910 for the marriage of Margreat Walls and John Baxter on 6 June 1702 in Blairgowrie, Perth, and two entries for Margaret Wandless and John Baxter on 7 June 1702 in Rattray, Perth and in Perth.
Two entries in Scotlands People Old Parish Registers for the marriage of Margeat Walls on 6 June 1702 at Blairgowrie (335 10 / 317) "Blairgowrie, Perth 1702 June 6 [...] John Baxter in this parish brought a ? from the parish of Rattray showing him to be lawfully contracted in order unto marriage with Margreat Walls ??" and two entries for Margaret Wandless and John Baxter on 7 June 1702 in Rattray (389 30 / 111) "M As Alfo John Baxter taillor in Nother? Bird? in the Parish of Blair and Margaret Wandlefs Lawfull daur to the deceased? Andrew Wamdlefs mason in Glarnnings? The D Margaret living in the parish of Lyroas" and "This day John Baxter and Margaret Wandless [...] were proclaimed in order to marriage"
Her two sons were baptised on 28 March 1703 and 7 May 1704, father John Baxter, her daughter on 18 February 1709 parents John Baxter and Margreat Wandlass, her two sons on 24 October 1711 parents John Baxter and Margaret Wandless, her son on 26 January 1718 parents John Baxter and Margarat Wandless, and her son on 24 April 1720 parents John Baxtar and Margrate Wandless.
Her husband died and was buried in 1744 in Blairgowrie.
Entry in Scotlands People for Margaret Baxter on 2 February 1752 in Blairgowrie (335 30 / 97) "Collects (93) Febry 2d Inboxed for the use of the mortcloth at the funerals of Margaret Baxter £1 10s". Note that this is a mort cloth account so postdates the funeral.
Glamis is some 14 miles East of Rattray which is on the east of the Ericht and Blairgowrie which is on the west, on the west, and 12 miles north of Dundee.
Margaret Wandless was Felicity's sixth great grandmother.
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