"Lindsay had once been one of the little kingdoms of England. It lay in Lincolnshire and flourished from the 6th until the 9th century, when it was conquered by the Danes. The Norman conquest followed, and in 1086, the year before the Conqueror's death, Baldric of Lindsay was tennent of his manors under the Earl of Chester. The name was by this time in current use in England." (Ian Gimble)

In about 1120 a certain Sir Walter of Lindsay was a member of the council of England's greatest magnate, David, Earl of Huntingdon. When Earl David succeeded his brother Kg. Alexander I. to the Scottish throne, the Lindsays followed him to Scotland. Though it is from Sir Walter or his brother William the family here detailed traces their descent, the Founding Ancestor of this family is here taken to be [Missing XREF c-lindsay40087].

Sir Alexander 
(
Stirling
) + 1381

Alexander 
c. 1387 - 1438

Christina 
de Lindsay
(
de Guisnes
)

Sir David 
(
Stewart
) c. 1360 - 1407

Sir David 
* ante 1381


David 
* post 1384

Elisabeth 
(
Keith
) * post 1384

Elisabeth 
(
Erskine
) * post 1384

Gerard 
+ ante 1421

Ingalram? 
+ 1458

Isabella 
(
Maxwell
) + post 1384

John 
(
Hamilton
) c. 1596 - 1676


John 
1702 - 1749

John 
(
Stuart
) + 1713

John 
de Lindsay
(
Dunkeld
) + post 1150


M/? 
+ post 1400

Marjorie 
(
Douglas
) * post 1384

Sir William 
+ post 1400

William 
(
Johnstone
) 1644 - 1698

William 
de Lindsay
(
de Balliol
) 1250 - 1283