Janet Laidlaw [née Ballantyne]

(1786-1861)

LBT ID: JaLaidl1861	B/BAP: 1786 DIED: 1861
SOURCES: DNB ["William Laidlaw"]; James C. Corson, Notes and Index to Grierson's Letters of Scott
The sister of James Ballantyne of Whitehope in Yarrow; in 1810 she married William Laidlaw, friend of James Hogg and Walter Scott.
REFERENCES TO Janet Laidlaw [née Ballantyne]: Walter Scott to William Laidlaw, [January 1818] in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 4 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter IV 1818 Chapter XIII 1824-25 Found 1: ¶ 47 John Gibson Lockhart to Will Laidlaw, 30 April 1842 in The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897) Found 1: ¶ 3 Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912, The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897) Chapter 18: 1837-43