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Janet Fockart (died 1596) was a Scottish merchant and moneylender.
Little is known of her background. In the 15th century there was a Scottish landowning family, Folkert of Folkertoun, and she may have been a relation.
Janet Fockart was married three times, to John Todd, in 1560 to the luxury merchant and magistrate William Fowler (d. 1572), with whom she had seven children, and to James Hathoway (d. 1579), a nephew of the merchant Alexander Park. In early modern Scotland, married women did not usually adopt their husband's surnames.
Already during Fowler's lifetime, she was engaged in business as a moneylender, and after 1580, she rose to become one of the most successful in this line of business in Edinburgh. Among her clients were Robert Stewart, 1st Earl of Orkney, regent James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton, as well as king James VI of Scotland, who was a regular client. She left a substantial fortune at her death. She was the mother of the poet William Fowler and grandmother of the poet William Drummond of Hawthornden. A daughter Sarah married an Edinburgh merchant John Inglish or Inglis, and their son Robert Inglis settled in London by 1630 and registered a coat of arms.
William Fowler senior and Janet Fockart had a shop and warehouse. They sold cloth, trimmings and haberdashery. He died in 1572, and his registered will included his entire stock. There were fine silk damasks for gowns, and woollen "friezes" for cloaks, serge for coats and women's riding clothes. Fourteen thousand counterfeit pearls were probably to be used for masque costumes.
Customers included Margaret Kennedy, Countess of Orkney, an account of her expenses in 1584 includes debts to Fockart.
Janet and her husband had a large house near or on the Royal Mile of Edinburgh, and the site was called Fowler's Close and later, Anchor Close. Janet, as a widow, let parts of this house for rent. In May 1578 a roof-slater William Robesoun was punished outside the house for slandering Eleanor Bowes, the wife of the English ambassador Robert Bowes who was lodged there.
Esmé Stewart lodged in the house in 1579 when he first arrived from France and before his departure in 1583. In September 1584, she hosted a party of German tourists including Lupold von Wedel who went riding with her son, the poet William Fowler. The Earl of Huntly prepared a banquet for the king and others in the house in March 1589.
Janet Fockart
Janet Fockart (died 1596) was a Scottish merchant and moneylender.
Little is known of her background. In the 15th century there was a Scottish landowning family, Folkert of Folkertoun, and she may have been a relation.
Janet Fockart was married three times, to John Todd, in 1560 to the luxury merchant and magistrate William Fowler (d. 1572), with whom she had seven children, and to James Hathoway (d. 1579), a nephew of the merchant Alexander Park. In early modern Scotland, married women did not usually adopt their husband's surnames.
Already during Fowler's lifetime, she was engaged in business as a moneylender, and after 1580, she rose to become one of the most successful in this line of business in Edinburgh. Among her clients were Robert Stewart, 1st Earl of Orkney, regent James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton, as well as king James VI of Scotland, who was a regular client. She left a substantial fortune at her death. She was the mother of the poet William Fowler and grandmother of the poet William Drummond of Hawthornden. A daughter Sarah married an Edinburgh merchant John Inglish or Inglis, and their son Robert Inglis settled in London by 1630 and registered a coat of arms.
William Fowler senior and Janet Fockart had a shop and warehouse. They sold cloth, trimmings and haberdashery. He died in 1572, and his registered will included his entire stock. There were fine silk damasks for gowns, and woollen "friezes" for cloaks, serge for coats and women's riding clothes. Fourteen thousand counterfeit pearls were probably to be used for masque costumes.
Customers included Margaret Kennedy, Countess of Orkney, an account of her expenses in 1584 includes debts to Fockart.
Janet and her husband had a large house near or on the Royal Mile of Edinburgh, and the site was called Fowler's Close and later, Anchor Close. Janet, as a widow, let parts of this house for rent. In May 1578 a roof-slater William Robesoun was punished outside the house for slandering Eleanor Bowes, the wife of the English ambassador Robert Bowes who was lodged there.
Esmé Stewart lodged in the house in 1579 when he first arrived from France and before his departure in 1583. In September 1584, she hosted a party of German tourists including Lupold von Wedel who went riding with her son, the poet William Fowler. The Earl of Huntly prepared a banquet for the king and others in the house in March 1589.