Hello Stephen. I am a xgreat granddaughter of the first Maxwells of Scotland. I believe the first one to have been Maccus around 1116? I have been researching them for ages and have come back to them again as they seem to pop up marrying into other families on my tree. At the moment I am going round in circles trying to discover the definitive father of Mariota Maxwell, who married Sir Robert Boyd, 1st Lord of Kilmarnock.They appear to be my 16th great grandparents. Can you enlighten me as to whom her father was? I see from the internet that many people state Sir Robert Maxwell was her father. I have it as Sir John Maxwell 5th of Calderwood, 1st of Newark. I really would appreciate some help. Regards, Sheila Jackson of York, England.