Les, There's a typo in my note: Her name is Charity Colquhoun. I have received several notes from the family that: "In the ruined Church at Portraine, Co. Dublin, looking west is a horizontal tombstone bearing this inscription: "Here Lyeth the body of Mr. Adam Lynn who dearted this life the 19 day of November Anno Domini 1722 aged forty five years or thereabouts. This Adam Lynn (7th Dragoon Guards or "Black Horse") had purchased property at Portraine and was riding with a portion of the purchase money when attacked by footpads, robbed and murdered ......Swords (Family History) His wife was Charity Colquhon, daughter of Sir ________Colquhoun of Liss (Luss ?) Dumbartonshire (an heiress by whom he let issue, Henry, William, Adam, Brooks and Marie; also a posthumous son, John. ) The widow of Adam Lynn subsequently settled in Fethard in Co. Wexford because of her marriage to Mr. Brown holding appointment of Fethard as Commander of the King's Barge." Over the years, ( 2000, 2002, and 2006) Sue Harvey and I have exchanged notes on Charity, but neither of us has been has been to find documentation of the birth of a Colquhoun daughter born in the right time frame. We've both checked books, etc, in Luss, and in Ireland. Nothing! Les, does this help? Or does it confirm the dead-end? What is obvious, yet overlooked by us? Good luck. Dick On Jan 13, 2009, at 12:01 AM, dunbartonshire-genweb- request@rootsweb.com wrote: > Message: 2 > Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 23:26:25 -0000 > From: "Les Horn" <leshorn@ythanonich.freeserve.co.uk> > Subject: Re: [DUNB] Chairty Colquhoun > To: <dunbartonshire-genweb@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <7ED01D5096D843A0A98FB360F15B3B86@HomeDesktop> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Dick wrote > >>> My wife's family has correspondence regarding the marriage of >>> Chairty >>> Colquhoun (?Daughter of Sir ____ Colquhoun, of Luss, Dumbartonshire >>> (an heiress) to Adam Loftus Lynn, (a member of the 7th Dragoon >>> Guards, >>> or ?Black Horse?) around 1710, in Ireland. >>> >>> I don't have dates, or the name of the specific "Sir ____ >>> Colquhoun." > > To quote from http://www.thepeerage.com/p24574.htm#i245737 > > "Sir Humphrey Colquhoun of Luss, 5th Bt. is the son of Sir James > Colquhoun of Luss, 4th Bt. and Penuel Cunningham.2 He married > Margaret Houstoun, daughter of Sir Patrick Houstoun of that Ilk, 1st > Bt., on 4 April 1684 He died in 1718 > > Sir Humphrey Colquhoun of Luss, 5th Bt. succeeded to the title > of 5th Baronet Colquhoun, of Luss [N.S., 1625] in 1688. He held the > office of Member of Parliament (M.P.) for Dunbartonshire [Scotland] > in 1703. On 30 March 1704 having no sons, he resigned his > baronetcy to the Crown and obtained 29 April 1704 a new patent with > the former precedency and limitation, failing heirs male of his > body, to James Grant of Pluscardine and the heirs male of the > latter's marriage with his daughter Anne.3 In 1706 entailed his > lands on Humphrey Grant, his daughter's eldest son, and the heirs > male of the latter's body, whom failing on the other sons of the > marriage, and the heirs male of their body, with the proviso that > the Grant and Colquhoun estates were never to be united." > > As Sir Humphrey had no sons, and the Estate passed to the Grants on > the marriage of his daughter Anne to James Grant circa 1704, who is > this Sir___ of Luss who is supposed to be Chairty's father ? > > It would be interesting as to what the "correspondence" is. > > Regards > Les > > ------------------------------
Richard wrote > There's a typo in my note: Her name is Charity Colquhoun. > I have received several notes from the family that: > "In the ruined Church at Portraine, Co. Dublin, looking west is a > horizontal tombstone bearing this inscription . . . I think there may have been a bit of gilding the lily over in Ireland. The key of the entry in thepeerage.com is "Sir Humphrey Colquhoun of Luss . . . . On 30 March 1704 having no sons, he resigned his baronetcy to the Crown and obtained 29 April 1704 a new patent with the former precedency and limitation, failing heirs male of his body, to James Grant of Pluscardine and the heirs male of the latter's marriage with his daughter Anne." It can be added that Anne was his only daughter. However, I'll have a look for the MI., and go into the Genealogy Office, next time I'm over at my daughters in Dublin. Regards Les