Susan, Thanks for your response. I've raised this question a couple of times in the past. But, looking back, I couldn't find anyone who had any idea of who was the father of Charity Colquhoun -- supposed to be the lord of the Colquhouns. I've found the list of their names, and the dates of their lives, and still have not been able to find any documentation of Charity's birth. If you can help, I will be extremely grateful. I have spent days of searching on this quest. Thanks, Dick Holmes >> Message: 4 > Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 23:12:57 -0000 > From: "Susan Harvey" <pippyx@idnet.com> > Subject: Re: [DUNB] Charity Colquhoun > To: <dunbartonshire-genweb@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <1297F29152FA40A8AD539E32731B5905@PippyxPC> > Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="Windows-1252"; > reply-type=original > > Hi this has come up before and is interesting and the thread should > be in > the archived messages at rootsweb about 3 years ago at a guess, > If you fail to locate try me again I might have saved something as I > too am > Colquhoun hunting 1617+/- > Cheers, > Sue H > ******************************* > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Richard Holmes" <dholmes2@earthlink.net> > To: <dunbartonshire-genweb@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 3:36 AM > Subject: [DUNB] Charity Colquhoun > > > My wife's family has correspondence rgarding 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." > > Can anyone, out there, help me? > > Thanks for your help. > > Dick Holmes > > -
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