Charleton, FifeAnstruther Lineage Source Page

Colonel John Anstruther - (1736 - 1815) - son of 2nd. Bt. - married (1774) Grizel Maria Thomson, daughter and heiress of John Thomson of Charleton, Fife and heiress of the line of the St.Clairs, Earl of Orkney, and of the Lords Sinclair. John Anstruther - Thomson, their eldest son, assumed the second surname of Thomson on his succession to the estate of Charleton. (pictured) - from a photograph by James Gay, Elie)

Their son

Letter written to her daughter-in-lawJohn Anstruther-Thomson - (1776 - 1833) married (1807) Clementina Adam (d.1877) only daughter (Pictured - from a Charleton miniature.) of Rt. Hon. William Adam of Blair Adam M.P., (Baron of Exchequer, Lord Chief Commissioner of the Jury Court and Lord Lieutenant of Kinross) and Hon. Eleanor Elphinstone, daughter of the 10th Lord Elphinstone and Lady Clementina Fleming, heiress of line of the Earls of Wigton, Marischal and Perth.

Of their sons

William Adam Anstruther - m. Steel and

Colonel John Anstruther Thomson D.L., J.P. (1818 - 1904) of Charleton, Fife and of Carntyne, Lanarkshire.
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