Maternal Great Great Great Great Great Grandparents - Anstruther / Erskine
Youngest daughter of 5th Earl of Kellie who joined Bonnie Prince Charlie in 1745. As a result all the Erskine lands were sequestered. The 9th Earl of Kellie, Thomas Erskine, bought the estate out of sequestration in the 1790s. The 5th Earl married Janet (née Pitcairn) - the daughter of the celebrated Dr. Archibald Pitcairn (b.1652 d.1713). Archibald Pitcairn was associated with medicine, physiology and mathematics and was a founding member of the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh. |
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Children
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