FRASER, Margaret ^{1 2}

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Margaret married Major Ludovick STEWART in Pittyvaich, of 24th Regiment of Foot, son of Lieutenant Thomas STEWART of Keithmore, 6th of Drumin and Anne GORDON, in Bombay, India.^{1 2} (Major Ludovick STEWART in Pittyvaich, of 24th Regiment of Foot was baptised on 5 May 1782 in Mortlach parish, Banffshire, Scotland ³ and died on 25 December 1848 ¹.)

  Marriage Notes:

"V. From under the Pittyvaich seat (in Mortlach Churchyard) a slab was found :

. . . ae. resurrectionis. hic. in. pace. requiescunt. cineres. a.

Translation. Here rest in peace the ashes of .... till the resurrection. . . .

VI. Four marble tablets within the church are respectfully inscribed : Sacred to the memory of Major Ludovick Stewart, Pittyvaich, and formerly of H.M. 24th Regt. of Foot, who died on the 25th ot Dec., 1848, aged 66 years. Also, of his wife, MARGARET FRASER, who died on the 17th of Oct., 1859, aged 62 years. Their children, GORDON ELLIOT, Lieut, 22nd Regt., Bombay, died 12th Jan., 1849, aged 24 years. [Two daughters named.]"

from History of Moray




"Ludovick Stewart, son of Thomas Stewart and Anne Gordon: major, 24th Regiment, raised 1751, now the 1st battalion South Wales Borderers. His only war service was in the unlucky Walcheren expedition. There is a legend in the family, recounted by tho Rev. Dr H. F. Stewart, Cambridge (The Stewarts, 1930, vi. 72), that in passing St Helena on his way home with his bride, he played chess with Napoleon at St Helena, and defeated him. Dr Stewart also says he took a very active part in the Disruption controversy as ruling elder of the Presbytery of Strathbogie. Ho lived at Pittyvaich. He died December 25, 1848, aged 66 (stone in Mortlach Churchyard). He married at Bombay Margaret Fraser, second daughter of Thomas Fraser of Newton, near Inverness (Aberdeen Journal, January 3, 1816), who died October 17, 1859, aged 62. They had six sons and five daughters"

from Stewarts of Drumin and Pittyvaich ^{1 2}