CHIESLY, Rachel of Dalry ^{1 2}

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Rachel married James ERSKINE Lord Grange, son of Charles ERSKINE 5th (or 22nd) earl of Mar and Mary MAULE.¹ (James ERSKINE Lord Grange was born about 1679 and died on 24 January 1754 ¹.)

  Marriage Notes:

"Lord Grange married (date uncertain) Rachel, daughter of John Chiesly of Dalry, and sister of Major Walter Chiesly of Dalry. Her father killed Sir George Lockhart, President of the Court of Session, in 1689, and Lady Grange is said to have inherited his violent temper. Be this as it may, after the marriage had subsisted for some years dissensions appear to have taken place between the spouses. Both sides tell their own story, but Lord Grange took the very unusual course of causing his wife to be abducted, it is believed because she threatened to reveal Jacobite secrets, and in 1730 she was seized, carried off, and imprisoned for two years in the isle of Heiskar, near North Uist. Thence she was removed to St. Kilda, where she remained seven years. Then some friends exerted themselves to procure her release, but their efforts were frustrated, and she was again removed, to the island of Skye, where she died at Idragil in June 1749, though it is said her husband celebrated her funeral in 1732. Lord Grange had issue"

from Scots Peerage (vol 5) ¹