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User ID: M978. Anne married William CRICHTON-DALRYMPLE 5th Earl of Dumfries & 4th Earl of Stair, son of William DALRYMPLE of Glenmure and Penelope CRICHTON Countess of Dumfries, on 19 June 1762.1 (William CRICHTON-DALRYMPLE 5th Earl of Dumfries & 4th Earl of Stair was born about 1700 and died on 27 July 1768 1.) Marriage Notes: ".... the Earl married, secondly, on 19 June 1762, Anne, daughter of William Duff of Crombie, Advocate. She survived him, and married, 26 July 1769, Alexander Gordon, a Lord of Session, styled Lord Rockville, who died 13 March 1792. She died 21 August 1811, at Brandsbury, aged seventy-three. By his first wife the Earl had one son, William, Lord Crichton, born 12 December 1734. He predeceased his father, dying 9 September 1744, in his tenth year, while at school at Marylebone." Anne next married Alexander GORDON Lord Rockville, Lord of Session, son of William GORDON 2nd Earl of Aberdeen and Anne GORDON, on 26 July 1769 in Edinburgh parish, Edinburgh, Scotland.1 2 (Alexander GORDON Lord Rockville, Lord of Session was baptised on 27 June 1738 in Methlick parish, Aberdeenshire, Scotland,4 5 died on 13 March 1792 1 and was buried in 1792 in St Cuthbert's cemetery, Edinburgh, Scotland 6.) Marriage Notes: "Anne, who married, first, in 1762,the Earl of Dumfries and Stair, But had no issue by him; and secondly, in 1769, Alexander Gordon, advocate, brother to the Earl of Aberdeen. He was Sheriff of Kirkcudbright, and became Lord Rockville." |
1 e-books, The Scots Peerage ed. Sir James Balfour Paul vol. 3 (1906).
2 e-books, The Book of the Duffs comp. by Alistair and Henrietta Tayler (1914).
3 GRO Scotland, OPR Index of Marriages.
4 Old Parish Registers of the Church of Scotland, Methlick parish Aberdeenshire Baptisms.
5 GRO Scotland, OPR Index of Births and Baptisms.
6 Internet Site, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=140013228.
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