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CRICHTON-DALRYMPLE, William 5th Earl of Dumfries & 4th Earl of Stair
(About 1700-1768) |
CRICHTON-DALRYMPLE, William 5th Earl of Dumfries & 4th Earl of Stair 1 4
User ID: M977. William married Anne GORDON, daughter of William GORDON 2nd Earl of Aberdeen and Mary LESLIE, on 2 April 1731.1 2 (Anne GORDON was born on 17 January 1709 1, baptised on 26 January 1709 in Methlick parish, Aberdeenshire, Scotland 1 and died on 15 April 1755 in Edinburgh, Scotland 1.) Marriage Notes: "Anne, born 17 January, baptized at Methlic 26 January, 1709, married, 2 April 1731, to William, Lord Crichton, afterwards Earl of Dumfries and Earl of Stair. Lady Anne died in Edinburgh, 15 April 1755, without surviving issue." William next married Anne DUFF, daughter of William DUFF of Crombie (Crommey), Sheriff-Depute of Ayr and Elizabeth DALRYMPLE, on 19 June 1762.3 (Anne DUFF was born about 1738 and died on 21 August 1811 in Brandsbury, Hampshire, England 3 5.) 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." |
1 e-books, The Scots Peerage ed. Sir James Balfour Paul vol. 1 (1904).
2 GRO Scotland, OPR Index of Marriages.
3 e-books, The Scots Peerage ed. Sir James Balfour Paul vol. 3 (1906).
4 GRO Scotland, OPR Index of Births and Baptisms.
5 e-books, The Book of the Duffs comp. by Alistair and Henrietta Tayler (1914).
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