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| CRICHTON-DALRYMPLE, William 5th Earl of Dumfries and 4th Earl of Stair
(About 1700-1768) |
CRICHTON-DALRYMPLE, William 5th Earl of Dumfries and 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: "GORDON 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 (William Crichton-Dalrymple) 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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