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CHALMERS, George 4th Baronet Chalmers of Cults, Sir
(About 1720-1791)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. ALEXANDER, Isabella

CHALMERS, George 4th Baronet Chalmers of Cults, Sir 3 4

  • Born: About 1720, Edinburgh, Scotland 3
  • Marriage (1): ALEXANDER, Isabella on 4 June 1768 in Edinburgh, Scotland 1 2
  • Died: November 1791, Marleybone, London, England 3 5
  • Buried: 15 November 1791, St Pancras Parish, Middlesex, England 5

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  General Notes:

"He was styled as 4th Baronet Chalmers, of Cults, in the parish of Tarland, co. Aberdeen [N.S., 1664] circa 1764.1 He was a portrait painter, exhibiting at the Royal Academy between 1775 and 1790."

from thepeerage.com 5


George married Isabella ALEXANDER, daughter of John ALEXANDER Painter and Engraver, Jacobite 1745 and Isobel INNES, on 4 June 1768 in Edinburgh, Scotland.1 2 (Isabella ALEXANDER was born about 1732 and died about April 1784 2.)


  Marriage Notes:

"ALEXANDER
ISABELLA
GEORGE CHALMERS/FR222 (FR222)
29/05/1768 (date of proclamation probably)
685 / 1 490 / 382
EDINBURGH"

from Index of Marriages




"He (Sir George Chalmers of Cults) married at Edinburgh, 4th June 1768, Isabella, daughter of John Alexander Esq., historical and portrait painter of that city, and had a son, Sir Robert Chalmers, baronet, commander of the Alexander Lazaretto, stationed at Motherbank. He died at Portsea in 1807. His son, Sir Charles W. Chalmers, an officer in the royal navy, was the last baronet of whom there is any account."

from The Scottish Nation - Chalmers of Cults 1 4

Sources


1 Internet Site, http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~chalmers/WrittenRefs/ScotNat1874_Cults.html The Scottish Nation - Chalmers of Cults.

2 Internet Site, http://www.thepeerage.com/p21768.htm#i217672 Isabella Alexander.

3 Internet Site, http://www.jameslindlibrary.org/articles/sir-george-chalmers-c-1720-1791-portraitist-of-james-lind/.

4 GRO Scotland, OPR Index of Marriages.

5 Internet Site, http://www.thepeerage.com/p21768.htm#i217671 Sir George Chalmers, 4th Bt.

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