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URQUHART, Robert 10th of Burdsyards, MP, Provost of Forres, Captain
(About 1677-1741)
FORBES, Marie
(About 1677-)
URQUHART, Charles 12th of Burdsyards
(About 1705-1768)
URQUHART, Duncan 13th of Burdsyards, Colonel
(About 1735-1790)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. GORDON, Jean

URQUHART, Duncan 13th of Burdsyards, Colonel 1 2 3

  • Born: About 1735
  • Marriage (1): GORDON, Jean 1 2
  • Died: 1790 2

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Duncan married Jean GORDON, daughter of Sir William GORDON 5th of Park, 3rd Baronet, Jacobite 1745 and Janet DUFF.1 2 (Jean GORDON was born between May and June 1746 in Rothiemay parish, Banffshire, Scotland 1 3 and died in 1767 1.)


  Marriage Notes:

"Jean (Gordon), born at Rothiemay six weeks after Culloden, married Colonel Duncan Urquhart of Burdsyards (Sanquhar), and died in 1767 in giving birth to her son Robert, who married ' beneath him.' "

from Book of the Duffs (vol 2)




"Captain Robert left a son, Captain Duncan, who was served heir to him in 1741, but, dying in 1742 without issue, was succeeded by his brother Charles, he himself never having made up a title to the estates. Charles, 2nd son of the hero of Sheriffmuir, had a son who became Colonel Duncan and married Jane or Jean Gordon, daughter of Sir William Gordon of Park and his wife Janet, second daughter of the first Lord Fife."

from History of the Family of Urquhart 1 2

Sources


1 e-books, The Book of the Duffs vol. 2 compiled by A and H Tayler(1914).

2 e-books, History of the Family of Urquhart by Henrietta Tayler (1946).

3 e-books, The Book of the Duffs vol. 1 compiled by A and H Tayler (1914).

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