INNES, John WS, of Dunkinty and Leuchars 2
- Born: 13 October 1747, Elgin, Moray, Scotland 2 3
- Marriage (1): RUSSELL, Euphemia on 2 September 1780 1
- Died: 1827 3
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General Notes:
"The John Innes born 13 Oct. 1747, succeeded to his uncle Dunkintie and also to the estate of Leuchars. He began agricultural improvements on his paternal property, but finding it too narrow and already too much cultivated for his object, he sold his hereditary property in Moray, and invested his fortune in the comparatively unimproved estate of Durris, on Dee-side, of which he obtained a long lease, and there carried on large operations in agriculture and planting, which have paid very well - but not to him. His lease was decided to be beyond the powers of the proprietor, an heir of entail, and the succeeding heir took possession and reaped the benefit of his improvements. He died in 1827."
from Family of Innes 3
John married Euphemia RUSSELL, daughter of James RUSSELL in Earlsmill and Unknown, on 2 September 1780.1 (Euphemia RUSSELL was born about 1760.)
Marriage Notes:
"I (Cosmo Innes) am the only surviving son of that John Innes, once of Leuehars and Dunkintie, by his wife, Euphemia Russell, of whose family I have said something in the Kilravock book."
from Family of Innes
"Elizabeth Rose's (19th of Kilravock's) closest and longest correspondence was kept up with the family of Russell, then seated at Earlsmill, all the members of which she loved with all the warmth of her nature, and, for some years, almost to the exclusion of any other friendship. She received letters from some of the young ladies almost daily, and wrote to them quite as frequently. The eldest daughter, Margaret, married (1773) Captain Hugh Rose, who was afterwards known as Doctor Rose of Brae (Brea), the heir -male presumptive of Kilravock, and to her. Mistress Elizabeth was much attached. May was the wife of Aeneas Smyth, and the mother of a race inheriting the character and respect of the Russells. Another correspondent of Miss Rose, Elizabeth, never married. But her chosen correspondent, companion, and bosom friend, was a younger daughter, Euphemia, a lady of whose virtues the collector of these memorials (Cosmo Innes, her son) cannot trust himself to speak, even if this were the proper place. She was married on Saturday, 2d September 1780, to John Innes, the heir of Dunkinty and Leuchars."
from Family of Rose 1 3
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