ELPHINSTONE, Cecilia 1
User ID: F433. Cecilia married William CHALMER, son of Dr Patrick CHALMERS of Haselhead and Fedderat, Professor of Medicine at Marischal College, Jacobite 1715 and Rachell FORBES.1 (William CHALMER was baptised on 22 July 1699 in Saint Nicholas parish, Aberdeen, Scotland 2.) Marriage Notes: "His (Dr Patrick Chalmers) youngest son and thirteenth child, William, became, as I have said, proprietor by purchase of Hasilhead, and ultimately, after twenty years' residence as a merchant at Gibraltar, where he held the offices of Paymaster to the Forces, Commissary-general to the Forces, and judge of the Admiralty Court, he returned to Scotland with a moderate fortune, and, after living a few years at Hasilhead, purchased, in 1753, the barony of Aldbar. He was married to his cousin-german, Cecilia, daughter of John Elphinstone of Glack ..." |
1 Society of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, Vol 4 (1863). 181-188 Chalmers, J. (1862). Notice of Patrick Chalmers, M.D., of Haselhead and Fedderat, Professor of Medicine in Aberdeen, and of his Practice as a Physician in the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth century.
2 GRO Scotland, OPR Index of Births and Baptisms.
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