CHALMER, William 2
Another name for William was CHALMERS, William of Hasilhead, then of Aldbar.1 User ID: F432. General Notes: "CHALMER William married Cecilia ELPHINSTONE, daughter of John ELPHINSTONE of Glack and Margaret FORBES.1 (Cecilia ELPHINSTONE was born about 1698.) 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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