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SCOTT, Susan 'of Benholm'
(1743-1821)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. CARNEGIE, George of Pittarrow, Merchant in Sweden, Jacobite 1745

SCOTT, Susan 'of Benholm' 1 2 3

  • Baptised: 7 August 1743, Edinburgh parish, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland 4
  • Marriage (1): CARNEGIE, George of Pittarrow, Merchant in Sweden, Jacobite 1745 on 17 March 1769 in Benholm parish, Kincardineshire, Scotland 1 2
  • Died: 14 April 1821 1
  • Buried: 1821, Kinnaber, Montrose, Angus, Scotland 5

   Another name for Susan was SCOT, Sussan.4

   User ID: J371.

  General Notes:

"SCOT
SUSSAN
DAVID SCOT/MARY BROUN FR6429 (FR6429)
F
07/08/1743
685 / 1 230 / 519
Edinburgh"

from Births and Baptisms 4


Susan married George CARNEGIE of Pittarrow, Merchant in Sweden, Jacobite 1745, son of Sir John CARNEGIE of Pittarrow, 2nd Baronet and Marie BURNET, on 17 March 1769 in Benholm parish, Kincardineshire, Scotland.1 2 (George CARNEGIE of Pittarrow, Merchant in Sweden, Jacobite 1745 was baptised on 19 November 1726 in Fordoun parish, Kincardineshire, Scotland,1 4 died on 12 April 1799 in Charleton, Montrose, Angus, Scotland 1 and was buried in 1799 in Kinnaber, Montrose, Angus, Scotland 1.)


  Marriage Notes:

"CARNEGIE
GEORGE
SUSAN SCOTT/
13/03/1769
312 70 / 95
Montrose"

"CARNEGY
GEORGE
SUSAN SCOTT/
17/03/1769
253 20 / 266
Benholm"

from Index of Marriages




"George (Carnegie), baptized 19 November 1726. When eighteen years of age, he joined Prince Charles at Holyrood, after the battle of Prestonpans. He accompanied the Prince to England, and was also present at the battle of Culloden, while his elder brother Sir James was there with the Duke of Cumberland, on the opposite side. After the battle of Culloden he fled, and eventually made his escape to the Continent. After wandering about with James Carnegie Arbuthnott of Balnamoon, they got off to sea in a small boat and were picked up by a ship bound for Sweden. He landed at Gottenburg, where he established a business as a merchant. After about twenty years he returned to Scotland with a fortune which enabled him to purchase the paternal estate of Pittarrow and also the estate of Charleton. He was a trustee for his nephew Sir David Carnegie, whose father had repurchased the forfeited Southesk estates. The trustees carried through the sale of Pittarrow, which was conveyed to George Carnegie by disposition dated 17, 19, and 20 January 1767.

George Carnegie died at Charleton on 12 April 1799, and was buried at Kinnaber. He married, on 17 March 1769, Susan, the eldest daughter of David Scott of Benholm. She founded an asylum at Montrose for the insane, the first of its kind in Scotland, and established the first lifeboat known in the country. She also constructed a genealogical table of the family of Carnegie, which is preserved at Kinnaird. She died 14 April 1821. They had issue six sons and three daughters"

from Scots Peerage (vol 8) 1 2

Sources


1 e-books, The Scots Peerage ed. Sir James Balfour Paul vol. 8 (1911).

2 GRO Scotland, OPR Index of Marriages.

3 e-books, OPR Index of Births and Baptisms.

4 GRO Scotland, OPR Index of Births and Baptisms.

5 Internet Site, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/175190690/susan-carnegie Susan Scott Carnegie.

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