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Family of James Dick and Margaret Bisset

Husband: James Dick

  • Name:

  • James Dick

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Father:

  • William Dick ( -1738)

  • Mother:

  • Isabella Makgill (1708-1787)

  • Note 1:

  • 26 September 1748: (Copy dated 15 May 1777) Extract of the Contract of Marriage between Ensign James Dick of Colluthie and Margaret Bisset, only lawful daughter of Thomas Bisset of Glenalbert, commissary of Dunkeld, in which her tocher is fixed at 3000 merks. Mention is made of Isabel Mackgill, mother of the said James Dick who is then alive. Dated at Kincraigie 26 Sept. 1748. Among the witnesses to the Contract were James Bisset, younger of Glenalbert, brother of the said Margaret, and Mr Alexander Macklagan, minister of the Gospel at Dunkeld. National Records of Scotland, Papers of the Blair Oliphant Family of Ardblair and Gask (Dalguise Muniments), reference GD38/1/1029

  • Note 2:

  • 25 March 1777: Extract of Testament dative of Ensign James Dick of Colluthie in the parish of Abdie, Fife, who died on 25 Nov. 1751, given up by his only daughter and child, Mrs Margaret Dick, now spouse to the Hon. Captain Frederick Maitland, R.N.; mentioning a debt due to the defunct by Thomas Bisset of Glenalbert. National Records of Scotland, Papers of the Blair Oliphant Family of Ardblair and Gask (Dalguise Muniments), reference GD38/1/1026

    https://www.geni.com/people/James-Dick-of-Colluthie/6000000016281030263

  • Death:

  • 25 Nov 1751

  • Colluthie, Fife, Scotland

Wife: Margaret Bisset

  • Name:

  • Margaret Bisset

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Father:

  • -

  • Mother:

  • -

Child 1: Margaret Dick

  • Name:

  • Margaret Dick

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Spouse:

  • Frederick Lewis Maitland (1730-1786)

  • Children:

  • Charles Maitland (1769-1820)

  • Note:

  • Margaret Dick, "heiress of Rank and Lindores in Fife, in right of her mother, sister of James Makgill of Rankeillor, who claimed the title of Count of Oxford"

    Source: Scottish Peerage

     

    Margaret was heiress of 3 families - the Makgills of Rankeillour, the Crichtons (formerly of Frendraught), and the Heriots of Ramornie. Each of these inheritances led to one or more of her descendants taking on one or more of those families' names.

    See: http://www.antonymaitland.com/captfred.htm

     

    Margaret Dick of Rankeilour married the Hon. Captain Frederick Maitland, R.N., 6th son of the 6th Earl of Lauderdale, and assumed the surname of MAKGILL; and by him, who predeceased her, had issue,

    - Charles, the younger, of Rankeilour, married 26 Aug 1794, Mary, daughter of David Johnston, Esq. of Lathrisk.

    - James Heriot, of Ramornie, Co. Fife.

    - Frederick Lewis (Sir), rear-Admiral R.N., K.C.B., born in 1776, married in April 1804, Catherine, 3rd daughter of Daniel Connor, Esq. of Ballybricken, Co. Cork, died in command in the Indian Seas, 30 Nov 1832

    - Mary Turner, married 5 April 1793, to Henry Scrymgeour Wedderburn, Esq. of Wedderburn, Co. Forfar, who died in Jan 1842

    - Elizabeth

    - Isabella, married 8 July 1794, to William Roy, Esq. of Newthorn, Co. Roxburgh, who died in 1825

    Mrs. Maitland-Makgill died in 1827 and was succeeded by her grandson, David Maitland-Makgill-Crichton, Esq. of Rankeilour.

    Source: Burke, Landed Gentry, 1858

  • Birth:

  • c. 1732

  • Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland

  • Death:

  • Apr 1825 (age 92-93)

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Note on Husband: James Dick (1)

26 September 1748: (Copy dated 15 May 1777) Extract of the Contract of Marriage between Ensign James Dick of Colluthie and Margaret Bisset, only lawful daughter of Thomas Bisset of Glenalbert, commissary of Dunkeld, in which her tocher is fixed at 3000 merks. Mention is made of Isabel Mackgill, mother of the said James Dick who is then alive. Dated at Kincraigie 26 Sept. 1748. Among the witnesses to the Contract were James Bisset, younger of Glenalbert, brother of the said Margaret, and Mr Alexander Macklagan, minister of the Gospel at Dunkeld. National Records of Scotland, Papers of the Blair Oliphant Family of Ardblair and Gask (Dalguise Muniments), reference GD38/1/1029

Note on Husband: James Dick (2)

25 March 1777: Extract of Testament dative of Ensign James Dick of Colluthie in the parish of Abdie, Fife, who died on 25 Nov. 1751, given up by his only daughter and child, Mrs Margaret Dick, now spouse to the Hon. Captain Frederick Maitland, R.N.; mentioning a debt due to the defunct by Thomas Bisset of Glenalbert. National Records of Scotland, Papers of the Blair Oliphant Family of Ardblair and Gask (Dalguise Muniments), reference GD38/1/1026

https://www.geni.com/people/James-Dick-of-Colluthie/6000000016281030263

Note on Child 1: Margaret Dick

Margaret Dick, "heiress of Rank and Lindores in Fife, in right of her mother, sister of James Makgill of Rankeillor, who claimed the title of Count of Oxford"

Source: Scottish Peerage

 

Margaret was heiress of 3 families - the Makgills of Rankeillour, the Crichtons (formerly of Frendraught), and the Heriots of Ramornie. Each of these inheritances led to one or more of her descendants taking on one or more of those families' names.

See: http://www.antonymaitland.com/captfred.htm

 

Margaret Dick of Rankeilour married the Hon. Captain Frederick Maitland, R.N., 6th son of the 6th Earl of Lauderdale, and assumed the surname of MAKGILL; and by him, who predeceased her, had issue,

- Charles, the younger, of Rankeilour, married 26 Aug 1794, Mary, daughter of David Johnston, Esq. of Lathrisk.

- James Heriot, of Ramornie, Co. Fife.

- Frederick Lewis (Sir), rear-Admiral R.N., K.C.B., born in 1776, married in April 1804, Catherine, 3rd daughter of Daniel Connor, Esq. of Ballybricken, Co. Cork, died in command in the Indian Seas, 30 Nov 1832

- Mary Turner, married 5 April 1793, to Henry Scrymgeour Wedderburn, Esq. of Wedderburn, Co. Forfar, who died in Jan 1842

- Elizabeth

- Isabella, married 8 July 1794, to William Roy, Esq. of Newthorn, Co. Roxburgh, who died in 1825

Mrs. Maitland-Makgill died in 1827 and was succeeded by her grandson, David Maitland-Makgill-Crichton, Esq. of Rankeilour.

Source: Burke, Landed Gentry, 1858