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Merchant in Leith

William married Stewartina Katherine Carmichael in 1775. Stewartina (daughter of Stewart (of Leith) Carmichael and Katherine Keith) was born in 1755; died on 20 Apr 1793. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She was William's first wife

Bonnyhaugh The first record of Bonnyhaugh is in 1621 when the Edinburgh Town Council imported a Dutchman, Jeromias Vanderheill, to help establish cloth making at Bonnington in Leith. They built the house and a fulling and dyeing house and let them to him 5 acres of bleaching greens. In 1723 these were purchased by Gilbert Stewart, the younger brother of John Stewart of Stenton. He died 30.11.1742 (Testament and Inventory registered 29/06/1744) leaving everything to his nephew, John Stewart of Stenton, another keen Jacobite. Stewart Carmichael, merchant in Edinburgh, was one of his executors. The property was not mentioned in Gilbert Stewart's Testament and Inventory. It was purchased (presumably) by Stewart Carmichael (probably early in the 1740's) but I have not found the contract. The Book of The Old Edinburgh Club vol.19 1933 refers to him as William Stuart Carmichael* and says 'He purchased it from the heirs of Gilbert Stewart, linen manufacturer, Bonnington, just before his marriage in 1752 with Katherine, only daughter of Bishop Keith. After the marriage the Bishop and his wife removed from the Cannongate and resided at Bonnyhaugh?.until he died here in 1757. All authorities, including the Dictionary of National Biography, erroneously assert that Bonnyhaugh was the Bishop's property. From Stuart Carmichael's marriage contract, preserved in The Register House, we learn that he was to invest five hundred pounds in the purchase of land to assure his wife an annual income should she survive him. Bishop Keith, on the other hand, gave his daughter a dowry of four hundred pounds. With these two sums Stuart Carmichael purchased the house and lands at Bonnyhaugh'. I think this must be incorrect as Stewart Carmichael owned at least some of Bonnyhaugh in 1747. I think the mistake comes from the fact that many Scottish legal documents were not registered until several years after they were written. There is a tack (lease) dated 4/08/1747 (registered 28.07.1752) granted by 'Stewart Carmichael, merchant in Edinburgh, heritable proprietor of lands of Bonnyhaugh to William Wemyss, stiffner and his father Alex Wemyss, weaver in Perth, of that house at Bonnyhaugh high and drigh called the Cross House together with that other house called The Mount and the Eastmost boiling house. The term was 21 years from Whitsunday 1748'. Bonnyhaugh was eventually inherited by Stewart and Katherine's daughter Stewartina who married William Douglas. She, on William's advice sold it in 1786 to the Selby family, who purchased Bonnington Mills and some adjacent lands at the same time.

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!ON BIRTHDATES OF CHILDREN INDICATED AS TENEANT;

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Birth:
Birth place stated as 'COCKPEN, Bolton NEW MARNS, Midlothian',
and
'OF, DALKIETH, Midlothian, SCOTLAND'

It is possible the this should be Polton (New) Mains, in the parish of Cockpen.It is a little to the north of the settlement of Cockpen.

William + Mary Kerr. Mary was born on 22 Aug 1733 in Bolton New Marns, Midlothian, Scotland; was christened on 14 Sep 1733 in Cockpen, Midlothian, Scotland; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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!FRAME 75,FILM #106642 ITEM3,4 INDICATES THE FATHER AS ALLEGED OF DALKIETH;

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A staunch Jacobite. From: Prisoners of the '45 According to his prison record, Stewart Carmichael of Bonnyhaugh was captured on suspicion on 7th September 1745 at St Ninians and transferred to Stirling castle. He was transferred to Edinburgh Castle on 4th February 1746. He was to be captured a second time.
Linen manufacturer and merchant

(Research):Burke's Landed Gentry of Scotland 2001 does not list a son called Stewart to David Carmichael, 9th of Balmedie and Anna Graham. However it states that he 'had with other issue' Anne b.1697 who married Sir James Stewart of Burray Bt, David b.1701 who rose in the '45, Thomas M.D. b.1702, John b.1705, Robert b.1707, James b.1710, Cecilia b. 1710, d. 1776, and William W.S. b.1711 and, I have found in addition, Euphem b. 1704 and Elizabeth b.1708. Anna died in 1729 and David had a second wife called Agnes Murray. There is an IGI Record from the Church of LDS which has a William Carmichael being born about 1703 at Balmedie, Aberdeen. (our Balmedie is in Fife!) The record was submitted after 1991 by a member of the church and there is no other reference. The other William was born in 1711.

Birth:
possibly born 1717

Stewart married Katherine Keith in 1752. Katherine (daughter of Bishop Robert Keith and Isabel Cameron) was born before 1752; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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John married Bethia Dennis on 9 Dec 1720 in Glencorse, Midlothian, Scotland. Bethia was christened on 25 Jul 1700 in Glencorse, Midlothian, Scotland; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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of Balmedie

David married Anne Graham in 1698. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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(Research):According to Burke's Landed Gentry and other books, Thomas Graham 4th of Balgowan had nine sons and seven daughters, amongst whom there was a daughter named Anna who married Robert Stewart 5th of Ardvorlich, who died in 1751 without issue. They also say that a daughter named Anna married David Carmichael 9th of Balmedie in 1698. He died in 1761. She mentions this in her will. So unless there was divorce there must have been two daughters named Anna.

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Bishop of Fife

(Research):Some little inaccuracies as to the Family
and Representatives of Bishop Keith, having appeared in
the Preface and Biographical Sketch prefixed to the First
Volume of his History, as republished in 1844, under the
auspices of the Spottiswoode Society, I beg to supply you,
from an authentic source, with more correct information ;
simply adding that, when the First Volume appeared, there
was no opportunity of testing the accuracy of the state-
ments then made to the Editor, by reference to any of the
Bishop's descendants. What follows, therefore, will be
received in connexion with the statements in Vol. 1st. pp.
viii. xi. lvii. lviii. lxxv. xc.
" The Bishop married a lady named Isabel Cameron,
daughter of the Rev. John Cameron, by whom he had two
daughters. One of these died unmarried ; the other, named
Katherine, was married to Mr Stewart Carmichael of Leith.
The offspring of this marriage was a daughter, Katharina
Stewartina, and a son who died young. The former became
the first wife of Mr William Douglas, Merchant, Leith, and
left issue by him, William (who died unmarried) Stewart,
Archibald, and four daughters. The direct representation
of the Bishop's Family, therefore, rests with the descend-
ants of the late Mr Stewart Douglas ; who left five sons,
the eldest of whom, William Douglas, Esq. of Liver-
pool, the great-great-grandson of the Bishop, is likewise
nearest of kin, through his grandmother, to Colonel Robert
Keith, of the 2d Regiment of Foot Guards '97 who was, up to
his death in 1780, acknowledged as the nearest male
representative of George, tenth Earl Marischal, who died
two years before him, namely, in 1778.
" Taking it for granted then, that, with the death of
Keith of Northfield, referred to in the statement by John
Riddell, Esq. in p. lxxxix, the male representatives of the
Family became extinct, the representation in the female line
belongs, in the first place, to the direct descendants of
Keith of Northfield; or failing them, to the direct descend-
ants or nearest heirs of Colonel Robert Keith, who are
manifestly much nearer, in point of propinquity, to the last
male representative who would have inherited the title and
property, than the Family of Lady Clementina Elphinstone
can be.
" In reference to a statement made at p. Ixxv, it may be
remarked, that the fact of the title and estates of Kintore
devolving on the heirs-female of George, tenth Earl Maris-
chal, goes no farther than to point out the representatives
of the Kintore Family, which, by the terms of the charter,
were allowed to pass through the female line. The title
and estates of Marischal were restricted to male descend-
ants ; and would, therefore, as has been before observed, have
devolved on Colonel Robert Keith, as the nearest male heir.
" By giving insertion to the foregoing statement, for the
accuracy of which I am of course responsible, '97 You will
much oblige, Rev. Sir,
Your most obedient Servant,
A. J. Douglas.
Mathon, Malvern,
8th December 1849.

Robert + Isabel Cameron. Isabel (daughter of Rev. John Cameron) was born about 1681; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]