'Speirs1'
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Families covered: Speirs of Culcreuch, Speirs of Elderslie
| BFR identifies the arms of the following family as "Az. a ship in full sail arg. ensignes flying gu. between three bezants". | |||||||||||||||
| John Speirs of Edinburgh | |||||||||||||||
| m. (28.10.1708) Isobell Tweedie (dau of John Tweedie, Provost of Peebles) | |||||||||||||||
| 1. | Alexander Speirs of Elderslie, Renfrewshire (b 14.09.1714, d 1782, 2nd son) | ||||||||||||||
| m1. (15.11.1746) Sarah Carey (dsp 24.04.1752) | |||||||||||||||
| m2. (03.03.1755) Mary Buchanan (d 24.12.1818, dau of Archibald (probably not Peter) Buchanan of Silverbank (aka Auchentorlie)) | |||||||||||||||
| A. | Archibald Speirs of Elderslie (b 10.02.1758, d 11.1832, MP) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (24.11.1794) Margaret Dundas (d 08.05.1852, dau of Thomas, Lord Dundas) | |||||||||||||||
| i. | Alexander Speirs of Elderslie (d 05.10.1844, MP) had issue | ||||||||||||||
| m. (22.06.1836) Eliza Stewart Hagart (dau of Thomas Campbell Hagart of Bantaskine, m2. Edward Ellice of Invergarry) | |||||||||||||||
| ii. | Frances Laura Speirs (d 1877) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (24.06.1824) Robert Cunninghame-Graham of Gartmore | |||||||||||||||
| iii.+ | other issue - Thomas Dundas (d unm 01.1892), Archibald William (d unm), Peter Charles (d unm), Lawrence Dundas, Margaret Bruce (d unm 185*), Mary (d unm), Charlotte Fitzwilliam (d unm), Anne Godolphin (d unm 1873), Helen (d unm 10.04.1887), Dorothea Dundas, Harriot Octavia Isabella, Matilda Isabella Grace | ||||||||||||||
| B. | Peter Speirs of Culcreuch, Stirlingshire (b 12.05.1761, d 1829, youngest son) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (1792) Martha Harriet Cunninghame-Graham (d 1841, dau of Robert Cunninghame-Graham of Gartmore) | |||||||||||||||
| i. | Alexander Graham Speirs of Culcreuch (b 1793, dsp 1877, DL, Convener of Stirlingshire) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (1829) Mary Buchanan Murray (dau of William Murray of Polmaise by Grace Speirs) | |||||||||||||||
| ii. | Robert Cunningham Graham Speirs (b 180*, d 1848) had issue (1 dau) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (1832) Catherine Anne Grant (dau of Francis Grant of Kilgraston) | |||||||||||||||
| iii. | Archibald Speirs (b 10.06.1805, d 08.03.1859) had issue | ||||||||||||||
| m. (1839) Mary Anne Pringle (dau of William Alexander Pringle of Bengal, son of Alexander of Yair) | |||||||||||||||
| iv.+ | other issue - Anna Maria (d 1829), Mary Buchanan (d 1865), Harriet (b 179*, d 18**), Helen (b 1800, d 1878), Elizabetsh (b 1801, d 14.01.1890), Grace (b 1803, d 1885), Henrietta Margaret Matilda (b 1805, d 1881) | ||||||||||||||
| C. | Grace Speirs (b 28.07.1770, d 1829) | ||||||||||||||
| m. William Murray of Polmaise | |||||||||||||||
| D.+ | other issue - John (b 04.02.1757, d 27.03.1773), Alexander (b 01.10.1759, d 24.08.1772), Martha (b 10.02.1756), Isobell (b 14.06.1763, d 13.03.1764), Mary (b 23.01.1765, d 184*), Helen (b 03.07.1766, d 1753) | ||||||||||||||
| 2.+ | other issue - John (b 05.12.1712, d 07.1726), James (b 06.04.1720, dsp in Virginia), Isobell (b 20.10.1709, d 30.08.1720), Helen (b 11.07.1711), Margare (b 04.02.1716, d 05.08.1718), Anna (b 01.09.1717, d 01.09.1719), Joanna (b 31.08.1718) | ||||||||||||||
Main source(s): BFR ('Speirs', p541+), BLG1937 ('Hagart Speirs of Elderslie')
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