'Colyear1'
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Families covered: Colyear of Portmore
| TSP reports that "some authorities (Douglas's Baronage), though without alleging any proof, have derived (this family) from the Dulcaben branch" of the family of Robertson of Strowan. The following connection is made provisionally to support that allegation but it should be noted that TSP reports that "it remains uncertain if Colyear was adopted as an alternative cognomen, or was in fact the original patronymic." | |||||||||||||||
| Robert Robertson of Dalcabon | |||||||||||||||
| 1. | ?? Robertson | ||||||||||||||
| A. | ?? Robertson | ||||||||||||||
| Uncertain on number of intervening generations. | |||||||||||||||
| i. | ?? Robertson | ||||||||||||||
| TSP reports that the mother of the following David "is said to have been daughter of a younger brother of one of the Earls of Erroll". | |||||||||||||||
| m. _ Hay (niece of Earl of Erroll) | |||||||||||||||
| a. | David Robertson or Colyear (d by 03.1657, Major) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Jean Bruce (d 01.1671, dau of Sir John Bruce of Airth by Margaret Elphinstone) | |||||||||||||||
| (1) | Sir (David) Alexander Robertson or Colyear,1st Bart (d before 03.02.1679-80) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (c1655) Jean Murray (dau of Lt. Col. Walter Murray by Jean Balfour) | |||||||||||||||
| (A) | Sir David Colyear, 1st Earl of Portmore, Governor of Gibraltar (b c1656, d 02.01.1729-30, General, CIC Portugal) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (c1695) Catherine Sedley, Countess of Dorchester (d 26.10.1717, dau of Sir Charles Sedley, Bart) | |||||||||||||||
| (i) | David Colyear, 'Viscount Milsington' (b 1698, dvpsps 10.03.1728-9) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (20.11.1724) Bridget Noel (d 22.08.1729, dau of Hon. John Noel) | |||||||||||||||
| (a)+ | issue (d infant) | ||||||||||||||
| (ii) | Charles Colyear, 2nd Earl of Portmore (b 27.08.1700, d 05.07.1785) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (07.10.1732) Julian Hele (b c1706, d 20.11.1794, dau of Roger Hele or Hale of Halwell by Julian, dau of George Prestwood of Butterford) | |||||||||||||||
| (a) | David Colyear, 'Viscount Milsington' (b 09.1736, dvp unm 16.01.1756) | ||||||||||||||
| (b) | William Charles Colyear, 3rd Earl of Portmore (b c1747, d 15.11.1823) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (05.11.1770) Mary Leslie (b 29.08.1753, d 21.03.1799, dau of John Leslie, Earl of Rothes) | |||||||||||||||
| ((1)) | Thomas Charles Colyear, 4th Earl of Portmore (b 27.03.1772, d 18.01.1835) | ||||||||||||||
| m1. (26.05.1793) Mary Elizabeth Bertie (b 24.07.1771, d 10.02.1797, dau of Brownlow Bertie, 5th Duke of Ancaster) | |||||||||||||||
| ((A)) | Brownlow Charles Colyear (b 04.08.1796, dvp unm 18.02.1819) | ||||||||||||||
| m2. (06.09.1828) Frances Murrells (b c1777, dsp 21.03.1845, dau of William Murrells) | |||||||||||||||
| ((2)) | Catherine Caroline Colyear (b 05.11.1779) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (09.10.1810) Joseph Brecknell of Chelsea | |||||||||||||||
| ((3))+ | other issue - William (b 15.11.1776, dsp 19.07.1833, Lt. Colonel), Francis (b 01.1781, d 25.05.1787), John David (d 19.03.1801), Mary (b 1773, d 11.08.1800), Julia (b 1774, d 11.08.1800) | ||||||||||||||
| (c) | Caroline Colyear (b 12.1733, d 07.02.1812) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (27.10.1750) Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Lord Scarsdale (b 23.12.1726, d 06.12.1804) | |||||||||||||||
| (d) | Juliana Colyear (b 06.05.1735, d 29.04.1821) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (24.11.1759) Henry Dawkins of Standlynch and Over Norton (d 06.1814) | |||||||||||||||
| Seen identified on Wikipedia as a natural dau of the 2nd Earl was ... | |||||||||||||||
| (e) | Elizabeth Collier (d 05.02.1832) | ||||||||||||||
| m1. Edward Sacheverell Pole of Radbourne (b 1718, d 1780) | |||||||||||||||
| m2. (06.03.1781) Erasmus Darwin of Breadsall Priory (b 1731, d 1802) | |||||||||||||||
| (B) | Walter Philip Colyear, Governor of Bonn then Namur (b c1657, d 11.1747, General) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Anne Catherine de Brumaigne | |||||||||||||||
| (i) | Mary Anne Colyear | ||||||||||||||
| m1. 'the Baron of Dalwick' | |||||||||||||||
| m2. (after 15.07.1733) Sir George Nicolson, 6th Bart of Carnock (d 10.1771) | |||||||||||||||
| (ii) | Elizabeth Colyear (d 12.01.1768) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (01.1708-9) Lionel Cranfield Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset (b 18.01.1688, d 10.10.1765) | |||||||||||||||
| (C) ? | Sir James Colyear (d Keyserswaert 1702, Lt. Colonel) | ||||||||||||||
| (2) | daughter | ||||||||||||||
| m. (before 1667) Thomas Dunbar of Grange | |||||||||||||||
| (3) | Sabina ('Martha') Colyear sometimes identified as being daughter of Walter (not David) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (before 1667) Sir John Nicolson of Tillicoultrie | |||||||||||||||
| (4) | Jean Colyear (d before 24.03.1677) | ||||||||||||||
Main source(s): TSP (Colyear, Earl of Portmore), BE1883 (Colyear of Portmore)
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