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Families covered: Freer of Essendie, Freer of Innernethy
?? Freer (a c1630) | |||||||||||||||
1. | Adam Freer in Edinburgh (MD) | ||||||||||||||
m. (1691) Frances Cleland (dau of Captain William Cleland, great-grandson of Alexander Cleland of that ilk) | |||||||||||||||
2. | George Freer of Essendie (a 1716, Minister of Lethendie) | ||||||||||||||
m. (26.12.1699) Helen Blair (d c1752, "of a good family in Perthshire") | |||||||||||||||
A. | Adam Freer of Innernethy (b 1704, d 1780, 2nd son) | ||||||||||||||
m1. Margaret Wylie | |||||||||||||||
i. | Helen Freer (dsp 1797) | ||||||||||||||
m2. (1748) Margaret Lizars (dau of David Lizars by Isabel, dau of Henry Anderson) | |||||||||||||||
ii. | George Freer (b 1749, dsp, Captain) | ||||||||||||||
m. (1794) Helen Duncanson (b 1753, dau of James Duncanson of Keills by Barbara Mayne) | |||||||||||||||
iii. | Marion Freer (b 1755, d 1825) | ||||||||||||||
m. (1782) George Smith (n 1749, d 1823, Minister of Galston) | |||||||||||||||
a. | George Smith (b 1793, d 10.06.1686, cleric), 3rd son had issue | ||||||||||||||
m. (1825) Jane Hogarth (b 1800, dau of David Hogarth of Hilton by Beatrix Pringle) | |||||||||||||||
b. | Heniretta Smith | ||||||||||||||
m. Rev. _ Balfour (son of John of Pilrig) | |||||||||||||||
c.+ | other issue - William in Edinburgh (b 1789, d unm, banker), Adam in Calcutta (b 1791, had issue), David in India (b 1798, had issue), John in Glasgow (b 1800, dsp?), Margaret (b 1783, d unm), Jane (b 1785, d unm), Marion (d unm) | ||||||||||||||
iv.+ | other issue (d unm) - David in Edinburgh (b 1757, WS), Adam (b 1759), William (b 1768, d young), Isabel (b 1751, d young), Margaret (b 1753, d young) | ||||||||||||||
B. | John Freer of Essendie (d before 1766) | ||||||||||||||
m. Margaret Gib (a 1757, dau of Robert Gib of Lochtain) | |||||||||||||||
i. | Adam Freer of Essendie (dsp, MD in India) | ||||||||||||||
ii. | Robert Freer (Professor of Surgery at University of Glasgow) | ||||||||||||||
m. Margaret Thomson (b 1766, dau of Alexander Thomson by Barbara Young) | |||||||||||||||
a. | Robert Freer (d young) | ||||||||||||||
iii. | Elizabeth Freer | ||||||||||||||
m. Rev. _ Whitson | |||||||||||||||
iv. | Helen Freer | ||||||||||||||
m. _ Williamson | |||||||||||||||
v. | Jane Freer | ||||||||||||||
m. _ Cowper | |||||||||||||||
C. | George Freer in London | ||||||||||||||
i. | William Freer (d 1766, "Surgeon-General of the Armies of the Empress of Russia") | ||||||||||||||
m. Margaret Young (d 1793, dau of Alexander Young by Margaret Alison) | |||||||||||||||
a.+ | issue - William (d 1770), Margaret (d 1776) | ||||||||||||||
ii. | Catherine Freer | ||||||||||||||
m. J. Wood of Edinburgh (of the family of Largo) | |||||||||||||||
iii. | Elizabeth Freer | ||||||||||||||
m. Alexander Ross of Balkail | |||||||||||||||
a. | John Ross of Balkail (Major) | ||||||||||||||
m. Jane Buchan | |||||||||||||||
(1) | Sir Hew Dalrymple Ross, Field Marshal (b 05.07.1779, d 10.12.1868) had issue | ||||||||||||||
Some detail on Hew comes from Wikipedia ("Hew Dalrymple Ross"). | |||||||||||||||
m. (1816) Elizabeth Graham | |||||||||||||||
b. | Mary Ross | ||||||||||||||
m1. John Dalrymple (Captain) | |||||||||||||||
m2. Sir J.A. Oughton (General, CIC Scotland) | |||||||||||||||
iv. | Jane Freer | ||||||||||||||
m. Rev. George Gillespie (d 1760) | |||||||||||||||
a. | daughter (d 1756) | ||||||||||||||
D. | Marion Freer (dsp) | ||||||||||||||
m. (1763) Rev. George Simson | |||||||||||||||
E. | Margaret Freer | ||||||||||||||
m. James Meik in Wester Banchorie | |||||||||||||||
F.+ | other issue - Thomas (d young), Frances (d young), Henry(d young) | ||||||||||||||
Main source(s): MGH (NS1, vol 2 (1876), 'Freer, sometime of Essendie, Innernethy, and Woodlands, in the County of Perth', p70+)
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