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George Dundas |
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Helen Coupar |
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Joined the Old Chevalier in the Jacobite Rising of 1715, for
which he was imprisoned. Although he was eventually liberated by government,
he was forced to sell the estate of Airth, which his wife had inherited.
In 1720, he purchased the lands and castle of Blair, near Culross. |
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X Elizabeth Elphinstone, daughter of Richard
Elphinstone and Jean Bruce of Airth |
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the following children were born of this union: |
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Richard Dundas |
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Ralph Dundas a General in the Dutch Service, who died
unmarried. Captain, 1742 ; lieut.-colonel, May 19th ; and major
def. August 3rd, 1751 ; lieut.-colonel def. March I4th, 1763; colonel-com.
October 2nd, 1772; colonel of Gordon's regiment February 5th, 1776;
major-general July 9th, 1779. Took oath to Dutch Government in special
circumstances in 1783. Died 1789
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Charles Dundas, born 1703, Airth. A Captain in the English Army, died unmarried
1786. |
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James Dundas a Lieutenant Colonel in the Dutch Service, born 1706, Airth. Died unmarried. |
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William Dundas, born 1702, Airth. Died young |
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Alexander Dundas, born 1705, Airth. Died young |
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George Dundas, born 1698, Airth. Died unmarried. |
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John Dundas a major in the English army, who married Miss Brown. Died without
issue. |
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Jean Dundas, born 1697, Airth. Died unmarried |
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Anne Dundas died unmarried. * In the book "John Blaw of Castlehill", Anne Dundas
is shown as having married John Blaw a criminal and Jacobite:- |
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From Culross and Tulliallan: or, Perthshire on Forth, Volume 2; "He (John
Blaw) had extensive transactions in the way of fruit and farm produce
with two individuals of the name of Cairns— father and son—and
Blaw imagined, probably not without reason, that
they had been defrauding him, and more especially had been helping themselves
unduly to the apples in Castlehill orchard. One day, on the occasion of
Clackmannan fair, the three met in a hostelry in that town, and a bitter
altercation ensued. Young Cairns, it is said, avowed the robbery of the fruit,
and held up in insulting effrontery an apple to Blaw's face. The latter, thus
goaded, drew a knife and wounded severely the young man. Old Cairns interposed
to save his son, and in doing so, received a mortal wound from
Blaw. The son recovered, but the father died.
John Blaw was tried, convicted, and hanged at
Stirling. It is said that previous to his trial he made over the property of
Castlehill to his brother Daniel, to avoid its forfeiture. The two sons, for
neglecting whom he had been summoned before the kirk-session, seem before this
to have gone abroad, where they died, leaving no trace. It was said that Daniel
Blaw or some other of the relatives had made an
arrangement by which John Blaw was cut down and
resuscitated, after being apparently hanged. A "dummy" was then dressed up in
his clothes, and deposited with some stones in a coffin, which was placed in a
hearse, conveyed to Culross, and buried in the West Kirkyard.
Blaw himself had meantime been conveyed to a safe
concealment, from which, after a little while, he contrived to escape to
Holland. There, it is said, he ultimately died. Such is the story that is
told, but it cannot be averred as a fact; and indeed I have been assured by an
old man whose father remembered the occurrence perfectly, that John
Blaw was certainly hanged and buried. It appears,
however, that some such tale had reached the ears of his wife, (Anne Dundas) who
could not be persuaded in consequence that he was really dead. To satisfy her
the grave was opened, and the buckles from Blaw's shoes, in which with the rest
of his clothes he had been buried, were taken out and brought to his widow. The
shoes themselves were allowed to remain for a long time outside the grave in the
burying-ground of the West Church. The execution took place in 1769, so that
John Blaw must have been, at the time of
perpetrating the murder, considerably advanced in life". |
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Helen Dundas died unmarried. |
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Elizabeth Dundas, born 1701, Airth, Stirling, |
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