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Catherine Blair (abt. 1740 - 1798)

Baroness Catherine Blair aka of Adamtoun
Born about in Adamtoun, Monkton, Ayr, Scotlandmap
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[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of — married 1776 [location unknown]
Descendants descendants
Died at about age 58 in Scotlandmap
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Biography

Baroness Catherine Blair, Lady Maxwell, born perhaps circa 1740 in Adamtoun, Monkton Parish, Ayrshire, was the daughter and heiress of David Blair, 11th of Adamton, and his second wife Anne Blair (who was in turn daughter of William Blair, Esq., and his second wife Catherine Tait, ancestors of the later Blairs of Blair). Catherine's father David was the last heir male of the Ancient Blairs of Adamtoun, oldest cadet of the Ancient Blairs of that Ilk.

Baroness Catherine married in 1776 Sir William Maxwell of Monreith, 4th Bart. Their children were:

  1. Anne Maxwell
  2. Hamilton Maxwell
  3. Jane Maxwell
  4. William Maxwell of Monreith, 5th Baronet, b. 5 March 1779

In his history of Ayrshire, James Paterson supplies the following account of Baroness Catherine and her family:

"Catherine Blair of Adamtoun. She married, in 1776, her cousin, Sir William Maxwell of Monreith, Bart., by whom she had three sons and six daughters. She sold Adamtoun, in Nov. 1783, to the late Robert Reid, Esq., and died 2d April 1798. . . ."


Baroness Catherine died circa 1799. [1]

Sources

  • Douglas, Robert. "The Baronage of Scotland" (1798), pp.196, 198.
  • MacFarlane Clan and Families genealogy
  1. First-hand information as remembered by Maria Maxwell, Sunday, 6 April 2014.

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