David Urquhart (abt. 1772 - 1810)

Born about 1772 in Scotland

Died 1810 at about age 38 in Cape Colony, South Africa

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Biography

This profile is part of the Urquhart Name Study.

David Urquhart is a member of Clan Urquhart.

David Urquhart has Scottish Ancestors.

David Urquhart was born in Scotland.

David Urquhart was born about 1772.

David married Anne Fraser, daughter of the regimental commander, Lt. Col. James Fraser, at Tuam, County Roscommon, Ireland in 1801.^[1]

They had three daughters and two sons:

1. Jane Helen b 1804, d 1884.
2. Eliza b 1806, d 1878.
3. Agnes b 1805, d 1854.
4. David Robert b 1808, d 1809.
5. Kenneth b 1809, d 1809.

Captain David Urquhart passed away at Cape Colony, South Africa in 1810.

Research Notes

Anne Fraser was living in Kent with Eliza in 1841.^[2]

Anne Fraser died in 1854.^[3]

Captain James Fraser

Sources

1. ↑ Citing this Record "Ireland, Diocesan and Prerogative Marriage License Bonds Indexes, 1623-1866", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:WG4W-SHMM : 3 December 2019), David Urguhart, 1801.
2. ↑ Citing this Record "England and Wales Census, 1841," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MQK2-VJC : 21 May 2019), Eliza Urguhart in household of Loeteta Orkes, Gillingham, Kent, England, United Kingdom; from "1841 England, Scotland and Wales census," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : n.d.); citing PRO HO 107, The National Archives, Kew, Surrey.
3. ↑ Citing this Record "British Newspaper Archive, Family Notices," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPC5-R4WY : 17 April 2019), David Urquhart, Captain in entry for Ann Fraser Urquhart, Inverness, Inverness-shire, Scotland, United Kingdom; records extracted FamilySearch and images digitized by FindMyPast; citing Inverness, Inverness-shire, Scotland, United Kingdom, 19 Oct 1847, The British Newspaper Archive, Ireland; FHL microfilm .

See Also:

• Fraser Fencibles
• Clan Fraser timeline 1700
• FamilySearch

Notes in email My 3rd great grandfather was David Urquhart. The first confirmed record of him I have is his Joining the Fraser Fencibles (under Col. James Fraser) as Lieutenant on its formation 29 Nov 1794. He became Captain and Paymaster in the Regiment, serving in Ireland and appears to have been the Captain Urquhart referred to in the retaking of Castlebar from the Irish rebels and their French backers in 1798. In 1801 he married Anne Fraser, the daughter of the regimental commander in Ireland, Lt. Co. James Fraser. In 1803 on dissolution of the Fraser Fencibles, he became Captain and Paymaster in 72nd Highland Regiment and served again in Ireland. In 1805 the regiment was shipped to the Cape of Good Hope where they were involved in taking it from the Dutch. He died there in 1810. There were 3 daughters (Jane, Agnes and Eliza - including my 2nd ggrandmother - all born in Ireland). There are also burial record for 2 infant sons, apparently born in Cape Town (David Robert, d. 27 Feb 1809, aged 10 m 21 d.; Kenneth, 7 Dec 1809: aged 10 m 15 d.,... whose apparent births seem to be too close). David is mentioned in the 1809 will of David Urquhart Esq. of Braelangwell as "due the principal sum of £200 per a bond to Mrs Janet Murchison dated 30 June, 1795 and assignation thereof to the deceased dated 27 June 1799", suggesting he had borrowed from Mrs Murchison and his debt had been assigned to David of Braelangwell. In 1802, there is a case Urquhart vs Taylor, Lockhart and Urquhart, suggesting that a tack for land on the Estate of Newhall was sold in 1794 by Henrietta Urquhart née Gordon and her husband David Urquhart (of Braelangwell), to Captain Urquhart of the Fraser Fencibles, and a tack for the same land subsequently sold to one William Taylor. Not clear how it was resolved. I have had corresponded with Jim Mackay of the Kirkmichael Trust about this. He suspects that Captain David U might have been David Urquhart, the land surveyor of Newhall, about whom there are some records prior to 1794, but that still doesn't solve his parentage. Incidentally, David of Braelangwell had an apparently illegitimate son, David, who joined the East India Company Army in 1793 and died in Calicut, India in 1800, and an illegitimate daughter, Sophia, who married Captain Charles Munro, later murdered, in addition to a son and a daughter to each of his 2 wives (Henriatta Gordon and Margaret Hunter). Another 3 military Urqhuarts of that period were the sons of John Urquhart of the Ordnance, Fort-George: Lieut. John Crawfurd Urqhuart (d. 1805), Lieut. James Urquhart (d. 1802) and Capt Charles Urquhart (d. 1810).