Elizabeth (Ogilvy) Maitland (abt. 1692 - 1778)

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Died 24 Sep 1778 at about age 86 in Bath, Somerset, England

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Biography

Elizabeth was the eldest daughter of James Ogilvy, 4th Earl of Findlater, and 1st Earl of Seafield, and his wife Anne Dunbar, and was born on or before 6 May 1692.^[1]

She married in 1710, (marriage proclaimed on 15 July 1710^[2]) Charles Maitland, 6th Earl of Lauderdale, and had 16 children;^[3]

1. Ann, born 28 May 1712, died young;
2. Elizabeth, married (1) 1739, James Ogilvy, of Rothiemay and Inchmartine; (2) 17 August 1765, General Robert Anstruther, of Balgarvie, and died 24 September 1804 having had issue with her first husband;
3. Mary, died young;
4. John, born before 1717, and died young before 25 July 1720;
5. James, born 23 January 1718, succeeded his father as 7th Earl of Lauderdale;
6. Charles, born before 25 July 1720, when he was described as second son, assumed the name of Barclay, and later Barclay-Maitland, died 28 November 1795, married three times and had issue, and was ancestor of 12th Earl of Lauderdale;
7. Janet, born 1720, married 11 November 1744, Thomas Dundas, and died 29 December 1805 having had issue;
8. George, Archdeacon of Larne, died unmarried in September 1764;
9. John, died as a child before 9 September 1728;
10. Richard, born 10 February 1724, died 13 July 1772, married and had issue, ancestor of 13th Earl of Lauderdale;
11. Eleonora, born 7 October 1727^[4] , died young;
12. Sir Alexander, born 21 March 1728 described on 9 September 1728 as fifth son, created a Baronet, died 14 February 1820 having married and had issue;
13. Frederick Lewis, born 19 June 1730, died 16 December 1786 having married and had issue;
14. Patrick, born 10 April 1731, died 19 May 1797, having married and had issue
15. John, born 1732, died unmarried 12 October 1779;
16. William, born 24 March 1733, died young

Her husband died at Halton 15 July 1744 and she died at Bath on 24 September 1778.^[5]

Sources

1. ↑ Cokayne, p. 493
2. ↑ Paul, vol. 4, p. 38
3. ↑ see Paul, vol. 5, pp. 311-317
4. ↑ Scots Peerage, vol. 5, p. 317, has this date but must be a mistake if the date of her brother Alexander's birth of 21 March 1728 is correct
5. ↑ Cokayne, p. 493

• Cokayne, George Edward, The Complete Peerage of a history of the House of Lords and all its members from the earliest times, 2nd ed., vol. 7, revised and edited by Hon. Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday and Lord Howard de Walden, London: St Catherine Press, 1929. Electronic version by ABC Publications, London, 2003.

• Paul, Sir James Balfour, (ed.), The Scots Peerage founded on Wood's edition of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that kingdom, vol. 5, Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1908. Digitised by Internet Archive from Allen County Public Library Genealogical Center, (https://archive.org/details/scotspeeragefoun05paul : viewed 13 September 2015)

Acknowledgments

Thank you to Jim Walker for creating this profile 24 May 2011.

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