Jean Chisholm (1715 - aft. 1782)

Born 1715 in Erchless Castle, Inverness-shire, Scotland

Wife of John McDonell of Leek — married 1738 in , Inverness-shire, , Scotland

Descendants

Died after 1782 after age 67 in St. Andrews West, Ontario, Canada

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Biography

Notes from Fantan Fraser:

"Jean Chisholm, granddaughter of The Chisholm (in other places, noted as "niece of "The Chisholm", chief of that clan in Scotland"), was born at Erchless Castle, married Archibald Macdonell, and had 3 sons. They sided with the Prince at Culloden so after defeat, one son went to the new world. He made a success and sent for his parents and two brothers. The British Gov't put a ship, HMS Pearl, at their disposal and they sailed to New York. Officials in New York gave a banquet to honor of the arrival of the father and his two sons (one of which was our great-great-grandfather) but didn't invite the one already in New York (who was also our great-great-grandfather as cousins married two generations later) because he was in trade! The party aboard HMS Pearl consisted of the family I mentioned above, with 400 of their followers plus their priest. They settled in Albany, NY in 1773 and stayed there until the revolution. They didn't like King George but they liked revolutionaries even less so fought for the British and after the revolution fled to Canada. They were granted lands at Long Sault. (Incidentally, the clock in the hall was givne to Jean on her marriage to Archibald McDonell so probably came out on the Pearl too). Jean and Archibald had a daughter, Ann (born 1797) who married Col. Alexander Fraser. See next page for issue."

Notes for Jean Chisholm from Fantan Fraser:

Jean Chisholm, died Aft. 1782 in Canada. She was the daughter of Alexander Chisholm of Muckerach (son of John Chisholm) and ? Grant (daughter of John Grant, Laird of Glenmoriston and Janet Cameron, Lady Glenmoriston who married in 1698 (Janet Cameron was the daughter of Ewan Cameron of Lochiel)).

After her husband died, Jean Macdonell went to live, first, with her son Allan at Matilda, second, with her son Roderick at St Regis, and finally with her eldest daughter Mrs. McLeod (probably somewhere in Ontario), and died there at the age of 104.^[1]

Dates and maiden name are from the ancestry.com file.

CHISHOLM. The family who first bore this name in Scotland possessed lands in Roxboroughshire and Berwickshire as early as the reign of Alexander the Third (the 13th century.) The chief of the name was Chisholm of Chisholm. In 1335 Sir John de Chisholm married Ann, daughter of Sir Robert Lauder, of Quarrelwood, Nainshire, (see under head Pringle), constable of the Royal cattle of Urquhart, Inverness shire. Alexander, second son of Sir Robert de Chisholm, married Margaret de la Ard, heiress of Erchless, and founded the family of Erchless and Strathglas' Iq Inverness-shire. This family failed for lack of heirs, male. The modern Clan Chisholm of Inverness-shire are, it is probable, descended from one of the northern collaterals of the original family of Chisholm of Chisholm, in Roxboroughshire, and cannot be traced further back than the reign of James the Fourth, when Wiland de Chisholm obtained a charter of the lands of Comer, dated 9th April, 1513. At a later period they obtained a gift of the lands of Erchless and others. After the battle of Killiecrankie in 1689, Erchless, the seat of the chief, was garrisoned for King James. John Chisholm was chief about 1699. He had two sons. The elder one was Ruari, or Roderick, (called Mac Ian.) The younger was Alexander. Early in 1715 Ruari (or Roderick), who had inherited the estates from his father, John Chisholm, signed the address of one hundred and two chiefs and heads of houses to George the First, expressive of their attachment and loyalty. No notice being taken of it, he engaged actively in the rising under the Earl of Mar, and at the battle of Dumblane the clan was headed by Chisholm of Crocfin, an aged veteran, for which the estates of Roderick were forfeited and sold, and came into the hands of Roderick's brother, Alexander, who was the father of Jf Chisholm, who married John Macdonell, of Lick. (See Note I4.; President Forbes, in his report upon the Highlands early last century, states that *' the strength of the Clan Chisholm is two hundred and cannot be traced further back than the reign of James the Fourth, when Wiland de Chisholm obtained a charter of the lands of Comer, dated 9th April, 1513. At a later period they obtained a gift of the lands of Erchless and others. After the battle of Killiecrankie in 1689, Erchless, the seat of the chief, was garrisoned for King James. John Chisholm was chief about 1699. He had two sons. The elder one was Ruari, or Roderick, (called Mac Ian.) The younger was Alexander. Early in 1715 Ruari (or Roderick), who had inherited the estates from his father, John Chisholm, signed the address of one hundred and two chiefs and heads of houses to George the First, expressive of their attachment and loyalty. No notice being taken of it, he engaged actively in the rising under the Earl of Mar, and at the battle of Dumblane the clan was headed by Chisholm of Crocfin, an aged veteran, for which the estates of Roderick were forfeited and sold, and came into the hands of Roderick's brother, Alexander, who was the father of Jf Chisholm, who married John Macdonell, of Lick. (See Note I4.; President Forbes, in his report upon the Highlands early last century, states that *' the strength of the Clan Chisholm is and that " and that the chief is Chisholm of Strathglass." Genealogy by Pringle

Notes Alexander Chisholm of Muckerach from Fantan Fraser:

Alexander's brother Roderick, chief of the clan and inheritor of the estates, took part in the rising of 1715. The Chisholms, under their young chief, distinguished themselves at Sheriffmuir, but the rebellion was soon put down and Roderick Chisholm was attainted and his estates sequestered. By the adroit intervention and management of prudent and influential friends the confiscated estates were conveyed, through several persons, to Alexander. The latter thus became the absolute owner of the properties and there was nothing, save his integrity and loyalty to his brother, to prevent him from keeping and handing them down to his descendants. He, however, after holding them from 1719 to 1742, conveyed them to his nephew Alexander, the eldest son of Roderick. It was well that the conveyance was made to Alexander rather than to Roderick himself, for three years later, on the landing of Prince Charles Edward, the attachment of Roderick to the Stuarts could not be restrained, and he, with his clan, took the field and fought at Culloden, where the Chisholms suffered severely. As Roderick had no estates, he had nothing to forfeit and he was eventually left undisturbed; but the part of the castle of Erchless [1] was destroyed and the whole of Strathglass was ravaged by the Duke of Cumberland's soldiers. Alexander Chisholm, the son of Roderick, to whom the estates had been conveyed, executed in the year of 1777, an entail of them, limited to the heirs male of his body, whom falling to the heirs male of his uncle, Alexander Chisholm of Mucherach; and when, in 1858, the direct line died out, the estates passed under the entail to James Sutherland Chisholm, then a resident of Montreal, the great grandson of the latter. Thus was Alexander's probity rewarded in his descendants.

Notes Janet Cameron, Lady Glenmoriston from Fantan Fraser:

Lady Glenmoriston died at the age of 80, having at the time of her death, no fewer than two hundred living descendants. Her coffin was carried by sons, grandsons, great grandsons, and great great grandsons, a circumstance probably unique. (see the obituary in the Scotts Magazine for 1759).

Notes for Ewan Cameron of Lochiel from Fantan Fraser:

Sir Ewan Cameron of Lochiel (born Abt. 1629; died 1719) played an important part in the stirring events of the last half of the seventeenth century. Sir Ewan, or "Evandhu", as he was called in the Highlands, died in 1719 at the age of 90.

Sources

1. ↑ A UE Empire Loyalist Family, page 155

• A United Empire Loyalist Family, by W.L. Scott, K.C. Reprinted from Vol XXXII, Papers and Records, Ontario Historical Society. pdf available from Sarah Robertson

• Source: S-261582023 Repository: #R-848682959 Title: Ancestry Family Trees Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members. Page: Ancestry Family Tree Data: Text: http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=63021058&pid=27
• Repository: R-848682959 Name: Ancestry.com

Acknowledgments

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