T H E

S T R A T O N S

O F

L A U R I S T O N

and their offshoots.

The Seal of Alexander Straton of That Ilk  affixed to a Charter, dated the 1st of September, 1376, belonging to Mrs. Barclay-Allardice of Ury and Allardice.

See Hist. MSS Commrs.' Report V. App. p. 629

Edited, printed and issued privately by Charles Henry Straton, 2 Trinfield Avenue, Exmouth, Devon.

1939 [2ed 2001]
Preface the second edition

As my sister Kathy and I intensified our search in 1997 for verification of links to Lauriston Castle, the Straton family seat for centuries, or to those Stratons who may have lived in or near the town of Straiton from which the name derives (which is now no more than a roundabout just south of Edinburgh), I found myself forgetting who I had birth dates for.  So I decided to copy all 2580 birth and marriage records from the Old Parochial Registers (OPRs) index in the LDS Family History Library for all variations on the name Straton and reformat them into a spreadsheet.  (I included Str•aton, •aiton, •acten, •aetoun, •aiten, •aition, •aitoun, •aitoune, •aitten, •aittone, •aittoun, •aittoune, •atan, •aten, •atin, •ation, •atone, •atonn, •atoun, •atoune, •attan, •atten, •attin, •atton, •attone, and •autoun from 1567 through 1862)  I then cross-correlated these with records on the Scottish General Records Office web site <http://www.gro-scotland.gov.uk/famrec/index.html> and found only a couple of discrepancies.  
In 1995 the Montrose Library made Kathy a photocopy of the original edition of The Stratons of Lauriston and Their Offshoots, errata and all.  It was very helpful in eliminating possible ancestors of the same given name and era from the field of candidates in my spreadsheet.  But in order to cross-reference efficiently, I needed to mark the entries I had accounted for in the book itself.  This was only practicable if I had an electronic copy of the book, which I proceeded to create via optical character recognition software and a scanner.  
As I proofed the text, and entered citations to the OPRs, I also updated a few errors to match dates from the latter, and I also made the changes directed by the typed and penned errata in the original edition.  Since some of the OPR index entries may have mixed up dates for births and christenings, which one would catch upon viewing the full text of the OPR, I have left the original text in the footnoted citation.  I have viewed only a small fraction of the full text OPR entries, so as you read others in your investigations, please double-check that the index entry is correct and let me know either way (and email me the full text if you can). 
I have also added some Commissary Court Register of Testaments entries (noted as CC in the footnotes), Burgh-Register Index of Sasine entries (SAS), Retours (C22/##, the request number in the Scottish national archives), Register of Deeds entries (RD2 (Dal.)), Legal documents from the Stair Society (LEG), Registers of Internments and Monumental Inscription entries (CEM), Edinburgh and Canongate Marriage Register entries (MR), Guild Burgess and Apprenticeship entries (GBA), Post Office Directory entries (POD), and Poll Tax entries for 1694 (POL).
By this method I was able to verify most of the entries in the mid to latter part of the book.  In 2000 I borrowed a copy of The Stratons of Lauriston in the possession of the Charles Henry Straton's grandson, Peter, that contains penciled-in citations to additional primary documents, primarily for the first through middle parts of the book, nicely complementing the work I had already done.  
Mr. Frank Bigwood, a scholar in North Berwick, Scotland, has updated these citations to their modern form.  Thus, for example, Charles Henry Straton's penciled reference to “Reg Great Seal Vol I p. 508” can be located in the National Archives of Scotland via the reference number to the original edition, NAS:C1/3/6, or the newer 1984 edition by Sir James Balfour Paul and  John Maitland Thomson, RMS I, 508.  Mr. Bigwood has also viewed nearly every one of these documents, verified their contents, provided a (sometimes extensive) synopsis and commentary, and offered minor wording changes to the accompanying main text.  I have updated the text to eliminate those errors his work revealed.
Charles Henry Straton also produced a series of nine auxiliary volumes of reference material, housed in both the Montrose library and the National Library.  These contain decades of work collecting both primary and secondary sources for the claims in the book.  It appears to me that those few entries in The Stratons of Lauriston and Their Offshoots that have not been substantiated either by the OPR indices or the primary sources referenced in Peter Straton’s copy of the book can likely be substantiated by the full-text references in the auxiliary volumes.  I have included a few such items in this edition, but the full task will have to wait until time permits.  I will post periodic updates to each chapter should I take on that task myself.
Included in the second edition are additional appendices to extend several family trees to include all individuals in the text and bring them to the 21st century. (They become impossibly large for the JW series so I am exploring several options for splitting them up.)
Given the very few errors that turned up in each of the intensive editing processes, The Stratons of Lauriston is incredibly reliable.  (There is even a note from Charles Henry Straton in Volume VIII of his auxiliary reference material saying that "I have destroyed practically all of the letters and papers of my grandfather, Charles Straton, that were in my possession . . . [because] although his knowledge of law was great, his mind was that of a novelist rather than that of a lawyer or a historian and he could not help building on scraps of information that came to him".)  So I present this second edition to you with the hope that it will serve you as well as it has served us. 

July 1, 2009

Jack C. Straton, Ph.D. 

Please bring any errors to my attention at:

Department of Physics
134 SRTC, 1719 SW 10th Avenue
Portland State University
Portland, OR 97207-0751
USA

Straton {aT] pdx.edu

Key to edited text in the second edition

Text changes in the second edition are followed by one of the following characters: 
* printed errata in the Montrose Library's copy of the First Edition.  Whenever the erratum is longer than one sentence, as on the bottom of page 24, a * precedes the first sentence and follows the last.
† penned errata in the Montrose Library's copy of the First Edition by the author.
◊ penned errata in the Peter Straton's copy of the First Edition by the author and current changes dictated by the original sources cited therein.
‡ current changes, most often to match the computerized indices to the Old Parish Register.  The original wording is noted in the footnote citation.  The indices are occasionally wrong, so eventually the OPRs themselves should be examined.
 current changes to match an entry in The Stratons of Lauriston Reference Material, Vol. I-IX, by Charles Henry Straton.  The original wording is noted in the footnote citation.  
 current substantiations are included in footnotes, sometimes with one of the characters above.
 substantiations from The Stratons of Lauriston Reference Material, Vol. I-IX
 substantiations from Peter Straton's copy of the original edition.  Expanded and updated reference information from the research of Mr. Frank Bigwood is included in square brackets, [], who, except in a few cases (e.g., the NAS: E21 series) checked the original documents referenced against the text.  My own commentary in those notes is included in curly braces, {}, wherever it is not obvious such as the references to the LDS sources.
 Corrections and substantiations from the research of Mr. Frank Bigwood.
[current additions], particularly additional children found in the OPR indices.
? text needing attention. 

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Ref. LC.
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T H E   S T R A T O N S   O F   L A U R I S T O N 

CONTENTS.
Page
Chapter I Introduction.	1
 II Geography of the Family.	5
III The Arms of the Family.	8
 IV The Fifteenth Century.	12
  V The Sixteenth Century.	20
 VI The Decline of the House.	29
VII The Descendants of
	        Captain Robert Straton.	35
VIII Andrew Straton of Warburton and
	        his Descendants. 	47
 IX Stratons of Criggie and Kirkside.	64
  X Stratons in Montrose.	79
 XI The Descendants of
	       Captain James Straton.	92
XII Stratons South of the Forth.	100
XIII Stratons in Perthshire.	111
Appendix A. The Story of Mrs. Macfarlane
B. William Straiton's tomb at Liberton. 

Index Trees appear on pages 13, 22, 30, 
35,47, 51, 68 and 93.

[Appendix C. Inscription on the tomb of Sir Joseph Straton					123
Appendix D. Complete Trees					124]
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PREFACE.

About a century ago my grandfather, Charles Straton (p. 61) then a young law clerk in Montrose, had his interest in his ancestry aroused by his friendship with Patrick Cushnie, the Episcopal Minister in that town.
Cushnie claimed kinship and greeted the young Charles as Uncle; they were really cousins but, owing to the fact that there was a difference of 55 years in age between Charles and his father and a similar difference between his father and his grandfather, Charles at the age of 21 was a generation senior to Cushnie at 54.
Charles Straton at that time was very far removed from the headship of the family and was only interested to prove to his own satisfaction his descent from the Stratons of Lauriston. By means of information he received from Cushnie and from various deeds and other documents he came across in his legal work and from enquiries made from other kinsmen, he collected a certain amount of information but less than he might have done had he been more seriously interested.
Cushnie had various papers bearing on the family history which he was willing to allow Charles to copy, but this must be done in his own presence and not unnaturally the young man was unwilling to intrude unduly on his senior. When Cushnie died in 1869 his papers disappeared from the cognisance of the Straton family and only the few notes made about 1835, almost indecipherable forty years later, remained when Charles, then in Canada, resumed his interest.
About 1875 my great-uncle Alexander Straton,(p.60) younger brother of Charles, then a doctor in busy practice in Wiltshire, took up the story and made many enquiries into the family history, corresponding freely with Charles on the matter. They had collected a fair amount of material when in Nov. 1878, Alexander received a letter from John Warde Straton,(p.99) a retired Civil Servant, who believed himself to be near the headship of the family and was on the look-out for his kindred.
Until Alexander's last illness in 1880 these two carried on a voluminous correspondence, which has been preserved, and Charles was called on to furnish all the information of which he was possessed, which the others supplemented by searches in various directions. After Alexander's death in October 1800 his nephew, my father, Charles Robert Straton, continued the work and a family history was gradually drafted by my grandfather out of their collective researches.

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While my grandfather's memory faded as he grew older his imagination did not and this draft, which reached a stationary condition about 1886, is marred by many unnecessary inaccuracies. It is however useful in that it contains information of matters which were within his own knowledge and it and his letters have been drawn on to that extent.
Charles Straton died in 1899 and John Warde Straton in 1901. My father, up to the time of his death in 1918 was still collecting material from time to time but no further effort was made by him to weld the material into a consecutive narrative.
After my retirement from the Army in 1921 I read the various papers which had descended to me from my father, my great-uncle and from my kinsman, John Warde Straton, which included the many letters which had passed between them and those from my grandfather, and I gradually set to work to put the material at my disposal into order and to seek for additional information. Much had been published since 1880 which bore on my subject and I have been able to obtain unpublished material from Edinburgh and elsewhere.
In 1931 I was able to print and issue to my near relations a history of the main line of the family. I then continued my searches and had written what is here issued when my health broke down in 1935; the last two chapters have been printed by deputy.
Possibly some others of the family will continue these researches; there is considerable scope with regard to the Stratons from Perthshire whose existence I had hardly discovered when I had to give up my search. While I am conscious of the faults and omissions of this book I have no hope that I shall be able to do any more to improve or complete it.
I have received much kindness and assistance from the staff of the Historical Department of H.M. Register House at Edinburgh to whom I tender my grateful thanks.

C. H. Straton.

Exmouth 
March 1939.

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Note on the Spelling and Pronunciation of the Name.

From the earliest times the name has been spelt Straton and is always spelt this way in Latin though in English it has been spelt Straitoun and there are other spellings such as Straytoun. It was in the records of the parish of Caputh, Perthshire,(see Chapter XIII) that I first got doubts as to the length of the vowel sound. Here there were two distinct families, or branches of one family, the name of one being consistently spelt Straiton in the register and the other Stirton; in legal matters both are apt to be spelt Straton. It would appear from this that the spelling in the registers was phonetic but here we find a difficulty.
About 1800 [some]‡ Straitons began to spell their name Stratton; David S. a law agent at Dunkeld, originally spelt his name Straiton, changed to Straton, and ended as Stratton, a spelling adopted by his descendants. It is hard to see how Straiton became Stratton without a change of sound.
In the Stirton family the A was obviously very short; the Rev. G. Straton was a Stirton but outside Caputh his name was always spelt Straton.
In the Mearns I think the A was short and the spelling Stratton is seen on the tombstones erected at Marykirk to Charles (d.1846 aged 87) and David (d. 1834 aged 82) mentioned on pp. 58‡ and 60, and some of their descendants. On the tombstone at Liberton, see Appendix B, the name is spelt Straiton, corresponding to the modern spelling of the original family home. This appears to have been the usual spelling in and round Edinburgh. Possibly the Straitons of Caputh came from Edinburgh whilst the Stirtons were drawn from the Mearns.
I, my father, and all my kinsmen I have known, have pronounced the name as if spelt Straiton.‡

C.H.S.

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THE STRATONS OF LAURISTON

CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION .

The landowning class in the Lowlands of Scotland practically all came from England and there were two periods during which the majority of them came to Scotland and were granted lands. The first of these was immediately after the Norman Conquest of England, when Edgar the Atheling and his sisters took refuge at the Scottish Court, and the second in the reign of David I when this king was associated with the Norman barons of England in the war between the followers of Matilda and Stephen.
On the first occasion, as is natural, most of the immigrants, though by no means all, were of the Saxon race. King Malcolm of Scotland married the Princess Margaret, the Atheling's sister, who had a great influence in the civilisation of state and church in Scotland. This led to the entry into the kingdom of various persons who were thought likely to be useful in the development of learning and trade.
Through the English fiefs of the Kings of Scotland there was a constant connection with the barons of England and when David I came to the throne in 1123 his claims to the Honour of Huntingdon, to which his wife was heir, took him to England. During his absence there was a rising in Moray, in the suppression of which he enlisted the aid of Norman knights, to whom he granted extensive lands in Moray and elsewhere. 
It is in this reign that the name of Straton first appears in the Scottish records. The charters of that period have practically all been lost and the records of the Great Seal, having been taken to England by Edward I were subsequently lost by shipwreck. There are in existence however indexes of the charters and a certain amount of indirect evidence exists, charters that have been lost being referred to in subsequent charters of a later date. In this way we read of the grant by David I (1124-1153) to Alexander the son of Robert of the lands of Straiton in the parish of Liberton, Midlothian. There is also indirect evidence of a charter by William the Lion (1165-1214).
It is to be noted that, whereas the Saxons gave their own names to the places they inhabited, the reverse was the case with the Normans who took their names from their estates. The family, henceforward
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known as Straton or Straiton, retained the superiority of Straiton until the end of the seventeenth century, although their principal holdings were in Kincardineshire.
In 1245 we find the first record of any connection between a Straton and the estate of Lauriston, or in fact with Scotland north of the Forth. In that year Michael de Straton was a witness to a deed by which Walter Cummin, Earl of Menteith, granted a stone of wax annually to the monks of Arbroath in payment for the right to have a private chapel at Lauriston, then the Earl's property. In 1258 the Countess of Menteith was accused of poisoning the Earl, who had died suddenly, and the estate was forfeited to the King.
The next member of the family to become prominent was Richard de Straton who evidently held some position at Court as his name appears frequently as witness to charters from 1276 to 1293. In 1277 he was sent, with the Bishops of St Andrews and Dunblane and Robert Bruce, Earl of Carrick, on an embassy to Edward I of England.
On the death of Queen Margaret in 1290 the throne of Scotland became vacant and Edward I was asked, or took it upon himself, to decide between the various claimants to the kingdom. The twelve or more claimants were reduced to two, John Balliol and Robert Bruce, and Edward ordered forty commissioners chosen by Balliol, forty chosen by Bruce and twenty chosen by himself to meet at Norham Castle in 1291 to decide between the two. On this occasion Richard de Straton was one of the commissioners for Balliol. A seal of his in the Public Record Office, London, shows his arms, which were a shield with an orle, vair, and a plain canton dexter. Sir Richard de Straton was given a charter of Disclune and came into possession of Lauriston after the death of Comyn.*‡ 
The list of commissioners on this occasion is one of the earliest lists of persons of importance in Scotland; a little later are the homage rolls ("Ragman Roll") of Edward I and the list of signatories to the Letter to the Pope. In all those the name Straton appears.
Apparently by 1296 Richard was dead and his son Alexander did homage to Edward I at Aberdeen in July 1296 and at Berwick in the following month, presumably for lands north and south of the Forth respectively. At Berwick James and Thomas de Straton of the County of Edinburgh also signed the roll. Their seals are also preserved but differ from that of Richard.
During the occupation of Scotland by Edward I there was a census of horses and amongst those registered at Dundee in 1311-1312 were animals owned by Alexander, James and Richard de Straton.

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In 1314 took place the Battle of Bannockburn; we have no list of those who took part but there is a family tradition that one of the family was knighted under the colours on the field. This may or may not be so but we have a record, that in that year died Duncan de Arbuthnot, head of the Arbuthnot family, leaving a daughter to whom he gave the lands of Fiddes in The Mearns, on her marriage to Straiton of Lauriston.
In 1320 was written the famous letter to Pope John XXII explaining to him the history of the Scottish nation and asserting its independence of the kings of England. This letter, which is printed in the Harleian Miscellany, is signed by thirty-five of the "nobility and barons assembled in Parliament at Arbroath" and the last signature is that of Alexander Straton.
In 1325 Alexander and James de Straton were members of an inquest held at Dundee in connection with the rights of the burgh and three years later Alexander de Straton, as Sheriff of The Mearns, accounts to the Exchequer for "contributio imposita pro pace" in connection with the Treaty of Northampton.
In 1332 occurred the invasion of Edward Balliol and, in the following year, after the Battle of Halidon Hill, the strongholds south of the Forth fell to England and the lands of Straiton were forfeited by John de Straiton to Edward III. In 1336 Edward III, in the course of his march through Scotland, first strengthened and then destroyed the castles of Dunnottar, Kinneff and Lauriston.
In 1338 the French wars had caused Edward III to withdraw his forces; Robert the Steward ruled the kingdom on behalf of his nephew David and Alexander de Straton was granted a confirmation charter of the Mill of Inverbervie and lands in that neighbourhood.
In 1341 David II, the only son of Robert I, a boy of eight when his father died, was recalled from France where he had been brought up; in 1346 he invaded England and was captured at Neville's Cross. After more than ten years of captivity he was released on ransom in 1357. John Straton of that Ilk, who witnessed charters between 1351 and 1360, was collector of the ransom for the Glenbervie district.
In 1364 James de Straton, 'valettus' to William, fourth Earl of Sutherland, was granted a safe conduct for himself and four inferior knights to travel between England and Scotland. This Earl had married the King's sister, Margaret Bruce, and included in her dowry had been the thanedoms of Fettercairn, Kincardine and Aberluthnot, (Marykirk), all close to Lauriston.

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In the same year Alexander de Straton was one of an inquest at Brechin in connection with burgh rights; John de Straton was a witness in 1365 and David de Straton in 1367.
In 1368 the King granted the lands of Inverbervie to Alexander de Straton, his kinsman, ("consanguineus noster") and in the same year Alexander granted these lands to his daughter Margaret on her marriage to Barclay of Mathers. The kinship referred to is probably through the Sutherland family though no connection by marriage is known until the following century.
In 1371 King Robert II was crowned at Scone and Alexander de Straton was one of the barons to do homage to him the day after his coronation. The term Baron has changed its meaning somewhat since those days and it may be as well to explain that every man who held land direct from the King was called a baron; the bulk of these were minor barons or lairds and the lairds of each county appointed two of their number to represent them in Parliament.
In 1375 this Alexander granted a charter, confirmed by Robert II, of his lands of Castlecarey, near Edinburgh; his second daughter, Katherine, married Thomas Somerville of Lintoun. His arms are stated to have been Barry Nebulee of ten pieces argent and azure an escutcheon gules; his seal, affixed to a charter dated 1 Sept 1376, is Vair, an escutcheon gules, the dexter canton bearing a rose. This seal does not differ greatly from that of Richard de Straton of a century earlier. Alexander was a witness in 1378 and an arbitrator in 1386.
In the reign of Robert III (1390-1406), John Straton, a baillie of Montrose, granted lands in Angus and resigned lands in Duncanlaw, Midlothian. He was baillie from 1404.
In 1402 Alexander de Straton had an assignment of a part of a hereditary pension charged on the customs of Montrose enjoyed by Lindsay, Earl of Crawford, and two years later Alexander Straton of Lauriston witnessed a charter at Perth.
When Robert III died his son James was captive in England and Scotland was quiet under a regency until, in 1411 came the southward raid of Donald, Lord of the Isles, who claimed the thanedoms in The Mearns originally granted by David II to his sister, the Countess of Sutherland. This raid ended in the Battle of Harlaw, where Donald was opposed by the Lowlanders under Mar and vast numbers on both sides were killed. Among the

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dead were Alexander Straton of Lauriston and, tradition states, six of his sons and six sons-in-law.  Amongst these last was William Deuchar of that Ilk. 
With the Battle of Harlaw ends the first period of the history of the family of Straton, a period of tradition and conjecture with scanty records to connect a few well known facts.  From this time until the sale of Lauriston in 1695 the pedigree is complete and the facts are numerous.

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CHAPTER II	THE GEOGRAPHY of the FAMILY

Although the family first appeared in, and takes its name from, Straiton in Midlothian, it is so long since the head of the family had a residence there that there is practically nothing in the county of family interest. Lauriston, Midlothian, was the seat of the Law family and has no connection with the Stratons.
If one takes the Liberton tramway from Edinburgh to its terminus one finds oneself at Liberton Church. In this churchyard is one of the finest and most interesting tombs in Scotland, close to the church at its west end. This tomb, fully described and illustrated by Dr Christison, (Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scot. 1903, p.106.), commemorates William Straiton, Farmer in Braid and Brewer-Burgess of Edinburgh, who died in 1754, and his family. He was of a cadet branch of the family who had been settled in the parish since the sixteenth century. At the west end of the tomb is depicted a farming scene, horses and oxen drawing the plough with, in the background, the homestead on the lower slopes of some hills. If you turn your back on the tomb and look westward you see what may well have been his farm. (See Appendix B )†
About a mile and a half further along the main road, omnibuses to Roslin Castle are available, one comes to the village of Straiton, now a dismal spot, disfigured by Oil Works. Broomhill and South House, frequently mentioned in the family records, lie between Straiton and Liberton, about half a mile from the main road, west and east respectively. 
The principal seat of the family was in the parish of St Cyrus, formerly known as Ecclesgreig, in Kincardineshire, some seven miles from Montrose. Lauriston Castle is now a country house, built about 1830, in which has been embodied a part of the old castle dating from the fourteenth century. The house stands in its own extensive and beautiful grounds with an avenue leading to the Montrose-Stonehaven road; the original property lay to the north of this road and nowhere approached the sea. A stream runs through the grounds and just eastward, dividing the Mains of Lauriston from Jackston, is the famous Den Finella, a renowned beauty spot named after a romantic figure of prehistoric times. There is a Lauriston station on the Bervie branch of the London and North Eastern Railway.
At one time or another most of the surrounding farms were a part of the Lauriston estate which, in 1906 amounted to 3336 acres; since then many of the farms and other properties have been sold.

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The present church at St Cyrus is modern, but in the churchyard may be seen a fragment of a former church, completed about 1630. This fragment, now the Lauriston burying ground, was formerly the Lauriston aisle; on its gable end are the initials I.S. and E.O., commemorating John Straton, fear of Lauriston, who died 1630/31, and Euphaime Ogilvy, his wife. There are no other relics of the family to be seen in this churchyard.
From the church one can reach the shore without difficulty. The St Cyrus sands have been noted for their salmon fishings from time immemorial and the nets show that the industry is still prosperous; apart from that and from the general beauty of the shore and its flora, unsurpassed in Scotland, there are several points of interest.
To the north of the bay, near Milton Ness, are the remains of an ancient building on a rock jutting out into the sea; this is known as the Kaim of Mathers and is said to be the place of refuge built by Barclay of Mathers in 1420 after the boiling of the Sheriff. Near here is a cave which is said to extend inland and to terminate under the kitchen of Lauriston Castle; a blind piper is said to have lost his way and perished in this cave; it is said that the sound of his pipes is still heard on rare occasions.
At the south end of St Cyrus sands is the Nether Kirkyard, the yard of the original church; in this are the tombs of the Stratons of Kirkside and those of Warburton. The monument to Sir Joseph Straton cannot be missed and the others are close to it.
On the high ground above this churchyard is the Kirkside estate, originally the churchlands of the parish. Kirkside, although apparently a modest estate, with an avenue leading northward to the main road, was at one time very valuable on account of its salmon fishings; these were much diminished in value when the North Esk changed its course and ran directly out to sea instead of skirting the coast for nearly a mile.  A road running on the western boundary of the estate is the easiest means of reaching the Nether Kirkyard. South-west of  Kirkside is Warburton, a large and apparently prosperous farm.
Nether Woodstone, of which David Straton, the Martyr, was tenant lies just north of the present church and stretches down to the sea.
 Criggie, or Cragie, adjoins the Lauriston estate occupying the high ground towards Marykirk, the lands being north and east of the Hill of Canterland.
Marykirk, formerly known as Aberluthnot, is about five miles from Montrose on the river North Esk. In the churchyard are the tombs of Charles Straton (1752-1846), his brother David (1752-1834) and their families.
Fettercairn, about six miles north of Marykirk, has within its parish boundaries Arnhall, or Disclune, Inch of Disclune, Balfour, Strath† and Drumhenry, all

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places whose names occur in the family history.  In the churchyard is a tombstone to David Straton, tenant in Fothra, his son and grandson. Fothra is now known as The Mains of Fasque.
In Montrose tombs of members of the family may be seen in both the Episcopal and parish churchyards; in the former is that of "Ambassador" Alexander Straton, who died unmarried in 1832, and his sisters.  Three miles west of Montrose in the parish of Maryton, is Old Montrose, once called Lauriston when it was occupied by the then head of the family in the eighteenth century.
At one time a cadet branch of the family was settled in the parish of Edzell, adjoining Fettercairn, and from time to time there have been other temporary settlements in Angus but these have never been lasting.
In the County of Perth there have been Stratons in Caputh, near Dunkeld, since the sixteenth century. Here the name has at times been spelt Stirton, Starton, and Straiton.◊

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CHAPTER III 		THE ARMS OF THE STRATON FAMILY.

Practically all the descriptions of the arms of the family of Straton give a red escutcheon on a blue and silver figured background; the details vary from time to time.
Our earliest examples are two seals which do not show the tinctures. The first, that of Richard de Straton, Ambassador to England in 1277 and Commissioner for Baliol in 1291, has been described as An Orle vair with a plain canton. The second (Fig. 1), that of Alexander de Straton of that Ilk 1376, as An Orle vair with a rose on the dexter canton. It is impossible from the seal to judge the tincture or metal of the centre of the orle or framework but, in light of later shields, it seems probable that it was gules as shown in the figure. According to Stodart, Porteus gives the arms of Straton of Lauriston as or, an orle vair, a canton gules (Fig.2), but there is no other example of Or in any Straton arms.
In various manuscript histories of other families there are references to the Straton arms; of these may be mentioned "Barry nebule of ten pieces, argent and azure, an escutcheon gules." and "Verrey, some have it an orle verrey with a canton and some have it four bars embattled azure."
Lindsay's illustration (1542) of the arms of Straton of Lauriston is reproduced in Figure 3, Vair, an escutcheon gules. In Nisbet's heraldry there is an evident error; in describing the coat, and in his plate (Fig. 4), he gives argent, four bars counter-embattled sable, but in the next paragraph refers to the cost as having bars of azure. There can be no doubt that the latter was correct. When in the 18th or 19th century arms were granted to the Oxfordshire family of Stratton of Turweston the heralds gave them Argent, four bars embattled and counter-embattled sable; on an escutcheon gules a crescent argent. This was evidently adapted from Nisbet's error. (Figure 5)

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Sir James Balfour gives the family arms as being Barry nebuly of ten pieces, argent and azure, perhaps a description of a badly drawn Vair.
The Seal of George Straton of Lauriston in 1563 was Four Bars, embattled, with an escutcheon.*
In 1783 John Straton, as  heir male of the family, registered his arms as Argent, three bars counter-embattled azure (Figure 6), without escutcheon, and added supporters.
The grandfather of this John, Colonel Charles Straton, whose father, Captain Robert, had been Deputy Governor of Edinburgh Castle 1601-1604, registered arms in 1698, choosing Vair; an inescutcheon gules charged with a fess in the form of a wall crenelle of three pieces argent, masonee de sable (Figure 7). This seems a well chosen mark of difference.
We have no record of the arms used by the Stratons of Criggy nor has any Straton of Kirkside registered arms although the arms of Lauriston (Figure 6) are blazoned on the gate-posts of Kirkside. A second son of Kirkside however, Andrew Straton, an apothecary in Montrose, registered arms in 1672-78. He is described as "descended of a 2nd of ye House of Criggie, who is a cadet of ye family of Laurenstoune" and bore Argent; three bars embattled azure; over all in the middle fess an inescutcheon gules; with a bordure engrailed of the second (Fig. 8). The Vair has become embattled bars and the bordure has been added as a mark of difference.
Andrew Straton's grandson, Patrick (1702-1779), a merchant in Montrose, used two different coats as bookplates. The first, which he perhaps discarded as incorrect, was Argent, four bars counter-embattled sable; in the centre an inescutcheon gules bearing a mullet argent (Fig. 9). The second was Argent, three bars counter-embattled azure; an inescutcheon gules; the whole within a bordure engrailed of the second (Fig. 10). The second, except for the counterembattlement of the bars, is his grandfather's coat but, in each case he has changed the crest and motto. Straton of Lauriston had as crest a Falcon arising proper; Andrew Straton had for his a mortar and pestle proper to show his profession. Patrick has the falcon facing the sinister in the first and the dexter in the second. Andrew's motto was Ardua Vinco but Patrick took the Lauriston motto of Surgere Tento.
On the tomb of Robert Straton of Warburton (1684-1764) who married Girzal Lyon, is a shield impaling his arms with those of Lyon. His shield is unusual, viz:- Checky, Argent and azure ( or possibly sable); in the centre an escutcheon gules (Fig. 11). This is another variant of Figure 3.

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THE STRATONS OF LAURISTON. CHAPTER IV.

THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY

Amongst the contents of the Allardice charter chest is a manuscript entitled "The Genealogie of the Barrons in the Mearns of last memory deschended lineally unto the year of God 1578". A similar manuscript is included in the genealogical collections of Sir George Mackenzie. From this manuscript we may extract the following:-

Laurieston-Straton. 		Straton, Laird of Laurieston, who was slain at the battle of Harelaw, foughten by Alexander, Earl of Marr, against Donald, Lord of the Isles.
This Laird of Lauriestoun had a son who was an [one?] of the 24 Barons that was sent to England in pledge for the Ransom of King James the first.
This Laird of Lauriestoun married the Lord Sutherland of Dunrobbin, his daughter, and he begot on her a son named Alexander, who married Forbes‡ of Tochon's daughter and he begate on her a son called Alexander who was married to one of the heiresses of Dillaward called Strachan and she bare him a sone called Alexander Straton who was married on Gray's daughter and he begot on her Alexander Straton who married Ogilvie of Findlater's‡ daughter and she bare to him a son who married to the Provost of Aberdeen's daughter and he deceased without succession, after whose death, his father's brother Andrew Straton became Laird of Lauriestoun who married Sir David Lindsay of Edzell's daughter and begate on her George Straton and he married Forbes of Pitsligo's daughter and she bare to him Alexander who married Arbuthnot of that Ilk, his daughter and begat on her [two blank half lines?] now extinct".

While most of this genealogy is corroborated by other evidence I have not been able to find any other mention of the first two marriages but there was a close association of the family with that of Sutherland at this time and there is evidence of a matrimonial connection with the house of Tolchon, but whether it was as shown above or whether the laird of Tolchon married Lauriston's daughter is uncertain; as marriage of first cousins was forbidden it is unlikely that there was a double connection.

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L I   Alexander Straton =						    p. 14◊
       Killed at Harlaw :
           1411.        :
                        :
         :                       
L II  Alexander Straton = Christian, dau. of the	    p. 14
       of that Ilk      :  Earl of Sutherland.
       ob. c. 1446.     :
                        :
         :                       
L III Alexander Straton =         dau. of 		    p. 15
       of that Ilk      : Forbes of Tolchon.
       c. 1411-1502.    :
                        :
         :                       
L IV  Alexander Straton = Margaret Strachan		    p. 16
       of the Knox      :
       c. 1431- 1504.   :
                        :
         :                       
L V Alexander Straton = Marion Gray				    p. 17
      of the Keym     :
      c. 1457-1505    :
                      :								
         :                          :      :      :      :
L VI Alexander Straton = Agnes   Andrew        [David 
      of that Ilk      : Ogilvy  L VIII        Straton 
      c. 1480-1513     :         To Page 22†   the Martyr]
                       :               			p. 20.
         :
L VII Alexander Straton = Katherine Menzies 		    p. 19
	 of that Ilk 
	 c. 1501-1528. 
			No Issue.

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L I	ALEXANDER STRATON of that Ilk, who was killed at the Battle of Harlaw, 1411.
Born:-
Married:-	[Anne, daughter of Alexander de Berkelay.]
Died:- 	1411.
Issue:- 	1. Alexander Straton of that Ilk, of whom below (L II)

Several, perhaps six, sons killed at Harlaw.
Several daughters of whom one married William Deuchar of that Ilk, who was killed at Harlaw.

L II 	ALEXANDER STRATON of that Ilk, eldest surviving son of Alexander Straton of that Ilk who was killed at Harlaw.
Born:-
Married:-	About 1410, Christian, daughter of Robert, ninth Earl of Sutherland and Mabella, daughter of John Dunbar, Earl of Moray (a grand-daughter of Robert III).
Died:-	Before 1447.
Issue:- 	1. Alexander  Straton of that Ilk, of whom later 		(L III).
2. Andrew Straton, first of Cragy, of whom under Stratons of Cragy.

The captivity of King James I, which lasted until 1424, had come about by the capture by the English fleet, in time of peace, of the ship bearing him in his father's lifetime, to France for his education. He was educated in England and was only released on the kingdom of Scotland undertaking to pay the sum of £40,000 for his maintenance while in England, and giving twenty-four hostages of good family for the payment.
About 1420 took place the notorious boiling of the Sheriff of The Mearns. Melville of Glenbervie, the sheriff, was considered to be oppressive in the collection of the King's revenues and Barclay of Mathers, when the guest of the Regent Murdach, Duke of Albany, at a hunting party at Lunan, complained to His Highness about his conduct. The Regent was quick-tempered and said hastily "The Loon! I carena' tho' he were seethed and suppit wi' the broo."
Barclay waited for no more but took horse and returned to The Mearns.  He asked a number of his neighbours, among whom were the Laird of Lauriston and Arbuthnot of that Ilk, to meet him at a place which still retains the name of The Sheriff's Kettle, on the borders of Garvock, and invited Melville to meet them there.

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When the Sheriff arrived he found all the guests already assembled and a large fire burning with a huge kettle hanging over it; when they had exchanged greetings he looked at the kettle and enquired what they had in it, saying that he was in haste, having the King's business to attend to.
Barclay asked him to lift the lid and to look inside. The Sheriff did so whereupon Barclay got behind him, seized him by the legs and pitched him head foremost into the boiling chaldron; closing the lid, he left him to boil. After he was cooked the party, in fulfillment of the Regent's condition, each swallowed a spoonful of the broth.
Melville's relations laid a complaint against Barclay and the others; the Regent, much annoyed at what had been done, said he would not allow Barclay to live within his dominions, either on land or sea. Barclay got into concealment until he had had a stronghold built on a rock, jutting into the sea on the St Cyrus coast, where he lived in safety as being neither on land or sea. Some remains of this stronghold, known as the Kaim of Mathers, may still be seen. Later Arbuthnot, at any rate, obtained a pardon of which the record still exists.
In 1432 Alexander de Straton of Lauriston was accepted as one of the hostages to remain in England until the payment of the King's ransom was complete, replacing Henry de Douglas. In 1444, whilst interned at Pontefract, he witnessed a charter by his fellow hostage, John, 7th Earl of Sutherland.
In the household of James I at this time was Walter Straton, who may have been a younger brother or†◊ cousin of the laird. Walter was sent to England in 1429 on the King's service; in 1434 he was ill at Linlithgow, when the expenses of his illness were met from the King's revenues, and he was killed with the King at Perth in February 1436/7.

L III ALEXANDER STRATON of that Ilk, eldest son of Alexander Straton of that Ilk and Christian, daughter of the Earl of Sutherland. 
Born: 	About 1411. 
Married: 	About 1433 a daughter of Sir John Forbes of Tolchon. 
Died: 	About 1502. 
Issue:- 	1. Alexander Straton of the Knox, of whom later (L IV).
2. Andrew Straton in Whitston. 

Although his mother was a widow in 1447 he does not appear to have taken sasine of Straiton until 1454, of Disclune until 1456, when his son married, and of Lauriston until 1457. In 1455 he acted as sheriff of the Mearns as deputy for the Lord Marischal. He was a member of Parliament in 1463 and 1481. Frequently a litigant his name crops up from time to time until the end of the century, mention of his son and grandson confirms the identity. He seems to have died about 1502 and to have been virtually succeeded by his great-grandson.

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L IV 	ALEXANDER STRATON of the KNOX, eldest son of Alexander Straton of that‡ Ilk and his wife 	Forbes.
Born: 	About 1431
Married:- About 1456 Margaret, eldest daughter and coheiress of Alexander Strachan of the Knox and Dullivard.
Died:- 	About 1504.
Issue:- 	1. Alexander Straton of the Keym, of whom later, (L V). 

2. Andrew.

3. Katherine, who married David Barclay of Mathers.

It is doubtful whether he ever succeeded to the family property or was ever known as Straton of that Ilk; he and his father died within a year or two of each other.
On his marriage with Margaret Strachan in 1456 he received the lands of Petty as her dower but, on the death of his father-in-law, before 1471, he exchanged those lands for those of Knox. For some reason he was unable to give sasine of Petty and he, his grandson and his great-grandson were involved in years of litigation before the Lords of the Council.
In addition he was involved in several feuds with the kirk in connection with the non-payment of kirk-dues at Conveth (Laurencekirk) and the removal of a chalice from the kirk at Kinneff.
In 1474 he undertook to build and keep in repair a bridge at Inverbervie, in return for which he received a grant of the fishing rights for a rental of a red rose.
In the course of litigation in 1491 it was stated that he had been married to Janet, daughter of John Kinloch of Crowy, and had been divorced by law; the case was adjourned from March 12 to May 7 for proof of the marriage and divorce, but there is no record of it having been re-opened. It is possible that there is an error in the record.
In 1495 he was growing old and thought it wise to make his peace with the law; he satisfied the treasury and received pardon for the theft of a horse, the theft of the chalice and for forcible capture of goods from a wreck.  There is no record known of his succession.

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L V 	ALEXANDER STRATON of the KEYM, eldest son of Alexander Straton of the Knox and Margaret Strachan.

Born:-	About 1457.

Married:- Before 1484, Marion, eldest daughter and eventual co-heiress of Andrew, Lord Gray, Justice-General of All Scotland. 
Died:- 	About 1505.

Issue:-	1. Alexander, of whom later, (L VI).

2. Andrew, of whom later, (L VIII).

3. Gilbert, in Whitston. In 1535 was heir by law of conquest to his brother David. Alive 1542.

4. David of Whitston, "the Martyr". Married Margaret Allardice, no issue. Convicted of heresy and burnt at Edinburgh 27 Aug. 1534. (See Chapter V).

5. Thomas, an Archer in the King of France's Guard. Alive 1547/8 when he is referred to as a kinsman of the then Lord Gray.

The turbulent son of a turbulent father, he was concerned with his father in witholding church dues. He probably succeeded his father or grandfather about 1504 but he did not live long afterwards.

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L VI 	ALEXANDER STRATON of that ILK and of LAURISTON. Eldest son of Alexander Straton of the Keym and Marion, daughter of Andrew, Lord Gray.

Born:- 	About 1480.

Married:- About 1500, Agnes, daughter of Ogilvie of Findlater; she married secondly Sir David Lindsay of Edzell.

Died:- 	1513, probably killed at Flodden, though of this there is no proof.

Issue:-	Alexander, of whom later (L VII).

No other son survived in 1528.

Little is known about him. He was evidently in pecuniary difficulties, probably owing to the almost simultaneous deaths of his father, grandfather and great-grandfather. (Sasine of Lauriston was given in 1503, 1504 and 1505, on each occasion to Alexander Straton of that Ilk.) In 1508 he was directed to enter himself as heir to his grandmother and to complete the exchange of the lands of Petty and Knox, initiated by his grandfather, but he did not complete the transaction.

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L VII† ALEXANDER STRATON of that Ilk and of LAURISTON. Eldest, or only, son of Alexander Straton of that Ilk and Agnes Ogilvy. 

Born:- 	About 1501.

Married:-	Katherine Menzies, daughter of Gilbert Menzies, Provost of Aberdeen who died c. 1538.◊ 
Died:- 	About 1528.

No issue.

He succeeded as a minor in 1513, his tutor being his great-uncle Andrew Straton. He and his tutor were involved in considerable amount of litigation; some of the suits were the result of financial distress and consequent inability to pay various dues but in 1516 they were brought into the famous case of the lands of Petty;they did not appear but, as this seems to be the end of the matter,◊ it may be supposed that the exchange was carried out.
He was admitted a Burgess of Aberdeen in 1523, probably on account of his marriage.

On his death without issue he was succeeded by his uncle Andrew. 

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THE STRATONS OF LAURISTON		CHAPTER V.

THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY.

The death of Alexander Straton of that Ilk in 1528 without issue ends a succession of Alexanders which had lasted for eight generations at least. Alexander was always the name of the eldest son in the main line and when a Straton of any other name became laird it was because the succession had failed. At this period we have Andrew succeeded by George, the former being a second son, the latter having been named before there was a likelihood of his succession.
At the time of Andrew's succession the first seeds of the Reformation were being sown in Scotland and Andrew's near neighbour, Erskine‡ of Dun, was in those parts the principal sower.
Andrew had a younger brother, David, who held, from the Abbey of Lindores, the lands of Whitston in the parish of St Cyrus, with fishing in the River North Esk. These lands adjoined Lauriston on the west and ran down to the sea just east of the present St Cyrus church; the river ran parallel to the sea for some distance.
The Vicar of Ecclesgreig, as St Cyrus was then called, as factor for the Prior of St Andrews, demanded a tithe of the fish caught by David's hired servants.

Times were hard, relations between church and people none too good, and tithes were considered an exaction. After some discussion David told the Vicar that if he insisted on exacting the teind "it war but reassoun, that thei should come and receave it where hie gatt the stock,"‡ and instructed his men to cast every tenth-fish they caught into the sea at the river's mouth.
"Processe of curssing", wrote John Knox, "was led against him for non payment of teindis; which when he contempned, he was delaited to answer for heresye."‡
The threat appears to have turned his thoughts for the first time towards religion and he sought the company of his neighbour Erskine of Dun, and of his own nephew George, two of the early supporters of the

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Reformation, and George is said to have read the New Testiment to him in English. David, like most of his class at that time, was illiterate.
In 1534 the most prominent lutherans were called before an ecclesiastical council held at Holyrood; several fled to England but Norman Gourlay and David Straton appeared to answer the charges. David was accused of "...saying there was no purgatory, but the passion of Christ and the tribulations of the world...and that no tithes should be paid."
He was urged to recant and to "burn his bill", but he refused, so he and Gourlay were sentenced to death and on the twenty-seventh of August 1534 were led from Holyrood to the Rood of Greenside, Edinburgh, "and there they were both hanged and burned according to the mercy of the Papistical Kirk."
The property of David Straton was, of course, escheat to the Crown but, as was usually the case, it was given back, in return for a reasonable fee, to the natural heirs, in this case his widow, Margaret Allardice, and his next brother Gilbert. There was also belonging to him a house in the Murraygate at Dundee, which was granted to David Gardine and Margaret Erskine, his wife. The connection is unknown, though Erskine of Dun has already been mentioned. Perhaps connected with this is a legitimation of Andrew Straton, natural son of David Straton, burgher of Dundee, which appears in the Register of the Privy Seal of Scotland, dated 11 December 1526.
It is natural that the story of David should attract the attention of writers. In 1878 Miss Deborah Alcock published a book entitled "No Cross, No Crown" which contains a story "Tithing the Fish" which brings romance into the life of David Straton. She represents him as unmarried and in love with Alison Lindsay whom he is unable to marry on account of the laws of affinity. There does not appear to be any historical basis for this romance. The real story is well told in "Martyrs of Angus and Mearns" by the Rev. J. Moffat Scott of Arbroath, published by Gardner of Paisley in 1885.

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From page 13.◊
L V Alexander Straton = Marion Gray				    p. 17◊
      of the Keym     :
      c. 1457-1505    :
                      :								   
         :                               :               :::
L VI Alexander Straton = Agnes  L VIII Andrew = Elizabeth 
       of that Ilk     : Ogilvy     c. 1482-  : Lindsay     
      c. 1480-1513     :                1548  :         
                       :              p. 23   :
         :                                    :
L VII Alexander S. = Katherine                :	    p. 19
      of that Ilk   Menzies                   :
      ob.1529 s.p.                           :
                                              :
         :
L IX George Straton = Christina Forbes 			    p. 24
      of that Ilk   :
      ob.1575       :
                    :
         :
L X Alexander Straton = Agnes Arbuthnot 		    p. 25
     of that Ilk      :
     ob.c. 1603       :
                      :
         :
L XI Sir Alexander Straton = Elizabeth Livingstone   p. 26
       of Lauriston        :
       ob. 1635            :
                           :							
         :                        :                    :::
L XII John Straton = Euphaime   Andrew S. =
       fear of     : Ogilvy         of    :
      Lauriston    :            Warburton :				
                   :                                 :
          :              :          :        :   :   :
L XIII Alexander =      John    Robert =     2 dau.  :
                 :                     :             :
                 :                     :             :
                 L.                    R.            W.
          See page 30†          See page 35†  See page 47†

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L VIII ANDREW STRATON of that Ilk and of LAURISTON, second son of Alexander Straton of the Keym and Marion, eldest daughter of Andrew, Lord Gray. 
Born:- 	About 1482.
Married:- Isobel or Elizabeth, daughter of Sir David Lindsay of Edzell, who survived him for many years.
Died:- 	About 1543.
Issue:- 	1. George, of whom later (L IX)
2. John Straton in Reidfurd, married Janet Middleton, widow of John Rawin in Reidfurd. 
3. Robert Straton in Overend of Barras, married Elizabeth Irving, widow of Archibald Dougles, who died 1577., Secondly a dau. of Sibbald of Cair. Died 1585. Issue:
a. Alexander, educated in Antwerp, a notary, Alive 1614 when he granted a tack of land at Barras to Allardice.
b. Isobel.
c. Elizabeth, married Robert Wallace at Kirk of Benholme whom she survived. Died at Montrose 1646.
4. Elizabeth, m. John Rait in Sillieflat 1564. Son David Rait, Principal of King's College, Aberdeen.*
5. (?) dau. m. Deuchar.*

On the death of his nephew Alexander in 1528 without issue Andrew succeeded to the family estates. In 1541, on the death of his Uncle, Patrick, fourth Lord Gray, he became entitled to his mother's half of the Gray estates, the other co-heir being Lord Glamis, who was a prisoner under escheat in connection with the charge of witchcraft and poisoning for which Lady Glamis was executed. This charge was afterwards found to be unjust but at the time the King was careful to obtain his share of the Gray estate and Andrew was directed to take over the whole and to resign it into the King's hands; a letter to Patrick Gray of Buttergask, later the fifth Lord Gray, ordering him to hand over all the assets to Andrew Straton within six days, is in existence.
The estate was a large one including, besides lands in Perth and Angus, Inverbervie, Wester Kinneff and Cragie. Various estates were disposed of and in the end Andrew was in possession of the barony of Wester Kinneff, including Disclune or Arnhall in Fettercairn and the Chapel of St John of Barras, as well as the Lauriston and Straiton estates. After this the King excused Andrew from all feudal duties for the rest of his life.
On the death of James V Gray made interest with the Regent and most of the charters granting Gray lands to others were cancelled.◊ 

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L IX GEORGE STRATON of the ILK and of LAURISTON, eldest son of Andrew Straton of that Ilk and Isobel or Elizabeth Lindsay. 
Born:- 	About 1509.

Married:- About 1530, Christina Forbes, daughter of Sir John Forbes of Pitsligo. She died 1580.

Died:- 	July 1575.

Issue:- 	1. Alexander, of whom later (L X).

2. John and

3. Robert confirmed‡ as their father's executors.

? 4. George, in Tillitogillis, put to the horn 1604. [See next page.]
5. Jane, m. David Guthrie, son of John Guthrie of Essie, 1561.*

Tradition says that he was educated at the University of St Andrews but of this there is no record; with Erskine of Dun he was one of the leaders of the Reformation in this part of Scotland and afterwards in Parliament. 
He is first mentioned as having read the New Testament in English to his uncle David the Martyr. In 1539 his father made over to him and his wife the lands of Disclune, of which his cousin's widow, Katherine Menzies, had had a life interest.
He succeeded his father about 1548;† in 1560 he was a member of Parliament? and in 1567 he signed the "Bond of Association" for supporting King James VI on the abdication of Queen Mary and in the same year he was a member of the Assembly of the Kirk and a Lord of Articles. 
He died in July 1575 and in the following April his ‡younger sons, John and Robert, were confirmed as his executors in the Commissary Court of Edinburgh.‡  
*The Seal of George Straton is in existence on a charter at the General Register House in Edinburgh. It is Four bars, embattled, with an escutcheon.
About 1566 he obtained authenticated copies of two charters, one of Lauriston by King William to Walter Cummin, Earl of Menteith, and the other of Disclune by Alexander III to Sir Richard de Straton, Knight.*

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L X ALEXANDER STRATON of that ILK and of LAURISTON, eldest son of George Straton of that Ilk and Christina Forbes. 
Born:-	About 1532.

Married:- January 1553, Agnes, daughter of Robert Arbuthnot of that Ilk. She died 9 March 1587.

Died:- 	About 1603.

Issue:- 	1. Alexander, of whom later (L XI).

2. David, in Mossend, born c. 1552, alive 1632.

? 3. George, in Tillitogillis, put to the horn 1604. [See previous page.]

4. Elizabeth, joint administrator with her brother David of their mother's estate 1597/8.

5. Katherine, married Thomas Barclay   of Mathers 1578. Issue David Barclay, last of Mathers.

On his marriage in 1553 his father made over to him the lands of Milltown of Mathers, between Lauriston and the sea. He succeeded his father in July 1575 and in 1583, in accordance with a settlement made in 1580, on the marriage of his eldest son to Elizabeth Livingstone, he made over his estates to that son, reserving a life-rent for himself and his wife, and the life-rent of his grandmother Elizabeth Lindsay, then living at Harbourshields, Kinneff. In this way all feudal duties passed to the son, known thereafter as "fear" of Lauriston, who in his turn was assured of his succession. The estates consisted of the baronies of Lauriston and Disclune, the lands of Straiton, The Close of Peebles, parts of Abirney in Benholm, lands in Wester Kinneff and the patronage of the chapel of St Jonn of Barras in Kinneff.
In 1589 he was a commissioner for enforcing the Reformation and in 1597 a revenue commissioner for The Mearns. In 1593 he was described as Usufructor of that Ilk as opposed to Feodator or Fear; In 1604 he was "Senior of that Ilk", apart from these distinctions it is not always possible to distingulsh between references to him and those to his son as the word fear was often omitted.

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L XI Sir ALEXANDER STRATON of LAURISTON and that Ilk, eldest son of Alexander Straton of that Ilk and Agnes Arbuthnot.

Born:- 	About 1561.

Married:- 1580, whilst yet a minor, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Livingstone of Dunipace. She died Sept. 27 1628.◊

Died:- about 1635.

Issue:- 	1. (?) Alexander, died in childhood.
2. John, of whom later (L XII)
3. Andrew Straton of Warburton, of whom later (W I).
4. James, Chaplain of St John of Barras; M.A. Aberdeen 1613. Alive 1632.
5. Robert, M.A. Aberdeen 1617. Alive 1632.
6. William, died unmarried 1621.

He became "fear" of Lauriston in 1583 (see page 25) and succeeded his father about 1603.
He was one of the most distinguished and most abused of the Lauriston family. How he came to the King's notice is unknown; he was knighted about the time that James VI succeeded to the throne of England. In 1604 he was a member of the Scottish Parliament and one of the commissioners for the union of the kingdoms; the treaty as to the borders, for the main object failed, was signed by him as "Laurenstone". He was one of the Lords of the Privy Council and, up to 1 August 1605, sat regularly at its  meetings when not engaged on the King's business elsewhere. He was also the King's High Commissioner for the affairs of the Kirk and represented the King at the stormy General Assembly at Aberdeen in 1605. In 1606 the King granted him a pension which was ratified by Parliament; on the restoration of episcopacy in 1607 he ceased to be High Commissioner, the duties being taken over by Archbishop Gledstanes. 
In 1609 he followed his father's example and made over his estates to his eldest surviving son John as fear, reserving to hlmself a life-rent. In the same year he was granted by the King the goods and two-thirds of the lands of "recusants" convicted by him; presumably this

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grant accounts for the fact that he held land in Yorkshire.
For the remainder of his life we find little record of his activities until, after the death of his son John, in 1630, he gave his consent to the sale of several properties by his grandson Alexander.
He died between March 1634 and June 1635.

L XII JOHN STRATON, FEAR 0F LAURISTON and of that Ilk, eldest surviving son of Sir Alexander Straton of Lauriston and of that Ilk, and Elizabeth Livingstone.

Born:-	About l583.† 

Married:- About 1612, Euphaime Ogilvy, daughter of David? Ogilvy of Clova and Euphaime Young.

Died:- 	In his father's lifetime, between June 1630 and April 1631.

Issue:- 	1. Alexander, of whom later (L XIII).

2. John, alive 1653.

3. Robert, Deputy-Governor Edinburgh Castle, of whom later, (R I).

4. Margaret, married Col. Henry† Barclay of Knox; daughter Margaret married Alex. Arbuthnot of Knox. No issue. Died 1694.

5. Isobel, married 1. Arthur Straton of Snawton, W.S., (See Kirkside p.69†), 2. James Melvine. [Buried 20 June]‡ 1692.

In 1609 his father resigned the family estates to him. as fear but the new charter makes no mention of a wife so presumably he was not married at that time. He seems to have lived at Disclune (Arnhall) in the parish of Fettercairn, where Bishop Forbes was minister until 1617; the bishop's daughter married John's younger brother Andrew, later of Warburton. (See page 48.)†

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In 1614 began a feud with Sir John Wood of Balbegno leading to breaking of the seats and desks in Fettercairn church; this feud occupied the attention of the Privy Council from time to time until 1624 when it was summed up, after an enquiry, as follows:- Sir John Wood had been tacksman (leaseholder) to the parson of Fettercairn for a long time and the trouble arose from the tack obtained by John Straton from Wishart (then minister) in favour of Andrew Straton, his brother. The Lords ordered Wishart and John (as patron) to issue a tack in favour of Wood, of the teinds of Balbegno for Wishart's lifetime and five years thereafter, with a reservation to Lady Balbegno; John was to procure the consent and subscription of his brother Andrew. It seems likely that this is not the whole story; the earlier rioting was probably connected with disputes as to the episcopacy. The patronage was not bought by John until 1615, when he acquired it with the lands of Balfour in Fettercairn from Wishart of Pitarrow, who had presented his kinsman.
John also purchased in 1615 the lands of Dalladies and Steilstrath, adjoining Disclune, from Robert Leichton of Ullshaven and in the following year pledged? Steilstrath to his kinsman, Robert Straton in Denstrath, and sold Abirney*◊ and the advowson of Benholm to the Earl Marischal. During the next few years he acquired other lands in the Mearns from David Straton of Craigie and others.
He died while his son Alexander was yet a minor, leaving his affairs in some confusion.

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THE STRATONS OF LAURISTON  CHAPTER VI.

THE DECLINE OF THE HOUSE.

From the death of John Straton may be dated the decline of the House of Lauriston. In difficult times, when historic houses were falling into bankruptcy on all sides, John had acquired considerable estates but, on the other hand, his obligations were not small.
On his death his son's guardians set to work to consolidate the estate, selling some portions and redeeming others so that, had times improved, the estate might have continued in prosperity.
Alexander however was not a man of affairs and his times, for he lived through what was afterwards known as the usurpation, were worse than those of his father. Perhaps because he was a nonentity the estate suffered more from his family than from his public actions. On his death his son was soon plunged into litigation over the portions of his many brothers and sisters which, under the marriage settlements, were fixed at higher amounts than the estate could pay. From this litigation Alexander could never recover; more and more land was sold till in 1695 he had to part with Lauriston.
From that time onward it is difficult to trace his descendants but in 1784 John Straton (R IV) proved to the satisfaction of the Lord Lyon that there were no male descendants of Alexander, (L XIII) son of John, in existence and that he, descended from John's third son, was the head of the family.
The eclipse of the head of the family did not prevent some of the younger members from becoming prominent; Captain Henry Straton, the Mr Scougal of the Stuart papers, was the able organiser in Scotland of the Jacobite cause from 1715 to 1728. Captain Robert and Colonel Charles, his uncle and cousin, were also prominent figures of their day and there were many Stratons in Marlborough's armies.

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From Page 22†

L XII John Straton = Euphame Ogilvy
       fear of     :
       Lauriston   :
     c.1683-1630   :
                   :							
        :								 	   :
L XIII Alexander S. = 1. ?					 Robert =
        of that Ilk = 2. Margaret Lyall       (R.I)  :
        1614-1666.  :                                :
                    :						        :
        :                  : : : : : : : : :    To Page 35
L XIV Alexander S.  = Margaret
      last of       : Lindsay
      Lauriston.    :
     c.1644-1702    :
                    :						
        :                       		   :
L XV Robert S.       = ?           		William
     "Of Lauriston"  :
      c.1670         :
                     :					
        :                 :      		   :
    Alexander          Robert            James
      unm.              unm.              unm.
    killed in         d.l769             d.1767
     America 
      1777.

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L XIII ALEXANDER STRATON of that Ilk and of LAURISTON oldest son of John Straton, fear of Lauriston, and Euphame Ogilvy.

Born:- 	About May 1614.
Married:- 1.
2. About 1653 Margaret, daughter of James Lyall of Muirthill in Angus. She was alive 1700.

Died:-	May 1666.

Issue:-  First Marriage:-
1. Margaret
2. Jean, married Captain John Slezer, issue:-
a. David, d. before 1723.
b. Charles, Lieut. R. Scots Regt. Served at Malplaquet. Issue still persist, known as Slessor.
         Second Marriage:-
1. Alexander, of whom later (L XIV).
2. Henry, born c. 1656. Student at Aberdeen 1668-72. Lieut. Scots Guards 1682-88. m. 1. Elizabeth Borthwick (see  p.101. ) 2. ? Issue 1st. M. John,‡ Charles [, and Lilias]. He was principal Jacobite agent in Scotland from 1716 till his death in May 1725. Referred to in Jacobite papers as Mr. Scougal.
3. David, Capt. Scots Fusiliers, killed at Blenheim 1704. Unmarried.
4. Charles, Master of the ship The Content of Montrose. He was apprenticed in 1679 by his brother Henry (described as his eldest brother german) to J. Napier, Skipper, to learn the art of navigation. By 1681 he seems to have acquired a share in the ship Content which he bought in December of that year at Crail and there are subsequent deeds charter-party etc. till 1684.
A. In 1689 the muster-roll of Lord Bargany's Regiment shows Lieut. Charles Stratone. In December 1698 and in Oct. 1705 John and James, sons of Capt. Charles Straton in Bervie were baptised at Inverbervie. In 1707-1709 Capt. Charles Straton of Lord Bargany's  Regiment "disponed" his pay to Sir R. Dickson.  In 1728 the testament of Ann Arbuthnot, widow of Capt. Charles Straiton, parish of Bervie, was confirmed‡ in the Commissary Court of St Andrews.

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B. There was another Charles Stratone or Straitone who is not mentioned as connected with the sea, whose first appearance is in the Montrose registers of baptisms as witness in June 1683 (Melville); his daughter Janet was baptised there in Dec. 1684 and his sons William and Alexander in Dec. 1636 and July 1691, [and Charles bapt. in Bervie 1689.]  He married Grisel, sister of William Rait of Hallgreen.
Either A.or B. may represent the later 1ife of Charles.
5. Robert, apprentised† to Provost Renald (see p.81.), merchant; Montrose, 1674. Lieut. Royal Scots Regt. Wounded at Malplaquet.
6. John, Lieut. Scots Fusiliers.
7. James.
8. Alexander (2), Capt. Lord Strathnaver's Regt. m. Issue: Elizabeth m. John Macleod, Advocate, 1718. He is described as brother-german to the Laird of Lauriston.
He succeeded his father as fear when he was still a minor at a time of great financial stress for landowners. His father had many debts and had claims on his kinsmen Barclay of Mathers and Livingstone of Dunipace, both of whom were bankrupt. Their estates were broken up and a portion of each came to Alexander and his curators. He redeemed the lands of Strath and sold these with Dalladies; he also sold Hill of Craigie to his "loving cousin" Arthur Straton of Snawton W.S. who later became his brother-in-law.
From 1643 to 1648 and, perhaps, in 1656 and 1659 he was Commissionor for War for the Mearns and on the Restoration was member of Parliament, Justice of the Peace and Commissioner of Excise.
During the last years of his life his finances grew worse and on his death there was litigation between his children of the second marriage and his heir as to their portions. So far it has not been possible to find the original processes and the reports of the trials are in some points contradictory. It is stated that he first married his servant and had two daughters. He then married Margaret Lyall who bore him eight sons and survived him. The marriage contracts provided 6400, or according to another report 10,000 merks for each of the daughters by the first marriage and 3000 merks for each child of the second marriage and the heir found it difficult, if not impossible, to find these sums. His testament dative, which was not confirmed‡ until 1686, twenty years after his death, shows very small assets.

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For the list of his descendants, we are dependent on a correspondence of 1783 in which it was shown that his male issue was then extinct. Many of the statements are however corroborated from other sources and in deeds and sasines the second Alexander is described as brother-german of the Laird of Lauriston.
As Slezer appointed Margaret Lyall and Henry Straton to be his trustees for his wife and children it seems possible that Jean was a daughter of the second and not the first marriage. (See Bannatyne Miscellany Vol II.)
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L XIV ALEXANDER STRATON of that ILK and last of LAURISTON, eldest son of Alexander Straton of Lauriston and (?) Margaret Lyall

Born:- 	About 1644

Married:- 28 Mar. 1668,† Margaret Lindsay of the family of Lindsay of Edzell.

Died:- 	About 1702.

Issue:- 	1. Robert, of whom later (L XV)

2. William, Ensign Scots Fusiliers 1696, on half-pay 1698, Lieut. Lord Strathnaver’s Regt. 1703. "Went to Africa", probably to Cape Verde, if so no further obituary is necessary.

  There are stated to have been three more sons and two daughters but no record of them has been found.

The fact that he seems to have been of age in 1667 and that he was married in 1668 would rather place him in the first family as considerably older than his younger brothers who do not all appear to have reached the age of fifteen in 1677; on the other hand his brother Alexander, reputed to be the youngest, is definitely described as his brother-german.
He succeeded in 1666 and in 1670 was Justice of the Peace and Commissioner for the shire. A child of his was buried at Montrose in October 1671.
In 1677 he was involved in litigation with his half, or younger, brothers as to their portions of his father's estate, the assets being insufficient, without the sale of the family estates, to fulfil the marriage contracts. Balfour was sold in 1679 and in 1695 he was obliged to sell Lauriston to Sir James Falconer of Phesdo, a Senator of the College of Justice, who renamed the estate Milton of Mathers.  About this time he parted with the superiority of Straiton to Stodart.  
 In March 1701 his wife signed a renunciation of her rights to Lauriston.
In 1696 he was [confirmed] executor to the will of his aunt Margaret, widow of Colonel Harry Barclay of Knox and his son Robert, as his attorney, took sasine. In February 1698 he granted‡ a bond for a loan which was not repaid. In 1707 his son Robert was described as "of Laurenstone" so that he was presumably dead before then.
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L XV  ROBERT STRATON "OF LAURENSTONE", eldest surviving son of Alexander Straton, who sold Lauriston, and Margaret Lindsay.

Born:- 	About 1670.  

Married:

Died:

Issue:- ? 1. Alexander, Lieutenant 84th Royal Highland Emigrants 1775. Killed in America about 1777. 

2. Robert, died unmarried at Hull March 1769.

3. James, died unmarried at sea 13 Dec.1767.

Robert was appointed Ensign to Captain Alexander Straton in the Scots Fusiliers 1st August 1692. In 1692 he acted as attorney for his father in taking sasine of the lands of Knox; two years later he signed the renunciation by his mother of her rights over Lauriston. In 1702 his commission as second lieutenant in the Fusiliers was renewed by Queen Anne. In 1704 he served at Schellenburg and at Blenheim and was promoted to be lieutenant in August of that year. In 1709 he served at Malplaquet as lieutenant; in 1714 he was no longer in the regiment.

None of his sons left male issue so ends the male succession of Alexander, eldest son of John Straton, fear of Lauriston (L XII). The headship of the family, now landless, then devolved on the descendants of Robert Straton, Deputy Governor of Edinburgh Castle, third son of the said John.

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CHAPTER VII

THE DECENDANTS OF CAPTAIN ROBERT STRATON

DEPUTY GOVERNOR 0F EDINBURGH 

When the male descent of the eldest son of John Straton, fear of Lauriston, who died in 1630, became extinct in 1769 the nearest to the main line were the descendants of his third son Robert who had acquired the estate of Old Montrose in Maryton parish, Angus.
After the sale of Lauriston in 1695 it was known for some years as Milltown of Mathers and Old Montrose was called Laurieston; John Straton (1701- 1752) was known as Straton of Laurieston, as was his son. In due course both estates changed hands again and reverted to their older names. From Page 30.†

L XII John Straton  = Euphame Ogilvy 
  fear of Lauriston :
    ob. 1630        :
						
              :				:
L XIII Alexander =        R I Robert = Anna Wardlaw 
                 :        1615-1674  :
     Extinct                         :
                                     :
         :
R II Charles Straton = Elizabeth Forester
        1655-1746    :
                     :
     :
R III John Straton = Janet Straton
       1701-1752   :
                   :
     :
R IV John Straton = Ann Carter
      1733 - 1805 :
                  :			
     :				:  :  :  :
R V Alexander 
    1762-1832 		4 daughters
    unmarried .

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R I   Captain ROBERT STRATON, third son of John Straton, fear of that Ilk, and Euphame, daughter of Sir David? Ogilvy of Clova.

Born:- 	About 1615

Married:- About 1655 Ann Wardlaw who died 2 February 1690.

Died:- 	18 November 1674, drowned at sea.

Issue:- 	1. Col. Charles, of whom later (R II).
2. Captain Alexander, Scots Fusiliers, killed at Blenheim 1704, unmarried.
3. (a child) buried Edinburgh 1662.

He is first heard of as witness to a disposition by his elder brother, the laird of Lauriston, dated 18 October 1642; three years later he was an ensign in the Angus Regiment of the Army of the Solemn League and Covenant.
This was the force of 20,000 men under Alexander Lesley, Earl of Leven, which contributed so largely to the defeat of the Royalists at Marston Moor. Whilst Leven's army was in England the rising of Montrose took place and was only terminated at Philiphaugh by the return of David Lesley with a large force. Early in 1647 this army returned to Scotland. Charles I was beheaded 1649.
In England the Independents had gained the upper hand of the Presbyterians; in Scotland the supporters of the Solemn League and Covenant were in treaty with Charles II who landed in Scotland. Cromwell invaded the south and, after the Battle of Dunbar (1650), received the submission of Edinburgh Castle, Lieutenant Robert Straton being one of the hostages given to Cromwell for the fulfilment of the articles of surrender. In 1652 Middleton was given command of the Royalist forces in Scotland and there was desultory fighting until his defeat at Loch Garry in l654, after which he retired abroad and his army dispersed. Presumably Robert achieved his captaincy under Middleton.
On 30 September 1655 Charles II, writing from Cologne, addressed a letter to Captain Robert Straton, commending to his care one Mrs Janet Brown. Tradition says that this letter found him living quietly with a married sister in the neighbourhood of Lauriston (his sister Isobel had married Arthur Straton of Snawton) and that the mysterious Mrs Brown was Lord Ogilvy who had been sent to Scotland in feminine attire to obtain information as to the position there.

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After the Restoration Lord Middleton was made Governor of Edinburgh Castle and Captain Robert, as his Deputy, was one of the principal instruments of the Privy Council. In March 1664 Middleton's charge terminated on the arrival of Lauderdale who appointed his own deputy.
In l661 Robert was made an honorary freeman of the City of Edinburgh.
In l670 he was living in 0ld Montrose, formerly one of the family residences of the great Marquis of Montrose and later the property of Lord Middleton. On apprisement from the latter the property was purchased about 1695 by Robert's son Charles.
He was drowned at sea in November 1674, the ship on which he was travelling to Holland with a number of the principal merchants and residents of Montrose being cast away on the Dutch coast with the loss of all on board.
In August 1681 Charles II, in a document authorising a payment to Charles Straton, describes the latter as "eldest lawful son of the deceased Captain Robert Straton, who served us faithfully in the worst times."

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R II  Colonel CHARLES STRATON, eldest son of Captain Robert Straton, Deputy-Governor of Edinburgh Castle, and his wife Anna Wardlaw.

Born:-	1655.

Married:- 1 September 1687, at Edinburgh, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Andrew Forrester, Kt., secretary to the Duke of Lauderdale.

Died:-	10 April 1746, at Old Montrose, aged 91.

Issue:- 	1. John, of whom later (R III).
2. Elizabeth, died unmarried 1750.
3. (a daughter) born about 1696, married John MacFarlane W.S. (younger)
4. (a child) buried Edinburgh [2 Mar.] 1693.
5. (a child) buried Edinburgh [29 Apr.] 1698.
6. (a child) buried Montrose 1710.
7. (a son) buried Montrose 1716

Arms:- 	(Matriculated l698) Vair, on an escutcheon gules a fess crenelee of three pieces argent, masonee sable. 
Crest, a falcon rising proper. 
Motto, Resurgere Tento.

He is first heard of as a witness to a baptism at Montrose 28 April 1674; this was the year of his father's death and the family were living at Old Montrose, in the neighbouring parish of Maryton, but were interested in the affairs of the burgh of Montrose where they had numerous relations.
In November 1577 he confirmed his father's will; his father having been drowned at sea, apparently an interval of three years was necessary before probate was allowed.
In 1678 the regiment now known as the Royal Scots Fusiliers was raised under the name of the Earl of Mar's Regiment and on September 27th. Charles Straton was appointed lieutenant in the company commanded by John Balfour.
Archbishop Sharpe was murdered in May 1679 and this was followed by the Cameronian rising and the battles of Drumclog and Bothwell Bridge. In November the Duke of York arrived in Scotland as representative of the King; the Test Act was passed in l680.
In the following year the Scottish Parliament sent Charles Straton to London with an address to the King;
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in acknowledgment he was given an order for £100 and his expenses (25 August 1681). In June 1682 he was promoted to be Captain in the Scots Guards.
Perhaps there was some hitch in this appointment as the muster-roll of the Scots Guards of 1688 shows his seniority as dating from 7 August 1684 and in March of the latter year he applied to the Privy Council for leave to go to London and was granted "forloff" until May 1.
James VII succeeded in 1685 and in August of that year the Duke of Queensberry, the High Commissioner, was summoned to Court and was accompanied by many of his countrymen including Charles Straton and "Mr Slitzer, ingeneer", who had married Charles' cousin Jean Straton, daughter of Lauriston (p. 31).
In April 1687 the Scots Guards returned to Scotland and on the 23rd of that month a census of the troops in the kingdom was taken to ascertain the actual strength. Many companies had had large losses but Captain Charles Straton had lost only three, one by death and two by desertion.
On September 1 of that year he was married in Edinburgh, the ceremony being performed by the Dean.
In May 1688 came the rising in the Highlands and in August Straton was sent with 200 men of the Scots Guards and a detachment of the Scots Greys to deal with MacDonald of Keppoch, who had defeated the local companies of militia. Apparently the force did its work thoroughly and shortly afterwards the regiment was withdrawn to London.
In November 1688 William of Orange landed at Torbay and the name of Charles Straton appeared no more in the lists of the Scots Guards.
During the reign of William III he took no part in the affairs of the government. From 1690 to 1698 he appears to have lived in Edinburgh and to have bought and sold bonds; in 1696 he was one of the early subscribers to the Darien Company.
On the accession of Queen Anne he re-entered public life; he was a Commissioner of Supply for Angus in 1702 and 1704, in March 1707, just before the union of the kingdoms, he was appointed Quartermaster-General to the troops in Scotland with the rank of Colonel; this appointment was abolished on the Union. At the time of the union compensation was given to the subscribers to the Darien Company and in 1719 he was granted £1 a day compensation for the loss of his military appointment.
In 1710 he confirmed the will of his brother Alexander, a captain in the Scots Fusiliers who was killed in 1704 at the Battle of Blenheim, the delay being

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probably due to the difficulty in obtaining the arrears of pay which formed the chief asset.
Nothing is known as to his position with regard to the affair of 1715; the fact that he was granted a pension in 1719 seems to show that he took no active part but the letters of his son-in-law show that his sympathies were strongly Jacobite; his cousin Henry, who had also served in the Scots Guards, was a very active Jacobite agent at this period.
In 1716 his daughter, Mrs Macfarlane, then aged twenty, was the heroine of a romantic incident. She had been grossly insulted by Captain Cayley, a commissioner of customs, who had visited her in her house in the Cowgate and appears to have assaulted her. She ordered him out of the house and, as he did not obey, fired at him with one of her husband’s pistols, hitting him on the wrist. He drew his sword but, before he could use it, she shot him through the heart with the other. She then sent for her husband who assisted her into hiding. Apparently she died soon afterwards as Macfarlane married again in 1719. A fuller account of this affair is given in Appendix B.‡
After 1716 practically nothing is known of the life of Charles Straton but he is believed to have been in the Baltic trade at Montrose; he certainly had warehouses for grain in Montrose in 1742. He was in possession of Old Montrose before 1721.
He died in April 1746 and was buried at Maryton on the tenth of that month, aged 91. He was survived by a son, John, and an unmarried daughter, Elizabeth.‡  
Amongst the pictures which descended to his great-grandson were a portrait of him in armour and portraits of the Duke and Duchess of Lauderdale.

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R III JOHN STRATON of LAURISTON (Old Montrose), only surviving son of Colonel Charles Straton and his wife Elizabeth Forester.

Born:- 	1701, probably in Edinburgh.

Married:- 29th November 1728 Janet, daughter of Samuel Straton, Apothecary in Montrose, and his wife Jean, daughter of Alexander Arbuthnot of Knox by his second wife Jean Scott. She was baptised 6 Dec. 1706, died 21 June 1763.

Died:- 	1752, aged 51 years. Buried at Maryton October 15th.

Issue:- 	1. Charles, baptised 18 Aug. 1730. Died unm.

2. John, of whom later (R IV).

3. Jean, married Alex. Scott, 53rd. Regt. 1767.

4. Margaret, married Sir James Nicholson of Glenbervie 27 July 1751. Died 12 Sept.1783 "aged 52".

5. Elizabeth, baptised Montrose 7 Dec. 1734, Died unm. 20 July 1820. (In 1750 she was youngest lawful daughter).

6. Katherin, bapt.  Montrose 4 Dec.1735. 
7. Anne, bapt. Montrose 9 April 1737. 
8. Alexander, bapt. Montrose 9 Sept. 1738. 
9. Janet, bapt. Montrose 13 Oct. 1739.
10. (a child), bapt. Montrose 8 Oct. 1741, buried there 22 November 1741.

No's 6, 7, 8 and 9 apparently died in infancy.

The first known mention of him is on the occasion of the marriage to his kinswoman Janet Straton in 1728. John and Janet were distantly related, Samuel Straton being of the Stratons of Criggie, a cadet branch dating from the middle of the fifteenth century, subsequently connected with the house of Lauriston by marriage.
John seems to have been a merchant engaged in the Baltic trade. At first they appear to have lived at Old Montrose, and perhaps always did so, but from 1733 their children were baptised at Montrose. Of the many children apparently only four reached maturity.

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Colonel Charles died in 1746 and John succeeded to Lauriston, as Old Montrose was then called, but did not live long to enjoy it.
His daughter Margaret was married in August 1751 to James Nicholson, son of Sir William Nicolson of Glenbervie, Baronet. He succeeded his father and died in 1782; she lived until September 1783.
John died 15 October 1752, aged 51, and was buried at Marytoun; his widow lived till 21 June 1763 when she was buried at Montrose.
His daughter Jean was married in 1767 to Lieut. Alexander Scott of the 53rd Regt., fourth son of Alexander Scott of Baldwill, Craig, Angus. Her daughter, Miss Jessie Scott, was living in Montrose in 1846.

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R IV JOHN STRATON (2nd.) of LAURISTON (Old Montrose), only surviving son of John Straton of Lauriston and his wife Janet Straton.

Born:-  	1733, baptised Montrose November 10.

Married:- 1758, March 26 at Montrose, Ann Carter, second daughter and co-heiress of Carter of Barbadoes.

Died:- 	Probably at St Omer, France, about 1805.

Issue:- 	1. Alexander, of whom later (R V).

2. Mary Anne, baptised 15‡ April 1759, married Rev. C. Campbell, issue who persist.

3. Jean, bapt. 20 March 1761. Married 1781 [Robert] Stephen of Letham. No issue.

4. Margaret, bapt. 20 Sept. 1763. Died unm. 1846.

5. Elizabeth, bapt. 30 Nov. 1764. Died unm. 1836.

Arms:- 	Matriculated 1783 as representing Straton of that Ilk. 
Argent, three bars counter-embattled azure. Crest, a Falcon arising proper. Motto, Surgere Tento. Supporters, Dexter, a Lion, rampant, or, Sinister, a Bloodhound, sable.

John Straton, known to his friends as The Baron, is rather a mysterious figure. Apparently his barony was that of Lauriston, as he took some pains in 1783 to establish to the satisfaction of the Lyon Office that he was the male representative of the family of Straton of that Ilk and that no descendants in the male line of Alexander Straton of Lauriston, who died in 1666, remained alive. He went to the additional expense of having, as a minor baron, supporters added to his arms.
His father died in 1752, when he was barely 19 and on 6† September 1753 he served heir to his father in "The Barony of Laurieston, formerly called Old Montrose, and in the lands of Marytown etc. Forfarshire."
In 1756 he brought an action against the New College of St Andrews regarding the teinds of Lauriston. In the account of the case it is stated that

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the lands, once the property of the Marquis of Montrose, had been apprised from the Earl of Middleton in 1670 and that Colonel Charles Straton had obtained a charter of them in 1695. John sold Old Montrose before 1765 to John Mill.
In the winter of 1757-1758 the three daughters and coheiresses of a Mr Carter, who had made a fortune in Bartadoes and died there, appeared in Montrose; they are said to have been related to Mr Lascelles, afterwards the first Lord Harewood, who was their trustee.
The eldest Miss Carter had married Forbes of Aven Castle who died leaving her all his fortune; she subsequently married Major Turnbull of Montrose, who soon dissipated her estate; she was alive in 1804 and was then 78 years of age. The second sister, Ann and the youngest, Mary, were married in the spring of 1758 to John Straton and his cousin James Ouchterlony respectively. In due course each couple had a daughter, christened in each case Mary Anne after the two brides.
About 1780 The Baron and his family seem to have been in Dunkirk in Carnival time for there are in existence copies of verses in French, headed "Carnaval", addressed to Mesdemoiselles Marie Anne, Eugenie (Jeannie), Peguy (Peggy), and Betsie De Straton, each from Dunkirk. At that time Elizabeth was evidently still a child.
In May 1781 Jean was married to Robert Stephen of Letham at St Martins Church in London. The marriage contract was registered at Montrose in January 1796 by which time John Straton was described as "late of Lauriston, now residing in London.
In May 1783 he was writing from London to the Lyon Office in connection with his Arms and pedigree and in September of that year his son Alexander came of age and was given the freedom of the burgh of Montrose.
What happened to The Baron after this we do not know; apparently he had some difference, personal or political with the government. Old Montrose was sold and he seems to have spent the remainder of his life in France In 1798, according to a letter written by General John Straton (J 2) of the Royal Irish Artillery, to his son James in November 1800, he had been seen in France; the General refers to him as "the Baron, our acquaintance". As 1798 was the year of the Battle of the Nile one wonders what he was doing in a hostile country.
A letter dated 5 November 1801 from John to his daughter Jean is in existence. He was then 68 years old and was living a very quiet life at St Omer,

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whither he had returned in 1795; apparently he had been previously "in arristation". He seems to have been dependent on gifts from his daughters to provide any small luxuries. Three years later he was still at St Omer but there had evidently been a paragraph in the newspapers which had given rise to anxiety about him in the minds of his family.
This is the last we hear of him; his daughters, except Mrs Campbell, lived in Montrose until their deaths. It seems possible that he fled from the country to avoid the prosecutions to which the panic, resulting from the declaration of war with France, gave rise.
The Lauriston who was at one time aide-de-camps to Napoleon was Jacques Law de Lauriston and no relation to the family of Straton.

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R V   ALEXANER STRATON, Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of Sweden, ("The Ambassador"), only son of John Straton of Lauriston (Old Montrose), known as The Baron, and his wife Ann Carter.

Born:-	1762, baptised Montrose April 15.

Unmarried.

Died:- 3 January 1832 at Broomley in Dun; buried in the episcopal churchyard, Montrose.

Alexander was the third child and only son of "The Baron" and we know nothing of his education or up-bringing. In 1783 he was concerned in the establishment of his father's pedigree and the matriculation of Arms. In that year, on coming of age, he was admitted a freeman of Montrose.
About that time he seems to have entered the diplomatic service; in July 1789 he was appointed secretary of legation at Vienna and in March 1800 secretary to the embassy there; he was also at Constantinople in the same position. In January 1807 he was appointed Minister to Stockholm.
On his retirement he bought the small property of Broomley in Dun, on the north side of the Montrose Basin, where he lived until his death in 1832.
 During the last years of his life he was subject to uncontrollable fits of temper which cut him off to a great extent from society; only his sister Elizabeth could deal with him. This condition was attributed to his being jilted about 1789 by a Miss Lyall to whom he was engaged to be married; owing to his appointment to Vienna the marriage had to be postponed and a few months after his departure she married an elderly man with a considerable fortune.
The death of Alexander unmarried completes the lineal male descent from Captain Robert Straton, third and youngest son of John Straton, fear of Lauriston. All elder branches of the family having failed the representation now passes to the descendants of Andrew Straton of Warburton, third son of Sir Alexander Straton (L XI) and younger brother of the said John.

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CHAPTER VIII

ANDREW STRATON OF WARBURTON AND HIS DESCENDANTS

On the extinction of the male descent of Robert Straton, Deputy Governor of Edinburgh Castle, the representation of the family went to the descendants of Andrew Straton of Warburton, third son of Sir Alexander Straton (L XI), uncle of the said Robert.

From page 22.

L XI Sir Alexander Straton = Elizabeth Livingstone 
         of Lauriston      :
          ob. 1634/5       :
                           :
:   :      :
Male  W I Andrew Straton = Marion Forbes
Lines     of Warburton   :
extinct.    ob. 1678     :
                           :			   	
       :                                    :
W II Robert = Ogilvie                     David =
    ob.l663 :                                   :
            :                                   F
            :                              See p. 51
     :
W III Robert = Katherine Burnett 
    ob. 1740 :
             : 
             : 
      :
W IV Robert = Girzal Lyon
    ob. 1764 : 
             : 
      :
W V George = Isabel Crombie
  1731-18..:
           : 
           : 
     :
W VI Charles
  1772-1813.
    o.s.p.

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W I ANDREW STRATON of WARBURTON, third son of Sir Alexander Straton of Lauriston and his wife Elizabeth Livingstone. 

Born:-	About 1585.

Married:- About 1607, Marion, daughter of Alexander Forbes, Minister of Fettercairn and Bishop, in succession, of Caithness and Aberdeen, and of Christian Straton, daughter of David Straton of Criggie, his wife.

Died:-	About 1678.

Issue:-	1. Robert, of whom later (W II).

2. David, tenant in Fothra, of whom later, (F I)

3. Andrew, "in Warburton" married
Issue:- (i) Andrew
(ii) William.

4. William, merchant in Montrose, died 1665, unmarried.

According to the Register of the Privy Council of Scotland he was concerned with Lindsay in the slaughter of Lord Spynie in 1607 but according to the letter of remission given to the culprits in 1617, the offender was the son of David Straton at Mill of Dalboig. 
He had at first interests in Hill of Cragy and in the tithes of Fettercairn (see p. 28) but these were given up and in 1620 he obtained a practically perpetual tack or lease of Warburton, formerly occupied by his father-in-law, where he spent the remainder of his life. In 1676, his eldest son being dead, he assigned his rights to his grandson Robert.

W II  ROBERT STRATON "of Warburton", eldest son of Andrew Straton of Warburton and his wife Marion Forbes.

Born:- 	About 1608. 

Married:- (Said to be a daughter of Ogilvie of Barras.) 

Died:- 	In Edinburgh, 1663, buried Greyfriars Feb. 4th. 

Issue:- 	Robert of whom later (W III).

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W III ROBERT STRATON of WARBURTON, grandson of Andrew Straton of Warburton and son of Robert Straton who died in Edinbourgh in 1663.

Born:- 	About 1651.

Married:- Katherine Burnett who died 29 Dec. 1744.

Died:-	4 March 1740.

Issue:- 	1. Robert, of whom later (W IV).

2. Elizabeth, baptised 24 July 1697 at St. Cyrus. Married David Will 11 June 1724. Died 1768.

In 1676 his grandfather assigned to him the hereditary tack of Warburton where he lived and died.

W IV ROBERT STRATON of WARBURTON, son of Robert Straton and his wife Katherine Burnett.

Born:	About 1684.

Married:- Girzal, third daughter of the Rev. Patrick Lyon, Minister of Rescobie; she died 11 October 1765, aged 74.

Died:-	1764. Buried in the Nether Kirkyard, St Cyrus.

Issue:	1. Robert, baptised 	3 Sept. 1719. o.s.p. 
2. John 	-"- 	6 June 1724. o.s.p.
3. James 	-"- 	6 Sept. 1726. o.s.p. 
4. Charles 	-"- 	25 Sept.1728. o.s.p. 
5. George of whom later (W V).
6. Katherine baptised 10 April 1721. Married Alexander Roberts in Nether Warburton, 7 sons, 1 daughter. Died Lawrencekirk 15 March 1795. 
7. Janet,‡ baptised 22 Nov. 1722.

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W V GEORGE STRATON of WARBURTON, youngest but only surviving son of Robert Straton of Warburton and his wife Girzal Lyon.

Born:- 	1731; baptised St Cyrus July 13th.

Married:- 1. 19‡ November 1769, Isabel Abercrombie or Crombie, whose father was tenant in Wester Mathers. 2 sons, 3‡ daughters. 
2. (no issue).

Died:- 	At Warburton

Issue:-	1. Robert, baptised St Cyrus 16 April 1770.  	o.s.p.
2. Charles, bapt. St Cyrus 2 Jan. 1772. Went to America and is believed to have been killed, unmarried, at the battle of Chrysler's Farm, near Niagara, 12 November 1813. On his father's death his share of the estate was sent to him in America but he was not heard of again.
3. Helen, born 18 August 1774. Married Dundee. No issue.
4. Mary, bapt. 3 July 1776. Married. Died in Edinburgh. One son.
5. Elizabeth, born 30 Jan. 1776 married George Scott.
Issue:- George Scott, b. 23 Oct.1803.  Charles Scott, b. August 1810. Mary Scott, b. 1 July 1805. Elizabeth Scott, b. 23 Aug. 1812.

He served in the Royal Navy, going to Jamaica in 1763. His father died in 1764 whilst he was abroad and there was some doubt whether he was still alive. The superior of the property, Scott of Comieston, attempted, by refusing the rent when tendered by an agent, to void the lease and the case was taken to the House of Lords and decided in his favour in 1772. He had returned home and served heir in 1768. The lease provided that in case the superior should refuse to accept the rent when tendered it should be lodged with a person of substance and standing in the district and Alexander Roberts, brother-in-law and agent to George, had lodged it with John Straton of Laurieston (Old Montrose), a merchant in Montrose.
The legal proceedings had impoverished him so that he parted with his hereditary rights retaining a life interest only.

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WARBURTON-FOTHRA 

From page 47.
WI Andrew Straton = Marion Forbes
    of Warburton  :
     ob. 1678     :
                  : 
                  :				 
Male line                          :
 extinct.                     F I David =	Straton
                               in Fothra:
                                        : 
      :
F II David = Isobel Strachan 
 in Fothra :
           :								†
                 :                          :
Janet  = F III James      = Anne          David=
Deuchar:     of Drumhenry : Middleton      Male
       :      ob. 1725    :                line
       :                  :                extinct
   :                              :
Alexander = Christian     F IV David = Anne Cairncross 
1676-1743 : Robertson       1703-94  :
          :                          :      
   :      :         :      :         :
Thomas            James  David   F V Charles = Janet
1704-77            male lines      1759-1846 : Swap
o.s.p.               extinct                 :
                                             :	 
: : :    :             :                        :
3 sons  James   F VI Charles = Helen      Alexander =
o.s.p.  o.s.p.       1813-99 : Niddrie      o.s.p.
                             :							
        :                               :               :
F VII Charles Robert = Amy M. Swayne  sons with‡  daughters‡
        1842-1913    :                no male 
                     :                issue
           :     
F VIII Charles Henry = Eleanor Goldney
        1876-        :
                     :		 
          :                   :
F IX Charles Noy         Marjorie Amy
      1904-                 1907-

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With the death in America of Charles Straton and that of his father George without further male issue we come to the end of the male descent of Robert Straton who died in Edinburgh in 1663. We are then thrown back to the descendants of the younger sons of Andrew Straton of Warburton.
The first portion of the table on the preceding page is unsupported by any documentary evidence. At first sight it seems extraordinary that there should be no seventeenth century records of a family which remained for a long period in the small area of the parishes of St Cyrus, Marykirk and Fettercairn but there are two factors to be considered which have contributed to this.
Firstly, as descendants of Bishop Forbes, the family had a strong leaning towards episcopacy and its members were baptised and married in the episcopal chapel at Cadam (Cauldhame) as long as that existed; of this chapel no registers are known.
Secondly, the registers of the parish churches are very defective; the St Cyrus registers, only opening in 1696, record very few burials. The Fettercairn registers were partly destroyed by the "Highlanders" in 1745 and only begin in 1721; the Marykirk registers do not begin until 1699.
As a result of this, James Straton of Drumhenry, who had twenty children and innumerable descendants, is only represented in the registers by the note of a sum of money paid for the use of the mortcloth or pall in 1725. But for the memories of Patrick Cushnie and the enquiries of Charles Straton we should probably never have heard his name.
Patrick Cushnie (1779-1869), episcopal minister at Montrose, was the great-grandson of Alexander Straton, (1676-1743), a merchant in Stonehaven. He had devoted considerable time to recording the genealogy of the Straton family and had many papers bearing on the subject. Charles Straton (1813-l899) knew him well and had an opportunity of making abstracts from these papers, which have disappeared since Cushnie's death.
Cushnie was quite certain of the following points of which no documentary proof is known:
1. That David Straton, first at Fothra, was the second son of Andrew Straton of Warburton; this he asserted was recorded in the proceedings concerning the testament of David Straton, schoolmaster in Fettercairn (St Andrews 25 July 1627) which also showed David's marriage to the sister of the deceased.
2. That James Straton of Drumhenry was son of David, second of Fothra.

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3. That Alexander Straton, his great-grandfather, was Drumhenry's eldest son.

Now the Dunnottar registers show the baptism there on 3rd February 1676 of Alexander Straton, son of Alexander Straton, a merchant-in Stonehaven; as this was the year of birth of Cushnie's great-grandfather it rather throws doubt on the third of these points. Alexander's grandson, Patrick Cushnie, married Elizabeth, daughter of George Straton, a merchant in Stonehaven, of whose parentage we know nothing; at first sight it seems possible that the Warburton connection may have been on that side. As this Elizabeth was Cushnie's mother it is very unlikely that he should have made this mistake. Moreover he described his great-grandfather's baptism as it had been described to him in his youth; Alexander, he said, was baptised at the episcopal chapel at Cadam by the Bishop of Brechin and was held at the font by the sponsor, his [Alexander F II 1’s] great-great-grandfather, Andrew Straton of Warburton [W I], then nearly ninety years of age.
Charles Straton [F VI], about 1834, knew many descendants of James Straton of Drumhenry [F III], his great-grandfather on both sides, and records that his father and George Straton of Warburton met as cousins; he further states that his father and Mrs Aikenhead [Elizabeth F I 2 e], daughter of David Straton [F I 2], last of Fothra, were well known to be second cousins.
The registers show the marriage of David Straton [F IV] in Townhead of Balmakelly in 1744; after that date there are no uncertainties.
Gravestones are of little value as evidence but may act as clues to the registers. In this connection one may mention the Warburton tomb in the Nether Kirkyard at St Cyrus, the Fothra tomb at Fettercairn, the tomb at Dunnottar to Alexander Straton and the Cushnies and those at Marykirk to David and Charles Straton and their families.

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F I DAVID STRATON, TENANT in FOTHRA (Mains of Fasque), second son of Andrew Straton of Warburton and Marion Forbes.

Born:- 	About 1610.

Married:- A daughter of Arthur Straton of the Inch of Disclune, who died June 1618, and sister of David Straton, schoolmaster in Fettercairn who died 1627.

Died:-	He and his wife are said to have died young.

Issue:- 	1. David, of whom below (F II)
2. James, trained for the ministry but died young.
3. (A daughter).

F II  DAVID STRATON, TENANT in FOTHRA, eldest son of David Straton in Fothra and _ Straton

Born:- 	About 1634

Married:- In 1655 Isobel, orphan daughter of Rev. Strachan whose uncle and guardian, Rev. David Strachan, Bishop of Brechin 1662, was then Minister of Fettercairn. Isobel's sister is said to have married Arthur Straton of Kirkside [K IV].

Died:-

Issue:- 	1. James Straton in Drumhenry of whom later F III
2. David, Tenant in Fothra, born 1667,died 5 May 1742. Married Elizabeth Binnie who died 1728. 
Issue:- i. David, born 1706, died Montrose 10 April 1799. Married Elizabeth Allen (1712†-1766). Tenant Balfour of Menmuir, later of Fothra. Issue:-
a. David, b.l747, died young.
b. Robert, b.1748 
c. John, b.1750 
d. Janet b.1752† 
e. Elizabeth, married 1776 James Aikenhead, 2 sons 
f. Helen married Cobb. 
ii. Elizabeth, b.1700. Married Robert Taylor, Fettercairn.
See Andrew Straton in Perthshire, Chapter XIII, p. 111.†

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F III JAMES STRATON, Tacksman of the Mains of DRUMHENRY, in the parish of Fettercairn, eldest son of David Straton in Fothra and Isobel Strachan.

Born:- Said to have been about 1656, perhaps later.

Married:- 	1. About 1674 Janet, daughter of Robert Deuchar, tacksman of Drumbenry who had died the previous year.
2. About 1690 Anne Middleton whose father was tenant farmer at Unthank.

Died:- 1725, buried at Fettercairn.

Issue:- 	7 sons and 13 daughters, 10 by each wife.
1. Alexander, eldest son,? merchant in Stonehaven. Born 1676, married Christian Robertson,died 7 May 1743, aged 67, buried at Dunnottar. 
Issue:- i. Thomas, bapt. Dunnottar 25 July 1704; went to Jamaica where he died unmarried in May 1777. 
ii. Alexander, bapt. Dunnottar 2 Oct. 1705; predeceased his father, unm.
iii. Samuel, bapt. Dunnottar 3 Jan.1710. predeceased his father. Unmarried.
iv. Anna married Patrick Cushnie, merchant in Stonehaven. Issue:-
a. Patrick (or Peter) Cushnie,born 1752, married Elizabeth Straton. After a short stay in Jamaica he settled in Stonehaven. Issue:
(a)Peter (or Patrick) bapt. Dunnottar 7 Dec 1779. Incumbent of St Mary's Episc. Church, Montrose. Died 10 June 1869.
(b). 2 other sons and 1 daughter.
b. Ann married Burness.
c. 3 other sons.
v. Christian, [bapt. 1707] married David Longlands a slater in Aberdeen, later in Dundee.
   The male line of Alexander thus became extinct in 1777.
2. James (?) Became a carver in the Canongate, Edinburgh where he was succeeded by his son and grandson, Charles(E.7), who moved to the Nether Bow where he died about 1835; he [married Elizabeth Murice and] left a daughter [Ann,] married to Alexander Clark‡ [and sons Charles, John, George, Thomas, and James Murdoch.  See p. 105.] 

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Issue of James Straton (F III) (contd.)

3. There is understood to have been a third son of the first marriage but nothing is known of him.
4. Robert (of the second marriage) remained on the farm during his father's lifetime and then took a small farm called Arrochie in Strachan parish and became factor for Farquharson of Finzean. He was married and had issue one son called David who died unmarried at Arrochie in 1824.
5. John, born about 1700, supposed to have been killed at Culloden. Not known to have been married.
6. David, born 1703, of whom later (F IV).
7. Charles, youngest son, born about 1706.
	  Became incumbent of the episcopal chapel at Cadam in 1730 and was also tutor at Inglismaldie. He had to leave Scotland for preaching to a larger congregation than was then allowed by law in a conventicle; he obtained a curacy in Somersetshire and was afterwards vicar of Ubley. He married Barbara, daughter of Joseph Straton of Kirkside [K V]. He is said to have had two sons who took holy orders.  (See p. 74.)◊
8. Elizabeth or Isabella◊ (first marriage) went to Edinburgh with her brother James and married James Forrest. Her son bought the estate of Comiston near Edinburgh and her great- grandson, Sir James Forrest, Bart., was Lord Provost of Edinburgh.◊

11 other daughters married sons of neighboring farmers of the families of Beattie, Ross, Burness, Taylor, Walker, Mann, Strachan, Munro, etc.

20. Helen, youngest daughter, travelled in Italy with a lady of means who died leaving her a legacy. She died unmarried leaving her means to her nieces.

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Note as to the family of DEUCHAR of DEWARICH.

Willim Deuchar, or Dewarich, of that Ilk married Janet, daughier of Andrew Straton of Lauriston (L VIII) and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Lindsay of Edzell, between 1540 and 1550. The husband died in 1591 and the wife in 1594.  Their second son was "of Balglassie in Aberlemno" in 1580 and in 1602 he was decerned executor of his mother. (Edinburgh Testaments 2 Feb. 1602)
Alexander Deuchar's son James took a long lease of Drumhenry, in Marykirk and Fettercairn, and married the eldest daughter of Arthur Straton in the Inch of Disclune about 1620. They had three children:
1. Robert, who succeeded his father in Drumhenry 1656; he afterwards married a daughter of the laird of Mureton in Stracathro. They both died between 1670 and 1673 leaving an only child Janet who, about 1674 when scarcely seventeen, became the first wife of James Straton, eldest son of David Straton of Fothra. He was afterwards known as James Straton of Drumhenry and lived there till his death.
2. (another son, name uncertain) got a farm in the neighbouring parish of Stracathro and a number of his descendants are still to be found thereabout; they now call themselves Durie instead of Dewrach.
3. A daughter married Middleton, farmer, Unthank. Their daughter, Anna Middleton; became the second wife of James Straton of Drumhenry.

Manuscript of Rev. P. Cushnie as quoted by Charles Straton.

It may here be noted that William Deuchar of that Ilk who was killed at the Battle of Harlaw in 1411 had married Janet Straton, daughter of the laird of Lauriston who was killed in the same battle.

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F IV DAVID STRATON, Tenant in TOWNHEAD OF BALMAKELLY, Marykirk, third son of James Straton of Drumhenry by his second wife, Anne Middleton. 

Born:- 	1703

Married:- 	8 June 1744, Anne Cairncross, grand-daughter of his aunt Mrs Middleton. She died 1790.

Died - 	1794/5.

Issue:- 	1. James, born 1745; a farmer first at Balmakelly then at woodside on the Links of Montrose; later he lived in The Mall, Montrose. Married, Margaret Thompson, daughter of a farmer in Dun. Died 1825 at Montrose. Issue:-
i. David, a farmer in Kent, Born 1781. Married (1) Mary Halsant at Chiselhurst in 1818. (2) Emma Brixey. No issue. Died Chelsea 1855, buried Brompton Cemetery. 
ii. James, born 1786, died in childhood.
iii. Robert, born 1792, died unm. 1812.  Buried at Dun. 
iv. Anne, died young, unmarried.
v. Margaret,◊ died young unm'd. 
vi. Janet, born 1787,◊ married David Mill, Montrose. Two sons, line now extinct.
[vii. Jean.◊]

Male line extinct.

	2. David, born 1752,‡ March 15, Marykirk. A tenant farmer first at Dunthill, Marykirk and later at Farrochie, near Stonehaven. Married (1) 1797, Elizabeth Herd, daughter of the tenant of Barns, who died the following year without living issue. (2) 1804 Susan Taylor, daughter of Taylor of Colliston and a grand-daughter of Alexander Straton, merchant in Stonehaven. He, by a disposition made by his father, inherited his father's farm to the exclusion of his brother James. On the expiry of the lease the farm was divided up and he went to Farrochie. Issue by second wife: 
i. David born 1810, Tenant in Farochie. Died unm. Stonehaven 8 Sept. 1884. 
ii. James, born 1813 (twin), a cornfactor in Aberdeen. Died unm. 13 July 1858.
iii. Margaret, born 1807. Married James Officer 1840. One son.
iv. Anne, born 1809, married [William] Jack, died 1879, issue.
v. Helen, born 1813 (twin). D. unm. 1869.

He died 30 July 1834 and was buried at Marykirk.*

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Issue of F IV David Straton (cont.)

3. Charles, born 1759, of whom later (F V)

4. Anne; died in infancy.

5. Mary married 1778 Alexander Burness in Hill of Hatton. Died 1823, 2 sons.

6. Janet, born 19 March 1756. Looked after her parents until their deaths and then, in 1796, married David Beattie, merchant in Stonehaven, a widower, whose niece, Janet Swap, was married to Janet's elder brother, Charles, on the same day. She died in 1839 without issue.

David assisted in the work of his father's farm until the latter's death in 1725; he then managed the farm at Fothra for his paternal uncle David until 1733 when he was engaged by his aunt Mrs George Middleton to manage her farm at Dyeseat, Logie, where he continued until her death. He then married his cousin Anne Cairncross and, with his savings and her inheritance took a lease of the farm of Townhead of Balmakelly in Marykirk where they remained until their deaths.

The male descents of David's two elder sons having become extinct in 1884 we now pass to Charles, the third son, fifty-five years younger than his father.

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F V CHARLES STRATON, Tenant in Craighill, St Cyrus, youngest son of David Straton in Townhead of Balmakelly and his wife Anne Cairncross.

Born:- 	1759, baptised Marykirk May 25.,

Married:- 1794, Janet, daughter of William Swap or Schwabbe of the Logie Bleachfield and his wife Mary Beattie, sister of the David Beattie who married Charles' sister Janet. Janet Swap was descended from James Straton of Drumhenry by his first marriage. She died 18 November 1826.

Died:- 	December 1846, buried at Marykirk, headstone.

Issue:- 	 1. David, born [28 Jan,] 1799, died unm. 20 Dec. 1804.
2. William, born [22 Feb,] 1801. Student Marischal Coll. Aberdeen 1814. Died unm. 1 April 1816.
3. David (2) born 1807, died unm. 11 Oct. 1824.
4. James, born 1805/6, St Cyrus.◊ Succeeded his father at Craighill and later, in 1855, moved to Hatherleigh, N. Devon. He died there unmarried in 1872.
5. Charles, born 1813,St Cyrus.◊ of whom later (F VI).
6. Alexander, born 25 February 1816. A doctor of medicine who practised for many years at Steeple Langford, Wilts. L.R.C.S. Edinburgh 1834, M.D. Aberdeen 1850. Married 6 May 1852 Emily, daughter of John Pile Swayne of Steeple Langford, (1828-1905). Died 17 October 1880. No issue. 
7. Anne, born [31 Aug,] 1802, died 19 May 1818, unm.
8. Margaret married Robert Taylor, died 1866, no issue.
9. Janet, born 1809, [1840] married William Bruce. Daughters Janet and Elsie, both d. in infancy, and Susan m. McEwen. Twin sons Charles and William Straton Bruce. Died 12 December 1883.
10. Jane, accompanied her brother James to Hatherleigh, married (1) Robert Wadland of that place, one daughter, (2) Eli Palmer of that place, no issue.

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F VI CHARLES STRATON, fifth and second surviving son of Charles Straton, tenant in Craighill, and Janet Swap. Notary Public.

Born:- 	3 December 1813 at St Cyrus.

Married:- [5  Sep,] 1841 at Lawrencekirk, Helen, daughter of Robert Niddrie and his wife Helen Davidson.  She was born December 1817, died 12 April 1902. She was descended from the first marrage of James Straton of Drumhenry.

Died:- 	18 December 1899 at Andover, New Brunswick.

Issue:-	1. Charles Robert, of whom later (F VII)
2. Arthur William, born 25 April 1845, died 10 November 1848.
3. James, Barrister at Law, born 1 Feb.1854, married 1885 Louisa, daughter of Samuel King, St John, New Brunswick, one dau. Phyllis, born 1889, married 1910 A. L. Fowler. Died 4 September 1912 at St John.
4. Alexander, Barrister at Law, born 16 Dec. 1857. Died unm. at Andover, N.B. 3 Dec 1927.
5. Joshua, born 10 Sept 1859, died May 18,◊ 1860.
6. Joseph, born 14 Dec. 1860, married 1889 Amy Reed, daughter of Andrew Reed, landowner at Andover. Died 29 Dec. 1894, no issue. He  was a merchant at Andover.
7. John Swayne, born 10 May◊ 1864, a merchant and agent in real estate. Died unmarried at Saskatchewan 12 November 1927.
8. Anne Helen, born 11 Feb. 1847. Married 1894 William Hoyt, Andover. Died 7 March◊ 1935 at St. John, New Brunswick.* No issue.
9. Amy, born 16 February 1849, died 25 May 1862, unmarried.
10. Alice Mary, born 5 Nov. 1851, married 1877 Rev. W. T. Bruce, 7 sons, 3 dau. Died 11 Oct. 1918.
11. Harriet, born 22 Dec. 1855. Married 1893 Abraham Kupky. Died 2 Dec. 1920.* No issue.

Charles Straton was educated at Montrose Academy and at Edinburgh University, first prizeman in Civil Law 1834.  He practised law at Montrose, in Edinburgh (Managing Clerk to Messrs Cairns & Son, W.S.) and as a member of a firm of law agents in Glasgow. He went to Canada in 1873 and settled in Andover where he was a notary public.

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F VII CHARLES ROBERT STRATON of West Lodge, Wilton, eldest son of Charles Straton and Helen Niddrie.

Born:- 	1842, March 28 at Montrose.◊
Married:- 1875, July 6, at Wilton, Amy Mary, daughter of Henry J. F. Swayne, Recorder of Wilton, and his wife Mina Elizabeth Crealock.? She was born 6 Mar. 1854 and died 26 April 1895.
Died:- 	1918, February 22, at Wilton.
Issue :- 	1. Charles Henry, of whom later (F VIII)
2. Alexander Walter Keith, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. born 18 June 1880; married 14 Apr. 1914, Hilda Grace, dau. of Lewis B. Garrett of Maida Vale, London. Issue:
i. James, born 16 March 1915, 
ii. Robert, born 26 Mar. 1918, 
iii. Thomas, born 2 Oct. 1920, 
iv. Benjamin, born 22 Dec. 1925,
v. Janet, born 17 Oct. 1916, 
vi. Mary, born 26 June 1922.  
 He succeeded to his father's practice at Milton.
3. Arthur Arbuthnot, M.D., F.R.C.S., born 1 Oct. 1883; married 7 Mar. 1917, Mabel, 3rd. dau. of James Robertson of Warwick Road, Ealing.  Issue:- Robert Alexander, born 18 Feb. 1919. A medical practitioner at Newport, I.of Wight.
4. Norman David Swayne, L.D.S. born 22 Feb. 1890; married, 4 Apr, 1918, Therese Limido,  dau. of Per Emile Rohl of Malmoe, Sweden. Issue:
i. Peter David, born 11 Aug.◊ 1920,
ii. Joan Marie, born 21 Apr.◊ l922, 
iii.Coralie Clare, born 6 Oct. 1923. 
He practised as a dental surgeon at Reading and at Nassau, Bahamas.

Charles Robert Straton was educated at the Edinburgh Academy and the Universities of Edinburgh and Gasgow; L.R.C.S. and L.R.C.P.  Edin. 1866, F.R.C.S. Edin. 1882, Lic. San. Sci. Durham 1889. He joined his uncle Alexander Straton, who had induced him to transfer from law to medicine and had paid for his medical education, as an assistant at Steeple Langford, Wilts. A few years later he settled at Wilton, near Salisbury, where he held several public appointments and carried on a large general practice until his death. He was Mayor of Wilton in 1874, 1880 and 1884. He edited "Survey of the Lands of William, First Earl of Pembroke" published by the Roxburgh Society 1909.

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F VIII CHARLES HENRY STRATON, eldest son of Charles Robert Straton and his wife Amy Mary Swayne.

Born:- 	1876, May 16, at Wilton, Wilts.

Married:- 1903, October 17, at Meerut, India, Eleanor Grace, eldest daughter of Rev. Samuel Goldney, Kew, Surrey.

Issue:- 	1. Charles Noy, born at Landour, India, 16 October 1904.
2. Marjorie Amy born at Dover, Kent, 26 January l907.

He was educated at Blundells School, Tiverton and St. Mary's Hospital, London. M.R.C.S. England, L.R.C.P. London, l898, D.P.H. London 1911. Served as House Surgeon at St Mary's Hospital 1898-99. Surgeon to Union S.S.Co. 1899-l900. Joined the Royal Army Medica1 Corps, Lieutenant 1900, Captain 1903, Major Lieut. Colonel, 1917. Retired 1921. During the war of 1914-18 he served in Gallipoli, Mesopotamia and Salonika; later in the Army at Constantinople. Officer of the order of St Sava of Serbia. 
On retirement he became (during 1922-35)† a school medical inspector under the Devon County Council, living at Honiton and later at Exmouth.†

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CHAPTER IX

STRATONS OF CRIGGIE AND OF KIRKSIDE

1. The Criggie Estates.

The lands of Cragy or Criggie in the parish of St Cyrus, Kincardineshire, form an area lying west and north-west of Lauriston, separating the latter from Morphie, and are mostly on the high ground overlooking St Cyrus Village.
The superiority of Cragy was granted in 1357 to John Gray of Broxmouth and was still in the Gray family in 1541 when the death of Patrick, fourth Lord Gray without issue made Andrew Straton of Lauriston the administrator of the estate. On this occasion the lands are described as Nether Cragy, Easter and Wester Snawton, Rachirhill and Overseat of Cragy with outsets and pendicles. Andrew granted a charter of the lands to his kinsman Andrew Straton of Cragy.
In 1543, after the death of James V, his disposition of the Gray estates was disputed before the Lords of the Council by the fifth Lord Gray and the charters of the late king and the infeftments based on them were reduced. These proceedings account for a complicated series of charters confirmed by the Queen in 1548 which include a sale by Erskine of Brechin to Andrew Straton of Cragy and his wife Margaret Barclay of Easter Snawton, Overseat of Cragy and part of Overcragy "in the barony of Cragy". Seven years later a charter was confirmed by which Patrick, fifth Lord Gray, granted the same lands to David Barclay of Mathers.
In 1587 James VI granted  a charter of novodamus, to David Straton of Cragy of two parts of Nether Cragy, Easter and Wester Snawton, Rachirhill, Overseat of Cragy and parts of Overcragy, resigned by George Barclay in his favour. Two years later David transferred Wester Snawton to Arthur Straton of Kirkside and in 1598 he resignedthe lands of Nether Cragy and Rutherhill (The Mains of Cragy) in favour of  his son David as fear.
Charters, sasines and law-suits follow one another in bewildering confusion between 1590 and 1618, evidently a time of great financial stress, and in 1618 John

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Straton, fear of Lauriston, who had apparently been able to profit by the misfortunes of others, bought, without reversion, Oversest of Cragy and Hill of Cragy and obtained a charter of novodamus.
In 1629 Arthur Straton, Junior, W. S. [Writer to his Majesty’s Signet], a grandson of Arthur Straton of Snawton, began to purchase parts of this estate beginning with Wester Snawton and Mill Hill Croft. In 1631 Alexander, on succeeding his father John as fear of Lauriston, served heir to, inter alia, Hill of Cragy, Greenhills, Murehead, Bradislaw, Maxfauld, Gapieshaugh and Mill of Cragy. But‡ in 1642, having succeeded his grandfather as laird, he disposed of these lands to his "loving cousin" and future brother-in-law Arthur Straton of Snawton, W.S., who, in 1644, obtained a charter of novodamus combining them into a new barony of Snawton.
On Arthur's death in 1663 his son Alexander, an advocate, served heir to the barony and estates but he died in the following year without issue. Alexander's heir was his half-brother John Straton of Balhagartie who apparently found that the burdens on the estate exceeded the profits for he refused to take sasine and the estate was apprised and granted to George Gordon, Cantyre Herald.
From this time, except as tenants, there has been no connection between the family of Straton and the Cragy estate.

2. The Criggie Fmily.

The manuscript genealogy of the barons of the Mearns to 1578 which is in the Allardice charter chest gives the following account of the family:
"Craigie-Straton. Straton laird of Craigie married the laird of Car's daughter Rind and begate on her Andrew Straton who married Mathers' daughter Barclay and she had to him an son called Andrew who married Balzordie's daughter Symer and she had to him an son named Alexander who married Laurenston's daughter Straton."
This is a poor basis on which to build up a family tree, not only on account of the small number of generations dealt with but also because the obvious error of Alexander for David in the final generation casts doubt on the whole. No other reference to a marriage to a daughter of Rind of Carr has been traced.
The first mention of Straton of Cragy known is in 1455 when Andrew de Straton paid to the deputy sheriff of Kincardineshire the sum of 26s. 8d. for relief on succeeding to two-tenths of the barony of Cragy and being

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given sasine; it seems likely that he was brother or nephew of Straton of that Ilk. He is said to have married one of the Arbuthnot family; in 1460 he was one of an inquest concerning a claim by the Abbot of Arbroath to multures at Conveth (Laurencekirk) and in 1461 a juror to retour Fraser of Durris as heir to his grandfather. In 1468 he is described as "one of the sheriffs of Kincardine in that part."
Our next reference is in June 1480 when Alexander Straton of Cragy was ordered by the Lords of the Council to pay a part of fifty merks owed to James Shaw of Sauchy.
In 1503 John Straton of Cragy was given sasine of the lands of Overcragy. In 1517 the gift of the marriage of his son and heir Andrew was given by the Crown to William Gray of Lours and later in the same year the gift of ward, non-entry and relief, so far as belonged to the late Andrew Straton of Cragy "being in the King's hands by reason of ward" were given to Mr Thomas Erskine. It seems possible that "late Andrew" should read "late John."
In 1518 Andrew Straton of Cragy was put to‡ the horn for slaughter and in 1528 Overcragy "having been in the King's hands for eleven years by reason of ward" was granted to Andrew Straton of Lauriston. When Andrew of Lauriston took over the Gray estates he granted a charter to his kinsman Andrew of Cragy and in 1548 charters of purchase of the Cragy estates were confirmed to Andrew Straton of Cragy and Margaret Barclay, his wife. Andrew died between 1548 and 1567.
We next hear of David Straton of Cragy who, in 1571 was accused of absenting himself from the Raid of Leith, the assembly which accepted the coronation of James VI and the regency of Murray in September 1567. He was acquitted of the charge "in respect of license schawin and producit."
In 1587 David, grandson of Andrew Straton of Cragy, obtained a new charter of Cragy,  resigned to him by Barclay of Mathers. Whether this is the David of the last paragraph or not is unknown. According to the manuscript pedigree he was the son of Andrew Straton and .... Symer; in 1589 Andrew Straton in Glentone, Garvock, was the husband of Christian Symmer and had a son George, then of age, who married Christian Straton and had a son John and a daughter Mary. George of Glentone was apparently held liable for the teinds of Overcragy for 1601. If however this Andrew was a father of the laird of Criggie he should have himself succeeded. We know that David had a brother Robert and that he married Mary Straton, daughter of the laird of Lauriston.

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In 1598 David resigned the Mains of Cragy to his son David who married Agnes Moncur, widow of Thomas Erskine of Tayock. In 1615 however the final crash came and the lands of Craggie were all sold. David died before June 1618 but no more is known of him.
David the younger, fear of Criggie, sometimes referred to as "of Caterlines", had a son David in 1602 but no more is known of either of them.
All the genealogical details at present available are given above but it will be seen that they are too few to furnish even a complete tree.

3. The Stratons of Kirkside.

Kirkside is a pleasant little estate lying between the Montrose Road and the sea, a little west of the village of St. Cyrus, and originally consisted of the church lands of the parish, then known as Ecclesgreig.
At the time of the Reformation  Kirkside proper was held as a fief from the Bishop of Brechin and the lands of Scotstoun and Machrie were a fief of the Abbey of Lindores, being a part of the barony of Whitstone.
The Stratons of Kirkside were apparently descended from the Stratons of Criggie and the first Arthur of Kirkside, who died in 1573, seems to have been the second son of Andrew Straton of Criggie and his wife Margaret Barclay. This Andrew of Criggie was probably grandson of Alexander Straton of Lauriston who was hostage for James I in 1432.
The elder line of Criggie having disappeared about 1625 the Stratons Kirkside may be said to have represented the Criggie family after that date but, the lands having passed from the family's possession, the designation "of Criggie" naturaly disappeared.

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STRATONS OF KIRKSIDE.

K I Arthur Straton of Kirkside =
? 2nd son of Andrew S. of :
Criggie & Margaret Barclay:
		d. 1573.		:
						 :					
:					:					   :
Arthur S. = Margaret K II Henry S.  = Margaret   Alexander =
      of  : Kieith           of     : Robertson    MC I
  Snawton :               Kirkside  :           See page 89†
          :                d. 1625  :
		 										
:    :				:						  :
  Arthur =            K III Arthur = Margaret      John =
         :          S. of Kirkside : Lyon               :
         :              d. 1656/7. :      		See p. 80†
         :                         :       
  :					  :
 Arthur S.=           K  IV Arthur S.= .... Strachan
  W.S. of :            of Kirkside   : 
Snawton   :                d. 1690   :
          :                          :
: : : :				    :
Extinct 1708            K V Joseph =  Janet Walkenshaw
                       of Kirkside :
                         1680-1730 :
                                   :      
      :
K VI Arthur Straton = Janet Davidson  
     of Kirkside    : 
      1712- 1771    :
                    :						
     :								:
K VII Joseph Straton                   Janet = William Muter
  of Kirkside                                :
1745-1816. Unmarried.                        :
                                             :
		:							:
K VIII  Sir Joseph (Muter) Straton    Elizabeth = Thomas Graham
of Kirkside 1777‡/8† -l840. Unmarried.          :
                                                :
                                                :
     :                             :
K IX George Thomas = Janet        K X Janet Straton Graham
(Graham) Straton     Carmichael.       of Kirkside
      of Kirkside                    d.1893. Unmarried.
1804-1873. No issue.

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K I	ARTHUR STRATON OF KIRKSIDE, probably second son of Andrew Straton of Criggie (p.66) and his wife Margaret, daughter of David Barclay of Mathers. He was a Notary Public and held Kirkside as a fief from the Bishop of Brechin.
Born:
Married: -
Died:- 	31 August 1573.
Issue:- 	 1. Arthur, at one time of Mureton, later of Kirkside and then of Snawton. Evidently in considerable financial trouble.Exchanged Kirkside for Snawton which he seems to have pledged  to several persons at the same time; eventually [the moveable property of] the estate was escheat. He died about 1617. He married Margaret Keith and had issue:-
(1) Andrew of Gaupieshaugh, d. 1617, no issue.,,
(2) Arthur of Mureton, later of Hill of  Cragy and of Canterland.‡ m. Margaret Moncur.
Issue:
i. Arthur of Snawton, W.S. (Admitted 1629)
  Obtained Snawton and other estates.
   Married  (a) Catherine Monteath 1630,
   (b) Elizabeth Purves 1642,
   (c) Margaret Irving c. 1647,
   (d) Isobel, dau. of John Straton, fear of Lauriston,12 Oct. 1653.† (See p.27)
Died, Edinburgh 1662, Issue:-
a. Alexander, later of Snawton,  advocate. d.1664, no issue.
b. Elizabeth, d. Edinburgh, Sept. 1674. ,
c. Margaret, m. William Moffat,,merchant,Montrose‡ 
[Rachel, Marie, and Arthour.]
g.‡ John of Balhagartie who d. 1708. m.
   Mary Lamb. Issue:-
(a) James, b. 1693, d.1696.
(b) Isobel, b.1695, d. 1698.
h.‡ Marion. 
ii. Robert, Apothecary-burgess, Dundee.
Married:-
(a) Janet Duncan, d. 1652,
(b) Isobel Robertson, d. 1657,
(c) Margaret Hunter.
Issue:-
a. James, a writer and merchant in Dundee.
b. Patrick
c. Marjorie,
d. Helen, [Charles, Arthour, Catharine, Andrew, Thomas, Alexr, Isobell, Marie, William, and unnamed.] 

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Issue of Arthur Straton of Mureton and  Margaret Moncur (continued)

iii. William, merchant-burgess, Montrose. d.1665,no  issue. [But see MB I p. 88 for issue]?

Issue of Arthur Straton of Snawton and  Margaret Keith (continued):

(3) John, Minister of Forres 1599, cited for opposing the episcopacy, imprisoned 1611; died at Inverness 20 March 1613. Married 1602 Janet daughter of David Murray of Ardeth; no issue known.

(4) Paul, in Scotstoun.

Issue of Arthur Straton, first of Kirkside (cont.)

2. Henry, of whom later, K II, page 71

3. Alexander, in Montrose, of whom later, MC† I page 89†

4. John

5. Marion, married Charles Smyth in Easter Dunlappie; d. April 1565. 
Issue:—  Agnes Smyth.

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K II HENRY STRATON in KIRKSIDE, formerly of Scotstoun, second son of Arthur Straton, first of Kirkside.

Born:-

Married:- Margaret Robertson

Died:-  	15 December 1625.

Issue:-	 1. Henry, married, Died 1624 without male heir. 
Issue:- Helen, married William Belay, Montrose.

2. Arthur, of whom later, page 72, K III.

3. John, of whom later under Stratons in Montrose. Page 80† M I

4. Euphaime, married William Low, burgess of Montrose.,

5. Margaret, married John Wood, Montrose.

6. Helen,

7. Agnes,

He apparently shared Kirkside with his elder brother Arthur but later, perhaps after his brother had been escheated, succeeded to the property. His goods were escheated in 1601-1604 and were granted to James Robertson, burgess of Montrose, perhaps his father-in-law.

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K III ARTHUR STRATON of KIRKSIDE, second but eldest surviving son of Henry Straton in Kirkside and Margaret Robertson.

Born:-

Married:- Margaret Lyon, daughter of Lyon of Carnoustie about 1610. She died 1646.

Died:-	Feb. 1646‡

Issue:- 	Arthur, of whom later, K IV, page 73.

He succeeded his father in 1626; he bought Scotstoun and Machrie from James Earl of Montrose, in 1630 and in 1631 obtained a charter of novodamus for the whole estate. He was a Commissioner of war in 1644 and 1646.
The tomb of this Arthur Straton and his wife Margaret Lyon is to be seen in Kirkside enclosure in the Nether Kirkyard at St Cyrus;it is an ancient conical stone covered with heraldic and mortuary devices, now much decayed. The inscription was legible until about fifty years ago.

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K IV ARTHUR STRATON of KIRKSIDE, son of Arthur Straton of Kirkside and Margaret Lyon.

Born:- 	[Probably 1636.]‡

Married:- (?) dau. of Rev. John Strachan. (See p.54)

Died:-	1690

Issue:- 	1. Joseph, K V, of whom below, page 74.

2. Janet, married Charles Bruce, Skipper, Montrose, 1716. Issue Robert Bruce born 1720. She died 1757.

3. Jean, married (1) 1700 Rev. David Williamson of the West Kirk, Edinburgh, as his seventh wife. Issue. Descendants survive of the name of Sanders. (2) 1717 John Martin of Little Aries, an Edinburgh bookseller [whom she outlived.].
 
Three other daughters.

Arthur Straton was educated at Aberdeen where he graduated as M. A. at King's College in 1655.
At the time of his death his son, the youngest of the family, was only ten years old. He left a "factory" to his cousin Andrew Straton, an apothecary in Montrose, (See page 80) empowering him to [grant leases on]‡  the estate and divide the proceeds into seven equal parts of which Joseph was to have two and each of his sisters one. On his death the factory was annulled.‡ Joseph served heir in 1696.
In 1677† he was surety for a bond† given by Alexander Straton, last of Lauriston.

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K V JOSEPH STRATON of KIRKSIDE, only son of Arthur Straton of Kirkside and Strachan.

Born:- 	June 1680

Married:- 1715 Janet, daughter of William Walkenshaw of Scotstoun.

Died:- 	December 1730.

Issue:-	 1.	Arthur, K VI, of whom later, page 75.

2. William, bapt. 29 March 1714.

3. Joseph, bapt. 7‡ Aug. 1719; died 1787.

4. John, bapt. [15 Dec.] 1724; died 1783.

5. Jean, bapt. 14 April 1716.

6. Janet, bapt. 15 July 1717.

7. Elizabeth, bapt. 5 April 1723.

8. Barbara, said to have married Rev. Charles Straton (See page 56)

He served heir in 1696 and came of age 14 June 1701.
He served in Lord Strathnavers Regiment, Ensign 1703, Lieutenant 1708; left the regiment before 1713.

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K VI ARTHUR STRATON of KIRKSIDE, eldest son of Joseph Straton of Kirkside and Janet Walkenshaw.

Born:- 	1712, baptised April 21.

Married:- About 1744 Janet Davidson.

Died:- 	November 1771.

Issue:-	1. Joseph, of whom later, K VII, page 76.

2. John, bapt. 12 Aug. 1748. A sailor, father of several natural children., Lived later at Brechin where he died without heir. Buried St Cyrus 31 Oct. 1783.
3. Arthur, born 18 Jan. 1752. Died without issue.
4. Janet, bapt. 29 Mar.1747. Married in 1767, William Muter and had issue:
i. James, Captain, killed at Talavera. 
ii. Arthur, R.N. Died at sea, no issue. 
iii. Joseph, of whom later, p. 77 
iv. Elizabeth, m. James Graham of Underwood and had issue:
	a. George Thomas of whom later p. 78.† 
	b. Janet Straton of whom later p. 78.† 
	c. Alexander, died unmarried.
5. Elizabeth, bapt. 4 May 1750. Married [in 1770] Capt. Josept Aikman, R. Scots Fusiliers.
6. Mary, bapt. 10 Mar. 1755. Died unm. at Montrose 1825/6.
7. Jean, bapt. 12‡ Aug. 1760. Died 1 Sept. 1825 at Raeden, Aberdeen, aged 67.
8. William, bapt. 4 Mar. 1754, died six weeks later.
He served heir 11 January 1749. Whilst he was in possession of Kirkside the fishings of Scotstoun became much more valuable than previously owing to the river North Esk changing its course. His neighbour, Littlejohn of Woodstone disputed the extent of fishings and the case was taken to the House of Lords where Judgment was given against Straton 31 January 1759. In the pleadings will be found an account of the titles to the estate.
In the register of the St Cyrus kirk session,wherein considerable space is devotod to the amatory adventures of his sons, it is recorded that he was nominated as an elder of the kirk January 20th. 1751.

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K VII JOSEPH STRATON of KIRKSIDE, eldest son of Arthur Straton of Kirkside and Janet Davidson.

Born:- 	1 November 1745.

Died:- 	Unmarried 1816.

He entailed the estate on his sisters' children and their heirs. He was succeeded by his nephew Joseph Muter who took the name and arms of Straton. Page 77.

In 1794 he was a captain in the Kincardineshire Volunteers and Deputy Lieutenant for the County.

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K VIII Lieutenant-General Sir JOSEPH (Muter) STRATON of KIRKSIDE, C.B., K.B.H., third but last surviving, son of William Muter of Annfield, Fife, and his wife Janet, eldest daughter of Arthur Straton of Kirkside and his wife Janet Davidson.

Born:-	1778.

Died:- 	23 October 1840. Unmarried.,

He succeeded his uncle Joseph Straton of Kirkside in 1816, taking the name and arms of Straton under the entail.
He was Colonel of the 17th Light Dragoons and later of the 6th Inniskilling Dragoons. He served in the Peninsular War. He was wounded at Waterloo where he commanded first his own regiment of Dragoons and later the Heavy Brigade of Cavalry.
He left a very elaborate will, disposing of very large sums which, after litigation in 1845, had to be reduced.
A large stone to his memory [See Appendix C] stands in the Kirkside enclosure in the Nether Kirkyard at St Cyrus.
He was succeeded by his nephew George Thomas Graham. (See  page 78)

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K IX GEORGE THOMAS (Graham) STRATON of KIRKSIDE, elder son of James Graham of Underwood and his wife Elizabeth Muter. 
Born:- 	1804

Married:- Janet Carmichael who died 6 April 1888.

Died:- 	1872 without issue.

He succeeded his uncle Sir Joseph Straton in October 1840 taking the name and arms of Straton. On his death he was succeeded by his sister.

K X JANET STRATON GRAHAM of KIRKSIDE, only daughter of James Graham of Underwood and Elizabeth Muter.

Born:- 	About 1806.

Died:- 	Unmarried 24 May 1893.

She succeeded her brother in 1872 but, the entail being ended, she did not change her name. On her death she bequeathed the property to Colonel Fraser, who died in 1908.

The family of Straton of Kirkside is thus extinct.

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CHAPTER X

STRATONS IN MONTROSE.

Montrose being the nearest town to Lauriston it is natural that there should have been many persons of the name of Straton living there from early times. In 1405 John de Straton was a Baillie of the burgh, in 1783 Alexander Straton was made a freeman and throughout the intervening period the burgh records contain frequent mention of the name.
In 1465 John Straton ‡was responsible for the customs of the port, as was Andrew Straton in 1480,‡ and the latter was in arrears with his payments to the Exchequer. In 1485 John Straton was a procurator for the Abbot of Arbroath and obtained a lease‡ of the estate of Rynde. His son Patrick was "portioner of Rynde” until the end of the century; he was married but whether there were any children is unknown.  In 1515 and 1516 John Straton was a burgess of Montrose.
None of these names however form part of a definitely identified branch of the family; later definite lines appear, apart from the descendants of Captain Robert Straton (Chapter VII) and these seem to be mostly derived from the Kirkside-Criggie branch of the family though possibly not all of legitmate origin.
The wealthiest and most important of these branches is composed of the descendants of Andrew Straton, Apothecary in Montrose, who matriculated arms in 1672, his last descendant, Miss Jean Straton, died unmarried in 1826.

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M I ANDREW STRATON, Apothacary in Montrose, "descended of a second of the House of Criggie, who is a cadet of the family of Lauristone". He was a cousin of Arthur Straton of Kirkside and therefore apparently a son of John Straton, third son of Henry Straton of Kirkside. (See page 71.)

Born:-

Married:- 1. Margaret, daughter of Robert Gardyne and grand-daughter of John Gardyne, Baillie of Montrose. She died in childbirth October 1673, aged 35.
2. Janet Douglas, widow of Rev. Robert Reynolds, Minister of Old Machar, Aberdeen. Married 5 August l674. She survived him.

Died:- 	February 1695 "in a good old age".

Issue:- 	First marriage:
1. Robert, of whom later, M II
[7. Arthour, bapt. 4 Jun. 1665?]
2. Margaret, bapt. 26 August 1668., Married James Glen, merchant, Dundee. Buried at Montrose 23 May 1720.
3. Andrew, baptised 14 Apri1 1670. ,  Drowned at sea while fishing 18 June 1687. 

Second marriage:-
4. Henry, bapt, 31 Oct. 1676.,
5. Samuel, of whom later, M III page 82.‡
6. Anna, bapt. 8 July 1675. Married Rev. Thomas Kinnear, Echt. Died 1 Oct. 1746.

Arms:- Argent, three bars embattled azure, over all in the middle fess ane inescutcheon gules, within a bordure engrailed of the second. On ane helmet befitting his degree with a mantle gules, doubled argent and wreath of his colours is set, for his crest, a mortar and therein a peatoll proper. The Motto, in ane escroll above all, Ardua Vinco.
He was a well-known and respected medical practitioner of considerable means. He and his children had an annual-rent secured on Kirkside.

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M II ROBERT STRATON, Surgeon-Apothecary, Montrose, son of Andrew Straton, Apothecary, Montrose, and his first wife, Margaret Gardyne.

Born:- 	About 1660.

Married:- 1. Elizabeth Rennald, daughter of Provost Robert Rennald of Montrose. She died 15 February 1690 of consumption.
2. Jean, daughter of John Barclay of Johnstone.

Died:- 	1709. Buried Montrose April 20.

Issue:- 	First marriage:-
1. Janet, bapt. 6 Sept. 1687. Died 1690 of small-pox; buried February 13.,

Second marriage:
2. Andrew, bapt. 12 Nov. 1694, buried 16 March 1695.
3. Mary, baptised 15 May 1693.,

4. Margaret.

5. Christian.

His daughters Mary, Margaret and Christian survived him and confirmed his will.
As he left no male heir the line of descent passed to his half-brother Samuel.

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M III SAMUEL STRATON, Surgeon-Apothecary, Montrose, son of Andrew Straton, Apothecary, Montrose; by his second wife, Janet Douglas.

Born:- 	1678, baptised Montrose April 30.

Married:- 12 March 1701, Jean Arbuthnot, daughter of Alexander Arbuthnot of Knox and Jean Scott.(Alexander Arbuthnot's first wife was Margaret Barclay, a grand-daughter of John Straton, fear of Lauriston, page 27.)

Died:- 	1756, buried Montrose Dec. 26.

Issue:- 	1. Patrick, of whom later, page 83.

2. Robert, bapt. 21 Feb. 1703. Merchant in Old Jewry, London. Died unm. 1735.

3. Samuel, bapt. 12 July 1713, of whom later, page 85.

4. Alexander, bapt. 11 June 1720, buried 24 August 1720.,

5. Janet, bapt. 6 Dec. 1706. Married 1728,, John Straton of Lauriston (Old Montrose). Issue. See page 41.

6. Mary, bapt. 19 Sept. 1709. Died in childhood.,

7. Jean, bapt. 14 Oct. 1710. Died in childhood.,

8. Helen, bapt. 5 Nov. 1714. Died in childhood.,

9. Katherine, bapt. 21 Nov. 1716. Died in childhood.

Samuel Straton was a well known and highly respected medical practitioner in Montrose.

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M IV PATRICK STRATON, Merchant in Montrose, eldest son of Samuel Straton, Surgeon-Apothecary, Montrose, and Jean Arbuthnot.

Born:- 	1702, baptised at Montrose January 20.

Married:-	29 June 1728, Margaret, daughter of John Ouchterlony, merchant, Montrose.

Died:-	1779. Buried at Montrose November 3.

Issue:-	1. Samuel, bapt. 7 Dec. 1729. Died before 1776.

2. John, Died [3 Aug.] 1776, unmarried.

3. Catherine, bapt. 12 June 1731. Buried 26 December 1750.

4. Jean, bapt. 17 October 1735. See page 84.

On his death his daughter Jean was his "only child in life."

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M V JEAN STRATON, younger daughter but only surviving child of Patrick Straton, Merchant in Montrose, and Margaret Ouchterlony, his wife.

Born:- 	1735, baptised Montrose, 17 October.

Died:- 	Unmarried, 16 May 1820‡ "aged 85". Buried in the Parish Churchyard at Montrose.

Miss Jeannie Straton was well known and highly respected in Montrose in the early part of the nineteenth century. In 1777 she was executor to her brother John who was a merchant in Montrose and died unmarried. In 1779 her father disponed his business to her on his death and she confirmed his will in April 1780.
In 1812 her cousin Samnel Straton of Russell Square, London, left her a memento in his will.
On her death she bequeathed money to the poor of Montrose, to the episcopal church there, for decayed gentlewomen there, to buy a parsonage for the episcopal church there, for poor children and to the "seamen's box." The charitable legacies amounted to nearly £5000.

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M VI SAMUEL STRATON, Merchant in London, younger son of Samuel Straton (M III), Apothecary in Montrose, and his wife Jean Arbuthnot.

Born:- 	1713, baptised 12 July, Montrose.

Married:

Died:-

Issue:- 	1. Samuel, born 1742, of whom below (M VII).

2. (a daughter) married Dobson, 3 daughters.

In 1735 he confirmed the will of his brother Robert. 
In 1746 he was involved in litigation with Alexander Christie, merchant in Montrose; there had been dealings between them in linens and other goods, Straton had become bankrupt. Christie had seized goods in Scotland which Straton had acquired after his bankruptcy in order to satisfy debts incurred previous to it.

M VII SAMUEL STRATON, Merchant in London, son of Samuel Straton, Merchant in London, and his wife

Born: 	1742/3.

Married:- Jane who died 14 March 1805. 

Issue:- None known.

Died:- 	1812, October 31. Buried St. Lawrence, Jewry, London, aged 70.

In the probate of his will he was described as Formerly of Hore Street, Russell Square, latterly of Keppel Street, Russell Square and of Garraway's Coffee House. (Garraway's, like Lloyd's and The Baltic, was a sort of exchange.)
He left legacies to his cousins in Montrose; his nieces, the Misses Dobson, were his next of kin and executrices.

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MA I  JAMES STRATON, Montrose, son of?

Born:-

Married:- (about 1627)?

Died:-

Issue:- 	1. Thomas [or Margaret?],? bapt. Montrose 14 Aug. 1632, died in infancy.
		
2. James, bapt. 19‡ Aug. 1632 (twin) of whom below.

3. Thomas (2) bapt. 5 Oct. 1633.

4. Elizabeth, bapt. 9 May 1628.

[5.-7. Perhaps Effie and Marie, bapt. 21 Jan. 1626, and Jhone.]?

MA II  JAMES STRATON, Tailor-burgess, Montrose, son of James Straton, MA I, and?

Born:- 	1632, bapt. Montrose 19‡ August.

Married:- Margaret Maclene

Died:-	After 7 Aug. 1702

Issue:_ 	1. Alexander, [the youngest,] of whom below,

2. James, bapt.12 May 1652. M.A. Edin. Vicar of Newington, Kent,1684. unm. Died 1693, buried in chancel of his church.

3. John, bapt. 8‡ Sept. 1653. Alive 1693.

4. Robert, bapt. Mar. 1657.‡ D. in infancy.

5. Robert (2) bapt. 14 Apr. 1659. D. before 1693.

6. Elizabeth, bapt. 14 Apr.1659 (twin)

7. Janet, bapt, [25 Jun. 1661].

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MA III ALEXANDER STRATON, Tailor, St Paul's, Covent Garden, London, son of James Straton, tailor-burgess, Montrose, and Margaret Maclene.

Born:-	Bapt. 10 Mar. 1663

Married:- Mary who died 1724, buried July 24.,

Died:- 	1720, at Charlevllle, France.

Issue:- 	1. Alexander, bapt. 3 Oct. 1697, buried 17 May 1724.    

2. James, bapt. 3 Aug. 1699. 

3. Henry, bapt. 11 June 1701. 

4. John, bapt. 20 Dec. 1705, buried 12 May 1710. 

5. Martha, bapt. 16 June 1696,died July 1696. 

6. Sarah, bapt.22 Jan. 1702. Married in 1722 A. Withrington.

7. Catherine, bapt. 11 Aug. 1704.

8. Margaret, bapt. 22 July 1707.

9. Elizabeth, bapt. 6 Nov. 1708. Buried 22 May 1714.
10. Frances, bapt.5 Jan. 1710.

He was churchwarden of St. Paul's, Covent Garden, 1709-1710. He was executor to his brother James, Vicar of Newington, in 1693 and is referred to in the testament of Captain Alexander Straton (page 36), killed at Blenheim, which was confirmed in 1710. His own will was confirmed by his widow 26 October 1720.

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MB I WILLIAM STRATON, Montrose, probably a younger son of Arthur Straton of Mureton and Margaret Moncur and brother of Arthur Straton of Snawton, W.S. See pages 69, 70.

Born:- 	About 1610.
Married:- About 1635.
Died:-

Issue:- 	1. Alexander, of whom below, MB II.
2. William, bapt. 29 Aug. 1640, a burgess of Montrose. While captain of the guard at Montrose 11 June 1690 he killed a trooper of Major Samuel Stuart's troop. Married Elizabeth  Wishart who died 23 March 1695. He was buried 24 Mar. 1704. No issue.
3. Arthur, bapt. 2 Oct. 1643,‡ Arthur Straton and James Peddie witnesses.
4. Grisel, bapt. 14 July 1641.
5. Catherine, bapt. 22 March 1648, married Thomas Dickie who died before 1687. Died l688,† buried Feb. 23.
[6. Margaret, bapt. 25 Oct. 1637.]

MB II ALEXANDER STRATON, Tailor in Montrose, eldest son of William Straton, MB I.

Born:- 	1636, bapt. 15 September.
Married:- 1661, Oct. 5, Catherine Tailyse, Montrose.
Died:- 	1678, buried Dec. 14.

Issue:- 	1. John, of whom below, MB III.
2. Margaret, bapt. 28 Nov. 1666, married 1699, Nov. 24‡ at Edinburgh, Henry Harper, wright.
3. Christian, bapt. 30 Oct. 1668.
4. Elisabeth, bapt. 2 June 1670.
5. Mary, bapt. 11 April 1673.
[6. Alexr, bapt. 1676, Robert, bapt. 1678]?

MB III JOHN STRATON, only son of Alexander Straton and Catherine Tailyse.

Born:- 	1665, bapt. May 14‡.
Married:- Mary Irvine
Died:-
Issue:- 	1. Robert, bapt. 29 Oct. 1702.
2. Mary, bapt. 24 Nov. 1707.

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MC I  ALEXANDER STRATON, Montrose (◊possibly third son of Arthur Straton of Kirkside who died 1573, see pages 68, 70). 

Born:

Married:

Died:-

Issue:- 	1. Nicolas‡ bapt. 26 Nov. 1616, Montrose.
2. Isobell‡ bapt. 10 June 1621, Montrose.
3. David, of whom below, MC II.
[4. Nans.] 

MC  II  DAVID  STRATON,  Montrose, son of Alexander Straton, MC I, and?

Born:- 	1624, bapt. Apri1 7. 

Married:-

Died:-

Issue:-	1. John, bapt. 7 July 1661‡, draper-burgess, Montrose. Married Helen Gray. No issue known. Died 1694, buried April 6.
2. (child) bapt. 22 Dec. 1663.
3. David, of whom below MC III.
4. Robert, bapt. 17 Dec. 1671.

MC III DAVID STRATON, merchant, St Lawrence Lane, London, younger son of David Straton, draper-burgess, Montrose, and?

Born:- 	1665, bapt. Montrose 25 March.

Mrried:-

Died:- 	1737, April, will confirmed in London.

Issue:- 	1. Osburn, born about 1715,
2. James,
3. Joseph,
4. John.

Nothing further is known of these sons.

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In addition to the names already mentioned, the following male names appear in the Montrose records:-

1. Alexander, His son Robert (number 28 below‡) baptised 1678. [Perhaps also the father of Alexander, bapt. 1676 in Dunnottar.  See pp. 53-5 for a discussion relating to this.]
2. Alexander, Shipmaster,  married Elizabeth Renny, Montrose, 25 Jan. 1752. Issue:- James (13) bapt. 1756; Katherine, bapt. 25 Nov. 1752; Margaret, bapt. 14 June 1764. 
3. Alexander, son of Charles (7),bapt. 2 July 1691. 
4. Alexander in Ferriden. fl. 1690
5. Alexander, Watchmaker, London, son of David (8) bapt. 29 June 1794, died 27 Dec. 1873, buried in Brompton Cemetery (memorial). Twice married, one son Alexander (1834-1853).

6. Andrew, M. A. Aberdeen 1612. Married, 3 children, names unknown, bapt. 1620, 1621, 1622.

7. Charles, 	Captain, Married Grizel, sister of William Rait of Hallgreen. Issue:- Janet, bapt. 4 Dec. 1684,‡ William (30) bapt. 1686, Alexander (3) bapt. 1691; [and Charles bapt. 1689, ]  This may have been a son of Alexander S. of L. L XIII, p. 31. He was witness at baptisms in 1683-84. Alive 1697.
8. David, 	Shoemaker (?), married Isobel Strachan 1791 Sept. 4, Issue:- John (21) bapt. 1792, Alexander (5) bapt. 1794, David (9) born‡ 1800, Mary born 7 Aug 1796, [and Isabel bapt. 22 Jun. 1798].
9. David, 	Watchmaker, Montrose, son of David (8). Born‡ 22 Oct. 1800, married [10 Jun. 1838] Elizabeth Allan, Mearns, issue Janet, bapt. 24 Feb. 1842.
10. David, 	Tailor- burgess, son of James. fl. 1666, buried 14 July 1688.
11. George,	Married 16 Sept. 1787 Catherine Milne, Montrose.
12. Henry,	Married 7 June 1693 Elizabeth Barclay.
13. James,	Son of Alexander (2), bapt. 26 Mar. 1756.
14. James,	Son of John (20) bapt. 27 July 1661.‡
15. James,	Married 19, July 1718 Margaret Turnbull, Issue James (16) [John, and Alexander].
16. James,	Son of James (15) bapt. 27 Apr. 1719.
17. James, 	Shipmaster, 4 children buried Montrose 1724 and l729. Son James (18).‡

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18. James,	Son of James (17).‡

19. James,	Son of John (23) bapt. 28 Nov. 1761.  John S. of Lauriston (R IV p. 43) and Patrick S. (M IV p. 83) were the witnesses.

20. John, 	tailor, Montrose, buried Montrose 29 July 1671. Issue:- Oliver (24)  bapt.1650,  James (14) bapt. 1661‡, Elspeth, bapt. 12 Dec. 1651, Sir Alex S. witness (p. 31), [Janet bapt. 1654,] Elspeth, bapt. 7 Sept. 1663.

21. John, 	Son of David (8) bapt. 26 Apr. 1792. 

22. John, 	Surgeon, buried Montrose 25 Apr. 1712.

23. John, 	Shipmaster, married 23 Oct. 1748, Janet Beattie; who was buried 1 Dec. 1778. He was buried 3 Aug. 1776. Issue:- James (19) bapt. 1761, Margaret, bapt. 6 Aug. 1750, Janet, bapt. 9 Aug.  1751.

24. Oliver, 	son of John (20), bapt, 18 Aug. 1650.

25. Robert, 	M.A. 5 children bapt. 1615 to 1621, names not recorded.

26. Robert,	son Robert (27) bapt. 1661.

27. Robert,	son of Robert (26) bapt. 12 Aug. 1661, M.A. Aberdeen 1681.

28. Robert,	son of Alexander (1) bapt. 10 Feb. 1678.

29. Thomas,?	His daughter Margaret bapt. 15 Mar. 1638, dau. Helen bapt. 25 Mar. 1639.

30. William, son of Charles (7) bapt. 21 Dec. 1686.

31. William, merchant-burgess, died 1665. See p.48.

The numbers in brackets refer to the numbers in the first column of this list.,

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CHAPTER XI

THE DESCENDANTS OF CAPTAIN JAMES STRATON.

No satisfactory account of the parentage of Captain James Straton (1671-1756) has been discovered. His grandson Henry Straton (p. 95)† filed a pedigree at the Ulster Office in 1809 in which he gave the descent as follows:- "James Straton, son of John Straton of that Ilk, married a daughter of Sir James Jull of Kent and had issue James Straton, 1665-1757, who married a daughter of Lyon of the Stratmore family and had issue . . . (General John Straton)". 
It has not been possible to confirm this and no Sir James Jull of Kent appears to have existed.
Henry Straton's daughter Frances (1797- 1877), who was by way of being an authority on the genealogy of that branch of the family, wrote:- (On the sale of Lauriston in 1695) "the ancient proprietors, the Stratons, migrated to England and lived in the neighbourhood of Deptford or Greenwich. . . .[A] descendant, a Lieut. Colonel in the army, who was silver-stick to H.R.H. Lewis Frederick, Prince of Wales, married a Miss Jull at Limerick."
The second theory would imply that Captain James, who is evidently the individual referred to, was a son of the laird who sold Lauriston, or else his brother. In 1783 John Straton, "The Baron", (page 43) proved to the satisfaction of the Lyon Office that he, as descended from Captain Robert Straton, third son of John Straton, fear of that Ilk, was the male representative of the Lauriston family, in which case all the sons and brothers of the last laird must have been dead without male issue. It is of course possible that Captain Robert had a younger brother James but we have no authority for thinking that John had more than three sons of which Robert was the third.
There are two more clues to this ancestry: General John Straton, writing to his son James in 1800, refers to Alexander Straton, only son of "The Baron", then Secretary to Embassy at Vienna, as "of the elder branch". The other is from the will of Sir Joseph Straton of Kirkside (page 77) who died in 1840 leaving a legacy to (Louisa) Straton, wife of Colonel Brotherton, "considering her to be one of my nearest connections on the Straton line." This Louisa was a great grand-daughter of Captain James Straton. (See page 98†)

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The Descendants of Captain James Straton.

J I Capt. James Straton = ( ?) Lyon
         1671-1756      :
                        :
			:
J II General John S. = 1. Mary Aldridge
           1728-1803 : = 2. Prances Dumeni1
                     : :
          :            : = 3. Sophia Thornhill.
          :            : 						
J III Major James S. = 1.  Frances Turner       :
        1756-1801    : = 2. Frances Bruce       :
                     :                          :
          :                                     :
J IV Capt. John Matthew S. = -- Phair           :
       c. 1785-1818        :                    :
                           :                    :
          :                                     :
J V Francis A.H. =  l. Sarah Bliss              :
      1817-      : = 2. Augusta Peters          :
                 : :                            :
      :              :                          :
                                                :
                                                :
              :       
JW I Capt. John Warde S. = Lady Amelis Jocelyn
        1762-1821        :
                         :
	  :
JW II John Warde S. = 1. Magdalen Reid
          1799-1853 : = 2. Isabella Murray
                      :
                      :
	  :
JW III John Warde S. = Maria Agnes Maltby
         1832-1901

No issue.

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J I CAPTAIN JAMES STRATON, whose parentage is unknown but who is supposed to have been a grandson of John Straton, fear of Lauriston (page 27), served in the army for over sixty years and was latterly gentleman in waiting to the Princess of Wales, wife of Frederick Lewis, Prince of Wales, and mother of George III, in which position he succeeded one John Straton.
		He joined the Royal Scots Regiment about 1695, becoming lieutenant in l705. He served with the regiment throughout the campaigns of Marlborough, including the battles of Blenheim and Malplaquet, and was wounded at Schellenburg and at Malplaquet. He was promoted Captain-lieutenant in January 1726 and Captain in December of the same year. In 1737 he was captain of the Jersey Company and in 1739 captain of a company of invalids at Plymouth.

Born:- 	1671/2

Married:- Said to have married a Miss Lyon of the  Strathmore family.

Died:- 	1756 June 19. Buried in St Alphege's churchyard at Greenwich.

Issue:- 	1. John, of whom later, J II.

2. James, Major in the army.  Born 1731, died 1766. Buried in his father's grave at Greenwich. A schoolfellow of General James Wolfe.

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J II General JOHN STRATON, Colonal Commandant Royal Irish Artillery, elder son of Captain James Straton. 
He was educated at the school of the Rev. Samuel Swinden at Greenwich where he was a contemporary of James Wolfe, who later captured Quebec and of George Warde, afterwards General and Colonel of the 4th Dragoon Guards, youngest son of John Warde of Squerries Court, near Westerham, Kent.
He was appointed Cadet in the Royal Artillery in 1742, Fireworker 1745; Lieutenant 1755 and a Captain-lieutenant in the same year. In 1756 he was sent to Ireland with a nucleus to form the Royal Irish Artillery of which he became Colonel Commandant in 1783, having been promoted Brevet Major 1762, Major 1771, Brevet Lt.Colonal 1772, Lt.Colonel 1776, Brevet Colonel 1780, Colone1 1783, Major-General 1797, Lieut. General 1797 and General in 1802.  In 1801 the Irish Artillery were re-absorbed in the Royal Regiment and he became Colonel Comandant of the 7th Battalion.

Born:- 	1728.
Married:- 1. Mary Aldridge, 
2. 1758, June 1, Frances Dumenil who died 2 Mar. 1777 aged 37.
3. Sophia Thornhill, daughter of Richard Thornhill and his wife Sophia Badham, d. Feb. 1809, buried St. Mark's, Dublin.
Died:- 	1803, May 16. Buried St Mark's Churchyard Dublin.
Issue:- 	A. First marriage:
Major James Straton, of whom later, J III. 
B. Second marriage:
1. Robert Gervais, b.c.l760.Served 55th Foot and R.Irish Artillery. Died unm. 1780.
2. Francis Richard, Commander R.N. 1761- 1800. unmarried.
3. John Warde, of whom below, JW I. p. 98† 
4. Henry, b. c. 1764, d. 12 May 1832. Married Isabella, eld. dau.of Frederic Guest 19 Sept. 1795. She was b.22 Dec.1772,d.31 July 1819. Issue:.
i. Sophia, 5/7/1796-22/9/1804, unm.
ii.Frances, 7/9/1797-16/7/1877, unm. (page 92)*
iii.Elizabeth, 24/8/1799-27/5/1809,unm. 
iv. John Henry, 4/4/1802-4/9/1833,* 
v. Robert, 13/1/1804-5/7/1851. 90th and 30th. Foot. Married 8 May 1830 Letitia Touchet,? three daughters.
vi. James, 11/3/1806-25/8/1820. unm.
vii. Georgina Maria, 21 July 1809-20 Sept. 1890. unm.

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There was no issue by the third marriage. His third wife was responsible for the destruction of all the family papers in the General's possession, dreading that he might be involved in some law suit.† 
The date and place of the first marriage are unknown and in consequence doubt has been thrown on the legitimacy of Major James Straton. The fact that he was educated with his half-brother John at York Academy should be sufficient to dispel this doubt.

J III Major JAMES STRATON, Royal Engineers, eldest son of General John Straton and Mary Aldridge. Educated at York Academy and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. Cadet 1769, 2nd. Lieut. R.A. 1773, 2nd. Lieut. Royal Engineers 1775, Lieut. 1783, Captain 179O, Major 1797. Commanding Royal Engineer, Edinburgh Castle where he and his younger daughter died in 1801 from Fever caught from the French prisoners. They are commemorated on a stone in St. Cuthbert's churchyard.

Born:- 	1754‡

Married:- A. Frances Turner who d. before 1793.

B. Frances Bruce who survived him and d. at Bodmin 15 Sept.1849, aged 80. 

Issue:- 	1. John Matthew, of whom later, J IV‡

2. Frances Maria Adams, 17/9/1792-1/8/1856. Married George Street, issue.

3. Sophia, [1787], d. unm.  1801. 

He also had a natural son Francis, born in the W. Indies about 1791 who entered the Madras Army in 1810 and rose to be a General. He married Anne Rosamund Orde, daughter of Lt.Gen L. Shafto Orde by his wife Lady Louisa Jocelyn, whose sister Amelia married John Warde S. (see page 98†). Of this marriage there were a son Leonard who d. unm. and a daughter Louisa who m. Rev. C. Moller, by whom she had a daughter. General F. Straton died at Tenby in 1882.

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J IV JOHN MATTHEW STRATON, Second Captain Royal Artillery, only lawful son of Major James Straton, Royal Engineers, and his first wife, Frances Turner.  

Under date 16 November 1801 the Duke of Kent wrote to the Earl of Dartmouth asking for a commission for Mr Straton, the son of an officer who had served for many years under the Duke's command in America. This Mr Straton was probably John Matthew, whose father had died at Edinburgh about six weeks previously. He was appointed a cadet in the Royal Artillery in 1802, 2nd. Lieutenant in 1804, Lieutenant later in the same year and 2nd. Captain in December 1813.

Born:- 	About 1785.

Married:- About 1815, Miss Phair, who died 1818.

Died:- 	1818, October 22 at St Kitts, West Indies, his wife and youngest child died at the same time  of an epidemic.

Issue:-	1. Francis A. H. of whom below, J V. 
2. Frances, m. her cousin Phair. 
3. Isabella, died in infancy.

J V FRANCIS A. H. STRATON, only son of Captain John Matthew Straton. On the death of his parents he and his elder sister were taken in charge of a serjeant of Artillery to their mother's relatives at Fredericton, New Brunswick, where he was educated and spent his life. In 1832 he began to study law under George F. Street, later a Judge of the supreme court, with whom he was for a time in partnership. He was admitted attorney 1838, called to the Bar l840. Clerk to the Executive Council of New Brunswick 1856, Probate Judge, York County 1885.
Born:- 	1817, March 2 at Gibraltar.

Married:- l. 1842 Sarah Jane Bliss, 
2. 1866, July, Augusta Peters.

Died:- 

Issue:- 	By first marriage (6 sons, ? daughters)
By second marriage (2 sons, ? daughters).  Mary Isabella (of second marriage) was alive in Fredericton in 1928.

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JW I JOHN WARDE STRATON, third, but eldest married, son of General John Straton by his marriage with Frances Dumenil. Received the name of Warde after his father's old friend and schoolfellow General George Warde. 
He was appointed Cornet in* the 5th Dragoons in April 1779 and was promoted Lieutenant 28 December 1784. In June 1786 he became lieutenant in the 67th Regiment and in 1791 Lieutenant and Adjutant in the 4th Dragoon Guards, being promoted Captain in that regiment in November 1792. He retired in 1794.

Born:- 	1762, December 21.

Married:- 1798, May 11, at St Kevins, Dublin, Lady Amelia Jocelyn, daughter of the Earl of Roden (8/4/1774-22/5/1845). (See page 96)

Died:- 	1821, May 8. Buried in the vaults of St Nicholas Church, Dundalk.

Issue:- 	1. John Warde, of whom later, JW II.‡

2. George William, Rector of Aylestone. b. 11 Aug. 1806, d. married 1832 Elinor Norman (1802-1873) 

Issue:-
i. Jocelyn, 1839-1849, unm.

ii. Norman D. J. Bishop of Newcastle, 1840- m. Emily Pease, no issue. 

iii. Emilius, b. and d. 1841.*

iv. Hamilton, 1846-1849* 

v.* Edith, b. 1844, m. 1876 Nathaniel Bergheim, Rector of Swillington, iss.

3.	Robert Jocelyn, 4 Oct. 1808 to 15 June 1858. Colonel in the army, unmarried.
4. Anne Frances, 27/7/1800-10/8/1800, unm.

5. Louisa Ann, 8/12/1802- Married 11 June 1819 Col. Thos. Wm. Brotherton (1785-1868) 14th Lt. Dragoons. Iss. (See page 92)
6.	Caroline Emily,	20/1/1812-25/5/1821.

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JW II JOHN WARDE STRATON, eldest son of Captain John Warde Straton and Lady Amelia Jocelyn. B.A. Dublin University 1820.

Born: - 	1799, March 17, in Dublin.
Married:- l. Magdalene Reid, b. Feb. 1807, d. 7 June 1826. Married at Dundalk 14 Feb 1825. No issue.
2. Isabella Murray, b. 6 May 1810, d. 27 Oct. 1885. Married Dublin 25 July 1828. Issue .

Died:-	1853, August 19 at Brighton, buried at Dundalk.

Issue:. 	l. John Warde, of whom below, JW III.‡
2. James Murray, Major 47th Foot. Born 11 Nov.1835, d. 1891, unm.
3.	Howard, b. 6 Aug. 1837, d. 8 Nov. 1853.unm.
4. Robert George, Ensign 5th Bombay L.I. b. 9 July 1841, d. 24 July 1860 at Macao, unm.
5.	Edward, Capt. 22nd Foot. B. Sept. 1842, killed at Kandahar 1 Sept. 1880, unm.
6.	Julian, b. 11 Sept. 1845, d. 26 Sept.1847, unm.
7. Balfour, Rector of Bardsey, Yorks. B. 23 May 1848, d. 3 April 1911, unm. Buried at Knaresborough.
8.	Magdalene, b. l3 May 1840, d. Married Col. Malcolm Haig, 47th Foot who d. Dec. 1916. Issue:- Agnes Haig.
9.	Isabella Louisa, b. 31 July 1849, d. 1 Jan. 1928, unm. Buried Knaresborough.

JW III JOHN WARDE STRATON, eldest son John Warde Straton and Isabella Murray. 
He was employed in the Audit Office at Somerset House from 1852 to 1867 when he went to Jamaica as Auditor General. There his health broke down and in 1875 he was obliged to retire on pension. At home he recovered his health and devoted himself to music and to the study of the history of his family. In November 1878 he got into touch† with Dr Alexander Straton (See page 60) and the two corresponded copiously on family matters until the latter's last illness in 1880. The correspondence was continued for many years with Alexander's nephew Charles Robert (page 62).

Born:- 	1832, July 31.
Married:- Maria Agnes Maltby, No issue,
Died:-	24 December 1901.

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CHAPTER XII

STRATONS SOUTH 0F THE FORTH

It is natural that younger sons of every branch of the family should have drifted to the capital and it is often difficult to discover the origin of persons of the name of Straton who appear in the Edinburgh registers.
The headquarters of Straton of that Ilk were in the parish of Liberton (page 5) for ahout a hundred years from the middle of the twelfth century but after that the lairds appear to have lived at Disclune and Lauriston. In 1335/6 the lands of Straiton were in the hands of the King of England owing to forfeiture from John de Straton.
It is quite likely that at any time cadets of the main line may have been settled at Straiton but there is no known reference to such relationship other than a charter of the latter part of the sixteenth century (confirmed in Great Seal 27 Sept. 1628, No.1314) by which Alexander Straton of Lauriston granted lands to his kinsman John Straton in Straiton Mill. Many other Straton names appear as "in Straiton" but that is no evidence of relationship.
At the end of the sevententh century a definite line appears which may or may not have had its origin in the John Straton in Straiton Mill mentioned above. This line is connected with a farm at Braid and a brewery in Edinburgh and the tomb described in Appendix B. illustrates the most prosperous period of its existence. Possibly further search of the registers of Liberton and the surrounding parishes might reveal more extensive connections.
The most eminent men of this name in Edinburgh during the seventeenth century were Arthur Straton W.S. the Younger (see page 89), Arthur Straton W.S. the elder and his brother James Straton W.S. (ob.1659) who were apparently, though not certainly, sons of John Straton in Straton Mill; Arthur Straton of Whytlaw, elder (ob.1678) and younger (ob.1689) writers, appear to have been son and grandson of Arthur Straton W.S. the elder; John Straton in Braidmeadows (ob.1689) was a leading merchant. None of these are known to have any descendants in existence.
Further from the capital we find Alexander Straton, schoolmaster at Pennycuik 1653-1733, Robert Straton, glazier in Ayr 1633, James Straton, Minister at Eyemouth and at Gordon, Co. Berwick, (fl. 1647-1682), Charles and George Stratons in Glencorse in 1745 when the latter was an elder of the church.
Captain Robert Straton (page 36), Colonel Charles Straton (page 38) and Captain Henry Straton (page 31) have aready been dealt with.

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The name is linked with that of Borthwick of Stow. Apparently Captain Henry Straton (page 31) married Elizabeth daughter of James Borthwick of Stow and Mary Masterton his wife. James Borthwick, one of the family of Lord Borthwick, although stated to be son of Alexander Borthwick a maltman in Leith, was a medical practitioner in Edinburgh who died in 1676 and was buried in Greyfriars Churchyard where there is a striking monument to his memory. He left a son James and a daughter Elizabeth. James the younger died without issue in 1703 having entailed his estate to his sister's children John and Charles Straton, the successor to take the name and arms of Borthwick. In 1704 John Straton served heir and took the name and arms and in 1751 James, son of John served heir to his great uncle; after this nothing is known of the line. It is interesting to note that in 1693-1698 children of Captain Charles Straton (page 38) were buried in the Borthwick tomb at Blackfriars.
Included in this chapter are a tree of the branch of the family associated with Braid and an index of male Straton names with as much of their relationships as has been discovered.
In the index a number has been assigned, roughly in chronological order, to each bearer of each name, e.g. Alexander(E.1)‡, Alexander(E.2) etc. and these numbers are shown in the tree.

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Braid
   Robert(E.13)   =
  d. before 1680‡ :
Farmer in Grange  :
											
     :                            :        :
    Robert(E.14)  = Janet Mathie   :    [at least 3 sons]
Farmer in Braid   :          Elizabeth = Cranston 1696
d.1737            :
       			:							
       :                                 :  :
    William(E.16) = Katherine Hamilton   : John(E.30)
Farmer in Braid   :                Robert(E.15)
     1706-1754    :
       			:	 		
       :                        :    
John(E.27)       =     William(E.20) = [1.] Scott
  d. 1787        :       Excise officer : [= 2. Marion Bain]
 Brewer in       :        Leith.        :  :
     Portsburgh  :                      :  :
                 :                      :  : 
       :                                :  :
     Helen = Macdougal                  :  :
                                        :  :
     :                       :   :         : 
  John(E.31) = Agnes Wilson dau dau        :
             :                       :
             :       [William(E.13E.26)=Margaret Redford]
             :                          :
 c.1762/3    : c.1795/6                 :
12 July 1828 : 8 Mar.1871       [See Appendix E.]
   aged 65   :
             :									  
       :        :    :  			:			3 dau
     Oliver     : Walter(E.2)  William(E.24) = Marion
  c.1800-84 unm : d.Hawick   Baker           : Shepherd
  d. Hawick     : 1855, unm. Dalkeith        : 1805-76
              John           b.1833 d.1878   :
          d.Arbroath         Bonnyrigg       :
           1850 unm.         buried Cockpen  :
								           :	    	  
     :   :     :                     :    :            :
   John  : William(E.25) = Symington : James(E.l9)     :
  b.1827 : Dundee        :           :                 :
al. 1902 : 1834-98       :        Walter 		     5 dau
         :		     Helen      b.1843 
	David d.in infancy	        al.1902

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[ROBERT(E.13) STRATON [elder,] tenant‡ in Grange.
Born:
Married:- Margaret Ramsay.
Issue:-  Robert(E.14), see below. 
William(E.11), Patrick, Elizabeth m. John Cranston, and Charles[E.5].
Died:- c. 1677]
ROBERT(E.14)‡ STRATON, [(younger), tenant in Grange and then]‡ farmer in Braid, Brewer-burgess of Edin. e/s/o Robert Straton (E.13) and his second wife, Margaret Ramsay.
Born: c. 1658.
Married:- [24 Apr] 1706 Janet Mathie, dau/o [Patrick Mathie Tennant in Straiton milne, and niece to]‡ William Mathie, Myreside.
Issue:- William(E.16), see below.
Robert(E.16),Tacksman of the House of Murthe, d. without issue 23 Oct. 1754. Andrew(E.6),‡ app. Coppersmith 1741.  [Ann, Elspeth, Joseph, Janet, Margaret m. John Kirk , Janet m. Andrew Finnie, Isabel, Christian, and Peter m. Jean Moncrieff.]
Died:- 1737, July 10.
WILLIAM(E.16) STRATON, Farmer in Braid, Brewer in Portsburgh, Brewer-burgess of Edin. e/s/o Robert Straton (E.14) and his first wife.
Born:- 1705. [Bapt. 27 Mar, 1707.]
Married:- [18 June,] 1727, Katherine, dau/o John Hamilton, writer 1708-1753.
Issue:- John(E.27) Brewer in Portsburgh who was m. and had a dau. Helen, who m. a soldier called John McDougall. He d. without surviving issue 8 March 1787;  William(E.20) see below, [Janet, Janet, Kathrin, Robert, Katharine, and Joseph, three of whom died young.]
Died:- 1754, February 17.
WILLIAM(E.20) STRATON, Excise officer at Leith, Brewer-burgess of Edin. second s/o William Straton (E.16) and Katherine Hamilton.
Born: [Bapt.  10, April, 1737]
Married:- Scott?  [, Marion Bain.]
Issue:- John(E.31)? See below, Janet,‡ Cathrine,‡ [a William who seems to have died as an infant, and William(E.13E.26),].
Died: [1798]
JOHN(E.31) STRATON, Currier in Dalkeith and Hawick, s/o William(E.20) Straton and _ Scott.? [of Buccleuch]
Born:- 1763-4.
Married: -Agnes Wilson who d.8 Sept.1834, aged 75.,
Issue:- Oliver[E.1], Warehouseman in Hawick, d. unm. 1884. John(E.32) 1791-1850,a teacher at Arbroath Academy, unm. Walter(E.2),‡ d. Hawick 1855. William(E.24) See below. 5‡ daughters, [Catharine,,, who m. John Boston and d. 1871, Betty, who d. 1856, Margaret, Ann, Janet, and third son George].
Died:-	1829‡ July 12, aged 65.
WILLIAM(E.24) STRATON, Baker in Dalkeith, s/o John Straton,(E.31) and Agnes Wilson.  [See Appendix E for additional generations.]
Born:- 1803 [-1878].
Married: - 12 Nov 1825 Marion Shepherd,1805-76.
Issue:- John(E.34)‡, born 1827, alive 1902. William(E.25)‡ 1834-c.1898, Restaurant keeper, Dundee, m. Elizabeth Sutherland [and had five children]‡. Walter(E.3), born 1843, alive 1902.  David(E.4), [1831] d. in infancy, [Mary Douglas, Elizabeth, Agnes, Margaret, and Lilias Fletcher.] 
Died:- 1878 at Bonnyrigg, buried Cockpen.

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Stratons South of the Forth.

Index of Male Names.
Abbreviations:-

al.	..	..	alive	|	e.	..	..	eldest 	
app.	..	..	apprenticed 	|	fl.	..	..	flourished 	
b.	..	..	born 	|	m.	..	..	married 	
bro/o	..	..	brother of	|	o.	..	..	only   	
d.	..	..	died	|	sis/o	..	..	sister of	
dau/o	..	..	daughter of	|	s/o	..	..	son of	
Edin.	..	..	Edinburgh	|	unm.	..	..	unmarried	

Alexander.
1. s/o Richard(E.1) 1592.
2. Servitor to Lord Saltoun, sent to Tolbooth 1611.
3. In Liberton. His son James(E.4) app.to James(E.3) Hatmaker 1618.
4. Messenger Edin. Complaint 1625.
5. e/s/o Robert(E.4) 1628.
6. Writer, Edin. [3rd] e/s/o Arthur(E.1) [1615] m. Agnes Spaldie 1639. [Issue Samuel and Arthur.]
7. Advocate, of Snawton. d.1664. See p.69.

Andrew.
1. In Straiton, s/o David(E.1) m. Jean Abernethy who survived him and m. Sanderson before 1576. Sons Thomas(E.2) and [John](E.5), dau. Agnes.
2. In Leswade Lonehead, d. before July 1612, sons Andrew(E.3) Thomas(E.5), James(E.2).
3. s/o Andrew(E.2). app. to Lockhart, glazier,Edin.1612.
4. In South Leith 1614.
5. In Straiton, s/o Thomas(E.2) d. before 1628.
6. s/o Robert(E.14) [1727,] app.to Lauder, coppersmith, Edin. 1741.

Archibald. Usually synonymous with Arthur.
1. Attended assembly at Leith kirk 1567.
2. s/o Thomas(E.2) b. before 1592.
3. s/o John(E.3) and Janet Courtie, 1592.
4. Watchmaker, Edin. s/o Charles(E.5). [and Agnes Sheell. Bapt. 1714,] app. l726, burgess 1739. m. 1739 Isobel, dau/o Thomas Gifford, smith. [Issue Lilias, 1741, and Isobel, 1754. ] Denounced rebel 1746. [Alive 1774.]

Arthur.
1. W.S.(elder) s/o John(E.6) m. 1596 Agnes Schort, 1606 Margaret Kincaid. His [3rd] e/s was Alexander(E.6),a dau. m. Andrew Todd. W.S. 1606? d. before 1643. Son Arthur(E.3) [as well as Elizabeth, Johne, Robert, Johnne, Isobel and possibly Jeane].
2. W.S. of Snawton, see p. 69.

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Arthur (cont.)
3. of Whitelaw, writer. [1608] s/o Arthur(E.1) m.Elspeth Calderwood.◊ Burgess 1659. Sons Arthur(E.4), Charles(E.1), John(E.14), dau, Mary, [1645-] 1678 [Elspeth, John, and two children who died unnamed].
4. Of Whitelaw, [1647] s/o Arthur(E.3), writer, m. Marion‡,, dau/o John (E.12), [Elizabeth, Jean, Marion, Arthure, Margaret, and John, some of whom might have died young; and Arthur(E.5)] d.1689.
5.  Barber and merchant, Edin. s/o Arthur(E.4)‡  m. 1704 Catherine Arbuckles. Burgess 1708. d. 1749. Sons David(E.3), Arthur(E.6) [as well as Agnes, Mary, Arthur, and Margaret].
6. s/o Arthur(E.5) [1708]. Alive 1749.
7. m Mirklejohn.◊

Charles.
1. s/o Arthur(E.3), [1654-] 1707.
2. second s/o Henry, see p.31. Entail 1690.
3. Colonel, see p.38.
4. Brewer in Grange,1708.
5. Vintner, Braidfield Links, [, tenant in Loanend,,] d. l738. [s/o Robert(E.13) m. Agnes Sheell in 1704. Issue: Robert, Agnes, Margaret, Janet, Archibald(E.4), Betty, and Helen.]  m. Anne Morison, indweller in Grange Gate.. [Issue Catharin, William, Isabella, and Frances].
6. Living at Howgate, Glencorse,1745.
7. Nether Bow, Edin. [Married Elizabeth Murice in 1802.]  Dau. Ann, m. 1826 Alexander Clark,‡  [and sons Charles, John, George, Thomas, and James Murdoch. Grandson of James F III 2. See p. 55]
[8. s/o Charles(E.7) 1805.]

Daniel.
1. Merchant in St. Martin's, France, d. July 1719, unm. 
[2. Merchant in St. Martin's, France, later in Edin.]

David.
1. In Straiton, d.1566. Sons Andrew(E.1), Thomas(E.1), John(E.2)
2. s/o John(E.6), app. cordwainer 1594.
3. s/o Arthur(E.5) [born 1712], [barber and wigmaker,] d. 1723.
4. s/o William(E.24)  [bapt. 27 Nov 1831,], d. in infancy.

Edward.
1. In Nuddrie, s/o Thomas(E.2). Put to the horn 1605.

Francis. His widow was buried at Greyfriars 1697.

George.
1. s/o John(E.3). app. tailor 1598.
2. Servant of John Forbes of Buchan, killed 1615.
3. s/o Simon(E.1). app. to his bro. James(E.3), hatmaker, 1615. m. Helen Lightoune 1621; d.1623. Son George(E.5).
4. M.A. Edin. 1633. s/o James(E.1) [1612]. Clerk and Notary Public. d. in poverty 1666, buried at Greyfriars.
5. s/o George(E.3) [bapt. 1622].
6. Chamberlain to Alexander, Lord Spynie, 1635.
7. m. Isobel Buckholme, Edin. 1652.
8. In Auchindinnie or In Kercuttle. s/o John (E.11) Fl. 1665-1680.

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George.(cont.)
9. In Castlelaw. m. Janet Mathie, [youngest sister of the Janet Mathie who married Robert(E.14)] Myreside. d.l737.
10. Elder of the Kirk, Glencorse, 1745.

Henry. Captain Henry. See p.31.

James.
1. W.S. 1610. s/o John(E.6), pupil and partner of his bro. Arthur(E.1). m. Agnes Henrysone of the Fordel family 1605. Sometimes described as "of Straiton". d.1647.  Issue:- George(E.4), Janet, [d. before 1661,] Alison, m.1654 William Paterson, d.1691; Isabella, m.1659 John Paterson, 1661 William Black, alive 1701. Agnes, m.1648 Thomas Thomson, wright, 2 sons, d. l659. [Also  Johnne, James, Margaret, Alexander, Agnes, James, Bessie, Thomas, Johnne, and Rebecca]
2. s/o Andrew(E.2) app. marikin-maker 1617.
3. Hatmaker burgess. s/o Simon(E.1) m.l609 Isobel Boyd (d.1612), 1612 Helen Kaidie. app. l600, burgess l609; last mention 1616.
4. s/o  Alexander(E.3). app. to James(E.3) 1618.
5. Merchant 1621.
6. His child buried Edin. 1663.
7. Buried Liberton 1669.
8. M.A. Edin. 1677.(? see p.86.)
9. M.A. Edin. 1678.(? see p.86.)
10. Married [Jonet Grinlay, 1659]. [Issue Kathren, Agnes, Lillias, Helen, Rachel, Katheren, Jonet.]
11. "Poor" Buried Edin.1686.
12. Weaver in Liberton; his dau. Rachel m. Grinlay 1711. 
13. Gardener, Edin. d.l716. His sis. Magdalen m. James Bain, weaver, Novar.
14. Wigmaker, s/o William(E.14); m.1722 Christian dau/o John Clark, merchant. Burgess 1723.  [Issue Robert, James, and Mark.  Witness at birth of William(E.11)’s granddaughter.]
15. Surgeon, said to be from Berwickshire. With the rebels at Carlisle 1745.
16. (or Borthwick) s/o John(E.22). Served heir to Stow and took name of Borthwick 1751.
17. Major R.E. d. l8Ol. see p.96.
18. His infant dau. Mary buried at Restalrig in 1827.
19. s/o William[E.27]‡ b.l832. d. No issue.

John.
1. Witness Leith and Dalry 1481-91.
2. s/o David(E.1), witness 1534.
3. Maltman in Pleslands (Pleasance) d. before 1596. m. (1) Janet Smyth who d. l566 and (2) Jane Courtie who d. l592. Sons (second marriage) John(E.7), George(E.1), Archibald(E.3), daus. Janet and Barbara.
4. s/o Robert(E.3), app. glazier 1591, m. Isabel Menzies 1613.  [Issue Clemens.]
5. s/o Andrew(E.1). Mentioned in will of his bro. Thomas(E.2) 1592.

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John.(cont. )
6. In Straiton Mill,a kinsman of Straton of Lauriston, (see p.l00.) e/s/o William(E.5). Sons Robert(E.4), James(E.1), Patrick(E.2), Arthur(E.1), Thomas(E.4), William(E.7), [David(E.2)]. Sons app. 1591-4. Put to the horn 1607.
7. Cordwainer, s/o John(E.3), app.1596, burgess 1610. m.1612 Sara Gardner.  [Issue Jonet, Bessie, Bessie.]
8. In Nether Liberton, s/o Thomas(E.2). Messenger 1638-43.
9. Writer, younger in Edin. 1642. Servitor to James(E.1) 1629.
10. s/o John S. in Peterhead, app. merchant 1645.
11. In Straiton 1650.? m. Margaret Ronald 1656, son George(E.8). Tack of Auchindinnie 1665. Alive 1671.
12=16.‡ In Braidmeadows, merchant. Burgess 1642. m. 1639 Agnes Young, 1648 Bessie Pringle.‡  Issue [1:] Elizabeth, [Marione, Patrik, Catharine, Margaret, 2: David,] Marion m. Arthur(E.4), [James, Sibylla, Johne,] Robert(E.1O), [Thomas,] Jean. Agent to Earl of Haddington 1671. d. 1689., [Williame,] Catherine m. [1682 Edward] Peacock, Arthur [and Patrik.] 
13. In Straiton. Contract timber 1672. buried 1676.
14. s/o Arthur(E.3) [b. 1658]. fl. 1662-98.‡
15. Servitor to Arthur(E.2). Witness 1660.
16=12. Tacksman of the Park of Holyroodhouse 1664-1670s.‡
17. Vintner in Borrowloch, fl.1672-81.
18. Merchant. m. 1685 Marion Stevenson.  [Issue Jonet, Anna, David, Marie, and John.]
19. Merchant in Canongate, m.1690 Isobel Harvie. [Issue Isobell?]
20. Baker, Edin. m. 1683 Elspeth Gairies. [Issue Mary and John.]
21. Writer, Edin. Children buried 1692, 3, 5.
22. (or Borthwick) of Stow. s/o Henry(E.1) and Elizabeth Borthwick. Stow entailed on him and his children by his uncle James Borthwick of Stow. Married; son James(E.16). Al. 1690. d. 1751. (See p.101)
23. s/o Arthur(E.3). Burgess 1698. Heir to his bro. Charles (E.1), 1707.
24. Tenant in Boghall [in the parish of Lasswade,] [m. Christian Aitkin]. Sons Thomas(E.6) and Robert(E.15) app. 1713-21 [at age 17. The Poll tax in 1694 lists no children, though eldest George was born 1693.  The other children were Jannet, William, John, James, John, and Andrew.]
25. Skinner in Calton. dau. Helen m. Daniel Sutherland 1721.
26. s/o William(E.18), app. bookbinder 1750.
27. Brewer in Portsburgh, e/s/o William(E.16), [1731,] dau.‡ Helen m. Macdougall [14 Oct, 1779]. Served heir 1754, d.1787.
28. Journeyman lintdresser, m. l766 Helen dau/o John Stewart, farmer, Stirling.
29. Surgeon, Edin. Large practice 1758, d. 1762.
30. s/o Robert(E.14)?.
31. s/o William(E.20), currier Hawick and Dalkeith, c.1763-1829. m. Agnes Wilson, sons Oliver, John(E.32), Walter(E.2), William(E.24), 3 daus.  [See p. 103.]
32. Teacher Arbroath,1791-1850 s/o John(E.31),unm. [in Arbroath.]
33. Cigar Merchant, New York, s/o William[E.27]‡ b.1830 died c. l890. m. Maria .... Son Wallace, 2 daus
34. s/o William(E.24) b.l827 alive 1902.  [See Appendix E for additional generation.]
[35. of Charlton Links, Montrose.  m. Isobel Wishart.  Issue Isabel, Alexander, William(E.22), David, and Susan.
36. s/o Charles(E.7) 1805.
37. merchant. Burgess. m. 1673 Jane Jamieson, who d. 1689. Issue Robert.]

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Mark. Painter Edin. m. l768 Ann, dau/o James Robertson, merchant.  [Issue Hellen, Anne, and James.]

Michael. In Straiton, witness 1572.

Oliver. s/o John(E.31) [bapt. 13, Jan, 1795, d. unm. in Hawick 1884.] Warehouseman in Hawick.  .

Patrick.
1. Traveller in Straiton, sis. Elizabeth m. Robert Young, alive 1611.
2. Malster in Potteraw, s/o John(E.6), alive 1620.
3. In Fosterland, Co. Berwick. d. 1651, sis. Alison.
[4. s/o Robert(E.13).]

Richard. Maltman burgess in Pleasance, Edin. d. 1592. "bastard". He m. Marion Purdie son Alexander(E.1). dau. Elizabeth m. [John] Abernethy.

Robert.
1. Maltman Edin. Admitted burgess 1589-90.‡ (? same as Richard)
2. s/o Simon[E.1]. app. goldsmith 1598.
3. In Straiton Mill, s/o William(E.5). His son John(E.4) app. glazier 1591.
4. Sometime portioner and fear of Straiton. s/o John (E.6) m. Grizel Kerr, son Alexander(E.5). d. before Dec., 1650. Sold lands to James(E.1) 1628-32.
5. In Nether Liberton m. Agnes Fleming who d. l639. He was alive 1643.
6. Apothecary Edin. Admitted burgess 1638, later‡ in Dundee, see p.69.
7. Had lands in Tranent 1663.
8. Deputy-Governor Edin. Castle, see p.36.
9. In Nether Liberton 1664.
10. Writer Edin. Canongate and Leith. s/o John(E.12) and Bessie Pringle. fl.1657‡-89.
11. Married Martha Richardson 1685.  [Issue Robert, Robert, Anna.]
12. A soldier; children buried Grayfriars 1691, 2.
13. [, elder,] tenant‡ in Grange.‡  dau. Elizabeth m. John Cranston [and sons William(E.11) and Patrick]. d. 1676-1680.‡
14. Farmer in Braid 1730,‡ burgess d. l737 [? see 1730 birth of child vs. 1737 will for Janet's cousin. e/s/o Robert(E.13) and his second wife, Margaret Ramsay.]. m. Janet Mathie [see George(E.9)] 1706. Sons William(E.16), Robert(E.16), John(E.30)? and (?)? Andrew(E.6). [Ann, Elspeth, Joseph, Janet, Margaret, Janet, Isabel, Christian, and Peter.  See p. 103.]
15. Wright, s/o  John(E.24) [b. 1704] app. 1721, burgess 1733, m.1736 Elizabeth dau/o Rev. P.Wyllie, Perth.  [Issue Marion and Christian.]
16. Tacksman of the House of Murthe [or Muir ] s/o Robert(E.14), [1718] d. unm. 1754, testament confirmed by his nephew John(E.27), s/o his bro. german William(E.16).
Simon. In Nether Liberton, d.1603. m. Katherine Crawford, sons Robert(E.2), James(E.3), George(E.3).

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Thomas.
1. s/o David(E.1) who d. l566.
2. In Southhouse, s/o Andrew(E.1). m. Agnes Vernon, d.1592, sons William(E.8), John(E.8), Edward, Andrew(E.5), Archibald(E.2), Thomas(E.3), daus. Isobel, Bessie, Alison.
3. s/o Thomas(E.2), alive 1592.
4. s/o John(E.6) app. saddler 1592.
5. s/o Andrew(E.2),app. glazier 1612.
6. s/o John(E.24) [b. 1696,] app. skinner 1713.
7. s/o William(E.9) alive 1649.

Wallace. s/o John(E.33) b. New York c.1860.

Walter.
1. Tenant in Collinton. His dau. Wallace m. [John] Murray, Edin. 1790.  [Other daughters with his wife Margaret Laidlaw (Laidly) were Mary, Janet, Helen, and Elizabeth.] 
2. Sadler in Sunderland, s/o John(E.31) [bapt. 1793,] d. Hawick 1855 (unm).
3. s/o William(E.24) b. 1843, alive 1902.  [See Appendix E for additional generation.]

William.
1. In Lintlaws, tenant of the King, 1539.
2. Messenger 1544.
3. Limeburner, 1546-55.
4. Appointed messenger for Edin. 1571.
5. Of Straiton Mill, d.1572. m. Alison Callender,sons John(E.6), Robert(E.3), William(E.6), dau.Janet. 
6. s/o William(E.5). 
7. s/o John(E.6) app. goldsmith 1594. Burgess 1608, m. 1611 Margaret Robeson.
8. In Souterland, s/o Thomas(E.2), b. before 1592, parted with land to James(E.1) 1628.
9. Indweller in Paintland, d. Dec. 1648, son Thomas(E.7).
10. In Straiton, tenant in house owned by George(E.8), shared tack of Auchindinnie 1665.
11. [s/o Robert(E.13).] Merchant Edin. Burgess m. l687 Elizabeth Blackwood.  [Issue Thomas, Robert, James, and Magdalen who m. Robert Clerk 1717 and had issue.  A vintners as of 1692.  Died before 1717.]
12. Vintner, Edin. children buried Greyfriars 1693,1700.  [Possibly William(E.11) above.]
13. Excise Officer, Leith, [b. Oct. 4, 1774,] m.1794‡ Margaret dau/o John Radford, messenger, Leith.  [William(E.26).  Son of William(E.20). Issue William (See Appendix E).]
14. Cooper in Leith, d. Dec., 1704. m.1.---- 2. Esther Tait 1702. Son James(E.14), 2 daus.
15. Smith, Edin. m. 1754 Janet dau/o John MacFarlane, farmer Balquhidder.  [Issue Alexander, William.]
16. Brewer in Portsburgh, farmer in Braid, e/s/o Robert(E.14) m. l727 Katherine dau/o John Hamilton, writer. Burgess 1730, d. 1754 age 48, tomb at Liberton, appendix B. Sons John(E.27) William(E.20). [See p. 103.]

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William.(cont. )
17. Tenant in Straiton. d.March 1749.
18. Farmer in Straiton, named in testament of William(E.16) s/o William(E.17), son John(E.26), app. bookbinder 1750.
19. Ostler, [1723-1789] m. 1767 Margaret [1731-1803] dau/o John Shaw, wright Blairgowrie. 
20. Excise Officer, Leith. s/o William(E.16), [Bapt.  10, April, 1737] m. ... Scott, son John(E.31) and 2 daus [a William who seems to have died as an infant, and William(E.13=E.26) b. Oct. 4, 1774.] Served heir to his bro. John(E.27) 1787.  [Died before 1803.]
21. Soldier in the 4th Dragoons, buried Restalrig 1814, aged 16.
22. [Smith,] The Pleasance, Edin. s/o John[E.35] S. Charlton Links, Montrose and Isobel Wishart. b. Fettercairn 1760, d. Edin. 1813, son William(E.23).
23. s/o William(E.22), a wright in Pleasance.
24. Baker, Dalkeith, s/o John(E.31), 1803‡-78, m. [1825 Margaret] Marion Shepherd 1805-76. Sons William(E.25), David(E.4), John(E.34), Walter(E.3). [Daughters Mary Douglas, Elizabeth, Agnes, Margaret, and Lilias Fletcher. See p. 103.]
25. Restaurant keeper, Dundee, 1834-81, [bapt. 1838]  s/o William(E.24).  m. Elizabeth Sutherland.‡  [Issue Helen Ross, William, Prudence Sutherland, Marion Shepherd, Oliver. See Appendix E for details].
26. Excise Officer, [William(E.13) b. Oct. 4, 1774,] cousin [at least once removed]‡ of William(E.24). [m.1794‡ Margaret dau/o John Radford, messenger, Leith.  Issue William (See Appendix E).]
[27. s/o William(E.26E.13)bapt. 18 Apr. 1798. Gardener/Farmer. m. Harriet Dundas Douglas (See Appendix F).
 28.  m. 1829 Christian Symington, sons John(E.33), James(E.19), and William and dau. Mary.]

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CHAPTER XIII.

STRATONS IN PERTHSHIRE

Charles Straton (p.61) wrote in 1886:-

"Andrew, born 1673," (third son of David Straton and Isobel Strachan, p.54) "went to Perthshire as a factor and after a time acquired Balbrogie near Coupar Angus in which he was succeeded by a son John. John had three sons, George, Episcopal Clergyman at Brochin, who married a sister of General Graham of Redknock Castle, Stirlingshire. Issac of Caputh, who married Miss Hagart of Glendelvine, and from them the Hagarts of Glendelvine are descended, and David Solicitor, Dunkeld."

It has not been possible to discover the authority, if any, for the first sentence; it is however clear that John Straton or Stirton in Caputh who died 1777 was a portioner in Balbrogie, Coupar Angus, and left his portion to his son George who was Episcopal Minister at Brechin. It is also clear that David Straiton (see p. 114) was no near relative to George and Isaac. This was not however the beginning of the connection of Stratons with Perthshire or even with the parish of Caputh as in September 1602 James Stratoun in Snago (Caputh) made a complaint to the Privy Council concerning the theft of cattle at Martinmas 1593. He lodged a further complaint in 1618. At the same time there was a Gilbert Stratoun, a merchant in Perth.
A glance at the map shows that there is no difficult country between Montrose and Dunkeld. Between the Sidlaw Hills and the Grampians lies Strathmore, and the line of the L.M.S. Railway through Forfar and Coupar Angus leads one to Balbrogie which lies just north of the Glamis-Coupar Angus road some 2 1/2 miles north east of Coupar Angus. Caputh village lies just north of the Tay between Coupar Angus and Dunkeld; Inchtuthill is in the low ground on the north bank of the river about 1 1/2 miles east of the village.
A search of the baptismal registers of the parish of Caputh makes it quite clear that the connection of the Stratons, Stirtons, Straitons and Strattons with the Lauriston family, if there be any such connection, is considerably earlier than the end of the seventeenth century. At the earliest part of the registers, 1671, there were apparently two families, Stirton and Straiton, well established in the parish; there is also a family of Stratherne, presumably Strachan. Between 1679 and 1700 4 Stirtons and 2 Straitons had their children
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baptised. It is possible that one or both of these families date from the time when Andrew Straton of Lauriston (23) took over the Gray estates in 1541 as Gray owned land in this neighbourhood.
Between January 1st 1741 and December 31st 1750 there were 39 Stirtons and Straitons baptised at Caputh, children of William, John elder and younger, Alexander, James elder and younger, Thomas, Peter and George Stirton and of James, Walter, Patrick, John and William Straiton. A search of the registers of the neighbouring parishes in Strathmore and even down to Stirling would doubtless reveal many entries relating to these families and there are many persons now alive, mostly of the name of Stratton, who are derived from the parish of Caputh.
Apart from the baptismal registers, which include an occasional marriage and a few deaths, there are very few documentary materials available. No charters are known and no deeds have so far been traced. The only heir-service is in 1789 when James Straton in Inchtuthill served heir-general to his father James Straton there.
There are four probates in the Dunkeld records of Testaments. The Testament of John Straiton in Easter Caputh, who died in Febroary 1715, whose only lawful son and executor was John Straiton in Easter Caputh. (2) That of James Strachan alias Straiton in W. Caputh who died in 1769, given up by his brother german Alexander Straiton, wright in Caputh. (3) That of Alexander Straiton, wright in W. Caputh who died in 1786 given up by Thomas Straton, farmer in W. Caputh, his brother german and (4) That of John Straton, tenant at Inchtuthill, who died in 1777, given up by his (younger) son Isaac for whom Andrew Straton or Stirton is cautioner.
The most prominent figure from this neighbourbood is the Rev. George Straton mentioned above who was born about 1746, the son of John Stirton, tenent in Inchtuthill, Caputh. There is no entry of the baptism of a George Stirton in the registers about this time but on the 9th February 1746 the baptism of Charles son of John Stirton, elder in Inchtuthill, is recorded. The date is significant and it would not be the only instance of a Charles becoming George after Culloden. His younger brother Isaac was baptised in 1750 and his sister Susan in 1748. 
The name Stirton appears to fade out about the year 1800. The Rev. George Straton was a Stirton but he was ordained as Straton and continued that spelling for the rest of his life; his uncle Andrew's name is spelt Straton in the law reports; his brother Isaac became Straiton in 1807. James Stirton, in Mains of Fordie,

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was married first in 1793 as Stirton and in the Baptismal register of 1799 the spelling is the same; in 1803 the register describes him as Stratton, in 1805 his second marriage is as Straitton.
The spelling Stratton appears first in 1796 as an alternative for Straiton and soon became general though there is an entry in 1820 of the marriage of James Straton to Charlotte Stirton.
The following persons derived from Caputh are of interest:-

JOHN STIRTON, tenant at Inchtuthill, portioner at Balbrogie,c.1696-1777,married first c.1726 Jean Shepherd and secondly, about 1742 a wife who died in 1801. By the first marriage there were a son James, who died young, and three daughters; by the second marriage two sons and two or more daughters. He was survived by George, see below, Isaac, Janet who married Joseph Chalmers, and George's half sister Sarah who died at Perth in 1814.

ISAAC STIRTON, later Straiton, in East Caputh, born 1750, m.1796 Amelia, daughter of David Hagart of Cairnmuir who died Dec.1813. Issue John Hagart Straton 1797-1801 and two daughters. 

Rev. GEORGE STRATON, Episcopal Minister at Brechin, elder surviving son of John Stirton in Inchtuthill, Caputh.

Born:- 1745/6. Baptised (as Charles) 9th.Feb.1746.

Married:- l. 1776 Sept.15th, Margaret, dau/o Capt.John  Graham of Duchray, Co.Perth, who d. 10 Aug. 1781.
 2. 1808 Nov.2. Euphemia Clerk, Hill Head, Caputh, [who d. 25 Jan. 1837].

Died:- 1820. January 2nd at Brechin.

Issue:- (first marriage)
1. Christian,m.1806 Jan 27, David only son of David Allardice of Memus, Angus. Issue 2 daus.

2. Mary m.1799 Mar.3, Lieut. Alex. Biggar 15th Foot, who was killed in Natal 1838. The Biggarsberg Mountains take their name from him. He had a very large family and among his surviving descendants are those of his daughter Georgina who married Charles Maynard.

3. Jean m. 1806 Aug.17, James Cameron,tenant in Messenden, Brechin. Be died in France Feb. 1818.

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He was educated at St.Andrews and after graduation he was ordained deacon in the Church of England by Dr. Trail, Bishop of Down and Connor, 20 Feb.1771, as curate at Arbroath and Priest on May 5th the same year On Mareh 14th 1771 he made his first appearance as a clergyman at the Qualified Episcopal Chapels at Stirling and Falkirk, doing duty at both places; in 1773 he officiated at Carron instead of Falkirk.
His father died in 1777 leaving him his lands at Balbrogie but charging him with the widow's portion and his debts. No more is heard of these lands.
On 23 Feb.1795 he was chosen to take charge of the Qualified Episcopal Chapel at Brechin (which has since disappeared) where he remained until his death in 1820.‡ His daughters all married against his will, perhaps he was unreasonable in this respect, and he married again in 1808.
He left a voluminous diary which was the only record of the marriage and baptisms performed by him during a long ministry. Extracts from this diary, published in Volumes 13 and 14 of the Scottish Antiquary, make his identity clear and give particulars of his own marriages and children.

Of the other family in Caputh emerges:-

DAVID STRAITON or STRATTON, a law agent in Perth and Dunkeld, fifth son of Thomas Straiton,(1735-95) a farmer in Wester Caputh and his wife Christian Scott.

Born:- 1785. Baptised Caputh Jan 23.
Married:- 1814, Charlotte, dau/o John Proudfoot, Dunkeld.
Died:
Issue:- 	1. Thomas [1816], M.D. Edin.1837, Fleet Surgeon R.N. m. May dau/o Lieut Winder 49th Regt. One daughter.
2. John Proudfoot of whom later.
3. William, farmer in Strathtay. m.Isabella Henderson. Son George Proudfoot S. d.1877.
[4. daughters Isabella, Grace, Margaret, and Grace.]

JOHN PROUDFOOT STRATTON, Brigade Surgeon, Indian Medical Service,L R.C.S. Edin. 1851 M.B. Aberdeen 1852, M.D.1855. Political Agent Jalpur.

Born:- 	1830‡.
Married:- 18.. Georgina, dau/o Col.Anderson H.E.I.C.S.
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JOHN PROUDFOOT STRATTON. (cont.)

Died:- 	1895.

Issue:- 	1. Richmond. d. in infancy. 
2. Wallace, of whom later. 
4 daughters.

WALLACE CHRISTOPHER RAMSAY STRATTON, Lieut.Col.Indian Army, C.I,E. Only surviving son of Brigade Surgeon John Stratton and his wife Georgina Anderson. On retirement 1ived at 11 St. Albans Road, London.W.8.

Born:- 	1862 Aug. 19.

Married:-	l900 Barbara Jegon daughter of E.K.Johnson.

Died:-

Issue:- 	1. Geoffrey Lauriston born 9 Jan. 1904.
2. Muriel Jegon born 7 June 1901.
3. Barbara Rosalind born 25 April 1909.

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Appendix A

THE STORY OF MRS. MACFARLANE.

(see page 40) 

MacFarlane, Mrs. (FL 1716-1719) murderess, was daughter of Colonel Charles Straiton, a zealous Jacobite.  When about nineteen she married John MacFarlane, Writer to the Signet and law agent of Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat.  At the time MacFarlane was in middle life, many years his wife's senior.  Soon after the marriage Mrs. MacFarlane made the acquaintance of Captain John Cayley, the commissioner of customs and son of Cornelius Cayley of the city of York.  
On 29 September 1716 he called on her in her house at Edinburgh where, for reasons known only to herself or him, she fired two shots at him with a pistol, one of which pierced his heart.  Her husband asserted that she fired to save herself from outrage and she affirmed that this explanation was "only too true".  Her husband also affirmed that she wished to send for a magistrate and tell the whole story and that he advised her against it.  Not appearing to stand for trial in the ensuing February she was outlawed.  She obtained refuge in the mansion house of the Swinton family in a concealed apartment opening from the parlour by a sliding panel.  A child of Lady Swinton, while her mother was at church, discovered Mrs. MacFarlane one day in the parlor and this incident suggested to Scott his description of the concealment and discovery of the Countess of Derby in Peveril of the Peak.  Scott says "it is certain she returned and lived and died in Edinburgh."  If however she returned, her life in Edinburgh was comparatively short for her husband married again 6 October 1719.  
See:- Chambers, Domestic Annals of Scotland; Scott, Note to Peveril of the Peak; Ferguson, Major Fraser's Manuscript; Swinton, A. C.; the Swintons of that Ilk.  

The Dictionary of National Biography, Edited by Sidney Lee, Vol. 35 (1893), page 74.  

There are other short accounts of the incident to be found, notably in Andrew Lang's Pickle the Spy and in Chambers' Traditions of Edinburgh.  
John MacFarlane was admitted W.S. 12 November 1709.  He was apprentice to and a son of John MacFarlane W.S. Euphan Ritchie whom his father married and 1680.  
John the younger married (apparently thirdly) Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Henry Wardlaw of Pitreevie, Bart.  He died 30 April 1771.   

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Extract from the Swintons of that Ilk.  
The second daughter of Sir John Swinton and Anne Sinclair was Sir Walter Scott's "Aunt Margaret" ... from her lips he gathered in childhood....  Sir Walter further mentions the concealment and discovery of the Countess of Derby in Martindale Castle as told in Peveril of the Peak, were taken from a picturesque account of a similar event, described to him by Margaret Swinton, by whom it was witnessed in childhood.  
The lady who alarmed little Margaret by her mysterious appearance in a room at Swinton House, which she had entered through a sliding panel, the existence of which was unknown to the child, was Mrs. MacFarlane, the wife of a Writer to the Signet in Edinburgh, with whom Sir John Swinton seems to have had some business relations.  She had sought refuge in the border mansion after shooting dead with a pistol in their own house in Edinburgh, a young Englishman named Cayley, who was a government commissioner on the estates forfeited in the rebellion of 1715.  
Whether the fatal act was committed in defense of her honor or to avenge herself on the unfortunate gallant for having boasted of former favours has been a matter of controversy.  The view of the case most favorable to the lady's fair fame is supported by a letter from her husband to Sir John Swinton, which has been discovered among the family papers, and also by the fact that, although fugitated by the Court of Judiciary, she returned to Edinburgh, where she lived and died without being brought to trial.  Her portrait, representing her as a young lady of remarkable beauty, is in possession of Sir Arthur Halkett of Pitfirrane, Bart.  The following is the letter referred to above:-
"Edinburgh, October 13, 1716.  Sir, I hope you will pardon me for not writing you sooner, for you may easily conceive my anxiety and trouble on account of my present misfortune, of which I shall give you this short account.  Mr. Cayley was my intimate acquaintance ever since he came to this place; he lodged at Mrs. Murray's, the merchant in the Parliament Close.  She was a kind of guardian to my wife when she was a girl at the schools.  Mr. Cayley, forming a very bad design against my wife and dispairing to obtain her consent, was resolved to use force, for which purpose Mrs. Murray was sent to our house on Saturday the 29th September (a day the week wherein Mr. Cayley constantly went to his country-house early in the morning) and desired my wife to come down to her house that afternoon, which she did immediately after dinner, and was received at the door by Mrs. Murray who, as soon as she put her into a room, left her for a while, but went out of the house, locked the door, and 
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took the key with her.  Then Mr. Cayley appeared, who had lurked at home, and was denyed to everybody that asked for him, where he used a very barbarous force.  The people below stairs, hearing the noise, knocked at the door but got no access.  
In the meantime I, happening to pass through the Parliament Close, saw Mrs. Murray in her shop.  She asked for my wife.  I told her she was well, and that she had seen her, which she denyed.  I asked for Mr. Cayley.  She told me he had gone to the countrey early that morning, as he used to do.  I observed her maid in the shop, who, with some sort of uneasiness, said she would stay no longer, but go downstairs, and that her mistress would be wanted it home.  
Her mistress answered she would not go till her daughter returned, whom she had sent on an errand, and seeing a boy, her son, in the shop, I thus understood her whole family was abroad, and something extraordinary was doing at home; therefore I went towards her house, and I observed her looking after me and sending her son to notice when I went. 
I immediately grew suspicious, but checked myself, and went down to Mrs. Sarah Dalrymple's, where my wife came in a little after me and told the she had been at Mrs. Murray's.  
None can express the torture I endured; my wife sleeped none, and we were both in great agony.  I inquired for Mr. Cayley on Monday but could not find him.  On Tuesday I hapned to be a little busy, which Mrs. Murray understanding, sent up Mr. Cayley in the afternoon to our house, who went directly to my wife's bedchamber; and there being but one maid in the house, and she at a distance from the room, my wife upbraided Mr. Cayley; but he, resolving to have his purpose at any rate before he left Scotland, which he was to do in a day or two, laid hands on my wife and threw her on the bed.  She struggled and drew his sword, which he soon wrested from her and continued his attempt.  She, justly transported with indignation, ran to my pistols, cocked them both, offered him one of them to use against her, but he coming forward to throw her again on the bed, she shot him dead.  She sent to enquire for me, and in an hour after I came home.  

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My wife, very conscious of her innocence, inclined to send for the magistrats and Mr. Cayley's friends, and to tell them the whole story.  I judged that too rash, therefore I sent her away.  She was very well in her health when I saw her last, and told me that which I have said above and to severall others who saw her.  Malice and envy are now hard at work, but to you, Sir, and your Lady, who knew my wife so well, I need not justify this action; the good and the wise are for us, the rest of the world are not much to be regarded.  My wife's integrity, virtue and innocence are testified; that gives me comfort and will make her still dearer to me.  Neither of us suspected a crime so horrid would be committed by a man we both esteemed for his civility and good breeding and who saw us very happy in the enjoyment of one another.  
I offer my humble duty to your Lady and family.  Excuse this confusion, I am Sir, your most obedient humble servant, John MacFarlane.  
Do me the favor to send this to Sir Robert Sinclair.  
A precognition was taken which, with the circumstances of the room and my wife's clothes and his, prove the facts as I have told it.  Mrs. Murray still denies that she had seen my wife that afternoon but owns that Mr. Cayley was privately at her house, pretending that he was sick, and that they went out to the country about six in the evening." 

There has also been preserved part of a copy of a letter from Mrs. MacFarlane to Lady Swinton dated 26 November 1716 in which, after complaining vehemently of the "malicious lies and falsehoods" with which her reputation has been assailed, she adds "As to the fatal accident, your Ladyship has good nature enough to believe that nothing less than the most unworthy provocation would have occasioned it.  The story as it was written to you is too true.  I am far from justifying the unlucky action or glorying in it as my friends falsely say.  But I earnestly hope and pray that the same good God who permitted my weakness to be tried, may mercifully forgive my faulty rashness and vindicate me in as far as I am injured; and, as to what concerns the world, I am fully convinced that if ever the virtuous part of it comes to any tolerable knowledge of my case, it will find me much more the object of pity than of insolence." 

From "The Swintons of that Ilk and their Cadets" by A.  C.  Swinton.  Edinburgh, 1883, page 88.  

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Extracts from "Major Fraser's manuscript".  

... The lawyer in question, who was thus addressed by Lovat and by Duncan Forbes of Culloden--" Mr. John MacFarlane, Writer to ye Signet at Edinburgh at Peter Steele's Close, nearer ye Crosse. "--attained an unhappy notoriety at a period shortly after the beginning of the correspondence mentioned.  
It was his young and beautiful wife who shot, and killed, Commissioner Cayley in her own house under very awkward circumstances.  The story is well known in the Scots domestic history, but there are several particulars in these letters of Lord Lovat’s which are believed to be new with regard to that wretched business.  For example that Mrs. MacFarlane, about whose subsequent fate nothing was known, seems to have survived it only a very short time.  It has been thought well to state these details and to give some extracts from Lord Lovat's letters on the subject in the Appendix....  
From Introductory Chapter.  

(The story is told in much the same way as usual but it is stated that Cayley was the Commissioner of Customs and not, as stated by Sir W. Scott, of forfeited estates.) 

Lord Lovat writes to Mr. MacFarlane:-
Bath ye 13 of Octobre 1716. Dr Sir, I received yours this day and I am mightily troubled at ye tragical accident yt hapen'd in your house, for I take a particular interest in you and what concerns you and certainly nothing (sic) can be more sensible to you than such a cruel misfortune to fall in ye hands of yr lady yt is so dear to you and so generally esteemed by all those yt have ye honour to be known to her. I doubt not but it will be easy to obtain her pardon. I have written to ye Duke of Argyl and my Lord Isla of it this night. I am sure they will do all they can. . . .  I entreat you do me the honour to assure yr lady of my humble service, and of my concern at her misfortune. I have engaged Brig. Grant to write this night to his friends under favours. I make no doubt of her pardon....

Huntingtoun, ye 21 of Octobre 1716. "My cussing Ffoyers . . . wrote me a letter last night wherein he tells me yt he did deliver my letter to ye Duke of Argyl and to my Lord Isla anent your lady's misfortune and yt they did bid him tell me there was no fear of her, for they hop’d to get her pardon, for she is generally respected, tho' blamed for such a violent revenge tho' yt mad barbarous unhappy man deserved it. . . .

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Octr. ye 28 Newcastle. . . . I am just going to drink with Coll.  Ross and Capt. Grant yours and your destressed Lady's health.  I hope she will soon be out of her trouble, I wish to with all my heart. . . .  

It appears from contemporary testimony that Mrs. MacFarlane was at this time a young lady about nineteen or twenty years of age "the daughter of Colonel Charles Straiton, a gentleman of great honor, and granddaughter of Sir Andrew Forrester." 

There is also printed a long letter, unsigned, evidently written by John MacFarlane to Lady Swinton, which is in the Pitfirrane MSS.  In this letter is the following:-
"It is said, and I believe with reason, that my wife might very safely hazard a tryall, but that is not a way agreeable to either ingenuity or honour, for her to owe her safety to a denial.  I would much rather owe it to the mercy of the Prince for whom I have already hazarded my life, and for whom my wife and I have lost whatever used to be naturally bestowed by parents to their daughter and her husband.  Your Ladyship knows very well that my wife and I were in good friendship with her parents the last year of the Queen's reign, and nothing stop'd a total agreement but a discovery that they made of my principles, and my wife's change of hers, since which we have never been mentioned by them, but in form--tho' our behavior towards them has always been so dutiful as to give them no other cause for such treatment. . . ." 

Lastly Lord Lovat's letters to his agent casually convey to us the ending of this unhappy tale. It is known that Mrs. MacFarlane ultimately returned to Edinburgh but it is only now we learn that she lived just three years after the tragedy and that she was succeeded by another "pretty Mrs. MacFarlane", perhaps as beautiful as the first, certainly as well born.  On the 6th of October 1719 Lord Lovat wrote from Inverness to his agent: "Dear sir, I had ye honor of your letter giving me ye happy account of your marriage and its with greatest pleasure and sincerity I wish you all imaginable joy and happiness.  I heard of ye Lady and she has ye reputation of the very beautyful, worthy person so I am very much rejois'd  at your good choice and ye more yt I have ye honor to be your lady's relation, for ye Earle of Ween's daughter was my father's mother. . . ." 

Note: In The Swintons, p. 90, it is noticed that there is at Putfirrane a portrait of "Mrs. MacFarlane, a young lady of remarkable beauty" which Mrs. MacFarlane? 

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William Straiton's tomb at Liberton.  

This is the table-tomb in Liberton churchyard, close to the west end of the church.  The church is just at the terminus of the Liberton trams from Edinburgh. 
The tomb is in memory of William Straiton, brewer-burgess of Edinburgh and farmer in Braid, who was killed by a run-away horse 17th February 1754, of Katherine Hamilton, his wife, and of some of their descendants.  The inscription is on the table-stone.  
The supports consist of a slab at each end, carved on both sides and on the ends, and a fluted pillar at the centre of each side.  Under the table it is a semi-recumbent figure lying on its right side, the left arm pressing a skull to its chest; a sheaf of corn formed a pillow and a lamb supported the feet but the figure is badly damaged.  
The outer face of the slab at the west, or head, end shows a farming scene.  At the top are the farm buildings at the foot of a chain of hills (The Braids) on which are hayricks; below this is a furrowed field along which a man drives a pair of horses yoked to a harrow; in front of him a sower walks toward a woman beside an open bag, apparently to refill his bag with grain.  At the bottom a ploughman, with an assistant, holds a massive plough drawn by two pairs of oxen led by a pair of horses.  On the south end of this slab is depicted the farmer in his Sunday clothes carrying bundles of corn under his arms and bags in his hands.  On the north end is a foliaceous decoration.  The inner face has an arched recess but no design can now be detected. 
The slab at the East, or foot, end has on its outer surface a beautifully carved interlaced pattern of leaves apparently representing the letter's W?.S. in cipher.  On its south end is a skeleton, standing on a corbel, in the act of severing with scissors a cord, suspended by no visible means from above, bearing a stone which overhangs the head of a mourning female sitting on a tombstone.  On its North end a tower, founded on a mass of boulders but rent across the middle, is in the act of falling; a large fragment detached from the rent already lies at the foot and its detachment is evidently causing the fall of the upper part of the tower.  On the inner face is a figure of Ceres.  
See Proceedings Scot. Soc.  Antiquaries 1903, p. 106.  

This William Straiton was descended from a branch of the family which held lands in Straiton from the Laird of Lauriston in the 16th century; John Straton‡ of New York was one of his descendants. 

[Please note that all subsequent text has been added in the second edition.]

This John Straton is descended from William(E.16) Straiton and Katherine Hamilton through their second son William(E.20) and his wife Marion Bain, whose son and legal heir William(E.13E.26) married Margaret Redford.  The latter's son William emigrated with his wife Harriet Dundas Douglas and all of their surviving children but one to Australia in about 1860.  One son, Henry Dundas Douglas Straton, emigrated to the U.S., where John Roach Straton of New York City was born. 
The descendents of William(E.20) Straton's other son John(E.31), born to a daughter of Scott of Buccleuch, are given on p. 103 through children of John's son William(E.24) and his wife Marion Shepherd.  Two additional generations are given at the end of this Appendix.  

Bain Branch

William Straton, William(E.20), William(E.16) ii,  2433194 (GRO(S) Order #)
  b. abt 10 Apr 1737, Edinburgh
  d. bef 1803
  occ. officer of Excise in Leith
& Marion Bain
  b. bef 1759
|	William Straiton, 4046834 (GRO(S) Order #)
|	  b. abt 2 Apr 1773, Corstorphine
|	  d. probably as infant
|	William Straton,, William(E.13=E.26)
|	  b. 4 Oct 1774, South Leith
|	  ch. 23 Oct 1774, South Leith
|	  occ. Excise officer
|	& Margarate Redford
|	  b. bef 1779
|	  m. 3 Dec 1794, Edinburgh,
|	|	William Straton
|	|	  b. 1 Apr 1798, South Leith, Scotland
|	|	  d. 17 Jun 1872, Moyston, Vic.
|	|	  bp. 18 Apr 1798, South Leith, Scotland
|	|	  bur. 18 Jun 1872, Moyston, Vic.
|	|	  occ. Gardener/Farmer
|	|	& Harriet Dundas Douglas
|	|	  b. Inverheithing, Fifeshire, Scotland
|	|	  d. 16 Jul 1872, Moyston, Vic.
|	|	  bp. 23 Jul 1799, Inverheithing, Fifeshire, Scotland
|	|	  bur. 19 Jul 1872, Moyston, Vic.
|	|	  occ. Dressmaker
|	|	  m. 21 Dec 1828, Saint Ninians, Stirling, Scotland
|	|	|	John Redford Straton
|	|	|	  b. 3 Oct 1829, Scotland
|	|	|	  d. 20 May 1832
|	|	|	William Straton
|	|	|	  b. 21 Jan 1831, Scotland
|	|	|	  d. 7 Apr 1832
|	|	|	Margaret Redford Straton
|	|	|	  b. 6 Jan 1833, Scotland
|	|	|	  d. 1893, Landsborough, Vic.
|	|	|	& James Foggo
|	|	|	  b. 1829
|	|	|	  d. 1916, Stawell, Vic.
|	|	|	  occ. Agricultural Labourer
|	|	|	  m. 8 Jan 1854, Saint Ninians, Stirling, Scotland
|	|	|	Edward Straton*
|	|	|	  b. 6 Sep 1834, Scotland
|	|	|	  d. 1906, St. Arnaud, Vic.
|	|	|	& Margaret Marshall
|	|	|	  d. 1880, Palmerston, Northern Territory
|	|	|	  m. 7 Apr 1871, Westport, New Zealand
|	|	|	|	Harriet Dundas Douglas Straton
|	|	|	|	  b. 8 Apr 1872, New Zealand
|	|	|	|	James Edward (Foggo) Straton
|	|	|	|	  b. 10 Jul 1873, Landsborough, Vic.
|	|	|	|	  d. 1948, Surrey Hills, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	  occ. Skin Buyer
|	|	|	|	& Constance Emma Vendy
|	|	|	|	  b. 1878, Landsborough, Vic.
|	|	|	|	  d. 1956, St. Kilda, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	  m. 1899
|	|	|	|	|	Harry Redvers Straton
|	|	|	|	|	  b. 1900, St. Arnaud, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	  d. 3 Sep 1978, N.S.W.
|	|	|	|	|	  bur. Cundletown, N.S.W.
|	|	|	|	|	& Marguerite Tennyson Rigby
|	|	|	|	|	  b. 1904, Tennyson, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	  d. 15 Jul 1997, Katoomba, NSW
|	|	|	|	|	  bur. 17 Jul 1997, Dawson River Cemetery, Taree, NSW
|	|	|	|	|	  m. 1927
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|	|	|	|	|	James Alfred (Jim) Straton
|	|	|	|	|	  b. 1901, St. Arnaud, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	  d. 29 Jan 1991, Ballarat, Vic. Aust.
|	|	|	|	|	& Greta Clark Gridley
|	|	|	|	|	  b. 30 Mar 1904, South Hadley, Hampshire, Co., MA. U.S.A.
|	|	|	|	|	  d. 1 Oct 1982, Ballarat, Vic. Aust.
|	|	|	|	|	  bur. 4 Oct 1982, Ballarat, Vic. Aust.
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|	|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Conductor
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|	|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Beach Volley Ball
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|	|	|	|	|	Adele Louise Straton
|	|	|	|	|	  b. 1905, St. Arnaud, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	  d. 1990
|	|	|	|	|	& Reginald Anderson
|	|	|	|	|	  b. ca 1900, Numurkah Vic. Australia
|	|	|	|	|	  m. St. Pauls Cathederal, Melbourne
|	|	|	|	|	Herbert Douglas Straton
|	|	|	|	|	  b. 7 Jul 1907, St. Arnaud, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	  d. 27 Feb 1968, Canberra, A.C.T.
|	|	|	|	|	& Winifred Victoria ????
|	|	|	|	Agnes Lovelock Straton
|	|	|	|	  b. 17 Dec 1876, Darwin, Northern Territory
|	|	|	|	& William Edwin Martin
|	|	|	|	  b. 1869, Ilford N.S.W.
|	|	|	|	  d. 1940, Hurstville, Sydney, N.S.W.
|	|	|	|	  m. 3 Feb 1899, Zeehan, Tasmania
|	|	|	|	|	Elsie A. Martin
|	|	|	|	|	  b. 1900, Hurstville, N.S.W.
|	|	|	|	|	Edwin William Martin
|	|	|	|	|	  b. 1901, Hurstville, N.S.W.
|	|	|	|	|	Eva May Martin
|	|	|	|	|	  b. 1902, Hurstville, N.S.W.
|	|	|	|	|	& Reginald R. Ward
|	|	|	|	|	  b. Hurstville, N.S.W.
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|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Accountant
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|	|	|	|	|	Ivy A. Martin
|	|	|	|	|	  b. 1904, Campbelltown, N.S.W.
|	|	|	|	|	Olive E. Martin
|	|	|	|	|	  b. 1905, Ryde, N.S.W.
|	|	|	|	|	Allen R. Martin
|	|	|	|	|	  b. 1907, Ryde, N.S.W.
|	|	|	|	|	  d. 1907, Ryde, N.S.W.
|	|	|	|	|	Alfred N. Martin
|	|	|	|	|	  b. 1908, Hurstville, Sydney, N.S.W.
|	|	|	|	|	Percy E. Martin
|	|	|	|	|	  b. 1910, Hurstville, Sydney, N.S.W.
|	|	|	|	|	Arthur Martin
|	|	|	|	|	  b. 1912
|	|	|	|	|	  d. 1912, N.S.W.
|	|	|	|	|	Lily A. Martin
|	|	|	|	|	  b. 1913, Hurstville, Sydney, N.S.W.
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|	|	|	|	Bertha Elizabeth Straton
|	|	|	|	  b. 17 Feb 1878
|	|	|	|	  d. 18 Jul 1956, North Perth, Western Australia
|	|	|	|	  bur. Jul 1956, Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth, W.A.
|	|	|	|	William Edward Straton
|	|	|	|	  b. 1 Aug 1880
|	|	|	|	  d. 1951, Box Hill, Melbourne, Vic. Aust.
|	|	|	Edward Straton*
|	|	|	  b. 6 Sep 1834, Scotland
|	|	|	  d. 1906, St. Arnaud, Vic.
|	|	|	& Rosa Houghton Wastell
|	|	|	  b. 4 Jul 1857, Oakleigh, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	  m. 23 Mar 1885, Hotham, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	Edward Charles Straton
|	|	|	|	  b. 14 Feb 1886, Oakleigh, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	& Nellie M Heppeler
|	|	|	|	Edith Margaret Straton
|	|	|	|	  b. 27 Oct 1888, Oakleigh, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	  d. 1895, Western Australia
|	|	|	|	  bur. 7 May 1895, Coolgardie Cemetery, W.A.
|	|	|	|	Augustus William Straton
|	|	|	|	  b. 2 Feb 1890, Broken Hill, N.S.W. Aust.
|	|	|	|	  d. 2 Oct 1890, Broken Hill, N.S.W. Aust.
|	|	|	Henry Dundas Douglas Straton*,,, 7708806 (GRO(S) Order #)
|	|	|	  b. abt 26 Aug 1836, Stirlingshire, Bannockburn, Scotland
|	|	|	  d. 31 Jan 1897, at 10:36 pm at Monticello Jasper __ Ga.
|	|	|	  occ. Pastor, Southern Baptist Church
|	|	|	& Julia Rebecca Carter
|	|	|	  b. 4 Mar 1849, Richmond, Virginia
|	|	|	  d. 14 Jul 1896, Atlanta, Georgia
|	|	|	  m. Richmond, VA
|	|	|	|	William Douglas Straton
|	|	|	|	  b. 29 Oct 1866, Hanover Co. Va.
|	|	|	|	Charles Edward Straton
|	|	|	|	  b. 29 Jan 1870, Hollins Institute  Roanoke Va.
|	|	|	|	  d. aft 31 Oct 1929
|	|	|	|	& Laura _
|	|	|	|	  d. aft 27 Jul 1923
|	|	|	|	John Roach Straton
|	|	|	|	  b. 6 Apr 1875, Evansville, Illinois
|	|	|	|	  d. 29 Oct 1929, in the Sanitarium at Clifton Springs.  Buried in Warwick, NY.
|	|	|	|	  edu. Honorary DD from Shurtleff College, Alton, Ill.
|	|	|	|	  occ. Pastor, principally of Calvary Baptist Church, New York City (1918-1929).
|	|	|	|	& Georgia Elizabeth Dagg Hillyer
|	|	|	|	  b. 22 Sep 1884, Valdosta, GA
|	|	|	|	  d. 21 Apr 1976
|	|	|	|	  m. 2 Nov 1903
|	|	|	|	|	Hillyer Hawthorne Straton Th.D.
|	|	|	|	|	  b. 11 Apr 1905, Waco, TX
|	|	|	|	|	  d. Aug 1969
|	|	|	|	|	  edu. Mercer Univ., Colombia, Univ., Harvard Univ., 
|	|	|	|	|	      Eastern baptist Theological Seminary, and Andover-Newton Theolgical School.
|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Pastor, principally of First Baptist Church, Malden, MA 
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|	|	|	|	|	|	Georgia Sylvia Straton
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|	|	|	|	|	John Charles Straton
|	|	|	|	|	  b. 1906, Chicago
|	|	|	|	|	  d. 22 May 1966, Warwick, NY
|	|	|	|	|	  edu. Mercer University, 1926, Bachelor of Laws, 
|	|	|	|	|	         New York Univ. Law School, 1929
|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Attorney
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|	|	|	|	|	|	Francis Sanford Straton
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|	|	|	|	|	Warren Badenoch Straton*
|	|	|	|	|	  b. 31 Dec 1907, Baltimore, MD
|	|	|	|	|	  d. 18 Apr 1966, Tulsa, OK
|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Sculptor, Professor of Art, Evangel College
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|	|	|	|	|	Warren Badnock Straton*
|	|	|	|	|	  b. 31 Dec 1907, Baltimore, MD
|	|	|	|	|	  d. 18 Apr 1966, Tulsa, OK
|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Sculptor, Professor of Art, Evangel College
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|	|	|	|	|	Catherine Eager Straton
|	|	|	|	|	  b. 30 Nov 1910
|	|	|	|	|	  d. 25 May 1923, age 12 spinal meningitis,,
|	|	|	|	|	George Douglas Straton
|	|	|	|	|	  b. 19 Mar 1916, Norfolk, Virginia
|	|	|	|	|	  d. 26 Feb 1997, Eugene, Oregon
|	|	|	|	|	  bur. 19 Mar 1997, Lot #106, Pioneer cemetary, Eugene, Oregon
|	|	|	|	|	  edu. Harvard; Andover Newton Theological School, Colombia University.
|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Professor of Religious Studies, University of Oregon
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|	|	|	Henry Dundas Douglas Straton*,, 7708806 (GRO(S) Order #)
|	|	|	  b. abt 26 Aug 1836, Stirlingshire, Bannockburn, Scotland
|	|	|	  d. 31 Jan 1897, at 10:36 pm at Monticello Jasper __ Ga.
|	|	|	  occ. Pastor, Southern Baptist Church
|	|	|	& Jennie ?
|	|	|	  m. 2 Dec 1896, Monticello Ga. by Rev A.M. Marshall.
|	|	|	Agnes Straton*
|	|	|	  b. 13 Oct 1838, Bannockburn, Edinburgh, Scotland, U.K.
|	|	|	  d. 24 Aug 1906, Minyip, Vic.
|	|	|	& Daniel Lovelock
|	|	|	  b. 1821, Near Wolverhampton, Straffordshire UK
|	|	|	  d. 24 Jul 1888, Koroit Creek, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	  bp. 5 May 1822, St. Woolas, Newport, Monmouth, Wales
|	|	|	  bur. 26 Jul 1888, Melbourne Cemetery, Vic.
|	|	|	  occ. Auctioneer/Innkeeper
|	|	|	  m. 8 Mar 1858, Ararat, Vic.
|	|	|	|	Florence Harriet Lovelock*
|	|	|	|	  b. 30 Nov 1858, Great Western, Vic.
|	|	|	|	  d. 20 Apr 1902, Carlton, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	  bur. Apr 1902, Melbourne Cemetery, Vic.
|	|	|	|	& Robert Henry Angus
|	|	|	|	  b. 9 Jan 1858, North Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	  d. 9 Dec 1891, Ballarat, Vic. Aust.
|	|	|	|	  bur. 11 Dec 1891, Ballarat Old Cemetery
|	|	|	|	  occ. Agent/Traveller
|	|	|	|	  m. 27 Feb 1879, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	  div. 1887
|	|	|	|	|	Jessie Mary Angus*
|	|	|	|	|	  b. 1 Sep 1879, Ballarat, Vic. Aust.
|	|	|	|	|	  d. 4 Aug 1956, Essendon, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	  bp. 14 Jan 1892, St. Andrews, Ballarat, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	  bur. 6 Aug 1956, Fawkner Cemetery, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	|	Harold Leslie Angus
|	|	|	|	|	|	  b. 21 Dec 1904, Albert Park, Melbourne, Vic. Aust.
|	|	|	|	|	|	  d. 19 Oct 1977, Chelsea, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	|	Doris Jessie Angus
|	|	|	|	|	|	  b. 23 Sep 1906, Kensington Hill, Melbourne Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	|	  d. 10 May 1907, Kensington Hill, Melbourne Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	|	  bur. 11 May 1907, Coburg Cemetery, Melbourne, Vic.|	|	|	|	|	|	William Henry (Norm) Angus
|	|	|	|	|	|	  b. 18 Jan 1908, Moonee Ponds, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	|	  d. 30 Jul 1990, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	|	  bur. 2 Aug 1990, New Cheltenham Cemetery, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	|	& Janie Ruth Wills
|	|	|	|	|	|	  b. 1918, Carlton, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	|	  d. 31 Oct 1988
|	|	|	|	|	|	  bur. 2 Nov 1988, New Cheltenham Cemetery, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	|	Dorothy May Angus
|	|	|	|	|	|	  b. 21 Aug 1910, Essendon, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	|	  d. 9 Sep 1910, Childrens Hospital Carlton, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	|	  bur. 10 Sep 1910, Coburg Cemetery, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	Jessie Mary Angus*
|	|	|	|	|	  b. 1 Sep 1879, Ballarat, Vic. Aust.
|	|	|	|	|	  d. 4 Aug 1956, Essendon, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	  bp. 14 Jan 1892, St. Andrews, Ballarat, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	  bur. 6 Aug 1956, Fawkner Cemetery, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	& John Hatton
|	|	|	|	|	  b. 7 Sep 1863, Moyston, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	  d. 2 Oct 1934, Essendon, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	  bur. 3 Oct 1934, Melbourne Cemetery, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Butcher
|	|	|	|	|	  m. 24 Jan 1912, The Parsonage, 97 Bridge Rd. Richmond
|	|	|	|	|	|	John William Hatton
|	|	|	|	|	|	  b. 1912, Carlton, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	|	  d. Oct 1980, Parkville, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	|	  bur. 21 Oct 1980, Fawkner Cemetery, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Flour Miller
|	|	|	|	|	|	& Catherine Mary (Cassie) O'Donnell
|	|	|	|	|	|	  b. 1910, Carlton, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	|	  d. 8 Aug 1962, Essendon, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	|	  bur. 9 Aug 1962, Fawkner Cemetery, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Home Duties
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	Barbara Hatton
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|	|	|	|	|	|	Ronald James Hatton
|	|	|	|	|	|	  b. 1914, Essendon, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Toolsetter
|	|	|	|	|	|	& Vera Jessie Betwyn (Betty) Pritchard
|	|	|	|	|	|	  b. 1913, Brunswick East, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	|	  d. 1973, Chelsea, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Typist
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|	|	|	|	|	|	|	& Valerie Helen Moffat
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	Ross Hatton
|	|	|	|	|	|	Arthur Roy Hatton
|	|	|	|	|	|	  b. 1915, Essendon, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	|	  d. 1916, Carlton, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	|	  bp. 1915
|	|	|	|	|	|	  bur. 29 Feb 1916, Coburg Cemetery, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	|	Walter Ernest (Alan) Hatton
|	|	|	|	|	|	  b. 2 Jul 1917, Essendon, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	|	  d. 30 Nov 1978, Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Vic. Aust.
|	|	|	|	|	|	  bur. 4 Dec 1978, Fawkner Cemetery, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Mill Hand
|	|	|	|	|	|	& Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Telephonist
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	Details withheld
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|	|	|	|	|	|	|	James (Jimmy) Alan Hatton
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	  b. 15 Oct 1952, Sacred Heart Hospital, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	  d. 11 Aug 1953, Royal Childrens Hospital, Melbourne, Vic
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Butcher
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	& Details withheld
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|	|	|	|	|	|	Thelma Rita Hatton
|	|	|	|	|	|	  b. Aug 1921
|	|	|	|	|	|	  d. Oct 1921, Essendon, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	|	  bur. 10 Oct 1921, Coburg Cemetery, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	|	Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Typist, Clerk
|	|	|	|	|	|	& Henry (Harry) Joseph Dowd
|	|	|	|	|	|	  b. 8 Oct 1921, Mildura, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	|	  d. 2 Aug 2002, Broadmeadows Hospital
|	|	|	|	|	|	  bur. 7 Aug 2002, Fawkner Cemetery, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Fitter & Turner, Retailer
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Clerk
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	& Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Banker
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Plumber
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	& Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Teacher
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Clerk
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Clerk
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	& Andrew James Uren
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Furniture Retailer
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	& Details withheld
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|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	Details withheld
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|	|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Hairdresser
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	& Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Furniture Retailer
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Computer Technician
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	& Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Clerk
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	Details withheld
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|	|	|	|	|	Florence Maud Angus
|	|	|	|	|	  b. 8 Oct 1880, Ballarat, Vic. Aust.
|	|	|	|	|	  d. 8 Dec 1966, Sale Hospital, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	  bp. 14 Jan 1892, St. Andrew's, Ballarat, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	  bur. Cann River, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Nurse Girl/Home Duties
|	|	|	|	|	& John Campbell McKinnon
|	|	|	|	|	  b. 1881, Heathcote, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	  d. 8 Nov 1948
|	|	|	|	|	  bur. Cann River, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	  m. 1912
|	|	|	|	|	|	Jonnathan Colin McKinnon*
|	|	|	|	|	|	  b. 1912, Orbost, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	|	  d. 1993, Taree, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	|	  bur. Bairnsdale, Vic. Aust.
|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Farmer
|	|	|	|	|	|	& Doreen Mary Strickland
|	|	|	|	|	|	  d. 1975, Bairnsdale, Vic. Aust.
|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Home Duties
|	|	|	|	|	|	Jonnathan Colin McKinnon*
|	|	|	|	|	|	  b. 1912, Orbost, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	|	  d. 1993, Taree, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	|	  bur. Bairnsdale, Vic. Aust.
|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Farmer
|	|	|	|	|	|	& Rosland Vizard
|	|	|	|	|	|	Malcolm Campbell McKinnon
|	|	|	|	|	|	  b. 1914, Orbost, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	|	  d. 21 Apr 1940, Bairnsdale, Vic. Aust.
|	|	|	|	|	|	  bur. Cann River, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Forestry Officer
|	|	|	|	|	|	Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Farmer
|	|	|	|	|	|	& Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Home Duties
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	& Details withheld
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|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Farmer/Contractor
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	& Details withheld
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|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Accountant
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Australian Army
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Welfare Worker
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	& Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Building Contractor
|	|	|	|	|	|	& Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	  m. Omeo, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	& Jean Christine Staines
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	Ian Alexander McKinnon*
|	|	|	|	|	|	  b. 1920
|	|	|	|	|	|	  d. 2 Jun 1978, Orbost, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	|	  bur. Cann River, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Farmer
|	|	|	|	|	|	& Annie Audrey Harrison
|	|	|	|	|	|	  d. 18 May 1970
|	|	|	|	|	|	  bur. Cann River, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Home Duties
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	& Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	Ian Alexander McKinnon*
|	|	|	|	|	|	  b. 1920
|	|	|	|	|	|	  d. 2 Jun 1978, Orbost, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	|	  bur. Cann River, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Farmer
|	|	|	|	|	|	& Mary Hodge
|	|	|	|	|	Albert Lovelock Angus*
|	|	|	|	|	  b. 23 May 1882, Ballarat, Vic. Aust.
|	|	|	|	|	  d. 5 Apr 1953, Essendon, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	  bp. 14 Jan 1892, St. Andrews, Ballarat, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	  bur. 7 Apr 1953, Fawkner Cemetery, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Flour Mill, Kimptons
|	|	|	|	|	& Emily Maie Gephart
|	|	|	|	|	  b. 10 May 1896, Daylesford, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	  d. 14 Jun 1928, Essendon, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	  bur. 16 Jun 1928, Fawkner Cemetery, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Waitress
|	|	|	|	|	|	Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Butcher
|	|	|	|	|	|	& Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Salesgirl
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Cabinet Maker
|	|	|	|	|	|	Dorothy PEARL Angus
|	|	|	|	|	|	  b. 31 Aug 1924, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	|	  d. 6 Aug 1996, Western Hospital Footscray, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	|	  bp. Methodist Church Essendon, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	|	  bur. 9 Aug 1996, Private Cremation
|	|	|	|	|	|	& Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Rubber Worker Foreman
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	Details withheld*
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Aircraft Technican
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	& Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Truck Driver
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Student
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	Details withheld*
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Aircraft Technican
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	& Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Bank Manager
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	& Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Secretary
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Secretary
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	& Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	Albert Lovelock Angus*
|	|	|	|	|	  b. 23 May 1882, Ballarat, Vic. Aust.
|	|	|	|	|	  d. 5 Apr 1953, Essendon, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	  bp. 14 Jan 1892, St. Andrews, Ballarat, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	  bur. 7 Apr 1953, Fawkner Cemetery, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Flour Mill, Kimptons
|	|	|	|	|	& Dorothy Jane Orton
|	|	|	|	|	  b. 16 Mar 1901, Carlton, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	  d. 13 Dec 1989, Tullamarine, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Bookkeeper
|	|	|	|	|	|	Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Civil Engineer
|	|	|	|	|	|	Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Commercial Traveller
|	|	|	|	|	|	& Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Retail Sales/Cashier
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Kindergarten Teacher
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	& Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Public Servant
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Refrigeration Mechanic
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	& Carolyn Tracey Thompson
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	Victoria Angus
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Refrigeration Mechanic
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	& Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	Catherine Mary Angus
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	  b. 17 Jun 1966, Coburg, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	  d. 26 Jun 1990, Niddrie, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	  bp. 25 Jul 1966, Essendon, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	  bur. 28 Jun 1990, Keilor, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	|	Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Systems Analyst
|	|	|	|	|	|	& Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Primary School Teacher
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	Lillie May Angus*
|	|	|	|	|	  b. 1 Aug 1883, Ballarat, Vic. Aust.
|	|	|	|	|	  d. 22 Sep 1951, Prince Henrys Hospital Melbourne Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	  bur. 24 Sep 1951, Fawkner Cemetery, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	& Edward Gillespie
|	|	|	|	|	  b. 1872, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	  d. 1918, Cheltenham, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Casemaker
|	|	|	|	|	  m. 1901, Ballarat, Vic. Aust.
|	|	|	|	|	|	Vera Gillespie
|	|	|	|	|	|	  b. 1902
|	|	|	|	|	|	Edward Douglas (Bill) Gillespie
|	|	|	|	|	|	  b. 1904, Kensington Hill, Melbourne Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	|	  d. 13 May 1981, Dandenong Hospital
|	|	|	|	|	|	  bur. 15 May 1981, Springvale Crematorium, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	|	& Amy Dorothy Cropley
|	|	|	|	|	|	  d. 8 Jul 1983, Dandenong, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	|	  bur. 11 Jul 1983, Springvale Crematorium, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Carpenter
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	& Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	Albert Lawrence Gillespie
|	|	|	|	|	|	  b. 1906
|	|	|	|	|	|	  d. 1907, Kenhill, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	|	James Allan Gillespie
|	|	|	|	|	|	  b. 1909
|	|	|	|	|	|	  d. 1910, Carlton, Melbourne, Vic..
|	|	|	|	|	|	Ivy May Angus
|	|	|	|	|	|	  b. 24 Mar 1913, Essendon, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	|	  d. 6 Mar 1980, Croydon, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	|	  bur. 8 Mar 1980, Springvale Crematorium, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Home Duties
|	|	|	|	|	|	& David Matthew William Marsh
|	|	|	|	|	|	  b. 19 May 1898, Kamarooka, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	|	  d. 4 Apr 1989, Heidelberg Repat. Hospital, Melbourne
|	|	|	|	|	|	  bur. 6 Apr 1989, Springvale Crematorium, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. P.M.G. Line Foreman
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Stenographer
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	& Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Roof Tiler/Carpenter
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Plumber
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	& Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Nurse
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Forrestry Officer
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	& Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Clerical
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	& Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Hairdresser
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Postal Clerk/Retired
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	& Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Home Duties
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. State Sales Manager
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	& Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Nurse
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	Details withheld*
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Sales Executive
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	& Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Defence Service Woman
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	Details withheld*
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Sales Executive
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	& Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Personnel Consultant
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. State Enrolled Nurse
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Stores/Truck Driver
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	& Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Machinist Overlocker
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Storeman
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	& Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Sales Clerk
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	& Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Labourer
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	& Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	Stella Gladys Gillespie
|	|	|	|	|	|	  b. Mar 1914
|	|	|	|	|	|	  d. Apr 1914
|	|	|	|	|	|	  bur. 6 Apr 1914, Coburg Cemetery, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	Lillie May Angus*
|	|	|	|	|	  b. 1 Aug 1883, Ballarat, Vic. Aust.
|	|	|	|	|	  d. 22 Sep 1951, Prince Henrys Hospital Melbourne Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	  bur. 24 Sep 1951, Fawkner Cemetery, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	& Henry Charles Rayner
|	|	|	|	|	  d. 10 Dec 1927, Footscray, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Carter
|	|	|	|	|	  m. 1922
|	|	|	|	Florence Harriet Lovelock*
|	|	|	|	  b. 30 Nov 1858, Great Western, Vic.
|	|	|	|	  d. 20 Apr 1902, Carlton, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	  bur. Apr 1902, Melbourne Cemetery, Vic.
|	|	|	|	& Josiah Opie
|	|	|	|	  b. 1862, Keilor, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	  d. 1947, Werribee, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	  occ. Contractor
|	|	|	|	  m. 4 Jul 1889, Moor St. Fitzroy, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	Harold Burnett Opie
|	|	|	|	|	  b. 1890, Maidstone, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	  d. 17 Nov 1903, Skeleton Creek Rd., Laverton, Melb. Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	Ivy Opie
|	|	|	|	|	  b. 7 Aug 1897, Richmond, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	  d. 15 Apr 1982, Werribee, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	  bur. Werribee Cemetery, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Home Duties
|	|	|	|	|	& Robert Nathan Tinkler
|	|	|	|	|	  b. 14 Apr 1885, Coghills Creek, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	  d. 1 May 1954, Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Vic. Aust.
|	|	|	|	|	  bp. Methodist, Ballarat, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	  bur. Werribee Cemetery, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Farmer
|	|	|	|	|	  m. 1918
|	|	|	|	|	|	George Stephen Tinkler
|	|	|	|	|	|	  b. 29 Jan 1919, Richmond, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	|	  d. 12 Nov 1993, Werribee, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	|	  bp. Anglican, Werribee, Vic
|	|	|	|	|	|	  bur. Werribee Cemetery, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Accountant
|	|	|	|	|	|	& Agnes Emma Hope
|	|	|	|	|	|	  b. 26 Aug 1917, Moonambel, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	|	  d. 19 Feb 1995, Western Hospital, Footscray, Melbourne
|	|	|	|	|	|	  bp. Anglican, Moonambel, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Munitions Worker
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Bank Manager
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|	|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Bank Officer
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Primary Teacher (B.A.)
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	& Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. School Teacher
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	Details withheld
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|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Accounting Assistant
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	& Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Bank officer
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	Details withheld
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|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Credit Officer
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	& Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Fitter and Turner
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	Details withheld
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|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Nurse
|	|	|	|	|	|	& Harold Wallace Boyd
|	|	|	|	|	|	  b. 4 Nov 1920, Brunswick, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	|	  d. 16 Nov 1996, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	|	  bp. Methodist, Coburg, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Public Accountant
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	Andrew Wallace Boyd*
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. MedicalResearch/Physician
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	& Sally Helen Hudson
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	  b. 29 Jan 1947, Berwick, Vic. Aust.
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	  d. 23 Mar 1991
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	  bp. Anglican, Berwick, Vic. Aust.
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	  bur. Berwick, Cemetery, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Music Teacher
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|	|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. MedicalResearch/Physician
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|	|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Veterinarian
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|	|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Law Student
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	& Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Pharmacist/Bank Manager
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	Details withheld
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|	|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Employment Officer
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|	|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Panel Beater
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|	|	|	|	|	|	Jean Elizabeth Tinkler
|	|	|	|	|	|	  b. 23 Sep 1921, Werribee, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	|	  d. 29 Aug 1950, Werribee, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	|	  bp. Anglican, Werribee, Vic
|	|	|	|	|	|	  bur. Werribee Cemetery, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	|	Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Laboratory Assistant
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|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Painter
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Secretary
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|	|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Security Guard
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Clerk
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|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Plumber
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Plumber
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Student
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Secretary
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|	|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Building Contractor
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|	|	|	|	|	|	Robert Walter Tinkler
|	|	|	|	|	|	  b. 12 May 1925, Werribee, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	|	  d. 23 Jan 1927, Werribee, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	|	  bp. Anglican, Werribee, Vic
|	|	|	|	|	|	  bur. Werribee Cemetery, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	James Henry Lovelock
|	|	|	|	  b. Jun 1860, Lamplough, Vic.
|	|	|	|	  d. 26 Mar 1861, Redbank, Vic.
|	|	|	|	  bur. Avoca, Vic. Aust.
|	|	|	|	Frederick Barkly Lovelock
|	|	|	|	  b. 13 Dec 1861, Barkly, Vic. Aust.
|	|	|	|	  d. 1931, New Zealand
|	|	|	|	  bp. CofE, Avoca, Vic.
|	|	|	|	  occ. Auctioneer
|	|	|	|	& Mary Ferguson
|	|	|	|	  b. 1861, Collingwood, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	  m. 12 Aug 1885, South Yarra, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	Unamed Male Lovelock
|	|	|	|	|	  b. 1886, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	Daniel William Lovelock
|	|	|	|	|	  b. 27 May 1887, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	  d. 3 Feb 1961, Kawakawa, North Auckland, New Zealand
|	|	|	|	|	  bp. Free Thinker
|	|	|	|	|	  bur. Kawakawa, North Auckland, New Zealand
|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Bar Tender
|	|	|	|	|	& Eva Hill
|	|	|	|	|	|	William Ferguson Lovelock
|	|	|	|	|	|	  b. 14 Aug 1914, New Zealand
|	|	|	|	|	Frederick Lovelock
|	|	|	|	|	  b. 8 Apr 1889, South Yarra, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	  d. 19 Dec 1931, Otahuhu, Auckland, New Zealand
|	|	|	|	|	  bp. Presbyterian
|	|	|	|	|	  bur. Otahuhu Public Cemetery
|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Slaughtering Foreman
|	|	|	|	|	& Agnes Margaret Doyle
|	|	|	|	|	  b. 13 Jan 1900, Otahuhu, Auckland, New Zealand
|	|	|	|	|	  d. 6 Sep 1964, Auckland, New Zealand
|	|	|	|	|	  bp. R/C, Otahuhu, Auckland, N.Z.
|	|	|	|	|	  bur. 9 Sep 1964, Mangere Lawn Cemetery, Auckland, N.Z.
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|	|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Senior Manager Coles/Myer
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	& Details withheld
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|	|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Senior Manager Coles/Myer
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|	|	|	|	|	|	Frederick Lovelock
|	|	|	|	|	|	  b. 28 Jan 1924, Otahuhu, Auckland, New Zealand
|	|	|	|	|	|	  d. 1968, Auckland, New Zealand
|	|	|	|	|	|	  bp. R/C, Otahuhu, Auckland, N.Z.
|	|	|	|	|	|	  bur. Cremated, Auckland, New Zealand
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|	|	|	|	|	|	|	Peter Frederick Lovelock
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	  b. 1960
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	  d. 5 May 1979, Pukekohe, New Zealand
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	  bur. 8 May 1979, Purewa Crematorium, Meadowbank, N.Z.
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	Details withheld*
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|	|	|	|	|	|	& Noel O'Hanlon
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	Details withheld*
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|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Builder
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|	|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Secretary
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|	|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. General Manager
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|	|	|	|	|	|	|	Dianne Teresa Wenzlick
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	  b. 21 Oct 1955, Howick, Auckland, New Zealand
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	  bur. Auckland, New Zealand
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	Details withheld
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|	|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Computer Programmer
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|	|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Builder
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|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Engineer
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|	|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Doctor
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|	|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Audiologist
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	& Michael George Kelly
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	Details withheld*
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|	|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Marketing Manager
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|	|	|	|	|	Hector Norman Lovelock
|	|	|	|	|	  b. 1890, South Yarra, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	George Ferguson Lovelock
|	|	|	|	|	  b. 17 Nov 1891, Victoria
|	|	|	|	|	  d. 15 Sep 1916, Flers, France
|	|	|	|	|	John Ferguson Lovelock
|	|	|	|	|	  b. 27 Aug 1892, South Yarra, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	  d. 30 Aug 1918, Bancourt, France
|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Labourer
|	|	|	|	|	Samuel Lovelock
|	|	|	|	|	  b. 1894, South Yarra, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	  d. 1894, South Yarra, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	Daniel William Lovelock
|	|	|	|	  b. 28 Apr 1864, Landsborough, Vic.
|	|	|	|	  d. May 1886, West Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	  bp. CofE, Avoca, Vic.
|	|	|	|	  bur. 31 May 1886, Melbourne Cemetery, Vic.
|	|	|	|	Edward Dundas Douglas Lovelock
|	|	|	|	  b. 1866, Ballarat, Vic. Aust.
|	|	|	|	  d. 1867, Ballarat, Vic. Aust.
|	|	|	|	Margaret Redford Lovelock
|	|	|	|	  b. 1868, Caulfield, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	  d. 1954, Parkville, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	& William Harrison
|	|	|	|	  b. 1866, Lincolnshire, England
|	|	|	|	  occ. Butcher
|	|	|	|	  m. 17 Feb 1891, Moor St. Fitzroy Free Church
|	|	|	|	|	William Ernest Harrison
|	|	|	|	|	  b. 25 Dec 1891, Footscray, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	  d. 10 Mar 1892, Footscray, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	Elsie Harrison
|	|	|	|	|	  b. 10 Jan 1893, Maidstone, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	  d. 12 Jan 1915, Footscray, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	& Henry Armstrong Lacey
|	|	|	|	|	  b. 1887, Maidstone, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	  d. 1970, Preston, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	  m. 1912
|	|	|	|	|	Roy Harrison
|	|	|	|	|	  b. 28 Jun 1894, Maidstone, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	  d. 1987
|	|	|	|	|	  bur. Box Hill, Melbourne, Vic. Aust.
|	|	|	|	|	& Margaret Josine Smith
|	|	|	|	|	  d. 1943
|	|	|	|	|	  bur. Box Hill, Melbourne, Vic. Aust.
|	|	|	|	|	  m. 1916
|	|	|	|	|	|	Milton Harrison
|	|	|	|	|	|	Noreen Harrison
|	|	|	|	|	|	Ormond Harrison
|	|	|	|	|	|	Laurie Harrison
|	|	|	|	|	Ethel Harrison
|	|	|	|	|	  b. 5 Nov 1896, Deer Park, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	  d. 1978, Collingwood, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	& Chrisostomos Frangos
|	|	|	|	|	  d. 1966, Fitzroy, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	|	Constantine Kostas Frangos
|	|	|	|	|	|	  d. 1931, Carlton, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	William Harrison*
|	|	|	|	|	  b. 5 Aug 1899, Footscray, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	  d. Oct 1953, Yallourn, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	  bur. 18 Oct 1953, Wesburn Cemetery, Upper Yarra, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Labourer
|	|	|	|	|	& Lena McGee
|	|	|	|	|	  b. Barham, N.S.W. Aust.
|	|	|	|	|	  d. Nowra, N.S.W.
|	|	|	|	|	  bur. Nowra, N.S.W.
|	|	|	|	|	  m. 1917
|	|	|	|	|	|	Elsie (Chudda) Myrtle Harrison*
|	|	|	|	|	|	  b. 26 Jul 1925, Barham, N.S.W. Aust.
|	|	|	|	|	|	  d. 1988, Cohuna, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	|	  bur. Barham Cemetery, N.S.W.
|	|	|	|	|	|	& Albert Hamilton
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	William (Sonny) Harrison
|	|	|	|	|	|	Elsie (Chudda) Myrtle Harrison*
|	|	|	|	|	|	  b. 26 Jul 1925, Barham, N.S.W. Aust.
|	|	|	|	|	|	  d. 1988, Cohuna, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	|	  bur. Barham Cemetery, N.S.W.
|	|	|	|	|	|	& Don Needham
|	|	|	|	|	|	Elsie (Chudda) Myrtle Harrison*
|	|	|	|	|	|	  b. 26 Jul 1925, Barham, N.S.W. Aust.
|	|	|	|	|	|	  d. 1988, Cohuna, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	|	  bur. Barham Cemetery, N.S.W.
|	|	|	|	|	|	& Don ????
|	|	|	|	|	|	Details withheld*
|	|	|	|	|	|	& Norma Faye Young
|	|	|	|	|	|	  b. ca 1928
|	|	|	|	|	|	  d. 8 May 1971, Morwell, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	|	  bur. Springvale Crematorium, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	Details withheld
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|	|	|	|	|	|	& Charles Thorpe Joffe Wenden
|	|	|	|	|	|	  b. 1914, Fitzroy, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Police Officer
|	|	|	|	|	|	  m. Prahran, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	Details withheld*
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|	|	|	|	|	|	|	Charles William Francis Wenden
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	  b. 7 Mar 1954, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	  d. 1983, Yarrawonga, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	|	|	& ???? ????
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|	|	|	|	|	|	  m. Malvern, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	|	Cyril Roy (Sid) Harrison
|	|	|	|	|	|	  b. Barham, N.S.W. Aust.
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|	|	|	|	|	|	Frances Harrison
|	|	|	|	|	|	  b. 1936, Barham, N.S.W. Aust.
|	|	|	|	|	|	  d. Nov 1980, Sydney, N.S.W.
|	|	|	|	|	|	Details withheld
|	|	|	|	|	|	& Len Pont
|	|	|	|	|	|	  m. Sydney, N.S.W. ???
|	|	|	|	|	William Harrison*
|	|	|	|	|	  b. 5 Aug 1899, Footscray, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	  d. Oct 1953, Yallourn, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	  bur. 18 Oct 1953, Wesburn Cemetery, Upper Yarra, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Labourer
|	|	|	|	|	& Olive Grace Galway
|	|	|	|	|	  d. May 1971, Vinn
|	|	|	|	|	  bur. 14 May 1971, Wesburn Cemetery, Upper Yarra, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	|	Details withheld
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|	|	|	|	|	Frank Harrison
|	|	|	|	|	  b. 14 Sep 1900, Maidstone, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	& Phillis ????
|	|	|	|	|	|	Alice Harrison
|	|	|	|	|	|	Dulcie Harrison
|	|	|	|	|	Florence (Florrie) Harriet Harrison
|	|	|	|	|	  b. Jul 1903
|	|	|	|	|	  d. 22 Apr 1960, Wangaratta Hospital, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	& Henry Batten
|	|	|	|	|	  b. 1900, Ararat, Vic.
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|	|	|	|	|	Elizabeth Bray Harrison
|	|	|	|	|	  b. 29 Apr 1904
|	|	|	|	|	  d. 1982, Footscray, Melbourne, Vic.
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|	|	|	|	  b. 1870, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	& Jane Matilda (George) Isles
|	|	|	|	  b. ca 1859
|	|	|	|	  d. 1903, Melbourne West, Vic.
|	|	|	|	  m. 15 Jun 1893
|	|	|	|	Edward Stratton Lovelock
|	|	|	|	  b. 1872, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	  d. 1932
|	|	|	|	Agnes Lovelock*
|	|	|	|	  b. 1874, North Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	  d. 11 Jul 1932, Melbourne Hospital
|	|	|	|	  bur. 13 Jul 1932, Springvale Crematorium, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	  occ. Home Duties
|	|	|	|	& Charles George Parker
|	|	|	|	  m. 1901, West Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	Agnes Lovelock*
|	|	|	|	  b. 1874, North Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	  d. 11 Jul 1932, Melbourne Hospital
|	|	|	|	  bur. 13 Jul 1932, Springvale Crematorium, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	  occ. Home Duties
|	|	|	|	& Peter McKay
|	|	|	|	  m. 1916, Fitzroy, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	Florence Alma McKay
|	|	|	|	|	& Stan Haynes
|	|	|	|	|	Grace Valerie McKay
|	|	|	|	Amy Lovelock
|	|	|	|	  b. 1874, North Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	  d. 1874, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	Ashley Lovelock
|	|	|	|	  b. 1877, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	  d. 15 Jun 1936, Horsham Base Hospital. Vic.
|	|	|	|	  bur. 16 Jun 1936, Murtoa Cemetery, Vic.
|	|	|	|	  occ. Labourer
|	|	|	|	Beatrice May Lovelock
|	|	|	|	  b. 1880, Hotham, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	  d. 1880
|	|	|	|	Nellie Jane Lovelock
|	|	|	|	  b. 25 May 1881, Yangery, Vic.
|	|	|	|	  d. 25 May 1911, Skipton, Vic.
|	|	|	|	& Robert Arthur Lockett
|	|	|	|	  b. South Australia
|	|	|	|	  m. 1903
|	|	|	|	|	Nellie Hope Lockett
|	|	|	|	|	  b. 1911, Skipton, Vic.
|	|	|	Agnes Straton*
|	|	|	  b. 13 Oct 1838, Bannockburn, Edinburgh, Scotland, U.K.
|	|	|	  d. 24 Aug 1906, Minyip, Vic.
|	|	|	& Robert Stanlake
|	|	|	  b. ca 1816, Devonshire, U.K.
|	|	|	  d. 31 Aug 1896, Preston, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	  occ. Gentleman
|	|	|	  m. 18 Nov 1895, St. Santius Church, Collingwood, Melb.
|	|	|	Jane Straton
|	|	|	  b. 11 Nov 1840, Scotland
|	|	|	  d. 11 Sep 1841
|	|	|	William Straton
|	|	|	  b. 16 Dec 1842, Scotland
|	|	|	John Straton
|	|	|	  b. 12 Aug 1846, Bannockburn, Edinburgh, Scotland, U.K.
|	|	|	  d. 21 Sep 1934, Surrey Hills, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	  bur. 22 Sep 1934, Burwood Cemetery, Vic.
|	|	|	  occ. Farmer/Wool Broker
|	|	|	& Mary Annie Francis Norton McFarlane
|	|	|	  b. 1858
|	|	|	  d. 26 Nov 1940, Prahran, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	  bur. 27 Nov 1940, Burwood Cemetery, Vic.
|	|	|	  occ. Home Duties
|	|	|	  m. 1884, Landsborough, Vic.
|	|	|	|	Spencer Dundas Straton
|	|	|	|	  b. 1885, Landsborough, Vic.
|	|	|	|	  d. 1958, Boort, Vic. Aust.
|	|	|	|	  bur. 1958, Boort, Vic. Aust.
|	|	|	|	  occ. Chauffeur/Mechanic
|	|	|	|	& Fanny Dalgleish
|	|	|	|	  b. ca 1894
|	|	|	|	  d. 1964, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	  bur. 1964, Boort, Vic. Aust.
|	|	|	|	  m. 1914
|	|	|	|	|	Maxwell Leonard Straton
|	|	|	|	|	  b. 25 Aug 1914, Ardale, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	  d. 10 Aug 2001, Moama, N.S.W.
|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Farm Hand
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|	|	|	|	|	Laurie Margaret Straton
|	|	|	|	|	  b. 1916, Boort, Vic. Aust.
|	|	|	|	|	  d. abt 1976, Coledale, N.S.W.
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|	|	|	|	|	John Laughlan Straton
|	|	|	|	|	  b. 20 Jun 1922, Boort, Vic. Aust.
|	|	|	|	|	  d. 5 Apr 1965, Fitzroy, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	  bur. Apr 1965, Boort, Vic. Aust.
|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Carpenter
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|	|	|	|	|	& Mavis Esma Mercer
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|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Factory Hand
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|	|	|	|	|	  b. 1930
|	|	|	|	|	  d. 16 Dec 1999, Boort, Vic. Aust.
|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Operator
|	|	|	|	|	Maurice (Spanner) Spencer Straton
|	|	|	|	|	  d. abt 1993
|	|	|	|	|	  occ. Grocers Assistant
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|	|	|	|	|	|	Glen Spencer Straton
|	|	|	|	|	|	  b. 1964
|	|	|	|	|	|	  d. 1966, Carlton, Melbourne, Vic.
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|	|	|	|	Margaret ( Maggie ) Redford Straton
|	|	|	|	  b. 1886, Landsborough, Vic.
|	|	|	|	  d. 5 Apr 1911, Swan Hill, Vic.
|	|	|	|	  bur. 6 Apr 1911, Swan Hill, Vic.
|	|	|	|	  occ. Milliner
|	|	|	|	Ralph Douglas Straton
|	|	|	|	  b. 1890, Landsborough, Vic.
|	|	|	|	  d. 1956, Boort, Vic. Aust.
|	|	|	|	  bur. 1956, Boort, Vic. Aust.
|	|	|	|	  occ. Motor Mechanic
|	|	|	|	& Annie Isabel Stewart
|	|	|	|	  b. 1892, Casterton, Vic.
|	|	|	|	  d. 1 May 1978, Glen ?
|	|	|	|	  bur. May 1978, Boort, Vic. Aust.
|	|	|	|	  m. 1916
|	|	|	|	|	Details withheld
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|	|	|	|	Gertrude Annie Straton
|	|	|	|	  b. 26 Sep 1892, Landsborough, Vic.
|	|	|	|	  d. 20 Jan 1973, Caulfield, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	& William Francis Lynch
|	|	|	|	  b. 30 Mar 1890
|	|	|	|	  d. 5 May 1947, Fitzroy, Melbourne, Vic.
|	|	|	|	  m. 1915
|	|	|	|	|	John (Jack) Redford Lynch
|	|	|	|	|	  b. 12 Oct 1916, Stawell, Vic.
|	|	|	|	|	  d. 19 Jun 1990, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
|	|	|	|	|	& Grace Constance French
|	|	|	|	|	  b. 4 Jan 1912, Musswellbrook, N.S.W.
|	|	|	|	|	  d. 16 Jun 1996, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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|	|	|	|	|	& Dianna Mary Dawson
|	|	|	|	|	  b. 26 Nov 1913
|	|	|	|	|	|	Irina Dianna Gertrude Lynch*
|	|	|	|	|	|	  b. 18 Sep 1941
|	|	|	|	|	|	  d. 23 Mar 1986
|	|	|	|	|	|	& Hubert Balschaert BELMAIN
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|	|	|	|	|	|	  d. 23 Mar 1986
|	|	|	|	|	|	& Colin ????
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|	|	|	|	|	|	|	Loriner ????
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|	|	Edward Stratton
|	|	  b. 1821, Edinburgh, Scotland
|	|	  occ. Outdr Officer HMS Customs
|	|	& Christina ????
|	|	  b. 1829, Leith, Edinburgh, Scotland
|	|	|	Isabella Stratton
|	|	|	  b. 1855, Leith, Edinburgh, Scotland
|	|	|	& Thomas Davidson
|	|	|	  b. 1855, Kelso, Roxburg, Scotland
|	|	|	  occ. Factors & Sessions Clerk
|	|	|	|	Thomas Davidson

Shepherd Branch

WILLIAM(E.24) STRATON, Baker in Dalkeith, s/o John Straton,(E.31) and Agnes Wilson.  
Born:- 1803 [-1878].
Married: - 12 Nov 1825, Marion Shepherd,1805-76.
Died:- 1878 at Bonnyrigg, buried Cockpen.
Issue:- 
	  2.	i		Mary Douglas Straton.
	  3.	ii	John (E.34) Straton.
	 	  	iii	Elizabeth Straton Baptised 4 Oct 1829. 
	 	  	iv	David (E.4) Straton Baptised 27 Nov 1831. 
	 	  	v		Agnes Straiton Baptised 16 Jun 1833. 
	 	  	vi	Margaret Straiton Baptised 10 May 1835.
	  4.	vii	William (E.25) Straton.
	 	  	viii	Lilias Fletcher Straiton Baptised 6 Jan 1842, Annuitant.  Alive 1881.
	  5.	ix	Walter (E.3) Straton b. 14 Feb 1844.

Second Generation

2.	Mary Douglas Straton Baptised 15 Oct 1826, alive 1881. m. 16 Jul 1854,  Michael Burns, b. 1818?, Closeburn, Dumfries, Scotland, Coal Master, alive 1881. 
				Issue:
	 	  	i	Marion Shepherd Burns b. 12 Apr 1855, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland.  Alive 1881.
	 	  	ii John Newton Burns b. 26 Aug 1856, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland. 
	 	  	iii Janet Dalrymple Burns b. 31 May 1858, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland.  Alive 1881.
	 	  	iv Straton Brougham Burns b. 10 Apr 1860, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland,  Occupation Student of Medicine.  Alive 1881.
	 	  	v	Sarah Jane Burns b. 15 Dec 1862, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland.  Alive 1881.
	 	  	vi	William Comb Burns b. 23 Nov 1864, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland. 

3.	John (E.34) Straton Baptised 3 Mar 1828, Cockpen, Midlothian, Scotland,  Occupation Joiner, m. 5 Jun 1857, in Cramond, Midlothian, Scotland,  Marion Weston, b. 1840?, Granton, Edinburgh, Scotland.    Both live 1881.  John died After 1902.
				Children:
	 	  	i	Agnes Martina Straton b. 25 Jun 1858, Lasswade, Midlothian, Scotland.  Alive 1881.
	 	  	ii	William Franklin Straton b. 8 Jan 1860, Cockpen, Midlothian, Scotland,  Occupation Joiner.  Alive 1881.
	 	  	iii	Marion W ilson Straton b. 5 Dec 1861, Cockpen, Midlothian, Scotland.  Alive 1881.
	 	  	iv	John Weston Straton b. 28 Sep 1863, Cockpen, Midlothian, Scotland,  Occupation Joiner.  Alive 1881.
	 	  	v	Oliver Straton b. 11 Dec 1865, Cockpen, Midlothian, Scotland.  Alive 1881.
	 	  	vi	James Martin Straton b. 27 Nov 1867, Cockpen, Midlothian, Scotland.  Alive 1881.
	 	  	vii	Walter Douglas Straton b. 19 Oct 1869, Tulliallan, Perth, Scotland.  Alive 1881.
	 	  	viii	David Shepherd Straton b. 2 Nov 1871, Tulliallan, Perth, Scotland, d. 1879. 
	 	  	ix	Thomas Fletcher Straton b. 17 Jan 1874, Tulliallan, Perth, Scotland, d. 1879. 
	 	  	x	Neuton Wothersp Straton b. 1875, Tulliallan, Perth, Scotland, d. 1894.
	 	  	xi	Mary Eliza Lili Straton b. 1877, Tulliallan, Perth, Scotland.  Alive 1881.

4.	William (E.25) Straton Baptised 29 Apr 1838, Cockpen, Midlothian, Scotland, m. 5 Jul 1860, in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland,  Elizabeth Sutherland, b. 1844?, Strachan, Kincardine, Scotland.  William died 1898?   Reform Street Restaurant at Dundee.  Both alive 1881. 
				Children:
	 	  	i	Helen Ross Straton b. 8 Apr 1861, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland.  Alive 1882.
	 	  	ii	William Straton b. 13 Jun 1862, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland,  Occupation Clerk.  Alive 1881.
	 	  	iii	Prudence Sutherland Straton b. 1 Jul 1864, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland.  Alive 1881.
	 	  	iv	Marion Shepherd Straton b. 27 Mar 1866, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland.  Alive 1881.
	 	  	v	Oliver Straton b. 22 Jun 1873, Dundee, Angus, Scotland.  Alive 1881.

5.	Walter (E.3) Straton b. 14 Feb 1844, Cockpen, Midlothian, Scotland, Occupation Coal Merchant, m. 17 Nov 1868, in High Church, Glasgow,  Helen Mckenzie Davidson, b. 1852?, Glasgow, Lanakskire, Scotland.  Walter died After 1902.  Both alive 1881.
				Children:
	 	  	i	Janet Mackenzie Straton b. 7 Aug 1870, Cockpen, Midlothian, Scotland.  Alive 1881.
	 	  	ii	William Straton b. 6 Sep 1872, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland.  Alive 1881.
	 	  	iii	Kenneth Davidson Straton b. 18 Jun 1874, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, d. 1875. 
	 	  	iv	Marion Shepherd Straton b. 1876, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland.  Alive 1881.
	 	  	v	Helen McK David Straton b. 1879, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland.  Alive 1881.

Appendix. C 

Complete trees.

Appendix E

Appendix O

Miscellaneous Stratons in Other Regions

Gallyden & Muirlands, Arbroath
Johnshaven, Benholm
Hawkhill, Dundee
Markinch, Fife
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Balzordie
Eister-Dunlappie, Stracathro, Angus
Dunstrathe, par. of Fettercairne in the Mearns
Dalry
Merchingston
Fairne, Forfar

Appendix W

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Full Citation	Standrd Abbreviation or Catalogue number	Page of first Citation	Order of  Citation in Peter Straton’s ms or	
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A Book Of Strattons: Being A Collection Of Stratton Records From England And Scotland, And A Genealogical History Of The Early Colonial Strattons In America, With Five Generations Of Their Descendants.  Compiled By Harriet Russell Stratton (Chattanooga, Tennessee), Volume I (The Grafton Press, Genealogical Publishers, New York, 1908).				
A Letter from the Lord General Cromwel, concerning the rendition of the Castle of Edinburgh to his Excellency on articles. [Dated: 24 Dec. 1650.]	BL: E621.(2.)	36	72	
Accounts of the Lord High Treasurer of Scotland	TA;
After 1580 consult the original documents in NAS: E21 	18, 24	34	
Acta et Decreta	NAS: CS5	23	40	
Acts of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, Bannatyne Club (Book of the Universal Kirk.)	Acts of Gen Assembly	25	45	
Acts of the Lords of Council (1501-1554), HM General Register House, Edinburgh, 1932.	ADC
NAS: CS5	16, 23	29	
Alcock, Deborah, No Cross, No Crown (Nelsons Girls’ Library, London, 1910).				
Anderson, Peter John ed, Roll of Alumni in Arts of the University and King’s College of Aberdeen.		26	47	
Anderson, Rev. John, Calendar of the Laing Charters AD 854-1837 belonging to the University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, 1899	Edinburgh University: Laing Charters	27	52	
Arbuthnot MS Family History 	NRAS 5		8	
Bardgett, Frank D., Scotland reformed: the reformation in Angus and the Mearns (J. Donald Publishers, Edinburgh, 1989)				
Book of the Universal Kirk.	Acts of Gen Assembly	25	44	
Bower, Walter, ed. Watt, D.E.R., Scotichronicon, Aberdeen University Press, 1996			9	
Brechin Testaments	NAS:CC3	26	49	
Bruce, John & Hamilton, William Douglas, eds, Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, of the Reign of Charles I…in…the Public Record Office, London 1858-1897. 	SPD (Charles I)	26	50	
Bruce, Rev. Dr. (of Banff),The Story of David Straton One of Scotland’s Martyrs,  (J. G. Bisset, Aberdeen, 1928).				
Burgh Registers of Montrose	NAS: B51	31	60	
Burke, Bernard, ‘Unattested Pedigrees’ (Possibly Burke, Bernard. Royal Descents and Pedigrees of Founders' Kin. London: Harrison & Sons, 1858.) 		33	68	
Burton, John H. ed., Darien Papers, Bannatyne Club Vol. 90, Edinburgh 1849	Bannatyne Club: Darien Papers	38	77	
Calendar of charters H.M. Register House	NAS: RH6	69	89	
Calendar of Documents relating to Scotland in Public Record Office, London	CDS	2	5	
Calendar of Treasury Papers 1556-1728, Longman & Co. London 1868-89.	Calendar of Treasury Papers in the PRO 1714-1719	38	78	
Cameron, Annie I. ed., The Scottish Correspondence of Mary of Lorraine, The Scottish History Society, Ser.3 Vol 10, Edinburgh 1927.		17	32	
Cannon, Richard, Historical record of the First, or Royal Regiment of Foot: containing an account of the origin of the regiment in the reign of King James VI of Scotland, and of its subsequent services to 1846 (Parker, Furnivall, & Parker, London, 1847).		94	99	
Chalmers, Patrick ed., Registrum Episcopatus Brechinensis, 2 Vol, The Bannatyne Club, Aberdeen 1856.	Registrum Episcopatus Brechinensis	3	16	
Clark, James Toshach ed., Genealogical Collections concerning families in Scotland made by Walter Macfarlane 1750-1751, Scottish History Society 34, Edinburgh 1900		48	85	
Corporation List of Burgesses (Montrose?)		46	83	
Court of Session 	NAS: CS108, CS181 	69	93	
Crawfurd, George, Lives and Characters of the Officers of the Crown and of the State in Scotland, London, 1736.		24
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Crawfurd, George, The Peerage of Scotland, Edinburgh 1716	Crawfurd, Peerage	23	41	
Dalton, Charles ed., English Army Lists and Commission Registers, 1661-1714, 6 Vols, London, 1892-1904	Dalton, English Army	31	58	
Dalton, Charles ed., The Blenheim Roll 1704, London 1899		31	62	
Dalton, Charles, George the First’s Army 1714-1727, 2 Vols, London 1910		31	63	
Dalton, Charles, The Scots Army 1661–1688, London and Edinburgh 1909	Dalton, The Scots Army,	31	54	
Deuchar family history     		14	23	
Edinburgh Poll Tax Returns for 1694, edited by Marguerite Wood, Scottish Record Society (Series) v. 82 (J. Skinner, Edinburgh, 1951 ) 			844782	
Edinburgh Testaments	NAS: CC8/8	23	39	
European Magazine		46	84	
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Register of Edinburgh Apprentices, 1701-1755, edited by Charles B. Boog Watson, Scottish Record Society (Series) v. 61 (J. Skinner, Edinburgh, 1929)			844780	
Register of Edinburgh Apprentices, 1756-1800, edited by Marguerite Wood, Scottish Record Society (Series) v. 92 (J. Skinner, Edinburgh, 1963) 			844784	
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Scottish Correspondence of Mary of Lorraine, Annie I. Cameron, Sc Hist Soc, Ser.3, Vol 10		17	33	
Secretary’s Register of Sasines, Kincardine	NAS: RS6	67	88	
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The Commissariot of Edinburgh : Consistorial Processes and Decreets, 1658-1800, edited by Francis J. Grant; Register of Baptisms, chapels at Bairnie and Tillydesk, 1763- 1801, and index, edited by John Macgregor, Scottish Record Society (Series) v. 34 (J. Skinner, Edinburgh, 1909)			844774	
The Commissariot Record of Edinburgh, Register of Testaments, 1514-1800, edited by Francis J. Grant., Scottish Record Society (Series) v. 1-3 (J. Skinner, Edinburgh, 1897-1899) 			844770	
The Commissariot Record of St. Andrews : register of Testaments, 1549-1800, edited by Francis J. Grant, Scottish Record Society (Series) v. 8 (J. Skinner, Edinburgh, 1902)			844771	
The Faculty of Advocates in Scotland, 1532-1943 : with genealogical notes 
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The Register of Deeds of the Court of Session (or Books of Council and Session. The four series often suffixed with Hay, Dal, Dur, Mack, resp.)	NAS:RD1-RD4	23	38	
The Register of Marriages for the Parish of Edinburgh, 1595-1750, edited by Henry Paton, Scottish Record Society (Series) v. 27, 35 (J. Skinner, Edinburgh, 1905-1910) 			844773, 844774	
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