A r+u.t^- £ c : - vo q RECORDS OF THE CLAN FERGUSSON OR FERGUSON Edinburgh : Printed by T. and A. Constable kor DAVID DOUGLAS. LONDON . SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, HAMILTON", KENT AND CO., LTD. CAMBRIDGE . MAC.MII.LAN AND BOWES. GLASGOW . JAMES MAOLEHOSE AND SONS. Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2012 with funding from National Library of Scotland http://www.archive.org/details/recordsofclansupOOclan RIGHT HON. SIR JAMES FERGUSSON, BART. OF KILKERRAN RECORDS OF THE CLAN AND NAME OF FERGUSSON FERGUSON AND FERGUS SUPPLEMENT Edited for The Clan Fergus(s)on Society by JAMES FERGUSON AND ROBERT MENZIES FERGUSSON EDINBURGH: DAVID DOUGLAS 10 CASTLE STREET 189 9 All rights reserved PREFATORY NOTE After the publication of the Records of the Clan and Name of Fergusson, Ferguson, and Fergus in 1895, the Editors received a number of communications from persons of the name resident in Canada, the United States, and elsewhere. There also reached them a considerable amount of additional information, illustrating the earlier history of the Clan, and indicating the common orisrin of various families. The discovery of papers at Pitfour a year after the book came out was followed by the appearance of His Grace the Duke of Atholl's Chronicles of the Families of Atholl and Tidliebardine, which gives many interesting particulars about the Clan in Athole, while the Editors have been placed in communication with the representa- tives of other families, who had been unaware of, or omitted to contribute to the original volume. Ultimately in the spring of 1898 the Clan Fergusson Society authorised the preparation and publication of the present supplemen- tary volume. The Editors have, as on the previous occasion, en- deavoured to supply notices of the families dealt with from the pen of a member of the particular family. They have to thank these who have assisted them, either by contributing detailed accounts, or by supplying materials from which notices have been prepared. They have also to express their thanks to those who have presented to the volume the illustrations of persons and houses belonging to their families, and more especially to Lady Paston Cooper and Mrs. Dunning for the illustrations in Section XL vi CLAN FEEGUSSON The original volume contained two full-page portraits, the frontispiece being General Fergusson of Dunfallandy, chief of the Clan, and the other full-page picture being Professor Adam Ferguson, probably its most distinguished representative in the intellectual world. For the fronti- spiece to this volume the Editors have obtained a portrait of Sir James Fergusson of Kilkerran, the head of the Ayrshire Fergussons, and formerly a member of Her Majesty's Government, while, in response to a desire ex- pressed to them, they have included a companion picture of Mr. Ferguson of Kinmundy, Aberdeenshire, who was the first President of the Clan Society. In the Appendix there will be found additions to the Bibliography, and the results of an examination of many of the Army and Navy Lists, and of the Kecords of the Scottish Universities, which it is hoped may prove useful to those engaged in tracing progenitors in the navy, army, or learned professions. A list of the subscribers to the original and supplementary Records and the Rules and Constitution of the Clan Society have been added. JA. FERGUSON. 1899. R. MENZIES FERGUSSON. CONTENTS SECTION I EARLY NOTICES OF THE NAME AND TRACES OF COMMON ORIGIN Testimony of heraldry, 1-3 Tradition in Aberdeenshire, . 3 War of Independence, 4 Coincidences and Confirmation, 5 Irish families, 6 Recent events, 7 SECTION II FERGTJSSONS IN ATHOLE Papers relating to, found at Pitfour, .... 8 The Crusades, ....... 9 ' Account of the Fergussons in Athole,' by Rev. Adam Fergusson, . 10-14 Paper as to origin of, . 15 Fergusson of Dunfall.mdy, ..... 16 ,, Ballyoukan, . 17 Family of Professor Adam Ferguson, 17 Fergusson of Muling, ...... 17 Aysons, probably a sept of Clan Fergusson, . 18 Continuation of Extracts from Public Records, 19 Fines for Resetting Clan Gregor, 20-21 Extracts from Roll of heritors, 1638, . 22 Hunting Piolls, 1667, .... 23 Rolls of Fencible Men, 1705 and 1706, 24 Lists of 1715, ..... 27-28 „ 1745, ... 29 later lists, ..... 29 Lists of Athole properties, . 29-30 — Vlll CLAN FEEGUSSON SECTION III FERGUSONS IN ABERDEENSHIRE PAGE The Pitfour papers, ....... 32 The Fergusons of Crichie and Badifurrow .' (1) Account of origin of, . .34 (2) Letter as to ownership of Crichie, . .35 (3) George Scott's Memorandum regarding tradition as to King Robert the Bruce, . .36 (4) Extract from Walter Ferguson's letter of 1787, re history of the family, . .37 (5) Robert Ferguson the Plotter's ' Renunciation of his Birthright,' ...... 41 Pedigree (1) by James Ferguson of Pitfour, M.P., . 42 * (2) „ • 44 Ferguson of Pitfour, ...... 45 „ Kinmundy, . ... 46 Duke of Marlborough and Brigadier Ferguson, . .46 George Ferguson and his Descendants, . .47 John Ferguson of Stonehouse and his Descendants, . .48 Walter Ferguson and his Descendants, . .48 Descendants of John and Janet Ferguson, . .48 Descent and Connections of Robert Ferousson the Poet, . 48 SECTION IV FERGUSSONS IN BALQUHIDDER The Auchlyne Fergussons, ... 54 The Family of Rob-a r Clachair, 57 Lochearnside Fergussons, ..... 59 The Auchleskine Fergussons, ..... 60 Fergussons in Stirling, ..... 62 „ of Corntoun, . 63 SECTION V FERGUSSONS IN ARGYLLSHIRE Fergussons in Glenbranter and Glensluain, . 67 „ of Glenshellish, 68 Entertainment of the Atholemen, 69 CONTENTS SECTION VI FERGUSONS IN FIFE AND FORFAR PAGE Ferguson of Raith, 70 Family of Rev. David Fergusson, 71 SECTION VII FERGUSSONS IN AYRSHIRE Fergusson of Kilkerran, 72 Lord Hermand, .... 72 Fergusson of Knockgarron, . 75 Fergussons of Castlehill, Doonholm, etc., 76 Continuation of Extracts from Public Records, 78 SECTION VIII FERGUSSONS IN DUMFRIES AND GALLOWAY Fergusson of Craigdarroch, ..... 79 Continuation of Extracts from Public Records, 79 SECTION IX OTHER SCOTTISH FERGUSSONS Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Fergusson, 81 Dr. Andrew Fergusson and his relatives, 84 Professor Fergus Ferguson, 89 Rev. Donald Fergusson, Inveikeithing, 91 Ministers of Leven and Inverkeithing, 92 Major William Ferguson, 1st V. B. Cameron Highlanders, 94 94 Rev. John Fergusson, Fearn, . 95 Mr. Donald Ferguson, Lochboisdale, . SECTION X FERGUSONS IN IRELAND Fergusons of Fourmileburn, . 96 97 „ „ further notes on, Fergusons at Ardtrea, Tyrone, 101 b — CLAN FEKGUSSON SECTION XI FERGUSONS IN ENGLAND PAGE Fergusons in Cumberland, 102 „ Yorkshire, . 102 Ferguson-Fawsitt of Walkington Hall, 103 Fergussons of Brettenham Manor, Norfolk, . 104 Fergusons of Polebrooke Hall, Northamptonshire, 108 „ in Oxfordshire, 112 „ in Newcastle-on-Tyne, 112 SECTION XII FERGUSONS ON THE CONTINENT OF EUROPE Fergusons in Holland, 114 „ Poland, .... 114 „ Eussia, .... 117 Prussia and . „ Germany, . 118 „ Austria, ..... 119 SECTION XIII FERGUSSONS IN THE BRITISH COLONIES Fergussons of Woodhill, Canada, 121 Fergusons in Maxville, Ontario, Canada, 125 Fergussons in British Columbia, 120 Fergusons in Australia „ Western Australia, 130 „ Victoria, 130 „ Ceylon, . 130 SECTION XIV FERGUSONS IN THE UNITED STATES General, 131 Fergussons in Washington and Washington Territory, 132 Philadelphia, ,, .... 13G i) Michigan, 137 Fergusons in Pennsylvania, the Carolinas, Ohio, etc., 138 5! Minnesota and North Carolina, 143 ?> New Hampshire and South Carolina, . 146 Montana, ») .... 153 >> Wisconsin, 154 New York, 55 ... 159 )) Delaware, Co. Iowa, 161 — CONTENTS XI APPENDIX PAGE I. Bibliography continued, 162 II. Fergusons in the Army and Navy, 169 Note of Officers in British Army in seventeenth and early in eighteenth centuries, .... 171 ' Extract from List of Colonels to 1742,' . : 173 Notes from the British Army Lists, 174 Notes from the British Navy Lists, 188 III. Fergusons at the Scottish Universities Aberdeen, ..... 189 Edinburgh, ..... 192 Glasgow, ...... 194 St. Andrews, ..... 201 IV. List of Subscribers to Records of Clan and Name, 204 V. Constitution and Office-bearers of Clan Society, 1899, 211 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Right Hon. Sir James Fergusson, Bart., of Kilkerran, Frontispiece PAGE Baledmund House, William Ferguson of Kinmundy, to face 46 Malcolm Ferguson, Callander, 53 George Fergusson, Lord Hermand, 73 Andrew Fergusson, M.D., 85 Rev. Daniel Ferguson, 103 Polebrooke Hall, 108 Colonel John Stephenson Ferguson, 2nd Life Guards, 110 Major John Victor Fergus Ferguson, Royal Horse Guards, 111 SECTION I EARLY NOTICES OF THE NAME AND TEACES OF COMMON ORIGIN In the introductory chapter of the Records of the Clan and ' Name of Fergusson, it was stated that : From an early period Fergusons are found settled in widely distant parts of Scotland; more especially in Perthshire, Aberdeenshire, Ayrshire, and Dumfries-shire. Between these families no definite link of proved relationship can be established, but interesting traditions and curious coincidences suggest that all may originally have come from a common source. The Athole clan, the Aberdeenshire stock, now locally re- presented by the families of Pitfour and Kinmundy, and the houses of Kilkerran in Ayrshire, and Craigdarroch and Isle in Dumfries-shire, all, either by tradition firmly held, or by charter evidence, were established in their respective counties at the era of the War of Independence. In most, if not in all of these families, tradition connects their fortunes with those of King Robert the Bruce and the national cause.' Materials which have come to light subsequent to the pub- lication of the original