"James Fergusson was the representative of a family that held property
in Lochmaben, Dumfriesshire, for many generations - traditionally, from the
days of Robert the Bruce: and the family are supposed to have been connected
with the Craigdarroch Fergussons in the same county"
[Records of the
Clan]
Fergussons of Spitalhaugh, Peeblesshire
- Edward FERGUSSON, b.~ 1677; resident in Lochmaben, m.~ 1702 Janet
KERR
- Mary FERGUSSON m. Williiam BELL
- James FERGUSSON, m. Mary BELL,
- John FERGUSSON b. 1729; d. 27 Aug 1785; m. 18 Dec 1762
Janet BELL and had issue:
- John FERGUSSON b. 9 Mar 1764, Lochmaben
- James FERGUSSON b. 7 Jan 1766, Lochmaben ; d. 17 Jun
1834; resident in Prestonpans; m. 6 Jul 1793 Elizabeth HODGE and had issue:
- Janet FERGUSSON, b. 28 Jul 1794, St. Cuthbert's
Edinburgh
- John FERGUSSON, b. 25 Nov 1795, St. Cuthbert's
Edinburgh
- James FERGUSSON b. 3 Mar 1797, Prestonkirk
- Jean Bell FERGUSSON b. 23 Jul 1805, Prestonpans;
m. Thomas MELVILLE
- Elisabeth FERGUSSON b. 17 Nov 1807,
Prestonpans
- William FERGUSSON afterwards
Sir
William Fergusson, Bart., b. 8 May 1808, Prestonpans; d. 1877; m. 1833
Helen Hamilton RANKEN
- James Ranken FERGUSSON b. 10 Aug 1835
d.
1924; pallbearers included sons Louis FERGUSSON and Charles Hamilton FERGUSSON
and grandson Max Colyer FERGUSSON [The Scotsman, 01 Nov 1924]
m. 1st
1862 Mary Ann Somes COLYER; m. 2d 1877
Louisa
FORBES
- William Hamilton Colyer FERGUSSON b. 25
Feb 1864; d. 1873
- Thomas Colyer FERGUSSON later
COLYER-FERGUSSON (added 1890) b. 11 Jul 1865; d. 1951; resident Wombwell Hall,
Gravesend, Kent; m.
Beatrice
STANLEY (m. 2nd 28 July 1914 Mary Freda COHEN);
headstone
- Max Christian Hamilton
COLYER-FERGUSSON b. 1890; m. Edith Jane White MILLER
- Mary Adelaide Somes COLYER-FERGUSSON
m.
Walter
MONCKTON
- William Porteous FERGUSSON b. Oct 18,
1893
- Thomas Riversdale COLYER-FERGUSSON;
b.~ 1896; d. 31 July 1917 at Bellewaarde, Belgium at age 21; awarded Victoria
Cross
- Louis Forbes FERGUSSON b. 1878 Edinburgh,
resident at Harrow; Royal Victorian Order - Knight Comander 1945 [The
Scotsman 14 Jun 1945]; d. Jan 10, 1962; m. 1922 Elizabeth Frances Ethel
LEWIS and has a daughter. [The Times Jan 11, 1962]
m 3d 1886 Alice Fanny SIMPSON]
- Margaret Alice Hamilton FERGUSSON
- Helen Hamilton FERGUSSON
- James Adam Hamilton FERGUSSON b. 1892; d.
Sep 1914 battle of Aisne; 2d Lt. Highland Light Infantry [The Scotsman 1
Oct 1914]
- Charles Hamilton FERGUSSON b. 1894; Lt
Northants Regt; murdered by natives on his farm in Kenya 1 Jan 1953
- William Ranken FERGUSSON b. 1837; d. 1864;
East India Civil Service
- Jane Porteous FERGUSSON b. 09 Oct 1838,
Edinburgh d. 1900
- Katherine Hamilton FERGUSSON b. 1840; d.
1932
- Helen Seymour FERGUSSON b. 1842; d. Aug 1938
[The Scotsman 23 Aug 1938]
- Charles Hamilton FERGUSSON b. 1849; d.
1913
- Robert FERGUSSON b. 4 Jul 1768, Lochmaben
- George FERGUSSON b. 8 May 1770, Lochmaben
- Thomas FERGUSSON b. 15 Apr 1773, Lochmaben; m. 22 Sep
1798 Jane Francis WAYLETT
- Samuel Frederick FERGUSSON
- Alexander FERGUSSON b. 22 Mar 1776, Lochmaben
- William FERGUSSON b. 8 Feb 1778, Lochmaben ; d. 26
Dec 1861 London; Lieut-General and Knight of the Order of St. John
- Charles FERGUSSON b. 24 Feb 1781, Lochmaben
- Jean FERGUSSON b. 24 Jun 1783, Lochmaben
- James FERGUSON, m. Agnes KERR and died s.p.
References
- Records of the Clan and Name of Fergusson, Ferguson and Fergus, by
James Ferguson and Robert Menzies Fergusson, Edinburgh, 1895.
- OPR
- 1881 Census of Scotland
- The Scotsman 23 Aug 1938
- The Scotsman 1 Nov 1924
- The Scotsman 1 Oct 1914
- The Scotsman 14 Jun 1945
- The Scotsman 9 Aug 1917
- The Times Jan 11, 1962
- A history
of Peeblesshire by William Chambers
- Lochmaben Old Churchyard Memorial Inscriptions, Dumfries and
Galloway Family History Research Centre, May 2007
