'Carnegie02'
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Families covered: Carnegie of Craig, Carnegie of Pittarrow, Carnegie of Southesk

Sir David Carnegie, 1st Earl of Southesk (b 1575, d 02.1658)
m. (mcrt 08.10.1595) Margaret Lindsay (d 09.07.1614, dau of Sir David Lindsay of Edzell)
1. David, Master of Carnegie (dvp 25.10.1633)
  m. (28.09.1613) Margaret Hamilton (b 05.04.1598, dau of Thomas Hamilton, 1st Earl of Haddington)
  A. Margaret Carnegie
  m. (mcrt 21.07.1637) Gavin Dalzell, 3rd Earl of Carnwath (d 11/12.1673)
B. Magdalene Carnegie
  m1. (1636) Sir Gideon Baillie of Lochend, Bart (d 30.08.1640)
  i. Margaret Baillie (d 30.07.1679)
  m. Sir John Colquhoun, 2nd Bart of Luss (d 11.04.1676)
  BE1934 (Colquhoun) reports that Margaret was later wife of Archibald Stirling of Garden but we suspect that that is in error as she had a daughter Margaret who married Archibald Stirling.
  m2. Sir John Crawford of Kilbirnie
2. James Carnegie, 2nd Earl of Southesk (d 03.1669)
  m1. (mcrt 18/21.02.1629) Isabel/Mary Ker (d 04.1650, dau of Robert Ker, 1st Earl of Roxburghe)
  A. Robert Carnegie, 3rd Earl of Southesk (d 19.02.1688)
  m. Anna Hamilton (d 10.1695, dau of William Hamilton, 2nd Duke of Hamilton)
  i. Charles Carnegie, 4th Earl of Southesk (b 07.04.1661, d 09.08.1699)
  m. (mcrt 15.07.1691) Mary Maitland (dau of Charles Maitland, 3rd Earl of Lauderdale)
  a. James Carnegie, 5th Earl of Southesk (b 04.04.1692, d 10.02.1730)
The Earl was attainted for supporting the Jacobite rebellion. This attaint was eventually reversed in 1855 and the title restored to a descendant of one of his third cousins, as indicated below.
  m. (1713) Margaret Stewart (dau of James Stewart, 5th Earl of Galloway)
  (1)+ issue - James (b c1714, d 07.01.1722), Clementina (bur 26.03.1730)
  b.+ other issue - Anne (b 25.06.1694, d 27.10.1696), Mary (b 29.12.1695, 03.11.1696)
  ii. William Carnegie (b c1662, d unm 23.11.1681)
  B. Jean Carnegie (d 03.1671)
  m1. (mcrt 26.06.1640) James Murray, 2nd Earl of Annandale (dsp 28.12.1658)
 

m2. (09.08.1659) David Murray, 2nd Lord Balvaird, 4th Viscount Stormont (d 14.07.1668)

  C. Catherine Carnegie (b c1637, d 03.10.1693)
  m. Gilbert Hay, 11th Earl of Erroll (b 13.06.1631, dsp 1674)
  m2. (c1661) Janet Adamson (d 06.1683)
3. Sir John Carnegie of Craig (d 22.11.1654)
  m. (mcrt 27.10.1632) Jane Scrymgeour (dau of John Scrymgeour, 1st Viscount of Dudhope)
  A. David Carnegie, 2nd of Craig (dsp c1663)
  m. (27.12.1654) Catherine Wemyss (d 24.02.1668)
  B. Margaret Carnegie
  m. (1661) George Dunbar of Inchbrayock and Aslisk
4. Sir Alexander Carnegie of Pittarrow (d 03.1682)
  m. (before 25.06.1640) Margaret Arbuthnott (d 1701, sister of 1st Viscount Arbuthnott)
  A. Sir David Carnegie, 1st Bart of Pittarrow (d 11.1708)
  m1. (mcrt 29.10.1663) Catherine Primrose (bur 09.10.1677, dau of Sir Archibald Primrose, Bart of Carrington)
  i. Sir John Carnegie, 2nd Bart of Pittarrow (bpt 27.01.1673, d 03.04.1729, 4th son) had issue
  m. (02.10.1712) Mary Burnett (d 05.06.1754, dau of SIr Thomas Burnett, Bart of Leys)
The eldest son James of the eldest son (James, 5th Bart, de jure 8th Earl) of the eldest son (David, 4th Bart, de jure 7th Earl) of their eldest son (James, 3rd Bart, de jure 6th Earl) was restored to the peerage and became 9th Earl of Southesk.
  ii. Margaret Carnegie (d 27.05.1745)
  m. (mcrt 04.1688) Henry Fletcher of Saltoun (d 1733)
  iii. Catherine Carnegie (bpt 28.10.1669
  m. David Watson in Edinburgh
  iv.+ other issue - James (bpt 05.07.1667, bur 31.03.1675), Archibald (bpt 17.06.1668, d 24.09.1692), Robert (bpt 10.05.1671, bur 09.08.1672), William (bpt 02.08.1675, d c1694), Elizabeth (bpt 04.08.1665. bur 08.03.1674), Christian (b 07.03.1674, bur 08.08.1676), Grisel (bpt 02.10.1677, bur before 25.05.1706)
  m2. (mcrt 29.10.1684) Catherine Gordon (bur 04.11.1692, dau of Robert Gordon of Pitlurg)
  xi. Robert Carnegie (bpt 06.06.1686, bur 24.03.1695)
  m3. (c1696) Jean Burnett (bur 15.05.1740, dau of James Burnett of Monboddo)
  xii. Elizabeth Carnegie (bpt 08.08.1695, d 18.05.1767)
  m. Alexander Strachan of Tarrie
  xiii.+ other issue - David (bpt 24.01.1697, dsp), Alexander (bpt 29.04.1705, d before 25.05.1706), Jean (bur unm 02.05.1715), Janet
  B. Charles Carnegie, Dean of Brechin (d 07.1694, 5th son)
  m. (21.02.1685) Barbara Martin (dau of George Martin, minister of Dundee)
i.+ issue - Robert (dspl 1721, doctor), James (a 02.1721), Alexander in London
  C. Mungo Carnegie of Birkhill (d 01.1705)
  m. Janet Dick (dau of William Dick of Grange)
  i. David Carnegie
  ii. Margaret Carnegie
  m. _ Black of Haddo
  iii. Janet Carnegie (d unm)
  D. Margaret Carnegie
  m. James Carnegie, 3rd of Balnamoon (d 25.04.1700)
  E. Catherine Carnegie (a 11.1680)
  m. Thomas Allan
F. Janet Carnegie
  m. Walter Keith of Montrose (captain)
  G.+ other issue - James of Odmeston (d before 30.06.1677), Alexander (b c1643, d c1731), Robert (d before 28.06.1671), Andrew
5. Margaret Carnegie (d 04.1661)
  m. (mcrt 03.10.1617) William Ramsay, 1st Earl of Dalhousie (d 11.1672)
6. Agnes Carnegie (d 07.1637)
  m. (mcrt 05/08.08.1620) Sir James Sandilands, younger of St. Monance (dvp 1644/5)
7. Katherine Carnegie
  m. (mcrt 14.09.1620) Sir John Stewart, 1st Earl of Traquhair (b c1600,d 27.03.1659)
8. Marjorie Carnegie (d 22.12.1651)
  m1. (mcrt 31.10.1622) William Halyburton of Pitcur
  m2. (before 1639) Robert Arbuthnott of that ilk, 1st Viscount Arbuthnott (b c1618, d 10.10.1655)
9. Elizabeth Carnegie
  m. (mcrt 04.1628) Andrew Murray, 1st Lord Balvaird (b c1597, d 24.09.1644)
10. Magdalene Carnegie
  m. (10.11.1629) James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose (b 1612, d 21.05.1650)

Main sources: TSP (Southesk), BP1934 (Southesk).
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