'Chisholm01'Index links to: Lead / Letter
Families covered: Chisholm of Chisholm, Chisholm of Comar, Chisholm of Erchless

Although generally thought of as a Highland family, the first known generations of this family appear to have lived in the Scots Lowlands.

John de Chisholme (a 1254)

1.

Richard de Chesholme (in Roxburghshire)

A.

Sir John de Chesholme (a 1314, in Betwickshire)

i.

Alexander de Chisholme of Chisholme and Paxtoun (a 1335)

a.

Sir Robert de Chisholme of Chisholme

m. Anne Lauder (dau of Sir Robert Lauder of Quarrelwood, constable of Urquhart Castle)

(1)

Sir Robert de Chisholme of Chisholme, Sheriff of Inverness-shire (a 1393, constable of Urquhart Castle)

m. Margaret Haliburton (dau of Haliburton of that ilk)

(A)

John de Chisholme of the Aird (d 1436)

m. Catherine Bisset (dau of Bisset of that ilk)

(i)

Morella Chisholme

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m. Alexander Sutherland of Duffus

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(B)

Alexander de Chisholme of Chisholme

m. Margaret Weyland of Erchless (dau/heir of Weyland of the Aird)

(i)

Thomas de Chisholme (of Straglash) (a 1403)

m. Margaret Mackintosh (dau of Lachlan Mackinosh of Mackintosh)

(a)

Alexander Chisholme of Kinrossy (dspm 1432)

(b)

Wiland Chisholme of Comar (a 1490)

((1))

Wiland Chisholm of Comar and Erchless, The Chisholm (a 1512)

((A))

John Chisholm, The Chisholm (a 1555)

((i))

Alexander Chisholm, The Chisholm (d before 1590)

m. Janet (Mary) Mackenzie (dau of Kenneth Mackenzie of Kintail)

(C)

Robert de Chisholme

Robert is not mentioned by BLG1952 but is by BLG1886 (Chisholme of that ilk and Stirches) which does not mention Alexander.

m. Marion Douglas (dau of Sir William Douglas, 1st of Drumlanrig, by Elizabeth Stewart)

(2)

Janet Chisholm

m. Hugh Rose, 4th of Kilravock (d c1388)

Main sources: BLG1952 (Chisholm of Chisholm)
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