'Rutherford3'
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Families covered: Rutherford of Edgerston, Rutherford of Fairnington[See the warning at the top of page 'Rutherford1'.]

Thomas Rutherford of Edgerston
1. Robert Rutherford of Edgerston
  A. Thomas Rutherford of Edgerston
  i. Richard Rutherford 'of that ilk' of Edgerston
  m. ?? (granddau of _ Scott of Buccleuch)
  a. Robert Rutherford of Edgerston
  m. Margaret Riddell (dau of Andrew Riddell of Riddell and Haining)
  (1) John Rutherford 'of that ilk' of Edgerston (d by 1686)
  m. Barbara Abernethy (dau of John Abernethy, Bishop of Caithness)
  (A) Andrew Rutherford 'of that ilk' of Edgerston (dsp 1718)
(B) Thomas Rutherford 'of that ilk' of Edgerston and Hunthill
  m. Susanna Riddell (dau of Walter Riddell of Minto)
  (i) Sir John Rutherford 'of that ilk' of Edgerston and Hunthill
  m1. (1710) Elizabeth Cairncross (dau of ?? Cairncross of Colmslie)
  (a) John Rutherford of Edgerston (b 12.06.1712, d Ticonderago 1758)
  m. (11.1737) Ellernor Elliot (dau of Sir Gilbert Elliot of Minto)
  ((1)) John Rutherford of Edgerston (b 1748, dsp 1834)
  m. (1787) Mary Ann Leslie-Melville (dau of Alexander Leslie-Melville, Maj-Gen)
  ((5)) Elizabeth Rutherford
  m. (28.12.1763) Andrew Sinclair of Hermandston (b 30.07.1733, d 16.12.1775)
  ((2)) Jane Rutherford
  m. William Oliver of Dinlabyre
 
Their eldest son William inherited Edgerston and became William Oliver Rutherford.
  ((3))+ other issue - Robert (d c1770), Archibald (d 1790), Ellenor (d unm 10.1822)
  (b) Thomas Rutherford (d 1749)
  m. (1745) Martha Town (dau of ?? Town, Aldersman of York)
  ((1)) John Rutherford (d 1856)
  m1. (1769) Eleanor Chalke (d 1795, dau of Thomas Chalke of Artane and Grange)
  ((A)) John Rutherford (b 1777, d unm 1815)
  ((B)) Charles Rutherford (b 1780, d unm 1846)
  ((C)) Thomas Rutherford of Fairnington (b 1784, d 27.03.1863)
  m. Caroline Sanderson Ball (dau of William Ball)
  ((D)) Martha Rutherford
  m. Charles Robson
((E)) Eleanor Rutherford
  m. William Elliott of Harwood
  m2. Anes Chatto (d 1850, dau of of J. Chatto of Mainhouse)
  ((F)) Walter Rutherford (d 1856)
  m. Mary Knight
  (c) Robert Rutherford of Fairnington, Baron of the Russian Empire (a 1779)
  (d) Walter Rutherford
  m. Mary Alexander (dau of General Alexander)
  (e) Susanna Rutherford (b c1719, d 04.1791)
  m. (1740) Alexander Pringle of Whytbank (b 02.1701, d 02.1773)
  (f) Mary Rutherford
  m. Sir Alexander Nisbet of Dean
  (g) Elizabeth Rutherford
  m. John Horsbrugh of that ilk (d 17.07.1774)
(h) Jean Rutherford
  m. Charles Inglis of Manorhead
  (i)+ plus 11 other children
  m2. (1741) Sarah Nisbet (sister of Sir Alexander Nisbet, Bart)
  (t) Henry Rutherford of Hunthill
  m. Agnes Lauder
  (u) Christian Rutherford
  m. _ Davidson of Hatton and Muirhouse
  (ii) Margaret Rutherford
..
  m. James Durham, 3rd of Largo
..
  (iii)+ 4 daughters
  (C) Robert Rutherford of Bowland

Main sources: BLG1886 (Rutherfurd of Fairnington), BLG1886 (Rutherfurd of Edgerston).
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