'Chisholm01'
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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) | |||||||||||||||
| m. Emma de Vetereponte (dau of William de Vetereponte or Vipont of Bolton) | |||||||||||||||
| 1. | Richard de Chesholme (in Roxburghshire) (a 1296) | ||||||||||||||
| A. | Sir John de Chesholme (a 1296, 1320, in Berwickshire) | ||||||||||||||
| i. | Alexander de Chisholme of Chisholme (Roxburghshire) & Paxtoun (Berwickshire) (a 1335) | ||||||||||||||
| a. | Sir Robert de Chisholme of Chisholme (a 1346, 1394) | ||||||||||||||
| 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 1358, 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 (Muriel) Chisholme | -- | |||||||||||||
| m. Alexander Sutherland of Duffus | -- | ||||||||||||||
| (B) | Alexander de Chisholme of Chisholme (a 1398, constable of Urquhart Castle) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Margaret Weyland of Erchless (dau/heir of Weyland of the Aird (Fenton?) (by Matilda, dau/coheir of Malise, Earl of Stratherne), brother of Alexander) | |||||||||||||||
| (i) | Thomas de Chisholme (of Straglash) (a 1403, constable of Urquhart Castle) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Margaret Mackintosh (dau of Lachlan Mackinosh of Mackintosh) | |||||||||||||||
| (a) | Alexander Chisholme of Kinrossy (dspm 1432) | ||||||||||||||
| ((1)) | Catherine Chisholm possibly of this generation | -- | |||||||||||||
| m. Walter Halyburton, 1st of Pitcur (d before 11.1459) | -- | ||||||||||||||
| (b) | Wiland Chisholme 'of Strathglass' of Comar (a 1443, 1490) | ||||||||||||||
| ((1)) | Wiland Chisholm of Comar & Erchless, The Chisholm (a 1499, 1529) | ||||||||||||||
| ((A)) | John Chisholm, The Chisholm (a 1555) | ||||||||||||||
| ((i)) | Alexander Chisholm, The Chisholm (d before 1590) | ||||||||||||||
| m(1). Janet (Mary) Mackenzie (dau of Kenneth Mackenzie of Kintail) | |||||||||||||||
| ((ii)) | daughter possibly of this generation | ||||||||||||||
| m. Alastair Roy Mackenzie, 2nd of Achilty (d 1578) | |||||||||||||||
| ((2)) | (Jean?) Chisholm | ||||||||||||||
| m. (c1470) ?? Farquharson of Invercauld | |||||||||||||||
| ((3)) | daughter | ||||||||||||||
| m. Ewen Maclean of Ardgour | |||||||||||||||
| (ii) | Margaret Chisholme | ||||||||||||||
| m. (1401) Angus (MacDonald) (son of Godfrey of Uist & Garmoran, son of John, 1st Lord of the Isles by Amie Macruarie) | |||||||||||||||
| (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, and by 'History of the Chisholms'. | |||||||||||||||
| m. Marion Douglas (dau of Sir William Douglas, 1st of Drumlanrig, by Elizabeth Stewart) | -- | ||||||||||||||
| (D) | Janet Chisholm | ||||||||||||||
| m. (1364) Hugh Rose, 4th of Kilravock (d c1388) | |||||||||||||||
| (2) | William de Chisholme (Treasurer of Moray) | ||||||||||||||
| B. | Alexander de Chesholme | ||||||||||||||
Main source(s): BLG1952 ('Chisholm of Chisholm'), 'History of the Chisholms' (Alexander Mackenzie, 1891, p13+ & 183+)
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