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16 CLAN FERGUSSON
NOTE OF CORRECTIONS AND OMISSIONS.
(The pages prefixed refer to the original volume of the Records.)
Fergusson of Dunfallandy.
P. 76.
Major-General Archibald Fergusson had issue, three sons and
five daughters —
(1.) David Ochterlony [named after General Ochterlony], who
died in India.
(2.) William Dick Fergusson.
(3.) James, married and had issue, one son.
(4.) Charlotte.
(5.) Eliza.
(6.) Helen.
(7.) Jane, married her cousin, Alexr. Eobertson (Capt., 33rd
Regiment).
(8.) Cathrine. — [Note by N. Robertson, Esq., Dunfallandy.]
William Dick Fergusson, 2nd son of General Fergusson, married
(1st) Margaret, daughter of Charles Gibson, Esq., and had issue —
(1.) Archibald, 79th Highlanders.
(2.) Margaret, now of Dunfallandy.
and (2nd) Sarah, youngest daughter of John Piatt, Esq., of West
House, Co. Durham, and by her had issue, twin daughters, Jane,
who died in 1894, and Helen, who married, in 1870, William Smart
Aston, London, and had issue in 1872, William Fergusson Aston,
who married in 1896 Fanny Sophia, daughter of the Rev. S.
Holmes, Hereford, and has issue, a daughter, Helen Marjorie F.
Aston. — [Note communicated by Mrs. Aston.]
P. 82.
The old house of Dunfallandy was not thatched, but was 'a
two-storey house, with wing at back and slated.' — [Note by N.
Robertson, Esq., Dunfallandy.]
James Shaw, chief of his clan, who was killed in battle in 1350,
had married a daughter of Baron Fergusson in Athole. His
second son, called 'Corfiachdach,' who revenged his father's death on
Cumine of Strathdallas at Lag-na-Cuminach, married a daughter of
Cluny Macpherson, and commanded the thirty Clan Chattan on the
Inch of Perth in 1390. One of his sons was Farquhar the ancestor
of the Farquharsons. — (Macpherson's History of Badenoch.)
Fergusson of Middlehaugh.
P. 87.
Name below picture should be S. R. Fergusson.

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