Frotoft branch of the Orkney Traills

12 TRAILL (Frotoft Branch)
Breckness; she died 11th August, 1843— Eobert Traill,
bom 16th November, 1784, died unmarried
—Elizabeth Traill, born 19th September, 1786, died
unmarried 1791, and— Gilbert Traill, their
youngest son. Gilbert Traill, of Hatson, Lieutenant E.N,
J.P., born 12th March, 1788, married 9th July, 1818,
Frances Baikie, born 18th February, 1795, daughter of
Robert Baikie/ 1 ' seventh of Tankerness, and Mary Balfour,
daughter and co-heiress of Thomas Balfour, of Huip, and
Mary Mackenzie, and was the granddaughter of James
Baikie, sixth of Tankerness, and Janet Douglas, who was
heiress to her grandfather, Sir Alexander Douglas, of
Egilshay. Janet Douglas' father was William Douglas, and
her mother Elizabeth Traill, grand aunt of Lieutenant
Gilbert Traill, E.N. (previously mentioned) Lieutenant
Gilbert Traill died 17th July, 1849, and Frances Baikie, his
wife, died 4th April, 1877 ; they had four children. Their
eldest son,
Gilbert Francis Traill, J.P., born 14th April, 1819,
married, 22nd April, 1844, Anne T. Muir, daughter of
Muir and Christina Eoss. (The Muirs were originally
from the south-west of Scotland and the Bosses from the
north-east of Scotland) G. F. Traill died 1st March, 1880,
and his wife 4th October, 1889. They had seven children —
Frances Baikie Traill, born 11th February, 1845 — Thomas
William Traill, born 2nd April, 1847, died unmarried, 17 th
August, 1877, in Ceylon < 2 > — Anne Christina Traill, born
26th March, 1849— Gilbert Francis Traill, of Ceylon, born
23rd August, 1850, married, 9th June, 1881, Edith Elizabeth
Barsham, daughter of John Brigham Barsham and Jane
Fryer Edmonds, (the Barshams were of a Norfolk family
(1) Robert Baikie was Lieutenant Gilbert Traill's second cousin, and
they were both great-grandsons of Thomas Traill, third of Holland, and
his wife Marion Traill, their mothers being sisters, daughters of James
Baikie, first of Tankerness.
(2) He was much esteemed and liked by his friends and acquaintances,
everyone who knew him spoke well of him.