History of the Frasers of Lovat

THE FRASERS OF INVERALLOCHY. 5 15
3. A daughter, who married Alexander Fraser of Fraser-
field, with issue.
He died before February, 1717, and was succeeded by his
elder son,
VI. William Fraser, sixth of Inverallochy. On the
death of Charles, Lord Fraser of Muchal in 1720, without
issue, that title became extinct, and his step-grandson,
William Fraser of Inverallochy, "the head of a collateral
branch " succeeded by his Lordship's will to the Castle
Fraser estates. He died, without issue, at Millhill, Aber-
deenshire, on the 1 2th of July, 1749,* and was succeeded
by his only brother,
VII. Charles Fraser, seventh of Inverallochy, who
was served heir to his brother William on the 30th of
August, 1749. Like his father and ancestors before him
he was a strong Jacobite. His mother, Lady Elizabeth,
daughter of Alexander third Earl of Kellie, died at Inver-
allochy on the nth of December, I744.t Charles was on
the most intimate and confidential terms with Lord Simon
of the 'Forty-five, whom, failing issue of his own, he might
not unreasonably hope to succeed in the honours and estates
of Lovat. He and his second son William, his eldest son
Charles being then dead, are the first named in General
Simon Fraser's entail in 1774, outside his own family.
He married Anne, daughter of William Udney of
Udney, by his wife Martha, daughter of Alexander, first
Earl of Aberdeen, with issue —
1. Charles, born on the 23rd of May, 1725, and killed at
Culloden, during the life of his father. When Lord Simon
sent out his men under the Master of Lovat in 1745 to join
Prince Charles, young Charles of Inverallochy was ap-
pointed Lieutenant-Colonel of the clan "in accordance with
the ancient Highland practice and the policy of Lord Lovat,
as being nearest in blood to the chiefship after the reigning
family." Charles was wounded at Culloden on the 16th of
April, 1746, and his brutal murder by order of the Duke
of Cumberland is thus described — " Riding over the field
* Scots Magazine. \ Ibid.