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THE FRASERS OF CULBOKIE AND GUISACHAN. 625
1829, married on the 18th of September, 1862, Home John
Parker, with issue — Jane Hyde.
2. James Fraser, who entered the H.E.I.C.S. at Madras,
and died before his father, unmarried.
The elder son, William Fraser, W.S., having died sud-
denly, also before his father, at Brighton, on the 6th of
January, 1829, William, on his death in July, 1843, was
succeeded by his grandson,
XI. William Fraser, eleventh of Guisachan, only son
of William Fraser, W.S., who died as above in 1829. He
was still a minor. Born in 1827 he was brought up partly
abroad and partly in this country. In early life he went to
sea, and spent a good deal of his time in America. He
entered the army, attained the rank of Captain, and was
subsequently Colonel of the Highland Volunteer Artillery.
In 1854 he sold Guisachan to the late Dudley Coutts Mar-
joribanks, first Lord Tweedmouth, for £52,000. In 1855
he bought the estate of Kilmuir, Skye, for £85,000 from
the trustees of Lord Macdonald of Sleat and spent about
£40,000 in improvements upon it. He disposed of it
in September, 1888, for £110,000 to George Alexander
Baird, and now resides at Redheugh, near Nairn.
He married Janet Brown, only surviving daughter of the
late Andrew Brown Tosh of Torehouse, H.E.I.C.S., with
issue—
■•...;. 1. William, born on the nth of March, 1871, unmarried.
2. Ethel Jessie.
3. Anna.
4. Margaret Chisholm, who on the 12th of July, 1893,
married Captain Ruari Chisholm Gooden, second son of
James Chisholm Gooden Chisholm — The Chisholm — 33
Tavistock Square, London, with issue — a son, Uailean
Hamish MacUisdean, born on the 19th of April, 1894.
5. Janet Elizabeth.
6. Mary Jane.
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