History of the family of Seton during eight centuries > Volume 2

HIS IRISH DESCENDANTS
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i. George, his heir.
2. Christopher (died 8th August 1767), who was 'bred a merchant,'
and married Elizabeth, daughter of
John Adair, Geographer for Scotland, 1 by
whom he had three sons and four
daughters : —
(1) Alexander, who engaged in the
'rising' of 1745, and married Amelia,
daughter of Michael Malcolm of Balbedie,
by whom he had one son, Alexander,
who died at sea.
(2) Robert, 'bred to the sea' (born
1722, died 1795), having married Margaret,
daughter of Richard Cox of Dublin, by
whom he had — besides two daughters,
Sarah, married to Miles Marley, and
Juliana, who died unmarried — four
sons : —
1. Robert- Eglinton, an officer in
the Army, killed in the American War.
11. and in. Winton, and Christopher-Melville, who both died in
childhood.
iv. William-Carden, born 1775, Colonel in the Army andC.B., served
as a volunteer in Holland, under the Duke of York, commanded the 88th
regiment at Badajoz and Salamanca, was present at various other battles
during the Peninsular War (medals and clasps), and died 24th March
1842, having married Margaret, daughter of E. Hazlett, Esq., by whom
he had — with two daughters, Juliana- Josephine (died 24th March 1895),
married to the Rev. William-Henry Macalpine, M.A., and Margaret, who
died unmarried — four sons : —
(a) Miles-Charles, 2 an officer in the 85th regiment, born 23rd
belonged to Lindsays, cadets of the Earls of
Crawford. It is now (1803) the property of
Christopher Seton, Esq.' — Sibbald's Fife and
Kinross, p. 363.
The ruins of the old chapel of Kirkforthar,
within which the Lindsays and the Setons of
Cariston were for many generations interred,
stand in the middle of a little roundle of trees,
close to Kirkforthar House. The only carved
stone which remains is triangular in form, and
exhibits the impaled arms of Lindsay and
Pitcairn, with relative initials.
1 For interesting notices of John Adair, see
Chambers's Do?nestic Annals of Scotland, ii.
483-5, and iii. 42 ; Chalmers's Caledonia, ii. 58 ;
Bannatyne Miscellany, ii. 347 ; Analecta
Scotica, i. 142 ; and Bishop Nicolson's Scottish
Historical Library, pp. 8, 9. John Adair died
in London about 1722 ; and for his useful
services his widow received a pension of ^40.
2 Upwards of fifty years ago (31st March
1838) Miles-Charles Seton, going a generation
further back than Captain Marryat's Japhet,
inserted an advertisement to session-clerks, in
the North British Advertiser, offering a reward
of two guineas for the discovery of the record of
his grandfather's birth — replies to be addressed
to Walter Dickson, W.S., 3 Royal Circus, Edin-
burgh. Somewhere about the year 1842 I com-
municated certain particulars, furnished by Mr.
Dickson's eldest son, to my aunt, Mrs. Dawson
— the genealogist of her generation — and was
ultimately able to establish, pretty satisfactorily,
that Miles-Charles's Irish grandfather was a
cadet of the Cariston line. We shall afterwards
see that the characteristic of lofty stature is a
very striking feature in the Irish branch of the
family.