New Spalding Club > Records of Invercauld MDXLVII - MDCCCXXVIII [1547- 1828]

20 RECORDS OF INVERCAULD.
admitted a free Burgess of Inverness, and apparently of Aberdeen, and
two years afterwards (1743) of Perth. The diplomas are still preserved
in Invercauld.
Though his public life was calm and uneventful, his family life was
much clouded by bereavements. Of his eleven children he had laid ten in
the " mouls " .along with their beloved mother. The birth of his eldest
son, John (3rd August, 1761), was the occasion of much and sincere
rejoicing over the whole estates extending almost from Dunkeld in the
south to TarJand in the north ; to be followed too soon after by equally
sincere sorrow for his early decay and death. His second and only other
son, George, survived a few yeafrs longer ; and when he followed his
brother the hope of male succession was extinguished.
Had the inheritance been a male fief it would have descended, on the
death of the old laird in 1805, to William Farquharson of Monaltrie, the
grandson of his uncle and the nephew of the " Baron Ban." Such a course
of events was averted by the earliest and all succeeding entails being in
favour of the nearest heir whomsoever, and by the survival of the youngest
child, Catherine, of whom the genealogical diagram records only the
name, thus closing the account of the family with the death of James
Farquharson, Esq. of Invercauld, "the old. Laird," in 1805.