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MASTERTON PAPERS
of Culross, and for Edward Wright of Kersie,
M.D., see Index of Services under ‘ Masterton.’
vii. 1716-1795. FRANCIS MASTERTON of Parkmill and Gogar,1
born 2nd April 1716, died 21st January 1795, at Gogar, married
1768, Margaret Graeme, who died at Braco Castle, 1st Nov. 1806
(Scots Magazine, Deer. 1806). She was a daughter of James
Graeme of Gorthy (also Braco) and Katherine his wife, daughter
of Sir William Stirling of Ardoch, Bart., as in her will she refers
to her brother General David Graham of Braco. Francis was
apprenticed to Charles Farquharson, W.S., 17th June 1735. He
was ‘ out’ in 1745, see Rosebery’s Persons concerned in the Rebellion
of 1745, pp. 148, 348. He sold Parkmill 1763. Date of death of
Francis given in letter from James Christal, Stirling, to James
Masterton at Madeira, dated 29th January 1795. For Margaret
Graeme, see Burke’s Landed Gentry, 1843, p. 1126.
They had issue—
1. Charles Masterton of Auchlandskies,2 Strathearn, in the
parish of Glendovan, Perthshire, Captain 30th Regiment of
Foot, predeceased his father June 1789, leaving a natural
son Charles. (Index of Services, ‘ James Masterton, 1st
April 1791,’ also Title-deeds of Auchlandskies and family
papers.)
2. James, see below, vm.
3. Miss Katharine Masterton, eldest daughter of Frances
Masterton of Gogar, Esq., died at Alloa, 25th February
1775. (Scots Mag., Feby. 1775.)
4. Mary, alive in 1832. (Family Papers.)
vin. JAMES MASTERTON, Merchant in Madeira, and sometime of
1 Gogar, in the parish of Logie and county of Perth.
This property, which had belonged to the Keiries of Gogar, daughters of which
house married two successive generations of Mastertons, though in Perthshire, lies
within a few miles of Parkmill. It was purchased for Charles Masterton by Mr.
Edward Callander, Writer in Edinburgh, who conveyed it to him by disposition,
dated 30th October 1727. Charles settled the lands on himself in liferent and
his son Francis in fee. James Masterton sold them in 1800-1801, when he
purchased Braco.
2 Auchlandskies Over and Nether in the parish of Glendovan and county of
Perth.
Colonel John Irvine of Burleigh conveyed this estate to Colonel David
Graeme of Gorthy in 1764, who conveyed it to Captain Henry Graeme, sometime
of Hanwell, Middlesex, afterwards Lieutenant-Governor of St. Helena, in 1765.
His daughter Anne (wife of Sir Andrew Snape Hammond) conveyed it to
General David Graeme in 1788, who bequeathed it to Charles Masterton,
Captain in the 30th Regiment of Foot, his nephew, in 1789. In 1791 James
Masterton was served heir in special in these lands to Charles, his brother, and
in the same year he sold them to Thomas Hepburn, Esq. of Colquhollie.