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GENEALOGY
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Gogar thereafter of Braco/ both in Perthshire, at his father’s
death was the only surviving son, his elder brother Charles having
predeceased. In 1787 he entered into a partnership for three
years with Arthur Ahmuty of the island of Madeira, merchant, the
firm being Ahmuty, Masterton, & Co. In 1791 he was at Gogar,
where he signed a letter recorded (Books of Council and Session)
29th January 1795, appointing his mother his factor in the event
of his father’s death during his absence. That he was married in
1798 is shown by a letter of 25th November in that year addressed
to him at Madeira by Lord Mornington, in which reference is
made to Mrs. Masterton. His wife, Anna Amelia Murdoch, who
was a daughter of James Murdoch of the island of Madeira (as
appears from a memorandum in his own writing), died 16th
April 1806 (Scots Mag., May 1806, p. 399). Stodart says, that
fJohn’ Masterton of Braco married Anna Amelia Murdoch.
There was no John Masterton of Braco. In January 1799 he
granted a commission at Funchall in Madeira, recorded (Books of
Council and Session), 25th January 1800, empowering his mother
to sell Gogar. On 30th June 1800 he entered into partnership
with James Murdoch, mentioned above, Thomas Yuille, then
residing in London, and Andrew Wardrop and James Denyer of
the island of Madeira, merchants. The firm was Murdoch,
Masterton, and Co., and the agreement was for a period of five
years. In the following year he was at Braco, which he had just
purchased, having about the same time sold Gogar, and in March
1801, considering that his affairs required his going abroad for
some time, he granted a commission to the Hon. David Smyth of
Methven, one of the Senators of the College of Justice, to procure
him infeft in the estate of Braco. He subsequently returned to
Scotland and resided at Braco. He was appointed a Deputy
Lieutenant of Perthshire in 1807, and died at Braco Castle, 1st
April 1836 (Scotsman newspaper of 9th April 1836).
They had an only child—
ix. MARGARET SEYMOUR MASTERTON, married (see ‘The
Courier,’ 31st Oct. 1823) 30th October 1823, Theodore Henry
Elliot, Captain Royal Engineers, eldest son of the Right Hon.
Hugh Elliot, Governor of Madras, by Margaret Jones (‘Lewis,’—
Foster’s Peerage), his second wife (Memoir of the Right Hon.
1 Braco, in the parish of Muthill and Sheriffdom of Perth, was purchased by
James Masterton of Gogar from the trustees under the trust-disposition and
settlement of Colonel (General) David Graeme of Gorthy, eldest lawful son of
James Graeme of Braco. He conveyed the estate to his son-in-law Major
Theodore Henry Elliot, whose trustees, with consent of his widow, sold it in
1843 to George Drummond Stewart, Esq., second son of Sir George Stewart,
Bart.