Col. Duncan MacPherson
(1748-1817)

Col. Duncan MacPherson

Born: 1748
Marriage (1): Catherine Cameron in 1798
Died: 1 Aug 1817 aged 69

Family Links

Spouses/Children:

1. Catherine Cameron

(+ Shows person has known children.)

bullet Birth Notes:

http://thepeerage.com/p50754.html#i507536

bullet Death Notes:

http://thepeerage.com/p50754.html#i507534

And

http://www.clan-cameron.org.au/getperson.php?personID=I36172&tree=cameron1

bullet Sources of information or noted events in his life were:

• Will. http://thepeerage.com/p50754.html#i507534

And

http://www.electricscotland.com/history/inverness/chapter24.html

• General Comment. A great deal is made of Evan Macpherson's son, Duncan Macpherson. I have met with several people who knew him well, and the concurring report was that he was an insignificant looking little man, entirely ruled by his clever wife, Catherine Cameron of Fassifern.

Lord Adam Gordon thus writes of him in 1769 to the Marquis of Granby-

Prestonhall, 25th December, 1769.

As to some promotions I hope I may name to you for a company Captain Macpherson on the half-pay, who has undertaken to find forty recruits provided he gets on full pay. I thought it a handsome offer and am certain he can make it good. lie is a very pretty young man and who, for reasons of policy, should be kept in the service. He is a nephew of Colonel Fraser's and has been educated under the eye of Dr Robertson, the historian, who does him great justice."

http://www.electricscotland.com/history/inverness/chapter24.html

Duncan married Catherine Cameron, daughter of Sir Ewen Cameron and Louisa Campbell, in 1798. (Catherine Cameron was born in 1772 in Kilmallie, Fort William, Scotland and died on 20 Jan 1855.)

bullet Sources of information or n events in their marriage were:

• Web Based Info. http://www.clan-macpherson.org/museum/mem/021b_catherinebio.htmll

And

http://www.clan-macpherson.org/museum/mem/021b_catherinebio.htmll

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Caveat:- Throughout the project UK GRO birth, marriage and death index data appears. The GRO data appears in Quarters. Q1 = January, February and March, Q2 = April, May, June , Q3 = July, August and September and Q4 = October, November and December. Similarly, Mar Q = January, February and March, Jun Q = April, May, June , Sep Q = July, August and September and Dec Q = October, November and December. Where these dates occur, they represent the date of Registration of the event rather than the date of the actual event. Logically, registration occurs AFTER the event. In some cases this may be days or months or even years after the event. The important thing is that the event was recorded and a copy of the document of registration could be obtained if necessary. This also applies to South African NAAIRS records.

Similarly, the UK system is confusing to the uninitiated because registration districts can span several counties. Accordingly GRO locations may not record the true location of the event. They do record where the record is actually kept or recorded.

Caveat #2:- I have used URL's throughout the website as sources. The URLs are often from paid subscription sites so you may not be able to access them without an account. Inevitably there are broken URL's. I have been to every URL recorded here and at the time they were operational. In this regard, the Ancestry24 records are a problem. There are numerous references in the South African data citing Ancestry24 records. Unfortunately Ancestry24 has closed down and these records are no longer available on line.

The early South African records on this site would not have been as good as they are without the work done by Delia Robertson. Where there are website addresses containing http://www.e-family.co.za... I record the citation should read Robertson, Delia. The First Fifty Years Project. This website can be found at First Fifty Years