Charles John Dunlop

CHARLES JOHN DUNLOP, of the Inland Revenue Service at Chatham, County of Kent, is of Scotch extraction. He is a son of Charles John Dunlop, a prominent advocate of Montreal, and traces his descent back through a long line of the Lairds of Dunlop to the middle of the 13^th century, while on another side he can claim kinship with the families whose names are closely connected with Scotland’s wealth of romance and song.

The first record of the Dunlops dates back to 1260, and for the five succeeding centuries the line is as given below, in the “genealogical tree of the Dunlops of that ilk”.

1260 (I) Don. Guilielmus De Dunlop.

1296 (II) Neil Fitz-Robert De Dunlop.

1300-1400

(III) and (IV) Property alienated from the Dunlops.

1400 (V) James De Dunlop.

1407 (VI) John De Dunlop.

1413 (VII) Alexander De Dunlop.

14__ (VIII) John Dunlop of that ilk.

1470 (IX) Constantine Dunlop.

1476 (X) Alexander Dunlop

1507 (XI) John Dunlop, married to Marion Douglas

1537 (XII) James Dunop, married to Ellen Cunningham of Glencain

1549 (XIV) Alexander Dunlop, of Dunlop.

1596 (XV) James Dunlop, married to Jean Somerville, of Cambresnathan(?)

1617 (XVI) James Dunlop, married to Dame Margaret Hamilton, widow of the Bishop of Linsmore or Argyll, and daughter of Gavin Hamilton, Bishop of Galloway.

1668 (XVII) James Dunlop (nephew of the above), married to Elizabeth to Elizabeth Cunningham, of Corsehill.

1683 (XVIII) Alexander Dunlop, married to Antonia, daughter of Sir John Brown, of Fordel.

1684 (XIX) John Dunlop (succeeded his brother).

1707 (XX) Francis Dunlop, married to Susan Leckie, of Newlands.

1748 (XXI) John Dunlop, married to Frances Anne, daughter of Sir Thomas Wallace, of Craigie, Bart. (by his first wife).

John Dunlop the 21^st laird of that ilk, was married to Frances Anne Wallace in 1747; she was the only daughter and heiress of her father, the fifth baronet of Craigie, and Eleanor, daughter and heiress of Col. Agnew, of Lochryan. The estate of Lochryan was left by will by MRs. Dunlop to her great-grandson, Sir John Alexander Dunlop Wallace, 7^th baronet of Craigie (the baronetcy of Craigie was created in 1669). Mrs. Frances Wallace Dunlop was the patroness of Robert Burns. The issue of John and Frances Anne Dunlop was as follows:

i) Frances died young.

ii) Sir Thomas Wallace, who took the surname of Wallace on succeeding his grandfather as sixth baronet of Craigie, was born in 1751. He married, in 1772, Eglontine, daughter of Sir William Maxwell, baronet of Monreith, and died in 1837. Their children were:

a. Thomas Wallace died young.

b. Gen. Sir John Alexander Dunlop Wallace,, K.C.B., seventh baronet of Craigie and Lochryan, born in 1773, deceased in 1857, married Janet, daughter of William Bodger, by whom he had,

i. Sir William Thomas Francis Agnew Wallace, 8^th baronet of Craigie and Lochryan , lieutenant colonel grenadier guards, born in 1830, who died in 1892;

ii. George Gordon Wallace, R.N., who died unmarried;

iii. Alexander Francis Wallace, deceased;

iv. Lieut. Col. Francis James A. Wallace, late in the Scots Greys;

v. Agnes Eleanor Wallace;

vi. Robert Wallace, married to Jane Bell, of Enterkine, in 1859, to whom were born,

1. Jeanette Francis Wallace,

2. John Alexander Agnew (who succeeded to Lochrayan on the death of his uncle, Sir William Wallace, in 1892, was born in 1861, married Agnes Fair in 1893, and had one daughter),

3. Mary Ann Wallace,

4. Eleanor Agnes Wallace,

5. Isabella Wallace,

6. Dora Williamina Wallace,

7. Jane Rotina Agnew Wallace

8. Robert B ruce Agnew Wallace (born in 1873),

9. Eva Beatrice Wallace

iii) Alexander died young

iv) Brig. Gen. Andrew succeeded to the Dunlop estate in 1784, and died, unmarried, at Antigua in 1804.

v) Lieut. Gen. James succeeded his brother in Dunlop, and was M.P. from Kirkcudbright. He greatly distinguished himself in the storming of Seringapatam, and commanded a brigade of the Duke of Wellington in the campaign of 1811. He married Julia, daughter of Hugh Bailie, of Monkton, in 1792, and died in 1832. He was the last of the Dunlops of Dunlop to be buried in the family vault under Dunlop church. He had issue as follows:

a. Anna, wife of Col. Davies, of the Grenadier Guards, died in 1826.

b. John, 1^st baronet of Dunlop, M.P. for Ayrshire, formerly a captain in the Grenadier Guards, married (first) Charlotte Constance, daughter of Sir R.D. Jackson, K.C.B.; and (second) Lady Harriet Primrose, daughter of the Earl of Roseberry, by whom he had no children. He died at Hastings in 1839. His issue by the first marriage was as follows,

i. Sir James, 2^nd baronet, a major in the Coldstream Guards, distinguished himself at the battles of Alma and Inkermann in the Crimean war. He died unmarried in 1858, aged 27, when the title became extinct.

ii. Charlotte Constance, married, in 1860, Hon. Reynolds Morton, son of the Earl of Ducie, by whom she had:

1. Basil Hugh Reynolds Moreton, born in 1861, died in 1873.

2. Henry John Morton, of Minneapolis, Minn., U.S.A., married Carrie, widow of Col. Charles Ball, U.S. Their issue was,

a. Theodore Reynolds Moreton, born in 1890;

b. Hugh Berkley, born in 1891

c. Francis James Moreton was born in 1863.

d. Hugh, R.A., Admiral and C.B., commanded H.M.S. “Tartar” in the Baltic, during the war with Russia. He was born in 1808, and died in 1887. He married Helen Cockburn, by whom he had one son, Vice-Admiral James Andrew Robert, who married Agnes White and died without issue in 1892.

e. Andrew Robert died while at Oxford in 1831

f. Frances, who married, in 1838, Alexander Earl Monteith, advocate and sheriff of Fife, died in London in November, 1898, aged 95. Her children wer, Robert Monteigh (who died young) and Anna Monteith.

vi) John, first an officer in the army, and later a farmer at Morhams Mains, East Lothean, married his cousin, Magdalen Frances, granddaughter of Francis Dunlop, of Dunlop, by his second marriage with Miss Kinloch. Their children were,

a. John Andrew Wallace, a member of the Council of Bombay, married Elizabeth, daughter of Dr. Sandwith, H.E.I.C.S. Issue,

i. Francis, deceased.

ii. Robert Henry Wallace-Dunlop, C.B., Bengal Civil Service was born in 1823, and died in 1887. He was married to Lucy Dawson, by whom he had six children: (Note) The surname Wallace was added by Robert Dunlop, C.B., from his grandmother’s family, the Wallaces of Craigie.)

1. Keith Wallace-Dunlop, born in 1862;

2. Marion Wallace-Dunlop, 1864;

3. Arthur Wallace-Dunlop, 1868, a captain in the Indian Staff Corps;

4. Lillian Wallace-Dunlop, 1869;

5. Constance Wallace-Dunlop, 1872;

6. Hugh Wallace-Dunlop, 1874

iii. Madeline Ann, authoress of “Glass in the Old World” and other books.

iv. Elizabeth Joanna Emily

v. Helen, deceased

vi. Rosalind Harriet Maria, who married William Inverarity, and had,

1. Duncan Inverarity

2. Madeline Inverarity

vii. Emily

b. Madeline, wife of J. Cockburn, and mother of,

i. Madeline Frances, who married Frederick Manable, by whom she had,

1. Edith, wife of Mr. Ferguson;

2. Douglas Heron Manable, who is married and resides in London

ii. Jemima, wife of F.A. Philbrick, whose children are,

1. Magdalene Frederika Emily

2. Evelyn Catherine Mary

3. Charlotte Edith Christobel.

c) Susan Agnes Eleanora married Mackenzie Bots, of Aldie, to whom she bore,

a. Francis Andrew Wallace Bots, of South Island, New Zealand, who married his cousin, Catherine Robertson, and had children,

i. Jemima Herrick Bots

ii. George Henry Bots, married to Ellen Sinclair

iii. Francis Wallace Bots

iv. John Robert Bots

v. Susan Eleanor Bots

vi. Catherine Bots, who died in 1885

vii. Henry Dundas Bots

viii. Alexandra Flora Bots

b. John Robert Henry Bots, who died unmarried,

c. Anthony Bots, who married Grace Murdock, and died in 1883, leaving,

i. Alexander Cunningham Dunlop Bots

ii. Francis James Bots

iii. Susan Eleanor Bots

iv. John Robert Henry Bots

v. Anthony Campbell Bots

vi. Antonia Bots

vii. Ernest Bots

viii. Allan Bots

d. Rachel Keith Bots, who married (first) Robert Stewart, and (second) Mr. Jackson, of Wellington, New Zealand

d) Jemima Vans, wife of Col. H. Dundas Robertson, and mother of,

a. Henry Dundas Robertson, Bengal Civil service, who married his cousin, Alexina Wallace Dunlop, their issue

i. Flora Dundas Robertson, who married Stanlaus Zieby Womaska, and had a daughter,

1. Nina Vans

b. Catherine Robertson, who married her cousin, Francis A.W. Bots (issue given above).

e) Flora, who married her cousin, Lieut. Col. Alexander Dunlop.

f) Anthony, a merchant in Bombay, who died unmarried

g) Wallace Francis, H.E.I.C.S., who died unmarried

h) Henry, advocate, who died unmarried

i) Robert Glasgow, who died in the West Indies

j) Robert, who died young

k) James, who died young

vii) Anthony married Ann Cunningham niece of Sir William Cunningham, of Robertland; they became the grandparents of C.J. Dunlop, of Chatham, Ontario. He died in 1826, the father of,

a. William, a captain in the Fifty-fifth Regiment, who married (first) a Miss Kesting, by whom he had no issue, and (second) Emily Peat, who bore him:

i. William Wallace, born in 1855

ii. Frank Cunningham, 1857

iii. Emily Constance, 1860

iv. Herbert, 1862

b. Lieut. Col. Alexander married his cousin, Flora Dunlop, and had,

i. Flora, married A.J. McCartney, their issue being,

1. Constance McCartney, married to William Longfield

2. Jane Catherine Nina H. McCartney

3. Jemima Vans Ann Mabel McCartney

4. Flora Antonia McCartney

5. Charlotte McCartney

6. Harry Burgh John Arthur McCartney

ii. Alexina Wallace married her cousin, Henry Dundas Robertson, as above.

iii. Constance died unmarried

iv. Antonia married David Lyall

v. John married Frances Mawby, and had seven children,

1. Alexander Anthony Mackenzie

2. Nina Flora

3. Vans

4. Henry Dundas

5. Kenneth

6. Keith (a girl)

7. Myra

vi. Harriet.

c. Flora

d. Charles John, a prominent lawyer in Montreal, Canada, married Sophie Fellows, and died in 1871. They had three children,

i. Charles John, married and residing in Chatham, Ontario, Canada

ii. Constance Ann, who died in Montreal, in 1881, wife of John Maclaurin, and mother of

1. Emily

2. Minnie

3. Ada

4. Dora

iii. Alexander Francis, a fellow of the Royal Canadian Academy of Artists

e. Lieut. Gen. Franklin, C.B., Royal Artillery, married Eliza Gordon, sister of the Gen. Charles Gordon who was killed at Khartoum. He died in April 1887, father of,

i. Henry Gordon, who died unmarried

ii. William Wallace, a lieutenant in the Ninety-Fifth Regiment in 1877. He married Rebecca Lyon, who became the mother of

1. Franklin Lyon

2. Charles Gordon

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