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Lady Amelia Murray (1666-1743)
Born 2 January 1666
Died 6 May 1743 Perth 
Married 1685
Hugh Fraser, 9th Lord Lovat, son of Hugh Fraser, 8th Lord
Lovat and Anne Mackenzie
Born 28 September 1666
Died 14 September 1696
 
 

In 1685 she married Hugh Fraser, 9th Lord Lovat, and they became the parents of four daughters and two sons, both of the latter dying in infancy. On 20 March 1696, before his death on 14 September 1696, her husband had settled his estates on his great-uncle and heir-male, Thomas Fraser, of Beaufort.
However, after her husband had died, Thomas Fraser and his son, Simon, having failed to secure her eldest daughter in marriage, seized the widowed Lady Lovat and forced her into a clandestine and presumably invalid marriage with Simon Fraser.
On 6 September 1698, Thomas Fraser with his son Simon was found guilty of high treason for the abduction of Amelia, Lady Lovat. However, the question of succession to both the dignity and the
estates, between the heir general and the heir male, was not settled until nearly forty years later, the matter being complicated by two contradictory decisions of the Court of Session, in 1702 and 1730
respectively.

Source: Leo van de Pas
 

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