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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