Person:Elizabeth Semple (13)

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Name Elizabeth Semple
Gender Female
Birth[1] 26 Mar 1743 Dreghorn, Ayrshire, Scotland
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  1. Scott, Hew. Fasti Ecclesiæ scoticanæ: the succession of ministers in the Church of Scotland from the reformation. (Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1915-)
    Page 88.

    Page 88, Dreghorn - James Sempill, son of Robert S. of Kirkhouse of Bonhill; educated at Univ. of Glasgow; licen. By Presb. of Dunbarton 4th Aug. 1713; called 5th Dec. 1717; ord. 7th May 1718; died 9th Feb. 1752. He marr. (1) 9th July 1719, Dorothea (died June 1720), daugh. of John Edminston, merchant, Glasgow, and had issue – Robert, served heir 4th Feb. 1761: (2) 23 April 1722, Margaret (died 23rd Aug. 1758), daugh. of William Gemmil of Towerlands, and had issue – Janet, died 29th Dec. 1747; John, M.A. (Glasgow 1744); Dorothy, buried in Ramshorn Churchyard, Glasgow, 29th Nov. 1754; James, born 18th May 1730; George, born 27th Sept. 1737; Elizabeth, born 26 March 1743 – [Glasg. Marr. Reg.; Glasg. Tests.]

  2.   Patrick Hogue (Samples). The Samples / Semples Family.

    This is the Semple Family from Long Dreghorn & Kirkhouse, Scotland

    Bagby, Alfred. King and Queen County, Virginia. (New York: Neale Pub. Co., 1908), Page 378.

    This from Col. Fleet of Culver: Thos. Walker, ancestor of the distinguished Dr. Thos. Walker, and Riveses of Albemarle (see Thomas Walker (explorer)), and Gov. Thos. Walker Gilmer (see Thomas Walker Gilmer), was from K. & Q." - Semple, John and James S., were sons of Rev. James Semple of England. John settled in King and Queen, marrying a Miss Walker. There son, Robert B.A. Croghan[sic] Semple[recte] married Lucy Clark, and their son, Major Croghan, then a mere youth, held the fort at Sandusky against Gen. Proctor (see Henry Procter (British Army officer)) with a large force of Indians and whites. He also distinguished himself at Tippecanoe (see Battle of Tippecanoe).

    Arthur, Stanley Clisby; Charles Patton Dimitry; and George Campbell de Kernion. Old Families of Louisiana. (New Orleans, Louisiana: Harmanson, 1931), Pages 355, 361, 2009.

    Page 355 - Robert Semple, brother to Steele Semple -
    Page 361 - Robert Semple, a brother of Sarah Jane Semple who married Col. Thomas Butler (q. v.), was descended from the Semples of Kirkhouse, Scotland.

    Hereditary Sempill Lords of Blackburn, Kirkhouse, and Long Dreghorn & Clan Sempill