The Seton's of Touch Descent
| B. | Sir Alexander de Seton, 1st Lord Gordon (d 1440) | ||||||||||||||||
| m. (1408) Elizabeth Gordon of Gordon (d 16.03.1438-9, dau of Sir Adam Gordon of that ilk) | |||||||||||||||||
| i. | Alexander Seton, 1st Earl of Huntly (d 15.07.1470) | ||||||||||||||||
| m1. (c08.01.1426-7, div) Egidia Hay (dau of Sir John Hay of Tullibody) | |||||||||||||||||
| a. | Sir Alexander Seton, 1st Baron of Touch and Tullibody (a 1488, recieved the lands of Gordon and Greenknowe in the Borders as his patrimonial estate), appointed Hereditary Armour Bearer to the King, in a Charter dated November, 1488, which title continued through the Seton's of Touch). | ||||||||||||||||
| m. Elizabeth Erskine (dau of Thomas Erskine, 2nd Lord) | |||||||||||||||||
| (1) | Sir Alexander Seton, 2nd of Touch (d Flodden 09.09.1513) | ||||||||||||||||
| m. Elizabeth Home (dau of Alexander, Lord Home) | |||||||||||||||||
| (A) | Sir Ninian Seton, Kt, 3rd of Touch (d. 1567). | ||||||||||||||||
| m. Janet Chisholm (dau of Sir Edward Chisholm of Cromlix) | |||||||||||||||||
| (i) | Sir Walter Seton, Kt, 4th of Touch | ||||||||||||||||
| m. Elizabeth Erskine (dau of John, Lord Erskine) | |||||||||||||||||
| (a) | James Seton, 5th of Touch (builder of Greenknowe Tower in the Borders; involved in the Raid of Ruthven, but pardoned by King James VI from Stirling, 24.10.1583). | ||||||||||||||||
| m1. Janet Cranstoun (dau of Sir William Cranstoun of that ilk) | |||||||||||||||||
| ((1)) | John Seton, 6th of Touch (d. 1622) | ||||||||||||||||
| m. Elizabeth Home (dau of Sir George Home of Wedderburn). | |||||||||||||||||
| ((A)) | James Seton, 7th of Touch (d. 1630) | ||||||||||||||||
| m. Ann Stewart (dau of Sir Thomas Stewart of Grandtully) | |||||||||||||||||
| ((i)) | James Seton, 8th of Touch (a. April 23rd, 1630) | ||||||||||||||||
| m. Elizabeth Stirling (dau of Sir Archibald Stirling of Garden and Keir) | |||||||||||||||||
| ((a)) | James Seton, 9th of Touch | ||||||||||||||||
| m. his cousin - dau of Stirling family. | |||||||||||||||||
| (((1))) | Archibald Seton, 10th of Touch (a. 11.1702, d. 1726) | ||||||||||||||||
| m. Barbara Hunter (dau and heiress of Alexander Hunter of Muirhouse), married in 1721. | |||||||||||||||||
| (((A))) | James Seton, 11th of Touch (dsp. 1742) | ||||||||||||||||
| (((B))) | Elizabeth Seton, heiress of Touch. | ||||||||||||||||
| m. Hugh Smith - he took the name of Seton and became Hugh Seton, 12th of Touch. (he was Grand Master Mason of Scotland 1748-49). | |||||||||||||||||
| (((i))) | Archibald Seton, 13th of Touch, Governor of Penang and Member of the Supreme Council Bengal, & Governor of Prince of Wales' Island. He was also Heritable Armour Bearer & Squire of the King's body. | ||||||||||||||||
| (((ii))) | Lillian Seton - heiress of Touch (b. ?, d. 1835) | ||||||||||||||||
| m. Sir Alan-Henry Steuart, 1st Baronet of Allanton, married 1787 he adopted the Seton name and became Seton-Steuart. (b. ?, d, 1836) | |||||||||||||||||
| (((a))) | Elizabeth-Margaret Seton-Steuart - heiress of Allanton and Touch (as the only child, her ladyship held the hereditary office of Heritable Armour Bearer to the Queen and Squire of the Royal Body), married 1812, inherited Touch from her mother in 1835. (b. 31.10.1790, d. 02.08.1866) | ||||||||||||||||
| m. Sir Reginald Macdonald, 2nd Bart of Staffa, who also inherited the Allanton Baronetcy from his father-in-law and became Sir Reginald Macdonald Seton-Steuart, 2nd Bart of Staffa, Allanton and Touch. (b. ?, d. 15.04.1835). | |||||||||||||||||
| ((((1)))) | Sir Henry-James Seton-Steuart, 3rd Bart of Allanton and Touch, Heritable Armour Bearer to the King and Squire of the Royal Body (b. 5 Nov 1812, dsp. 6 Dec 1884) | ||||||||||||||||
| m. Elizabeth Montgomerie. | |||||||||||||||||
| ((((2)))) | Archibald Seton-Steuart, Esq. (b. 18 May 1814 d. 21 Oct 1872). | ||||||||||||||||
| m. Katherine Stein (d. 12.1872). | |||||||||||||||||
| ((((A)))) | Sir Alan-Henry Seton-Steuart, 4th Baronet of Allanton and Touch, Heritable Armour Bearer to the King and Squire of the Royal Body (b. 23.04.1856, dsp. 03.04.1913). | ||||||||||||||||
| ((((B)))) | Sir Douglas Archibald Seton-Steuart, 5th and last Baronet of Allanton and Touch, Heritable Armour Bearer to the King and Squire of the Royal Body (b. 20.08.1857, dsp. 19.02.1930). | ||||||||||||||||
| ((((3)))) | Colin-Reginald Seton-Steuart (dsp.) | ||||||||||||||||
| ((((4)))) | Isabella Seton-Steuart (dsp. 08.08.1893). | ||||||||||||||||
| m. Rev. John Lockhart Rose. | |||||||||||||||||
| ((((5)))) | Lillias-Margaret Seton-Steuart (dsp. 05.07.1866). | ||||||||||||||||
| m. Mr. Urquhart | |||||||||||||||||
| (((iii))) | Barbara Seton (d.10.01.1835), known as Barbara Brotherston Seton of Touch, noted as of Bath, Co. Somerset, England, she died a widow in Stirlingshire, Scotland. | ||||||||||||||||
| m. Mr. Brotherston (?). | |||||||||||||||||
| (((2))) | Keith Seton, "of Touch", he fled to Sweden after the "Rising" of 1715 with his cousin, Sir George Stirling of Sinclair and others, in 1716, and noted in the Newcastle Courant for 1716. The escape via Caithness and Kirkwall to Sweden of 120 rebels, among them Lord Duffus, Sir George Stirling of Sinclair and Keith Seaton of Touch, appeared on 3 March. A journal of the proceedings of captured rebels from Edinburgh to London, written by a Scots prisoner in the Marshal Sea, was published in instalments. ESTC records 9 holdings of the Newcastle Courant in Britain, but none in Scotland. | ||||||||||||||||
| ((b)) | Lucy Seton (b. 03.1676) | ||||||||||||||||
| m. ? | |||||||||||||||||
| ((ii)) | Euphemia Seton | ||||||||||||||||
| m1. Patrick Hamilton of Peel of Livingston | |||||||||||||||||
| m2. William Crichton of Darnhaunch, 9th Lord of Sanquhar, 1st Earl of Dumfries (d 1642-3) | |||||||||||||||||
| p. unknown | |||||||||||||||||
| ((B)) | Christopher Seton, natural son of John Seton, 6th of Touch, apprenticed with George Waldye in Edinburgh, as a skinner, 4th Jan. 1609. | ||||||||||||||||
| ((C)) | James Seton, natural son of John Seton, 6th of Touch, apprenticed with John Porterfield in Edinburgh, as a merchant, 27.03.1611. | ||||||||||||||||
| m2. Eline-Jane Edmonston (dau of Edmonston of Edmonston and Ednam, Roxburgh) | |||||||||||||||||
| ((2)) | Sir Alexander Seton of Gargunnock and Culcreuch, Lord Kilcreuch, Knighted by Charles I in 1633 - note: Abercorn line now respresents the Seton's of Touch. | ||||||||||||||||
| m.Marion Maule (dau of William Maule of Glaster, of the Panmure Family) | |||||||||||||||||
| the Seton's of Graden, Abercorn, Gargunnock, Preston and Ekolsund, etc... | |||||||||||||||||
| ((3)) | William Seton | ||||||||||||||||
| m. unknown. | |||||||||||||||||
| ((4)) | Robert Seton | ||||||||||||||||
| m. unknown. | |||||||||||||||||
| ((5)) | George Seton | ||||||||||||||||
| m. unknown. | |||||||||||||||||
| ((6)) | James Seton | ||||||||||||||||
| m. unknown. | |||||||||||||||||
| (b) | son Seton | ||||||||||||||||
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| (c) | son Seton | ||||||||||||||||
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| (d) | Janet Seton (d 02.02.1616) | ||||||||||||||||
| m1. Sir John Bellenden of Auchnoull | |||||||||||||||||
| m2. (before 15.07.1579/80) John Forbes, 8th Lord (b 03.07.1542, d 29.06.1606) | |||||||||||||||||
| (ii) | son Seton, of the family of Touch. | ||||||||||||||||
| (iii) | son Seton, of the family of Touch. | ||||||||||||||||
| (iv) | daughter Seton, of the family of Touch. | ||||||||||||||||
| (v) | daughter Seton, of the family of Touch. | ||||||||||||||||
| (B) | John Seton, of Tullibody. | ||||||||||||||||
| (C) | Alexander Seaton, Friar, personal priest to King James V, and noted Scottish Protestant Reformer, Chaplain to Duke of Suffolk. | ||||||||||||||||
| (2) | son Seton, of the family of Touch (?) | ||||||||||||||||