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a4. Isobel Fraser of Lovat, who died young
Hugh Fraser, Master of Lovat, married Anne, the daughter of Alexander Leslie, 1st Earl of Leven, and died 1643 in his father’s lifetime, leaving issue:
A1 Hugh, heir to his grandfather (see below)
a1. Anne Fraser of Lovat
Hugh Fraser, 8th Lord Fraser of Lovat, was born 2 May 1643, married July 1659 to Anne, the daughter of Sir John Mackenzie of Tarbat, Baronet, and succeeded his grandfather 1646. He died 27 April 1672, having had issue:
A1 Hugh, his heir (see below)
a1. Anne Fraser of Lovat, was born 12 March 1661, married Patrick, 2nd Lord Kinnaird, and died 1684
a2. Isabel Fraser of Lovat, born 1662, married Alexander Mackenzie of Glengarry
a3. Margaret Fraser of Lovat, born 1666, married Colonel Andrew Monro
Hugh Fraser, 9th Lord Fraser of Lovat, born 28 September 1666, married Amelia, the daughter of John Murray, 1st Marquess of Atholl, by Amelia Sophia, the daughter of James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby, and died 14 September 1696, having settled his estates, 20 March 1696, on his cousin and heir male, Thomas Fraser of Beaufort (fourth son of Hugh, 7th Lord), and having had issue:
A1 Hugh Fraser, Master of Lovat, born 1690, died 16 March 1693
A2 John Fraser, Master of Lovat, born 1695, died 10 August 1696
a1. Amelia Fraser of Lovat, assumed the title of Lady Lovat at her father’s death and was supported in this by the judgment of the Court of Session 2 December 1702 against her cousin Simon Fraser, the heir male. She married 1702 Alexander Mackenzie of Prestonhall (a Lord of Session as Lord Prestonhall) who adopted the name and designation of Fraser of Fraserdale and died 3 June 1755, age 72. She continued to possess the estates until the Rising of 1715, when her husband was attainted and his life-rent interest in the estate forfeited. In 1730 she was deprived of her peerage title of Lady Fraser of Lovat by a decree of reduction in the Court of Session brought at the instance of the heir male. Her right to the reversion of the estates was not judicially tried but she settled for a money payment. She died 22 August 1763, having had issue:
B1 Hugh Fraser, younger of Lovat, died 9 November 1770
b1. Amelia Fraser of Lovat, died 22 August 1763
a2. Anne Fraser of Lovat, born 1689, married September 1703 as her first husband Norman Macleod of Macleod, 20th Chief, and as her second husband Peter Fothringham of Powrie, and as her third husband John Mackenzie, 2nd Earl of Cromarty, and died 10 August 1734
a3. Katherine Fraser of Lovat, married 25 July 1706, Sir William Murray of Ochtertyre, Baronet, and died 4 March 1771
a4. Margaret Fraser, died unmarried
The cousin and heir male, fourth son of Hugh Fraser, 7th Lord Fraser of Lovat, Thomas Fraser of Beaufort, de jure 10th Lord Fraser of Lovat, married Sibylla, the fourth daughter of Ian Mor Macleod of Macleod, 16th Chief of Macleod. He and his son Simon abducted Amelia, the Dowager Lady Fraser of Lovat, in 1698 and were found guilty of high treason. He died May 1699 having had issue:
A1 Alexander Fraser, Master of Lovat, born ca. 1666 and died unmarried in the lifetime of his father 20 November 1689
A2 Simon, his heir (see below)
A3 Hugh Fraser
A4 John Fraser, was born 1674 and entered the Dutch service as “Le Chevalier Fraser.” He died unmarried in 1716.
Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Fraser of Lovat, was famous for his adventurous career. Soon after the death of Hugh, 9th Lord, he induced Hugh’s eldest daughter, Amelia, to elope with him. When she returned to her mother, he seized her estates, and for this and other acts of violence he was tried in his absence in 1698, sentenced to death, and attainted. He then forced himself on the widow of the 9th Lord, Amelia the daughter of the Marquess of Atholl, and compelled her to marry him. For this he was tried and