Theodore Chisholm of Struy

ALEXANDER CHISHOLM - XIX, GeneRally known as "An Siosal Og," or the Young Chisholm. On the 26th of November, 1657, we find a disposition by William Fraser of Culbokie (who on the 22nd of February, 1636, acquired the lands in question from Hugh Lord Lovat), by Hugh Fraser his son, and by Cristina Chisholm, his wife, all with one consent, in s vour of Alexander Chisholm, of the lands of Wester Comar, alias Comar Croy. This disposition was implemented by two charters of the same date, followed by an instrument of sasine, dated the 3ist of May and registered, as in the last case, on the 8th of June, 1658.

He has a precept of Clare Constat of these lands from Lovat's trustees already mentioned, dated the 23rd of March, 1678, upon which a sasine follows on the 8th, which is duly registered on the I5th of November in the same year. Alexander is served as heir general on the ipth of June, 1677, and has a sasine following thereon on the nth of April, 1678, duly registered in the Particular Register for Inverness- shire on the ipth of the same month. On the 23rd of March in the same year he has a precept of Clare Constat by Kenneth Mor Mackenzie, third Earl of Seaforth, Sir George Mackenzie of Tarbat, and Hugh Fraser of Belladrum, Lord Lovat's trustees, as heir of his father, Alexander, of the town lands of Comar Croy or Wester Comar. Sasine follows on this precept on the 8th of November in the same year, and it is registered in the Particular Register of Sasines for the county on the 14th of that month. On the same* date he has a similar precept from the same parties of the lands of Easter and Wester Erchless and of Comar Kirkton, with a sasine following thereon, duly registered on the i8th of November, 1678. He was SHERIFF-Depute of the county of Inverness from 1689 to 1695.

In 1689 General Livingston found it necessary to send troops to disperse bodies of Highlanders, who, after the battle of Killiecrankie, which was fought in that year, continued in arms for the House of Stuart. A detachment of the Strathnaver and Grant regiments, from Brahan Castle, and the garrison of Castle Leod, accompanied by a party of horse under Lieutenant-Colonel Lumsden, were ordered to march against one of these bodies of Highlanders who had collected in Strathglass, and taken possession of Erchless Castle, the seat of the Chisholms, in which they resolved to defend themselves. It was, however, carried by storm, and a great quantity of provisions found within it was secured. Major Mackay, with four companies of the Grants, was left to defend the Castle and as a check on the disaffected, but the following summer he and his garrison were attacked by some five hundred Highlanders, by whom they would have been compelled to surrender had not Livingston promptly marched from Inverness and relieved them by a successful attack on the besieging Highlanders. Alexander married the eldest daughter of Roderick Mackenzie, I. of Applecross, with issue

1ST John, his heir and successor.

2ND Theodore Chisholm of Struy, of whose cadet family in their order. Chisholm of Struy is the Senior Cadet Family of the Clan Chisholm

THEODORE CHISHOLM of Struy was the second son of Alexander Chisholm, XIX. of Chisholm, by his wife, the eldest daughter of Roderick Mackenzie, I. of Applecross. He lived and died at Balmore, Invercannich. He married Margaret, daughter of Fraser of Culbokie, with issue –

JOHN CHISHOLM, who lived and died at Wester Knockfin. He married, Isabella, daughter of John, II. of Knockfin, with issue -

THEODORE CHISHOLM, who lived and died at Comar House. He married Mary, daughter of Alexander, second son of Archibald Chisholm, Fasnakyle, with issue –

JOHN CHISHOLM, who resided most of his life at Comar House, and died at Struy, married Margaret, daughter of Kenneth, eldest son of Archibald Chisholm of Fasnakyle with issue -

THEODORE CHISHOLM residing at Struy, since the death of Roderick Donald Matheson Chisholm, XXVIII of Chisholm, in 1887, Theodore, possessing not an inch of land, and without any visible means of subsistence, is heir male and chief of the ancient house of Chisholm. He is now about eighty-one years of age and unmarried. He died unmarried -

ELIZA CHISHOLM, who married Alexander Macdonell, farmer, Invercannich, with issue –

ISABELL CHISHOLM MACDONELL, who married Colin Chisholm, Clachan, Strathglass, with issue – Duncan who married Margaret daughter of Frazer and Mary, who married John Bisset, Fanellan, with issue, among others, the Rev. Alexander Bisset, a priest, now at Stratherrick.

DUNCAN CHISHOLM, b. 22 October 1804 who emigrated to lochaber Antigonish in 1828 married in 1832 Margaret Chisholm b. abt. 1806, with issue –

COLIN ALEXANDER CHISHOLM b.1844 and d. 1914 in Lochaber Antigonish, married Victoria Vougere of Cape Breton, Canada d.1925 in Peabody, Mass, with issue –

COLIN ALEXANDER THOMAS CHISHOLM, b 1887 Peabody, Mass. who married Eva Margaret Johnston of Saint John, New Brunswick abt 1915 St. Dominic’s Church Portland, Maine with issue –

COLIN ALEXANDER WILLIAM CHISHOLM 2ND, b 17 September 1922 Falmouth Forseide Maine, married the Honorable Mary Elizabeth Brennan b. 9 September 1927 married on 20 January 1951 in Peabody, Mass with issue -

COLIN ALEXANDER JOSEPH CHISHOLM 3RD, K.M. b. November 23, 1951 Salem, Mass. married Lady Andrea Lynne Brix, 3November 2001 Greenwich, CT. b 11 March 1960, with issue –

COLIN ALEXANDER WILLIAM CHISHOLM 4TH, b. 1 February 2007 Palm Beach, Florida.

References

• Acts of Parliament, Vol. VI. p. 303.
• Invernessiana, pp. 93–94. t Register of 'Moray, p. 211.