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Captain Charles Fleming

b. circa 1645, d. March 1684

Captain Charles Fleming was born circa 1645.

Father	Colonel John ("the Soldier") Fleming, 3rd Earl of Wigtown, 8th Lord Fleming (b. circa 1608, d. February 1665)
Mother	Jane Drummond, eldest daughter of John 2nd Earl of Perth (b. 1616, d. 12 January 1663)

Son	Elspeth Fleming, Natural Daughter (b. 1678)

Captain Charles Fleming served in the military as was captain-lieutenant in the Earl of Mars Regiment of Foot on 27 September 1678.¹
He served in the military as was appointed as captain on 7 December 1682.¹

Captain Charles Fleming died in March 1684 at age ~39.¹ He had his estate probated after March 1684.¹

[S28] Sir James Balfour Paul, The Scots Peerage: founded on Wood's edition of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland (Edinburgh: T and A Constable, 1911), vol viii, Fleming Earl of Wigtown pages 519 - 558.
[S58] Edinburgh, National Records of Scotland, "Online Catalogue," National Records of Scotland (https://catalogue.nrscotland.gov.uk/nrsonlinecatalogue: viewed 11 September 2025), GD2 1963, 1664, 1687, Earl of Wigtown: division of property and account of estate income.
[S5] William Hunter, Biggar and the House of Fleming: an account of the Biggar District, Archeological, Historical and Biographical, second edition (Edinburgh: William Paterson, 1867), p 558.
[S17] Francis J Grant (Ed), Charter Chest of the Earldom of Wigtown: 1214-1681 (Edinburgh: James Skinner & Company for the Scottish Record Society, 1910), Charter 221.

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15 March 2026