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Charles ("The Last") Fleming, 7th Earl of Wigtown, 12th Lord Fleming

b. before 1669, d. 16 May 1747

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18 Charles Fleming 7th Earl 12th Lord

Birth

Charles ("The Last") Fleming, 7th Earl of Wigtown, 12th Lord Fleming, was born before 1669.1

Parents

FatherCaptain William ("the Builder") Fleming, 5th Earl of Wigtown, 10th Lord Fleming (b. circa 1642, d. 8 April 1681)
MotherHenrietta Seton, eldest daughter of Charles, second Earl of Dunfermline (b. June 1652, d. between 30 November 1699 and 18 April 1700)

Titles

Charles ("The Last") Fleming, 7th Earl of Wigtown, 12th Lord Fleming, held the title of inherited the title of 7th earl of Wigtown on 10 February 1744.2

Working life

  • Charles ("The Last") Fleming, 7th Earl of Wigtown, 12th Lord Fleming, served in the military as attended a meeting at the Earl Marishal's house and afterwards "went along with the army" on 6 February 1716.3

Property1,4,5

Charles ("The Last") Fleming, 7th Earl of Wigtown, 12th Lord Fleming, possessed was sued by William Stirling of Herbertshire for recovery of the parsonage teinds due from the lands of Catscleugh for 40 years preceding 1723 in 1743 in Catscleuch.6 He possessed has estate at Kirkintilloch suffered terribly from part of the rebel army of Prince Charelkes Edward in 1745.7,8 He possessed this Wigtown asset was part of legal proceedings between the Earl of March and Murray of Broughton in 1746 in Lease of the teinds in Broughton.9

Death

Charles ("The Last") Fleming, 7th Earl of Wigtown, 12th Lord Fleming, died on 16 May 1747.1,2,10,11,12 He was buried on 22 May 1747 in Airth.1 He had his estate probated on 9 January 1748.1,10,11,13,12

Citations

  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.
  2. [S83] George Vere Irving, The upper ward of Lanarkshire described and delineated (Glasgow: Thomas Murray and Son, 1864), vol i, p 32; online image, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/upperwardoflanar02irvi/page/n9/mode/2up : accessed 28 March 2025.
  3. [S147] C Sandford Terry, "Allan Cameron's Narrative: Feb - Apr 1716," The Scottish Historical Review, vol v, no 18 (January 1908), online image (https://archive.org/details/scottishhistoric05edinuoft/page/136/mode/2up : viewed 10 August 2025), p 139.
  4. [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.
  5. [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.
  6. [S58] Edinburgh, National Records of Scotland, "Online Catalogue," National Records of Scotland (https://catalogue.nrscotland.gov.uk/nrsonlinecatalogue: viewed 16 September 2025), CS23 C12/24 and GD86/932, 1746-1750, Campbell v Earl of Wigtoun and others.
  7. [S57] Francis Hides Groom, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: a survey of Scottish topography, statistical, biographical and historical (London: W Mackenzie, 1895), vol iv, p 428, Kirkintilloch; online image, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/ordnancegazette04groo/page/428/mode : accessed 24 February 2025.
  8. [S81] Joseph Irving, The History of Dumbartonshire: Civil, Ecclesiastical and Territorial, Second Edition (Dumbarton: Joseph Irving, 1860), p 496; online pdf, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/historyofdumbar00irvi/page/n7/mode/2up : accessed 26 March 2025.
  9. [S58] Edinburgh, National Records of Scotland, "Online Catalogue," National Records of Scotland (https://catalogue.nrscotland.gov.uk/nrsonlinecatalogue: viewed 16 September 2025), CS23 M1/94, 1746, Tack of the teinds of Broughton by the Earl of Wigtoun to Alexander Murray.
  10. [S60] Bernard Burke, A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire (London: Harrison, 1866), Fleming, Earl of Wigton, p 218-19; online image, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_K3MaAAAAYAAJ/page/n7/mode/2up?q=fleming : accessed 27 February 2025.
  11. [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 563.
  12. [S71] Scotland, National Records of Scotland, "Wills and Testaments 1513-1925," Scotland's People (https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/: accessed), CC 760, images 136 to 140, Testament of Charles Fleming, Earl of Wigtoun (d. 1747.)
  13. [S184] "Scottish Court of Session and United Kingdom House of Lords Decisions," database, British and Irish Legal Information Institute, BAILII (https://www.bailii.org/ : downloaded 3 October 2026), Fleming v Lord Elphinstone. [1804] Mor 15559 (19 January 1804.)
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