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Clementina ("the Heiress") Fleming

b. 1719, d. 1 January 1799

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Lady Clementina Fleming

Birth

Clementina ("the Heiress") Fleming was born in 1719.^1,2

Parents

Father	John ("the Pliant") Fleming, 6th Earl of Wigtown, 11th Lord Fleming (b. circa 1668, d. 10 February 1744)
Mother	Mary Keith, eldest daughter of William, eighth Earl Marischal (b. 1691, d. 1721)

Family life

Charles Elphinstone, 10th Lord Elphinstone, and Clementina ("the Heiress") Fleming were married on 14 October 1735.^1,3,4,5

Children with Charles Elphinstone, 10th Lord Elphinstone (b. 6 August 1711, d. 2 April 1781)

Son	Charles Elphinstone (d. 13 April 1758)
Daughter	William Fullerton-Elphinstone
Daughter	Eleanor Elphinstone
Son	John Elphinstone, 11th Lord Elphinstone+ (b. 26 January 1737, d. 19 August 1794)
Son	Viscount George Keith Elphinstone, Admiral of the Blue (b. 7 January 1746)

Property^6,5

Clementina ("the Heiress") Fleming possessed unsuccessfully defended legal action by John Grant younger of Rothmaise to recover overlordship of Bord in 1760 in Bord.^6,7 She possessed sold her inherited lands of Biggar and Boghall to Sir Michael Bruce of Stenhouse in 1773 in Barony of Biggar and Boghall.^8,9 She possessed conveyed her estate to her grandson Admiral Charles Elphinstone-Fleming in 1788.⁶ She possessed evidently tried to reverse the 1788 conveyance to her grandson Charles in favour of his older brother John 11th Lord Elphinstone in 1798.⁶

Death

Clementina ("the Heiress") Fleming had her estate probated in 1799.⁶ She died on 1 January 1799 at age ~80 at Cavendish Square in Marylebone.^1,3,10,8,5 She was buried on 5 January 1799 at Biggar Church in Biggar.⁸ She had her estate probated on 12 March 1804.^11,6 She had her estate probated on 16 January 1847.¹²

Citations

[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.
[S2] Various contributors, "Wikipaedia," database, Commons, Wikipaedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/: accessed), Maria Clementina Sobieska, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Clementina_Sobieska.
[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.
[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.
[S181] Bernard Burke and Ashworth P Burke, Editors, A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage and Baronetage, the Privy Council, Knightage and Companionage, 76th edition (Pall Mall, London: Harrison & Sons, 1914), p 720-722, Elphinstone; online image, Internet Archive, Internet Archive (archive.org : viewed 17 October 2026.
[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.)
[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 4 November 2026), John Grant younger of Rothmaise, and Robert Fleming, great-grandson of John Fleming of Board, v Lady Cementina Fleming, and Charles Elphinston, Esq; her Husband. [1760] Mor 6724 (23 December 1760); Scottish Court of Session Decisions.
[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 564.
[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 131.
[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.
[S183] Scotland. Chancery Office, Decennial Indexes to the Services of Heirs in Scotland, Commencing January 1, 1700, Ending December 31, 1859: continued as Index to the Services of Heirs in Scotland, annual volumes from 1860 (Edinburgh: HMSO, between 1863 and 1889), 1804 0312, Decennial 1800-1809, No 9, Clementina Fleming; online image, FamilySearch, FamilySearch Catalog (https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/1004156 : accessed.
[S183] Scotland. Chancery Office, Decennial Indexes to the Services of Heirs in Scotland, Commencing January 1, 1700, Ending December 31, 1859: continued as Index to the Services of Heirs in Scotland, annual volumes from 1860 (Edinburgh: HMSO, between 1863 and 1889), 1847 0116, Decennial 1840-1849, No 63, Clementina Fleming; online image, FamilySearch, FamilySearch Catalog (https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/1004156 : accessed.