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About Capt. William Robert Adair
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https://landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2013/04/23-adair-of-ballymena-c...
Capt. William Robert Adair (d. 1762) of Ballymena. Elder son of Col. Sir Robert Adair (1659-1745) and his first wife, Penelope, daughter of Sir Robert Colville of Newtown (Antrim). A Captain in Lord Mark Kerr’s Regiment of Horse at the Battle of Culloden, and later in General Honeywood's Dragoons. He married 1719 at Ludlow (Shropshire), Catherine Smallman (d. 1752) of Ludlow (Shropshire) and had issue:
- (1) Robert Adair (1721-98) (q.v.);
- (2) Rev. William Adair (b. c.1724); ed. at Worcester College, Oxford (BA 1748; MA 1750); buried in Garrison church, Southsea, 5 May 1770.
He inherited the Ballymena estate from his father in 1745 but was probably not resident. He died 19 April 1762. His wife died 1 April 1752.
Origins
Sir Andrew Agnew, The Agnews of Lochnaw: A History of the Hereditary Sheriffs of Galloway (Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1864), p. 617, digital images, GoogleBooks
10. William Adair, succeeded 1655, married, first, Jean, daughter of Sir William Cunningham of Cunninghamhead; married, second, Anne, daughter of Colonel Walter Scott; by her he had
11. Sir Robert Adair of Kilhilt and Ballymena, a knight banneret, sold the baronies of Kilhilt and Drumore to the Earl of Stair; married, 1st, Penelope, daughter of Sir Robert Colvile; married, 2d, Martha—died August 1705; married, 3d, October 1705, Ann M'Aulay; married, 4th, Arabella Rickets; left by his third wife:
12. Robert Adair, a major of Dragoons (" nme living," Adair MSS. 1760); married Catherine Smallman, an English lady of fortune. The family is represented by Sir Robert Stafto Adair of Flixton Hall.
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Capt. William Robert Adair's Timeline
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1689
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Ballymena, Antrim, Northern Ireland
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Ireland
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April 19, 1762
Age 73
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