Christian Rutherford

From Scotland's People: Old Parish Registers - Births and Baptisms

• 7 August 1743 birth or baptism of Christian Rutherfurd, daughter of Sir John Rutherfurd [child 2], in the parish of Jedburgh

From the ancestors and descendants of Henry Rutherford and the Rutherfords in America by William Benjamin Rutherford

Burkes has https://archive.org/details/genealogicalhera02byuburk/page/1392/mod... p 1391 -2

[Rutherford] was, however, assumed by Capt. John Rutherford, collateral heir male, descended from Richard Rutherford of Littlehaugh, and since by others. He m. Susanna, dau. and heiress of Riddell, of Minto, and had issue (with five daus.) one son.

SIR JOHN RUTHERFORD, of that ilk, s. his father 1720. He m. 1st, 1710, Elizabeth Cairncross, heiress of the ancient and honourable family of Colmslie, and had nineteen children, of whom the eldest son,

John, was ancestor (in the female line of William Oliver-Rutherford, Esq. of Edgerton ; the 2nd son was
THOMAS; another son,
Robert, a baron of the Russian Empire, purchased back, 1779, the old family property of Fairnington ; and another son
Walter, m. Mary, dau. of Gen. Alexander. Of the daus.,
Susanna, m. Alexander Pringle, of Whytbank;
Mary, m Sir Alexander Nisbet, of Dean;
Elizabeth, m John Horsburgh. of that ilk; and
Jean m. Charles Inglis, of Manorhead.

Sir John m. 2ndly, 1741, Sarah, sister of Sir Alexander Nisbet, Bart., by whom he had also a son and a dau.,

Henry, of Hunthill, m. Agnes Lauder, and had issue.
Christian, m. Dr. Davidson, of Hatton and Muirhouse.