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About Isabel Dundas

ISABEL OLIPHANT

Isabel Oliphant, here treated, seems unlikely to be the same person as Isobel Oliphant

The Question of Identity

According to John Burke's Commoners, published in 1836, Isabel Oliphant, here treated, is the daughter of Lawrence, Lord Oliphant. Verifiable evidence is not cited, and it is not clear where this information came from. Commoners 114 The Dundas of Fingask website appears to have accepted the claim made by Commoners, although, once again. verifiable evidence is not cited. Commoners is not supported by John Maitland Thomson's account of the family, which was published in the Scots Peerage seventy-three years later. This makes no mention of a daughter named Isabel for Lawrence, Lord Oliphant. The Scots Peerage VI: pp. 540-43

Genealogy

  1. A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland. Volume III. (1836): pp.114-5 for Dundas of Fingask
  2. The Scots Peerage Volume VI (1909): For the family of Lawrence, Lord Oliphant see pp. 540-43
  3. Dundas of Fingask
  4. Stirnet: Oliphant 02
  5. Stirnet: Dundas 03