Jean Peter

JEAN PETER (1753-1800)

is the daughter of Thomas Peter of Crossbasket and Cardarroch (Otherwise Thomas Peters of Crossbasket and Cardarroch), and his wife Marion Bogle (Otherwise Nancy Bogle). She was born on 23 August 1753 and her baptism was registered at Glasgow on 29 August 1753. Her baptismal record reads as follows: "Thomas Peters & Nancy Bogle a l d Jean Witt: Alex Peters James Wardrop born 23rd instant" [Registrar General for Scotland, New Register House, Edinburgh, Glasgow Baptisms, 1751-57, reference OPR.644/12A].

Executor Dative to her Father

Jean Peter was one of her deceased father's executors [National Archives of Scotland, Register House, Edinburgh, Commissariot Records of Glasgow, Register of Testaments, the Testament Dative of Thomas Peter of Crossbasket, registered 26 September 1774, reference CC9/7/69 pages 574-82].

Death

Jean Peter died at Blantyre Park, probably at Park House in Blantyre parish, Lanrkshire, Scotland, on 11 October 1800. Her published obituary reads as follows: At Blantyre park, Miss Jean Peter, daughter of the late Thomas Peter, Esq., of Crossbasket" [The Gentleman's Magazine: and Historical Chronicle. For the Year MDCCC, Volume LXX. Part the Second, by Sylvanus Urban, Gent. (Nichols and Son, London), page 1012].

Blantyre Park may have been part of the Crossbasket estate, it certainly lay close by to Auchentibber, the lands of which her great-great-grandfather had a charter from Lord Blantyre on 16 November 1710 [The Blantyre Project] https://blantyreproject.wordpress.com/2014/10/02/blantyre-park-hous... For Blantyre Park Farm see [ScotlandsPlaces] http://www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/digital-volumes/ordnance-survey-n...

Burial

Jean Peter is probably the woman identified in the death register of Ramshorn and Blackfriars parish in Glasgow, Scotland, as Jane Petters, in which case she died of Small Pox and was buried in the Ramshorn Churchyard in Glasgow on 17 October 1800 [Registrar General for Scotland, New Register House, Edinburgh, Ramshorn and Blackfriars Deaths 1788-1808, reference OPR.644/60].