Sarah Nisbet

From Scotland's People: Old Parish Registers - Births and Baptisms NOTE: can't find John c1681

• 15 December 1700 birth or baptism of Sarah Nisbet, daughter of Sir Henry Nisbet and and Christian Riddell [child 14 or 15], in the parish of St Cuthbert's

From Scotland's People Old Parish Registers - Marriages

• 20 January 1728 marriage or banns of Walter Riddle to Sarah Nisbet, in the parish of Cramond
• 7 February 1728 marriage or banns of Captain Walter Riddel to Sarah Nisbet, in the parish of St Cuthbert's

From Scotland's People Old Parish Registers - Marriages

• 15 February 1741 marriage or banns of Sir John Rutherford to Sarah Nisbet or Riddell, in the parish of Edinburgh

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

Possible list of 2 children of Sir John Rutherford and and Sarah Nisbet from first: 17 August 1742 Henry Rutherford to last: 7 August 1743 Christian Rutherfurd

• 17 August 1742 birth or baptism of Henry Rutherford, son of Sir John Rutherford and Sarah Nisbet [child 1], in the parish of Edinburgh
• 7 August 1743 birth or baptism of Christian Rutherfurd, daughter of Sir John Rutherfurd [child 2], in the parish of Jedburgh

From "Nisbet of Craigentinnie [Craigentinny], Dean, & Dirleton"

Sarah Nisbet born 15 December 1700, married (firstly) Captain Walter Riddell of Granton, who died 1738 sine prole [without issue]; (secondly) Sir John Rutherford, to whom she had a large family, the eldest being Henry Rutherford, whose great-grandson and heir male of line was Henry Charles Rutherford of Redfordgreen, in the county of Selkirk. She died 26 January 1787.

From wikitree - Sarah (Nisbet) Rutherfurd (1700 - aft. 1787)

From British Newspaper Archive: The Scots Magazine January 1787 Page 51 Deaths

Deaths: Friday, 26 January 1787. At Edinburgh, Dame Sarah Nisbet, relict of Sir John Rutherford of Hunthill.

From Genealogical collections concerning the Scottish house of Edgar, with a memoir of James Edgar by The Grampian Club Published 1873 Page 84

In the course of evidence it appears that Sir Alexander Nisbet, uncle of Sir Henry, had very considerable property in the Carolinas, and settled Dean on Henry Rutherford, eldest son of Sir John Rutherford of that ilk by Dame Sarah Nisbet, his sister-german.

From Scotland's People - Old Parish Records - Deaths and Burials NOTE possibly incorrect age

30 January 1787 death or burial of Sarah Rutherford, aged 79 [born about 1708], [maiden surname] Nisbet , [spouse of] John Rutherford, in the parish of St Cuthbert's

From British Newspaper Archive: The Scots Magazine January 1787 Page 57

[Deaths:] Friday, 26 January 1787. At Edinburgh, Dame Sarah Nisbet, relict of Sir John Rutherford of Hunthill.

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.