Henrietta Hope, Countess of Hopetoun
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Henrietta Hope Countess of Hopetoun (11 November 1682 – 25 November 1750) was a Scottish noblewoman born in Lockwood, Dumfries
, Scotland
. She was the daughter of Sir William Johnstone, 1st Marquess of Annandale
and Sophia Fairholm. On 31 August 1699 she married Charles Hope, 1st Earl of Hopetoun
son of John Hope of Hopetoun and Lady Margaret Hamilton. Henrietta and Charles had thirteen children.
Dumfries
Dumfries is a market town and former royal burgh within the Dumfries and Galloway council area of Scotland. It is near the mouth of the River Nith into the Solway Firth. Dumfries was the county town of the former county of Dumfriesshire. Dumfries is nicknamed Queen of the South...
, Scotland
Scotland
Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
. She was the daughter of Sir William Johnstone, 1st Marquess of Annandale
William Johnstone, 1st Marquess of Annandale
William Johnstone, 2nd Earl of Annandale and Hartfell, 1st Marquess of Annandale KT was a Scottish nobleman. He was the son of James Johnstone, 1st Earl of Hartfell and Henrietta Douglas...
and Sophia Fairholm. On 31 August 1699 she married Charles Hope, 1st Earl of Hopetoun
Charles Hope, 1st Earl of Hopetoun
Charles Hope, 1st Earl of Hopetoun KT was a Scottish nobleman.He was the son of John Hope of Hopetoun, grandson of Sir Thomas Hope, 1st Baronet of Craighall, Fife. John Hope purchased the barony of Niddry Castle from the Earl of Winton around 1680...
son of John Hope of Hopetoun and Lady Margaret Hamilton. Henrietta and Charles had thirteen children.
Children
- Lady Margaret Hope (born 3 March, 1700 died in three years 9 May, 1703)
- Lady Sophia Hope (31 May 1702 – 25 April 1761)
- John Hope, 2nd Earl of HopetounJohn Hope, 2nd Earl of HopetounJohn Hope, 2nd Earl of Hopetoun was the son of Charles Hope, 1st Earl of Hopetoun and Lady Henrietta Johnstone....
(7 September 1704 – 12 February 1781) married (1) Anne Ogilvy (2) Jean Oliphant (3) Elizabeth Leslie - Lady Henrietta Hope (21 February 1706 – 17 February 1745) married Francis NapierFrancis Napier, 6th Lord Napier-Family:Born Francis Scott, he was the son of Sir William Scott, 2nd Baronet of Thirlestane, and Elizabeth Napier, Mistress of Napier. Upon the death of his maternal grandmother Margaret Brisbane, 5th Lady Napier, he achieved the title Lord Napier and changed his last name to Napier; upon the death...
- A son (name unknown) born and died 22 July, 1707
- Lady Margaret Hope (18 December 1708 – 13 January 1778) married John Dundas
- Charles Hope (8 May 1710 – 30 December 1791) married (1) Catherine Weir (2) Lady Anne Vane (3) Helen Dunbar
- Lady Helen Hope (27 July 1711 – 26 December 1778) married James Watson
- Lady Christian Hope (31 March 1714 – 31 May 1799)
- William Hope (born in June of 1715 died in November of same year)
- Lady Anne Hope (born 21 June, 1718 died at the age of nine years on 24 December, 1727)
- Lady Charlotte Hope (4 March 1720 – 24 November 1788) married Thomas ErskineThomas Erskine, Lord ErskineThomas Erskine, Lord Erskine was the son of John Erskine, 6th Earl of Mar. He could not inherit the title of Earl of Mar due to the Writ of Attainder for treason passed against his father in 1716 for his role in the First Jacobite Rebellion .On 1 October 1741, he married Charlotte Hope, daughter...
- Lady Rachel Hope (born 10 July, 1721 died an infant)