Rev. Ferquhard BETHUNE

Father: Kenneth BETHUNE
Mother: Anne MACLEAN

Family 1: Margaret ROSE

                                                              _Dr. Ferquhard BETHUNE _
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                    _Ferquhard BETHUNE _|
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 _Kenneth BETHUNE _|
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|--Rev. Ferquhard BETHUNE 
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!SOURCE: Rev. Thomas Whyte, AN HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL ACCOUNT OF THE BETHUNES OF THE ISLAND OF SKYE, Edinburgh, 1778, reprinted London, 1893, by Alfred A. Bethune-Baker, reprinted by ScotsPress, pp. 15, 16-17. Ferquhard third son of Kenneth Bethune of Leabost, had a liberal education. He became minister of Croy near Inverness, and continued in that capacity for 27 years. He died the fifth of February, 1746, in the 52nd year of his age, of a apoplectic fit as he was walking home to his own house. He laboured under an irregular ague, attended with a complex of other diseases for 15 years before his death, and consulted Doctors Boerhaave, Clark, Sinclair, and many others of the most eminent physicians, but all to no purpose. Amidst the severity of his distemper, it pleased God most remarkably to support him in the discharge of his office, in which he seldom failed, to the surprize and admiration of all who knew him. His piety and christian prudence, joined with the chearfulness and humanity of his disposition, recommended him to the love and esteem of all his acquaintances, but more especially those of his own parish, whos regard for his memory, will not soon or easily be obliterated. Notwithstanding his bad state of health, he discovered always a strong turn for antiquity, and in particular, made it his business to be well acquainted with the accounts and genealogies of his tribe and kindred. He married Margaret Rose, eldest daughter of John Rose of Newton, a near relation of Kilravock, chief of the sirname, a family that has continued since the reign of Alexander the Second. Hugh Rose, first of the family of Newton, died in the year 1682. He was the third son of Robert Rose fourth son of William Rose twelfth laird of Kilravock, by his wife Lilias Hay of Dalgatie, descended of the family of Errol. [Manuscript History of the Family of Kilravock]. By her he had two sons, Hugh and John, and three daughters, Elizabeth, Jean, and Janet.

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