John MacTavish | |
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| Born | John Lovet MacTavish c. 1787 Stratherrick, Invernesshire, Scotland |
| Died | June 21, 1852 (aged 64–65) Howard County, Maryland, U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | Fur Trader, British Consul |
| Spouse | Emily Caton (m. 1815) |
| Children | 4 |
| Relatives | Simon McTavish (uncle) |
John Lovet MacTavish (c. 1787 – June 21, 1852) [1] was a Scots-Canadian heir to the North West Company [2] and diplomat. [1]
MacTavish was born around 1787 in Stratherrick, Invernesshire, Scotland into Clan MacTavish. He was the son of Alexander MacTavish (1753–1788) and Marjory (née Fraser) MacTavish (1758–1828), and a nephew of Scots-Quebecer entrepreneur Simon McTavish, who took him in to raise after his father's death. [3]
His paternal grandparents were John McTavish, tacksman of Garthbeg, and Mary (née Fraser) McTavish of Garthmore. His grandmother was descended, through Simon Fraser of Dunchea and the Frasers of Foyers, from an illegitimate son of the 1st Lord Lovat. [4]
MacTavish served as the British Consul to the State of Maryland. [1] [5]
After his wedding to Emily Caton of Maryland, they lived at Brooklandwood estate in the Green Spring Valley of Baltimore County, where Emily had been born, [6] before moving to 1,000 acres of the "finest farm land in Howard County, [7] given as a wedding gift from his wife's grandfather and named "Folly Quarter" after the MacTavish family estate in Scotland. Folly Quarter was built near her grandfather's estate and home Doughoregan. [8] [9]
On August 15, 1815, MacTavish was married to Emily Caton, the fourth daughter of Richard Caton and Mary (née Carroll) Caton. [8] Emily's maternal grandfather was Charles Carroll of Carrollton, the only Catholic and the longest-surviving signer of the Declaration of Independence. [10] [11] They were staunch Roman Catholics, members of St. Paul's Catholic Church in Baltimore County. [12] John and Emily were the parents of four children:
Emily's three sisters Marianne, Bess, and Louisa Caton, entered British society and married into British nobility. Marianne marrying first Robert Patterson (brother of Elizabeth Patterson, the first wife of Napoleon's younger brother Jérôme Bonaparte) and second Richard Wellesley 1st Marquess Wellesley and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (older brother of the Duke of Wellington); Bess marrying Sir George Strafford, 8th Baron Strafford of Costessey Hall in Norfolk, England; and Louisa marrying first Sir Felton Hervey-Bathurst, 1st Baronet and second Francis D'Arcy Osborne, Marquess of Carmarthen (the future 7th Duke of Leeds). [11]
MacTavish died on June 21, 1852, at age 65. His widow died on January 26, 1867, at Folly Quarter and was interred with MacTavish at Green Mount Cemetery in Baltimore, Maryland. [16]
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