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Sale to the Earl of Morton[edit]

The article says that the house was sold to the Earl of Morton in 1750. However, in researching my family history, I've just come across an extract from a book published in 1923 (now out of print, I believe, and only available in the British Library) which contains the letters of an 18th century ancestor of mine who eloped and married on 1st December 1746, and in the first letter (dated 2nd December 1746) she tells her mother the following: "I have been for three weeks past at Dalmahoy, a House of the Earl of Morton's, with the housekeeper there, who is a good acquaintance of mine..." This suggests that the house may already have belonged to the Earl of Morton before 1750, unless of course he was renting it before he bought it – my ancestor may not have known whether it was rented or was his property. I don't understand how the citation button works but the book's details are here: https://www.worldcat.org/title/found-in-an-old-box-a-womans-ie-henrietta-greens-letters-of-the-eighteenth-century-edited-by-frances-fraser/oclc/560338449

According to the following site, 1750 is only an approximate date: https://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/LB27021

The following site references records in the Scottish Record Office, the earliest of which connects the Earl of Morton to the house in 1747: https://canmore.org.uk/site/50319/dalmahoy-house

Loquequieras (talk) 15:30, 5 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]