 1731 - 1818 (87 years)
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| Name |
James KIRKPATRICK |
| Prefix |
Colonel,later Maj.General |
| Suffix |
"The Handsome",Commander of Horse, the Madras Army |
| Born |
1731 |
| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
28 Mar 1818 |
Hollydale, Keston Common, Kent, England  |
- Ref:Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 3 ,page 246
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| Person ID |
I8362 |
Kirkpatrick Family |
| Last Modified |
27 Jul 2022 |
| Father |
Dr. James KIRKPATRICK, ,M.D,FRS,of South Carolina and Hollydale,Kent, b. Abt 1690, Ireland , d. 1770, Hollydale, Keston Common, Kent, England (Age ~ 80 years) |
| Mother |
Elizabeth HEPWORTH, ,of Charles Town,South Carolina, b. Abt 1705, South Carolina , USA , d. Yes, date unknown |
| Married |
4 May 1727 |
Charles Town, South Carolina, USA |
- A record of the marriage is found on page 157 of the Register of the St. Phillips Parish,Charles Town,South Carolina-Some records list 1725 as the year of marriage , but the Register is clearly 1727.
Their children were recorded as : William Kilpatrick- b 25th Nov1727; Anne Kilpatrick, -b 5th Jan 1729, died 14th May 1730(William and Anne were both christened on 2nd April 1730.They are both referred to as "child of James and Elizabeth Kilpatrick").
Other Registry entries include
Thomas Kilpatrick, "a child"-was buried 8th July 1738,Mary Killpatrick-was buried 23rd Sep1746,Charles Killpatrick- was buried 23rd May 1748.(these are not listed as "child of James and Elizabeth Kilpatrick")
James and Elizabeth lost a son to the epidemic in 1738, which indicates that young Thomas Kilpatrick,buried on 8th July 1738,was possibly the child .(Ref:The great Charlestown Smallpox Epidemic of 1760 ,by Suzanne Krebsbach)
The different spelling of the surname in these notes are as they appear in the Register.
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| Family ID |
F5844 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family 2 |
Katherine MUNRO, ,daughter of Andrew Munro, of the Madras Hospital, b. 1744, d. 27 Jan 1766, Madras , India (Age 22 years) |
| Married |
14 Mar 1762 |
Madras , India |
- James arrived in India in 1760 ,later marrying Catherine.James eventually returned to England in 1779 and settled at Holydale, Keston, near Bromley, in Kent.
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| Children |
| | 1. Georgiana KIRKPATRICK, d. Yes, date unknown |
| | 2. George KIRKPATRICK, of the HEICS Bombay,and Hollydale,Bromley, Kent, b. 2 Jun 1762, Madras , India , d. 10 Mar 1838, Hollydale, Keston Common, Kent, England (Age 75 years) |
| | 3. Lieut.-Colonel James Achilles KIRKPATRICK, ,of the Madras Military Establishment, b. 28 Aug 1764, Madras , India , d. 15 Oct 1805, transit from Hyderabad to Calcutta by boat (Age 41 years) |
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| Last Modified |
7 Mar 2017 |
| Family ID |
F2897 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- Colonel James Kirkpatrick,"The Handsome" is somewhat of an enigma,for although his life and story are fairly well documented , his ancestry is somewhat vague.
James is thought to have left South Carolina,and settled in HollyDale ,Kent ,with his father ,prior to entering the HEICS.
Colonel James Kirkpatrick was the author of a pamphlet on the ' Organization of a Body of Light Troops for Detached Service in the East Indies' (London, 1769, 2nd edit. 1781), and in a critical notice of that work is described as ' a cavalry leader of experience' [Monthly Review, 1769).
He was in command of the troops at Fort Marlborough, Sumatra, in 1777,and he returned home in 1779.
He had previously returned in 1770(the year of his father's death) and on 20th Dec. 1770,wrote a letter to Sir Thomas Kirkpatrick ,the 3rd Baronet of Closeburn whilst "in town",apologising for not making a personal visit(which seems to indicate a family relationship).(Ref:"Memoir respecting the family of Kirkpatrick of Closeburn in Nithsdale with notices of some Collaterals",private memoirs,page 60.)
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