Frances Moray
BIRTH
1737
Abercairny, Perthshire, Scotland
DEATH
Torry, Fife, Scotland
FAMILY
FATHER:
James Moray, 13th of Abercairny
(1705-1777)
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Moray, Frances
(1737-1793)
Frances Moray (1737-1793) was a member of a prominent Revolutionary-era family and the spouse of William Erskine. William Erskine was a military officer whose career or family position supplies an important part of this entry’s Revolutionary context. The marriage connected Frances Moray to the political, military, commercial, or social developments surrounding the Revolution. This life overlapped the Revolutionary era, when war, political upheaval, disrupted trade, military service, and changing governments placed unusual demands on households and extended families. Surviving documentation is strongest in genealogical, family, estate, and marriage records rather than in a separate public biography. Including Frances Moray in HistoryGPS recognizes that households, marriages, property, correspondence, hospitality, and kinship networks were essential parts of the world in which Revolutionary leaders acted.
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HUSBAND
William Erskine
(1719-1795)
Sir James Erskine of Torry, 3rd Bt.
Frances Erskine
(1804-1830)
Sir William Erskine, 2nd Baronet
(1770-1813)
Sir John Erskine of Torry, 4th Bt.
(1776-1836)
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DIED:
Torry, Fife, Scotland
The exact date and place of Frances Moray’s birth have not been established in the source used for this entry. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
No distinct public profession or office for Frances Moray is established by the source summary used for this entry. The surviving record is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independent public career. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.