Show FATALITY ATTENDING A NAME all the nale male descendants of nave have died without iu issue it was scotts dearest clearest wish to found ahouse a house which should carry on ahe traditions of his great ancestors who were cadets cabets of the scotts of harden now represented by baron scott ra reared ared Ab botsford abbotsford Abbot stord at enormous jua cost but there his work began and ended his eldest son who succeeded to the baronetcy survived him only fifteen years and died in 1847 tied at the cape and so t the e baronetcy became extinct his second son died at far off teheran also unmarried so the name of scott scott was I 1 left f to his daughter charlotte who married lockhart the biographer ot of sir walter her son walter scott lockhart adopted the name of scott but 1 with all the extraordinary fatality thai had overcome his uncles he too died unmarried at the age ot of 26 and so the 1 estate passed to his sister charlotte who married J IEL hope Q C a member of the hopetoun Hope toun family and he ot of course adopted the name of scott I 1 they had three children but their only son died in childhood and once again a woman came to rule this was wa ila mary monica in 1874 she marriel married joseph constable maxwell third son or of lord herries Her rles who as a matter ol of course adopted the name 0 of f scotti scott 1 they have had six children the eldest I 1 of at whom walter joseph maxwell scott dorn born in 1875 is in the army he has two brothers and two sisters living mary josephine who was married last week was bom barn in 1876 1976 thus thue it will be seen that the present generation I 1 of scotts have been in turn lock 1 aarts hopes and maxwells maxwelll Max wells these adeall are all ec excellent ellent names with honorable I 1 lAsi histories orles behind them and yet in strict genealogical M ea logical sequence quence ze the present geum generation era AF tion atlon to which the bride of today belongs Is a very tar far removed from te ardth author or of Waverley |